How did you think up your Apolyton username?

[Pandemoniak]

This is just a mix between Pandemonium, the capitol of hell in John Milton Lost Paradise, and demoniak. I use it everywhere since ages.

The evil look of the name must be understand by the poem of Baudelaire, les litanies de Satan.

[Dis]

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[Mad Bomber]

Some of you folks out there may not believe this but Mad Bomber is in reference to the late Sir Aurthur Harris who was refered to as Mad Bomber on occasion. Like Harris, I am a big proponet of airpower.

[GeneralTacticus]

And like him, you also favour the indiscriminate bombing of enemy cities to acheive very little towards winning the war?

As for my username - General Tacticus was a character from the Discworld series. He conquered lots of places for Ankh-Morpork, and did it so well that he get sent off to govern an obscure city a few thousand miles away to keep him out of the king's hair. Upon arriving, he looked the situation over and then immmediately declared war on Ankh-Morpork. Anyway, I first used this name on StarCraft Battle.net, for what reason I have no idea, and kept it.

[aaglo]

I wanted myself to be seen in the beginning of the alphabet...

[H Tower]

but you aren't even on the first page of members in alphabetical order

[MrFun]

I created my Apolyton name, because believe it or not, my friends enjoy hanging out with me.

But, now my Apolyton name has come to mean something ironic among Apolytoners.

[Zkribbler]

Zkribbler is a derivative of Scribble, the narrator-main character of Jeff Noon's very weird science fiction novel Vert.

[Traianvs]

This is just a mix between Pandemonium, the capitol of hell in John Milton Lost Paradise, and demoniak. I use it everywhere since ages.

Pandemoniak is actually a really cool evil name!!!


When i subscribed here I played a lot of AoE and AoK, and there I used the nickname Traianus, as he was the most famous (well maybe not but in any case the best) emperor the Romans ever had.
When i subscribed i changed it to Trajanus, because Traianus might have seemed strange in English.


I usually use EvilBork though...

Bork being the name of an orc, and orcs are evil...

[JimmyCracksCorn]

When I was making mine I was thinking "oh, I don't care..."

hence... JimmyCracksCorn

[jdd2007]

well, i put two and two together:

initials (JDD) plus graduation year (2007) equals name (jdd2007)

yah, not very creative, but the name has spawned a life of its own

[Nubclear]

Game. Itar-Tass.

[MORON]

because I am one

[Provost Harrison]

Cut-and-paste from SMAC

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
And like him, you also favour the indiscriminate bombing of enemy cities to acheive very little towards winning the war?

Before condeming a practice, you should read a few memoirs of German soldiers during the latter half of WW2. They suffered from acute supply shortages, ammunition, gas, food, you name it they lacked it. The Germans had produced hundreds of Me-262's but they sat still in a Bavarian forest due to a lack of fuel to fly them. This was accomplished by airpower. Yes the killing was indiscriminate, yes it was horrible, but that is the face of modern war. As for effectiveness, Airpower was far more effective in WW2 than most give credit. Airpower alone will not win a war, but in WW2 it was often the deciding factor between the victor and the beaten.