Names and titles

Being such an indecisive person, I'm surprised I was able to come up with a blog title that I liked.  And well I do like this one.  "The Words of a Self-Proclaimed Genius."  It sounds pretty big, pretty epic.  And, it mixes in one of the things I love to point out.  See, at first glance, one might think that a title like that is something an arrogant person would come up with.  But, I think that that would be making an unjustified conclusion without fully considering everything.  The joke is that the term self-proclaimed generally implies that other people don't feel the same way.  It made sense to arrogantly call yourself a genius, or to have other people doubtingly refer to you as a self-proclaimed genius, but what did it mean to call yourself a self-proclaimed genius?  At the very least, it showed an awareness of the fact that not everyone would necessarily think of the speaker as a genius.  So, it could be interpreted as, "Maybe some people think I'm just calling myself a genius, but I think I'm an actual genius."  Or maybe it could be seen as, "Even though I'm calling myself a genius, I don't think I'm an actual genius.  I know I'm nothing more than a self-proclaimed genius."  Or it could be anything in between.  It could even be nothing more than a cool sounding example of something that could easily be misinterpreted.  An illustration of the mistakes that could possibly occur when one is to quick to judge, and even the variety of valid interpretations that can make an accurate judgement difficult despite a careful consideration.  Yeah, it could be all that and more.  What was it actually intended to imply?  I dunno. Who knows?

You might also be wondering why I chose DdRMaSTeRDan as my Youtube name.  Well, it's because at the time I picked the name I was utterly convinced that I was the best DDR player in the world.  There's actually a short story behind it.  A friend of mine came over when I first got Mario Kart DS, and before I tried playing online for the first time, he put a name in for me.  The name he put was DdRMaSTeR.  So, a long while later when I was about to create a Youtube account but had no idea what I wanted as my name (I'm not very good at coming up with names, as you can see from the name of this blog), I figured, "Hey, why not use that name my friend put in my DS, with 'Dan' added at the end?"  And so I did.  And then when I had to create forum names for various forums, I thought, "Why not use the same thing, or something similar?"  The problem was that people would get a certain impression from the name DdRMaSTeR, and they might not read carefully enough or stay around long enough to notice the things that hinted that that first impression might be wrong.  So, I began to use DdR_Dan instead.
I don't particularly like that name though.  Eventually, I might start going by a different name.  Maybe Regened.  It kind of sounds like I'd be new and improved then, you know.  Regen(erat)ed.  And it also kind of sounded like something else.  You could pronounce it so it sounded like レジェンド.