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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

This was the first name I ever used online, back in 1996. "Armage Bedar" was a name I just made up for playing Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, and since that was much of what I was doing online during that time, I kept it as my main identity.

Ten years later, it still persists. Old habits die hard, I guess.