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Why did you come up with your username?
Topic Started: Aug 6 2010, 02:22 PM (1,154 Views)
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Hey Truteal, someone just (coincidentally?) submitted an animal into my DeviantArt future evo group called a truteal.

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Is this what your username is named after?
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Yes, it's a species from Dougal Dixons After Man. I recommend it. Some creatures are a bit implausible, but otherwise it's very interesting.
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Ddraig Goch
Aug 7 2010, 06:19 AM
I went with the name of my national flag, and used it as my avatar as well. .
Hold on, Wales has a dragon on their flag? And all we could come up with is stars and stripes, how boring.

As for my username, I don't remember. I came up with it years ago and it's been unique just about everywhere I've needed a username so I kept using it. Chances are if you find a Parasky on the internet, it's me.
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"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Hold on, Wales has a dragon on their flag?

Yep. It's in reference to a story in the book of Welsh legends (the Mabinogion). The colours are also symbolic - green stands for the country, red stands for the Welsh people, and white (added after Wales was converted to Christianity) stands for Christ.

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Now I have a favorite flag.
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Wait? Pando hasn't read After Man? I think my brain just imploded. Several times.

Mine came from the Slivers from Magic: The Gathering.
Edited by Sliver Slave, Aug 7 2010, 09:02 PM.
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Unfortunately I have nada Spec Evo books at home. I do have the entire TFIW show saved on my hard drive though.
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JohnFaa has links to a scanned version. I lost my bookmark to it, but I think johnFaa knows where it is.
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Aug 7 2010, 02:43 PM
As for my username, I don't remember. I came up with it years ago and it's been unique just about everywhere I've needed a username so I kept using it. Chances are if you find a Parasky on the internet, it's me.
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Sliver Slave
Aug 7 2010, 11:14 PM
JohnFaa has links to a scanned version. I lost my bookmark to it, but I think johnFaa knows where it is.
Then can you give me the links JohnFaa?
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Aug 6 2010, 02:22 PM
Pandorasaurus - after watching Avatar, I decided to make some creatures for Pandora. A few days later I joined Speculative Evolution, and decided to go with the name of one of my creatures that I made.
You've only been here since Avatar came out?

Anyways, when asked to register for a forum in which my previous name was already in use, I happened to notice a copy of Rendezvous with Rama on the desk next to my computer.
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Lemuria:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5724950/

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I'm going back to basics.

Didn't he have something else scanned up or something?

On topic, I don't think this username has ever been taken, anywhere.
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When I was younger, I had a game based on Jurassic Park 3 called "Danger Zone". The characters you had to pick had names like "Rex T." and "Dr. Brachio", but my favourite of them was "Rick Raptor" (also nice alliteration).
Since then I always sign up on a site as Rick Raptor. If that name is already occupied (like on YouTube or DeviantArt), I add the random number 105 to it.

On DeviantArt I´ve also recently made two new accounts, one exclusively for Pokémon and named after one of my favourite fakes, Porygon-Pi, and another account exclusively for Speculative Evolution, named after one of my favourite creations, Coelotitan. It´s also the weird dinosaur thing on my avatar here.
[My DeviantArt account]
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Well if you see Dialforthedevil on other websites its me :D
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