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On the flip side you and Blizzard also had access to his name, so the system isn't quite as one-sided as a lot of people make out to be.

I'll readily admit I'm quite an anomaly when it comes to this sort of thing, though. I have no fear about people discovering things in my history, and as I said I'm fully prepared to be accountable for anything and everything I do - as long as others have the same mindset, or at least the same rules to play by (and yeah, you can imagine the sheer fun I've had when people have drawn the obvious political parallels). So this really doesn't bother me: in fact it's quite exciting to see Blizzard take such a bold step, regardless of whether or not they'll stick by it in the long run.

For the most part the criticism it's suffered just struck me as so hyperbolic (not necessarily your example...more those who believe it will lead to widespread identity theft and the like) I find myself rolling my eyes. A reccuring one I keep seeing is the hypothetical situation where a troll will track down your Facebook profile and use that to find out everything about you...which makes me raise the point earlier, i.e. there was another weak link in the chain, it wasn't Blizzard's doing.

Oh, you can remove yourself from WhitePages. Look at the help section.

English, although I can just about follow Dutch and Russian conversations even though I'm not able to speak them.

Wow, -142 rep points. Didn't think it was possible to lose that many in one shot.

Anyway, yeah, Sam - I'm all for people getting uptight and defensive on the forum, but I think twisting the motivation behind someone's post, and then being utterly blind to the irony of complaining about others trying to make themselves look superior, is...well. lol.

C'mon guys, if you're going to slag Sammy off for having an opinion at least have the balls to keep a degree of consistency with it. Hypocrisy is bad, m'kay.

Thanks - the bio was actually one of the hardest parts for me as its original incarnation did make a big deal of the transgender themes. I went away for a bit though, deleting the description as it was before, and re-wrote it a few days later: I'm much happier with this one as Janet is a character who happens to be transgendered, rather than a transgendered character. If that makes sense.

Kheldian aside, out of all my characters she's the most established in reality - plus a fair chunk of personal experience - yet has had some of the more interesting conversations and interactions with other characters I know of. Though as I said it's very frustrating to have her categorised in a (faintly offensive) manner when I've gone to such pains to avoid that myself.

The most annoying thing is that the only way you'll really figure it out is by reading her VV page.

Yeah, well, Dead Space wasn't trying to win oscars for its writing - it was about making you feel vulnerable and clumsy aboard a ship full of face-eating freaks.

On that note I used to love Mass Effect's approach to story telling, unfortunately since getting addicted to Alpha Protocol the former just feels quite underwhelming. The actual scope and plot is incredibly engaging, but its execution just feels limp to me - choices are often very binary, you have to actively try to get failure in something, etc. By comparison Alpha Protocol isn't afraid to have its characters mock you for failing, call you out for being a hypocrite, the choices aren't simply binary ethics, etc.

AP has a very intense, very personal storyline simply because of how many different things change depending on your actions. It's very possible to completely eliminate whole plotlines simply because you may have slain a person someone else spared, or pissed off a character another got cosy with. I don't get that in other games and it's sad.

, and some lovely artwork drawn of her.

Janet Foster/Peacebringer Forestar - transsexual hero I rolled a while ago, but recently converted to a Kheldian (intend to make some MA stories later on dealing with that). Something of a shrinking violet as there are very few people she's comfortable around, and even fewer that will get her to relax entirely. Nonetheless she's a lot of fun to play, although it does get frustrating when people twig she's T/s and immediatly associate it with futanari characters. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Currently redoing her VV page.

has anyone explained the difference between "can i join your team" and "im joining your team" yet because the analogies dont seem to have stopped