Guns Of Icarus Online
Off-Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: Zelda. on June 27, 2015, 06:57:42 am
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I checked through the other topics in this section and saw that no one has done this yet.
So for those of you like me who are super curious, explain your username and if you've had any name changes and why :)
I'll start.
So my original username used to be MissZeldaCraft (yes it makes me cringe so much) which is a mash up of Legend of Zelda and Minecraft, if you couldn't tell :P This name was very quickly made up after I fell in love with Minecraft and my obsession for Zelda games.
But after a while I got bored of it and used my first name change! I then became what most people know me as: Welsh Zelda.
I am Welsh, and totally proud of it, but boy did I underestimated how many sheep jokes I'd be getting. So, after a good half year of being the Welsh Zelda, I finally used my last name change and changed it to just - Zelda -
Your turn :D
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The Mann.
Need I say more? :P
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Many many (oh so many!) years ago, back when I started to get involved with Ultima Online Roleplay, I needed a character name for a young fencer training to be a guardsman, one of my favourite films at the time was the Princess Bride, I didn't want to pick Westley or Roberts outright as I knew the connection would be too easily seen, so I tried to think of the names listed by Westley as pirates names who were once the Dread Pirate Roberts..
One of the names being Cummerbund, I mis-heard as Kamoba and thus Kamoba was born.
Raising through the ranks in the Brittanian guard from recruit to man at arms, guardsman, sergeant and then Recruitment officer and trainer (which made me recruitment officer and events organiser ooc too) before Kamoba's in character disappearance. He travelled through a magical black moongate while chasing a rival factions swordsman the gate was then shut behind him, many presumed Kamoba dead, but all this story line did was allow me to use the same character in various other games.
Since then Kamoba has made appearances in other Roleplay games, and larp events, either with the above acted out back story and with different back stories.
He was a mischievous orphan in a short story which inspired the creation of a "sim" on Second Life, the forest of Chackryn.
He was a cowardly alchemist in Skullduggery Larp who met a very heroic end, sacrificing himself to save many others.
And currently he is a Guns of Icarus pilot, formally a Fjord Baronies pilot, his galleon "The Cealum Lumbus was shot down by Anglean raiders during a routine border patrol, Kamoba and his crew survived and from the wreckage they rebuilt the Cealum Lumbus into The Sky Slicer. Much more inbetween stories happened and now the Sky Slicer is piloted by Kamoba, but with much Lovcraftion Mythos inspiration. (the story is a WIP still :) )
Other characters I've been known as:
Groar Bearbreaker, orc Shaman of the Gor Angir clan ar LARP, banisher of the pretender dopplegangers and general bad ass, fathered Half Goblin half Orcs with a Goblin who still RPs the goblin and even has two people playing the Gob Orcs now, years after the RP which led to this took place.
Groar Bearbreaker was also the name I used for my pvp orc in Lord of the rings online, and world of Warcraft.
Kaldaka, the word Kaldaka is the Drow (dark elf) word for Wolf, Kaldaka was a wolf beastkin at larp who, at roughly 220 years old, completed a suicidal rescue mission to save a fellow beastkin from an uncountable amount of undead, the mission was a complete success as the beastkin comrade was saved and Kaldaka also died, winning a most heroic death award that year.
However later on I played the part of a character named Vilk (Polish translation for Wolf but using V instead of W) Vilk was a human who was raised in the woods by a group of druids/beastkin/fae. He was socially awkward but very loyal and knew how to fight and do rituals. One event led Vilk and the other larpers characters to a time machine, Vilk and two other mages followed the plot pretty intently.. At one point when about 200 years to the playerbase past, the time machine (a ritualistic time machine, don't think tardis) was not performing too well with undead about, so Vilk locked the player base inside the ritual circle and created a distraction against the attackers, the players travelled onto their present leaving Vilk in the past.
So games of chance with the ref team led to the final story of Vilk surviving his mission and escaping the undead, he then performed a ritual to make himself immortal, but also unrecognisable from the people he would meet up with again in the future, turning himself into an un-aging wolf beastkin, because his loyalty to one player made him determined to see her again and keep her safe, and that was the birth of Kaldaka, see above..
One last character I played at Larp, Juri Pashalsta, he started as a character just for one event, a Russian experimental mage, went on to survive many events until one day he performed a ritual which went wrong, he managed to travel between various dimensions in the span of a few seconds and then a magical boom happened, lots of plot stuff came from the damage he had done in this experiment, but all the players ever found were his boots, which thanks to the help of pyrotechnic friend, were smoking.
