mega thread Why you chose your user name.

[Aisling Ink 195]

Aisling Ink is supposed to be my ponysona, I loved to draw since small, it's a way of dreaming in my opinion, a way to see things that are deep in your heart (therefore Aisling which means dream, vision). Ink is because I loved to draw by pen for a few years.

[SomariFeyWright 776]

For those of you who don't know, Somari is an old bootleg game on the NES, that intends essentially to act as a game following the concept of "Mario in Sonic 1". It was terrible, but I liked the crossed name. As a fan of both Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog (and not much else the very first time I first used the username), it seemed like the best way to have myself addressed.

 

"Fey" is the last name of Maya Fey, the assistant of Phoenix Wright of the Ace Attorney franchise and my waifu, if you didn't already know.

 

"Wright" comes from... well, Phoenix Wright. Yeah, at the time, I loved the franchise far too much. But I wouldn't change it even now. It's my internet identity and I'm proud of it, and as such, I label myself as THE Ace Attorney fan everywhere I join.

[Dark Moon 965]

Prometheus is my favorite character in Greek Myth I guess. Stole fire and gave it to man and payed the ultimate price in a way. 

[Armchair Adventurer 211]

Have you ever heard of an old British television series called Knightmare? If so it should be obvious . If not Knightmare was a show in which a for contestants had to make it through a fantasy dungeon solving riddles, fighting monsters etc. It is old,cheesy and a lot of fun  . The show had a host called Treguard who kept calling the viewers armchair adventurers (I think the whole series is on youtube if you are interested. That's where I watched it). He also used to say things like this when contestants died:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OISR3al5Bnk

 

Which would happen pretty often!

[The Leafeon Pinkeh 3,603]

Have you ever heard of an old British television series called Knightmare? If so it should be obvious . If not Knightmare was a show in which a for contestants had to make it through a fantasy dungeon solving riddles, fighting monsters etc. It is old,cheesy and a lot of fun . The show had a host called Treguard who kept calling the viewers armchair adventurers (I think the whole series is on youtube if you are interested. That's where I watched it). He also used to say things like this when contestants died:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OISR3al5Bnk

 

Which would happen pretty often!

I might actually watch this! I cant watch the video you posted right now though. Is it like an acted show or a reality game show thing?

[Remi 1,309]

I believe circa 2011 I encountered the 'modern' swing genre, via Parov Stelar's song, Catgroove, from the album Coco - EP.

Following my discovery of this artist, I decided to look more into the genre, and encountered various other artists, such as Caravan Palace, Club de Belugas, Goldfish, Wax Tailor, 11 Acorn Lane, Milan & Phoenix, and so forth.

Even more after that, I encountered these forums, and upon registration I simply decided to put whatever song I had in my library that seemed to be a good username candidate.

The first one I saw was The Paris Swing Box.

I chose it, and so far it's been my only username, with the exception of the altering of box to cake.

http://youtu.be/Gci3QeXF-FA

Edited September 27, 2013 by The Paris Swing Box

[Venomshank 121]

It's the name of my OC. And it illustrates the epic battle I am involved in against the non-sciencey ones. The wishes I have of conquering the world, bioengineering real mane 6 characters and walking down a quaint street with them. My life is a daydream of epic proportions. A daydream of electrons. A wish for a multiverse. A wish, that, if only for a moment, I might be able to feel the electron moving in the palm of my hand. An endless, beautiful daydream of the electron.

-John Alphonse (AKA me)

 

*this might be epicness overkill*

*I was listening to "The Ecstacy of Gold" while writing this*

Edited September 28, 2013 by ElectronDaydream

[Armchair Adventurer 211]

I might actually watch this! I cant watch the video you posted right now though. Is it like an acted show or a reality game show thing?

It's a reality show. Teams of kids from all over the United Kingdom could play I think. Be warned that it's an old show and the special effects haven't aged very well. I still think that it's impressive they could make something like this though. I can't seem to remember what the prize was but since it was very uncommon to see teams make it to the end of the dungeon I don't think that's a big issue . The show still had fun characters and obstacles the players could encounter so I'd say it's definitely worth watching even today !   

[Sapphire Quill 1,186]

Ahh, Story time it is, So, Once apon a time... Nah, Joking, I'll get serious.

So, Well, I was looking for a new username... After being tired of my other Million.

And well, Scyther, one of my favourite pokemon's name came into my head.

So I decided, I might as well base a username off of it, What came into my head was "Scythe"
Didn't sound all too right, it just sounded like a Scythe The Grim Reaper uses.

So, The word Sike... Decided to make it Into "Scyke." Yay, Finished. 

Edited September 28, 2013 by Scyke

[DokiLoki 519]

I chose it because I personally think it sounds very nice and somewhat reminds of Fluttershy who is the most cutest and graceful pony in all of Equestria. 

[Legacy Dash 438]

Well, when I was about 9 or 10, I loved Ben 10, and signed up for cartoon network, and I put my username as mitch, and it suggested that I take mitchfizz45 instead, then it later on changed to mitchfizz05 somehow, and I now have kept that username to this day.

[Pat.Rio.T. 305]

For a while, before I started doing internet games and forums, I couldn't think of any good usernames, I just had to use either my real name or whatever I could think of for my games.

