I die too much in online MP games, so “Kenny” made it funny.
Do you call them a bastard afterwards?
Oh absolutely.
Shadon (weird villain from comic I drew when I was like 5) -> Shadic (bad Sonic fan character) -> Shadyk (thinking a stupider spelling would make it more unique) -> Shaddy (some bastardization of that to hopefully make it less Sonic-y at first glance)
Been my online name since 1997. It describes how I used to do my makeup + the year I married prince charming.
“shingeki” - from my AoT blog in Tumblr : @shingekinoheadcannons
“is_real” - AoT hype is friggin real this SUMMER 2017, so is BM Xen hype.
heheh, this is so weird.
Oh dear.
So… once upon a time, long long ago, when Halo PC still had a thriving multiplayer community, I always joined servers using the username “king”. It was short and sweet, and to the point. The name itself was a reference to my first name, Ryan, which means “Little King”.
A few years later, in about fifth grade, I went to a summer camp during which me and a bunch of friends banded together and gave each other Sith names because we were ten years old and wanted to be badasses. I ended up taking on the name Darth Killyou, because I was ten years old and I wasn’t very clever. The name “darthkillyou” ended up being my go-to username on various websites for several years. Today it still lives on in my Valve Developer Community Wiki Account.
At some point during my escapades on the VDCW, some guy started referring to me as “DKY” for short. It was nice and concise, so I adopted the initialism. But for most username purposes, I still used the full “darthkillyou” name.
Around the same time, I got an Xbox 360. I needed a username for my console profile, and it couldn’t be anything particularly objectionable to my parents, since I pretty much set up the Xbox account in front of my dad. So I re-used my old name “king” from my Halo PC days. I thought it was appropriate, since I mainly got that thing to play Halo 2. (Yes, I was a few years late to the party…)
Eventually, when I first subscribed to Xbox Live to play Halo 2 with friends, obviously the name “king” had already been taken. So I decided to go with the “darthkillyou” thing because it was unique, and because I was already using it for Counter-Strike anyway, so I thought it was good to be consistent. I was quite proud that it didn’t need to have any annoying embedded numbers or xX_Xx things in it.
That all changed, however, when the admin of a Counter-Strike server one day kept kicking me from the match because my username “darthkillyou” was “too violent”. (Seriously, who the hell cares about that in a video game? Some people… ?( ) Since I was playing with a group of friends and was eager to get back into the game to help them out, I shrugged and changed my name to the shortened “DKY”. It was at this point that I realized that people were probably getting the wrong impression of the kind of person I am based on that name, so it was at that point that I decided to stop using the full “darthkillyou” name from then on.
Over time, I kept changing and corrupting “DKY” and “king” in various ways to use as a username while playing on various Counter-Strike servers. The transition went roughly something like: “DKY_theking” -> “DKY_tehtheking” -> “DKY_tehthekinged_u” -> “DKY_tehtheking.d_u” -> “dky_tehking.d_u” -> “dky.tehkingd.u”, plus or minus a few other variations. I thought I was being cool for abusing the word “king” as a past-tense transitive verb, in the sense of “DKY kinged you!” or similar.
Eventually I converged on consistently using the form “dky.tehkingd.u”. And it has stuck ever since.
And no, I have no idea how to pronounce it. Don’t even try. Just call me DKY. The last time someone tried to pronounce the full name (in a video published by an EA community manager, back when they still had a Command & Conquer franchise community to actually manage), he completely butchered it. Because every way you pronounce it will be butchering it. And I was quite amused.
You’re name is such bullshit. I didn’t start calling you Ryan due to familiarity, just dkytehskindbs is a pain and DKY feels wrong
Do
Kill
Yourself
For some reason I thought you weren’t an American due to that name.
Racism confirmed!
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Of, if you’re a member of the HECU, Yore.
Yore ded freemun
You know, sometimes I wonder what became of the handful of HECU members that successfully made it out of Black Mesa.
I mean, first they’re assigned to wipe out all the personnel of a big facility. That’s considerably taxing on the conscience.
Then they start losing colleagues, quickly, to both supersuit-rambo Freeman and the eldritch-abomination invading xenofauna.
THEN they hastily withdraw from the facility, in what must have felt like a mission-failure walk-of-shame.
And the place gets nuked, to-boot, so that all the blood and sacrifice becomes for naught.
Then the Seven Hour War happens, and you face the realization that as you were ordered to sweep some aliens [and witnesses] under the rug, the cat was going to come out of the bag anyway… also, it’s a tiger.
And then, a decade later, out of nowhere, the guy who was killing your buddies with much gusto decides to come out of retirement as a messianic figure and become the celebrated figurehead to humanity’s uprising.
Like, shit. Humanity’s great and all, but there must be a sore spot left over from old grudges when it comes to championing Mr. Freeman.
And that is a fantastic baseline for Opposing Force 2.
Well, remember, the HECU are dicks. They seemed to have no problem whatsoever with gunning down hundreds of innocent civilians (only one ever even brings it up), so I imagine they wouldn’t be too concerned about falling back to let the place get nuked as long as they thought it’d get rid of the Xenians.
Everyone with real jobs in the military are dicks. But they’re still people. A mission like this, killing civilians, probably wasn’t delivered as straightforward as you’re imagining.
There wasn’t a lot of time for response-planning, but I’m betting the assignment included some of these elements:
- Voluntary basis:
[list][*]Some will volunteer because “Your country needs you”
- Others volunteer to support their colleagues and unit
- More volunteer because they don’t want to be a pussy (…they are Marines, after all)
So, 95% of the people you ask to go on this assignment are gonna agree. The only guys to turn it down will be the one or two weirdos of the bunch. And then, once you get people to volunteer for the mission, they’re going to go all the way. So once you get people to volunteer for such a mission, they won’t want to let down their buddies, their superiors, or themselves.[/:m]
[]Demonization: - Things work more smoothly if you tell the underlings false information which makes their job easier. Things like… “Witnesses are likely exposed to alien contagion” or “Researchers are guilty of intentionally subjecting Earth to alien invasion”
[/:m][]More to the picture than what Gordon encountered: - While we did witness a bunch of grunt-on-sci violence, we can’t say for sure the executions weren’t localized to everything witnessed by Gordon (in what happened to be highly infested areas where capture and extraction weren’t feasible)
- While you calim that the HECU were dicks and had no problem with it, you weren’t there, man. You’re going off the example set by a fairly repetitive implementation of enemies in a videogame – there’s much more variety that has gone unseen. Plus, when you’re sleep-deprived and used to following orders and genuinely tired of not having real missions to do, you’d be surprised how even an atrocity becomes inviting, no matter how questionable it may seem at first.
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Off topic, but “Even an atrocity becomes inviting” would make a sick book chapter title.
Just out of curiousity Crypt …
Why are you here and on the Moddb page registered as “Crypt”, but on the tripmine studios forum you´re “Chris”? Why not “Crypt” as well? Or vice versa?
I’m also Chris on Steam.
“Crypt” is a little more distinctive than “Chris,” so that’s more frequently available to use as a username first, and more recognizable. That’s mostly it. I’ve just been slowly shying away from usernames, but Chris is a crazy common name.
Why not Chrypt? I bet nobody else uses it