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On the cover of the Nirvana biography "Come As You Are" Kurt Cobain is wearing a shirt that says "Flipper" but his overshirt covers up the corners so all you see is "lippe" and I always read it as "lippeth". The book was simply in range when it came time to create my first email address.  I think I was 14 and don't have a proper excuse as to why I still use it.

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Originally, Omniarch was the executive title of the transhuman dictator main villain from a sci-fi novel I wrote when I was thirteen. I thought it was really clever at the time, so the title ended up becoming my main handle, and just sort of stuck around through sheer inertia. I suppose it had a better ring to it than "Empire", my previous handle.

 

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What? Who didn't have delusional dictatorial aspirations as a child?

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I think it was my 13th birthday, my dad was taking me and two friends to laser tag. In the car we were coming up with funny codenames by combining random adjectives and nouns. I came up with "magic sofa" then which we all thought was suitably absurd and had a good laugh. I've used it for almost 20 years now and have no plans of changing it, it actually feels like my second name at this point.

 

Side note, one time I was walking around town and someone passing looked at me and said "magicsofa?" I was like yeah that's me, how did you know? Well I had made a character on his sister's wii that was so accurate, he recognized me from it, lol 

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You know that famous photo of the Id guys ? Someone told me one day that John Carmack's smile probably inspired the evil grin, and I happen to have the exact same smile. So yeah.

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I was gonna change my name to raven since back then it used to be something really generic, so I used raven as a placeholder, from ravenholm. It stuck and I grew with it until that one day where I wasn't able to change back my name to raven so i just added HL at the start, you can probably guess what it means

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S.A.S are my initials so "Sas" comes from there, since 2014 i always used "Sasgamern1"online because 9yr me tought it was cool, only recently i realized how cringy that name was so i changed to LordSas because it sounds cool i guess, at least it's better than the other one

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I chose it in honour of our lord and saviour, Rupert Murdoch. Praise be to Lord Rupert!

Nah, it's just my last name. Creative, I know.

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I was 15, Freshman in high-school and I found a copy of Knee Deep in the Dead in the school Library. Hadn't played Doom in years, I had moved on to Quake, Quake 2, Unreal, Half-Life, etc... So I decided to start playing Doom again, and I found out about things like jDoom, so I really started getting back into Doom. Then I found Doomworld and decided to register an account. I'll give you one guess why a 15 year old who loved Doom and punk rock would name themselves Jello in 2001.

 

I didn't really intend to be using it 20 years later, but here we are. I still love the Dead Kennedys though, so at least I didn't end up with a user name that I ended up hating a few years later. I still like the name.

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I was ten(-ish) years old and I needed a name for Minecraft and I liked Pokemon at the time (or perhaps more accurately I liked the Youtuber TheJwittz). It's a dumb name and I'm not super fond of it but I've used it pretty much everywhere since and I've got a nostalgic attachment to it (typo and all). I don't have any better ideas but I tend to go by the abbreviated Poke as opposed to the name in full.

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(Zok from the Herculoids by Hannah Barbera)

 

Basically the reason of my nickname, but "zok" was already taken and probably the user here not even plays doom or use it anymore so i have to put a 0 (zero) in my nickname so i can register my account i probably should change my nickname but meh. but sometimes even at TF2 people think my nickname is "Zeta Zero Kay" instead Zok. i dont know why... but ok

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It's a long story, so I'll spoilertag it. Copy/pasted from a site I help run.

 

Note the post is originally from 2012, so you can't exactly do some of the stuff mentioned in it anymore (like going and getting the ROM off the Virtual Console on your Wii, MSN still being relevant, etc.).

 

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ReaperAA is a dumb username I came up with like 7-8 years ago when I was a "edgy teenager" and also because I couldn't think of anything better at that time. The "AA" in ReaperAA are the initials of my real name "Atif Arshad".

 

I have been thinking about changing my username for a long long time. The only reason why haven't done so is that I would have to change my name across all the gaming forums that I am registered to. Call it laziness or whatever.

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  On 11/5/2020 at 7:05 AM, ReaperAA said:

The "AA" in ReaperAA are the initials of my real name "Atif Arshad".

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I knew it.

 

BTW it's fine as it is, don't change it 👌.

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I chose this after seeing it on the cover art of a french band, whose music is listed as... *checks* "Dark Ambient / Neo Classical". Uh.. yeah. It was a weird phase of mine. Also it's german for "misery", so that's fitting.

 

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Araki from japanese means "rough wood", which kinda summarizes my status (from wuxing point of view): growing and improving :3

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Here comes the most boring story. 

 

I lack the creativity to create an unique username, and I didn't want to include my name in any form, so I was stuck with my favorite character from animes or video games at the time. This applies to my previous names, too.

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Since I love historical cars in racing games, I thought I'd call myself roadster, but then I thought that it would be "too unoriginal" and removed the letter 'a'.

 

Later on I worried that rodster would have a weird/bad meaning and decided to check on if it has any meaning at all, turns out it has something to do with fishing or fishermen, so that is fine for me! :D

 

I never went fishing myself, but it does look like a calming activity!

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  On 11/4/2020 at 8:55 PM, Omniarch said:

What? Who didn't have delusional dictatorial aspirations as a child?

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Ah, but the fact that you have given up on your tyrannical aspirations in the meantime is most displeasing.

 

I have since ascended to the status of supervillain 😉 .

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  On 11/5/2020 at 2:43 PM, seed said:

 

Ah, but the fact that you have given up on your tyrannical aspirations in the meantime is most displeasing.

 

I have since ascended to the status of supervillain 😉 .

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When ever did I say I had abandoned those aspirations... *steeples fingers menacingly*

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