itt we discuss name changes

Hey so a lot of people have changed their names over the past year or so.
By a lot I mean like five that I can remember.

I just decided to make a thread where we can archive these changes and discuss them. Why? Because fuck you that's why.

Anyways the ones I know of are:
explosive -> sexplosive
WildDesu -> WD
Marx -> Omega
LunarSoul -> MagicDoorz

What drives a user to change their name? Embarrassment? A desire to let go of your past and move forward? Something else entirely?

Personally I changed my name because after using "sexplosive" for a while on IRC (iirc the original change was done when we were trying to make our usernames more sexy. Good times.) I really identified with that name more than explosive. Plus it's like 10x more original. And sexy.

 

wedge of cheese I believe had his name changed to Wedge of Cheese, because capitalization is important.

Name changes are a strange thing. I wouldn't change my name in real life, and I wouldn't change my name on a forum (unless it was a really minor change), because overall it's just really confusing for lots of people.

 

Thanks for your input, RageTH.

In my opinion, name changes are becoming too common. They should only be requested if you have a good reason, like wedge of cheese did, not if you just want a different name. If you wanted a different name, you should have chosen it. It's too late now, we'll always think of you as LunarSold.

If I changed my name in real life, it would confuse and disorient people because they would still think of me as my previous name. Forums are no different, it doesn't matter if your name is something ridiculous like JacobXanth819.

 

Wasn't Gardebiter's forum name originally ShInInG PhAnToM or something to that effect? Or was that just an interwebs name that people used to know him by.

 

Ones that sexy forgot and also that I remembered:

JacobX8910 -> GameGenie747 -> JakeXanth
wedge of cheese -> Wedge of Cheese
ShInInG PhAnToM -> S. P. Gardebiter
ZTaimat -> ZarroTsu
100killer9 -> Madotsuki
gruntfrostwolf -> onlineworms

 

JacobX891 -> GameGenie747 -> JakeXanth

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Didn't Carrotlord also change from no capitalization to capitalization?

I think mine is the only one where the change actually saved people some confusion, since people were always calling me "WoC" even when I was all lowercase



edit: damnit now I wanna know what RageTH said

 

I'm rather curious myself.

 

I'll never understand the point in name changes.

 

Thanks for sharing. Your contribution really added to thread. Good work.

On the topics, however, the only name change I would consider is Cultr1 or perhaps just cultr.

I kinda like the all-lowercase thing I got goin' on though.

 

I kinda like the all-lowercase thing I got goin' on though.

mah nigga

 

I dunno I'd do somethin more cavestory related lol like quote or something I lost my account, so I had to use this old one good thing I remem bered the password :eek:

 

now I have to change my location...

 

Your new location is longer than my screen can handle.

Spoiler

 

You guys arnt talking about names changing

 

hes right get back on 2pic

 

Your new location is longer than my screen can handle.

Spoiler

Geeze, why y'all have such tiny ass-screens?


I can't bring myself to change it just yet, but I will in a few days.

 

Thanks for sharing. Your contribution really added to thread. Good work.

On the topics, however, the only name change I would consider is Cultr1 or perhaps just cultr.

I kinda like the all-lowercase thing I got goin' on though.

Who are you again? Really, it's hard to keep track of all the name changing.

Anyways I guess I could explain why I don't see the point in name changes since you decided to call me out (we'd be in a brawl in real life). Someone in this thread said it's about forgeting the past. If people want to forget the past and move on, how is a name change going to help? It's just hiding your past. And cowards do that. Real men accept their past, and accept their mistakes they did before.

Just kidding.

If you really want a name change, get it. It's not like anyone gives a damn whether or not you have a silly name.

 

Marx --> Omega

 

Didn't Carrotlord also change from no capitalization to capitalization?

Yes. I changed my name from no caps to first letter capitalized, since I wanted to see if vBulletin's username login was case sensitive or not. It isn't. Your name could be NoOneLikesStickyKeys and you could login as noonelikesSTICKYKEYS.*

*This is not the real reason I changed my name.

The real reason I changed my username is because it was sorta inconsistent. I capitalized my name as Carrotlord on other forums, so might as well do it here.

Actually, no... I never managed to change my name. Couldn't figure it out. Had to get an admin to do it for me.

 

This thread should be more active nowadays with the change to IP.Board.