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Mine comes way back from about 10 years ago. Memories by Within Temptation was playing in the radio and I fell in love with that song, so I created a new Habbo Hotel dude (don't judge me, it was IN then!) named .MemoRies., though people started to call me just Memo for short. That, or rather memo since I liked it better with a little letter, became my ultimate nickname for many years, Because it's shortness it's too often used in websites and it was already taken in PSN also, so I've created a few variations of it, mainly memps and mempsis, and those two have actually become my new main nicknames. I'm thinking about changing the first letter big, since as a writer it has started to annoy me that a name is written without a capitol letter. :P

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I used to play Warcraft quite 'heavily' ahem. My main's name I loved and all my alts were variations of it. When i got my PS4 my first port of call was to use that name as my psn but naturally someone had it. (I used to have a ps3 but never went online with it, it was more a exclusive machine lol) So I changed some letters around till I found what I liked and it's random enough no one had it. 

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 Cat of War


- it's easy to guess lol, it came from the God of War title becoz I love GOW games, but used Cat instead coz I really love cats  :D 


x


Miku


- came from the one and only Hatsune Miku  <3 * it's pretty obvious for those who knew her*  :awesome: 


04


- well . . . simply becoz it's my birthday  :lol: 


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I came up with my PSN username around the time I was admitted to medical school. I also looked really young for my age at that time. And even though I'm a girl, most people called me Taj because my first name was difficult for people to pronounce, and Taj sounded close to my real name.

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So my name is Ryan and some people started calling "Rihno" as a nickname. I was gonna make a YouTube channel and I needed a username... "Rihno" was taken and one of the suggested names was Rihnolo, I liked that name so I chose that name. For some reason when I was choosing my name for PSN it wouldn't let me choose "Rihnolo so I made my username "Rihnolo_".

Kinda complicated but that's bout it.

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My PSN ID (Endygo) comes from a Tool song. From a song called The Pot. "Weeping shades of cozened indigo" is the particular line. I've always liked the color as well so I decided to stick with it as my username. Obviously the regular spelling was taken so I switched it up a bit. Now people just refer to me as Endy (Which is cool because it reminds me of Indiana Jones) and Endo.

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I decided on the name KhajiitWerewolf before I bought my ps3. I decided to buy the console because I missed playing Skyrim after I moved out of my parents' house. I always thought the Khajiit was the coolest Elder Scrolls character. I could have just gone with a variation of Khajiit, but that didn't sound right so I tacked on Werewolf. The reason was twofold. First, I thought it was hilarious in Skyrim watching my cat turn into a giant dog. I had even picked a similar fur color so the transformation was flawless. Secondly I have always been in love with werewolf lore ever since I read the third Harry Potter book in gradeschool. I tried to consider other names, but once I thought of this one it stuck. Even though I haven't played Skyrim in a year, I still love my psn name because it shows my origins as a ps3 gamer and trophy hunter.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

 

For those who haven't read it, Brave New World is set in a future where most people are addicted to, and self-medicate with, a hallucinogenic drug called soma. Whenever someone experiences negative emotions of any kind, they administer soma so they can forget. The result is a society where most people remain oblivious to the world around them. I chose the name as a reminder to myself that gaming, while awesome, is a distraction from the real world. Sometimes the distraction is needed, but the idea not to get so caught up in it that I forget what's really important. /soapbox

 

The Noob part is less pretentious. I'm a longtime PC gamer who finally bought a PS3 last year, so it seemed appropriate.

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usrmd is short for usrm1d, which I've been using for about 12 years now, around the same time gmail was in invite only beta and I scored an awesome email addy (kylesemail@gmail). usr (user) comes from the directory /usr on linux. md is short for mode, and 1 represents runlevel 1 which is kind of like to linux what safemode is to windows. AKA User Mode 1, or Single User Mode.

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