but i was like "Archimedes Wojak is a cool name for an argonian battlemage"
I can't pretend to know
why you landed on that, still, but it's definitely one to remember. 8.5/10?
I could wax lyrical about other usernames (past and parallel in the present) that I have constructed.
The one that was the letter-reverse of an old BBS handle I used. The autogenerated MUD character name that was so apt to my in-game enrollment as a priest of Fish that I semi-reused its non-fish root element in a criminally-modified form for my preplanned-to-be Thief. The definitely anti-zombie survivor in a webgame whose name was inspired by a featured antique-brandishing member of the public's family story in
the Antiques Roadshow, the prior night, more than a decade ago, to my deciding to rejoining that game after years of absence. A sometimes re-used (or thematically paralleled) use of 'a random thing in the cutlery drawer' that is the closest thing I have for a name I've used across various electronic presences. The semi-recurring name across Android devices (device account) that derived from a single-episode character in
The Young Ones that work colleagues decided I was like, at about the time I needed to conjure up a Google account name...
But none of these are relevent. And I'm not one for linking my various electronic lives together by being more explicit, this is just mentioned for contrast. I've mentioned the reason for 'Starver', on Bay12, on far too many prior occasions to really surprise anyone who has been paying attention but, for the sake of thread-judgement, here you are again...
I was just
so terrible at food-production when I first started fortresses. It's different now, as I've now rejected pretty much all forms of food production except the supremely trivial arable farming (proper field plots, mostly) which serves most of my needs (though I bulk it up with various forms of animal husbandry and butchery, for variety and materials that can't be cultivated) but when I first made my presence known here I was absolutely no stranger to the supremely ironic message of the form
Urist McHunter cancels hunt: Hunting for vermin. A starvation-cascade was pretty much
the usual result of my games at that time.
(I got better!)