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Which do you like better?
Real name
Username
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Cabal Ties
Feb 28, 2004
Yam Slacker
It’s not my name it’s my brand

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wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!
I'm kinda indifferent.

Wesley Willis fuckin rules and I obviously want to promote the poo poo out of him, while my real name is just some typical white guy name.

In a few months though, when I change to my summer username, Ambassadorofsodomy, well thats a different story.

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Username

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
This is not too especially difficult a choice

Songbearer
Jul 12, 2007




Fuck you say?
My real name is Funkle Wengleheimer, but it's pronounced Songbearer so I'm not all that conflicted

deep dish peat moss
Jul 27, 2006

I got my SA username in a random namechange thread and it has zero personal attachment for me but now my posting brand is reliant on it

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



My real name is Doreen. Which do you think I prefer?

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons

Colonel Cancer posted:

I am a man without a name

Same, but I'm a horse

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

I’m a dude with a Viking name of the Red variety, but in reality, I’m just named after a deceased cousin of mine.

But elves are cool, too. Are you one??

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

My real name is Euou Dragovostovich so this is a marked improvement

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

I have friends who go by internet handles IRL because they all met in WoW.

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010
Syntaxfunction is a super "this is a handle" name. My actual name is Rembrandt Bringleblat, but it's my dead name and I'm having it legally changed to Jacarina Ironplower.

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

The only time irl that I've been called my username was 20 years ago when I went to goonmeets. Hearing it in reference to myself would be alarming.

Flowers for QAnon
May 20, 2019

Blue Footed Booby posted:

I have friends who go by internet handles IRL because they all met in WoW.

Husky fellas?

Revins
Nov 2, 2007





tune the FM in to static and pretend that its the sea
Revins sounds way cooler than my actual name but being called revins irl would be weird so idk

Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002

my mother named me ******stomper58 :( :( :(

The Butcher
Apr 20, 2005

Well, at least we tried.
Nap Ghost

Chief McHeath posted:

my mother named me ******stomper58 :( :( :(

Can always just go with "Stomper", just keep stomping on stuff (not people or animals!) until a friend gives it to you. Sounds kinda like a scary Batman villain or a professional wrestler nick. Should you be unfortunate enough to encounter internet people in real life, some might still remember the old tale.

I've give you the suspicious side eye.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
I really like everything about ghosts, so I enjoy the heck outta my username. Ghosts rule.

I'm Samantha IRL, which I don't really mind but it is extremely a stripper name. I like that I have a gender neutral option for various reasons. Though surname-wise, there's a branch of my mom's family named Deathridge and I am extremely jealous.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

Cabal Ties posted:

It’s not my name it’s my brand

Dixville
Nov 4, 2008

I don't think!
Ham Wrangler

https://www.voices.com/profile/ayman87/brandnomix-event-intro

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah I'm cool with my first name.

Fuckin hate my middle name, though.

I've been MrQwerty on the internet for so long it's like another given name at this point anyway.

flesh dance
May 6, 2009



According to https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ my real name hit its peak in 1966 and wasn't even popular then, 0.220 percent of total female births lol

I have never loved it and it doesn't have significance, I asked my parents and they were like "idk we found it in a name book"

I've only ever met one other person with it who was my kindergarten teacher who *was* probably born in 1966

I didn't know it was that uncommon tho, kind of neat. It weirds me out every handful of years when I come across it in media or whatever, thanks for attending my speech where I didn't even say what it is. I got my username in the porn namechange thread a million years ago and for some reason it always makes me think of loving a can of spam or something so thats fun

Dr. Fraiser Chain
May 18, 2004

Redlining my shit posting machine


My real name rules. It's basically Polish for "giant rear end in a top hat".

I could probably use an avatar of Kelsey Grammar as a 90s rapper but I also like my poo poo posting machine.

The Butcher
Apr 20, 2005

Well, at least we tried.
Nap Ghost

Das Boo posted:

There's a branch of my mom's family named Deathridge and I am extremely jealous.

Hell man that is a pretty good excuse to legally change your own. Pain in the rear end to update all your poo poo or if you have kids but man.

Might as well change your first one at the same time if you are doing that.

Bonelord Deathridge. Nobody is gonna gently caress with you.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
My actual IRL name is real weird and like, most people know it, but know of one person or place with that name.

