WTF is your username about?

Wanted a username back in the day that was a readable word and nobody else had used. Scrambled the letters of Nozomi (from Shenmue, and now the name of my cat), and stuck ‘ac’ at the end because I was a teen and it seemed cool.

If I’m playing a game with a female character that gets user-named the c gets dropped and she becomes Zomonia.

For the Bethesda RPGs and maybe some others, my first character would be a man called hedben and I'd make the (generally good, moral) choices I'd make if I were in that situation.

Then for a second playthrough I'd make a female character called Pandora, and she'd be a heinous immoral evil psycho. There's probably something Freudian to unpack there...

(Notable exception: Mass Effect. Femshep good, obviously)

"Malygos" guy from Warcraft/Hearthstone. Thinking about it, I should probably have picked other name because Blizz is dead and terrible.

The regular username I use is in way too many places so here is something new.

In the dim and distant days I was quite politically shouty, often about workspace stuff.

A workmate suggested I was a junior teamster (in the political / union way, perhaps rather than the slightly mob way). So for years I was teamster_jr, that then because TSR.

Back in the day about 1998/99 I needed a name to play Quake 2 I looked up and scanned my DVDs on the shelf and there it was Event Horizon I just made the Z a capital.

Simple but true dat.

Simpsons fanatic from the off (yes most of the last xx years break my heart!) even Tracey Ullman show shorts.
I was also very into bodybuilding during the nineties and in a certain light, if you sqiunted and I was wearing a red cap, I could be compared physique wise to the Duffster...honest, now I look like more like the Plow king, well getting there!
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In school my friend looked like Rodney from only fools and horses, so we called him Rodney.

A group of us got stoned in the woods, and a couple of people came along who we didn’t know that well, and they somehow thought my name was Rodney, and called me Rodney when we met again a few weeks later. This seemed funny at the time and the name kind of stuck for a while. Like a really shit in joke, but I was just taking my first steps onto the internet, around 98 or 99, so I started using it as my pseudonym, and just stuck with it long after the in joke died.

Was on Eurogamer for about 20 years, so it’s a weird connection to my youth.

About my previous name "DrStrangelove": some 11 or 12 years ago, there was some EG article on Wolfenstein or something, and I wanted to make some bad stand-up comedy joke in the comments and registered as "DrStrangelove" for that. The joke was probably lame as fuck. But the name stuck and I started using it in other places too.

But the name was already taken in many online places. On the Bioware forum, I randomly came up with "RobTheRobber". No idea why. But I liked it and started using it as a secondary go-to nickname.

Mine used to be Blobsticks, a name my wife used for those fluffy sticks ladies stuff up their guffin once a month. I shortened it to blobs for the internets sake.. but I thought you lot would appreciate the origin.

Mine's pretty obvious and is from to the Lord of The Rings which is my favourite book.

I loved the films, played Middle Earth Role Playing Game and have played a few Tolkien based computer games in the past starting with the Hobbit on the Spectrum. I met my wife through a shared love of Lord of The Rings.

Because I used to make music that was kind of like techno and I needed a name to upload it to some website.

In my Q2 days my name was usually Confusion (shortened to Conf often), for the Blade rave scene music - but that name was always taken everywhere.

It's a half-good song from Steely Dan's pretty dreadful last album, Everything Must Go

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