I concede that this is really really similar to the "why did you pick your avatar?" thread that's already here but it is asking an entirely different question, and one I'm more curious about personally as well. There's some bizarre usernames here, whereas most avatars are card art or just a nice looking picture.
Anyways, to start things off, mine obviously comes from the Fallout games, and a reference to the fact most of my friends view me as the more technically inclined - I help people with their busted PCs/electronics/appliances/whatever and like building PCs out of spare parts from my old moonlighting job as a computer tech.
My username is an extension of my online name on my consoles. You can't be mad at a guy if his name already apologized, both if I'm on your team or not. Oopssorry also repeats every other letter, which I thought was nice for some reason. Oopssorry was already taken on PSN, so I just added another y instead of adding an x/420/mlg and all of that. I then carried that over to Xbox Live, and most other forum I use.
I was a thirteen and thought it was a cool number and x a cool letter when I was making a screen name. Jay is my nickname in real life, but not my actual name. I've just stuck with it for 17+ years now, lol.
I made my curse account when I played an orc warlock in WoW. His name was demannic because he was a warlock and I thought that it was an edgy way to spell it when I was a teenager. I wish I could change it to be my other handle, but it matches my mtgo name closely, so it isn't the end of the world.
Young nine or ten year old me wasn't very imaginative. Played a hunter in World of Warcraft back right when the game got released. Wolfaxe was the coolest thing I could think of. Now my account names are either that of Feathring, my druid a month or two later I still pick up and play to this day.
Emrakul is one of my favorite characters, and the only Eldrazi I opened naturally. Its profile calls to me both being about time and concepts of desolate isolation and the void. Now that a clarification of its abilities is available, I do like the shift in affecting and twisting biology.
You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
Right. So I've been playing Magic in around Ottawa for 22 or so years. I'm relatively calm individual but I've been known to overreact (and overact) a few times. Tables may or may not have been flipped during D&D games amd Magic games in my youth. It got me the nickname "Crazy Pierre" since people expected some kind of outrageous behaviour out of me. I'm also really spontaneously generous at times which really weirds people out that don't know me, haha. Example, I got in a cab after work one time during a bus strike, a young woman entered the cab at the same time, we split the cab but I paid for the entire trip. She dropped off repayment at my work, but it was the right thing to do on both parts.
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The "Crazy One", playing casual magic and occasionally dipping his toes into regular play since 1994.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
It's supposed to be a planned band name for me... actually it was a word I used in several custom card names a while back, but then I thought it sounded cool, so I kept it.
Way back, I really liked the card Xanthic Statue and I saved my allowance just to get it. Too bad it was stolen by someone I know, who even had the nerve to sell it back to me, saying he found it somewhere lying around.
When I registered here, it was the first thing that came to my mind, and instead of outright using the card's name, I just used the Creature Type Golem (the card doesn't have the type that time) replacing statue. I even researched what the word Xanthic means and I found out that it's simply "color yellow".
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Way back, I really liked the card Xanthic Statue and I saved my allowance just to get it. Too bad it was stolen by someone I know, who even had the nerve to sell it back to me, saying he found it somewhere lying around.
When I registered here, it was the first thing that came to my mind, and instead of outright using the card's name, I just used the Creature Type Golem (the card doesn't have the type that time) replacing statue. I even researched what the word Xanthic means and I found out that it's simply "color yellow".
Either that card was worth a ton of money once upon a time or your allowance was awful
Mine is simple. It's a carryover from my Curse ID and it means "computer" in Gaelic. (If you're really nerdy you'll have already caught that this has another e on the end, and that's because I had a Smitefire account by the name Riomhaire and when Curse bought Mobafire, this account had to take an extra e to be unique.)
TL;DR name means computer in Irish, extra e because mergers.
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Generation 15: The first time you see this, add it to your sig, but add 1 to the number. Call it a social experiment.