My last name is aggressively Igbo (surprisingly doesn’t start with Ch-!), and technically speaking shouldn’t be my last name as it’s a variation of my dads first/last name, he changed the surname when he came over in the 70s. What’s weird is my auntie and uncle just kept the same last name.

When/if I officially marry my partner I get double umlauts on my hyphenated name and I’m jazzed as hell. can’t wait to continue to inflict psychic damage when anyone encounters my name.

My partner changed his middle name from generic Nordic Christian name to his no poo poo stage name and getting mail for “[first name] Deathfrost [last name]” is now just my every day. I thought it was a joke until I saw his passport and there it is.

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



Das Boo posted:

I really like everything about ghosts, so I enjoy the heck outta my username. Ghosts rule.

I'm Samantha IRL, which I don't really mind but it is extremely a stripper name. I like that I have a gender neutral option for various reasons. Though surname-wise, there's a branch of my mom's family named Deathridge and I am extremely jealous.

Sam Deathridge is a loving badass name and you should change your name to that.

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Poo In An Alleyway posted:

Sam Deathridge is a loving badass name and you should change your name to that.

Only if you get the Duke Nukem VA (…or LGR) to say your name.

Poo In An Alleyway
Feb 12, 2016



teen witch posted:

Only if you get the Duke Nukem VA (…or LGR) to say your name.

In my head it was being said by David Hayter but yeah.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
Never thought a SA thread would make me seriously consider changing my name, but here we are. :hmmyes:

Car Hater
May 7, 2007

wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!
My username reflects who I really am but would look dumb on paperwork

My real name is simple but absolutely fucks with people and makes picking food orders up a pain, especially Chinese takeout

Identity is a land of contrasts

Car Hater fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Mar 28, 2023

Extra row of tits
Oct 31, 2020
You know, you can actually use your first name here, not just make some vague hint about how it comes from grandma or you don’t like it cause it’s old fashioned.

Check this out:

My ACTUAL real first name is… Rob…..


Wow, no one’s dozed me, or guessed where I live, or incorrectly connected me with a war crime. Man, I don’t know how to feel… I honestly expected a swat team through my door an hour ago!!!

zone
Dec 6, 2016
I like both my real name and my forum name. Simple is good.

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010
I'm actually Benedetta Madrigal.

Panic! At The Tesco
Aug 19, 2005

FART


Extra row of tits posted:

You know, you can actually use your first name here, not just make some vague hint about how it comes from grandma or you don’t like it cause it’s old fashioned.

Check this out:

My ACTUAL real first name is… Rob…..


Wow, no one’s dozed me, or guessed where I live, or incorrectly connected me with a war crime. Man, I don’t know how to feel… I honestly expected a swat team through my door an hour ago!!!

my first name is boring without my surname to really tie things together though

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

deep dish peat moss posted:

I got my SA username in a random namechange thread and it has zero personal attachment for me but now my posting brand is reliant on it

peanut
Sep 9, 2007


I like em both

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons

deep dish peat moss posted:

I got my SA username in a random namechange thread and it has zero personal attachment for me but now my posting brand is reliant on it

Katamari Democracy
Jan 19, 2010

Guess what! :love:
Guess what this is? :love:
A Post, Just for you! :love:
Wedge Regret
I have a cool name

Drunk Nerds
Jan 25, 2011

Just close your eyes
Fun Shoe
There's only one other person in the world with my first and last name, and he's a decade younger than me so he has to be [firstnamelastname]2 on all social media handles. Sometimes that gives me an iota of undeserved self esteem.

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ishikabibble
Jan 21, 2012

My real name is kind of boring and I live a sad life where the majority of my IRL socialization comes from hanging out with people I met over the internet
i kinda like my username (not here) a bit better because i have more specific and fond memories associated with it

it is a little bit weird at first hearing people call you by an online handle but you get used to it pretty quick
more weird is if you're ever at a convention and have a nametag/badge/etc with said online handle on it, but when you order food from an on-site place and the poor person behind the counter is just already expecting you to say some absurd poo poo like Darklord Thadeus Smitecrusher instead of just Paul


e; the previous post did remind me that there is another guy who shares a first and last name with me but is like a decade+ older, and I just happened to get a gov job (that he also has, under a very different and separate department) and after four years someone was confused/dumb/??? enough to send an email to both me and him despite our orgs having nothing to do with one another

ishikabibble fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Mar 28, 2023

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