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the inspiration behind kid vid
« on: January 26, 2005, 04:16:54 PM »


just thought ya'll might like to see the original inspiration for 'kid vid' he's progressed a long ways from the original idea, but this is where he started,... working for burgerking.

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2005, 05:59:12 AM »
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!! Nice knee-pads Kid_Vid!!!! Nice to see you kept SOME of the original design with your current character!!! ;)

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2005, 07:23:26 AM »
Wasn't he one of those kid's meal characters from some fast food joint or other?
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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2005, 07:40:42 AM »
yeppers zone
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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2005, 03:20:43 PM »
well, originally, it was just a name i used for a charichter in an example story for my brother, to explaine how the matrx worked, and how to run someone through a computer system. he liked the name though, and so when he made his first decker, he kept the nick, and kind of made the charichter arround that ideal.
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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2005, 02:34:32 AM »
Yeah, I liked the character idea, and like most of those example stories, we ended up writing the characters into something bigger.

Now he's almost totally fleshed out, with a full backstory and everything.

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2005, 08:13:17 AM »
Yup. he started out as a low end decker (like my first non-archtype decker 101) who didn't know anything about computers, and was learning as we the audiance followed allong. then he was kinda a low end quirkie and fun guy, then, one time we were going to game, and kid wanted to play a decker, but didn't have time to roll one up, so he used kidvid, and then everyone liked him, etc. etc ... etc...

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2005, 07:11:04 AM »
So... excuse me for being a bit slow tonight, but where did the name 'Kid Vid' come from?  Something to do with watching lots of TV?
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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2005, 11:20:27 AM »
a cartoon charichter from a burgerking commercial that was geeky and slightly cool.

but mostly geekey.

while trying to be cool.

making it even more geeky.

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2005, 07:52:33 PM »
remembers slightly the kids my daughter liked the blonde girl  :P
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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2005, 12:24:25 AM »
So the Burger King character was known as Kid Vid?
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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2005, 06:20:42 AM »
Apparently. So see, people get their inspiration from all over the place.

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2005, 12:18:27 PM »
yea. they never said his name, but on all the 'offical company merchandice' he was refered to as KidVid. i kinda remembered it on a whim, and used it for the ABC's of decking story i wrote for my brother.

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2005, 01:15:03 PM »
At the time, I was living in another country (Australia), and Ruski and I had been writing back and forth about Shadowrun for a while (the better part of two years).

There are some other cool examples he used- Samin, the street sam, also became one of the characters in the run we wrote (the part of the team that Kid Vid was part of). Doorknob, the troll. M&M, (aka Mysterio the Mysterious)

it was fun.

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Re:the inspiration behind kid vid
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2005, 01:22:57 PM »
yup. speaking of fictional inspiration, i started the write up for the last run you were on. it's waiting for you to finish it off.

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