When someone asks me why I spend so long in character creation

Oct 26, 2017 7:33 AM

Bonus character creation stuff below

This was funny until the last bit. I do that intentionally. Super-Muscle Hero needs to look pretty.

And then there's the cutscenes:

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This is so true. I always spend waaaaay too much time on character creation justnsoni can't look at my character :(

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I'm awful, default face one then wear a helmet. Takes me 20 seconds

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I spend way too much time in character customization, but making a decent Qunari is hard.

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I just use various noises for names. "Here comes *thbt* the dragonborn!"

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Usually it takes to me like 5-10 mins to do a character, i always name him as my name or as a food. Here comes Lord Bread!

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I like to challenge myself to make the most nightmare inducing abomination.

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I think you would appreciate the Monster Factory: https://youtu.be/LlKnEgPEGmA

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Is it really a challenge to recreate yourself?

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Well this dump proves that there's basically 2 jokes about character creation.

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I made Trump and Hillary in ds3 during elections, they got downvoted sadly

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#3 "left toes, wrong toes"

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Every time i end up spending 2 hours creating a character before i just make a woman with white skin, red eyes and black hair.

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I did enjoy the FO4 character creator :)

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It's all about that Final Pam! https://youtu.be/_1jGnFt78H8

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I always make the same guy. Always a black young man with a long ponytail and if possible with light freckles. Irl I'm a small white girl.

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We call that the reverse Michael Jackson.

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I like that

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Black Desert Online, free for 7 days. Just enough to create your character.

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Legit the reason I stopped making alts

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I'm so bad with character creators that I do the bare minimum to the default. My creations look like science mistakes

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One of the best oblivion char i had was by random with a bit of trimming.

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That often a method I use. Mash random until something that isn't a monster catches your eye, then test tweaking most sliders back towards

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2) the centre value, to round off any overly unnatural looking oddities. You get something unique to the pre-sets, but still looks human.

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Then there's Dark Souls where you just create an abomination

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Well yeah I normally try to make my characters look like myself.

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When you decided to just fuck about with the creator

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Damn, looks like another monstrosity I made in the Blade and Soul creator a couple years ago, lol! https://imgur.com/f3LSR14

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That character creator is a gift honestly.

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Blade and Soul's character creation is so much fun

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It's glorious.

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Riders of Icarus for me.

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Kill it with fire!

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Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Joleeeene. I'm beggin of you please don't take my man.

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You character creation is beyond compare, with DLC golden hair, with RGB skin and eyes of emerald green.

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After all the times that I've restarted Bethesda RPGs I usually slap a modded beard on one of the presents after I repair the damage

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What is #1 from?

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Net-juu no susume.

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Thanks, it's one of the recent 'currently airing' shows, which is why I didn't recognise.

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It's a bout a 30-year-old woman who has a mid-life crisis and starts doing nothing but playing MMOs all day. It's good so far

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#4 EVERY FUCKING TIME

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"Showracemenu" command is a lifesaver in Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim. The command i used the most so far…

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Mass Effect was the worst for me. My first Shep looked hot AF in creation, but a skeleton in game. For Bethesda games, mod the base face.

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Same, mine looked like if you hit George W Bush with a spade. I stuck with it.

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Especially with Bioware RPGs for some reason.

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It's because they choose terrible lighting conditions in the character creator. There should be a damn slider category just for lighting.

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Oblivion is a good example. Gloomy blueish lit prison cell, followed by a second chance in a gloomy greenish lit sewer tunnel. I tried to

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2) make a slightly pale Dark Elf, with a kind of smooth grey blue skin hue. Step into actual sunlight & I'm whiter than Michael Jackson.

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4) Couldn't even make out the texture on his scales. His head was practically just a matte white silhouette of a lizard half the time.

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3) My brothers attempt at an albino Argonian was even worse. Looked white in the prison cell, but like a shining lighthouse outside.

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#3 Do other people not regularly switch to third person to ogle their character design?

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If the game allows.

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In most games where you can switch, I tend to use third person for travel and first person for fighting.

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Elder Scrolls characters are almost all hideous, why would you bother?

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Vanilla, sure, but who plays vanilla?

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I did this in Fallout 3, mostly to pan around and try to spot sneaky Deathclaw ambushes.

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I had a Deathclaw rocket out of the sky at me in Olney. Scared me half to death. It died immediately on impact, though.

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Weird, the worst I got was the bug where some NPCs fell through the game & wandered to the Temple of the Union...

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Rocket deathclaws are a known glitch, their leap sometimes goes warp speed. It probably jumped at another creature somewhere nearby and I

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Just happened to be where it landed.

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I don’t know about everyone else but every character I made looks like a Neanderthal and I hate it

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"It's you! You're the one from my dreams!"

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By Azura, by Azura, by Azura! it's the grand champion!

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I got back into Oblivion last night. All the customizations push you toward this shit. The skin tone goes black to fucking glowing white.

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You can make some pretty terrifying creations in Dark Souls as well. No idea why they added that.

