[8:19:56 PM] Alex - Sora: doivid you should answer your own questions
[8:20:00 PM] Alex - Sora: in your thread
[8:20:27 PM] Elly Belly: Yes
[8:20:47 PM] Idleboo: do it
[8:20:50 PM] Alex - Sora: it's only fair
[8:20:52 PM] Elly Belly: I did it!
[8:21:00 PM] Doivid: okay

I've been pressured. Alright.

[b]"what drew you to rping?"[/b]

When I was about 13, my bro got into this website where people played D&D, I guess it was basically like the tabletop games in forum format. It had all these maps people did (that would be super dated now lol), and a whole big community. I was really wowed by it, but all the rules I knew nothing about were really stifling, so I looked for 'freeform' and found the MSN groups. Went from there. In the bigger picture, I think writing, stories, collaboration, and seeing how people react to things I come up with was the main draw. Also what someone in here already said about shifting perspectives.

[b]"where'd you get your username from?"[/b]
I'll do both just for you guys. When I came back to RPG in 2012, my username was the same as one I had on IMDB and I had run into quite a few creepers who liked to internet stalk people (in late 2010 someone tracked down a post I made somewhere in 2005 under a different username), so I wanted to change it ASAP and get rid of that potential hazard. And around that time I realized triphop was my shit so I just played around with it and tossed out ideas at Sophi for input. TripMyHop came out of that. As for Doivid...I have this australian friend who when he said my name it sounded kinda like "doi-vid" but not like duh-doi, more like the oi in 'foil'. I teased him about it and it became a thing he called me all the time. And I ended up using that on skype and TC and shit because it was easier to type and it just stuck. lol so there you go

[b]"what about Spam appeals to you?"[/b]

When I first came to spam what appealed was that I could RP with Sophi again (ha!) and see the people she had told me about over the years a few times. Also the very first time I posted Nex was being a dippy bint and I wanted to point something out to him. But for the overall appeal I liked the random conversation and it was much less trolly/intense/negative than IMDB, so it was a nice change of pace passtime. As things have changed however, I'm pretty much just here for the people I've met that I like. And also to kill time.

[b]"what are your other interests besides roleplaying/writing?"[/b]

History, linguistics/languages, politics, sociology/anthropology, music (this is a big one, I'm a passionate listener), futurism, environment (mostly in a scientific/observational sense), soccer, comedy (picky about this), films, horror, scifi, fiction in general, current issues, simulation/strategy/building games, and a whole slew of other things I can't think of right this second. I'm just interested in people, places (!), and learning in general. I'm an all-around curious guy.

This makes me want to do one of those survey threads now.