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I want to hear the story behind your usernames...

I'm sure some of you have silly names and some have deeply personal and interesting names. I want to hear them all. :)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

There was a Windows 95 toolkit made by the developers, separately from Microsoft, called "Tweak Tools 95". Years later, I wanted to pick a 90's hacker style username to use in Counter Strike 1.6, and this came to mind. There was one gamer guy called "Tel" (like, his mum called him that) who would actually use that instead of my real name.

Years later, I get accusations of references to South Park or being a meth head. I didn't even know what meth was at the time. When I played Clash of Clans, some random meth head started a conversation with me because he thought he'd found a kindred spirit.