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What did you name YOURSELF and why?

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Imagine:
Imagine is a name I first used when I played CS 1.6 way way way back in the day. I didn't use it again for a long time, but after never being able to settle on a handle, I figured I might as well use that again. As to where I got Imagine in the first place, I have no goddamn clue. I do like short and simple words so... probably had something to do with that.

naufrago:
The history of my name starts with when I played FFXI. I tried coming up with something with 'frag' in the name that sounded vaguely medieval. Eventually I came up with 'Fragimer,' which I continued to use for years, taking the name with me to WoW and other games.

After a few years, though, I grew a bit tired of the name since I'd had it for a while and wasn't completely satisfied with it (although looking back now, Fragimer's actually not a bad name, so I may use it some more). I tried coming up with something that included the word 'frag' (since I got used to be being called 'Frag' for short) and, ideally, started with the letter 'n' (my first name is Nick, like Sunderland actually). I was also hoping to include something spanish-y sounding, since I'm half-mexican (but in looks and upbringing, I'm basically a suburban white male). Lucky for me, during a spanish class in high school, I was just sort of flipping through the 'N' section of a spanish-english dictionary when I spotted the word 'náufrago'. It was perfect for me!

náufrago- shipwrecked person, castaway.

I didn't change the names of any of my existing characters, but pretty much all of my online names since finding 'naufrago' have been some variation of that word. It also helped that it's a fun pun for several of the games I played or play (EVE online, GOIO).

So yeah, if you see me around, feel free to call me 'Frag' or 'Frago'. It's what I'm most used to. I do respond to people calling me 'Nau', but it's not preferred. I also tend to not capitalize my name. No particular reason, I just prefer it that way.

EDIT: I should note that it's actually kinda hard to get the name 'naufrago' sometimes, since some spanish-speaking folks like that name too. Guess it should be kinda expected when you use a word out of a dictionary as your username.

Morbie:
Man. Just a few of us Nicks out there, huh?
Well I bummed around the net for quite a while as 'Manta' in my early teens, but never overly got attatched to the name or anything. When I picked up the orange box around 5 years ago, I had to set up a steam account, but Manta was taken. So after a huge amount of thinking, I settled with "Morbid_Myths" because isn't it just fun being that angsty, young teenager? Wahahahha.
Over the course of 2 years, and being in a L4D2 clan, I ended up just being called "Morbid" by people, which I still actually answer to quite easily, and was actually called by most people in my last year of highschool. Morbid then became diminutised over the course of that same year and ended up as Morbie.
Cool story, bro? 

-Muse- Cullen:
Chipset Unity/Linux Localhost. Executable Namespace.

BdrLineAzn:
Man my username, all honesty, this was my first one I tried hard to come up with somehow. My few past ones, I usually tend to try some Asian aspect into them like Kamikaze711. But looking at them, they tended to be too generic. What started what would be my current name was when a group of my friends started a YouTube gaming channel, and their names got me thinking of one for myself as they wanted me to be in some videos. What gave me my name was, when I looked outside my window, I can literally see the Mexican-American Border, and me being Asian gave me an idea. Since I live near a borderline and myself being Asian, I combined the two and became what is now this name today. Basically know I use the BorderLineAzn or my shorten form BdrLineAzn as my gaming name as it usually no one has taken it and is a bit unquie.

(Downside though for my shorten form, not that many people know their abbreviations and think that my shorten name is a jumble of laters or just call me line :P )

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