The name was originally chosen for nerd cred (for anyone who recognizes it - Atra esterní ono thelduin. Mor'ranr lifa unin hjarta onr. Un atra du evarínya ono varda.) but I later realized that it's also great because it's an actual word from an actual story and 99% of search engine results for my name are going to bring up that story and its wiki. It's an extra layer of pseudo-anonymity that I enjoy.
The avatar was just cause it's funny, I use this one all over the place.
Meanwhile, me, rolling in with Pestilent Mist and Soul Greatsword:
Username checks out
I remember a couple forums had a "thank" feature or something similar that would show, with your username, your approval for a post without having to make an additional post about it. No downvotes though, you had to speak up to be a hater. I think that was a fine middle ground.
Quantum physics tells us that nothing is actually chock full of little somethings
Man I really want to get into Mechwarrior but I'm just so ridiculously bad at the game and I have no idea how to get better.
I've tried to begin the MW5 campaign three times now and I've been priced out of existing every time, I take way too much damage and my repair bills vastly outstrip my income. Combine with having to spend hundreds of thousands of credits in travel fees to get anywhere and I'm very quickly even more broke than I started.
Just for kicks the other day I set up an Instant Action for testing purposes and I brought two Atlases, a Highlander and an Archer to some random backwater mid-difficulty mission and still barely limped out of there alive, with the Highlander and one of the Atlases downed. That's just shameful.
If I spend a fiver on a game and it entertains me for two nights I still consider that fine value to entertainment ratio. If I went out somewhere in real life with the boys I'd be spending a minimum of $50 and that's for a single night out. So I buy a lot of indie games in the $5-10 range without much guilt over it. Weird single-dev projects with pixel art and a 5 year span in early access are my favorite kind of art.
Now if you're asking me more than about $20 for your game then yeah the quality control checklist comes out. But my standards are much lower for the $10-tier and I've found some really good games in that tier. Not ones that I'm still playing, maybe, but ones that I had a good time with for a few days to a few weeks and that I remember fondly.
Moonring is another free game who had to add a $5 megadungeon DLC after being harassed by fans for months to give them a way to support the game monetarily
I've dark souls dodge rolled an entire series of physical and mental maladies from both sides of my family and I'm afraid they're all going to hit me like a sack of bricks when I turn 40
Nah, you're correct.
The translation is left as an exercise for the reader :)