I always assumed you were just ordering your horse around, someone mistook it for your name, and it stuck.
I never thought your usernameās origin would be so grounded in reality.
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Donāt be the first person we ban.
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In like 2009 or 2010 I was at my dadās 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 Iām pretty sure thatās 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 + āgamesā. Of course, I didnāt realize it could easily be mistaken for Warner Brothers Gamesā¦ oops. I still like the name anyway. Itās 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 wasnāt interesting and no one watched it. I might try to stream again sometime now that Iām on here and notā¦ afraid of the LP subforum.
Iām real bad at video games.
kinda boring now that I think about it.
I remember someone using the phrase ātough beansā as a way of saying something along the lines of āsucks for youā. So, thetoughestbean was meant to mean āthe suckiest situation.ā Itās perhaps not the best username.
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Youāre 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
Itās because I am the 780th Master of Death in existence.
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the year is 2004
āiām going to make my username (x) Draconis on gamefaqs because i use that everywhereā
āoops i forgot my password, fuck it, iāll make a new account and replace the c with a kā
fast-forward 13 years to the creation of my lp.zone account and the thrilling conclusion of āeveryone has just called me āDrakoā for over a decade so lets keep it simpleā
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Sorry, Iām not trying to get you down but youāll never be as good as Deathmaster666. That one was just nuts.
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Yeah heās 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 āTwo Mad Dog Killersā who had decided to āSettle their differences with a Kung-Fu Action Video Gameā and itās 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 itād 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 āburningā which feeds into my love for super robots.
Mineās 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 āCTF but with throwing physics blocks of the environmentā. 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 āD15GR4C3Dā 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 āDisgracedā was available there, and lo and behold it was. I asked a mod if theyād be kind enough to change it, and here I am. Anywhere I canāt get clear-cut Disgraced I default to āDisgraced Snake,ā 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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