Cyrris wrote:
What I don't get is why the GSFers over there are so keen to ensure their GameSpy name continues on - it's delaying the inevitable.
IGN took care of that one for me by taking my nick away from me. Meh.
Intellectually, I know I shouldn't be attached to the nick... anyone could take it. And it's already happened. The odds against the coincidence were staggering.
Got an IM years ago from someone out of the blue. The nick was almost the same as the name of a guy I used to work with, so I took up the convo. We chatted a while, but the conversation got stranger and stranger until it was pretty clear we had no idea who the other was, and he finally asked my name.
I responded that he'd IMed me intially, so he could fucking well tell me his name first.
It was indeed the guy I thought it was, from my first job out of college. I, however, was NOT the person he thought I was. Turned out that he knew a guy from Texas who also went by The Taco Prophet online.
Fucking weird.
Where was I? Oh right. Polar bears. Fucking polar bears. That shit is unacceptable.