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Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - DarkGrievous7145 - 06-04-2016
Thought this was an interesting topic. Basically, what sites are you on, how do you conduct yourselves there, what got you started there, etc... General trivia about your accounts also fits. current goals are welcome. basically, if it pertains to an online account of yours, share it, i guess?
I'll try to limit mine to some extent.
Let me just start with my DeviantArt. The username there is actually an error, it's supposed to be 'darkgrievous7145' , but i derped and put a 9 instead of a 1. The original purpose of this account is kind of shady. I originally created it to bypass the Mature Content Filter. Since then, I've adapted it to be something where I can show my art, but I actually spend a significantly larger amount of time consuming art and securing permissions to use art, than I do to submit ANYTHING. I very carefully consider what goes into my favorites, and a lot of art isn't favorited due to mature content. Part of this is me saving face should parents or others find my account. (and I have shown my mom my account, but she doesn't use DA, so... lol Still, can never be too careful) My opinion of mature art on DA also has changed. Porn for the sake of porn isn't what I come there for. I look for genuinely interesting art, and artists I would like to follow. I do not heavily involve myself in the community. I am both a little bummed and a little relieved I don't have a massive following there. I do hope to maybe be able to pull some money from the artwork I do there, but we'll see. A bulk of what I've submitted there is all conceptual stuff and work in progress. I have a large collection of traditional art I wish to digitalize and submit there.
My youtube account started with some grand plans. Stop motion series, Minecraft Let's Play, dev logs, game reviews and walkthroughs. None of these have been realized. The username is 100% a rip-off from another username of mine on another site, the LEGO Mars Mission fan-made wiki. I follow a ton more people than I can keep up with. I am considering unsubbing a few for assorted reasons. I watch a lot of minecraft videos, and also a pretty decent helping of programming tutorial videos. Youtube's community is volatile, and their staff clearly don't care if hate speech is being spread... I don't necesarrily get along with people in the comment section. I sometimes cringe and sometimes am amused by the flame-wars I witness in the comments section. I am generally very disappointed in the direction youtube is going, but sadly, monopolies are virtually untouchable.
My account on wikifoundry (wetpaint at the time I created it) was created because I wanted to contribute something to the LEGO Mars Mission Fan-Made wiki. I took the common prefix of alien ship names for Mars Mission , "ETX" (assumed 'Extra Terrestrial eXplorer') + "Alien" , my interest in robots, and particularly the ones of LEGO Exo-Force, and part of an Astronaut mining vehicle/mobile base, its number , 201 (full: "MT-201 Ultra Drill Walker", animal nickname: "the bulldog") This resulted in the username "ETXAlienRobot201". My original avatar, which I have archived, was a hackjob edit made in mspaint of the Alien Commander minifigure combined with the Exo Force Robot leader, Meca One. It also had some of the symbols for the alien faction, only seen in the popular RTS game, Crystalien Conflict. I started out as a pretty regular user, more questions than answers, wanting to help, but not sure how. Since then, i've joined the Crystalien Redux project, and applied and been accepted as a moderator. I even am what's called a 'hardcore' member, which are a special category of wiki users that do what they can to support both the wiki and its staff. Enrollment in that is simple as taking an oath. There are two tiers, I'm an advanced hardcore member. However, this roll feels to be more titular than anything. We supposedly are structured like a proper community/organization, but not like meetings or projects are ever a thing. As a moderator, though, I strive to make the wiki better. I am trying to help organize the site, but dear god is this tedious. I also am learning from some mistakes I made when I first became a moderator. I am one of about four or five staff members that are even active. Our site founder/owner isn't even active, anymore. I have a few different projects I'm working on for that site besides Redux. One I feel has since become a failure, a fanfic that started-out as an excellent concept, but I feel has gone stale.
