Fly Amanita's Name Origin?

[LeadRod]

I was watching some of Fly's matches on VGbootcamp (the comeback against SW) and it got me thinking where his name came from. Then I remembered there's a mushroom in Skyrim called Fly Amanita; is that where it came from?

 

[Xyzz]

Then I remembered there's a mushroom in Skyrim called Fly Amanita;

Reallife is where the pizza man comes from, right?

Admittedly, I hear Canada is pretty cold, so they probably don't grow round your part of the world, but still... :D

 

[Kadano]

I was watching some of Fly's matches on VGbootcamp (the comeback against SW) and it got me thinking where his name came from. Then I remembered there's a mushroom in Skyrim called Fly Amanita; is that where it came from?

I witnessed him in the Salty Playground stream a couple of weeks ago and asked him just that. He said that he liked a Mario game very much in which you could get Fly Mushrooms. As those mushrooms were based on Amanita muscaria, he mixed that to Fly Amanita.

 

[AirFair]

He really likes mushrooms.... Shroomed would fit better for him no?

 

[LeadRod]

Reallife is where the pizza man comes from, right?

Admittedly, I hear Canada is pretty cold, so they probably don't grow round your part of the world, but still... :D

Haha ya, all we can grow around here is ice and lumberjacks lol

 

[standardtoaster]

@ Fly_Amanita

 

[Massive]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

 

[Fly_Amanita]

I used to be a big Nintendo fanboy and wanted something relevant to Nintendo, but not in an incredibly obvious way. I at some point learned that the Mario mushrooms were based on Amanita muscaria in terms of appearance, and one of the common names for that mushroom is fly amanita, which I decided to go with.

 

[LeadRod]

I used to be a big Nintendo fanboy and wanted something relevant to Nintendo, but not in an incredibly obvious way. I at some point learned that the Mario mushrooms were based on Amanita muscaria in terms of appearance, and one of the common names for that mushroom is fly amanita, which I decided to go with.

Oh cool! Thanks for clarifying! Also think your IC are awesome, just FYI

 

[gmBottles]

I used to be a big Nintendo fanboy and wanted something relevant to Nintendo, but not in an incredibly obvious way. I at some point learned that the Mario mushrooms were based on Amanita muscaria in terms of appearance, and one of the common names for that mushroom is fly amanita, which I decided to go with.

That's actually pretty dope.