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I like to be the one on the offensive in most games. I like creating Carnage, so minus the last three letters and you have Carn. Plus I read that name in a book and liked the sound of it.
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Was BlackenedSkies when I was stoned and couldn't think of a name. Changed to BlackenedPies 3500 matches later when I was baked because it's a better name.
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I am known as Underthemoon in other places, or simply as Moon. I was a writer (considered one of the best), and wrote "all things under the moon". I chopped off Under, reduced 'the' to 'Le', and dropped on my real name.
Pretty simple story.
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My name is Štěpán, Steve in English. Hooray for my originality \o/ (and CZ is Czech national tag for those who can't tell)
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I wanted something close to my steam name at the time, which was Ranger Ulman, and somehow I wound up with this name. I sincerely don't know where it came from. It is not a form of pasta, and I had never heard the Mr. Roboto song, I still haven't.
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It sounded cool, works for many genres, and keeps my shadowy theme.
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Cause Orks. Der aint no betta reason!
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I decided to make myself a helmet once from some aluminium sheets and bits of iron from an old chair i think. Because of that helmet and as a pun on Dark Helmet from spaceballs i named myself Daft Helmet in minecraft. While playing minecraft with a mod that let you build movable airships (because of implementation etc not as awesome as it sounds) i built one and named it the Daftloon I - Daft + balloon. When i started playing Guns of Icarus i used Daft Helmsman as my name and named my ships all Daftloon (V through to XI, guessing how many times i had built the Daftloon in minecraft and starting after that). After playing for a while i decided to rename my ships to something more interesting and changed my name to Daft Loon in honor of the old names.
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My last name is Niederberger. First one to build the logic chain wins internet cookies.
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My name is Sparky and my DJ name is Anglerfish. I mushed them together into the portmanteau "sparklerfish".
I can't really explain why it's all lowercase. I just feel like usernames should be, I guess. I'm all lowercase on Steam too and everywhere else I have that username.
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VomAct is a family name that comes up in several of Cordwainer Smith's short stories (if you haven't read any Cordwainer Smith, I highly recommend it). Characters that carry the name include the last leader of a cybernetically disenhanced race, a malevolent scientist, and three ruthless and despotic sisters that found the largest and longest lasting government in the history of mankind.
I also took my other main online name from another of his stories, this time from a personality scanned into an electronic form, the Lady Panc Ashash.
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My name stems from a player in game joke that started with the tabletop role-playing game 7th Sea. One of my players characters was named Jeffery Marlowe, a wisecracking swashbuckling thief with a terrifyingly bad cockney accent. Easily one of the best characters we had in a game, so from there my significant other has taken it as a default last name for many characters, I myself keeping with the trend. There is now a family tree of Marlowes that span from 7th Sea to d20 Starwars to D&D to various video games on top of that. So being in a steam punk game, we kept with it.
Sarabelle comes from a combo of some of my favorite characters growing up, Belle from Beauty and the Beast (if anyone tries to make a Twilight reference I will impale you with a loch round and shoot you from my heavy flack as an example to others) and Seras Victoria from the anime Hellsing. The spelling is tweaked, but all together just seemed to flow nicely.
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Well, Niels Juel was a danish admiral and Naval hero who was instrumental in making the danish Navy a powerhouse in the late 1600's
his most famous victory On 1 June 1677 Juel defeated the Swedish admiral Erik Carlsson Sjöblad in the Battle of Møn. On the 30th of June 1677 he won his greatest victory, in the Battle of Køge Bay (though it really happened at Stevns, seeing that the ships never entered the bay), where, with 25 ships of the line and 1267 guns, he routed the Swedish admiral Henrik Horn with 36 ships of the line and 1800 guns
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And I'm named after my stuffed koala, who I don't seem to have on hand at the moment.
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I will impale you with a loch round and shoot you from my heavy flack as an example to others
Sounds like a better love story than... twilight :P
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I will impale you with a loch round and shoot you from my heavy flack as an example to others
Sounds like a better love story than... twilight :P
What kind of impalement? Vlad style? Or through the abdomen?
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Both? I guess?
Loch rounds are a weird shape.
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I'm just a gentleman who likes to wear tutus and happens to be born a princess.
The real reason is that I had no idea what name to choose and started to look around the room. My eyes stopped at the Princess Tutu DVDs. Thus the legend was born XD
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I will impale you with a loch round and shoot you from my heavy flack as an example to others
Sounds like a better love story than... twilight :P
What kind of impalement? Vlad style? Or through the abdomen?
@ The Mann: Yes, yes it would be a better story then that mysterious set of of tiny letters.
