2013-07-03, 06:12 AM
Robotic Anxiety
When I first started being serious about online communities - I'm pretty sure Steam was the first place I used this handle - I wanted something 'impossible' as a name. I immediately went to robots, and how they aren't supposed to have the ability to 'feel'. I didn't want to have something like 'Robotic Sadness', so I ended up going with Anxiety. People still ask me about it because it seems completely random.
Jedward
In the book Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, the main character has a younger brother named Jed, who died when they were kids. I identified strongly with this character and how he felt that his younger brother always surpassed him, even from beyond the grave. Jed was too short for a lot of sites so I thought to expand it to Jedward as a silly composition of 'Jed' and 'Edward'. I was not aware of this at the time.
Eggelent
Egg Venture is an arcade game from the 90s that I heard about on a videogame podcast that I listen to. It has some really bad egg puns, like.. well.. 'eggelent'. (It's "egg" and "excellent", by the way.)
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![[Image: worldofegg.png]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4085446/significant/worldofegg.png)
When I first started being serious about online communities - I'm pretty sure Steam was the first place I used this handle - I wanted something 'impossible' as a name. I immediately went to robots, and how they aren't supposed to have the ability to 'feel'. I didn't want to have something like 'Robotic Sadness', so I ended up going with Anxiety. People still ask me about it because it seems completely random.
Jedward
In the book Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, the main character has a younger brother named Jed, who died when they were kids. I identified strongly with this character and how he felt that his younger brother always surpassed him, even from beyond the grave. Jed was too short for a lot of sites so I thought to expand it to Jedward as a silly composition of 'Jed' and 'Edward'. I was not aware of this at the time.
Eggelent
Egg Venture is an arcade game from the 90s that I heard about on a videogame podcast that I listen to. It has some really bad egg puns, like.. well.. 'eggelent'. (It's "egg" and "excellent", by the way.)
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