Where did your username come from?

[Rocketing-warp9]

I used to be on one of my School's Esports teams for a while. That's where "Rocketing" came from, As in the game we played, Rocket League.

Warp 9, Is to represent Star. Trek, as the fastest known (Whole) speed factor that a ship can safely cruse at.
(For the TNG-scale- The OG series had a top speed limit of Warp 14 in the films)
Long Term Trekkie, And love the starships of the line.
Had help hand drawing my Profile picture of a combination what-if of a Galaxy Class, Romulan warbird, and Nebula class Starships seen throughout the "TNG-DS9-VOY" Trilogy.

 

[MikeRocor]

Had help hand drawing my Profile picture of a combination what-if of a Galaxy Class, Romulan warbird, and Nebula class Starships seen throughout the "TNG-DS9-VOY" Trilogy.

I've always thought a "nebula class starship" should be a euphemism for "that expanding cloud of dust that's left after a space ship explodes" - the loser in a space battle. I feel like the writers really dropped the ball by not using the term that way.

 

[Rocketing-warp9]

I've always thought a "nebula class starship" should be a euphemism for "that expanding cloud of dust that's left after a space ship explodes" - the loser in a space battle. I feel like the writers really dropped the ball by not using the term that way.

Then everyone would have a nebula-class! You can't tell one from the other..

Why has Starfleet not thought of this!?!

Just turn the ship into a nebula and never have to worry about it!

Sort of like that matter-phasing cloak on "Pegasus" (TNG)

 

[MikeRocor]

Then everyone would have a nebula-class! You can't tell one from the other..

Why has Starfleet not thought of this!?!

Just turn the ship into a nebula and never have to worry about it!

Sort of like that matter-phasing cloak on "Pegasus" (TNG)

Well, you can't really tell one from the other at that point anyway, except in each fleet's propaganda:

• "Star Fleet nebulae glow the brightest!"
• "Yeah but Romulan nebulae expand the fastest!"
• "A Klingon nebula will engulf the enemy just when he thinks he has won the battle." (in Worf's voice.)
• "A Vulcan nebula allows us to study the behavior of free subatomic particles in interstellar space."
• "A Ferengi nebula contains the highest concentration of latinum ions."

and so on.

I suppose a less decisive space battle victory would transform the enemy ship into an "Asteroid Belt" class vessel. "Kuiper Belt" class if it's a really big one. Much less satisfying in the heat of battle, but with a better chance of recovering useful debris.

 

[Perpetual Padawan]

"A warrior does not quibble over gaseous dust. Unless he can use it to blind enemy sensors, or ignite any metrion gas pockets an enemy might follow him into (ST: Insurrection). You puny humans and Romulan pitagh can argue about the beauty and esthetic value all you want. The Klingon Empire has better uses for science."
-Worf, son of Moog

 

[VP9KS]

In the Star Wars universe, a "padawan" is a student, apprentice, or learner. I try to learn in perpetuity, because if I'm not learning, I'm doing the opposite!

I'm actually much more of Star Trek fan than a Star Wars fan because it's "science" instead of sorcery. But "perpetual cadet" sounds like a failing student of Starfleet Academy who is repeating studies he didn't pass; and padawan starts with "p" to match "perpetual," so I chose "padawan."

I can relate

 

[wendy-lebaron]

i found only one other post of mine on this thread. in case clarification is needed:

Solved Post in thread 'W.L.B. (with a lot of babbling)'

May 15, 2023

Some of you are right. I should have started this on the other sub-forum, with the other introductions. So I'm going to mark this as "solved" and then it could be closed at the moderators' discretion.

• wendy-lebaron

don't have to go read it. the thread title should be enough. i was very close to leaving totally on three occasions. because i'm partially disabled and other issues. that's why now i write with all-lowercase. i could use "shift" key, i suppose. but making even those double-quotation marks is becoming an effort.

 

[Rocketing-warp9]

I suppose a less decisive space battle victory would transform the enemy ship into an "Asteroid Belt" class vessel. "Kuiper Belt" class if it's a really big one. .

Or a whole supernova if it's a Borg Cube!

The Galaxy would be gone in a few years....

 

[VP9KS]

i found only one other post of mine on this thread. in case clarification is needed:

Solved Post in thread 'W.L.B. (with a lot of babbling)'

May 15, 2023

Some of you are right. I should have started this on the other sub-forum, with the other introductions. So I'm going to mark this as "solved" and then it could be closed at the moderators' discretion.

• wendy-lebaron

don't have to go read it. the thread title should be enough. i was very close to leaving totally on three occasions. because i'm partially disabled and other issues. that's why now i write with all-lowercase. i could use "shift" key, i suppose. but making even those double-quotation marks is becoming an effort.

It's okay, Wendy. You are among friends here.

Happy Trails,
Paul

 

[Fymgee]

Mine is from a long, long time ago. Many of you are geezers, so it may not be that long ago!

It was the early 1980s. I'd finished my four year enlistment contract and was sucking at the sweat teat that was the GI Bill (except it wasn't very good back then) and we were playing a still-fairly-new game called Dungeons and Dragons.

At the same time, I was in college and needing a login (it was a timeshare mainframe system) username. Alas, "DAVID" had already been taken! Damn that David! Always getting there first!

