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Man, I never even noticed any of this until tonight. Was reading the previous Hive where Desert Hare was posting and only after I found out it was an Alt of Rev did I sort of notice that it very well could have been him. To think that so many other posters were him... I'd wondered why some of these people who occasionally popped in never stayed long [some of them only like 2 posts and disappeared, but when they post like 30 times or something, I was surprised to see them disappear] but I never connected them to being Rev..
At first I didn't want the list then decided I did. I now have it printed and taped next to my screen. Man I remember talking to sooooo many of them. Some of them I figured were joke alts and never gave it much consideration (Deepest Bluest Evil and Superfreak mainly) But Demongirl has been such a part of the hive that I am blown away by it.
Although the attention-getting thing is the one thing I'm not surprised about. I remember when there was the thread about most common/favorite EnWorld people, he wasn't mentioned and he seemed totally upset about that. He complained and it was pointed out that it was likely due to his name change, but that didn't mollify him. But I never would have thought that the attention thing would become so obsessive for him....
I mentioned my guilt with this already earlier in the thread. I feel I may have been responcibile for the newest group of fake IDs as it was I that mentioned this and he was so upset by it. I felt bad then and even worse now.
What I HATE is that we seemed to know him so well, but now, we must wonder how much, if anything, was actually truth... Ug..
Try being referred to as he brother and being loved as such so many times.
Although I do remember the Del thing. People were PISSED at that. I knew then that faking anything like this wouldn't be good, though of course I wouldn't bring in quite as big a crowd as someone as well known as Rev. Probably just the people in the Hive. *shrug*.
Those outside of the HIVE are less affected and don't relieze how much we see it as being used and violated. Its all a part of being in the Hive I guess.
Gah! Dog Moon. Stop. Thinking. About. It.
I try but I went from pain, anger, to remorse to now fascination at the whole thing. I had a co-workewr with similiar issues. He had people believing a lot of things and got off of work to do these things. Manager was VERY happy to finally fire him last fall when the company was doing its first lay-offs.