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shirenomad) wrote2007-08-15 10:17 am
shirenomad) wrote2007-08-15 10:17 am
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Whooooo are you? Who who, who who?
Rules: Post the explanation of where your usernames came from. Then tag TEN users (EDIT: or don't) whose explanations you'd like to hear. If you are tagged post the explanation to your page.
ChocoMog ZERO/CMZero/CMZ: This originated on a forum that was (in theory) about Final Fantasy; after going through a couple other handles over a month or so, this one stuck. Final Fantasy VII was the big one at the time, and I liked both chocobos and moogles, and furthermore I found it an amusing idea that they would upgrade not the most iconic attack summon in the game (Bahamut -> Bahamut ZERO) but the wimpiest. Anyway, I followed several people from that forum to LJ, so I used an abbreviation of the handle when I created my journal.
FlyingFish: And this one came from the forums on the Darwin Awards official website for my brief tenure there. Simple enough: I wanted to express that I wasn't in either the "it was God and not at all evolution" crowd (fish sticker) or the "it was all evolution" crowd (Darwin fish with legs), but something else entirely, so what did that leave me with? Fish with wings, obviously. I'm not quite sure how this one wound up used in so many other locations, though. Probably because it was more generic-use than "CMZ" and I hadn't yet come up with...
ShireNomad: My freshman college dorm was "The Shire." (The entire dorm complex was named "Middle Earth" with each individual dorm named after a location in Tolkien's world.) At the end of the year, everyone voted for "best laugh," "best dressed," "most corrupted by life in the Shire"... I got "Shire Nomad," because if you wanted to find me, I was always in someone else's room or suite. (I had no high-speed Internet or particularly interesting games at the time, and my roommate would often have his girlfriend over, so I'd usually be wandering the halls looking for something interesting going on or finding someplace quiet to read/study.) I actually liked the nickname, though, and additionally figured it was unique enough that no one else on the web was likely to use it. Given the choice, I'd probably use this one everywhere, but the previous two are too well-cemented as "me" in multiple locations so I'm stuck with them.
Dzurlord: During a game based on the works of Steven Brust (incidentally how I discovered the novels), I was assigned the role of a Dzurlord. For those who haven't read the books, a stereotypical Dzurlord will respond to overwhelming odds by attacking anyway and either winning gloriously or dying gloriously, it's all the same to them. This, as it turns out, is much how I play first-person multiplayer games -- sneak up to the targets, pick who I'm going to hit first, then charge in guns blazing; who cares if I'm outnumbered because surprise means I'll get at least two before they take me down. So I started using it as a gaming handle. This turned out to be a problem, as a) no one got the reference, and b) no one knew how to pronounce it ("tser-lord" fyi). So eventually I gave up and switched to...
Major Zot: Or Captain Zot, Lord Zot, whatever seems appropriate to the particular game in question. "Zot" is theoretically the sound an anteater makes when it snags ants with its tongue (see early "BC" comics); since my alma mater's mascot is the anteater, "Zot Zot Zot!" has become a campus cheer at sports games, not to mention locations like "Zot 'N Go" (campus convenience store) and "Zot Zone" (campus arcade). So this is just me showing some 'Eater pride.
ChocoMog ZERO/CMZero/CMZ: This originated on a forum that was (in theory) about Final Fantasy; after going through a couple other handles over a month or so, this one stuck. Final Fantasy VII was the big one at the time, and I liked both chocobos and moogles, and furthermore I found it an amusing idea that they would upgrade not the most iconic attack summon in the game (Bahamut -> Bahamut ZERO) but the wimpiest. Anyway, I followed several people from that forum to LJ, so I used an abbreviation of the handle when I created my journal.
FlyingFish: And this one came from the forums on the Darwin Awards official website for my brief tenure there. Simple enough: I wanted to express that I wasn't in either the "it was God and not at all evolution" crowd (fish sticker) or the "it was all evolution" crowd (Darwin fish with legs), but something else entirely, so what did that leave me with? Fish with wings, obviously. I'm not quite sure how this one wound up used in so many other locations, though. Probably because it was more generic-use than "CMZ" and I hadn't yet come up with...
ShireNomad: My freshman college dorm was "The Shire." (The entire dorm complex was named "Middle Earth" with each individual dorm named after a location in Tolkien's world.) At the end of the year, everyone voted for "best laugh," "best dressed," "most corrupted by life in the Shire"... I got "Shire Nomad," because if you wanted to find me, I was always in someone else's room or suite. (I had no high-speed Internet or particularly interesting games at the time, and my roommate would often have his girlfriend over, so I'd usually be wandering the halls looking for something interesting going on or finding someplace quiet to read/study.) I actually liked the nickname, though, and additionally figured it was unique enough that no one else on the web was likely to use it. Given the choice, I'd probably use this one everywhere, but the previous two are too well-cemented as "me" in multiple locations so I'm stuck with them.
Dzurlord: During a game based on the works of Steven Brust (incidentally how I discovered the novels), I was assigned the role of a Dzurlord. For those who haven't read the books, a stereotypical Dzurlord will respond to overwhelming odds by attacking anyway and either winning gloriously or dying gloriously, it's all the same to them. This, as it turns out, is much how I play first-person multiplayer games -- sneak up to the targets, pick who I'm going to hit first, then charge in guns blazing; who cares if I'm outnumbered because surprise means I'll get at least two before they take me down. So I started using it as a gaming handle. This turned out to be a problem, as a) no one got the reference, and b) no one knew how to pronounce it ("tser-lord" fyi). So eventually I gave up and switched to...
Major Zot: Or Captain Zot, Lord Zot, whatever seems appropriate to the particular game in question. "Zot" is theoretically the sound an anteater makes when it snags ants with its tongue (see early "BC" comics); since my alma mater's mascot is the anteater, "Zot Zot Zot!" has become a campus cheer at sports games, not to mention locations like "Zot 'N Go" (campus convenience store) and "Zot Zone" (campus arcade). So this is just me showing some 'Eater pride.