Which Video Game/video Game Character Am I Thinking Of

What is it like to name a baby after a video game character?

It’s a risk. But it’s the same risk taken whenever a child is named after any fictional character, not just one from a video game.A few months before our second child was born (and without knowing the gender), I bought the game, The Last of Us. It was an impulse buy. I was on vacation and, as one who never sleeps, would continually wake up early and crave a new game. It was also on this vacation that my wife and I promised each other we would settle on names for our future baby.Suffice it to say, I fell in love with the character, Ellie, as I assume almost every human being who played the game did. She was witty, creative, and, most importantly, easy to like on a number of levels. She was someone I wanted to see succeed.Years earlier, my wife and I agreed that we would name a girl Noelle if she were born near Christmas. When our baby's due date was pegged as Thanksgiving, we cycled through names and did not necessarily land on one we liked.That was, until I met Ellie.We convinced ourselves that Thanksgiving was close enough to the Christmas season to continue with the plan of using Noelle, but my stipulation was that her nickname would be Ellie.I didn't finish the game. I had a new Ellie to fill my thoughts.In November, we gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and promptly named her Noelle. As soon as we introduced her to the world and her big sister, we declared that she would also go by "Ellie." I vividly remember my older daughter walking through the halls of the hospital with me and singing, "You can call her 'Ellie.' You can call her 'Ellie.'" And so we did.The irony is that, as our Ellie's personality developed, she became more separated from the character after whom she was named. My daughter is warm, loving, friendly, and is constantly looking to make people smile. I would argue that the Ellie from the game, albeit an awesome person, is none of the qualities described above.Eventually, I happened to look into what each of my children's name meant. As it turns out, "Ellie" is equivalent to a "shining light." In that sense, there is no name more fitting for a child, as my Ellie lights up a room.It's a gamble, and sometimes it pays off as the names align. But, as it turns out, my child's personality better fits the name given to one of the most beloved characters in a video game.The good news is that both Ellies are truly outstanding individuals.

Which video game character/villain did you want to kill/defeat the most? What was your moral thinking behind your desire to kill/defeat them? Was it because you wanted to, or because the game made you?

This piece of sh*t right here…Lieutenant General Shepherd of the US Army who led the protagonists for much of the game only to reveal himself as the true antagonist in a bullshit twist reveal in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.Shepard had been involved in the events of the first Modern Warfare, commanding a U.S. Army in the Middle East when 30,000 Marines were instantly wiped out in a nuclear detonation. This great loss of life on the part of Shepherd’s army did much to alter his perceptions about the world and morality in general. Disgraced from the loss of his invasion force, General Shepherd was adamant about climbing to the top again and bringing America to the forefront of global politics and influence. He needed to find a common enemy, something the whole U.S. could rally around and found it in Vladimir Makarov.To keep a long story short, this gigantic douchebag leads not one, but several of the characters you play to untimely and twisting deaths. The first protagonist, Joseph Allen, was recruited by Shepherd to infiltrate Makarov’s terrorist cell and participated in a massacre at Zakhaev International Airport before he was executed by Makarov as he was making his escape.Thanks to General Shepherd, Allen gets to die alone, in a reborn Soviet Union, with the fact that his last memories were him gunning down scores of civilians in the name of the U.S.Goals are being met here people.Then you have the second protagonists, Gary “Roach” Sanderson and the ever lovable Ghost “Gaz”, who work on acquiring all of Makarov’s intelligence at one of his hideouts and end the mission about to be transported by General Shepherd.But wait, he fucking shoots you and Ghost to seal his record as a true war hero.Douchebag.It was the most rewarding thing killing him with Soap at the very end. Adding insult to injury was using the very knife he stabbed you with to hit him straight in the eye and kill him.Such sweet righteousness.