Then finally I thought of the name SSMan(Star Spangled Man), inspired by my favorite Marvel hero, Captain America. I used this name for my Steam account, forums and other games, and thought up what this OC would look like(human version at first). Then finally when I checked out this forum and saw the RPs, I expanded on my OC and created his alter ego, Patterson Rio Tacitus, or Pat.Rio.T.. Which I decided would be a more appropriate name for the forums. But I would use his super-hero-self, SSMan, in the future for RPs.

[AfTeRwArDs 509]

Okay, my username originated from a chat on skype, lemme see if I can find the log.

 

[7/30/2013 6:49:35 PM] Gravu: suppose

Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

 

young death sits in a cafe

smiling, a piece of money held between

his thumb and first finger

 

(i say ”will he buy flowers” to you

and ”Death is young

life wears velour trousers

life totters, life has a beard” i

 

say to you who are silent. - ”Do you see

Life? he is there and here,

or that, or this

or nothing or an old man 3 thirds

asleep, on his head

flowers, always crying

to nobody something about les

roses les bluets

                yes,

                    will He buy?

Les belles bottes - oh hear

, pas cheres”)

 

and my love slowly answered I think so. But

I think I see someone else

 

there is a lady, whose name is Afterwards

she is sitting beside young death, is slender;

likes flowers.

[7/30/2013 6:52:57 PM] Gravu: (that's... pretty much unrelated to anything.  i was just thinking of that poem, remembered that we have both a Life and a Death in here, then i guess i shared it?)

[7/30/2013 6:54:47 PM] Death: Indeed.

[7/30/2013 6:56:00 PM] Gravu: we just need someone named Afterwards

(Here I changed my name to Afterwards, like so)

[7/30/2013 6:59:27 PM] Afterwards: I am Afterwards.

[7/30/2013 7:00:56 PM] Gravu: Brah, you are Brah

[7/30/2013 7:01:13 PM] Afterwards: nu I am Afterwards

 

Then I changed my username on every account on every single website I use to Afterwards (except for tvt because apparently you can't do that there), and it has been that way ever since.

[boothnat 13]

My uncle, as a joke used to call me boothnat, which was the name of a movie. Eventually, i tried to use it on websites. It was never taken, so i used it as my username everywhere. Not as dramatic as others, but still not for no reason whatsoever

[Skeleton Kin 385]

I chose mein because not only am I British but also because one of my favourite classes in tf2 (especially in x10 servers) is the spy

[Aludaru 4]

Aludaru is a name I've used since '99 when I started playing Everquest. It was randomly generated but it's worked out well for me. It usually gets shortened to just Alu, or sometimes Lulu.

[Flutter's lover <3 8,205]

I chose mine because of loyalty(and kindness) towards the Chaotic Empire faction. All hail King Discord, master of chaos! We shall take over zee forums!

 

[Derpaholic 1,155]

I'm a huge Led Zeppelin fan, and they have a song on their third album, called "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp", and I kind of noticed that you can't spell "Bron-Yr-Aur" without "Bron-Y".
Aha-moment ensued and it just kind of stuck, I guess.

Edited November 1, 2013 by Bron-Yr-Aur

[Ac3xAssasin 453]

Well a few years back I was trying to think of a new Xbox Live gamertag.  My best friend who had just signed up for Live set his gamertag to thegrandassasin so I knew I needed something with assasin in it.  Eventually I came up with the name AC3XASSASIN.  I was so proud of my idea I've used the name aceassasin for any kind of profile on the internet ever since.  

[Remi 1,309]

Well, in this present case, it's 'Stuart Pot', otherwise known as '2-D' from the band 'Gorillaz'. I've been changing my username on a monthly basis to the name of one of the artists I listen to. Such as Kurt Cobain>Marcus Fruderer>Stuart Pot>...

[EmoFlutterguy 19]

I chose my username to express how awesome Fluttershy is. Emoshy is my favorite fan-made version of her because let's face it, she's different. But of course I couldn't just be EmoFluttershy because, well, I'm a guy. So I thought for about five minutes, and thought of Poison Joke's effect on her.

I then thought of Spike's jokes about her voice.

And then BAM! EmoFlutterguy was born!

[Absolute_Discord 7]

Well, I used to argue with people a gratuitous amount. I do however remember my old name being |Discord| and in math |#| means absolute value. Absolute_Discord was born from a stupid math joke on my name, and I have kept it that way ever since then.  

[Sabrinie 392]

My friend used to call me Sabrinie all the time and it slowly became my username for everything. I'm not really sure why she started calling me it or when, but it just kind of stuck and she's been calling me that ever since. Her daughter even calls me Aunt Sabrinie. It's actually really cute. So I guess that's why I use it all the time. One of the greatest people I've ever met gave it to me as a nickname and her daughter, my beautiful niece, uses it for me. So Sabrinie means a lot to me and it's become who I am.

[RainbowCupcakelol 26]

I guess I chose my username because I love Rainbows and Cupcakes, and my friends call me Rainbow and Cupcake anyways, so yeah, thats how I got my username!!!

[TeaWithPinkie 15]

I chose it because when I'm feeling down or sick, I always watch MLP while sipping on a huge cup of tea. Plus, who wouldn't want to have tea with Pinkie Pie? 

Edited November 18, 2013 by TeaWithPinkie