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Reply Subj: Re: Taking the 5th on comments... Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 07:28:05 pm EST (Viewed 356 times) | |||||||
Quote: I agree with Ian... I would advise against anyone using their real life names in the PVB, not because of any major issues, but for all the reasons he lists. Fiction like this is a fragile hobby, and it really takes very litttle to discourage people. Besides, to me this place is all about escapism, and using real life names just drags those troubles in with you.I'll add another reason. These days more and more employment background checks include Google name searches. They're looking for Facebook pages where you talk about your kleptomaniac tendencies or personal homepages with pictures of you torturing kittens but I guess some employers would be bemused at least to dioscover you're also a superhero. Quote: I remember actively squashing other early posters attempts to establish my own name as Visionary's "real" name. It's the reason Vizh has no last name, in fact, since I didn't want him to have mine, and couldn't be bothered to come up with a fictional one.Is it too late for us to have a competition? Quote: Hence Cheryl never had a last name either, though no explanation was ever given why. Still it made things rough when the real Cheryl and I divorced. I ultimately left her character unused for a long while, and t wasn't until much later that I esablished that she and Vizh were no longer together, and longer still before I was willing to see a reason why in continuity.I was very worried that you'd abandon the PVB because of it. I'm glad that you elected to tough it out. | |||||||