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I like that the default black character is a racist cartoonist's wet dream.

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I made a man in bloodborne that looked like he was made out of fruit by the foot.

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I remember trying to make a character that didn't look ugly in Demon's soul's. I'm not sure if it's even possible.

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So you can be as horrifying as the monsters you fight.

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you forgot the best one

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made that charecter in mass effect it somehow came back for #2 it was a different console and i chose random

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chinless bastard haunted me for 3 games

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"My entire soul cried out... With shaking hands, I reached out and pressed the off button." (Paraphrased)

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Oh shit, what's that from

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it's a translation for a bit of the text in that image, if I remember right

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The image, I meant. I replied to the wrong comment, haha

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oh it's not part of a series, just an image an artist drew after they spent 3h or so working on their character and ended up with that

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"Monster Factory" on YouTube is fantastic. Just 2 guys making hideous masterpieces. Here's my fave: https://youtu.be/bn4x_BRqIpI

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Thank you for making me enjoy several hours on youtube i wasn't expecting today.

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oh, i love those good good boys!

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I'm wheezing in bed from laughter. "A face you could tie a boat to." "He's like 7 pterodactyls." I'm dying

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+1 for Mcelroy brothers! Wasn't expecting them

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I just died laughing for like a full twenty minutes wow

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"Jacob sees you and winks out of existence because if you're human, what is he?"

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Highly recommend the Black Desert Online and the Dragon's Dogma videos. "Toe to tip, this is a Bart!"

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Griffin makes some perfect boys.

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JACOB!!! That was fucking hilarious!

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Dear God it's amazing.

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Those are some good boys.

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Came to the comments to make sure this was here! This and Car Boys are the shit!

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My Racially insensitive accidental creation when I was trying Black Desert for the first time.

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The Ark: Survival Evolved one had me in literal tears, and I'm internet jaded.

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Murder she did!

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Jessica Fletcher dinosaur sleuth is the ONLY Murder, She Wrote remake I want to see!

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I made this masterpiece in Blade and Soul 2 years ago: https://imgur.com/iT4Nvke

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Mother of pearl that is a beautiful monster you got there!

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@Gniponmei holy hell I accidentaly had zoom on 250% when opening your picture. Almost jumped. That amazing face.

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LOL, if it makes you feel better, I got jumped scared three times earlier, once at work.

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Here's another one for you https://imgur.com/1b3Tfvp and here's my actual character: https://imgur.com/MCvXyeX

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Haha, christ get that normal looking girl out of here. I want a character that makes the online cute game an actual horror game. <3

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I used to always play male characters but now I only play as females

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Really me too. The amount of options females have over male is just massive in every game. I almost feel obligated to most the time

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I *know* what it's like to be an average brown-haired white guy. I'll take any opportunity to experience something else.

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Sorry, you won't ever find out what boobies feel like on yourself.

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Same here. I also prefer non-human options whereever possible.

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Oh, I never play a human in my DnD games. I'm *already* a human! And it sucks!

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I don't really *get* playing characters based on yourself. I want to roleplay as some other character, not a bizarre doppelganger of myself.

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It's placing yourself in another world. Not that hard to get.

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If you gotta look at an ass for the whole playthrough why not be a girls big ass?

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When I first tried it in an MMO way back initially I was just playing around with the character creator. I ended up sticking with the...

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2) character purely because of how different the experience was. Everyone was so much more friendly and social all of a sudden. Obviously...

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5) offers of help. People would happily give party offers that benefited me and only slowed them down. Casually talking about random stuff

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6) and occasionally using the smile emote seemed to be all the reward they needed. Was all a curious experience overall. It doesn't really

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3) there were the occasional twerps that'd start messaging you broken English stories about their dicks, but overall it was just far more

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4) interesting than the comparative silence and apathy my original characters received. Not to mention, the free stuff and overly eager

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7) happen in modern MMOs these days. The concept of playing the opposite gender is no longer remotely unusual to people.

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As a gamer girl, I've always found some of those interactions kind of patronizing, but I can see where it'd be a fun experiment.

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Sometimes definitely, I know what you mean. Other times it's brain dead worship, other times balls-for-brains motivated sleaze. Although my

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2) experience of it was obviously only the reaction to the assumed identity of a game avatar, rather than voice chat or any longterm gaming

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4) refreshing enough to enjoy it. Everything before then was "Can this guy help me get x item/level/quest? If no, person does not exist."

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3) interactions. I guess it'd perhaps says something about how starved for attention guys can get, that I found all the shallow "friendship"

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Same, but I've been a huge fan of female heroes/warriors in fantasy settings since 1991 when my cousin painted me the golden axe woman 1/2

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riding an armored bear and Pai (3x3 Eyes) riding on her flying demon in 1994. Got a Shampoo (Ranma) in 1996 for xmas.

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Do you have that painting of the Golden Axe woman still? Can we see it please? :)

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No, all of that cool shit, 2000+ comics, Playboys 1976-1994, and family pictures were lost in a storage fire in 2002. :/ I really wish I had

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them still. He gave her the axe the dwarf and the bear was an armored polar bear.

