I always assumed you were just ordering your horse around, someone mistook it for your name, and it stuck.
I never thought your username’s origin would be so grounded in reality.
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Don’t be the first person we ban.
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In like 2009 or 2010 I was at my dad’s work while he helped oversee a software deployment over the weekend. I had my laptop and a fresh download of Coda and nothing else to do, and he had a web domain, so he offered to let me make a site for myself as a sub-domain, and I needed a name for it, so I just sat thinking for awhile until that wound up in my head. At least I’m pretty sure that’s how it went. I really liked the idea of visible riches, trapped in ice and unreachable. It also rolls off the tongue and shortens in multiple ways nicely.
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I had to come up with a name to use on Twitch, and I pretty much just went with my initals + ‘games’. Of course, I didn’t realize it could easily be mistaken for Warner Brothers Games… oops. I still like the name anyway. It’s better than my SA name, and a lot better than what I got in a random name change thread.
Anyway, I used that Twitch account to do one stream like 4 years ago and then never again, it wasn’t interesting and no one watched it. I might try to stream again sometime now that I’m on here and not… afraid of the LP subforum.
I’m real bad at video games.
kinda boring now that I think about it.
I remember someone using the phrase “tough beans” as a way of saying something along the lines of “sucks for you”. So, thetoughestbean was meant to mean “the suckiest situation.” It’s perhaps not the best username.
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You’re a very strong legume,
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I needed a name for Xbox Live and Deathmaster sounded cool and 780 was just a number I stuck at the end of it
It’s because I am the 780th Master of Death in existence.
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the year is 2004
“i’m going to make my username (x) Draconis on gamefaqs because i use that everywhere”
“oops i forgot my password, fuck it, i’ll make a new account and replace the c with a k”
fast-forward 13 years to the creation of my lp.zone account and the thrilling conclusion of “everyone has just called me ‘Drako’ for over a decade so lets keep it simple”
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Sorry, I’m not trying to get you down but you’ll never be as good as Deathmaster666. That one was just nuts.
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Yeah he’s a fun dude to hang out with but Deathmaster420, now she really knows how to have fun.
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Well of course a Deathmaster made of nuts would be a more powerful one. A lot of people are allergic to nuts.
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The stories here are all p cool!
My first ever OC was named Moon Called, the name of which I stole from a random minor NPC in Adventure Quest. I then forgot the password to my neopets account, so I remade with the username Moon_Called. I stuck with that username for about a decade maybe? and eventually people started affectionately calling me Moony.
Moony was a hard UN to get though, so I changed from Moon_Called to MrMoon when I realized I was trans, then MxrMoon when I realized i was nonbinary, but everyone kept calling me M X R Moon which made me feel like a weird extreme sport??? So I changed to Sylveon420 for a bit, b/c Sylveon is my favourite pokemon and 420 is a funny number, but then when I decided to consolodate my usernames I took MoonyVG b/c it was free just about everywhere. And MoonyVG at Twitch TV has a nice ring to it!
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There is a line in the original Max Payne from one of the Mob Bosses about how he had these “Two Mad Dog Killers” who had decided to “Settle their differences with a Kung-Fu Action Video Game” and it’s always stuck with me.
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I stole mine from the Odyssey when I read it in college. Odysseus went by a lot of names and I was (and am) into cyberpunk, which is all about snappy handles that are also obscure references, so I thought it’d be cool to take a nickname from a guy famous for multiple identities.
Also it rolls off the tongue pretty well, and apparently might have meant “burning” which feeds into my love for super robots.
Mine’s pretty simple. As a child I had an interest in Digipen (an university for game development and other technology-based stuff) and I downloaded a fuckton of their student project games. One of them was a odd little CTF-style game called Toblo, which was basically “CTF but with throwing physics blocks of the environment”. Pretty simple, but the name just stuck with me and I used it as my account name when I started doing net things that required accounts. It just kinda became my universal user name since its easy to remember and I thought it was cool/cute sounding.
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Oh man I loved those great conceptual games from digipen. I think toblo was the same year as Narbacular Drop? I remember talking on a NBD forum with Jeep back in the day. The creators stopped posting when Valve picked them up 
It was originally “D15GR4C3D” because when I was 13, I thought 1337 and an edgy name like The Disgraced One would be cool as fuck. Obviously, it was just obnoxious. Nevertheless, for the sake of consistency I rocked it for years anyway before I was made fun of for it on another forum. I then checked if simply “Disgraced” was available there, and lo and behold it was. I asked a mod if they’d be kind enough to change it, and here I am. Anywhere I can’t get clear-cut Disgraced I default to “Disgraced Snake,” in reference to good ole Metal Gear.
One weekend in college, I woke up too early after a night of too little sleep and in that semi-conscious state of pre-awakening I saw a face hovering above mine and it was so distinct that I had to immediately draw it on the nearby white board.
And I knew it was a Tomato Grandpa.
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