Why did you choose your username?

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by jossytheninja, Sep 15, 2015.

  1. Roslyn Pierce.
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  2. Mine dates from the IRC days, sort off. Before this one I used the nick Lion-O quite a lot, it sterns from one of my favourite cartoons: ThunderCats (but the original series mind you, not the weird remake). I didn't really grow tired of it but at one point I still felt that my nick was highly unoriginal. Basically imitating stuff. Surely I could do better?

    So I came up with something new. Because I spend quite some time on consoles during those days (command lines; Unix server administration and such) I soon came up with shell user. And just to poke a little fun I capitalized the L to emphasize on something I'd like to think I'm not :)
  3. I've told the story of my username a few times, but people seem to be curious about its origin sometimes so I'll share it again ^_^

    I actually picked this name because of my cat, who my husband decided to name, "Seven Finger Death Punch of the Apocalypse." We just call her "Seven" for short ;) The reason he came up with such a unique name is because she has a unique condition called Polydactyly. It's just a fancy word for having extra claws on all of her feet. She has seven on each of her front feet that make it look like she has a thumbs. So that's who DeathPunchKitty really is!
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  4. I just love the number 8
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  5. Well, its Kinda Simple. It originated as a Forum Username, combining an Adjective that I thought of on the spot, Plus my Favorite Animal, the Walrus, and thus AverageWalrus was born.
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  6. Interesting question...
  7. I just figured I'd get killed easy, cause I'm terrible at gaming combat ( irl, different story ).
  8. There are loads of these threads :p.
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  9. Hashhog = Hashbrowns + Hedgehog

    Literary math at its finest.
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  10. I love killing things in general on minecraft. Captrix means huntress and my name is Kat, so I just changed it to a K. Voila.
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  11. Nuclear weapons + the Super Mario Bros series
  12. Mine used to be BlackKnight1021. That was in part because of my high school's mascot, and in part because I love Monty Python. I still love Monty Python, but I came to loathe the letters after my name. Still like knights, so that stayed, and I'm called BK on 8, as well as burger king sometimes, so I took that and ran with it.
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  13. I've been using some version of "Stagger" for years now, because of a FPS game I used to play, called Delta Force: Black Hawk Down. I was pretty good at its DM/TDM and one day, after wiping out a group of opponents, a friend of mine said, "Dude, seriously... Your game play is so staggering, I can't even stay alive long enough to think straight". The next day, just for laughs, I changed my name to Stagger. I guess it they liked it, because even after I changed it again, everyone still referred to me as "Stagger".
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  14. I could only assume your username.
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  15. I choise my username cause Jelle: my front name and 1968 the year of birth of my mother.
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  16. Eve - my IRL name, Esther - My sister's IRL name, y - another one of my sisters' (I have 3) IRL names. Well, the end of it anyway. Her name is Mary. My MC account started out as a shared account, but then Esther got her own MC account (CatLady808), and Mary is 5, so she doesn't really play MC anyway, so I now have the account all to myself.
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  17. I remember getting mc wayyy back in 2013. I was REALLY sleepy because it was summer vacation and I was up all night. Well it told me to put in a name, so I thought it meant I had to put my name in so I put in Salman Majid. Then it said you can't have spaces so stupid old me, still unaware that it was telling me to put in a USERNAME and not my actual name, put a _ between the two. It was only later that I realized, and by then it was too late and you couldn't change usernames which really pissed me off ";/ I know I'm an idiot.

    When the username thing finally came out, I changed it to Salmatic, because everyone calls me Sal and so I mashed it with automatic (which is a cool word) and made Salmatic :DDD plus I didn't want any underscores or numbers, because having a name without em makes it more original you know what I'm sayin
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  18. I like the music artist Galantis. I saw a vehicle that had the word Galvanizer printed on the side. I have no idea what that meant... :p

    I mixed the two, because they both started with G and sound pretty cool.

    Galantisizer was born. (Also, my current avatar is a child sitting in front of a television with an image of the "Keys N' Krates" logo. (Music artist)
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