My account here, IDR why I created it. Honestly, it was probably originally to make request or something. It's actually my second one, but damned if I remember what the first one was called, or its password. My main objective here is now to contribute some of my expertise with flash .swf and shockwave .dcr/.dxr/.cct/.cxt ripping, and also to get the ball rolling on the ripping of some games. I'm shocked, for example, as popular as LEGO is, how so few of those games have ANY rips, and how incomplete those that do are. I also have ripped from multiple flash games before joining here, and I intend to submit those sprites...someday. I hope to learn model and texture ripping, also. Current model/texture ripping objectives include StarFox Adventures and Starfox Assualt, OoT, Bionicle Heroes (DS), and Solatorobo. The latter is the only active one, and I actually cannot run QA on anything I export to .obj due to my currently sub-optimal computer situation. I also definitely want to learn how to render models, but I actually want to specialize into pre-rendering graphics for 2d and 2.5d games. The only modeling program I have used and actually understood thus far is Google Sketchup. Now, as far as sprites are concerned, there was actually a time I hated trying to use sprite sheets. At the time I was trying to get started with game development, spritesheets weren't exactly a thing in most of the stuff I was looking for, and few to no reliable libraries seemed to exist for them. That, or I just didn't know how to find them. I now practically worship sprite sheets...lol. Lastly, I hope to be able to share some of the stuff I make here, and maybe collect assorted feedback on how to improve the games and applications I make.
Kongregate: Created my account to play and help rip an MMO at a friend's request, it's now gone from just that to playing games, grinding badges, and making new friends. I hope to become a developer there, someday.
Ludum Dare: I've wanted to do an LD for ages, now. I decided to use the name I currently plan to brand myself and my games as, "Quality Cat Games". (which is inspired by that I take pride in my work and striving for perfection in everything i do, and the fact cats are my favorite animals) I hope to gain plenty of feedback from there, and maybe a following, at some point. I hope to also make it clear that I would rather strive for a quality end product than to focus too much on a single gameplay element and release buggy betas just to make a quick buck. My end goal honestly is to be an indie dev, if I can manage. If I can avoid ever having to be employed be EA, just to name one, I would be so happy. I look forward to the future, and I'm already quite pleased with some of the feedback I've received for my first game. I am hoping to fix its bugs, build an actual map editor, and publish a more complete version to Kongregate. However, I need a LOT of time to get this accomplished, and a proper pixel artist or two wouldn't hurt, either.
Sploder online game creators:
username "mecaonecac" decodes to 'Meca One CrystalienConflict'. I started with big plans, there. Most have never been realized. I feel that if I really wanted to, I could become the so-called "King of Sploder" , but I'd rather not. during the time that I was actively using the site, I tried seeing to what limits I could push the physics puzzle maker to in terms of making platformers, and shooters, in particular. I probably will take all my game ideas I had for sploder, and develop them properly, instead. It recently crossed my mind to port one of my more top rated games (I even got a request to reveal how it works, which I obliged), "Shiny Mew Visits A Helium Atom" to Flash (well, I should say, compile a brand new .swf where I actually wrote the code, sploder is already flash-based) or HTML5. I check my account there maybe once or twice a year, now. I probably will be dumping/converting everything I've made there to a format I can use, make an announcement I'm moving on to serious game development now, and leave for good.
Well, this was longer than I intended...XD
there, my online self and projects in a nutshell
I look forward to hearing about others, now
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - miyabi95_ - 06-04-2016
my name's jasmine and i do like everything there is to do on the web
lol not really, but i still do a lot
Drawing, music, games...It's all pretty much for fun and I'm trying to keep it away from my personal life as best as i can or else employers can look at it and think i'm a horrible human being >.>cuz having fun on the internet is bad...lol
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - puggsoy - 06-04-2016
I joined VGR (TSR back then) because I wanted to help contribute to the Puggsy section, which is how I initially discovered the site. Then I found out how fun ripping is
Although I don't manage to have as much time for it anymore, but it's still something I do occasionally, and I check out that section often.I used to frequent a World of Goo forum, I was even a moderator there. There was a whole unofficial modding scene, people made some neat stuff and I did some myself, it was really cool Unfortunately that started dying a bit and I visited less and less. There was also a Little Inferno forum, which lasted much shorter (since modding it was much harder).
I have a DeviantArt account that I don't really use for anything, I rarely visit the site anyway. I use Facebook mostly for university related things, and I use Twitter for gamedev related things.
Although I try to separate my online identities, some things tend to leak between them, for example some friends from VGR are friends with me on FB and programs that I've made for ripping stuff here I like to share elsewhere. I don't really think this is much of an issue though, pretty much everything I do I'm fine with other people seeing.
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - NICKtendo DS - 06-04-2016
Interesting thing about my DeviantArt account, it isn't actually mine. About 10 years ago, in middleschool, I didn't have a scanner, a proper computer or internet. One day my best friend decided to take my drawings to his place, scan in there and upload it to his DeviantArt account. We've been sharing that account ever since, but while he does fave stuff on this account, he rarely ever uploads. Most of the art on there is mine. You'll know it's my work when it says "By NICKtendo DS" in the description.
