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Posted: 11/7/2014 3:30 AM
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ars4326
He/Him
Experienced player (777)
Joined: 12/8/2012
Posts: 706
Location: Missouri, USA
Nothing romantic to share. ars4326 was my college ID (first, middle, last initial + random numbers). Come to think of it: With all the TASes that I've had published, I'd probably be one of the most famous alumni on the Internet ;) edit: Actually, this guy is the most famous alumni I know of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_%28wrestler%29
"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." - 1 Corinthians 2:9
Posted: 11/7/2014 4:23 AM
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Samsara
She/They
Senior Judge, Site Admin, Expert player (2238)
Joined: 11/13/2006
Posts: 2822
Location: Northern California
Homebrew TAS of 2023 Exotic platforms TAS of 2020 Sega TAS of 2016
Samsa, my usual nickname, came from the Franz Kafka novella "The Metamorphosis", where a man by the name of Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as a monstrous vermin. I've been using the name since I was 17. Samsara, aside from being two letters off my usual name, is a cycle of life, death and reincarnation, the "wheel of existence". It's a negative thing in Buddhism, akin to living life after life with no direction or purpose. However, since I'm a nerd and not a Buddhist, I took the name from the Shin Megami Tensei series, where samsara appears in a number of games in different forms: The one I used in particular is the ultimate light spell in Persona 3 and 4, unique to my favorite demon in the series, Daisoujou. Since Persona 4 had been released a couple months before I signed up, it was still fresh on my mind, so I signed up as Samsara here. that, and Samsara sounded more feminine, since I was going through a gender identity crisis at the time
TASvideos Admin and acting Senior Judge 💙 Currently unable to dedicate a lot of time to the site, taking care of family. Now infrequently posting on Bluesky
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Posted: 11/7/2014 4:46 AM
Post subject: hi im scrimpy welcome to my blog
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scrimpeh
Editor, Skilled player (1439)
Joined: 3/31/2010
Posts: 2108
TAS of 2017 First edition TAS of 2017 PSX TAS of 2017
I was about 11 and needed a nickname to join a forum. I went with 'scrimpy'. There's no special story to the name, but I thought it up with the following considerations: 1.It should start with the letter S. (Because all the cool names I knew at the time started with s) 2.It should be just one word. (I wanted a fairly short and snappy name.) 3.It should not be a word from the dictionary. Quite a fail in that respect, but I wasn't aware at the time 'scrimpy' actually meant something. Over time, the name morphed around a bit, so in some places (like here), I'm registered as scrimpeh. It's like they say, know your enemy.
Posted: 11/7/2014 5:52 AM
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arandomgameTASer
He/Him
Editor, Expert player (2098)
Joined: 8/25/2013
Posts: 1200
SNES TASer of 2023 SNES TAS of 2023 Atari TAS of 2023 DS TASer of 2015
A Random Game TASer
effort on the first draft means less effort on any draft thereafter - some loser
Posted: 11/7/2014 12:57 PM
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fsvgm777
She/Her
Senior Publisher, Player (226)
Joined: 5/28/2009
Posts: 1213
Location: Luxembourg
fs are the initials of my full name, vgm stands for videogamer and 777 is what I consider the "ultimate lucky number" (i.e. if you get 777 on a slot machine, you get the jackpot). That's basically it.
Steam Community page - Bluesky profile Oh, I'm just a concerned observer.
Posted: 11/7/2014 2:36 PM
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Nahoc
Editor, Experienced player (860)
Joined: 8/12/2008
Posts: 845
Location: Québec, Canada
TASer of 2012 3D Platforms TASer of 2012 TAS of 2012 Speedy TAS of 2012 3D Platforms TAS of 2012
My first name backwards (how original!).
Posted: 11/7/2014 4:48 PM
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WST
She/Her
Active player (489)
Joined: 10/6/2011
Posts: 1697
Location: RU · ID · AM
Nahoc wrote:
My first name backwards (how original!).
Reminds me of… http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=73553#73553
S3&A [Amy amy%] improvement (with Evil_3D & kaan55) — currently in SPZ2 my TAS channel · If I ever come into your dream, I’ll be riding an eggship :)
Posted: 11/7/2014 5:46 PM
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RGamma
Joined: 2/3/2013
Posts: 320
Location: Germany
I needed a nick for GW2, so in an outburst of creativity, I consulted a random fantasy name generator. Because I didn't want to waste much time with choosing I decided for the first one that I think suited the race I was going to play: Rekk Gamma. When signing up for the TASVideos forums - in another outburst of creativity - I shortened that nick to RGamma, which I've been using since. Previous nicks (mainly for Steam) I used were CtrlAltDel and CtrlShiftEsc. Incidently rgamma is also a variant of the gamma distribution for the programming language R. See http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/GammaDist.html. (Don't ask me for an explanation. I'm not familiar with statistics.) Am I happy with that nick? I don't know; I might change it in the future, if I find a good one and feel the need to.
All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.
Posted: 9/4/2015 8:44 PM
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MUGG
Editor, Expert player (2329)
Joined: 5/15/2007
Posts: 3933
Location: Germany
Gameboy TASer of 2015 NES TAS of 2013 Gameboy TASer of 2011 Gameboy TASer of 2010
My name means Multi Ultra Giga God and I came up with that when I was about 12, and I was inspired by the god Eneru in the One Piece anime. I basicly thought of it as the perfect nickname and it fit as a tag for Smash Bros Melee (where a name could only contain 4 characters), a game that I played competitively after I came up with the name. In that game I was also inspired by Ganondorf since he was so almighty.
