like, i went to buy Half-Life 2 on Steam, and was presented with the "lol youre gonna get all the games added to your account that you already paid for" game-waste screen (other than the HL2/Source-based games, i had already purchased every game shown), and that made me want to make sure that i only purchase Half-Life 2 for a NEW Steam account (giving me two seperate accounts for things like Counter-Strike, Natural Selection, etc).

so i log off Steam, and go to make a new account. every username and variation of user names i've used for other services are in use, or "contain invalid characters."

its like that when i go to register on forums. "Xenomorph" is of course taken a dozen times over on everything. i was lucky to get the name Xenomorph for the Gmail service, but that was because i paid for an invite early in the beta. "Xenomorph9632" doesnt seem as cool when signing up for something.

i guess if i was more creative, i'd have an awsome/unique name that i knew others didnt have, and that it didnt look too dorky. when i come up with names like "NeonGerbil" or whatever for things like instant messengers and forums, i think people look at that name and visualize who knows what - but it probably ends up being some gerbil/butt joke to them. just using the screen name "SilicoN18" on AOL/AIM would get me several "lol boobs" jokes - when my screen name has nothing to do with silicone implants, but with computer parts made from silicon.