Our account is CyberMaroon.
I also make adult work (that's fancy speak for porn) under the alias Dori Green on Hentai Foundry. Obviously I'm not going to add a link, because it contains visual poison for the kiddies (also rules). I've been writing a Sonic fan comic for over 2 years and almost 300 pages and it's without a doubt one of my favorite passtimes. Yes, I make Sonic porn. Judge me, I don't care (I do care, pls no judge).
I also have a LinkedIn account that I never use. I had to make one for school and never gave a crap about it ever since.
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - psychospacecow - 06-04-2016
I'm on this and the VGFacts forum.
This is my DeviantArt. http://goldfisharmada.deviantart.com/
This is my Tumblr. http://goldfisharmada.tumblr.com/
I've been on a lot of sites and frequent a lot of them still, but I don't feel the need to reveal some of them. Haven't been on Gaia Online in a decade anyway.
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - DarkGrievous7145 - 06-04-2016
@jazzgw:
Yeah, a lot of my IRL contacts only know so much about my online activities, and vice-versa.
This miss-use of social media by employers really pisses me off, and I hope a discrimination or other lawsuit is filed and won over it someday.
no, having fun in general, is bad, it's like, forbidden...lol
@puggsoy
that explains the username
I feel the mars mission wiki is pretty dead, actually. I've even talked with my friend Josh about the CAC Redux project. It's way past its prime, but we're in too deep to just up and quit, now. Sad when communities or projects just fall apart or die.
I visit DA a lot, but I've allowed nearly 3k notifications to build-up... /:
yep, some of mine are unknown to the others, or will be. I've contemplated making a separate DA account for submitting and favoriting/featuring mature artwork. If done, any such account will be managed as though it's nothing to do with me or my main accounts.
@NICKtendo DS
interesting...
yet you mentioned the name of the site. lol... loopholes...XD
I've actually never heard of or visited said site, lol... thanks for the suggestion?
My mom has a linkedin account. I had to make an account on the career information site for my state, and I also don't intend to be using that site or that account really, ever again. Really not my style.
@pshycospacecow
alright
I also didn't mention quite a few accounts. For example, my three evony accounts, since I do not, and never again will play evony. I do intend to post some assets from it someday, though. (literally the last time I ever logged-in was to grab the .swf's ...lol)
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - miyabi95_ - 06-04-2016
This is pretty much where I am most of the time:
Fur Affinity - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/jiyako/ (NSFW warning, but if you have an account you can use a SFW filter)
deviantART - http://jiyako.deviantart.com/ (not as active as Fur Affinity, mostly cosplay photos)
Tumblr - http://lovejaboo.tumblr.com/ (random fandom garbage)
SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/jazzgw (been neglecting it a bit, but I'd like to start making music again)
For the most part, anything furry-related I do isn't suitable for youngins. I have an art Tumblr, but it's adult-rated so I'll just let you find it on your own. I don't wanna be held accountable for directing kids to an adult site.
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - DarkGrievous7145 - 06-04-2016
1. Haven't checked that one yet
2. yep, i've looked at it.
3. lol...the site that's 'only for porn' (one of my friends at school was looking through for tattoo pics and kept finding nude ones, so we just kept mutually agreeing tumblr is basically a porn site. most of the tumblr blogs i've visted are NSFW...XD)
4. I honestly never really check soundcloud for some reason
5. i thought FA by default had a NSFW filter going? I can't view some art there because of it, or at least, that was the last time I visted FA, over two or three years ago.
6. You could always just send it via PM? also, i was a very naughty boy when I was younger...XD. My best friend at the time made it worse by showing me newgrounds, and the 'safesearch off' feature of google images...lol
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - miyabi95_ - 06-04-2016
(06-04-2016, 07:46 PM)DarkGrievous7145 Wrote: 1. Haven't checked that one yet
2. yep, i've looked at it.
3. lol...the site that's 'only for porn' (one of my friends at school was looking through for tattoo pics and kept finding nude ones, so we just kept mutually agreeing tumblr is basically a porn site. most of the tumblr blogs i've visted are NSFW...XD)
4. I honestly never really check soundcloud for some reason
5. i thought FA by default had a NSFW filter going? I can't view some art there because of it, or at least, that was the last time I visted FA, over two or three years ago.
