The Story Behind Your Username

HSV (Hamburger SV) is my favourite (football) club. I used something similar for MSN in 5th or 6th grade as my email and ever since I used some variation of it pretty much everywhere online. At some point, I thought of making up a cool and original online name but that never went anywhere. So I'm stuck with the current one :casca:
 
Mine was first used in 2011 after I watched the anime "Beelzebub" and started to reading the manga(that's a lot better) on an MMORPG game called Tantra, but I misstyped the name changing the last "b" to an "d" and just noticed before several month when my character was on high levels, so i decided to maintain it, and started to using it everywhere (for me it sounds better with 'd' than 'b'). It obviously is a demon name, so it's cool, specially because almost nobody know that manga, and the 'd' add some originality to it. If you found a Beelzebud on any online game, it's probably me.
 
The Telltale Walking Dead game, season 1...the character of Kenneth A.K.A. Kenny, in episode 2 he does something horrible involving a salt brick, from that point on he becomes an incredibly salty character...Boom KaBoom! Salty Kenny.
 
I got my username randomly. Based on my pc some think I'm talking about having kids but no.
Looking back I would make a more cool username
Like imagine one that combines Gyro Zeppeli x Guts x Zoro
I always have the best ideas after I've chosen.
me rn coming up with them
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Ghizmo is my cat. He is an incredibly large british short hair gentlecat. He also has the most loving heart ever and could never even hiss at a human let alone scratch or attack. You can even pet the super soft belly as much as you want without a trap.
On the other hand, everything in the range of typical cat prey will just die. A fly comes in through the window - death in 5 seconds. A mouse once entered the room we were in through a ground level window. Ghizmo was just like Zodd, a black shadow with claws and fangs. The poor animal propably didn't even realize its final moments.
A minute later Ghizmo has returned to being a large purring loaf of cat bread.
So I imagined him being the slumbering keeper of some ancient fortress one should only awaken if one possesses correct password or key. :-D
 
It’s 2011, I’m a complete social recluse. It’s so bad that people ignore me when I say things in school, leading me to believe that people simply can’t hear me sometimes when I talk and I accepted that. I join a hip hop forum, under the guise of ‘Odeon’, which is a musical theatre that the ancient greeks would use to go to ( I LOVE history) I’m going to be honest, I don’t recall many memories around it. What I do remember is talking in the chat for the first time of a now defunct site expecting not to get a response, but I did get a response, a man from Chile, who called himself ‘West Villain’ responded and he treated me like a human, for the first time, purely based upon the text that I wrote, my personality. It was the first step for me to achieve a life in which I could be me. Right now I’m living my dream, I won’t even describe it, but it beats any movie you’ve seen. Alas, I’m getting too personal, but this is me
 
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Metallica has a H.P. Lovecraft inspired song called the The Thing That Should Not Be, I’m particularly a big fan of their 1999 S&M performance of this song. The lyric line Death May Die stood out to me. I hadn’t read Lovecraft at the time, but several years later I could get a complete works book of Lovecraft. The lyrics Death May Die is quite straight from the story of Call of Cthulhu. It’s featured as part of a riddle:

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”

Now I do realize this is probably one of the more famous quotes of Lovecraft if there is such a thing, I believe the riddle is even featured in a Cthulhu themed episode of Ghostbusters and South Park. Any how, I just thought it sounded cool. :serpico:
 
Death May Die said:
Metallica has a H.P. Lovecraft inspired song called the The Thing That Should Not Be, I’m particularly a big fan of their 1999 S&M performance of this song.
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That song was an important gateway into early Metallica and thrash as it was slow, yet fuckin' heavy, enough for my young brain to process when the likes of Fight Fire With Fire just sounded like noise to my untrained ears. Plus, the cool story in the lyrics (I imagined a whole other thing around it). They did a sequel of sorts on their last album to complete the trilogy that started with The Call of "Ktulu" (one of only two songs written by Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton AND Mustaine, with Hammet doing lead guitar and Burton "lead bass" over the top, it's basically the ultimate Metallica quintet =). Anyway, the sequel if you ever want to change your name:


Still very heavy, and I like the breath before the solo, shows some mojo. :guts:
 
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Ysbryd is the Welsh word for 'ghost' or 'spirit'. I thought it looked and sounded really cool when I was trying to come up with an alias for my electronic music as a teenager, and now it has stuck. I also use Master Roshi as my avatar on basically everything I use the 'Ysbryd' name on, but decided to go with old man Daiba here since this is a Berserk forum and all.
 
I use a handful of usernames on different platforms, though "AshleySOAD" is what i tend to use the most. The "Ashley" part should explain itself, but the "SOAD" part is simply an abbreviation of "System Of A Down" which is the name of one of my favorite bands :badbone:
 
Until I was 13 or so, I went with the username "tapion1998" for my first MMO (Ragnarok Online) where 1998 is my birthyear (shocking) and Tapion was a guy from DBZ with a cool sword!

For your amusement, some of my other MMORPG character names at that time were:

- BlackCrowShadow (So Epic)
- LOLick (So funny)
- kevchen (So cute)

Then I got into more mature MMORPGs such as Dekaron, Silkroad and WoW and I wanted a cooler nickname. At that time, TheITCrowd, a british series about nerds, just released and I liked it. Since I also had a fable for Crows (BlackCrowShadow was so epic!) I came up with TheItCrOw and I'm still fairly happy with it. I only wished I had the IT part uppercase as people sometimes call me "The it Crow" instead of "The IT Crow" (IT as in "I'm the IT guy").
 
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Maco has been my family nickname since i was extremely young. Everyone in my family calls me Maco, and a few of my closest friends call me that too instead of my real name. My parents and I are Hispanic. The nickname is a play on the word “macho.”
 
Since there is already a Griffith, I chose a different name which would be entertaining to hear spoken aloud on the podcast. Here is the inspirational panel:

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Walter said:
I'm a big supporter of the notion that a username should follow you around. A unique identifier for all your internet travels.
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My thought was exactly that I do not wish to be identified, especially on other platforms. I suppose that is silly. :)
 
This nickname I started using in another forum back in the time the movie Joker released

When the title JOKER appeared in the big screen, it just hit me, so i wanted a nickname similar to Joker

So the first thing I could think was Gambler because I've been a hardcore Tibia player in the past, and there was a player that inspired me a lot (Setzer Gambler, wich took inspiration from Setzer Gabbiani from Final Fantasy VI). So that's it.
 
Back in the early 2000s, when I was still a little kid, my family booked a hotel in the countryside. To my delight, there was a COMPUTER ROOM there. (During those days, computers were still relatively rare, and I didn't have one myself.) It was such a special experience to play with a computer alongside a bunch of random kids.

One of them was playing Dragon Fable, and it caught my interest, so I asked him to create an account for me, and he agreed. He set the username and password to my name + my year of birth.

The next day, I came back to play, but alas, I had no idea how to spell my name in English. I asked some of the staff who worked there, but they didn’t know either, and the DF kid was nowhere to be seen.

After what felt like an eternity, I had an idea to try:
I would type the keys of my name in my native language while the keyboard was set to English - and IT WORKED!

I played with that DF account for over a decade, and that nickname has stayed with me ever since. :chomp:
 
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