I think I've shared my story before, but I'll do it again just for the sake of the thread.
"Chrome" is my longest standing and most used ID so far, though I'd pretty much stopped using it about two or three years ago. I got the name from playing an Initial D flash game, where I had registered the ID "ChromeAce" with the website. I tried to use the same name when registering an account at a forum called OnRPG, but it was taken, so ChromeAce turned into ChromeForce. After OnRPG switched domains, I re-registered as xChrome. This all happened around 2005-2006. I had also registered for Sleepywood in 2005 as just Chrome. Since then I had been using some variation of "Chrome" as an ID everywhere--S4 League, Gunz, Dragonica, Steam, etc.
"Illogic"/"iLLogic" is another one. I don't use it nearly as much as any of my other IDs, but people sort of still recognize me by that name. I came up with it as my Starcraft II tag and it ended up spreading into S4, TF2, etc. I haven't really used it since then, but I figure it's significant enough to mention.
"Dropship" is one that I only ever used for S4 and ESEA/ESL when I played in S4/TF2 tournaments there. I was a reasonably recognized figure within the S4 community, so that's the only reason this one is kind of important.
"Boneface"/"BFCE" is probably the second most significant ID that I have going for me right now, with BFCE being an abbreviation for Boneface--I mostly use BFCE nowadays. I coined this when I started having weird recurring dreams in 2010/2011 with a character that I called "Boneface" appearing in all of them. "Boneface" started to replace "Chrome" around 2010, and it became the character that I stuck with when I played S4, though I later changed that character's name to Dropship. The name has really stuck, partly because it has some personal value to me, but mostly because I can look at it every day without it really seeming tired. I'm mostly known as BFCE whenever I register anywhere now.
Also, all of the various IDs/IGNs I can remember ever using, just for fun. I'll try to put this in chronological order.
Hope this turns out to be an interesting topic. Looking forward to reading some of your stories.
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