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[egypturnash]

I was watching Rik play a cute little Choplifter clone just now. He died, and it threw up the high score table - which was completely owned by "BUG".

Which is, of course, what he's been putting in games since he was a kid.

Me, I used to use my initials* - "PCT". At some point I wallowed in the depths of being a goddamned furry and started using "FUR". I am somewhat embarassed by this now. These days I tend to put in "PEG".

What's your high-scoreism? And why? Are you lucky enough to have a three-letter first name?

* the ones I was given when I was born; if I did that now it'd be "MET"...

Comments

[merrycalliope.livejournal.com]

Mine's boring, just my initials: SAW

[zrath.livejournal.com]

How interesting... (evil glint)

[robocoon.livejournal.com]

LOL. -Always-. ;D

[glashund.livejournal.com]

I always enter mine as "OAF". I really like the word oaf, and I'm kind of big and clumsy, so it's not entirely inappropriate. It's also my preferred marker for temporary and backup file renamings; where most people would use filename.tmp or filename.bak, I use filename.oaf.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Should totally be WOF. Wof!
Maybe W-zero-F?

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I've generally used XAV. That's an old nickname from back when I pretended to be a boy, back when my friends and I thought Spinchat wasn't a complete shit-hole of an internet chat service (though to be fair, it's where we all met).

Yeah, used to be short for Xavier, because I thought I was cool using that for a character name. Because it starts with X, and we all know that X is XXXTREME. But over time I realised that, while Xav was a pretty nifty nickname, what it was short for was not so cool any more. So I dropped the -ier for ever.

I still go by Xav with people who don't know about my queerness, and I imagine it's still pretty cool. To me. If I were going to be male, I'd use it. And it's definitely a handy high score name, because my actual initials (BLS) are terrible. It's a shame ERIS doesn't fit, though!

There's my life story.

[meggo87.livejournal.com]

That's an old nickname from back when I pretended to be a boy

and oh, how insistent you were ♥.

And now I will add mine. I use MEG. I imagine my reasoning should be obvious :3.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

MAT

:D

[read-alicia.livejournal.com]

FOX. Always FOX. ;)
And I'm going to be a big and famous author when I grow up, so nothing you can say about my choice of high score title can rattle me.

[eggshellhammer.livejournal.com]

REH. Robert E Howard.

[mutleyjames.livejournal.com]

MUT

[grrrowly.livejournal.com]

Mine is LAW, which is cool because when I was a kid, I would defile desks and stuff with "Obey the LAW".
I tried using GRO, short for Growly, but it looks kinda dumb.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

You could use "GRR".

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty cool one. :D

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time? Initials. I don't make my middle initial known anymore, but that's okay. Nowadays, I always use E-K. If there's no dash, it's E K, and if there's no space, it's E.K (unless there's an equals sign or something else neutral to use instead of the dash.) The great thing is that this works well in TRON, which only accepted two letters; it becomes simply EK. Some games suck ass, and have only letters and must accept three of them or nothing will be entered. For those, I am EEK. *sigh*

And no, it's never QAT or the like.

[itsnot4you.livejournal.com]

Since I was 11 and playing Q*Bert in the corner store...

ASH.

To say why would involve my psyche too much.

[amoux.livejournal.com]

To your last question: totally. :>

[cobaltie.livejournal.com]

Used to use my real initials, CSC. But I usually do a variation on Cobalt, like COB, CBD, and so forth.

In PC games that have longer slots, I usually label a really high score like 'WTF', or 'aaaaaaaahhhh'.

Rez, however, I score as CB and then some random punctuation. :-}

[zenmouse.livejournal.com]

EDO

[(Anonymous)]

KEN

(Boooooring...)

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

KAM. Always KAM.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

I just put in K cause i'm too lazy to bother with the other two.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

It used to be my very boring and unwieldy initials, KWP. When it was necessary to spin all the way through the alphabet, it took forever. Now I use CER.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

I'd usually go with CAT.

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

SpG or NAO(NAOki)

[waterotter.livejournal.com]

I use CHP. I stopped using my initials when I was like 8, because I decided CLB just looks dumb somehow.

[euphoriel.livejournal.com]

Nintendo games always get ACE from me, though I have used my initials JSR on occasion. Lately it's just been the more accurate (to me) TES, or the full Tarathene if there is room.

[luoto.livejournal.com]

"RIL"
Standing for: Raimo Ilmari Luoto...(That Ilmari-part seldom used however.)

[revar.livejournal.com]

Mostly I use REV nowadays.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Until about 1987, I used EAB.
Which, actually, does not include my middle initial.
I have an hyphenated first name, you see. :D

From '87 to '93, I used ZEN, from Zenobot, my BBS and GEnie handle.

From '93 onwards, it's ZS_ or Z-S for Zrath-Smiley.

WLF here.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

But I've been native american/furry since before I had two digits in my age. =^.^=

[xyzzysqrl]

I used to use my real initials, GEW.

Nowadays I tend to use SQL.

Hi-Score!

[klawzie.livejournal.com]

If we're going three-letter Hi-Score, I use my actual initials, "RRR".

If I get more space (ex: 3-D Pinball that came with this computer), I put in "Chella_DATE-YEAR". Ex: "Chella_Jan24-2007" - And since I rarely play some games, putting in the date/year of the high score gives me something to compete against for lack of another player. Apparently, my self from several years ago had patience out the wazoo because I've got some wicked scores (at least in comparison to what I get now) that I can't beat now. :c

[stinkygoat.livejournal.com]

YAK, because it's a big, smelly, hairy ox, which kinda fit };-).

These days I am just as likely to sign with OX.

[nukewolf.livejournal.com]

ZAP here. It amused me in the some vague way back in the heydays of the Arcade Age.

[electricdog.livejournal.com]

As with wolfwings, I use WLF. Because it's my surname, and I'm a goddamn furry.

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

CHK, for "Chuck". This is how I would initial things when I worked at the book store. Thousands of special order cards with "CHK" in the initials slot.

Which is odd, 'cause I don't let people call me "Chuck", generally.

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

JAS. I'm so old that video game three-letter scoring was gone before I became a furry.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

I just remembered this one! More recently I've also used ASD, named for the first three home row keys on everybody's (least) favorite keyboard layout. :)

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

Always just been LEW... boring, eh?

Now, ask everybody what fake software company names they used to use for junk they'd write!

[lediva.livejournal.com]

DVA.

I can't for the life of me remember what I used before I picked up that moniker. though. It wasn't just my initials.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

So anybody who knows a lick of Russian looks at it and says, "Two? Hunh...."

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Meh. I already get crap from people who know French about the name.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

I assumed it was intentional.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Huh.

No, it's based on a previous nickname and munged some for style. Mainly, I like the sound of LeDiva over any other vowel in-between the L and the D. And I'm generally goofy for InTerCapping.

I mean, I totally get why people try to parse it, but I swear, it's just meant to be a name. :)