Character names

April 7, 2007

Behind the sorcery: Allow myself to introduce, myself…

It’s kind of interesting to see the various character names employed by one person, and how they take up the alias of their more successful character. I remember in the game, if you happen to bump into someone’s “alt” - another of their characters – they say, “hey its me Bob” or whatever character name you are familiar with in reference to that person. One of a person’s many characters becomes the one they primarily identify with… and thus the achievements of this character are inscribed accordingly onto various character names. His blog is not, it seems, written under his own name, but rather his character name from World of Warcraft. I guess I’m doing the same thing on this blog – sathfilms – not my actual name, but I guess that can easily found by clicking on the honours student link on my blogroll. Nonetheless, the character/person handle or alias thing is quite fascinating since the communities are built up on this – calling somoene “starfire” or “boobdust” over a voice communications program or even in chat is not even considered that strange.