I'm being carried in a game right now, so why not make a post about username origins.

A work email from 20 years ago...

just kept it because of laziness.

I used to have some dumb garbage name then one day I found this and it changed my life:

Mac is Mc of for the beginning of last name, J is first letter of 1st name, 14 high school jersey number, 24 college jersey number. Life story in a nutshell.

lynroy is a nickname I acquired in High School thanks to Leroy Jenkins. Smash my first name with Leroy and you get lynroy.

The3tWits--it's essentially the three fools. Created it for a shared account between me and my two sisters, hence the number three. And we're just a bunch of twits really.

Many moons ago, I was big time in to the Arthurian legends. The character of Pyrceval stood out as relatable to me as in most versions of the legend he is the knight that is almost good enough, but try as he might always fails, and is never quite good enough. Its how I used to see myself, and Ive generally used it for about 25 years or so now. Now though, I dont see myself that way, I dont even bother trying anymore and have settled in to being a grumpy old asshole lol.

Because System Shock 2 was one of the best games ever and SHODAN was a phenomenal villain. Ahhhh nostalgia.

Easy. It's what everyone calls me, and has called me, for as long as I can remember.

My handle goes back all the way to vanilla World of Warcraft. I created a mage and needed a name to match how I saw the character. So I drew upon AD&D's Forgotten Realms for inspiration and tried to use Simbul, one of the most powerful mages in the play setting. Something didn't take and I altered it to Symbol. After a few years I just added the Z at the end to stop having problems getting the name. It solved 90% of cases of me retaining my handle but occasionally I have to go to a backup Zymbolz to keep the name more or less the same so friends can easily ID me.

And that's how I came to be known as Symbolz.

Urizen: comicvine.gamespot.com/urizen/4005-46531/

2HoleDoll: Wanted to get rid off the FFCW "tag" in my origin username, but because of sum imposter couldn´t go with the much more preferred Urizen. So I got creative and now roll with 2HoleDoll.

Marfil is the name of a homeless dog from Spain we saved long ago. He was of uncertain race but the hell of a comrade. Strange name for an all black dog (Marfil means Ivory), but who cares? Because he was from Spain and a noble character we started to call him him "Don".
Avatar is Fallon, a Whippet (small sighthound). Her character was ...err... special, she liked no other dog, except of Marfil, of course.

Both are chasing rabbits in another world now, Fallon always winning.

I went over some friend's apartment and they were all gonna get down on Halo 1 multiplayer through Gamefly or some service through the computer that wasn't Xbox Live. I had to come up with a name on the spot.. so I picked Megabeast, which was of course taken.. so I put 37215 at the end of it.. which means absolutely nothing. It's not a zip code, part of a phone number or SSN.. anything. It's completely meaningless. Still using it like.. 15 years later or however long it's been.

Well there was this bioware mod called... nah. Mine is way back from university days.

A group of us had gone to the movies; then went drinking; and walking back to uni car park through the woodland park. One of the women was trying to sneak up to scare someone else, and seeing this I crept up to scare her.
At this point another women shouted out "look out he's using stinja nealth!", meaning to say ninja stealth, but being drunk got muddled.

Stinja kinda stuck, and i used it for DOOM 2 lan games, and after.