Started as
jdB24 in my first (and still first) online gaming experience. Flew bombers and not very well. The prototype target drone.
A friend of mine always had to put some stupid name down, when setting video game records - like BLZ, HOR, etc.
DIK inspired me to use it in AH. I was told on a few occasions that there were heated discussions on 200 channel about the name, but I was oblivious to it. Some people didn't want to speak my name on range, for fear of getting muted.
Got bored with that name when I started to kinda-sorta figure out how to fly a fighter (and still don't quite have it
), so I went through the dictionary to find a cool word for my new lower-profile persona. And so
caldera was born.
Had to take a break from the game, due to financial reasons but came back incognito for a few weeks as
bait to troll my squaddies. I was taunting and insulting them using ghetto-speak and at least one of them was getting mad. The CO knew the whole time of course, and we had some big laughs over it.
Eventually got tired of people mispronouncing
caldera or calling me "cald", so I picked something easy to pronounce, stupid and also sure to piss people off when "
Snuggie shot you down" shows up in the text bar. I think it works.