The login box only allowed 5 characters (maybe 6, but I think it was just five). Yeah, imagine that... An entire system that only needed 5 characters for all the possible usernames they figured they'd ever need! It's laughable now, but I digress.

Not being a very creative person, my Dungeon and Dragons' character name was "King Gregory III". That obviously is longer than 5 characters and wasn't suitable for use. So, I shortened it by way of abbreviation. That resulted in "KGIII".

I've used that ever since. I've got a couple of other usernames and I use them for completely different things, leaving the KGIII for technical things, such as Linux forums, Slashdot, HN, etc... I've used it since sometime in the very early 1980s, maybe 1980 or 1981. It has served me well and there are very few other people who try to use the username. It's often available.

There are other people with the KGIII moniker, but they are few and far between. I don't use the big social media sites, so none of those KGIII-users are me. I don't Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Tinder, MySpace, etc... So, those users are just impostors. They aren't the real KGIII.

Also, I'm reasonably certain that I was using the nickname long before any of the others that have the same name. After all, I've been using it for about 40 years!

And that is how I got my username...

Cool!

Mine was a tag I was planning to use for competitive gaming.

I once dreamed on becoming a professional Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player and compete on tournaments around the world but I was too lazy so I didn't even started doing that.

How I got to this username was by typing the letters on the keyboard however I wanted:

eryuislfdkstr73829ru3829oyrrfeiuoweyfyu8idstfy7sdsyfuidsgfymgee261546378qtey7ws586qa7dwewq...

I started deleting letters and combining them to see how I could pronouce the name of it and which was asthetically more appealing to my eyes. Eventually I kept "Fymgee" I used it on several accounts on the internet and in video games.

Also, when I came to this forum I decided to use this username and so I did!

 

[Fymgee]

I was a little surprised that nobody had asked this question before I got to it. If they did, I didn't spot it in my searching.

Yeah, I'm one of those weird people that searches before posting.

I always thought that your username was from a wizard-like game or medieval or like from fiction stuff.

I think I was right since you mentioned it was originally from dungeons and dragons!!!

lol!

 

[beanburrito]

I like burritos and "carneasadaburrito" just wasn't worth the effort to type every login.

 

[KGIII]

I think I was right since you mentioned it was originally from dungeons and dragons!!!

Yup. It was from a game that ran for a long time and spanned untold hours.

 

[MikeRocor]

I usually come up with user names (and D&D character names) at the last minute and I try to use a different user name for every (most) web sites and such, just as I don't re-use passwords. That often leaves me struggling to come up with something.

So, I often take a common phrase or something from a handy product label and reverse or mix up the letters to see what precipitates out. Once, when creating new D&D character, my scratch paper was the back of a page of "computer printout" that the DM had from a programming project. There on the back of my character sheet, amongst the gibberish, was the phrase "make nodebug" so I ended up with a first level fighter named "Gubedon". "Budgeon" was discarded because it sounded too much like "Pigeon" although, if there had been an 'L', I might have used "Bludgeon". These are hard decisions. The best I could derive from "murder hobo" was "Rhud Boomer" - a lot of things end up in dead ends like that.

("murder hobo" - the character of an inexperienced D&D player who just wants to roam around the DM's carefully crafted adventure world and slay everything he encounters. Sometimes, the "angry peasant mob" rule has to be invoked to set things right.)

 

[KGIII]

("murder hobo" - the character of an inexperienced D&D player who just wants to roam around the DM's carefully crafted adventure world and slay everything he encounters

One of my favorite campaigns (one that went on for literally years, though off and on during that time) was one that would have made all the pearl-clutching people poop a green brick. All participants in the campaign were required to have one of the evil alignments -- and had to stick to that role. After all, it was a role-playing game.

I'll avoid the details. Let's just say that we were a very creative group -- and it was during the craze when religious people were insisting that it involved real witchcraft and other assorted silly accusations. It was definitely one of the better campaigns. We stepped into character and had enough creativity to keep it that way, all while making progress and advancing the narrative.

I'll share a 'gaming' treat that most folks will not know.

Open that in a new tab, and wait for it. If you've played any tabletop RPGs, you'll appreciate this.

 

[kibasnowpaw]

My username has changed and developed over many years. It was not something I just picked in one day and then forgot about.


Back when I was around 15, in the early 2000s, I found out what “furry” actually meant. I had already been drawn toward that kind of thing before I knew the word for it, but that was when it started to become more real for me.


My first usernames were more tiger-related, something with “tiger” in the name. Later it became Kiba. That came from the anime Wolf’s Rain. I liked the name, and it just stuck with me. It felt more right than the older names.


Then later, when I played Second Life, there was a last name you could choose called Snowpaw. I liked that one too, so over time it became Kiba Snowpaw.


That is the name I still use.


It is not just a random username anymore. It has become tied to my fursona and to who I am online. My full fursona name is Kiba Angel Snowpaw. “Angel” comes from my dad’s old middle name, so that part is more personal to me. I do not use it as a username that often, but it belongs to the full name and the character.


So Kiba Snowpaw is the username most people see.


Kiba Angel Snowpaw is more the full identity behind it.