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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by GraceMellody » 10 Sep 2018, 18:10

Beex wrote:Be careful. After 3 years they own your soul.

I think they do after 3 months tbh

Beerkeg wrote:'Twas eons ago when I first got online with my 386 in 98 and joined IRC and I needed a nickname I just looked around in the room and saw one of my dads kegs, you know those like 5 liter small kegs and I don't remember the brand but it had a quote "The real beer keg". So I just figured "Huh, Beerkeg.... i like it" and been rolling with it since.

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TrashM wrote:I choze my username to minimize my ego and becauz I'm bitter. (it's short for Trash Moody)

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MissPurple wrote:I was drunk and woke up with it.

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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by Elgood81 » 10 Sep 2018, 19:29

MissPurple wrote:I was drunk and woke up with it.

hahahaha I like that explanation.
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by Kai » 10 Sep 2018, 21:04

well, before I changed it to my own IRL name, my original user was just based off a Secret boss from Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment, which is a modified and powered up version of Kirito's AI. "Hollow" refers to the Hollow Area and all AIs there are referred to as "Hollow"

I also go by ShadowEspeon on some of my older accounts before I ever played SAO:HF. "Shadow" actually isn't Shadow the Hedgehog. neither is it to do with Shadow Pokemon in the 2 Gamecube Pokemon games, though it does fit. "Shadow" was a reference to a character in a kids' Anime Adaptation I was borderline obsessed with when I was 15-16 years old lol :P
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by Pixiedora » 11 Sep 2018, 11:51

I was an innocent 13 year old who was (and still is) shockingly bad at coming up with usernames, thus a friend gave me this one. Cue me coming back on here after years away and just kinda sticking with it! ( I wasn't 13 when I joined this website but I had just kept using it for many websites)
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Post by GraceMellody » 11 Sep 2018, 12:05

Pixiedora wrote:I was an innocent 13 year old who was (and still is) shockingly bad at coming up with usernames, thus a friend gave me this one. Cue me coming back on here after years away and just kinda sticking with it! ( I wasn't 13 when I joined this website but I had just kept using it for many websites)

Yeah I get that. My deviantART and last.fm accounts are still called g-girl1.... lol
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by toshioa » 11 Sep 2018, 12:10

I honestly don't remember; I used to go by XxSqualxX (hence my PSN username that I cannot change...!). When I got to Uni I decided to setup a whole new XBL account as my old one had very little GS and I wanted to see how much GS I could accumulate throughout my university (turns out quite a bit as I left uni with 40K :lol: ) I think my old Xbox account still exists but it only had 2-3k GS :lol: Regardless, setup my new account 'Toshioa' whilst I was at uni and I did literally pluck the name from the air :) All I remember thinking for 'Yoshi' because there was a green Yoshi plushie in our shared living room that belonged to a house mate... :lol:
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by GraceMellody » 11 Sep 2018, 12:13

toshioa wrote:I honestly don't remember; I used to go by XxSqualxX (hence my PSN username that I cannot change...!). When I got to Uni I decided to setup a whole new XBL account as my old one had very little GS and I wanted to see how much GS I could accumulate throughout my university (turns out quite a bit as I left uni with 40K :lol: ) I think my old Xbox account still exists but it only had 2-3k GS :lol: Regardless, setup my new account 'Toshioa' whilst I was at uni and I did literally pluck the name from the air :) All I remember thinking for 'Yoshi' because there was a green Yoshi plushie in our shared living room that belonged to a house mate... :lol:

That is so crazy to me lol, your name is so unique I was sure it must have come from somewhere!
Yoshi is always a good inspiration ;)
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by toshioa » 11 Sep 2018, 14:13

GraceMellody wrote:That is so crazy to me lol, your name is so unique I was sure it must have come from somewhere!
Yoshi is always a good inspiration ;)

I did a quite Google search for 'Toshioa' and nothing came up :( Loads of stuff for 'Toshio' which is apparently a common Japanese name :D Genuinely did not know this and find it really quite fascinating :) I may well have come up with a unique name ;)
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by toshioa » 11 Sep 2018, 14:15

As soon as Sony allow me to change my username... I'm changing it!! Interestingly, I found my old XBL account:

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I really did not do well on the old GS :lol:
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by Kai » 11 Sep 2018, 14:45

toshioa wrote:As soon as Sony allow me to change my username... I'm changing it!! Interestingly, I found my old XBL account:

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I really did not do well on the old GS :lol:

IF they finally let us...

I'm changing mine to NightmareHollow on PS and I'll eventually change my gamertag too lol
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Post by GraceMellody » 11 Sep 2018, 14:54

toshioa wrote:I did a quite Google search for 'Toshioa' and nothing came up :( Loads of stuff for 'Toshio' which is apparently a common Japanese name :D Genuinely did not know this and find it really quite fascinating :) I may well have come up with a unique name ;)

Yes Toshio is fairly common, i've met a few people with that name!
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Re: How did you pick your username?

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I have never registered for anything using the name Beex and had it come up taken.

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Post by GraceMellody » 11 Sep 2018, 17:01

Beex wrote:I have never registered for anything using the name Beex and had it come up taken.

I'd be quite offended if GraceMellody was taken tbh... xD
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by MakiChan » 11 Sep 2018, 17:04

My username is my best girl from Love Live lol

Nothing special really XD

Although I was D Va (from Overwatch) for a while on here
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Re: How did you pick your username?

Post by GraceMellody » 11 Sep 2018, 17:05

MakiChan wrote:My username is my best girl from Love Live lol

Nothing special really XD

Although I was D Va (from Overwatch) for a while on here

I totally get this lol i've used Harunan (my kamioshi) on a few things :P
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