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Now, I know this isn't going to make me a whole lot of friends, but:
Know what pisses me off? The fact that I have no clue who is who anymore. Take for example the "annoyed severely" thread. I just went back and read it. In it, I reply to someone named "Peryite". Later down, someone makes a guess as to how the name "Peryite" came to be. Figured out the problem yet? If you go and read the thread, you will notice that there is no one named "Peryite" to be found... seems suspicious, no?
Now, there are places where I can understand a name change. Take Saladin. He was developing a reputation that could hurt his ability to roleplay with the normal players. I literally saw a five-post battle in the forums. Person A comes out and does their opening post, Saladin comes out and post that his character sees the other, Person A initiates the fight, Saladin attacks, Person A says something along the lines of: "Wow. That was amazing. I bow to your great skill." Now, after something like that, I can understand wanting to have a name change... (although with Saladin, you never know. He probably like the fact.)
Then you have all these other people. "Peryite" to "True Grave". What the hell? Why on earth does he need to change his name? Unless "Peryite" was offensive, (and I still don't see exactly how that would be,) why couldn't he just keep his own name?
Now, seeing as I'm trying to NOT rant, I'll keep this brief. If you create a name, and want to change it just because you don't like it, then you should learn to just suck it up and get about your every day life. Just like in real life: having a bad name is not going to kill you.
Now, I'm just going to say that this is not a flame against True Grave. I've seen this numerous times, and am totally sick of it. The only reason I used the whole Peryite/True Grave example is because that's the one I've seen most recently. I repeat: this is not a flame against True Grave specifically, but against all the people who just go around changing their usernames on a whim.