I picked it because I always thought Trypio from beyblade sounded cool and it was scorpion which was also cool. But mostly I picked it because someone had already taken Dranzer.
āBootsā was given to me by some guys I played ice hockey with back in 2000. I grew up playing goalie in rollerhockey during the summers with my bro and our friends, and when weād play hockey outdoors in the winters (Iām from Minnesota), Iād remain in boots while they skated.
As we played with various groups that rented ice time in smaller arenas, one of them came up with the nickname and it stuck. Iāve been going by it ever since.
33 is my hockey jersey number, chosen because it was the year my late grandmother was born.
Pasta on the Lordās Day.
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Iām part of a local ARG. The game centers on secret identities and metaphysics, so I figure itās appropriate for my in-game name to be Immaterial.
āWrong handleā is a real term from the only sport I play. At one point I accidentally entered my email as the username for a TTRPG-related site, and I thought wronghandle was a funny way to riff on my mistake while connecting two very different kinds of games in my life.
My Steam account was originally Lancenobleviolet, an off-screen NPC in an actual-play podcast. To my horror, that character was later revealed to be the secret identity of a more prominent NPC. Or, as I translated this anecdote for a friend: nerd nerd nerd nerd, accidentally a damn vampire online.
The Wake is a novel by Paul Kingsnorth which takes place in the wake of the Norman invasion of England. The entire novel is written in a hybrid language of old and modern English. Itās one of my favourite books. Lately Iāve just been choosing usernames out of the glossary in the back.
A Gleoman is a storyteller.
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The story of ācellar doorā is an interesting one.
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I love this question because I have the clearest memory of this moment.
7th grade (so like 2006), English class, talking with my buddy Johnny. Trying to figure out a name for my very first Xbox Live account. We were pretty big fans of Tenacious D so Wonder Boy came up pretty quickly. Then I just had to figure out how to make it unique so I could actually use it. āonlyā seemed like a good adjective since i would be āthe only wonder boy.ā So it was originally TheOnlyWonderBoy, eventually dropped the ātheā to make it cleaner and then transitioned to full lower case. Never looked back.
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Mine is a computer game reference that is (like me) probably twice as old as anyone here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyzzy_(computing)
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Mineās a Lightning Bolt song I like a lot but I like the implications it comes with. Am I a master of creating fantastical myths? Am I a master of the 1997 Bungie tactics game, Myth? (No, no)
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Mine is āDanger with a Jā = Danjer, because it sounded really cool to me when I was in middle school. Now I just stick with it because itās fun to hear people call you danger when playing games online.
Iām really bad at making up names (my PSN ID is my old Runescape name, please Sony let us change it) and Iād rather people know who I am than have a goofy name.
Really bad waffles.
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āBadā waffles? How? How do waffles bad?
My username is a reference to a really amazing album by Miles Davis. Itās been my username for more years than Iād like to admit.
I used to go by Bigg Nife everywhere, which is from a Homestar Runner Strong Bad Email where Strong Bad suggests band names (the most famous of these being Limozeen, of course): https://youtu.be/gruB98DWR3I
Over time, since no one gets the reference anymore and I instead get a lot of āBIGG NIFE? Hahaha thatās weirdā Iāve since shortened it to Bigg (sometimes Biggs, in honor of the Star Wars character) which Iām happy with since itās simple and easy to remember.
Nothing! But Iāve had the name since 2004 when WoW launched so now its significance is that itās my name.
My first full D&D campaign that I played in, I played Khaldor do-Romr, a goliath. Then some horrible things ended up happening, and he gained the honorific of The Last Goliath! Also Iām an enormous boy irl anyway, so it fits pretty nicely.
I go by HedgeAugur on some other sites! Mainly tumblr and BattleNet. Hedge referring to hedge witches, as in a practitioner of magic with few formal ties to a prior school of training
Hamamelis comes from the genus of one of my favorite trees, Virginia Witch Hazel. Iāve spent a vast majority of my life in the state of Virginia, I like witchy and Appalachian design motifs, and I was born in November which is when that tree flowers. In all, pretty fitting.
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My last name is Mattucci so āToochā became my nickname since highschool. And I liked it A LOT. I donāt even know why. It was like an easy shortcut. If you knew me as āToochā you knew me.
And if I can get a little real, ever since I started having like Gender Thoughts that Iām still not 100% sure what to do with, that name has been even MORE meaningful to me. A couple weeks ago someone asked me for my pronouns and I was just like āI donāt care, but tbh just use āToochā instead of pronouns wherever applicableā and that was the first time in a minute I could say something concerning my gender identity without ANY uncertainty.
Because thatās just me. I donāt like labels, they work for plenty of people, just not me. I feel boxed. I feel expectations come with labels. Preconceptions. False assumptions. If someone doesnāt know what Iām about, then they donāt know me, so itās none of their business. You want to know me and what Iām about? Come say āhiā and weāll go from there.
So yeah, I like my name a lot haha.
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Thundarr the Barbarian is a He-Man alike cartoon from the seventies + thundershirts are items of clothing that reduce anxiety in cats and dogs (especially during storms)=Iām an dork who likes puns
