Your username

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I started going by Sexual Harassment Panda on counter-strike, back in the day. The reaction to it has always been positive... So I stuck with it.

Well, mostly positive. Black-ops used to boot me off of servers for having an "inappropriate username" all the damn time.

 

[smokingplane]

I picked it up years ago when i needed a quick disposable mail and got a suggested something like smoingplon3@whatever, smokingplane seemed to be available, and i've been using that ever since.

 

[Battenberg]

I was eating Battenberg when I made my first online account (for a game very similar to Draw It) and it stuck ever since.

Thrilling, I know.

 

[Ham Blitz]

I don't remember exactly when I started using this name, I just remember it being either late middle school or the beginning of high school. I liked doing pork themed names for some reason (until this name I usually used Baconious as a name) and one day somehow I put those two words together to mean a barrage of ham and I just kind of stuck with it. I even made it my live name which gets me called "Ham Bits" from time to time. Still, I've enjoyed keeping this name and have never felt a need to switch it.

 

[gibbles545]

A gibble is the fold between your thigh and arse cheek.

It was my World of Warcraft character name.

 

[already in use]

The Escapist told me that my name is ``already in use´´,
so i didn´t have any choice at all and had to go with that.

 

[Miyenne]

Miyenne's the character I play in every game, and has been for over 15 years.

I even got her again for FFXIV.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Same as it was six months ago [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/18.401873.16588997].

 

[Sight Unseen]

A few years ago when I used to play Runescape, they added the ability to change your name in game. Since my 13 year old self was apparently an idiot when he made my original username about 4-5 years earlier (lotr_rocks_0) I grew to not like that name anymore and wanted to find a new one that was more appropriate. I was trying to find something that sounded witty and interesting that would also be fairly unique. Since Rise Against was my favorite band at the time, I turned to them for inspiration. They had a little known B-side song called Sight Unseen, which I don't even particularly like, but I thought the name was awesome and I used it.

I've also really grown to like wolves lately and their iconic look and symbolism associated with them (hence my avatar which is actually a custom painting that I have hung up in my room )and I think the name goes well with my avatar. I pair the two up on all of my various profiles now.

 

[sth1729]

There was a flash game called stormthehouse, so I kinda stole the name and started using it, or a variant of the name, everywhere. Started adding 1729 because of the name being taken on some websites already and the number was easy for me to remember because cube roots and stuff.

 

[RicoADF]

I was playing my PS2 after watching starship troopers and got sick of typing in Richard (this was before I got a PS2 memory card), so decided to use Rico and it's stuck ever since. Even my friends call me Rico.

 

[Mr Fixit]

Well I've been asked to fix everything from jewelry to a car to someones relationship, even if I have no idea what I'm doing I always get "Can you fix this, please?".

The words Mr Fixit specifically came from a woman I was messing around with, she said her "plumbing needed some attention" so I said "just call me Mr Fixit" & it kinda stuck. Very wrong I know, but hey it works for me.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

There was a flash game called stormthehouse, so I kinda stole the name and started using it, or a variant of the name, everywhere. Started adding 1729 because of the name being taken on some websites already and the number was easy for me to remember because cube roots and stuff.

But 1729 doesn't have a rational cube root. It's the product of 7, 13 and 19.

 

[SonicWaffle]

For me, I picked my for two reasons, I picked Kitsune, because I like foxes and they're one of my favourite animals and I picked the Hunter part as a homage to one of my favourite anime, Hunter X Hunter.

You like foxes, so you named yourself "fox hunter"?

But enough about me, what about your username?

It was the title of a Ross Noble DVD that was sitting on my desk when I registered. I am super original, guyz.

 

[SonicWaffle]

In the comic book series The Invisibles, there's a character called Queen Mab. And since Michael is what my ma and pa named me, and I'm a tranny, it seemed appropriate.

What is up with the emphasis?

Also, I totally forgot about Queen Mab. Didn't she end up being Sir Miles' lover or mentor or something? That series is super fuckin' weird.

 

[The]

The. I thought it was pretty clever at the time.

 

[Kitsune Hunter]

You like foxes, so you named yourself "fox hunter"?

Well originally my name was troll hunter, but I didn't like it that much so I changed it, but I could only change one word so I changed troll to Kitsune, and now since I already changed my name once, I can't do it again, but I can understand how my name could mean something else. And I want to make it clear I am 100% against fox hunting, I think it's wrong and cruel and I'm glad that for the most part it's been banned in the UK

 

[RariShyZealot]

Both my name and my (New) avatar has the same basis.
Guess what...
(And Zealot comes from me really disliking any other Fluttershy/Rarity containing ships.)