03-27-2013, 01:06 AM
About 10 or so years ago Shonen Jump packaged one of its issues with a beta disc of Yu-Gi-Oh online, and being a total YGO nerd at the time I was so excited about playing YGO with other people that were not total cheaters that I only played it once and forgot about it.
I gave the game another try in 2006 long after the beta. While in-between games I would notice that the lobby chat would always have some users doing role-play as anime characters, some original some not, and by time I ran out of duel points (the in-game currency to play) I figured why not join in too.
Well my username at that time was “Dieohada” and in my head I read it as Die-o-ha-da (which is a stupid name I gave to a drawing I did), but one user kept getting it wrong and saying, “Dieohada? Dieo had a what?” and he would always say that when I joined the chat. So I decided to do something, while role-playing, to him that ended up getting everyone in the chat super pissed at me; it got so bad I made a new role-playing alias named “LightandDarkMatt”. The idea behind LightandDarkMatt was about the anime trope of “this character has a good side and bad side” which, you guessed it, was accompanied by two other usernames: LightMatt and DarkMatt.
And to hurry this story along, the role-playing anime fans I hung out with liked LightMatt more than the other two usenames, and I got tired of logging out and in to keep up the gimmick so I decided to stick with LightMatt from that point forward. Every new site my chums would sign up for be it Gaia online, youtube (To post really stupid AMVs), Yahoo IM, etc. I’d followed behind bearing the username Lightmatt.
So there you go, my username is based on something dumb I did in a chatroom when I was 13 and I haven’t bothered trying to come up with something better since. It’s a banner of how much of a total dork I am.
I gave the game another try in 2006 long after the beta. While in-between games I would notice that the lobby chat would always have some users doing role-play as anime characters, some original some not, and by time I ran out of duel points (the in-game currency to play) I figured why not join in too.
Well my username at that time was “Dieohada” and in my head I read it as Die-o-ha-da (which is a stupid name I gave to a drawing I did), but one user kept getting it wrong and saying, “Dieohada? Dieo had a what?” and he would always say that when I joined the chat. So I decided to do something, while role-playing, to him that ended up getting everyone in the chat super pissed at me; it got so bad I made a new role-playing alias named “LightandDarkMatt”. The idea behind LightandDarkMatt was about the anime trope of “this character has a good side and bad side” which, you guessed it, was accompanied by two other usernames: LightMatt and DarkMatt.
And to hurry this story along, the role-playing anime fans I hung out with liked LightMatt more than the other two usenames, and I got tired of logging out and in to keep up the gimmick so I decided to stick with LightMatt from that point forward. Every new site my chums would sign up for be it Gaia online, youtube (To post really stupid AMVs), Yahoo IM, etc. I’d followed behind bearing the username Lightmatt.
So there you go, my username is based on something dumb I did in a chatroom when I was 13 and I haven’t bothered trying to come up with something better since. It’s a banner of how much of a total dork I am.