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My dad gave me the nickname âBashâ when I was a kid and pretty much everyone called me that. 2112 is an Album from the band Rush. Which is my Dads favorite band and the first live concert I went too.
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My earliest gaming handle was bboyrob in Starcraft. I used to breakdance, and of course, as a kid, I thought it made me cool, so I incorporated it (bboy) in my username.
When we started playing Warcraft, I think bboyrob might have been taken, or I just wanted to change things up a bit, and I think one person had mistakenly called me bbobrob in the old Battle.net days. I liked how it sounded, so thatâs what I use as a username for a majority of things these days.
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being a b boy DID make you cool. And it still does! Iâve worked with a few decently successful ones: BEST DANCE BATTLES EVER! (Usually more fun than my tap and irish dance battles. IDK how we make tap vs break work, but it works!)
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I wanted something meaningless, that sounds good and has mechanical and tropical vibes.
So I created a list with hundreds of combinations and eventually picked this one.
Why? I really donât know lol
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Mine has two origins:
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I had a wonderful high school English teacher. She taught us to write with purpose and meaning. For her, crafting a compelling piece of writing was analogous with making a tall glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. The pulp in orange juice represents the depth and substance of the writing, the carefully chosen words, vivid descriptions, and well-researched facts that give the text its texture and flavor. Without this pulp, the juice would be thin and bland, just as a piece of writing lacking substance would leave the reader unsatisfied. That pulpy metaphor has stuck with me all these years.
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I like Pulp Fiction.
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Mine is pretty obvious, Iâd hope. 
But for those of you who somehow donât know what âswoleâ means,
swole
/swĆl/
INFORMALâąUS
adjective: swole; adjective: swoll
- extremely muscular (used especially of a man).
âif youâre swole youâll look good in anythingâ
So using the Pokemon named Slowpoke, itâs combined to make my name into a play on words.
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My nameâs Bernd & when I was little, my dad used to call me Berndus in Latin fashion sometimes.
Independently people in school just started calling me Berndos early on, I made it my gamer tag and such & so it stuck. Especially now that heâs gone, itâs nice to have that part still with me.
For most people online, Bern-dos is much easier to pronounce than Bernd as well, though many stick to Bern anyway it seems 
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Look, itâs me, a wild Clara! Itâs actually also a pun on my full name lol. Originally it was my sisterâs idea. 
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My name has its jokes on discord:
Gengar: for being one of my favorite Pokémon
Brigade: back in 2020 I used to watch a lot of Lootbox TV and they coined the word mostly on every video and I thought it was interesting.
Or Jolteonbrigade
For the same reasons above.
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When I created a WoW account a long time ago I wanted a new username. I had no clue what it should be so I started to look around in my room saw a bottle of nose spray. I started to read the ingredients on the bottle and noticed one of them was âxylometazolineâ and that is how Xylometa was born 
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Bump for newer members
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Not a new member, but I donât think I ever actually answered previously.
My username is actually not my idea at all but rather something carried forward from highschool. At my school, we had a program associated with Apple such that each student was issued a MacBook for studies both in and out of school. As a result, each student had a unique username and password to log into their own computer. The username was constructed based on your first and last name combined, plus a number based on where you fall alphabetically within the list of all last names of students within your grade. My first name is Camron (yes, without an âeâ, I think my parents wanted me to clarify this for the rest of my life) and my last name starts with K, and I fell in line as number 37. There were only enough character spaces for six alphabetical characters, therefore my first name was shortened, and camrok37 was born! Because I was young and had no other idea what to use for future usernames, this username has followed me around into adulthood.
Kind of lame, and not Pokemon related in the slightest. But itâs easy to remember since itâs all Iâve ever used for quite a while. If anyone has recommendations for a better one let me know 
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Wish I could say itâs because I hung out with some super cool guys in New Jersey (?) as @Rattlesnake and @ReganRampage have asked, but unfortunately I canât.
I used to use discord and had the username Chopsticks as when I signed up I was using chopsticks, which got shortened to Stix and then âeasy lick Stixâ by some poker frens due to my high class bluffing ability⊠and I feel like I tried Chopsticks first but that was taken, although I could be remembering wrong. Iâm not the most creative type so just tried to think of something on the spot which happened to be Bing Bong. I think it use to be an old email password but again the memory isnât what it use to be which may ironically tie into the second half of the name and my youth.
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My nickname is the most unoriginal thing you can find âŠ
- Take the word âDoctorâ
- My favourite PokĂ©mon is âOmanyteâ
Mix those and you obtain âDr. Omanyteâ ⊠Or abbreviated âOmaâ
I got this nickname by suggestion of someone near me when I was trying to search a nickname ⊠and I liked it!!! ⊠Before that, I have thought in many nicknames such as âBlue Yoshiâ or âCool Porygonâ (Ironically, I ended using this last nickname for my PokĂ©mon Card Bot in Twitter and Mastodon)
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Because my first name is regan and then im old and rampage is a reference to a lot of things i guess. The game, monsters, just thought it was cool. I use it for everything. Profile pic is because i love music and play quite a bit, got music face tattoos, so it fits. Kricketune is awesome.
Also its Ray-gen like the president not reegan.
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Back in 2007 I was for several years a big fan of Naruto and I discovered a strategy game based on Naruto called âNinja-Mxâ. My pseudo in this game was based on the character GAAra and the town of KoNOha
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My original name was TripleCarry, this was the username i have been using for over 10 years and in my league of legends days. The name TripleCarry came together when a league team my friends and I formed in high school and I was the AD Carry I would always consistently get multiple triple kills per game so my nickname became TripleCarry because Iâd consistently carry games and known for my Jinx / Lucian / Caitlyn and I had the potential to make a career in league playing pro, but I went a different route (back then pros only made $30-50k/yr) pursuing a career in software engineering instead, I donât regret that choice. Throughout the years I shortened it to just Triple , triple, or elpirT.
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I feel my name is self explanatory. I also use Zzzlax143(Zzz=snor) on other platforms.
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I was wondering whether youâd mention league prospects because triple kills almost every game is no joke. But SWE is prob a much more stable career even with the lay offs. You may get a sponsorship deal here and there but itâs much harder to switch games in esports than it is to switch companies if one goes to shif IMO haha
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