It's the mad scientist in Bioforge. The first game I hacked so I could get past one of the puzzles.

My username is the product of my research, which was to determine a sequence of letters that would produce a subconscious desire to rate me up.

In a strange coincidence, they also happened to be my initials. >_>

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A character from one of my favourite books, The Mahabharata.

Cool, I like that one too :). If I had to choose on a character for my user name, it be a hard decision between Arjun and Bhim.

With that bit of info aside, Kryotech is the name of my organization/company/thing that I'm not too sure what it is right now (although technically I am trying to profit from google ads by posting free content). The question is why Kryotech for the thing I'm not too sure what it is right now. Truthfully, I came up with it one day, and it stuck.

Nice. It is an amazing read. I love the philosophy behind it, I didn't realise how deep it was until I started discussing it with other people. I was going to go with Karna since he has one of the most interesting stories.

Good luck with Kryotech!

I can't remember ever responding to these things, but if it helps make Gaiiden's life difficult then I'm all for it. [grin]

My nick goes all the way back to the 90s when I worked for Broderbund Software. Back then I had very wavy hair and the friendly folks in the QA lab (where I started) took to calling me Wavy. I started using Wavy as a handle in our Doom LAN games, but Wavy always ended up at the bottom and was routinely spanked.

My ego being too big to take constantly being last lightly, I started practicing the game religiously, so much that I started seeing after images of crates outside the game. I quickly moved up until the top players started bitching about me either cheating, being an "invisible monster" or a "terminator."

Being a James Cameron fan the last sounded too good to pass up and Wavinator was born.

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I can't remember ever responding to these things, but if it helps make Gaiiden's life difficult then I'm all for it. [grin]

No wonder you don't come to GDC anymore. I can't kick your ass in person!!! [wink]

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I can't remember ever responding to these things, but if it helps make Gaiiden's life difficult then I'm all for it. [grin]

No wonder you don't come to GDC anymore. I can't kick your ass in person!!! [wink]

I'd come. If I were there! But I'm in Belgium!

My wife used the word 'bregma' in her sleep one day while we were engaged in conversation.

Okay, it was while I was trying to help her study for her computer science course many decades back while in university. She kept falling asleep while she was trying to study (she holds no fascination for computers or any technology less than a few millenia old). I kept trying to get her to tell me what variable she should use for some calculation, and after several prompts she answered with 'bregma', which on awakening she revealed was the name of a red race car. She passed the course but barely.

The bregma is in fact the junction of the coronal and frontal sutures at the front of the skull, and name of one of the fontanelles in an infant skull. My wife knew this because she majored in physical anthropology and could identify any bone in the human body by touch alone.

I got such a kick out of the fact that she could answer questions in her sleep, and thought the word itself was very woody (not tinny at all) that I have used it ever since whenever I need a word that does not really need to convey inherent meaning.

Mine comes from this passage.

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That is why the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: "Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?" How can people possibly reach the point of shouting: "More taxes! Less bread!"?

Anti-Oedipus: capitalism and schizophrenia‎ - Page 31 by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

This also turns out to be the title of a chapter from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll.

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I can't remember ever responding to these things, but if it helps make Gaiiden's life difficult then I'm all for it. [grin]

No wonder you don't come to GDC anymore. I can't kick your ass in person!!! [wink]

Well, there is always a percentage chance that GDC will one day be held on the frigid plains of Saskatchewan. ("Zero's a percent!" [grin])

When I started online gaming back in 1997, I started with my favorite XMen character - gambit. Then of course, I came to realize how popular the name was so I changed it to a cross of gambit and Houdini (since I was known for sneaking around and shooting people in the back) and made gambini. That name lasted for many years until I couldn't register that name in some free fps games I started playing (WarRock) and so since a bunch of my online buddies called me gamby on teamspeak, its been that since.