What's in a name?

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3 of my friends have gotten their wives to play. Your situation is a common one.However, my girlfriend utterly refuses to play video games. There's still some realted strife here and there, but she treats it like an addiction. I/We figure her efforts would be better spent on getting me to drink less The graphics are unmatched. The mature basis and brutal combat ("come on!? boobs and decapitation ftw!" as one friend put it) are a plus. I really like the Robert E. Howard world of Hyboria and how close the game has stayed true to his vision.I didn't realize that he wrote all his stuff before Tolkien.I also really like the combat system. I played my firend's WOW toon the other day and fighting consisted of pressing auto-attack and waiting for the battle to finish. It seems so "out of my hands". Like what?They've fixed a lot of the bugs and memory leaks and things that were causing so many problems in the beginning. They really just released the game too early.The PvP stuff is up and running, the mini-games are really cool but I suck and there's some people out there who are really good Also, at the high end of the game there's a lot of ganking going on. another down side is the lack of races. Some friends are playing EQ2 and seeing the rat-men and frog-guys makes it seem to kiddy to me. Plus its really colorful and ghey. I like the dark brutal setting of Conan.As far as classes, there's always the basic fighter, or a tank or a healer or DD mage.I have a level 74 Demonologist that makes the phrase "glass-canon" an understatement.I just like character development, I guess, which you can get from any MMORPG. I like Conan in particular for the 'other' reasons. The look and feal, the setting, the combat system. There's a lot of little things that they've added that I've found helpful.Looted items display the vendor price that they go far. No more wondering which item to drop and which to hold when your bag is full.There's pretty much a pathfinder for every zone so you don't have to spend any time traveling.and most of the bugs have been removed. If you only played the game in the first few months after release, then I'd say go for a second chance. The really improved it from there.

It kind of started as a private joke.In the mid 80's the company I worked at used the common user-name convention of prefixing the last name with the first initial, like the Dilbert joke about Brenda Utthead constantly asking to have her user name changed. So my username was "dwise".We also got a few of the first-generation Macintoshes (which were brand-new at the time) to do some of our documentation on. Each of us had a system diskette (no hard disk on those suckers) and a data diskette (3.5-in and colored, just like in Star Trek! Cool!) and we each labelled our diskettes with our username. Then my data diskette filled up and I had to expand to two data diskettes. I labelled the new one dwise2 and went back and labelled the first one dwise1. Then one day a co-worker read the label of my first data diskette and started laughing.A few years later when I signed up for AOL and it wanted a screenname, I remembered that incident and used dwise1.Quite unintentionally on my part, a few creationists had chosen to try to pick fights with me because of my screenname. More notably, when I emailed Kent Hovind for clarification on his solar-mass-loss claim, in order to weasel out of supporting his own claim, on two separate occasions he tried to pick a fight with me over "dwise1".Edited by dwise1, : added explanation that that was when Macs first came out

Whenever I read you telling that story I wonder if you have any children with the same initials, and whether they will choose for themselves a screenname of dwise2 - and their rather convoluted explanation for how they came to choose that...

Actually, if there had been another Wise with first initial of "D" who had gotten a username after me, then that person would have been dwise2. Such is the username-assignment convention.Kids' initials are IAW and MDW.

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You know, I never noticed your name had a 1 (one) on the end.Certainly make me not the wise one, eh?

I am wise?Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Yes, but only the part of your body that you sit on.

IAW = I Am Wise
MDW = My Dad's Wise

leave it to a brit to figure out the wit.I could not make anything work for MDW.Hope you don't mind the fun, dwise1.

No problem. I've gotten that all my life.What does get me is how hard it can be for people to get the spelling of my last name right. Throughout my childhood, I could not understand why they'd always ask me how to spell my name, a simple, very common four-letter word. That mystery wasn't solved until I started learning German in high school. Then when I was stationed in North Dakota, even after I would give them the correct spelling they still insisted on using the German spelling. True, it's the anglicized form of a German name, but that name was Wies, not Wei.

Race: human
Culture: Calimshan
Class: Fighter/rogue/Assasin
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Age: mid-40sForgotten Realms - Wikipediait was either this name or Ronnie Dobbz, or steal my favorite name (from my brother): Po_the_ Ads_TonerEdited by Artemis Entreri, : No reason given.Edited by Artemis Entreri, : I spell bad

Thelazia are a type of fly that don't bite, but rather survive by eating tears....I couldn't resist.

So then do we call you tearman?Edited by bluescat48, : pushed wrong button

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969