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Name: Aidan Steele
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Joined: September 21, 2005

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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.

The nickname PuGZ is a variant on PuGGer, a name I go by in several other places on the Internet. I picked up the name sometime in 2001 - 2002, during the glory days of Q3F 1h in Australia. I would play lots of PuGs (pick-up games) for professional clans, but never joined any. I like to think it was because I was above them, but when I think back..

I've since given up video games as of about 2004 - not by conscious effort, but sheer laziness. As such, I figured the nickname PuGZ/PuGGer is becoming a bit irrelevant and I now opt to go by clever anagrams of my real name: Sedate Alien, Aliased Teen, Ideal Senate, etc.

I'm writing this to avoid studying for my maths exam tomorrow. Rargh.

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