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Old November 7th, 2014, 02:29 PM
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I got my user name from a lonely little Roman archer, my last miniature on the board. He killed a two life Krug, and a legend was born. When I decided to make my user name, I decided to honor him. Orgersbane. One misspelling later, and you get orgsbane! Close enough

My avatar is Sirus fighting a dragon, from the incredibly awesome Infinity Blade games. Also, the dragon is wearing a santa hat cause I'm to lazy to change. It'll work out in my favor soon enough!
That's funny, I always thought that you meant it to be "orgsbane" in reference to an "org," which is a monster that made it's appearance in Edition 2 of D&D.

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Old November 7th, 2014, 03:04 PM
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

My name is Ollie and I'm a bespectacled lion.
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Old November 7th, 2014, 03:05 PM
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

USERNAME. Back in high school, I created an encryption algorithm from scratch. This was before I understood how bad of an idea such a thing was. I had named one of the functions xor_lof, "xor" being the logical operator known as "exclusive or" and "lof" being some sort of abbreviation for what the function acted on; I don't remember the details.

I reflected on how similar the function name was Zorlof, the name of a word processor I had used for the TRS-80 series of computers:



After doing my best to ensure that "xorlof" was (at the time) globally unique, including fairly extensive searches of
FidoNet FidoNet
, Veronica,
Archie Archie
, and
WAIS WAIS
, I started using it (and my younger brother decided to start using Zorlof...grrr!) Notice there were no web searches because at the time the web was pretty tiny. WebCrawler might have been around, but I don't remember using it for this most important task. Also, I don't think I had good, comprehensive Usenet access at the time, but even if I did, I don't think there would have been a good way to search the current group of messages.

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Old November 7th, 2014, 03:22 PM
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

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My name is Ollie and I'm a bespectacled lion.
Whoa, I blinked and I almost missed that one.


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IMAGE. I use various Smurfs for my avatar image because they're Smurfy. Duh!
A bit of personal backstory: As a teenager I thought smurfs were pretty much the nadir of popular culture. The cartoons offered nothing as meaningful narrative or as any kind of art - visual, storytelling, audio - and I just thought they were awful. So I melted a bit of one with a light bulb. Yes! I was a delinquent!


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Old November 7th, 2014, 03:46 PM
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

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A bit of personal backstory: As a teenager I thought smurfs were pretty much the nadir of popular culture. The cartoons offered nothing as meaningful narrative or as any kind of art - visual, storytelling, audio - and I just thought they were awful.
Blasphemy!

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So I melted a bit of one with a light bulb.
Sacrilege!

Burn him at the stake!

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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

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I got my user name from a lonely little Roman archer, my last miniature on the board. He killed a two life Krug, and a legend was born. When I decided to make my user name, I decided to honor him. Orgersbane. One misspelling later, and you get orgsbane! Close enough

My avatar is Sirus fighting a dragon, from the incredibly awesome Infinity Blade games. Also, the dragon is wearing a santa hat cause I'm to lazy to change. It'll work out in my favor soon enough!
That's funny, I always thought that you meant it to be "orgsbane" in reference to an "org," which is a monster that made it's appearance in Edition 2 of D&D.

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Yeaaaah. It was a clever and obscure reference. Cause I'm cool like that good catch
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Old November 7th, 2014, 07:24 PM
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

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A bit of personal backstory: As a teenager I thought smurfs were pretty much the nadir of popular culture. The cartoons offered nothing as meaningful narrative or as any kind of art - visual, storytelling, audio - and I just thought they were awful.
Blasphemy!

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So I melted a bit of one with a light bulb.
Sacrilege!

Burn him at the stake!
Brought this conversation to mind from Monty Python
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Old November 7th, 2014, 08:34 PM
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

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USERNAME. Back in high school, I created an encryption algorithm from scratch. This was before I understood how bad of an idea such a thing was. I had named one of the functions xor_lof, "xor" being the logical operator known as "exclusive or" and "lof" being some sort of abbreviation for what the function acted on; I don't remember the details.

I reflected on how similar the function name was Zorlof, the name of a word processor I had used for the TRS-80 series of computers:



After doing my best to ensure that "xorlof" was (at the time) globally unique, including fairly extensive searches of FidoNet, Veronica, Archie, and WAIS, I started using it (and my younger brother decided to start using Zorlof...grrr!) Notice there were no web searches because at the time the web was pretty tiny. WebCrawler might have been around, but I don't remember using it for this most important task. Also, I don't think I had good, comprehensive Usenet access at the time, but even if I did, I don't think there would have been a good way to search the current group of messages.

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I got my user name from a lonely little Roman archer, my last miniature on the board. He killed a two life Krug, and a legend was born. When I decided to make my user name, I decided to honor him. Orgersbane. One misspelling later, and you get orgsbane! Close enough

My avatar is Sirus fighting a dragon, from the incredibly awesome Infinity Blade games. Also, the dragon is wearing a santa hat cause I'm to lazy to change. It'll work out in my favor soon enough!
That's funny, I always thought that you meant it to be "orgsbane" in reference to an "org," which is a monster that made it's appearance in Edition 2 of D&D.

~JS
Yeaaaah. It was a clever and obscure reference. Cause I'm cool like that good catch
Haha! Too late to cover it up. Your secret is out.

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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

If you have ever seen me; you would understand.


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My username is Not User Name because I am a rebel.

My picture is one of the few I have on photobucket. Someday I'll find something clever and relating to Not User Name type things.
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

My user name is my default name for anything fantasy. Yeshua is the Hebrew form of my name and it means "The Lord Saves." It also sounds cool and fits in a fantasy setting.

My avatar is one of my favorite video game characters of all time: Joshua from Fire Emblem Sacred Stones. In addition to being one of the best units in the game, he has a great personality and backstory. The fact that we have the same name and I'm a redhead is completely unrelated, I swear...
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Re: The Story Behind Your Username/Picture

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My avatar is one of my favorite video game characters of all time: Joshua from Fire Emblem Sacred Stones. In addition to being one of the best units in the game, he has a great personality and backstory. The fact that we have the same name and I'm a redhead is completely unrelated, I swear...
I seriously doubt that you are of royal blood however.

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