The_Fury
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#31 id:12842 Posted Sep 26, 2008, 5:12 pm
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Davion said:Well! Don't you think highly of me :). I just happen to pay for the server that MudBytes is on. As for who owns the site, technically, it'd be kiasyn, because he controls the domain name. For the most part, we all own/run this site :).
Who is this Davion everyone keeps talking about. ;)
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Chris Bailey
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#32 id:12846 Posted Sep 26, 2008, 6:50 pm
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I hadn't heard of Davion until a few week ago when I joined the site. Kiasyn however, I've played a mud with in the past.
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Fizban
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#33 id:12847 Posted Sep 26, 2008, 8:05 pm
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I didn't know Davion till he held MUDCON a few years ago.
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Kjwah
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#34 id:12849 Posted Sep 26, 2008, 10:50 pm
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I only knew Davion because I somehow met him some years back?
Since we're all talking about Davion. :p
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Fizban
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#35 id:12852 Posted Sep 26, 2008, 11:15 pm
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I only knew me because I'm well...me.
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Kayle
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#36 id:12853 Posted Sep 27, 2008, 12:45 am
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Zeno said:Other devs like Samson/Davion/KaVir/Kayle/etc I'd like to have a beer with or something, but I don't consider them celebrities. :P
I dunno about a beer, but I'll have some form of liquor with you. ;)
As for Celebrities.. I dunno that I'd consider anyone in our community a celebrity. I think KaVir's "well known in certain circles" fits the best. Because as has been pointed out, an LPCer probably won't know the DIKU authors any more than a DIKUer would know the original developers of the first LPC stuff.
As for being the only one? No, I don't think you're the only one. Obviously we all have people we know and regard as mentors/role-models in the community, but you're certainly not alone. Everyone calls them something else, but it's all the same with a different name. (heh. that rhymes.) I have my fair share: KaVir, Samson (who I work very closely with at SmaugMuds.org), Tyche, DavidHaley, FearItself@AvP.
And I'm sure I could name more if I wasn't exhausted, mourning, and what not. I'll be more chipper and posting more after my grandfather's funeral.
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Remcon
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#37 id:12854 Posted Sep 27, 2008, 12:54 am
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Well I have heard of plenty of good ones and (when I'm around) hearing of new ones all the time. Samson and Orion are the first ones I can recall seeing the most work by.
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Igabod
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#38 id:12855 Posted Sep 27, 2008, 1:09 am
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so the general consensus is that yes we all have our own names that we recognize and are recognized by a large portion of our own mudding circles. maybe celebrity wasn't the best word for it but thats what popped into my brain when i was trying to put a name to it. i still think celebrity fits with the definition that dictionary.com has for it, but due to the negative connotation of today's red carpet train wrecks, celebrity has become somewhat of a bad term. nevertheless, my question is answered... i'm not alone in my "fanboi"ism (interesting way to term it there) of the many great developers. i have also been enlightened to many facts i hadn't thought about. i never think of mushers and lpc mudders etc cause i've only tried them once or twice and found those types of mu* not to my liking. by the way, i've even heard of amberyl somehow, maybe she played rom muds before. i've heard of davion because i used to work with him on a mud run by Sola several years back, under a different name of course. i've only seen fizban's name in forums, never actually seen any work done by him (that i know of) i only heard of samson a few times in passing years ago but only began to realize all he's done for the community recently. anyway, this is a long winded post so i'll wrap it up by saying thank you to all of you for your responses, this thread has helped me understand the mindset of my fellow mudders a little better as well as my own mindset.
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Pedlar
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#40 id:12891 Posted Sep 27, 2008, 3:46 pm
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I met Davion YEARS ago, back when Synon romaed the earth. Which is longer ago then i think me, or Davion would like to rember :D Hes a celebrity in my eyes, I knew the poor feller for so long, and hes still putting up with me :D, but im jus so helpful and insightful he can't help it :D
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Kayle
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#42 id:12952 Posted Sep 28, 2008, 7:12 pm
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DavidHaley said:I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather, Kayle.
Thanks, He was a good man. So many people came to his viewing the Funeral Home had to add 8 extra pages to the book people were signing as they came in. He was a Free Mason too, so I got to see my first Masonic Burial as well.
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Chris Bailey
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#43 id:12963 Posted Sep 28, 2008, 10:14 pm
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Age of the Ancients
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
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#45 id:12981 Posted Sep 29, 2008, 11:16 am
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kiasyn said:no ####? :D
who were you?
Caster! =)
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