@ Carn: It's much scarier if I leave the rest to the imagination.
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I will impale you with a loch round and shoot you from my heavy flack as an example to others
Sounds like a better love story than... twilight :P
What kind of impalement? Vlad style? Or through the abdomen?
@ The Mann: Yes, yes it would be a better story then that mysterious set of of tiny letters.
@ Carn: It's much scarier if I leave the rest to the imagination.
...No, if I'm to be impaled through the skull I'm less scared than if I was impaled through the stomach because then not only am I in incredible pain I am also alive to be blown all to hell.
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I will impale you with a loch round and shoot you from my heavy flack as an example to others
Sounds like a better love story than... twilight :P
What kind of impalement? Vlad style? Or through the abdomen?
@ The Mann: Yes, yes it would be a better story then that mysterious set of of tiny letters.
@ Carn: It's much scarier if I leave the rest to the imagination.
...No, if I'm to be impaled through the skull I'm less scared than if I was impaled through the stomach because then not only am I in incredible pain I am also alive to be blown all to hell.
Actually I was referring to the method of impaling it through one's rectum, then slide it up along the spine, until it came out beside the neck. Not through the skull.
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Delicious. :-\
Nice quote pyramid, by the way.
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I'm just a gentleman who likes to wear tutus and happens to be born a princess.
The real reason is that I had no idea what name to choose and started to look around the room. My eyes stopped at the Princess Tutu DVDs. Thus the legend was born XD
Out of ALL the GoI usernames, yours was definitely in top 10 of 'Where did they even come up with that name?'. My curiosity has been sated.
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User name has always been a tricky thing for me. I could never figure out a good one.
In Dreams is one of the soundtracks from Lord of the Rings. When I in middle school, I would play that on my Euphonium.
I made my steam account at that time. I looked about my room and the sheet music for In Dreams caught my eye. I've gone with it since then. Turns out InDreams isn't one of those names always taken by someone on the Internet.
In games that allow for multiple characters/save files (like Lord of the Rings Online or Mount and Blade) or just role-play sessions, I have a name for specific characters.
InDreams - my general, main character. Usually non-warrior.
Kurudan - The male (dwarven if possible) warrior character, or any character that can smash enemies to the ground.
Balisarda - The female (usually elf or man) dex fighter or sorceress.
Leonhart - The leader. Leonhart is my lvl 55 Emperor of Calradia in my Mount and Blade Warband. He is also a charismatic Warlord in one of our D&D sessions. Sadly, he never makes appearance online as Leonhart is almost always taken by some one who doesn't even play.
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User name has always been a tricky thing for me. I could never figure out a good one.
In Dreams is one of the soundtracks from Lord of the Rings. When I in middle school, I would play that on my Euphonium.
I made my steam account at that time. I looked about my room and the sheet music for In Dreams caught my eye. I've gone with it since then. Turns out InDreams isn't one of those names always taken by someone on the Internet.
In games that allow for multiple characters/save files (like Lord of the Rings Online or Mount and Blade) or just role-play sessions, I have a name for specific characters.
InDreams - my general, main character. Usually non-warrior.
Kurudan - The male (dwarven if possible) warrior character, or any character that can smash enemies to the ground.
Balisarda - The female (usually elf or man) dex fighter or sorceress.
Leonhart - The leader. Leonhart is my lvl 55 Emperor of Calradia in my Mount and Blade Warband. He is also a charismatic Warlord in one of our D&D sessions. Sadly, he never makes appearance online as Leonhart is almost always taken by some one who doesn't even play.
Try "Leonhardt" instead
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when I was in HS, I came across the name shayla and thought it was beautiful. so I stole it and played with it until I liked it for myself.
...sometime (years) later, I found out that shayla is rooted in the name cecilia - the patron saint of music. at the time, I was in college with voice as my major, aiming to be a singer, so it suited doubly. shame that career path never worked out.
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My wife works at a pet store and would tell me stories of how stupidly aggressive hamsters are, and how they would find new and interesting ways to kill or injure themselves. Since I like trying new things and dying stupidly for it, I figure I would adopt the hamster as my totem animal. I have never owned a hamster and don't intend to. Totem animals should be revered from a distance, not kept in cages where the noble traits you wish to emulate atrophy.
Often the user name Hamster is taken what with being a common word and all, so I started playing under Hamster Mk 4. I like to imply that I am the fourth attempt at weaponizing the rodent and that the last three attempts were spectacular disasters. Since GOI does not allow for numbers in user name, I changed to Hamster IV.
