Where does your user name come from?


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The topic should be enough, but where does your user name come from?

Mine hails from a character in The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, one of my favorite books.

He also happens to be part of a graphic comic by the same author, where I got my avatar from..

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I was trying to figure out something that wasn't just my name, so I came up with obake, which is Japanese for "ghost" or "monster." I dunno, sounded sorta neat. Ironically, I've ended up just using my name on nearly every other forum and website I frequent, so I should probably change my user name on here as well.

Matrix was my favourite character of all time (from ReBoot) so I named myself just that when I started out. Then a friend of mine had XII at the end of his name, so we both took that as our tag and played in a small CS1.5 clan, then when that disbanded we just both kept the XII at the end of our name, no real reason, it was just different I guess. :p

Holy eff, it's been little over a month since the last one and we already have a new thread on it...

Well, if I must make this post somewhat substantial, I just liked the word pixels, especially because my personal website (which hasn't been finished for far too long) is called A Perfect Pixel.

Queen of the Underworld... :devil:

But seriously, anything greek sounds/looks so cool. Take my gamertag for example... It's just the greek spelling of catastrophe, and it's instantly 10 times cooler. No, I'm not being being sarcastic :laugh:

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