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* Time to sacrifice years of name recognition / being a visible member of my main gaming community.
Both my discord and twitch names are just the name of my GW2 main, who I made in five minutes and named after my cat. The first time I played GW2 was with some friends IRL and I wound up with no time. Anyway, when Discord changed how names worked I took advantage of having an old account and also nitro and nabbed a decent name. I got to change my name ahead of most and got my first pick.
But now I need to rename on twitch, a site that used to allow infinite accounts to be made off of a single email account and some people made hundreds, for reasons. So, so many names are taken. The problem is, I am tired of people who I've interacted with for years getting my pronouns wrong. I was sort of ignoring it and telling myself it doesn't bother me that much, I don't care too much about pronouns. But, recently it has been bugging me for reasons. So, I need to change my name to something distinctly male and IDK what... I don't want to make a name based off of any of my most played characters for reasons... people have trouble pronouncing my guardian's name even though it's literally a word in American English, my warrior's name is very gender neutral, etc. So, I am just wasting time trying to figure out what do so I can get on with re-establishing myself. The change will wipe part of my history (channel points, badges, status as long time viewer, mod statuses, etc) So my account will also *look* like the account of a new user, which makes it complicated to get across that you are not.
Also, whatever name I use, I will be referred by a shortened version of it in voice chat, so... what do I want people to call me?
Basically the fact that 11 years ago I went to what was *supposed* to be a character creation party but everyone else got excited and made characters ahead of time, leaving me to scramble to catch up with the group has been causing me problems ever since. Actually, I should have just done this years ago, but didn't want to lose the thing where some people actually recognize my name.
Both my discord and twitch names are just the name of my GW2 main, who I made in five minutes and named after my cat. The first time I played GW2 was with some friends IRL and I wound up with no time. Anyway, when Discord changed how names worked I took advantage of having an old account and also nitro and nabbed a decent name. I got to change my name ahead of most and got my first pick.
But now I need to rename on twitch, a site that used to allow infinite accounts to be made off of a single email account and some people made hundreds, for reasons. So, so many names are taken. The problem is, I am tired of people who I've interacted with for years getting my pronouns wrong. I was sort of ignoring it and telling myself it doesn't bother me that much, I don't care too much about pronouns. But, recently it has been bugging me for reasons. So, I need to change my name to something distinctly male and IDK what... I don't want to make a name based off of any of my most played characters for reasons... people have trouble pronouncing my guardian's name even though it's literally a word in American English, my warrior's name is very gender neutral, etc. So, I am just wasting time trying to figure out what do so I can get on with re-establishing myself. The change will wipe part of my history (channel points, badges, status as long time viewer, mod statuses, etc) So my account will also *look* like the account of a new user, which makes it complicated to get across that you are not.
Also, whatever name I use, I will be referred by a shortened version of it in voice chat, so... what do I want people to call me?
Basically the fact that 11 years ago I went to what was *supposed* to be a character creation party but everyone else got excited and made characters ahead of time, leaving me to scramble to catch up with the group has been causing me problems ever since. Actually, I should have just done this years ago, but didn't want to lose the thing where some people actually recognize my name.
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Date: 2023-09-20 04:57 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2023-09-20 05:47 am (UTC)From:In Twitch / voice chat, it's complicated. Some people have been told a lot, but them messing it up is making others mess it up. Also having opposite-gender avatars is not unusual. Like there are a lot of people with very, very femme names who are 'he'.
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Date: 2023-09-21 02:52 am (UTC)From:I have tried and failed a couple times to do a rename thing, at least in some places, but I've used this dumb handle for so long, I've always failed to get a change to stick. (It sounded very clever to me when I was 16, I'm sure. There are several reasons I don't really like it anymore, but it's my name fucking EVERYWHERE. #regret)
So... I'm sorry that it'll wipe out a bunch of your history for the sites you're changing, and probably lose you some familiarity from people who recognize the old name. But it sounds like it will be worth it, to have a name that feels like a better fit! And while yeah, doing it years ago would have maybe been easier, doing it now is better than doing it years from now, ha. I hope you find one that IS just the right fit!
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Date: 2023-09-21 06:17 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2023-09-22 03:59 am (UTC)From:That does make for somewhat ironic history, considering. Though bummer that the character didn't have a great history for you when it came to playing. If changing to something that feels like a better fit would make you happy, then I'd definitely say go for it!
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Date: 2023-09-22 10:10 am (UTC)From: