I laid completely motionless in bed last night, exhausted from 10 hours on camera on MFC yesterday, but with my mind still reeling with excitement from the great day I had. I moved from #31 to #15 over the course of the day, with the help of quite a few of you generous folks. I even met a soon-to-be model who hung in my room for a bit. She's cool and I look forward to having her here and watching her on MFC.
I've already done a short yoga and cardio workout today. Uploaded a video of half the cardio routine on youtube. You can find it in the Peek a boo thread within the forums if you care to see it (here - viewtopic.php?p=12208#p12208). I'm still shaking and winded from the workout and finally getting some lunch now. I feel good though. It's a good tired.
So yesterday, Blizzard announced its plans to make posting on their forums a much bigger deal. In an attempt to slow trolling, spam and flame posts, they will make it so that your real name (First name and last initial, it seems) will be displayed (called your "Real_ID") when you post in a thread on any of their forums. Now, I certainly appreciate their attempts to clean up the forums, since people really can be douchebags on there and ruin good threads. But I also won't be able to post there in the future, since I've gone to such lengths to keep my real name under wraps, and my battle.net account has my RL details. It seems they will be rolling this out in the near future, but it doesn't seem to be optional. They do say they will make it very obvious to you before you post that your real name will be used. Keep in mind that their original announcements about "Real_ID" were about it being an OPTIONAL thing you could do in-game just to keep in contact with RL friends across all battle.net accounts.
I've been told by 2 others that I could manage to change my account name, but that I'd have to fax in some sort of verification to Blizzard. It's more of a hassle than I'm willing to go through, and like many others, will probably just forgo posting altogether. Plus, if I updated my account to a fictitious name, I'd be worried that if my account was ever compromised, that I'd have issues going through customer service to get my shit back.
Flame posts, trolling and spam have always just been expected when it comes to any sort of Internet forums. Anonymity has also always been a HUGE part of any sort of Internet posting. So even though I appreciate their efforts, I think they mostly go against all that is "the Internet" and I wish they'd just stick to how things have been run for years now. They are trying to be too ground-breaking. If Blizzard ever implements any sort of "real name" deal to play their games, I will cry my way to the "delete account" and "cancel subscription" links. I like being a different person on the web. Don't take that away from me. Grr. :evil:
I am going to get my nails done in about 30 mins. I'm going for some dark colored tips as a variation of my usual French manicure. Dark blue or black, maybe. We'll see what my lady has for me! Looking forward to another (hopefully) successful night on MFC. I'm still at rank #15 as of this morning, so I'm excited to see if we can make any more progress later!!
I've already done a short yoga and cardio workout today. Uploaded a video of half the cardio routine on youtube. You can find it in the Peek a boo thread within the forums if you care to see it (here - viewtopic.php?p=12208#p12208). I'm still shaking and winded from the workout and finally getting some lunch now. I feel good though. It's a good tired.
So yesterday, Blizzard announced its plans to make posting on their forums a much bigger deal. In an attempt to slow trolling, spam and flame posts, they will make it so that your real name (First name and last initial, it seems) will be displayed (called your "Real_ID") when you post in a thread on any of their forums. Now, I certainly appreciate their attempts to clean up the forums, since people really can be douchebags on there and ruin good threads. But I also won't be able to post there in the future, since I've gone to such lengths to keep my real name under wraps, and my battle.net account has my RL details. It seems they will be rolling this out in the near future, but it doesn't seem to be optional. They do say they will make it very obvious to you before you post that your real name will be used. Keep in mind that their original announcements about "Real_ID" were about it being an OPTIONAL thing you could do in-game just to keep in contact with RL friends across all battle.net accounts.
I've been told by 2 others that I could manage to change my account name, but that I'd have to fax in some sort of verification to Blizzard. It's more of a hassle than I'm willing to go through, and like many others, will probably just forgo posting altogether. Plus, if I updated my account to a fictitious name, I'd be worried that if my account was ever compromised, that I'd have issues going through customer service to get my shit back.
Flame posts, trolling and spam have always just been expected when it comes to any sort of Internet forums. Anonymity has also always been a HUGE part of any sort of Internet posting. So even though I appreciate their efforts, I think they mostly go against all that is "the Internet" and I wish they'd just stick to how things have been run for years now. They are trying to be too ground-breaking. If Blizzard ever implements any sort of "real name" deal to play their games, I will cry my way to the "delete account" and "cancel subscription" links. I like being a different person on the web. Don't take that away from me. Grr. :evil:
I am going to get my nails done in about 30 mins. I'm going for some dark colored tips as a variation of my usual French manicure. Dark blue or black, maybe. We'll see what my lady has for me! Looking forward to another (hopefully) successful night on MFC. I'm still at rank #15 as of this morning, so I'm excited to see if we can make any more progress later!!
