I don't like using my real name or making characters that look like me in video games. I like to use video games as a form of escapism, and it's fun to pretend to be someone else for a while.
I'll probably use my real name. In animal crossing I generally use my name unless it won't fit or if we get symbols. My name wouldn't fit in the game cube version so it was Cat a sunshine symbol and a key symbol. If we have symbols I'll do that again as a call back
I used to always go with "Josho" because it lets me use my real name but also be different from other Josh's on people's friends lists. This time I think I'm gonna go with my real-life nickname "Juice" because it's also sorta close to my real name but distinguishable from most of your other friends.
But I haven't fully committed to the idea yet, thanks for casting doubt on my decision >__>