Kernigh the "Kernel Animal"

I am Kernigh. Welcome to my personal website and wiki, kernigh.pbwiki.com. This place hosts information about my projects, GameRecordings of me playing RogueLike games, and other information about me. I am a player of RogueLike games, especially NetHack and its variants. I have not yet found the Amulet of Yendor. From time to time, I also play Oberin and work at Xtank.

Roguelike games

I have played RogueLike games at three different public servers. These servers keep GameRecordings of my efforts.

Game	Information and ttyrecs
DungeonCrawl	Kernigh upon akrasiac
NetHack	Kernigh upon NAO
SlashEm	Kernigh at Pallas

I play some other games on my own OpenBSD box.

Game	The ttyrecs
Hack	DownloadTtyrec
ToME	DownloadTtyrec
Zangband	DownloadTtyrec

Wiki

I have contributed to many wikis, as Wikihack's User:Kernigh, as ToME wiki's UserPageKernigh, as RogueBasin's User:Kernigh, as Kernigh here at PBWiki, and at several other places; see my WikiNode for a list. "Wiki" means "quick", and wiki websites are quick ways to create documentation, notes, essays, and other web pages. I now believe that Wikihack (nethack.wikia.com) is the largest website about NetHack!

Source code

I now have my own Subversion repository at OpenSvn. My Xtank sources are there, but my main project is currently ObjectNecromancer, a set of scripts for installing RogueLike games and other software onto my computer.

Meanwhile, for NetHackBrass players like myself, I have furnished a brass interface patch; it contains bug fixes, especially for Unix players, and ports of interface patches that others created for vanilla NetHack.

IRC

Since 30 January 2006, I use the name Kernigh upon Freenode, the network at irc.freenode.net. I am not always in the same channels.

Other information

• Etymology - The name Kernigh has that random-syllable feel that works well in fantasy settings. The name means kernel animal, from Kern- (from the English "kernel") and -nigh (a suffix, from an imaginary language, meaning "animal" or "human"). A kernel is the inside of a seed.
• Gender - I am female for about 50% of instances, I am male for about 50% of instances, but those fractions drop to about 33% when I play a game like ToME that allows neuter player-characters.

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Kernigh first appeared upon the internet in this post to the webcomic called Dudley's Dungeon (Comixpedia article).

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Discussion:

What is the point of having an About page if you don't actually tell anything about your (offline) self? Related questions: what motivates someone to be so secretive about their offline identity? Also, why would someone take great pride in concealing particularly their gender? Is this page supposed to be some kind of open challenge to everyone who visits to try to figure it out on their own? It does seem a bit like it, with the dropping of hints here and there. But, there's no where to post our "guesses" to this odd challenge. - Sapient

I did not intend this page as a challenge. Rather, I believed that revealing too little information about myself was a lesser mistake than revealing too much information about myself. "Also, why would someone take great pride in concealing particularly their gender?" I think that many persons attach too much relevance to gender, asking whether someone is female or male when the question is not relevant. - Kernigh

You say that many persons attach too much relevance to gender by asking whether someone is female or male when the question is not relevant. It may not be relevant to the subject matter being discussed, but gender is relevant (in most societies I'm aware of) to the way you speak *during* that discussion. Why you may ask? To conform to certain norms, a person who is in the habit of being polite will intentionally try to discern the gender of the person he/she is speaking to only to avoid unintentionally offending him/her. So when this polite person finds your About page and reads the whole thing and still doesn't know how to address you properly, it may strike him/her as a very frustrating experience and actually leave him/her with a negative opinion of you. Personally, in a situation like this, I just decide to pick a gender at random, and if the addressee gets offended by any assumptions I make (asking about her wife instead of her husband, etc) then so be it; it's her own fault. - Sapient

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