How did you come up with your username?

[DinohScene]

Me first name + Scene as in Scenekids.
Added the h due to an old classmate pronouncing me name as dee-noh.

 

[Caofre]

When i was like 9 years old,i got a dog,and his name is Fred.Here in Brazil,a known nickname for dogs(that are Cachorro in portuguese)are Cao,and when i was trying to make an account for Transformice,i tried Caofred,but that wasnt available,so i removed the D and i just stuck with it,sometimes i change to Caofrek,or maybe even Caofrel,but never Caofred.

 

[Armadillo]

Dime bar advert.

 

[Seriel]

What I am curious however, is about the older usernames people had before their current name. I remember a bunch of people who changed it over the years and I wanna know why they decided to go with a new name (and sometimes, more than once).

In most cases it marks a change of identity, where the person feels they're different enough from their past self that the username no longer fits them as a person. (This would also cover situations where the original name was set by the person when they were much younger and they feel the need to update to a more "mature" one.)
For others though it may be related to the character that name represents or other such changes.

 

[Captain_N]

Mine is from the TV show Captain N - The game master. I been using that name since i first when online in 1996 with a 14.4 modem. I still have that computer btw. Packard Bell windows 95 pentium 75 mhz. Still has napster installed lol. Computer still works. its more durable then some crap nowadays....

My avatar was captured from the first episode using my Ati all in wonder 8500 gpu/caputre card. that card had no input lag you can connect a console to it like a snes and play trough the monitor of the pc record the input and there was no input lag.

 

[VinsCool]

In most cases it marks a change of identity, where the person feels they're different enough from their past self that the username no longer fits them as a person. (This would also cover situations where the original name was set by the person when they were much younger and they feel the need to update to a more "mature" one.)
For others though it may be related to the character that name represents or other such changes.

Personally I've had my user name for so long that I think it marks my identity as a who, so changing it would be really weird I think xD
"Wait who are you again? Your avatar is familiar..."
The most disturbing case is on Twitter where some people like to change their name once every 3 days lmao

 

[kuwanger]

Partly because of this. Partly because for a while it was unclear what a "Kuwanger" was except that he reminded me a lot of a samurai; turns out that at least in some designs, that's precisely where it comes from: the kuwagata (Stag Bettle). That Boomer Kuwanger chose to go mavericks because of logical thinking* versus infection is sort of icing on the cake.

* Clearly without enough consideration on who would actually win/lose. However, the Reploid/Human relationship is akin to slavery, the proffered solution of the Mother Elf is absurd, and the proffered solution in ZX is even more absurd. So, that's what you get for trying to make something somewhat deep and then having to deus ex it. *shrug*

PS - It'd also be interesting to ask, how long have you had your current username. For me, it's ~22 years.

 

[Seriel]

Personally I've had my user name for so long that I think it marks my identity as a who, so changing it would be really weird I think xD
"Wait who are you again? Your avatar is familiar..."

That makes sense, though I feel in your case you could get away with anything vaguely related to "Vin" and people would still recognize you.

The most disturbing case is on Twitter where some people like to change their name once every 3 days lmao

Yeah I have no clue why people do that there, I've only changed my twitter display name a couple times and that was just tweaking the order of some things.

 

[VinsCool]

That makes sense, though I feel in your case you could get away with anything vaguely related to "Vin" and people would still recognize you.

Reminds me I go with Vin Vin in some places

 

[tooknie]

When I created my first e-mail account:

Tony => Toe, Knee => Tooknie (as Toeknee was already taken).

 

[Larsenv]

My real name + initial of my last name.

I was REALLY creative when I made it up when I was like 7.

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When I created my first e-mail account:

Tony => Toe, Knee => Tooknie (as Toeknee was already taken).

I know someone named ToeKnee.

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That makes sense, though I feel in your case you could get away with anything vaguely related to "Vin" and people would still recognize you.

Yeah I have no clue why people do that there, I've only changed my twitter display name a couple times and that was just tweaking the order of some things.

I know how Seriel got her name:

 

[Mama Looigi]

Deletus

 

[Seriel]

I know how Seriel got her name:

I considered posting the relevant conversation but could not be bothered finding it. Thank you for putting in that effort for me!

 

[VinsCool]

My real name + initial of my last name.

I was REALLY creative when I made it up when I was like 7.

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I know someone named ToeKnee.

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I know how Seriel got her name:

That looks sick. Definitely some solid material for a cast of characters.

 

[Seriel]

That looks sick. Definitely some solid material for a cast of characters.

I think that's what the website was designed for haha

 

[Larsenv]

That looks sick. Definitely some solid material for a cast of characters.

"bits" are a race of gnomes that live in the digital world. In fact, there's even a bit called "Larsenv" that's living right here on this site. Ever the adventurer, Larsenv will undoubtedly run into other bits with equally unique personalities, and they will work together to make this site even more entertaining.

 

[Deleted member 383179]

My name is just a description of me when I signed up for this site - just a noob.

I think without the emoticon the name was taken and I didn't want to add some arbitrary number, so an emoticon was my substitute.

 

[ry755]

My name is Ryan, and I have no idea where 755 came from lol. Linux file system permissions maybe?

 

[VinsCool]

My name is Ryan, and I have no idea where 755 came from lol. Linux file system permissions maybe?

I would have expected 777 for the ultimate owning permissions XD

 

[Larsenv]

@tooknie