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beastmoddr10 because ābeastmodeā was not going to be possible to get at all.
This was just based on Marshawn Lynch (Seattle Seahawks, Running Back). It is very atypical, as we donāt watch too many American sports in our country - and NFL is probably the least known or least followed.
His nickname of āBeastmodeā stuck after he just pummelled through 5 New Orleans Saints defensive players.
I took a break from football/soccer and started watching the cousin sports of football ā international rugby and NFL. And the Legion of Boom (Seahawks defensive superstars) was booming when I started watching this sport. Amazingly dysfunctional team with some of the best catchy nicknames.
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Mine is HOAGIErespect. I like hoagies/subs/heroes/whatever you call them where youāre from. They are delicious and worthy of adoration and respect.
Please respect hoagies. Thank u
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I got mine from my Dad making fun of my first Xbox avatarā¦ No, seriously. He said it looked like the āHustler Kidā from the cartoon Recess, so he dubbed the avatar Slick Tony. It has been my handle for more than a decade now. And my nameās not even Tony 
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I like bacon on mine
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Itās simple. I was big Dreamcast fan. When the OG Xbox released, I saw it as a spiritual successor to the Dreamcast.
A year later, when accepted into the XBL Beta I used ādreamcastā for my gamertag and never looked back.
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My gamertag is one that I had since the XBL beta (then lost it, then got it backā¦long story)ā¦but the origin of my gamertag is basically the origin of my āinternet handleā which is āzedoxā. It was originall Sub-Zedox, and that came from Sub-Zero back when Mortal Kombat first came out (yes, the first one) where me and my cousin would do a play on the name. Iāve been rocking zedox, sub-zedox, sil-zedox (that was based on silence-zedox and another long story that involved Counter-Strike). So if you ever see āzedoxā onlineā¦there are a bunch of copies nowā¦it wasnāt like this around 5 years ago where I was the only one. Everyone has copied me. KTHXBAI.
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I like Mandalorian so i just replace Manda with Gamer and that how i got my Gamertag lol.
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Name of my YouTube Channel keep it simple I love Halo and gaming in general and my favorite number is 8 HaloGaming08 changed it earlier this year
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Keep them coming people.
I find this fascinating.
Mine is a fairly nonsense one, but it stuck around. I was born in Hungary, and as a very small kid, my parents recall me misspeaking the word āmajomā for monkey as āmamojā, which eventually somehow turned into a sort of an in-joke for me to get ābabojā as one of the nicknames. When I first registered an online persona in 2000 or so, we chose the Baboy username, since it sounded more international and cool.
I did experiment with game-specific usernames in the next few years: in shooter I would use a stylized version of Fragman, in some other games Iād combine my love for Bomberman and Worms for a Bomberworm name, but I kept gravitating back to Baboy for some reason, which ultimately sticked as I made myself a decent career in certain games: TrackMania, mainly.
I eventually joined the Xbox ecosystem in 2009, and it was time to make a gamertag. Baboy was taken, so I took another look back at my online gaming past in the early 2000ās when leetspeak was all the rage. Decided to go for what was already a throwback at the time, and opted for baboy1337. I considered changing it sometimes, but ultimately I was known enough with this name to make it stick.
I did since use other usernames in other communities, like FairyEmpire in here. But my gaming persona is, for the foreseeable future, gonna stay Baboy or some variation of it 
Itās not even because I particularly care about its origin or anything, but it covers so much of my gaming history that I would not want to get rid of.
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Used a pirate name generator in 2010 and it gave me Dirty Jon Flint. Decided DirtyFlint sounded cool and stuck with it ever since.
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Cool story.
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Seeing as we have so many new joiners it feels like a good time to bump this thread.
Back in the day, when IRC was prevalent, Sydney had just been selected as the host city for the 2000 Olympics. So I quickly pinched it as the āunofficial IRC /nick of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.ā I then started using it as my screen name for most other applications.
It wasnāt until later that I realised that using the same screen name for multiple applications was a BAD idea. It wasnāt hard to search the same screen name and find which application I had signed on for. So I changed it for most applications.
āGood Old Collingwoodā is a screen name I only use for XboxEra.
GOC
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Mine is really boring. My name, followed by my year I created that account.
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I got doxed back in my hacking days because I made and gave away tools when others were selling theirs and they got angry. There was some decent money in it, but I had children and then started feeling very bad for what I was doing and didnāt want to go prison and leave my kids behind.
I changed my gamer tag a few times and no oneās been able to link me up. They never will either. 
My GT is because I love HP Lovecraft and Cats.
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Funnily enough I grew up near to a lost city called Dunwich.
I had Bugalugs213 on 360 and could never log back into it so I went with Bugalugs214. The name is from a childrenās book over in Australia. Bugalugs was taken so I had to add numbers onto the end of it.
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Aphantasic. Because I have aphantasia - the inability to visualize. Otherwise known as image-free imagination.
People with aphantasia donāt create any images of familiar objects, people, or places in their mindās eye, not for thoughts, memories, or pictures of the future.
We lack this visual system completely .
Discovering this really helped me, it explained a bunch of stuff about how my mind works. And it was available without resorting to random numbers or Xās.
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