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Author Topic: What is the origin of your username?  (Read 7279 times)

Max White

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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #90 on: December 14, 2013, 11:02:01 pm »

The Al Bhed Language from the Final Fantasy X game I never Played.
How do you know they even had Al Bhed having never played the game..?
Collecting all those primers just to find out what people were saying was incredibly unsatisfying, it turned out they were saying exactly what you would think they would say. No great mystery, or deep plot, just exactly what you could guess from context.

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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #91 on: December 14, 2013, 11:33:55 pm »

The Al Bhed Language from the Final Fantasy X game I never Played.
How do you know they even had Al Bhed having never played the game..?
Collecting all those primers just to find out what people were saying was incredibly unsatisfying, it turned out they were saying exactly what you would think they would say. No great mystery, or deep plot, just exactly what you could guess from context.

[nitpick] You also get 99 underdog secrets, which gets you the Double Overdrive ability when you use them to customize a weapon.  Not a great reward, but a reward nonetheless.[/nitpick]
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #92 on: December 15, 2013, 12:21:29 pm »

My username came from a random string of letters that was the name of one of my characters in Morrowind. When I was making an account for this very forum, I decided to use it because it didn't bring up any notable results on Google, which meant people probably wouldn't read anything into it. Then, because I used it on this forum, it became my default username for everything.

And now you know the entire short history of the name Araph.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #93 on: December 15, 2013, 05:35:01 pm »

When I signed up on this oh so long ago, I was short.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #94 on: December 15, 2013, 06:27:16 pm »

I was Putnamehere3145. A guy on a TF2 server I frequented called me Putnam. Now I am Putnam.
Interestingly, Putnam is a real surname.
There's actually a street called "Putnam Street" that I pass on the way to work.

My username is actually my high school nickname "cheese" (my now wife started it) with "Mastah" tacked on because "cheese" was taken on FunOrb (same people who run RuneScape) as well as "MasterCheese" so I ghetto'd it up and it worked.
I like it better this way.
My older usernames were usually junk that I randomly though up on the spot. I think "Rabid Weasel" was my favorite of the ones I thought of.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #95 on: December 15, 2013, 06:49:02 pm »

It's the only high sea island of Germany, and I liked the name. The two biggest benefits are 1) that it's never taken, and 2) that it's impossible to google - you'll just be drowned in historical and touristic info.
Plus it's a cool island. Shame I've never been there.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #96 on: December 15, 2013, 11:11:10 pm »

2) that it's impossible to google - you'll just be drowned in historical and touristic info.
You do realize that now half of bay12 is digging through your info on google, if only for the sake of challenge. And to practice their cyber-stalking skills I guess.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #97 on: December 16, 2013, 08:51:39 am »

I ended up sitting around for a while trying to think of a new and fitting original name after the other name that I had liked to use ended up already used. After trying to find a name that fit all of the different games I play, I finally came up with this one.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #98 on: December 16, 2013, 10:11:00 am »

Sounds like sirdiesalot...
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #99 on: December 16, 2013, 12:03:50 pm »

Altum videtur, obviously, but in my language the epithet "cormorant", which is the translation of "mergulus" is applied to oblivious and/or unskilled people. So it's Latin self-deprecation.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #100 on: December 19, 2013, 02:43:56 pm »

Cat from a webcomic called VGCats, which was updating regularly when I joined the forum but is now basically done.

Shoulda picked something else.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #101 on: December 20, 2013, 01:07:31 am »

I used to be extremely obsessed with elephants. I still am, to a degree. I figured it would sound cool, so I decided to use it.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #102 on: December 20, 2013, 05:26:05 am »

Mine his from the time I played Ultima Online on a french language server name Zyx. The name was an example name of the dwarfiest race on the server but nobody used it so it bcomes mine.
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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #103 on: December 22, 2013, 12:42:26 pm »

It's a quote from a Terry Pratchett book. Cyberstalkers go! I had just read it before I made my Minecraft account. It's stuck ever since. Since it's rather long, I vary between My Username is Immaterial, My Name is Immaterial, NameisImmaterial, and Immaterialname.

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Re: What is the origin of your username?
« Reply #104 on: December 23, 2013, 12:49:15 am »

My username was a product of me being bored, pretty much.

I feel like a 'tard. :I
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