Haha yes! Hello cousin! I think I found my internet best friend! Lol, I’m fairly new to Brandon’s work, but Almighty above, I am so excited for book 5!
It’s a mnemonic major variation of Jake that is usually available… And I came to dot world before the first 2k users joined but after “Jake” was taken.
I was a teenager and I thought RadX sounded cool (this was a full year before Fallout 1 came out, so I don’t think it had any other inspiration). A few years later, I wanted a little continuity, but also something not quite so cringe-worthy. A single “i” fixed it.
Biology teacher in HS mentioned off-hand that apparently chickens can climb trees. I searched for images online, thought they were funny, and made it my handle.
That makes much more sense now that I think about it. I think debate about whether chickens could fly was the reason this came up way back then actually…
@treechicken normal healthy chickens can fly in a limited way, eg to chase insects or to get up into trees (they like sleeping in trees because it's safer) or on the roofs of barns etc.
People who keep poultry sometimes clip their wings (cut off the flight feathers) to stop them doing stuff like that.
For reasons I no longer remember, about 14 years ago I stumbled across The Endless Forest. I poked around on the web page a bit, decided it was interesting but not interesting enough to actually install, and moved on. A short while later I saw something on Reddit that I felt like posting a comment on, and so I created an account and this was the first username that popped to mind.
Quite some time later I got into modding a game called Minetest, and a very common element in its API is the "facedir" of a node - short for facing direction. I had a lot of people assume I'd drawn my name from that, but it was sheer coincidence.
Same here. I just couldn’t think of anything and I didn’t wanna reuse a name. I also wasn’t entirely sure if I’d stick around, so it didn’t feel super important. Oh well!
I’m really bad at name creation and wanted to try a character in an online game. Who could have guessed the name “try” was already taken… So I turned it around, it sounded alright for a dwarf char and 15 years later it’s still my username.
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