Name explanation please...

[azzaman333]

Perfection was taken.

 

[CCA]

Always advantages of using an AKA, you don't want to say anything damning that could be found on record for later in life.

How do they know who i am and where im using this comp from...

They don't

 

[azzaman333]

snip* where im using this comp from...

IIRC, IP adresses give a very good idea of where you are.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Mine is short for his official name, The Artist Formerly Known As Pasi Nurminen, The Greatest Professional Athlete Ever Known

 

[Kraznaya]

How do they know who i am and where im using this comp from...

They don't

If I wanted to I could track you to within a mile of where you live based on your IP Address and your name.

 

[CCA]

If I wanted to I could track you to within a mile of where you live based on your IP Address and your name.

Do it..
People keep saying this

I have yet to see actual evidence

 

[Kraznaya]

I don't have the heart to trace your IP... however if you were to voluntarily surrender it I could.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

Do it..
People keep saying this

I have yet to see actual evidence

Google IP locator and punch in your IP address and be amazed as it gives you directions to your house.

 

[CCA]

Google IP locator and punch in your IP address and be amazed as it gives you directions to your house.

This is a stupid noobish question but where do I see my IP address?

 

[JonnyB]

Go here and it should fill it in automatically.

 

[Chandrasekhar]

*Sigh* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an astrophysicist. For the record, I'm not an Indian.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Scipio Africanus was the Roman general who defeated Hannibal of Carthage and pretty much doomed poor Carthage to Hades forever.

You might find it interesting to track down a copy of Poul Anderson's The Time Patrol. It's a collection of short stories from his Time Patrol series where Unattached Time Agent Manse Everard ranges through thousands of years of time, helping make sure Earth's history is preserved from criminals who seek to mess it up (for whatever reasons of their own). One of the best of these stories is "Delenda Est" and features Scipio Africanus and what might have happened to subsequent history if this battle had gone the other way and Hannibal had won.

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My own name, Valka D'Ur, came about as a result of my addiction to Civ II: Test of Time. The science fiction game starts out with a colony ship of people landing on the planet Funestis. There are four human groups, and three alien groups. The Uridians are human (and use the color purple). When I play this scenario, I use the name Valka D'Ur (Valka of the Uridians). The name "Valka" is a nod to the female warriors of Norse mythology, the Valkyries.

 

[Stegyre]

Stegyre: A purposefully unpronounceable combination of letters from my real name, with a vague resemblance to my real name. As it is not a real word, it has the virtue that it is seldom (read "never") already in use in any forum to which I want to subscribe.

 

[earthguido]

Anyone who has played SMAC would guess my real name is Guido. Well, it is and I played SMAC.

For all of those who haven't (shame on you! ) it is Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
This game is similar to Civ but located in Alpha Centauri after spaceship launch. Once there you encountered native lifeforms as mind worms bla bla bla which called you "earth<name>" 'cos you came from Earth!

 

[The Last Conformist]

I think mine explains itself ...

 

[scipian]

Valka D'Ur- I've ordered it from the local library (it is also called 'What Might Have Been- Volumes 1 & 2. Right?). Sounds very interesting. Do you know of any other books of his that are particularly interesting? I'm always on the search for new authors and I always find it tedious to pick through the junk to find the good ones.

BTW-My brother has a cool alias. Zufall. It's German for "coincidence". My brother speaks German and Russian fluently and I'm always sorely tempted to make my aliases some word in one of those languages.

 

[Guangxi]

Go here and it should fill it in automatically.

i went. it thinks i`m a dubliner

 

[Nick Garai]

I lived in Alaska, and always got asked (online, by non-Alaskans) "Do you live in an igloo?"

My username was created as preemptive sarcasm.

And for the record, I'm the only one, except some nimrod at Gamespot starting using the nick as well, sometime last year.

Oh, and here's the previous thread:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=202956

IglooDude - you a girl or a guy?

 

[Turner]

He's a guy. Hence the name 'dude'. If he was a girl, it would be 'IglooBabe'.

ID - Your story reminds me of the time when I told my teacher at school (in CA) that my dad was an Indian from Alaska. She told me no, he was an eskimo. That was an interesting conversation when he got home that night....

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Heretic - several things; my beliefs being just one of them
Cata - is short for my name: C&#259;t&#259;lin - which is a guy name btw.