Usernames - how did you choose yours?

Ceno · December 25, 2017, 1:38pm

Way back in ye’ olde days of the world, when we were all deciding upon a screenname to pick for ourselves to define ourselves on the greater internet, I decided upon the one that is ‘Ceno’. There was purpose to this choice, though that purpose seems a little mangled nowadays. Way back when (2007), I wanted a name that was humbling and approachable without being overly complex. ‘Common’ was the concept I wanted to approach, to seem as nondescript as possible. So I took to Google Translate and asked for the Latin ( ) word for Common, which was supposedly ‘Ceno’. Well, if you’ve actually taken Latin, you’d know that ‘Ceno’ has very little to do with whether or not something is ‘common’, but I didn’t know that at the time. I wanted a ‘common’ persona that I could do great things with, that I might inspire others to do the same; if someone so ‘common’ is capable of doing greatness, then so too must you all be capable of, as you all are very special.

Other aliases of mine are Rayd and Samael, and combinations of these three (e.g., Samael_Ceno is my current Runescape handle).

Rayd - Chose this to register on pcpartpicker, when I was building a computer for myself and some of my friends. Back then, it was in reference to RAID configurations, but I liked it for the MMO/RPG sort of connotations as well (e.g., going on raids with friends).

Samael - Samael’s an archangel in Judaism (I’m agnostic), one of my favorite characters in the Darksiders series, and is not far off from my real name of Samuel. adoomgod, my partner in crime modding, has his alias as a demonic reverse-portmanteau of his actual name too, so I felt Samael was especially fitting likewise.