Hardly. And it's more of a stupid grievance than a regret.
I started using this nickname (Taleweaver) somewhere in 2004 or 2005, when playing UT2004. Gave it some thought beforehand, and never regretted it since. Except perhaps...since UT2004 is the sort of game that requires quick reflexes, the not-even-that-long-name was usually abbreviated in texts to "Tale" or "TW" (which used to be a local abbreviation for an older locally famous rock concert (Torhout Werchter), which was cool in a rather subtle way
). All in good faith, of course.
Not that long after that I pondered over to a Dutch forum that had nothing to do with gaming. As it'd be a bit weird to sport an English gaming nickname, I just went with a shorter nick: "Wever" (which I still use, btw). All was fine at first. Still like the name as well (apparently it's also some kind of small bird).
Little over a year later, there was this local politician called 'Bart De Wever' trying to tell us that Flemish and Wallon Belgians were all different, and that the Wallons were living off the Flemish. This was mid-zeroties, so I expected everyone to just ignore him. That...didn't happen. Next election his little political party went together with a rather large one, so it got elected that way. When in government, they became the media's favorite because they brought divide into areas where there was none (basically, they tried - and to a degree still try - to separate Belgium). So their political influence and popularity grew. It's now over ten years later. Bart De Wever is now Antwerp's mayor, and he's been called "the actual prime minister of Belgium". On my end, however, things evolved from "that guy is trying to mooch off of my awesome personality
" to "no...I'm NOT a fanboy of that guy. In fact, I've got opposite political views than that guy. Can we talk about something else now?
".
Luckily, by standing by my name (and personality), I only have to explain this to people once.
