Topic: Thinking about changing the screen name...

[PyroMenace]

or have I used PyroMenace for far too long to change this?

[Quemaqua]

You can change it, but I'm still gonna' call you Pyro.

[scottws]

My screen name dates back to 1996, when I got a free e-mail address from usa.net and my goal was to make a really short and easy to remember e-mail address.  It's lame and I'd like to change it, but in a way it is who I am on the Internet.  I'm scottws or scottwsx96 everywhere.

[Cobra951]

Mine does too, Scott.  That's the year I got my car.  I was just getting into the internet at the time.  My very first forum registration was at a Mustang enthusiasts' site.  '95 Mustang Cobra, so, Cobra95.  Later I added a 1 somewhere else because "Cobra95" was taken, and that was that.

My car's 14 now.  When it goes to that big junkyard in the sky, what then?

Mine does too, Scott.  That's the year I got my car.  I was just getting into the internet at the time.  My very first forum registration was at a Mustang enthusiasts' site.  '95 Mustang Cobra, so, Cobra95.  Later I added a 1 somewhere else because "Cobra95" was taken, and that was that.

My car's 14 now.  When it goes to that big junkyard in the sky, what then?

So that's the story then!

Anyway, we aren't going to start calling you Suzuki no matter what, so don't even think it.

[Pugnate]

Don't... you will start to feel like someone else or something... or at least try to retain "pyro" in the username.

[Quemaqua]

I was variations on the "Q" concept after an initial run with something else, and it eventually settled into "Quemaqua" probably sometime in the mid-nineties.  Actually, definitely sometime in the mid-nineties, most likely by the end of '96.  It was around the time of Quake that I used the, er, prototypes, and it finalized not too long after that.

[idolminds]

I used to go by Clay until I couldnt sign up for that email address. I like the Easter Island head logo of the Rally Cross developers...Idol Minds. So I crammed it into one word and had my email. I still went by Clay until I tried to sign up on IGN and it was taken, so I just went with the email...and that was that.

That reminds me, I'm going to find out who that Clay dude is and ban his ass.

[ren]

It depends. How ridiculous will your new name be?

[scottws]

Mine does too, Scott.  That's the year I got my car.  I was just getting into the internet at the time.  My very first forum registration was at a Mustang enthusiasts' site.  '95 Mustang Cobra, so, Cobra95.  Later I added a 1 somewhere else because "Cobra95" was taken, and that was that.

My car's 14 now.  When it goes to that big junkyard in the sky, what then?

So that's the story then!

Anyway, we aren't going to start calling you Suzuki no matter what, so don't even think it.

This post really confused me until I realized that Pug accidentally edited Cobra's post instead of replying to it.

[Quemaqua]

Haha, damn it, I do that all the time... accidentally hit "edit" instead of "quote".  Stupid moderator powers.  I don't think I've ever not caught it before posting, though.

[Ghandi]

I like how he posted right after and didn't even notice.

I've wanted to change my username for years but it doesn't really matter that much. It's just a name.

[Pugnate]

I used to go by Clay until I couldnt sign up for that email address. I like the Easter Island head logo of the Rally Cross developers...Idol Minds. So I crammed it into one word and had my email. I still went by Clay until I tried to sign up on IGN and it was taken, so I just went with the email...and that was that.

That reminds me, I'm going to find out who that Clay dude is and ban his ass.

CLAY? ew.

[idolminds]

Well, it was similar to my real name plus I used to do a lot of sculptures so it made sense at the time. I sometimes went by Claymore.