Poll: Alter-ego and various other things

[vakkotaur]

There is a fellow on my LJ "friends list" that distinguishes between an on-line character and the fellow at the keyboard by calling the one at the keyboard the alter-ego of the character. While I do not necessarily use this method myself, I certainly like it better than using the term "player" which, at best, makes one seem to be an automated piano and worst appear as someone involved in sports or other criminal activities. As with many things the term "alter-ego" gets abbreviated in on-line chat, to simply "a-e."

So, assuming that you are the character and have a keyboard-bound alter-ego (rather than the two being essentially identical)...

[Poll #1523850]

Comments

[michaelmink.livejournal.com]

I decline to respond to this poll on the grounds of conflict of interest.

[setsu-p.livejournal.com]

There's a good reason I have a number of fourth-wall-breaking emote aliases on the MUD, hahaha...

*is a terrible, sadistic alter-ego, apparently*

From Ken D. Lion

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

Bah, pathetic poll - most of the time I don't really have an answer, as I don't really care about the "alter-ego" (although I've been told I'm more like him than his other characters, this might explain it actually), I'd answer the joke answer, but Lions. Don't Moo! Next time I'm on IRC remind me to eat you.

Oh, and tell alter-ego that even though he doesn't use me much (and is on IRC less), he should find a way to include an avatar of me in his picture list? I mean the one for "toons" is of an abandoned character?

'Scuse me while I retreat to my lair (ooo, makes me sound like a Bond villian!)

Re: From Ken D. Lion

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

You aren't a (Bond) villain?
Are you perhaps a vaude villian?