Talk:Dennis Fong

message: this was marked as a stub but i think it's actually nearly as complete as an entry about an online gamer needs to be.  i just copy edited a little, although there's still some work to be done: the strategy section is too hagiographic and should be ruthlessly trimmed (e.g. thresh was neither the first nor the best at "controlling the rocket launcher").  would like to see a reference on the $?00k/year in endorsement income, and some links on the later business career stuff as well.
also, can anyone confirm that entropy9 is willfully staying anonymous?  he's outed in masters of doom in any case, but is (by and large) google proof so i left it out.  Sighrik 04:32, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Cyberfight.org article listed here has some hilarious English: 
So Dennis decided to shorten his colorful title and become just Threshol. Do you understand that it sounded a bit dopey? Just like asshole, and it’s not the way that a expert like him could be addressed. So he shortened his nick up to simple Thresh.
MAIS-talk-contr 01:12, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Strange English

message: Fong allegedly used a rather "cheaty" config.cfg - such as disabling weapon bobbing, water waving, and other such effects. Afterwards, he shared it on Quaketerminus. - Yura87 (talk) 11:01, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cheating? 

message: "Threshold of Pain" is a Doom II level (in some versions: see ). Presumably this is the origin of Fong's player name. Our Wikipedia article suggests that he just made it up by himself, though. 86.184.161.129 (talk) 14:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The PlayStation version of Doom was not released until well after Thresh was already using that name, so he must have come up with it independently. Either that or the name itself somehow inspired Tim Heydelaar (author of the map in question), but this would be pure speculation. --QuasarTE (talk) 23:49, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  His nickname derives from a Doom II level title 

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message: Thresh's opponent in the finals of Deathmatch '95 was not Merlock; Merlock had been eliminated in an earlier semi-finals match at the Microsoft Judgment Day event, according to Thresh himself (quoted here). Additionally, Laura "BahdKo" Hermann, a contemporary source and well-known authority amongst early Doom deathmatchers, seconds this, having recorded his opponent in the finals as one "Stoney," whose full name I have not yet been able to find (source). I've yet to find something that would solidly meet Wikipedia criteria for a source on this, but editors should be aware of the unreliability of the current source. --QuasarTE (talk) 23:46, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Item" source contradicts first- and second-hand accounts