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Reply Subj: Re: Taking the 5th on comments... Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 07:42:54 pm EST (Viewed 273 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: Case in point is this very board. Many of the early posters used their real names as alter-egos for the superhero avatars they names after their poster handles. But it must be a little weird for, say, Lisa to look back on ten year old stories about how big a slut she is. It'll be weirder when her son Christopher reads them.Quote: It depends how it's presented - she might choose to explain that it's a character based on her named Lisa Waltz, like the ones on TV.Actually I think her best hope is that children are usually supremely indifferent to the enthusiasms and histories of their parents. Except that my daughter now posts here. Quote: This whole discussion reminds me of the old Cosby Show. There was Bill Cosby, but with a different last name, because his real wife and family didn't want to be involved. Then there was his fictional family. It was such a successful show, people believed that's what the real Bill Cosby was like. But while it was based on his life, it was nothing like reality at all. He literally changed everything to keep his real life completely separate from the fictional one, and to protect his real family.I think that's more around people confusing a "showbiz" identity with a real one, like how actors who play doctors get people coming up to them and asking ton have medical conditions examined. It's tempting to visualise someone as being like their TV - or online - persona. Is Adam really a good-hearted bumbler like Vizh, hapless but sweet? Is Finny a woman-shy obsessive? Is CSFB! a ranting grinning lunatic? Is Dancer a [okay, I've edited this bit out because basically yes she is]. Am I really a scheming archvillain? This is complicated because sometimes people project an online persona and want people to engage with them in that way. Sometimes it's fun. Way back when, ManMan and Troia used to have long in-character exchanges in the reply threads to Untold Tales. There was a fair bit of flirting between them, and on one occasion when I logged on, found it, and posted "Indeed" as the Hooded Hood, Manny replied "Crap - busted!" and it was very funny. Later I built some of that into storyline. Sometimes it can cause difficulties. Not long after that Troia and another poster got into a long-distance e-relationship and wrote their characters into a PVB romance. When then real-life thing didn't end well it effectively also ended their regular involvement at the PVB. In summary: it's complicated and folks are weird. Quote: I guess I feel more like a director than a character or a star. Like movie directors, if I put myself into a story at all, I'd probably be the guy who gets killed in the first scene, or contributes some minute fact to the story or something (I was run off the road in my car in one of my friends' comics I helped write, for instance). And even then, to avoid the appearance of hubris, I'd probably give myself a different last name, or one that's similar but not the same.I recall a very early effort on the BZL where characters and posters met up for some reason but that's all I recall of it. Vizh? Hat? CSFB? G-Eyed? Any recollections? | |||||||
