Explain your UnionVGF name!

[Plainview]

Originally I was Nike at Teamxbox. Wore a lot of Nike clothes so, decided that was a cool name. It was. I use an alternate Nike account here too when checking permissions. After seeing the movie There Will Be Blood, which I instantly loved, I thought about changing my name to Plainview. I loved the character Daniel Plainview. I shared some of his feelings on some things and could relate to him. So, made the decision to change it.

 

[Kerosene31]

Way back in the 90s I was picking a screen name for stuff, and every cool name I could think of seemed to be taken. I don't even remember what community it would have been way back when, but it seemed every name was taken (which of course it wasn't, but I was lazy). I had this song stuck in my head, so I took this and added my hockey number to it (used to play goalie back in the day).

I always figured someday I would change it to something more clever and never bothered. After like 25 years it seems kind of odd to change it, even though I don't really like it.

 

[Kvally]

The ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life.

Fits me to a "T". Hedon was my first gamertag ever. Not sure why I gave it up. But now I am back with Hedon again on both PSN and XBL, albeit I had to add an x in front of Hedon since it said I couldn't use Hedon. I assume it was taken after I stopped using it.

I want it the same for UnionVGF.

 

[tumorman]

When I was 13 (2002) I found out I had a benign tumor in my left knee. A couple friends made up a nickname for me, "Dan Dan The Tumor Man" and I decided to roll with tumorman as my gamertag when I got XBL a couple years later. Figured why the hell not let's keep rolling with this.

 

[Larry]

My mom made my account for me.

 

[Swede]

When I was 13 (2002) I found out I had a benign tumor in my left knee. A couple friends made up a nickname for me, "Dan Dan The Tumor Man" and I decided to roll with tumorman as my gamertag when I got XBL a couple years later. Figured why the hell not let's keep rolling with this.

Wait.... and this happened again just now?!

 

[Swede]

Also, my name comes from the English word for a native man from the Scandinavian country of Sweden.

 

[karmakid]

My mom made my account for me.

 

[tumorman]

Wait.... and this happened again just now?!

Yeaahhhh they found one in the exact same spot on my other knee, so I gotta make an appointment with an Orthopedist to get this one checked out just in case. Peace of mind and all that.

Part of the reason why I decided to not drop cash on the new XBox. May be paying my insurance some $$$ for testing. America, we're great!

 

[karmakid]

Interned at a place that happened to have karma in its name, I was the youngest person there. I’d go to events, one guy who knew me said “your the kid from karma...” one other walks in and says “yeah that’s the karma kid” and it stuck whilst I was there

 

[karmakid]

Also, my name comes from the English word for a native man from the Scandinavian country of Sweden.

 

[Videodrome]

Mine is also from a movie. Videodrome is the title of an extremely fvcked kind of movie and could maybe be considered very early cyberpunk.


So..... back in the day before repetitive Recessions when I had a kind of steady job, I was sort of working on a broadcasting career which included driving a News Van but mostly sitting at a console doing the job known as Master Control Room operator which is running the station's main video switch board. It was sort of interesting, but mostly awful and I used to fantasize about strangling Maury Povich. I unfortunately had the task of running all these awful syndicated TV shows and most of them just pissed me off they were so terrible and the early morning Televangelists were just insane.


Anyway, somehow I stumbled across the end of this while channel surfing and I"m like "What in the actual fvck!?". It's hard to describe, but it involves different factions trying to use video technology to help humanity develop or to weaponize it.

I also feel this was way ahead of it's time having a very crude version of what strongly resembles a VR Helment.

Oddly enough, after the 2008 Recession I started over as a truck driver and now barely ever watch TV. When I do happen to see it, especially any kind of Network News, it's like someone giving me the finger in video form. It's so disgusting and it's staggering how poorly done it all is. However, I do have a great appreciation for new formats like Netflix.

Otherwise, I just really like fvcked up surreal movies in general.

 

[Tommygun.]

uh

my name is tom and I was 13

 

[DarkPassenger]

Originally I was Psycho Realm at TXB. After the exodus to UnionVGF, I changed it to Darkpassenger.

I used the screen name Psycho realm, taken from the Hip Hop group affiliated with Cypress Hill. Darkpassenger was taken from one of my favorite TV shows, Dexter.

 

[Pureshooter]

My high school basketball coach called me a pure shooter. I’ll let you connect the dots.

 

[Z A C K]

Tis my name

 

[tumorman]

Tis my name

Nice to see you dude

 

[Z A C K]

Nice to see you dude

You too! With covid and no commuting to work I haven't been around much since most of my time here over the last couple years was during subway rides.

But now with the new console hype decided I'd check back in. Hope all is well.

 

[Tate]

My real name is Antonio but in high school someone randomly nicknamed me Tate. I was also fat and some people would call me big Tate.

566 was my lunch number, lol, in high school. That number is part of my email and PSN ganertag.

 

[tumorman]

You too! With covid and no commuting to work I haven't been around much since most of my time here over the last couple years was during subway rides.

But now with the new console hype decided I'd check back in. Hope all is well.

Time to start slacking at work and post on here. Not what I do at all but man I bet that would be a good idea for other people.


Again not me at all.