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***Mithadan*** · 05-22-2009, 10:02 PM

You were created for the purpose of running a tutorial RPG, remember?

*makes note to delete Nonesuch account.

Rikae · 05-22-2009, 11:23 PM

I have a confession to make, too. I'm actually a 61 year old man. Those who met Rikae in RL - yes, even you, Mac - met my youngest daughter posing as me. Please forgive me.

From now on I will be posting as Boromir88.

(Seriously, this is a joke, right?)

Boromir88 · 05-22-2009, 11:53 PM

No joke, Rikae, god do I wish it was but it isn't.

Mithadan, it will be this name...all I can say here is it started when I first joined, I had a sn for 3 months and had the lecturing of only talking to people I knew. But I wanted to talk about LOTR, didn't think I could do that with any RL friends, or even my dad who introduced me to the books. So, I joined a forum, and my very first thread/post was "Who/What is Gothmog?" I had been a member for about a week, the first couple responsed were "check the search engine" and this is "redundant." I took that the wrong way, I took it as the only way I would actually be taken seriously is if I at least started looking older than I actually was...then it kind of spiralled down from there. Once I started getting PMs from people and talking with people more, I felt it was easier to keep it up because I was working for my dad at his job, but I could just take what he was doing and pretend it was me. The reason I created Kent, was after I couldn't keep it up anymore I thought I could just let Boro disappear and be Kent, be my real age and life, not pretending I was an adult and taking my father's jobs. This isn't bravery either, I was a coward, because I was caught...I would have gone through with it had I not been.

I don't feel like I should be joking, or funny, but to at least offer the real me. I made a bet with one of my players about the Michigan-OSU game. I lost the bet, and I had to come to the school in an OSU cheerleading jersey and then take the team out to BW3s...well one of my players happened to post it on youtube, and I have been wanting to share it for so long on here, but just couldn't. Now might not be a good time, but it's a really funny video and you can at least see who I am:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdEb-6D8e1s

Macalaure · 05-23-2009, 12:22 AM

My goodness... I grow tree-ish for just a few months and then something like this happens?

Obviously, when it comes to forgiving, there is a huge difference between the people who talked to you more closely, and the ones who only debated or played with you on the forum. I can fully understand how wronged the former may feel, but belonging to the latter, I merely suffer a light blow to my ego due to realising that the person I fooled in WW L is in fact only half as old as advertised.

So, personally, I have no trouble forgiving this. Like alatar said, there is indeed barely anything to forgive.

I just can't help wondering why you didn't come out way, way earlier and dug yourself deeper and deeper into this hole. Posting under a false identity on a forum is one thing... but getting into more personal contact with others this way, even if it's still just over the net... well...

I'm disappointed that I never really got around to read many posts by "Kent" and thus was never in the position to suspect anything. I'm happy that at least your birthday is correct. Having one of the most Taurus-like people I know suddenly turn into another sign would have disturbed by faith in astrology.

Rikae · 05-23-2009, 12:22 AM

It's interesting how we perceive another person's identity and what we base this on. Just the other day I chatted with Mac on Skype for the first time in months (while he sat on the other side of the room) and had the strangest feeling of meeting Skype-Mac who I hadn't seen for a while and even kind of missed - not because he's better than real Mac, but because he's the first Mac I got to know.
Now, when you mentioned deleting the Boro account in favor of the Kent one, my reaction was "What? No way! I'd miss having Boro around here!"

So at this point, it's out of your hands - Boro exists. (And as far as I'm concerned, he's still 40, since it makes me feel less old myself! Hmm, perhaps I'll start imagining everyone weighs 150% what I do, too...

)

There are people whose ages I know on here who I always think of as older or younger based on personality, anyhow.

05-22-2009, 10:02 PM	#1
*Mithadan* Spirit of Mist Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Tol Eressea Posts: 3,397	You were created for the purpose of running a tutorial RPG, remember? *makes note to delete Nonesuch account. __________________ Beleriand, Beleriand, the borders of the Elven-land.

05-22-2009, 11:53 PM	#3
Boromir88 Laconic Loreman Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Posts: 7,521	No joke, Rikae, god do I wish it was but it isn't. Mithadan, it will be this name...all I can say here is it started when I first joined, I had a sn for 3 months and had the lecturing of only talking to people I knew. But I wanted to talk about LOTR, didn't think I could do that with any RL friends, or even my dad who introduced me to the books. So, I joined a forum, and my very first thread/post was "Who/What is Gothmog?" I had been a member for about a week, the first couple responsed were "check the search engine" and this is "redundant." I took that the wrong way, I took it as the only way I would actually be taken seriously is if I at least started looking older than I actually was...then it kind of spiralled down from there. Once I started getting PMs from people and talking with people more, I felt it was easier to keep it up because I was working for my dad at his job, but I could just take what he was doing and pretend it was me. The reason I created Kent, was after I couldn't keep it up anymore I thought I could just let Boro disappear and be Kent, be my real age and life, not pretending I was an adult and taking my father's jobs. This isn't bravery either, I was a coward, because I was caught...I would have gone through with it had I not been. I don't feel like I should be joking, or funny, but to at least offer the real me. I made a bet with one of my players about the Michigan-OSU game. I lost the bet, and I had to come to the school in an OSU cheerleading jersey and then take the team out to BW3s...well one of my players happened to post it on youtube, and I have been wanting to share it for so long on here, but just couldn't. Now might not be a good time, but it's a really funny video and you can at least see who I am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdEb-6D8e1s __________________ Fenris Penguin

05-22-2009, 11:23 PM	#2
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	I have a confession to make, too. I'm actually a 61 year old man. Those who met Rikae in RL - yes, even you, Mac - met my youngest daughter posing as me. Please forgive me. From now on I will be posting as Boromir88. (Seriously, this is a joke, right?)

05-23-2009, 12:22 AM	#4
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	My goodness... I grow tree-ish for just a few months and then something like this happens? Obviously, when it comes to forgiving, there is a huge difference between the people who talked to you more closely, and the ones who only debated or played with you on the forum. I can fully understand how wronged the former may feel, but belonging to the latter, I merely suffer a light blow to my ego due to realising that the person I fooled in WW L is in fact only half as old as advertised. So, personally, I have no trouble forgiving this. Like alatar said, there is indeed barely anything to forgive. I just can't help wondering why you didn't come out way, way earlier and dug yourself deeper and deeper into this hole. Posting under a false identity on a forum is one thing... but getting into more personal contact with others this way, even if it's still just over the net... well... I'm disappointed that I never really got around to read many posts by "Kent" and thus was never in the position to suspect anything. I'm happy that at least your birthday is correct. Having one of the most Taurus-like people I know suddenly turn into another sign would have disturbed by faith in astrology.