[Frummy]

Totally not a supervillain

"Q: What does your name (badmephisto) mean?

A: I've had this name for a really long time. I used to be a big fan of Diablo2, so when I had to create my email address username on hotmail, i decided to use Mephisto as my username. But of course Mephisto was already taken, so I tried Mephisto1, Mephisto2, all the way up to about 9, and all was taken. So then I thought... "hmmm, what kind of chracteristic does Mephisto posess?" Now keep in mind that this was about 10 years ago, and my English language dictionary composed of about 20 words. One of them was the word 'bad'. Since Mephisto (the brother of Diablo) was certainly pretty bad, I punched in badmephisto and that worked. Had I known more words it probably would have ended up being evilmephisto or something :p"

[bgwalter]

> Since Mephisto (the brother of Diablo)

Unbelievable. Perhaps some techies should read Goethe's Faust instead of Lord of the Rings.

[bluefirebrand]

He's talking about videogame characters

If you want to scoff at anyone, scoff at 1990s Blizzard Entertainment for using those names in that way

[debugnik]

Tell that to the writers of Diablo. In the context of the game, those two characters are brothers.