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My current favorite MMO character https://imgur.c">/XDjDcUM">https://imgur.com/XDjDcUM /iHy19rZ (Shampoo looked just like this btw)

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and my female pandaren main in WoW https://imgur.c">/hYJk1hl">https://imgur.com/hYJk1hl /OrZwoSG

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I think I speak for everyone here when I say we all know far more about you than we feel comfortable with.

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"Username unavailable"

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You need to find a more unique gaming handle then.

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"Username too long"

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the bane of BDO

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"Disconnected from server due to being idle" and then have create the character from scratch.

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The worst is when you're able to look up the user who used that name, and find out they played for 5 mins a year and a half ago.

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I always name mine after LotR characters. Had to go through the entire fucking Silmarillion to find one for ESO.

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After 10 years of MMO's ive got a good stable of character names for all uses. Like old comfy socks

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I have a few from WoW that I'm surprised nobody ever caught on to and stole...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same here. I have about 15 names that I use depending on the type of character.

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Same here but with nearly 20 years. Outside of a couple anime offshoots for fun, mt character names have been original.

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Yup. I dont understand LolCocks11234435 as being engaging at all. Im by no means a RP'er, but why cant people even try

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I always loved how ToonTown never gave you that shit. You wanna be called Donald Duck? You're goddamn Donald Duck.

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In the new Toon Town, you make your name then wait a few days before they approve it. I played it a lot about a year and a half ago

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Thats how I got this

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Every multiplayer game, ever.

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I really like the Battle.net solution. Just add unique identifiers to the name. You display as what you want to be called.

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The fun part is when you find someone with the same name and then you group up to mess with people

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Won't ever be finding another Wevis though.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I dunno. I use a pretty personal name that I wouldn't expect anyone else to have, yet I found someone randomly in overwatch with the same.

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Battlefront 2 comes out on your username.

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Add a 1 and work your way up. You get your name plus it shows you're new which helps in any MMO

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I always tend to either put 3 at the end of the name (Cuz it's san in Japanese, which also, sorta, means Mr/Ms/Mrs)

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DonkeyPuncher7098374....lots of DonkeyPunchers i guess.

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PussyD3str0y3r69. Yes, there were 68 PussyD3str0y3er's before me.

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Available.

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That's the worst.

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I hate that since to me i think who the hell uses PunkySpunky as their name? I’m the only one goes by that

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I have a unique great nick I've used since 1999 MUD's, never seen anyone use it, and it's really good for lore. NO, I am not telling it.

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Dick Stronghuge

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I wanna know!!!

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Stop Vagueimguring.

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I hope it’s buttnom

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Pls tell me I only use the name "wild Meli" or something VERY similar.

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Well obviously not on imgur I don't

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No -.- Was even recommended by my old WoW guild to change it when we started getting one of the better guilds on the server to keep it.

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Ah, MUDs perfect for when you want to game and read at the same time. :)

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I really miss it. All my old-time MUD's are pretty much dead now, I used to write a lot of areas for them as well.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I have 2 usernames that I use. Apparently some people have started using them and it’s really annoying

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I google mine at random times in fear of it finally being used by others ... so far, so good.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

There's a reason I have a 4 in my username most the time... three other people on this planet chose my damn name in Starcraft 1 :-)

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I had a unique name I used in all my games that was never taken 15 years ago. Now I can't find ANYTHING where it's not been taken already.

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Cmon

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Hell no, I'm so happy I never have to think about nicks when signing up for anything. I've threatened my friends with murder if they nab it.

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You're totally lying. Tell us or you're lying

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But I have gotten a lot of compliments for the creativity and how it explains an entire story almost on its own. Great for greek mythology.

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Is it the story of Bophades?

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Just tell us you big homi

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh god. The fucking amount of time I wasted trying to come up w/ a unique IGN... ヽ(ಥдಥ)ノ.. The longest was 2 hours on an anagram generator.

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Surprisingly, the amount of time is opposite when it comes to IGN being unique... ZING!

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I probably shouldn't jinx It, but I hold a version of the name "sunrisen" on most sites, I'm surprised nobody else has the username

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Sometimes I add 'star' to the end but that's the furthest I've had to take it

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I'm surprised my username wasn't taken

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Mine is never taken. I have yet to find a game or website where it is

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Since my main username is only 5 letters it often is, but my alternative never is at the same time.

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Same.

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Twitch was the only place my screen name was taken, but rockstar has a minimum length of 6 characters, so that didn't work.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nice! It was that way for me when MMOs implemented surnames. I even had a unique first name, then I started seeing another player w/ it...

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Same here mine is usually good to go.

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My most used username isn't usually taken but my character name might be

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Yeah, same here... But my name has been taking TWICE. WHO THE FUCK THINKS OF MY FUCKING NAMES

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Mine is available.for the most.part.

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Only time mine is taken is when I created an account earlier but forget the login. Darnit XBox gamertag. :X

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