 |  See the uncanny resemblance to my avatar?? Yes I was quite tired and had just woken up when that pic was snapped :P |
Recent News From the Dark Side of the Moon:
- 10/17/2004 - My Petition Trial Of The Dung Carrier is now in petition mode.
- 10/11/2004 - Cult of the Dead Cow has been given life! (2369, 2294 in RSO) - Cult of the Dead Cow is founded on the belief that the bringer of doom will come in the form of a cow with a broken horn. The Cult of the Dead Cow is focused on the Worship discpline, hoping to overcome and kill the Cow of Doom. MooOOoOooooOooooOOoooooooo.
- 10/3/2004 - I have gotten married to the lovely Simetra, may the gods smile upon our blessed union. (oh I'm Prentice of Worship now)
- 10/3/2004 (early a.m.) - Woo got my Glassblowing skill up to 7/7 and only broke about 12 pieces of glass in total the whole way through.
- 10/1/2004 - I have moved into the RSO region and joined UNITY guild :)
- 9/27/2004 - I advanced to rank 2 in the Tug, and now have Remote View
- 9/26/2004 - Woo I just got my pass on the Test of the Vigil (Vigil Sacrifices ), I am in the first group of people to recieve a pass for this! With a whopping score of 3682. 17 of the 21 people who passed in this first round were in attendance at the vigil I was part of. Shows you what good teamwork can do.
- 9/26/2004 - Woohoo I won a Craftsman's Fishing Pole in the Fishing Contest. I ended up winning it with a 12d Carp Fish :D
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About Me
First and foremost, PhotekOBV is one of the 2 nicks I've used over the years, originating in it's current form about 6 years ago. For those wondering wtf?! the OBV stands for, it's Oblivion. Having said that, my full name is Photek Oblivion.
Other names I have been known to go by include Mode6Nine, Mode6, and ModeSix. Mode6Nine originated before PhotekOBV did. Now for a bit of history on that name.
Back in the pre-internet days, there were things called BBS's. A BBS was basically a local access point which had file sharing, some games, maybe message networks (which work sort of like UseNet does now), and if you were really lucky and the BBS had more than one node, you had multi-user chat. They were almost exclusively local, with a few exceptions where SysOps had 1-800 numbers or people were willing to dial long distance and pay the long distance fees to access a BBS that was far away.
Having explained what a BBS is, I will tell you why this is important. I was a member of a 'group' that was centralized on one of these BBS's, and we all had names in sequence. Mode One, Mode Two, Mode Three, etc. (I bet you can see where this is going), I was Mode Nine.
When I finally found the internet, somewhere around mid-1998'ish, I decided I wanted to keep the name, but it just didn't look proper, so after much consideration, I came up with Mode6Nine. No it is NOT Mode Sixty-Nine. It is pronounced Mode Six Nine. I am the only Mode6Nine there is anywhere on the internet, so if someone is saying something about "that stupid mode6nine fellow" they're probably talking about me.
So now that I've wasted all sorts of time on that, I'll explain PhotekOBV. There's really not much to it. Photek is a really great DnB artist, but I knew other people had probably used the Photek name online, so I added my own unique touch, and decided Photek Oblivion was a good name, but needed to abbreviate it (I bet you wish I would abbreviate this meandering huh?), and thus PhotekOBV was born. As far as I know, there are no other PhotekOBV's out there, so this name is also uniquely mine.
I have a rather dull website that you can check out http://www.mode6.net - it is in a rather unfinished state, and has been sitting like that for almost 1 1/2 years now.
I also run a neat game on the server, which dates back to the days of BBS's called Legend of the Green Dragon (originally called Legend of the Red Dragon or LORD for short, but due to copyright reasons the developers of the opensource PhP version had to rename it. You can find the game at http://legend.mode6.net
More to come later! Till then, Keep your Stick on the Ice
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