I get asked often what happened to Hamster I, Hamster II, and Hamster III, so I made up the following story:
Hamster I - died choking a boa constrictor to death from the inside.
Hamster II - fell into the vortex during a goldfish's burial at sea (toilet bowl).
Hamster III - was carried off by an owl, the owl was never seen from again.
Some time after I started going by Hamster Mk 4, a friend sent me this image. I think it epitomizes what it means to be a weaponized hamster.
(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7833/1065/1600/hamsterfight.jpeg)
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I picked up tipzntrix when I was 10 playing Ragnarok Online's Beta. I made it with the intention of becoming good and having all the newbies come to me for tips and tricks. However, the name max was 10 characters, so I shortened it. I fixed up all the capitalization and punctuation when I started MUS (now The Bards), and added DJ to the front.
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Some time after I started going by Hamster Mk 4, a friend sent me this image. I think it epitomizes what it means to be a weaponized hamster.
(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7833/1065/1600/hamsterfight.jpeg)
I don't know if that is brilliant or exceedingly cruel. I am leaning towards the latter.
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Its funny. But in the way that makes you feel like crap for laughing.
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Schwalbe is a german word for "Swallow".
There are three explanations:
- Monthy Python's Holy Grail - "What do you mean, an African or European swallow?"
- Zirael - those who read books about the Witcher probably knows what I'm referring to.
- Well...
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Me_262_flight_show_at_ILA_2006_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Pick your favorite.
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I don't know if that is brilliant or exceedingly cruel. I am leaning towards the latter.
Remember that hamsters are cannibalistic little bastards who would sooner rip the tendons out of your hand than accept a treat from it. They have no sense of scale and very little sense of fear. There is a reason responsible pet owners don't feed hamsters to snakes. Sure the snake would get a meal 90% of the time but there is that 10% chance it would loose an eye or be severely wounded in the process. Mice are a much safer option, they are not fueled by hatred like their hamster peers.
Weaponizing a hamster is only a logical extension of its natural viciousness. You are doing the hamster a favor by giving it the tools to act upon its evil and sadistic tendencies. However do not expect gratitude for this act, a hamster's heart is only capable of rage and scorn. There is no room for loyalty in the hamster's tiny heart, so once you have weaponized your hamster set it free in an area you don't plan to visit for a while. That way the life it takes will not be your own.
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Uhh I've had three hamsters. None were evil. Escape artists yes, devoid of fear very much so. But not evil.
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"Evil" is a term humans assign to things they fear. You were foolish enough to invite three hamsters into your home, so I suspect your sense of fear is malfunctioning at some level. I have never allowed a hamster into my home and prefer several layers of bullet proof glass between me and the hamster when I go to study one in the wild (pet store).
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It was the parents idea actually. But they never gave me reason to fear them.
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Just be thankful they weren't the miniature giant space hamster variety. They go for the eyes.
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Eh, I had teddy bear hamsters. By far the cuddliest breed. I don't want anything to do with robo-hamsters. Those things are vicious. And yes, that's an actual breed, smaller than dwarf hamsters.
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viscous
Usually hamsters aren't liquid...
It's kinda common sense that they don't flow easily.
:P
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viscous
Usually hamsters aren't liquid...
It's kinda common sense that they don't flow easily.
:P
Liquid metal terminator would like to have a word
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Ahnuld says no.
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Speaking of Ahnuhld, there's a shotgun in Didty Bomb called the Ahnuhld-12 and it's amazing
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Originally, my name was Palatheio, which is still my name for almost everything. That name started back in the good old days of Spore: Galactic Adventures. I random clicked the name generator, and thus; Palatheio was born. My current name: George Coutts, is the name of my roleplay character, which, since I roleplay a lot (not just in Guns of Icarus) I decided to change my name to it to avoid confusion.
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I took formal logic all 4 years of high school, and my favorite teacher once used the phrase Logicalia (or some word similar to it) to describe something. I don't remember what exactly it was, but those classes impacted me a lot as a person, influencing my literary tastes and how I think about the world. I took the name for myself mostly because I thought it was a cool sounding and original word. I've have a couple other usernames I use, but I use Logicalia for all my favorite things
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Mine is pretty simplistic. If you haven't figure it out already, my full user name is BorderLineAzn. It was only shortened to BdrLineAzn since I couldn't fit all the characters when I first picked up this game. Basically since I lived in Southern California, I can see the Mexican-American Border from my home. And Azn comes from, well myself being Asian. S there you have it, having a border and being Asian.
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My real life name is david, and I wanted something that sounded good in conjunction with it to top it off (for my OC). So I came up with "Dire". And then I said, "What the heck", and decided to use it on all my electronic communities, as it's unique and easily recognized, also people can spell it.
