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This is a place for dead names - names which are no longer active. So far this has only happened once, where I have created a name to isolate and destroy a certain behaviour or way of looking at things which I find that I have, but do not like. There may also be occasions where names are merged and suchlike, such that the behaviours and roles are kept, but redistributed. Hasn't happened yet. Probably never will.

Luke Rhinehart

As I said, I followed the philosophy of Luke Rhinehart for perhaps three years before handing in my dice. I did notice one effect it had which was less than pleasant - first spotted after an email by the dice columnist of Loaded giving his own thoughts along the same lines. It was a tendency to see other people as objects, not people, and to experiment on them - by seeing how they would react to certain things. Similarly it was a tendency to see oneself as an object - and to experiment on oneself in a similar way.

I didn't want to give up the dice because of this hugely minor tendency, but I did want to keep a check on it. So I named that part of me 'Luke Rhinehart'. And it appeared to work - whenever I felt myself slipping into that way of thinking, I had a name for it, and could change tack. And so I did. Luke is now gone, though not forgotten, and now that I know longer follow that philosophy, the risk is no longer present, perhaps.