Why did you choose your username?
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To paraphrase what I said in my thread about names a while ago:
Also it bugs me that I can't include the diaeresis in most games or on sites like this. Well done me >.<
Oh, and for a gaming connection, it's also the name of my main WoW character.
Basically, I put way too much thought into five letters no one will ever pay much attention to
Also it bugs me that I can't include the diaeresis in most games or on sites like this. Well done me >.<
Oh, and for a gaming connection, it's also the name of my main WoW character.
I've had this name since back in grade 10, so I've had it about 7 years (holy crap that makes me feel old, didn't realize it was that long ago) I was supposed to write a story for my English class, but, since I suck at writing anything original I just did what I do best. Copy a game story I knew (in this case it was .Hack but I've done it with RE 4 too ), but I can't copy everything so I went to a name generator like I normally do when writing (since names are the hardest thing for me) and I just mashed two of the names together and voila that's how my username came to be.
), but I can't copy everything so I went to a name generator like I normally do when writing (since names are the hardest thing for me) and I just mashed two of the names together and voila that's how my username came to be.My given forename, which I no longer use, is actually Geoff(rey) in the traditional British spelling. I spent my very early years in Canada, where that spelling is not uncommon, and grew up in England where it's standard and a common name. My mum is American, though, and when we were stateside many, many Americans literally could not understand that it's the same pronunciations as "Jeff", so we were constantly telling people "It's just Jeff!" I stopped using the name when I came to the US permanently. So my name is something of an inside joke. The 88 is just my lucky number, such as it is.
Gundam Sentinel is one of my favorite pieces of Gundam media. It's a photo novel about the conflict of the New Desides and the intervention of Task Force Alpha and the mighty S-Gundam. All there is to it.
It's my user name basically everywhere.
It's my user name basically everywhere.
Aw shit. I keep forgetting that the Escapist is using my OLD name... Nowadays I go by the name RariShyZealot, or just RSZealot.JoJo said:
Azurelord707 was just something I came up with when I was younger, and it stayed with me out of laziness.
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Ah, fair enough. If you ever feel like changing your Escapist username to your newer name, you're allowed one username change through the "Update Account Information" section in your profile, only if you want to that isAzurelord707 said:
Because I didn't think the other username I commonly use would fit very well here on the Escapist.
I used to be a Brony and I used the name of one of Pinkie's imaginary friends (namely the bag of flour with a french accent) for a PSN account a ways back, I just sort of rolled with it since then.
Well, mine started waaay back, a long time ago, where an idea popped into my head, The Grim Reaper harvests souls, the Eye Reaper harvests sight. I used to imagine it as like, one of those old, medieval times justification for why people went blind. I've recently taken up writing a mythos about the character in my spare time, and how since he controls sight, he can basically take the form of whatever he wishes. You'll never see him coming, and once he leaves, you'll never see again.
Not to be confused with Eye repair, the Lasik Surgery, or Eye Raper, aka Willy Pete.
Not to be confused with Eye repair, the Lasik Surgery, or Eye Raper, aka Willy Pete.
I wanted to use a common English name, and it also had to sound cool whilst saying something about myself, hence John the Gamer. And it wasn't even taken yet. Lucky me.
Oh, I didn't know that. Then disregard my old name, Zealot's here to stay!JoJo said:Ah, fair enough. If you ever feel like changing your Escapist username to your newer name, you're allowed one username change through the "Update Account Information" section in your profile, only if you want to that is
Despite my many nicknames (on backlog), I only switch between two of them... This is the second one, which is also the "hardest" to pronounce unless I tell you how to pronounce it... (It's fuh-ploon, by the way...)
What does it mean? It means "The Revolution", according to my middle school self who came up with this title while working on his own radio musical play... (In other words, it means "nothing" unless you live in Nigeria and used FPLOON as an acronym on Twitter that one time...)
What does it mean? It means "The Revolution", according to my middle school self who came up with this title while working on his own radio musical play... (In other words, it means "nothing" unless you live in Nigeria and used FPLOON as an acronym on Twitter that one time...)
My love of the Zelda series wanted me to take an uninspired pun of one of the most important titles in the Zelda universe. That would also explain the avatar. >.>
Why should it be pronounced that way? f is fricative so it's easy to transition directly to another consonant, you shouldn't need to insert an unwritten vowel.FPLOON said:
You aren't the first [http://essenceoflime.revasser.net/]Hero of Lime said:
I didn't feel like making an account so I just signed in with facebook. So my username was really picked out by my mom.
...You'd be surprised how many people pronounce it ef-pee-loon or ef-ploon... (Also, it sounds better and not as robotic as the other pronunciations...)Eldritch Warlord said:
Then again, not every word is pronounced how they're spelled... and my middle school self back then took advantage of that fact... (He still thinks "Topikea" is pronounced toe-peek-key-ah... Bad example, maybe, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head...)