Where did your user name come from?
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Continuing the discussion from Poll: Physical Exercise!!!:
I'll try to keep the story short as some steaks are in the pan right now.
1996 I started on AOL which was a decent ISP at that time. They wanted a nick to register. I wanted something unusual, so I thumped a small gaelic dictionary (no, I don't speak gaelic), found the gaelic word for seagull, and there you are. It first became my standard nick on AOL, then, by and by, my standard nick on pretty much everything.
Filed under: Someone beat me on twitter, though.
There are a lot of weird and wacky user names on this forum. What made you choose yours?
Filed under: Not explaining mine.
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My name on here is simply my initials.
Previous common ones include:
Mr. Dracula
backwards
A character from a series of novels by Hugh Cook.
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There are a lot of weird and wacky user names on this forum. What made you choose yours?
Can't wait to hear @mikeTheLiar's explanation!Filed under: SCNR
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As it turns out, it was just a misspelling.
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I once had to study the works of the fellow below and started using it as an online handle for various reasons. One beeing that it sounded cool/german enough to be used in an online WOII shooter setting.
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I have a weird disability: my brain seems utterly unable to invent usernames. I've literally sat down for 30 minutes trying to think of a word that I'd like to be associated by, but nothing. So I resort to random letters, my real initials, or "anonymous" followed by a random number.
It's discouraged me from joining many communities, including YouTube, so I have nowhere to host cute videos of my cats and get karma on reddit.
Now that I thought more carefully about it, I think I'm just afraid of having an identity.
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A long, long time ago in internet years,
there was a user on IRC called Chromed_Dragonone day, this user said LOLOL
I AM NOW DHROMED_CRAGONAnd lols were had
And then he was like
FUCK IT STUPID "EPIC" NICKNAMESand thus dhromed was born.
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I think I'm just afraid of having an identity.
Luckely there is a poll for that: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/poll-whats-your-least-favourite-phobia/960/43
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ZX Spectrum users will already know where my username and avatar come from.
For the rest "R Tape Loading Error" was the error message the Speccy produced, usually at the end of a 5 minute load, to say it had shit itself. It required the tape to be rewound and the volume, bass, treble and, god help you, the azimuth to be tweaked and try again.
This was more often a problem with "backups" than "originals" and some copied games were never able to be loaded no matter what was tried. They were the holy grail of copies and the worst thing that could happen was that eventually they'd load and turn out to be crap.
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TRapeLoadingError
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#crass
Don't give them ideas! They are gonna implement hashtags too, and then we'll have to #mikeTheLiar as well.Then again, that would mean we could file stuff... Mmm, torn between hate for people who use hashtags as a punchline on platforms that don't implement hashtags and ability to file stuff...
Filed under: I'm making a tag here
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Can't wait to hear @mikeTheLiar's explanation!
Filed under: SCNR
I thought that the reference would be obvious to certain people (AKA, people who played TES games). Apparently the reference is far more obtuse that I realised.
For reference: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/M'aiq_the_Liar
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Guy at work who had a "thing" about giving everyone nicknames (think Dubya calling Putin "Pooty-Poot") started calling me "The Doctor" because of my knack for fixing unfixable bugs. May have been in reference to Doctor Who, or to Doctor Demento, or both.
I used the current spelling as my player name (with an exclamation point at the end) when I finally beat Minesweeper on the highest difficulty setting.
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Apparently the reference is far more obtuse that I realised.
Well, I got it in fist go. Then again, I have this uncanny skill of remembering minor insignificant details while being unable to remember my own phone number.
While on topic... Mine's boring, really. Picked it up when I was still like 12 or something. The much belated fascination with graffiti and "cool" street names just started around here and everyone had one. I saw "Onyx" on a sign somewhere, and it had those weird
x
andy
letters in it that we don't use around here.So I found out it was actually a type of stone which I liked the looks of so I rolled with it and it stuck.
In lieu of the bad ideas thread I also picked it at the time of, once again, belated Pokemon craze around here... That ended well.
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One of my favorite characters from a book. Very minor character, but left a big impression.
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TRapeLoadingError
I must've seen this error several hundred times in my Speccy days and never made that leap
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There are a lot of weird and wacky user names on this forum. What made you choose yours?
It is a name that Shiva the destroyer carry with much pride.
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When I was little, I liked to play with toy carts. Everybody called me Cartboy. Now that I've grown and moved out of the lurkerdom, I knew I had to treat myself to a nickname suitable to my new status.
As for 82, it's the number of men who owned the nickname before me. cartman81 was careful. Always using incognito mode in Chrome. Always leaving a little string jammed against the lock, to know if someone had snuck in. But he just wasn't good enough. Some day someone stronger, smarter, more ruthless will get to me too, and become cartman83. But today is not that day.
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ZX Spectrum users will already know where my username and avatar come from.
