Girlfriend just called me Sole.

[Darog the Badger God]

Hank said
You're all weird. I've never introduced myself as Hank (or any of my other internet handles) to anyone, and even when I've met up with people that I met through RPG we all comfortably used each other's real names consistently. Losers.

This.

I've met online folks before and we would just use our actual names.

[Cpt Toellner]

Nobody outside of the guild knows me as Toellner.

[genghismike]

Darog the Badger God said
This.I've met online folks before and we would just use our actual names.

If I ever met you, I'd refuse to call you anything but Darog the Badger God.

It has a nice ring to it, and would probably get some weird looks in public.

The Badger God indeed.

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

I sign everything with "Clirkus" because it's quicker, already a mesh of my first and last names, and so illegible that nobody cares anyway.

Some of my friends call me Clirkus irl 'cause they think it's funny.

[Gwazi Magnum]

I call myself Gwazi Magnum on enough places (3DS Mii included) that most people know that I go by that name online.

[idlehands]

I've never done this, ever. Hell it was embarrassing enough telling my husband what my name was on RPG/steam and some other stuff, all of it's the same. Worlds were colliding.

[Kaga]

Virtually all of my RL friends call me Kaga. As does one of my professors.

I kind of like it more than my real name, so I'm cool with this.

[Giygas]

How did you guys even get your online names?

[Beatrix]

idlehands said
I've never done this, ever. Hell it was embarrassing enough telling my husband what my name was on RPG/steam and some other stuff, all of it's the same. Worlds were colliding.

If he ever decides to get online, his name would be a perfect username.

I remember a time when Mike and I were communicating offline and he refused to call me by my real name :/

[TP]

Fucking losers, getting called by your internet names.

[The Nexerus]

No one that I've ever known IRL has called me by anything but my real name.

[Cpt Toellner]

Giygas said
How did you guys even get your online names?

It was a youthful dream of mine, my dad was a Captain when I grew up, so I wanted to be like him. It eventually became my goal in the army before my mind changed. I adopted the name Blitzkrieg because it was my game-clan handle and my paintball call-sign, but I eventually chose Toellner here to stick with nostalgia.

[The Nexerus]

Giygas said
How did you guys even get your online names?

Classical Latin.

[Kaga]

I don't even understand why RL friends calling you by your online name is such a negative thing.

[TP]

Kaga said
I don't even understand why RL friends calling you by your online name is such a negative thing.

NNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDD

[aza]

Giygas said
How did you guys even get your online names?

Two of my friends decided to use shitty handles

I spliced them together and ended up with a better handle :)

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

Kaga said
I don't even understand why RL friends calling you by your online name is such a negative thing.

Mine was an RL nickname before it was an online name.

[TP]

Giygas said
How did you guys even get your online names?

Torment Pain. Stupid young teenage angst stuff of whatever. Shortened to T-Pain. Shortened to TP. Viola, there's where TP comes from.

[Teoinsanity]

Raxacoricofallapatorius said
Mine was an RL nickname before it was an online name.

So was mine,well atleast the Teo part

[Halo]

I was 13, and very stupid, and thought "HaloAssault" was a cool name. I asked for it to be changed, but as everyone's experience with the old name-change thread attests to, the process was slow (not that I begrudge that; Mahz and Contra have better shit to do.) Of course, "Halo" was the natural shortening of that ridiculous name, so when I had to remake my account on NewGuild... this is the only place I have that handle, though. I have multiple others I use elsewhere.