Do we have a thread for name translation already? It’s been a bit confusing on Jinteki.net recently - I imagine OCTGN has similar problems?
I’m evilgaz on both, and Gaz in real life. Just played a ff0x, but don’t think he’s the @ff0x from here or he wouldn’t have been so ragequity. The Cerberus on there isn’t Hoyland, and there’s a Zach that’s not our Zach. I know in the Stimhack League we’ve got some people who are different on the challenge board than their user name. It’s all very confusing.
Any listage anywhere? Feel free to move the thread if it’s in the wrong place!
The fact that a bunch of people have taken verified, netrunner-famous names is basically not in any way ok. Maybe ask @mtgred to remove them if you’re an established player (I realise that people can think of all sorts of edge cases - after all, cerberus is the name of some cards!) - but I think that when someone’s octgn handle, stimhack handle and others are the same then maybe we should remove the abusers. ORRRRRR - we could do something like twitter, so on your J.net account it would say 'verified handle of u/groober on stimhack.som ’ - and maybe it would say ‘not @ff0x’ on the impersonator’s.
I actually saw @mediohxcore playing a game against DanDargeniosWifeBeater on Jinteki.net. Come to think of it, it might not have been dan because that’s the only time I have seen him on Jinteki.
Maybe, but its not like we’re a massive community. I took steps to unify my name across the board for netrunner so this doesn’t happen. I wonder about the people on Jinteki sometimes, never had a problem with an SHL game, but you get some people who take a really toxic attitude into the game.
Cerberus or Zach make sense to Occam to coincidence, but ff0x or something is more likely to be an impersonator or perhaps a young and/or misguided fan.
Impersonation of celebrities in general seems kind of sick. Impersonation of people famous in a community this size seems almost malicious. I’m not saying that whoever is running around under someone else’s handle is doing it maliciously. It just feels that way until I hear an explanation.
I suppose I’m fortunate enough to have a unified name even though I didn’t really try for it, it just worked out that way. I’m “TheRedArmy” on Stimhack, Slack, Jinteki, OCTGN, and Challenge Boards.My backup is almost never taken wherever I go, so it’s not a big deal if TRA is taken ahead of time.
I doubt something like “Cerberus” is taken maliciously, since it’s not only a card in NR, but also a thing outside of NR itself. But it does seem odd that something like ff0x would be taken, unless it means something that I’m not aware of.
The long version ff0X::1 is the shorthand for the IPv6 multicast to all network nodes. I have my doubts that anyone else is as mad as me to try and make a nickname out of that.
O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;
Name universality on the internet, where you can guarantee no such thing, is not really important. The faux rage about “they’re steel’n ar names!” is a bit trite… pick something else and move on?
I think @ff0x’s idea of the nicknames in the profile is decent.