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Posted: 9/4/2015 8:50 PM
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endrift
Any
Emulator Coder
Joined: 12/14/2014
Posts: 161
I was basically looking for a good name for YEARS, originally for a brand of some sort (I've wanted to make games for ages, and "endrift" was originally going to be the brand name for the games, not my personal username), and eventually stumbled on the name endrift, which is meant to evoke sort of a dreamlike fluid state, where things are up to interpretation and nothing is concrete. The endrift logo, my avatar, went through about 10 revisions before I settled on this one. It's meant to be ambiguous in what it represents. It's supposed to look both like waves and clouds at the same time. (It also needs a bit of a redesign.) Here are some early designs that didn't make the cut: (Also if you tweak the logo a bit and rotate it, uh...)
Posted: 9/5/2015 3:56 PM
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Tremane
Active player (458)
Joined: 1/28/2008
Posts: 143
Location: Germany
Gameboy TAS of 2015
tremane was created by a nice typo "the man - tre man" what´s good about it: * "tres manos" in spain means "3 hands" and for speedrunning doing insane shit 3 hands would be totally awesome (think about all that mashing^^) | Primal85 came up with that | * also the word "tremendous" is pretty close to it.. in the end a really fitting nickname i have to admit
2-do: Smurfs Nightmare, The (EU) GBC 10% fin : Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge improvement: submitted Mega Man II Improvement: submitted Mega Man IV Improvement: submitted Mega Man V Improvement: submitted future plan: -n-
Posted: 9/5/2015 5:13 PM
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Jules
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Skilled player (1171)
Joined: 7/13/2015
Posts: 102
Location: California
Rookie of 2016
It's just my birth name. Ingenuity is hard.
Posted: 9/5/2015 5:23 PM
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TehBerral
Active player (264)
Joined: 8/14/2014
Posts: 188
Location: North Kilttown
My original name that I use just about everywhere else, "The Barrel" comes from an infamous obstacle in Carnival Night from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I originally used the name on Sonic Retro. At the time I registered (I don't know if this is still the case as I haven't visited in a long, long time) the registration page said that one had to have an "original" name - I.e. not "SonicShadowfan52618". So I thought "what's my favorite Sonic game? S3&K. What do people remember about it besides the Death Egg? The Barrel." So there you go. I tried registering here as "TheBarrel" like I did with SDA, but for some reason it wouldn't let me register with that name (even though I can't find anyone on the members list with that name) so I went with the simple misspelling, though I still pronounce it the same.
Somewhat damaged.
Posted: 9/5/2015 7:40 PM
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Zeupar
Joined: 5/14/2007
Posts: 525
Location: Pisces-Cetus filament
endrift wrote:
That logo is really cool.
SmartFrame wrote:
tremane was created by a nice typo "the man - tre man" what´s good about it: * "tres manos" in spain means "3 hands"
Considering that "mano" has thirty-six different meanings in Spanish, that phrase can mean several different things. :)
TehBerral wrote:
I tried registering here as "TheBarrel" like I did with SDA, but for some reason it wouldn't let me register with that name (even though I can't find anyone on the members list with that name) so I went with the simple misspelling, though I still pronounce it the same.
I'm surprised you weren't able to find them.
Cardboard wrote:
"Hey, I'm gonna register at a forum. Let's see... hm... what should I nick... which is the first object I lay eyes on?" I guess the correct nick should have been "Cardboard Box", but nah...
I still find this story amusing.
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Posted: 9/5/2015 10:49 PM
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TehBerral
Active player (264)
Joined: 8/14/2014
Posts: 188
Location: North Kilttown
Zeupar wrote:
I'm surprised you weren't able to find them.
Can't say I looked that hard, I have a pretty bad habit of skimming lists fairly haphazardly. But given the lack of activity I wonder now if it did actually register me technically but wouldn't let me continue (I distinctly remember it wouldn't let me continue with the registration as if my name was already taken and wouldn't send me a verification email like with this account). The reg date is around the time I first time I tried registering - don't ask about the more than half a year gap. If it has the same IP as me, I'd wonder who I'd talk to about possibly deleting/merging the account if necessary. But I'm going off topic a bit...
Somewhat damaged.
Posted: 9/8/2015 9:31 AM
Post subject: Finally, a good opportunity to post this.
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EgixBacon
He/Him
Player (184)
Joined: 4/15/2013
Posts: 331
Location: In the attic
Link to video It went Engie, then Engix, then Egx, and then finally Egix.
FanFiction|Youtube Still on Win7! Take that, Microsoft!
Posted: 4/13/2017 5:34 PM
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ThunderAxe31
Any
Editor, Reviewer, Skilled player (1358)
Joined: 9/12/2016
Posts: 1646
Location: Italy
Arcade TAS of 2023 Homebrew TAS of 2023 PSX TASer of 2022 Gameboy TASer of 2017
There is no special story behind my nick name: it's just an union of three things that I happen to like.
my personal page - my YouTube channel - my GitHub - my Discord: thunderaxe31 <Masterjun> if you look at the "NES" in a weird angle, it actually clearly says "GBA"
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