What's your real name? And why the user name Dogmeat?
LOL ... ok here we go...
Long long long long time ago ... before the wind and before the snow ... Meaning, 1989 ...
There was this kid, who like every other kid in the 80's, wanted to be a fighter pilot when they grew up and had seen the movie "Top Gun" no less than 3,019,193 times.
Anyways, with that said, in 1989 this was this really kickass computer game that came out called "Wing Commander".
Basically, it was "Top Gun" in outer space. It was a dogfight simulator in outer space ...
So anyways, my dad got me this game for christmas that year or something like that ... and that was the first year I had a Sound Blaster in my computer, etc
Anyways, what happened was, when you first loaded up the game it asked you for your last name and your callsign.
Well, you might guess, like every other kid in the 80's, my first instinct after I put my last name in was to enter in "Maverick" ... I paused for a moment I remember, and thought .... "No every other kid in the world is going to put 'Maverick' in here ...."
So, I thought this over, and for some reason I remembered the scene in Top Gun where maverick and gooses' CO was chewing their asses out for doing the flyby of the tower on the carrier, and he said something to the effect of "one more screwup and you two are dogmeat" ...
I figured no other kid in the world was going to use "Dogmeat" as a callsign, and since it sort of came from Top Gun, it was cool...
The name stuck. I've used it since before the internet on all the local BBS games, etc....20 years later I'm still "Dogmeat"
Real name is Aaron
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