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I first participated in a forum about 30 years ago. Maybe I am wrong but I donāt think that characters like ā£æ were possible to type.
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Right. We used standard ascii. Often with the small 128 characters set.
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Iāve used this username since circa 1989 when I was playing in a newfangled online text-based āMUDā , and wanted to signal that I was new.
My profile pic is in fact me.
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The username Iāve been using for some months now means āBlackbeardā in Rhaeto-romance.
The profile pic on the forum is from a picture that our friend @bugcat shared a while ago. The one I use on OGS itself if a cross-over of the yin-yang and a bowling ball, the sacred symbol of Dudeism.
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New year, new profile picā¦ I think I want to commission something better from an artist eventually but in the meantime, placeholder cropped from this on set picture from Red Beard:
Because older Toshiro Mifune looking concerned while smoking a cigarette gives me serious 2022 energy
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I recently switched from my old username (le_4TC) to this one (antonTobi).
The old one has been my standard online handle since forever, and I still quite like it āvisuallyā (although it does feel a bit childish to me now, since I came up with it when I was very young). However, on the rare occasion I wanted to tell someone my handle IRL or in voice chat, it could lead to some confusion.
So for a long time Iāve been trying to come up with a new one. Itās tricky because Iād gotten so used to the old one being āmeā, anything else I considered didnāt feel right.
Looking at some youtube and twitch channels I follow, there are many that just use their real name, which seems like a pretty solid choice. However, my last name is spelt in an unusual way - one time when my family checked into a hotel we found that they had got the name wrong in four distinct places. So probably not a good choice if I want to make my handle easy to remember.
Iāve always liked my middle name, āTobiasā, although Iāve never used it (except as the T in le_4TC 
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And then I had the idea that if I just take the first four letters I get āTobiā, a lovely go term 
Just Tobi by itself is a bit short unfortunately, and surely taken in most places. So I stuck it behind my first name. I also decided to use camelCase to show where the second name begins - I donāt see a lot of camelcase usernames, so it makes it feel a little more unique.
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And while Iām at it, my (not so new) profile picture is based on this Appolonian Gasket:
Since all avatars here are cropped to be circular, I wanted to make one specifically for that format.
The coloring is meant to be go-themed, with a black and white stone on wood-ish background.
Those colors didnāt look as good on the main site, so I made a transparent variant:
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My nickname is a demonstration of the fact that I donāt have much imagination.
I wanted to register as āSofiaā on KGS but at that time it was already taken, so I added the first letter of my surname. I donāt remember why I chose to put it in lower case. Fun fact: I still donāt know how to pronounce it.
On OGS I used the same nickname until I found out that you could also enter special characters. For a while I was āæSofiam. I donāt remember exactly why, I probably found the flower pretty. Then I switched to dolphins. I like swimming and butterfly (that in italian is called ādelfinoā, dolphin in English) is my favourite stroke. Iām not going to change it again, considering that emojis in nicknames arenāt allowed anymore and have become rare.
For a long time I used this avatar, I liked it because it represents a girl playing go (a bit like the one I have here now).
Now I have a pink killer rabbit: Iāve been told it looks like me when I play go and I approve it XD
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People who know me IRL can easily guess who I am from my username.
I chose my avatar because John Fairbairn repeatedly complains on the L19 forum about Mickey Mouse time limits in professional competitions, for instance here: commented shusaku game. ā¢ Life In 19x19
Short time controls may be objectionable for professional matches, but they agree well with amateurs like me who donāt take things too seriously. On the other hand, Mickey Mouse is a smart character so if he played go, I imagine he could reach amateur dan level.
The image is a stamp from the Gambia, which belongs to a collection that was edited for PHILANIPPON '91 World Stamp Exhibition, Tokyo, 16ā24 November 1991.
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My avatar is a drawing / portrait of me made by one of the twin daughters of my best friends, about 8 years ago. It suits me well on the web. My name refers to Issa Kobayashi, a Japanese poet whose work I appreciate very much. The T. stands for the place I live, sometimes changed for 013, the area code for landlines.
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I started with the letters āGā and āoā and just kept going until I had something cute-sounding.
An interesting phenomenon Iāve noticed since joining Zoom calls at the beginning of the pandemic is that men ages 40+ tend to react to my name with something along the lines of āthatāsā¦ā¦ weird. How did you come up with that o.Oā And everybody else tends to react with āoh thatās super cute!ā
Donāt ask me why 
And no, I was not aware of Gwyneth Paltrowās bizarre candle company until after it was pointed out to me. On-stream. Fun times
My profile picture is a picture of me because they canāt doxx me if I doxx myself first 
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Unfortunately goop is a whole brand.
Please become super successful so you can eclipse her Google search results.
Thank you.
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I didnāt find āGoopletā weird, however it is intriguing since it sounds like a real word but isnāt one, so I was wondering if there was some hidden meaning.
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Probably because ā-pletā sounds cute and french-ish and āgoopā sounds gooey and blobby and a little weirdā¦ And I guess different people are drawn more strongly to one of those than the other? 
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French eh? Should I be pronouncing it [guple]?
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Please donāt take pronunciation advice from the Wrong Anglo-Saxon 
I think I was more thinking like -ette from baguette
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One of my most beloved things is when French alphabet videos for beginners reach āh comme hĆ“telā.
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