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Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 12:45 pm
by 8bitMicroGuy
What does your username mean? Why did you make it that way?

My username is very simple. I like 8-bit stuff and microcontrollers. And I'm a guy. Who isn't a guy here anyway, lol. I'd like to see some NES developer girls :D

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 1:23 pm
by tepples
Several username origins were mentioned before.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 1:55 pm
by rainwarrior
I just like rain a lot.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 2:16 pm
by tokumaru
I picked the name of a not very popular character from an anime I liked since I was a kid (most people who watched this anime don't even know this is his name), thinking that not many people would pick the same name. I myself don't like the character, I just think the name sounds cool.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 2:19 pm
by psycopathicteen
When I first started using this username, I was a teenager. Unfortunately I am no longer one.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 2:21 pm
by tokumaru
But are you still psychopathic?

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 2:56 pm
by FrankenGraphics
A friend had the user "teenager" in his teens. He was no doubt very teenagey.

I chose mine in a split second because i'm just reinventing the wheel. Not very thought-through.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 3:21 pm
by Revenant
I took my handle from the reanimated skeletons in Doom II. Prior to that I just used (and occasionally still use, depending on the place) various abbreviated forms of my real name.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:13 pm
by dustmop
Someone in high school called me 'dustmop' once, so I decided to make it my handle.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 4:52 pm
by Zepper
No clue (yeah) about "Zepper", and no, it's not a pun with "tepples". It was a replacement for my old "Fx3", still used in my YouTube channel by the way.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:11 pm
by dougeff
My name is Doug F. I previously used this handle...here...

http://www2.digitech.com/soundcomm/guit ... ductid=240

and was too lazy / unimaginative to think of a new one. And, I wish I had, because I don't like it. In the old days I went by 'pedestrian', but I don't like that either.

I prefer 'Doug', btw

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:04 pm
by getafixx
When I was a kid I used to read all of the Asterix comics, and loved them like crazy.

Then when WoW was launched I made a character named Getafix because my character was an old mage with long white hair, and that matched the character of Getafix in the Asterix comics pretty closely.

But...Someone reported me, saying the name was derogatory somehow, and Blizzard made me change it. So I changed it to Getafixx, which they seemed to accept just fine. And I've used it as my handle since.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:11 pm
by Alp
dustmop wrote:Someone in high school called me 'dustmop' once, so I decided to make it my handle.
Unfortunately, I know this all too well! The teasing was in elementary school, though.
My birth name was "Dustin", and the second I turned 18, I took my grandfather's name "Daniel".

My username "Alp" is the exact same name I use in the hentai industry, actually!
An Alp is a homosexual incubus, so I thought the name would suit me rather well! :P

I have an official mascot for my future games, inspired by the now-defunct Elf Corporation.
Alp_Logo2.png
Alp_Logo2.png (3.24 KiB) Viewed 4827 times
(EDIT: I got un-lazy, and uploaded a proper 1x version.)

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:25 pm
by Rahsennor
I was into glossopoeia as a kid. When I signed up to the flat assembler forums, my preferred username was taken, so I translated it into one of my old languages.

Seems to have worked; every search result I've ever seen for it is me.

Re: Why have you chosen the username that you have chosen?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:32 pm
by never-obsolete
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