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Offline Smilodoncat

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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2013, 02:35:36 pm »
My friends nicknamed me "Queen Chrysalis" in real life. That's the reason I choose it as my forum name.
So I'm already pretty use to being called Chrysi in real life.

If someone called me "Smilo" (Smilodoncat) in real life, I would probably be freaked out. Unless it was a friend who played Feral Heart and knew my username, in that case I would probably just call them by their username back.
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2013, 08:08:57 pm »
No one at my school, city, or area even knows that there is such a game called FH. (That I know of.) It would be a little weird if a friend or someone screamed my username in the hallway. (No really... say my username out loud...) If that did happen, I would look at the person who said it and give them a confused glare. xD However, if someone called me Kiki I would respond and not mind as much... well as long as they don't scream it in front of a bunch of people. I go by my real name at school, though. (Though my name's not common at all, so many people get my name mixed up easily... no really. x.x)
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #22 on: September 30, 2013, 01:52:44 am »
No one ever calls me Rusty irl.  But I do respond when someone just says Rusty.  Example,
Person - Watch out, I dropped a rusty nail.
Me - Wut? Oh ya, um ok.
I would actually like it if people called me Rusty.  I have been going by the name online for maybe about five years or so.  The username changed, but not the nickname.  RustyTwins, BrownRustys, ZombieRustys and now I got RustBucket.  One person did call me Brownie though when I had the username BrownRustys.
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2013, 01:50:20 pm »
No one calls me Silhouette in real life, however, I DO know that I would probably answer to it. How do I know that? I've been on the computer while my nephews have been watching TV and "Silhouette" was used both as a standalone word and in a sentence and every time I have turned to look as if someone was referring to me. I'm so used to people screwing up my RL names anyway, so I'm liable to answer to anything that sounds like anything I am familiar with, including Silhouette despite it sounding nothing like my real name.
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #24 on: September 30, 2013, 02:57:16 pm »
Ohmy.. xD

Well, if someone said White or Linger, I might tune in for a moment, but I'm unsure if I would get too overly confused over them.

However, my other nickname, Allegra (Alle or Alley for short), which I've been called by most of my close online friends for several years, now, does actually get me confused. Most prominently is when I'm at work, and one of my coworkers, Ally, gets called by her name, and I can't help but turn my head and wonder if someone had called for me instead.
It's quite upsetting, but entertaining at the same time. xD
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #25 on: September 30, 2013, 06:47:19 pm »
If someone would call me by saying "Kijiako!" I would be like "Whut? Who iz Kijiako? He looks like prehistoric... REALLY, who is him? :|" with a big smile. x3
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #26 on: October 01, 2013, 04:34:50 am »
This has actually happened to me (I knew several of my IRL friends online first and very rarely give my real name online), and I do respond to 'hey, Tearless' in real life, mostly because I use TearlessRain as a handle everywhere.

I did eventually tell them my name.
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #27 on: October 01, 2013, 06:16:45 am »
Honestly.. I prefer Raw to my actual name, so I'd respond without hesitation to both! I consider Raw my second name really. In fact I have people call me Raw or Syndicate at school..  Doesn't bother me a bit, I even have the habit of writing Raw on my assignments accidentally xD
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #28 on: October 01, 2013, 06:45:24 am »
I have to admit that often in the real world, when individuals start talking or mention anything about the video game 'Dishonored', I do tend to turn my head or look up from what I was doing slightly bewildered. However that doesn't happen too often for the people I know doesn't even know of my involvement with the Feralheart community nor what it is. Even still, sometimes it's confusing but generally entertaining. So yes, if someone were to say 'Dishonored' or 'Vespian', I'd respond in a subtle way out of habit.
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Re: Would you?: Respond if someone 'in real life' called you by your username?
« Reply #29 on: October 01, 2013, 11:23:19 am »
Well... Someone i meet a online friend, and she still calls me, TBS. :3 I guess i don't really mind it. It's intrseting to be called that
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