Well, why did you pick your username?

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Antitonic

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I used a random word generator. It was a choice between this and "Luminous", except that was taken on XBOX Live. I've had to adapt it in a couple places, but I'm pretty happy with it now.
 

Brightzide

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Nov 22, 2009
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In high school my indomitable positivity had me dubbed Mr. Brightside. And I took it upon myself to remove the 'Mr.' as I dont feel I am mature enough to possess such a title and replaced the 's' with a 'z' to backup my childish demeanour. Go team!
 

Fireface

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Jul 5, 2010
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I was given my name on the way home from school, my friends and I were playing with a lighter and I almost set my beard alight, so my friends called me Fire face :)
 

CardinalPiggles

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Jun 24, 2010
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Futurama. Bender once called Fry Cardinal Biggles, but that was taken on XBL so I opted for Cardinal Piggles instead. (As Cardinal Wiggles was also taken)

Also I read my Captcha as The 3 ways Pope

 

[Kira Must Die]

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Sep 30, 2009
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It used to be something else, but I decided to change it. I was playing Devil May Cry 4 on Dante Must Die at the time, and I had just finished watching Death Note, so it was just something I came up with when I felt like changing my old username. The brackets are there because it looked kinda plain on its own.
 

laggyteabag

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Oct 25, 2009
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To be honest, i have no f-ing idea
 

Catfood220

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When I started going on heavy metal chat rooms I needed a username. I noticed that everyone had names like "slayer_metal666" and "Metallicarulez666" and I thought it was all totally over the top and rediculous. So I looked around the kitchen where my computer was at the time for inspiration, I spotted a tin of Catfood and thus a legend was born.

The 220 came after trying to use the name on other chat rooms and forums and found that there had been other Catfood's before me, so 220 was added.
 

Dogstile

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Jan 17, 2009
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I was eight, couldn't think of a name and was watching a program on farms at the time. I believe I was annoyed that there wasn't a stile for dogs, but there was for horses.

Bish bash bosh, i have a username that gets banned from sites before the mods ask me what it means.
 

Jauffre

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Sep 1, 2011
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Jauffre because it's similar to my own name and Oblivion jokes (and making fun of how ridiculous the AI and everything was) were a sort of meme between me and my friends at the time.
 

2fish

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Sep 10, 2008
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Because it is short, to the point, and you know who you are talking to?

It seems I lack an origin story to par with other members. I am open to reinterpretations of my origin story.

When Zeus turned his goodies into a fruit bearing tree two skin cells fell off and became fish. These fish got bored and ordered a computer in the 2000?s (as you count them). Now they grace this forum with wisdom and a touch of the gods.
 

Wintermoot

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Aug 20, 2009
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my regular name it,s a "deault" username for me until it turned into RetroBoy (I picked it up when I got interested in older games and it stuck with me) and later QuatroDash (from a picture of Rainbow Dash cosplaying as Quatro Bajeena from Zeta Gundam)
 

OniaPL

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Nov 9, 2010
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I suck at making up usernames, so instead of going for something lame like "Shadowmaster" or "l33tzor", I tried to be creative, and I took a look at the items on my desk, picked the first letter out of 6 of them and the result was "ONIAPL" so I went for it.

Later on I realized that now everyone thinks I am polish, but you can't always win.
 

bojackx

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Nov 14, 2010
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I was playing Pokemon and when it asked for my name I once put "Bojack" (probably reminiscent of when I used to watch Dragonball Z) and it was one short of the character limit so I mashed the d-pad and hit A, the letter was x.

Not a glamorous story but what were you expecting?

I usually call myself "MeshFeet" now because Killing Floor kept naming me "Fresh Meat" whenever I had connection problems and had to rejoin a game, so I switched the first letters of the words around and that made "Mresh Feat"... but yeah MeshFeet seemed like the best way to go from there.
 

ZehMadScientist

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This is my Xbox live gamertag. But "TheMadScientist" was already taken, so I went for the stereotypical German accent. Why? I have no clue.

On a completely unrelated note:
[Kira Must Die said:
Dat avatar...
[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/407/crossingthelinehere.jpg/]


Seriously... wow...o_O