explain your user name...

[Aikouka]

Pretty much the usual nerdy teenage tale....

It was a lone night in IRC, and I joined my usual chatroom. I saw one of the guys I knew had a different nickname than usual... it was strange and foreign. Invoking the rule that anything foreign sounds 10x awesomer (until you translate it), the name was subsequently awesome. I asked where he found such a name, and he said he'd get me one too.

I don't even recall how old I was, but trying to be as suave as possible, I decided to go for a translation of "the lover." Toss that into Jim Breen's, and you get "aikouka". Although, a bit of an amusing thing I only found out maybe a year ago... while I originally thought of the name as an equivalent to Don Juan... it's a lot closer to "fanatic". Whoops!

 

[Malak]

It was the Golden Age of gaming on the SNES and Final Fantasy 4, 5, and 6 in their prime (before it turned to riced out crap) when I was exposed to the internet. Exdeath, the name which is a contraction of "exceeding death", is the supernatural antagonist of FF5. At the time I played it, was in Japanese on the SNES, years before it was ever translated or released in the States in any form, and I was pretty stoked to get to experience it.

FF5 was the best FF made in the series. They didn't release it in America because they didn't think we were mature enough for that level of RPG action. True story.

 

[palswim]

Being an astronomy buff, Jupiter is my favorite planet.

Hey!... what's your favorite planet? Mine's the sun!

 

[daw123]

My initials then 123 as a suffix, since 'daw' was already taken by someone else.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I was trying to get on a radio UBB thingy about 15 years ago... every name I plugged in was taken. When I have to enter login names this one is always available.

Oh... and I probably banged your mom.