Why did you choose your alias?

[Pilgrim]

OOO history


Orriginal handle back in the good old hacker days (before the script kiddies made it a tallent free hobby)

Hunter2223- This was back in the day. I was still writing code under the pen name Christian Hunter and hacking under hunter2223 the 2223 was actually came from an online discussion in which I had smoked a guy pretty bad (firendly like) so we were joking about it later. He'd say something and I'd reply 2223 I had to come up with something that it meant so I decided I'd translate it ussing the handy phone hooked to my 9600 modem! I came up with 2bad so it was hunter2bad just cause it sounded tough

Hunter-R: Fastforward about 5 Years and Duke nukem comes out. We're playing at a LAN party and my hacker handle is more then 8 characters (and the 2223 thing sucked ass by then) so I went with my fav Comic book character Hunter Rose from MAtt Wagners Grendel As it would also not fit and no spaces it became Hunter-R

Pilgrim: About 2 years ago... maybe less, maybe more I'm old and it all runs together! I was playing DAOC and joined a Christian Guild with all my buds. They all had started new characters with lame lames like Biblethumper, and Christdefender (no I'm not kidding) I thought all the names were lame, but what's a guy to do. So i came up witht he kewlest sorta christian but sorta not name I could come up with. Problem is that of all the handles I've ever had this is the only one to stick. So now about half the people I' know in real life call me Pilgrim... and I think I'm stuck with it for a long time!

Could be worse.

And I got the Hammanator to change it by just sending him a friendly little e-mail. Near instant service!

[TekDragon]

Why? Because it's l33ter than yours. Nuff said.

[xuur]

'xuur' actually popped out of an experimental text generator I was working on a decade or so ago. Mostly a random number generator with various alphabetic translations and vowel use criteria added. it was a bit of an abomination as it was supposed to be impossible to generate two same characters side by side. it always puzzled me and I never figured out why it happened. it never occurred again that I know of. so it kinda stuck in my head.

it popped out. I liked it. used it ever since. the program was then used to encrypt purchase order and vendor information for a now defunct retail chain.

it's also aparrently the name of some kind of strange looking violin from tibet or some such. go figure

[Veteran]

I always grab good names in new MMO games, and for some reason I played Veteran long enough to decide I didn't want to start over.

I have Agent on the same account, shoulda worked that one up. Oh well.