Way back, I really liked the card Xanthic Statue and I saved my allowance just to get it. Too bad it was stolen by someone I know, who even had the nerve to sell it back to me, saying he found it somewhere lying around.
When I registered here, it was the first thing that came to my mind, and instead of outright using the card's name, I just used the Creature Type Golem (the card doesn't have the type that time) replacing statue. I even researched what the word Xanthic means and I found out that it's simply "color yellow".
Either that card was worth a ton of money once upon a time or your allowance was awful
It was somehow expensive during those times.
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It originates from high school, when we would play Super Smash Brothers Melee for hours on end. My main character was Donkey Kong. I may have overused the taunt a bit, resulting in hilarious deaths. We transitioned to online gaming in college and I needed a username.
As other people seem to use the same handle, I've had to develop a rotation of adjective-animal usernames. Forutnately, crazymonkey was available here.
When I got out of college I worked for the Investigative Services Bureau (fancy name I know) ISB for short. The job before that I happened to have been a boots salesman and we had a system in place for knowing what the store paid for any product we had on the shelves. The word was Pathfinder (a 10 letter word with no repeats and letters 0-9). Using this system for instance if something cost $150 to the store it would have the letters AIP on it which would indicate the store cost of $150.00.
Really I was just looking for a new username and it mashed a few things that happened to have been recent in my life and thus ISBPathfinder just kind of happened lol. It just kind of grew on me after that and I have been using it for the last 6 or so years for most of my online usernames.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
E.S.O.E.N. is an acronym for the motto Et Si Omnes Ego Non.
From what I know the origin of the motto is "written on the door of Philipp von Boeselager's home, highlighting the necessity of maintaining one's own opinion and moral judgment, even in the face of a differing view held by the majority (in particular, it refers to von Boeselager's dissent and resistance against Hitler during the Nazi dictatorship)".
I shamelessly stole it from a stranger on WoW, found the way I pronounced it euphonious. Turns out most people pronounce it differently. I haven't really used this one anywhere for years now.
I tend to prefer names with no meaning or ones most people won't recognize.
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Anyways, to start things off, mine obviously comes from the Fallout games, and a reference to the fact most of my friends view me as the more technically inclined - I help people with their busted PCs/electronics/appliances/whatever and like building PCs out of spare parts from my old moonlighting job as a computer tech.
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If I recall, that nearly got miniseries made out of it or something, right? I seem to remember the title.
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Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
It's a dumb name and I wish I had picked anything else.
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When I registered here, it was the first thing that came to my mind, and instead of outright using the card's name, I just used the Creature Type Golem (the card doesn't have the type that time) replacing statue. I even researched what the word Xanthic means and I found out that it's simply "color yellow".
Either that card was worth a ton of money once upon a time or your allowance was awful
TL;DR name means computer in Irish, extra e because mergers.
It was somehow expensive during those times.
As other people seem to use the same handle, I've had to develop a rotation of adjective-animal usernames. Forutnately, crazymonkey was available here.
Kemba | Linvala | Talrand | Geth | Krenko | Zada | Patron of the Orochi | Medomai | Athreos | Gisela | Trostani | Nin | Silumgar | Kaervek | Jarad | Xenagos | Sydri | Narset | Roon | Zurgo | Ghave | Marath | Uril | Tasigur | Animar | Riku | Riku | Sek'Kuar | Cromat
Really I was just looking for a new username and it mashed a few things that happened to have been recent in my life and thus ISBPathfinder just kind of happened lol. It just kind of grew on me after that and I have been using it for the last 6 or so years for most of my online usernames.
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From what I know the origin of the motto is "written on the door of Philipp von Boeselager's home, highlighting the necessity of maintaining one's own opinion and moral judgment, even in the face of a differing view held by the majority (in particular, it refers to von Boeselager's dissent and resistance against Hitler during the Nazi dictatorship)".
It roughly translates to... Even if all not I.
I tend to prefer names with no meaning or ones most people won't recognize.