OT Poll How much are you like your forum persona?

[David E. Gervais]

What you see is what you get, I have no cellar to hide in or curtain to hide behind. I have no gun, I do have a mug which is almost similar in a dislexic kind of way. I like to drink tea and often eat, hmm, another dislexic paradox?

Oh well, Cheers!

[Starhawk]

Well in RL I'm pretty quiet and calm which helps me a lot since I like screwing with people's heads during debates (keeping someone off balance in a debate is so much easier when you can keep your VOICE calm level and emotionless)>

Some of my RL personality comes in obviously, like my sense of humor (which is actually a bit more sublime and wry I know, at least when I'm not being an all out smart alec or quoting monty python ).

I am NO good with women (they think I'm charming and sweet and blah blah blah but they tend to think of my like a brother or I don't pick up on their signals till it's too late and then I kick myself lol) so that ackward point of my personality chimes through on these forums too. Kicker there is I'm a very empathetic person by my nature so I fit the "sensative tough guy" quality quite well. But I'm not enough of an *** for teenage girls aparently lol all the ones I know tend to date "Bad boys" which are really milk sops who would cry if you mussed their $200 clothes lol (don't ask me how I know that )

I have a rather deep reflective personality in private which none of you get to see , sometimes this part of my personality does lend its self to depression or antagonistic moods but meh.

I read people VERY well and can tell you in five minutes of meeting someone if I am going to like them or not (and often if they are a good person or not) and am more then ninety percent right.
Best example is one of those "bad boys" a girl I wanted was dating I told her "He'll be in jail before the year is out I bet yah." Four months later he's in the pokey (probobly getting pok-ed by the real bad boys muahahahaha cough).

Oh yeah and did I mention I'm a bit cruel towards people I don't like

Let's see hmmmmmmm.....what else about my personality is not something any of you see......oh yeah I get FREAKIN STIR CRAZY EASILY! I mean very easily. if I don't get to go to kung fu or get out of the house for a whole week you'll usually find me pinging off the walls and not sleeping at all.

That's about it

[Thermodyne]

Atrocities said:
I really am a depressed overweight single white male who lives in isolation, in "compound" filled with computers, guns, quads, and the occational horse, cat, dog, and unidentified varment!

Cool

Can I come and visit? I�ll leave the wife behind and bring my own firearms, ammo, and computer.

[Arkcon]

Back in the days of pre-internet dial-up, an online service called PC-Link (it was dedicated to Tandy computers) took my given name and suggested the handle Rcon.

I thought, "thats a little lame, and need something with more style, right? Like Arcon, or Arkcon, or maybe Arkcon the All-powerful, ruler of the galaxy, supreme ...

"Beep", says online service, "You still there?"

"Umm...yeah, 'Arkcon', will work fine."

I'm actually pretty shy in a large group of people I don't know. Hard to make eye-contact, start a conversation, that sort of thing. But inside, I'm pretty much the same as my online personality.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Well, I have no idea of how to describe my personality (online and offline), so I guess that says something about me.

I feel I can express myself more freely online, not limited by unspoken conventions or expectations (not that I ignore the rules, mind you) that I have to deal with in RL. There, I often find it's a struggle to express myself properly, and simply to be. Sometimes I feel like who I am offline is not necessarily who I want to be, but more the person people expect me to be.

Online, I feel I can be myself more than I can be in real life. I prefer the personage of "Strategia" more than who I really am (but don't go around thinking I'm some kind of freaked-up sociophobe), simply because I can be who I really want to be.

I prefer the forums to talking to someone face to face. Not that I don't like a good conversation, but I just like the idea of being able to express myself without it having consequences for me in real life.

I haven't voted. If I were to cast a vote, the most likely approximation would be the top option, but "Online I am who I really am, offline I'm not" would be more accurate.

[Wolfman77]

I believe my "online personality" is part of me and so I am compleatly me online (makes a nice circle huh ). I may type different, but that's mostly because I'm a horrible typer. Other than that, if you put me in a room with all of you I would be peretty much the same as I am here.

[Combat Wombat]

I'd like to thing that I act the same way online as I do in RL.