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    Let's Talk Usernames: Origin Stories, Alternatives, and What's the Most Outlandish Name You've Ever Considered for Yourself?

    Life is a mystery So let it be Don't try to make the music Just set it free - Lisa Bevill
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    Have You Ever Traded One Vice (Bad Habit) For Another? One Thing, One Thing, Leads to Another... (for those who remember the song!)

    "I've about decided to give up on getting married. I'm just gonna go out every three or four years, find a woman I can't stand and buy her a house. It'll come out the same, with less aggravation and ulcers." Lewis Grizzard: "I didn't know it was getting so bad until I saw a car on the freeway...
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    Have You Ever Traded One Vice (Bad Habit) For Another? One Thing, One Thing, Leads to Another... (for those who remember the song!)

    It was actually kind of surprising, not to mention disheartening, when I found out about this. I always blithely played through games for the stories. When I googled tips and tricks on a game and started running into gamer egos it was something of a culture shock. There is a game called...
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    Have You Ever Traded One Vice (Bad Habit) For Another? One Thing, One Thing, Leads to Another... (for those who remember the song!)

    Comedian quote: I wanted to get a Fitbit but I'm too poor. So I got a discount version from the dollar store. My friend's Fitbit gives her encouraging messages, like "good job!" when she walks a certain number of steps. My version is a lot more passive aggressive. "Would it kill you to eat...
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    Have You Ever Traded One Vice (Bad Habit) For Another? One Thing, One Thing, Leads to Another... (for those who remember the song!)

    Skyrim... Ugh. Skyrim had so many things wrong with it. The 2 mile wide, one centimeter deep plot line was just the tip of the iceberg. The first time I fought a dragon it was thrilling. I was dodging fireballs and slinging arrows, just barely hanging on. By the 14th dragon, it was kind of...
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    Have You Ever Traded One Vice (Bad Habit) For Another? One Thing, One Thing, Leads to Another... (for those who remember the song!)

    There certainly are a lot of video games that pander to fulfilling a sense of achievement. There is a lot of pride in gamer communities on the whole. I'm not so sure about the umbilical thing though. Most game controllers are wireless these days.
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    Confused

    I'm in southwest TN so this is unfamiliar to me. Tickets? How many tickets did he get? How much are additional tickets? Could he BUY more tickets for the family he is leaving out? I've seen my family members shut out their family twice. My brother has ignored his whole family for more than a...
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    stuffed critters past or present?

    Do action figures count? I think they should. Brainstorm (Transformers: Headmasters line) was my version of a teddy bear. He was much cooler than a stuffed bear though. He could fly and shoot lasers and stuff.
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    Have You Ever Traded One Vice (Bad Habit) For Another? One Thing, One Thing, Leads to Another... (for those who remember the song!)

    Uh... Nope. Mine was video games, and mostly to fill time. And when I put them down, i picked up something equally useless. I didn't actually solve the problem until I stopped looking for ways to waste time and started looking for useful things to do with my time. That was when life stopped...
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    Let's Talk Usernames: Origin Stories, Alternatives, and What's the Most Outlandish Name You've Ever Considered for Yourself?

    Oh... Yeah, I live in constant fear of his retribution. :p
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    Have You Ever Traded One Vice (Bad Habit) For Another? One Thing, One Thing, Leads to Another... (for those who remember the song!)

    I have decided to quit doing something one time, only to find I had replaced it with something else. On closer examination, because I am always big on understanding why I do something, I discovered I had not addressed the root problem. I had only addressed a symptom, which then manifested in a...
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    Let's Talk Usernames: Origin Stories, Alternatives, and What's the Most Outlandish Name You've Ever Considered for Yourself?

    That's all right. I'll remember that at the next meet up.
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    Let's Talk Usernames: Origin Stories, Alternatives, and What's the Most Outlandish Name You've Ever Considered for Yourself?

    The adjective for iron is ferrous. I know, I know, you're making a joke. But what you don't understand is, I am a pedant. :geek:
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    Let's Talk Usernames: Origin Stories, Alternatives, and What's the Most Outlandish Name You've Ever Considered for Yourself?

    So I have learned two things from this thread. 1. Seoulsearch wants a large family but does not want responsibility for it, so she casts herself as a sister instead of the mother. That way she can spread the work around instead of doing it herself as the mom. 2. Seoulsearch and Subhumanoidal...
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    Let's Talk Usernames: Origin Stories, Alternatives, and What's the Most Outlandish Name You've Ever Considered for Yourself?

    I only have two nickname stories, and they both come from the old apostolic chat days. May it rust in peace. When I first started chatting online I chose Psalm_97 because I liked that Psalm. A couple years later I dropped it and just used my name, isaac. One of the moderators kept calling me...
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