6. You could always just send it via PM? also, i was a very naughty boy when I was younger...XD. My best friend at the time made it worse by showing me newgrounds, and the 'safesearch off' feature of google images...lol
while there is a good amount of porn on tumblr, one thing i can't stand are the bots. they're just randomly-programmed blogs that go around at random liking any posts relevant to their blog. the fact that they're bots and not people is pretty annoying and pointless for a blogging service, and as of late I've been dealing with them quite often. i shouldn't be making a big deal about it but the fact that i hardly have any followers and likes besides from bots is a bit unfair. and i'm not desperate for attention or anything, but i joined tumblr so i could interact with other artists.
And yes, FA does have a default filter for non-members. c:
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - DarkGrievous7145 - 06-04-2016
I've gotten some bots on skype...
i agree, the bulk of these bots just need to shut-down...
yeah, i might make an account there, then...
might do the same on newgrounds, as while viewing content isn't restricted, searching it is...
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - psychospacecow - 06-04-2016
Speaking of bots, does anyone know the reason for the ones that give out random "llama badges" on DeviantArt? I mean, don't those things cost money?
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - DarkGrievous7145 - 06-04-2016
llamas are one of the few completely free badges
(and then there's the various event/contest badges, like twist fate)
points cost money. the cake badge costs money and/or points, iirc
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - miyabi95_ - 06-04-2016
(06-04-2016, 09:51 PM)psychospacecow Wrote: Speaking of bots, does anyone know the reason for the ones that give out random "llama badges" on DeviantArt? I mean, don't those things cost money?
I think they cost "Points" which can be exchanged for actual cash?...I'm not 100% sure, but you have to have like 50 billion watchers giving you a llama each in order to have enough for some points. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - psychospacecow - 06-04-2016
How do I exchange llamas? I have 43...
RE: Your online persona(s)/identities/missions - Fawfulthegreat64 - 06-04-2016
The first Internet account I ever remember making was on MyCheats under the name "mariomaster64" where I submitted bogus "cheats" that I thought were legit (like I thought the Luigi Flying Suit in SMG was an unmasked Mr. L, so I submitted one called "Play as Mr. L")
I never use that account anymore (I don't even remember the password and it was under my mom's email address) but the next major place I joined online was VGBoxArt under "dimentio64." I uploaded bad MSPaint boxes with cringeworthy game concepts (including a crossover between SpongeBob, Mario, A Troll in Central Park, and Gumby) and eventually got the hint that my stuff sucked and I should improve, so when I finally enrolled in a computer graphics class in school, I learned Photoshop and now I make actual decent boxes with no more bad fanfiction-like game concepts.
Then came YouTube, where I was called "fawfulthegreat64" and I uploaded equally bad slideshows with random sound effects and music inspired by YouTube Poops. I eventually stopped making those and most of them are private now. I now do Let's Plays, reviews and other gaming related videos where I talk about a subject, in addition to the occasional remix or Space Jam mix.
In 2012 I joined MarioWiki under "Fawfulfan64" and contributed un-sourced opinions that obviously got removed. I still occasionally make normal edits there, but always ones that are within the rules now.
In 2013 I registered on Super Mario Boards (MarioWiki's forum) under the name "Fawful" and eventually became a regular there, changing my username to "fawfulthegreat64" which stuck, making it my default username in most places. Sadly I got a bit too salty about other people's opinions one day and earned myself a permanent ban. They have refused to unban me for a whole year and I imagine it will last forever. Which is bull because the other ban that argument brought upon someone was temporary. Even that guy agrees I shouldn't have been permabanned, and he was the other side of the argument.
Also in 2013 I joined GameFAQs under the name "greatdimentio." I originally was found on the Mario Kart 8 boards making repetitive topics about how Mario RPG characters like Fawful and Dimentio should have a chance to be playable in Mario Kart. I also did the same on Smash Bros sometimes. Now I'm mostly on the Paper Mario: Color Splash board, a private board I won't name, and my own board which is Super Mario Universe (a general Mario board I created)
I also joined here shortly after MarioBoards and GameFAQs in 2013, though now is pretty much my most active time here. I contributed some sprites and sounds to the site (mostly from Super Paper Mario). I Other than that, I have accounts on DeviantART (same username as here) Userpedia (a wiki with articles of MarioWiki/MarioBoards users; same username as here), SpongeBuddy Mania (a SpongeBob forum, same username), Twitch (where I occasionally stream Super Mario Maker under the same username), Miiverse (NNID dimentio64, Mii Fawful), and tons more I am too lazy to remember now.