Also I made up the dire part for "Dire" puns
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Uhh I've had three hamsters. None were evil. Escape artists yes, devoid of fear very much so. But not evil.
Now gerbils. I've had 3 sets (3 gerbils on 3 seperate ocassions) of gerbils, everytime, sisters (i.e. known each other since birth.)
Everything was fine they were cute and seemed to be okay. They had plenty of room and food/water etc.
Then all 3 times after ~2 years. One of the gerbils... Turned.
Every single time one of them sat on the other 2 to suffocate them and then preceded to eat them.
No remorse. Straight up cannibalised their sisters.
Needless to say I stopped getting gerbils after the 3rd time...
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Uhh I've had three hamsters. None were evil. Escape artists yes, devoid of fear very much so. But not evil.
Now gerbils. I've had 3 sets (3 gerbils on 3 seperate ocassions) of gerbils, everytime, sisters (i.e. known each other since birth.)
Everything was fine they were cute and seemed to be okay. They had plenty of room and food/water etc.
Then all 3 times after ~2 years. One of the gerbils... Turned.
Every single time one of them sat on the other 2 to suffocate them and then preceded to eat them.
No remorse. Straight up cannibalised their sisters.
Needless to say I stopped getting gerbils after the 3rd time...
(https://i.imgflip.com/nx0yf.jpg)
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I took formal logic all 4 years of high school, and my favorite teacher once used the phrase Logicalia (or some word similar to it) to describe something. I don't remember what exactly it was, but those classes impacted me a lot as a person, influencing my literary tastes and how I think about the world. I took the name for myself mostly because I thought it was a cool sounding and original word. I've have a couple other usernames I use, but I use Logicalia for all my favorite things
"original"
"my favorite teacher once used the phrase Logicalia"
REKT
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Ducks are awesome. Ducklings are even more awesome. Nanoscale ducks are the awesomest.
One approach to picking names is to make it sound cool or utterly badass right from the get go. Calling giant fighting robots 'Jaegers' and having one called 'Crimson Typhoon' tells you everything you need to know about how much your inner 9 year old is going to squeal while watching Pacific Rim. Another approach is to find the most absurd, non-threatening, cute or just childish name you can and crank it to 11, then perform well enough that your absurd moniker is taken seriously. I can remember the first time I flew against Tutu and he kicked my backside, Tutu was a person to take seriously.
I suspect whether it is myself, Princess Tutu, HamsterIV, Koali or the Ducks clan, there is a desire to take something utterly non-threatening and make it a threat. Well except Hamster, since hamsters are ruthless killing machines which will rip your throat out through orifices you didn't know you had then feed it back to you through other orifices it made specifically for the purpose.
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What Nano says is true...
Back ages ago when I first started playing, I saw the Duck clan tag, went into battle thinking I'd leave with a win.. "Lol.. Ducks..." Then got my rear end handed to me.. XD
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Ducks are evil hate filled creatures...........look up Zefranks true facts about the duck......you will understand.
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Ducks are evil hate filled creatures...........look up Zefranks true facts about the duck......you will understand.
I love that video. Showed my physics teacher it too.
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Ducks are evil hate filled creatures...........look up Zefranks true facts about the duck......you will understand.
I love that video. Showed my physics teacher it too.
The guy is amazing. He's apparently doing commercials for Friskies now. A series called Dear Kitten, but anyways you must understand WHY ducks are evil if you have seen the video.
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Only two days prior to joining GoI, My Fire emblem Radiant Dawn disk was found to be too damaged to use. In honor of it (knowing it would be a long time until I could afford a replacement) I decided to forgo my usual name of Irbricksceo and took the name of Ashunera, The goddess. Also, here is a quote from her that is rather fitting IMO for the wold in which GoI takes place
“The miasma of war is beginning to shroud the world. However, I shall not again be frightened. As one born of the hopes of man I shall protect this world.”
—Ashunera to Lehran
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I've been asked multiple times where my name comes from; most people seem to think that its a Markiplier reference? (I don't understand the correlation there, but that's besides the point).
My name comes from an old cheat code from the game Star Wars: Battlefront, which was an old Third/First Person Shooter (i played it on a PS2). If your player name was "JubJub", all of the models would become midget/Ewok sized. Proof Here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoH-LGwAjlw)
I liked the idea of the cheat code and the goofyness of the name so I decided to continue using it as an online handle.
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BWAHAHAHHAHAHA ok, that's awesome Jub Jub. Salute earned.