It's for things like this that we need animated avatars; it's not the true speccy experience without the blue and yellow stripes being animated (they corresponded to the low and high bits streamed off the tape).The secret to having problem-free loading was to get a really cheap and nasty tape player that had a straight output of what was coming off the medium rather than messing around with it through lots of level balancing circuitry. Filtering was death.
My username is just my initials. Boring.
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It's for things like this that we need animated avatars;
Will someone kindly delete @dkf's account?
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Filed under: I'm making a tag here
Those tags are too much work.
#fuck you and your cumbersome pseudotags
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Will someone kindly delete @dkf's account?
He shall vanish and be purged from the records.
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Way back in junior high school, I joined a game called RuneScape. I tried to use my last name (Mott) as my username but it was taken, and it suggested Mott555. That is now my username anywhere I am not seeking anonymity. I have a separate username for gaming that is generally anonymous and will not be mentioned.
My avatar is the old CS default image re-created in Excel, except it rendered way better in Community Server and just looks like a glitch here.
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I came up with this as a random character name for a Diablo 2 online character right after the game came out. I've kept it since I didn't really have any other username at the time, and nothing better sounding to me came up since.
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I actually can't remember why I picked Arantor but it was many years ago that I did so
Also, animated avatars can be failtastic depending on server resources to resize them (since you really do not want them resized client-side if you can help it)... ImageMagick seems to be the only mainstream package that can actually do it properly and not break it.
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My user name is accurate. I study old things like ancient philosophy, classical painting methods and traditional astrology.
My avatar is because I was a fan of the Church of the Subgenius back in the 90s and at one point had a paid-up membership.
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I picked my user name because it's a pretty accurate description - for a given value of misanthropic sourpuss. For some wierd reason I decided not to go by my usual handle - probably to get that wonderful feeling of being anonymous on the internet again.
Of course, first thing that happened was Gravatar...
Filed under: wondered if I should change the settings, but thought "nah, fuck it"
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Mine is a reference to a sailboat that I race pretty regularly.
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Mine's an old holdover from my early Counter-Strike gaming days. I thought myself somewhat of a "l33t d00d", and I ended up throwing the phrase "Yeah! Eat my l33t!" at someone during a rather intense game. Not sure what exactly it was supposed to mean, but I thought it sounded neat at the time and I've kept it since, since by now I've got it tied to so many things that I'd have an incredible amount of difficulty disjoining myself from it.
Also doesn't hurt that it's something that's almost always available to register.
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Way back in junior high school
RuneScape
Great, now I feel really fucking old.
Filed under: Turning 30 on Monday.
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Lunatic tends to be taken early when usernames are available so I went with locallunatic once. It's very rarely taken when I am signing up for something so I've just kept using it.
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Lunatic tends to be taken early when usernames are available so I went with locallunatic once. It's very rarely taken when I am signing up for something so I've just kept using it.
I have seen just two instance of locallunatic so far, but several lunatics running on the web.
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Also doesn't hurt that it's something that's almost always available to register.
Bastard. In the days of yore, when I chose this nickname, it was available pretty much everywhere.
These days, everyone and their mother uses it. And I suspect most of them still don't know what it is anyway. I have to resort either to numbers or adding a "last name" which I won't reveal.
Filed under: Hint: last name fits in the sense that I KNOW what onyx is, so you might guess it if you're feeling stalkery
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Filed under: Hint: last name fits in the sense that I KNOW what onyx is, so you might guess it if you're feeling stalkery
So what you're saying is...you have layers?
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So what you're saying is...you have layers?
Not sure if a Pokemon joke. Crowbar prepared in case it is.
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Not a Pokemon joke, more of a gemstone joke.
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Realized that just after replying. I actually forgot that it looks like that in a "raw" form, so my memory required some jogging.
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Mine comes from Java bytecode.
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So what you're saying is...you have layers?
Maybe he's hinting that he's an ogre?
Filed under: Ogres are like onions
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"Captain Oblivious"
At first, I was playing a character. The captain was supposed to be the stereotypical vim using greybeard.
But I lost track if it was supposed to be ironic or not.
Also,
"poopdeville"
but I think I'm done with him on this board.
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Ha, reminds me of the days of playing as [AW] Dylan Klebold, and shooting hostages down to 1% health and having them follow me around for the CTs to kill.
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Great, now I feel really fucking old.
Filed under: Turning 30 on Monday.
Don't expect any sympathy from those of us who are one year short of 0x30.
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And I suspect most of them still don't know what it is anyway.
I do have that feeling with the lady who beat me to twitter for "faoileag"...
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Don't expect any sympathy from those of us who are one year short of 0x30.
Oh, so you can use hex to confuse people again.
I lost that privilege this year, had to dip into the letters... Was fun while it lasted though.
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Don't forget, DEC 25 = OCT 31
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Great, now I feel really fucking old.
Filed under: Turning 30 on Monday.
Great, now I feel really fucking old.
I like making people feel old. But lately I've been on the other side of that issue. It just doesn't seem right that anyone born in the 1990's could be old enough to be graduating college!
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