My username is based on <span class="bold">Azhdarchidae</span>, a family of Pterosaurs. It means dragon.

Old Rhyme, I've never imagined the creature the same way twice. Part of what I love about it.

The mythological Greek ferryman on the rivers of the underworld. I picked it a long ago, but it stuck as a handle for multiple websites so that I don't have to remember all the different nickname/password combinations. The number is there because the word itself had already been taken.

I don't know what retarded tricks my mind did when I started using this name on the net (was on irc with the same name since about 97). In the last few years some goddamn Hindi tards have started using the same name.

This is what my name would sound like if it was americanized. Also, B stands for Basil, which people loved giving me as a middle name (despite not actually being a real middle name).

Decades ago when I first had internet access (through AOL) I struggled to come up with a username. When all my initial choices (which were worse than the one I have now) were listed as already in use and bouncing me back to variations with numbers tacked onto them, I eventually went with this. I don't even really remember what caused me to use this one, though I was satisfied enough that it didn't need any numbers at the end of it.

Over the years I've regretted it (mostly because it's 16 characters long and registration for more websites than one might realize limit username choices at 15) but haven't been bothered enough to adopt something else on a more permanent basis.

This is even after having been harassed over it on more than one occasion, more notably by one upset Star Wars fan (or a fan of the character Jek Porkins, I'm still not sure which) who seemed to think that I was a huge EverQuest player (to spoil the fun: I've never played EverQuest) and on a few occasions being mislabeled a D&D nerd (though I've never taken part in a proper D&D tabletop game, I have played/tried miserably to play Heroes of the Lance on the NES when I was younger but I'd hardly call myself a D&D nerd for having done so).

Someone stole my registered HL1 DM (and Quake/UT) nick (ereaser) when WON switched to Steam (And this was before you could pick any nick) I was just too slow to go with Steam and that whole thing. Since I was in league gaming back then this was an issue. So I had to think up a new variation of it ;(

Yes, it's really that simple ;/ I still wanted to use that nick, since it was my nick since.. well before online gaming, arcade nick was ERE (and this is why it's EREaser, and not Eraser.. anyhow.. since then this is my nick, and only 1 other person uses it on the whole web.

Long story short, since I couldn't use my original nick, I used 133t5p33k since that was a thing back then.... oh well.

You can laugh now.. :)

Do you really need to ask? ;-)

I've used Prah since 2005 when I registred my EA account. It's an anagram of my middle name + the first letter of my last name :)

I choose this name first because I thought it meant "angry", I meant use it as in "angry about video games". Turns out I was a dumb kid and didn't know English well enough. :D But the actual meaning is still kinda true about me, so I sticked with it. :)

Hmmm my username is a leftover artifact of making a username for a Geocities account...

The SUNSHINE corporation is an antagonist/villain in most of the science fiction campaigns I run in PnP RPGs. And especially now with Monte Cook's "The Strange", I can finally justify its existence in several different worlds.

I quickly and randomly typed something in assuming I could simply change it later on, but apparently you can't.
So I'm stuck with this nonsensical set of letters and numbers.