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Re: unique usernames

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:23 pm
by buddyCasino
I started using a lot of different aliases for different boards some time ago. I didn't want people to make a connection between me and my account from that STD support board ;)

This time I was inspired by Helge Schneider, a German comedian and Jazz musician. It's the name of a musician that tours with him and plays support roles in his movies.

Buddy Casino is the guy on the motorcycle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDHkV6wPZyQ

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:12 pm
by gothsinnr
Mine has been with me for a long, long time. As a teenager I was gothic, and was pretty bad. Some girl I was dating coined it, so since then emails, usernames have all been GothSinnr. Makes it easy to remember.

Was kinda hard explaining to my wife's mother though. :P

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:38 am
by last_pawn
last_pawn, strategically the most important piece in a game of Chess that you are losing very badly. Insert real life metaphor here...

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:41 am
by slash030
Slash whas just a metaphore for odds
I used it as my character name for my first rpg phantasy star 2 and it stuck ever since

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:03 pm
by Antison
slash030 wrote:Slash whas just a metaphore for odds
I used it as my character name for my first rpg phantasy star 2 and it stuck ever since
What is the "030" for?

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:25 pm
by slash030
tek wrote:
slash030 wrote:Slash whas just a metaphore for odds
I used it as my character name for my first rpg phantasy star 2 and it stuck ever since
What is the "030" for?
To make the name more unique slash unfortunatly is usually taken on boards 030 was just easy to remember i guess

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:45 pm
by nyktos
last_pawn wrote:last_pawn, strategically the most important piece in a game of Chess that you are losing very badly. Insert real life metaphor here...
that's kinda epic...

8-)

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:31 am
by last_pawn
Epic and Dark ;) I'm a big fan of your work btw. You make cult followings cool again.

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:56 am
by ncer
I usually go by pi, some magic players posting here may have seen it before. Unfortunately since a couple of years boards seem to set a minimum length for usernames and every now and then I have to use a different one. PHPBB is one of those forums, fortunately if I registrered before a specific upgrade I would be fine as it's not applied retroactively, but these days whenever I join a new board I have to pick something different. I started using that name in 2001 when I wanted a nickname for MOTL (again, for the magic players) that was short, easy to remember and had some kind of meaning, I figured later I'd think of some explanation, however that never happened. Some beer might have been involved in picking the name ;).

The name I use here is just my initials, pretty boring.

Re: unique usernames

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:38 am
by nyktos
oskarwiksten wrote:Great post idea! :D
My nickname on Andor's Trail is my given name, obviously.
Whenever I need to come up with a nickname while playing some online games, I usually go by something like

Code: Select all

'); drop table players; --
as nickname. It's a programmer joke on SQL insecurities with references to xkcd.

OMG!!!

i just clicked the link...

hahahaha!

(dying over here)

awesome!!!

:lol: