User:Patoxia

Greetings!

Net Monikers

Here's some of my Major Names I've used online.

NS Related Names:

• Patoxia - My more or less main nation in NationStates, it was named after another imaginary country in a war game (My friends and I played way too many board games than can possible be healthy from Risk to Axis & Allies to Fortress America). Me and a bunch of friends were bored at lunch before AP Biology so we declared our two adjacent circular tables (OO) the Nation of Buttoxia. Things went sour quick as the western half of Buttoxia was filled with Capitalists and eastern Buttoxia was filled with socialists and communists (I was a socialist at the time) so eastern Buttoxia declared itself the independent nation of Patoxia (I came up with the name on the spur of the moment and there is no real meaning behind it. It was pronounced Pa-toxia) and that led to a civil war which ended in the mutual destruction of Buttoxia and Patoxia in an nuclear apocalypse.

• Pax - Of The People gave me this name when he got confused or something, and constantly refered to me as Pax and Paxtopia for a while. Eventually I made the nation of Paxtopia so that he would be somewhat correct when talking about me. Personaly, I perfer people using Pax as shorthand for Patoxia than using Pat.

• Fish Island - My East Pacific nation. It comes from my ZZT days where it was the headquarters of Flying Fish Software (It's capitol Fishville was also was also our IRC channel on AustNet). After FFsoft died out the inhabitation were wiped out in a Deinonychus cloning experiment that went wrong as the cloned and enhanced Deinonychi rebelled and later leading to the creation of a new civilization of sentient beings. In NS it is just a small island territory of Patoxia and it's population is fairly small (the NS pop billions == Millions), I'm thinking of using it or at least making a refrence to it in an NS RP in the future.

• Dah Homestarmy - My UN nation, from a Strong Bad Email on Homestar Runner. Sixguns tends to refer to me as Dah because of this nation.

• Nurkan - My Chinese nation, while researching Patoxia's area in the USSR for RP uses I came across a mention of the Ming Dynasty's Nurkan Administrative District that over saw the lower Amur and dealt with the Aniu peoples of Sakhalin in John J. Stephan's Sakhalin: a history.

General Names:

• RaptorRed - (also appears as SGX_RaptorRed) - RaptorRed is the name I most often go by online now in games, forums, and other such things. I created it because I was tired of seeing tons of RedFyres running around and wanted a better name, so I came up with RaptorRed. SGX is sometimes added when plain RaptorRed is not available. SGX is from StarGate SG-1 and was a group of human Jaffa warrior being trained to infiltrate the Armed Forces of Earth. So far I have only found one other RaptorRed running about...

• RedFyre - (also appears as Minos_RedFyre or RedFire) - RedFyre is my oldest name and I've been known by it for ages. It stems from Dragon I made for D&D adventure and eventually became my alter-ego in ZZT games. This name reached it's height in my ZZT career (1995?-2000), where I lead Flying Fish Software (which had it's headquarters on 'Fish Island' which was somewhere in the Pacific) and Crimson Skies days were I was a high-ranking member of the Black Sheep Squadron Clan. I've stopped using it because it seems too common now, everywhere I go I seem to see several RedFires or RedFyres running around.

Note - ZZT is an old DOS Adventure Game Creation System and in my opinion the ZZTC (ZZT Community) has degenerated significantly since I left with many of the major people leaving and major disputes have divided (and pretty much destroyed) the ZZTC such as the major strife over the ZZT.org domain which is now Xabbot's personal page.