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Ep 1 – Ryanocerus | Synthwave Strength & the Digital Titan Behind the Tag

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Meet Ryanocerus — the lo-fi music creator and Destiny titan whose gamertag evolved into a full digital identity.
In this debut episode of Gamertagged, we explore how a name can become a persona, and how identity forms across games, platforms, and creative work.

From chaotic Xbox nights to synthwave stage presence, Ryanocerus takes us through the full arc of his tag: cheeky handles, online contradictions, and the moment it all clicked.

🎮 We talk about Destiny 2, Discord drama, music production, Match.com usernames (yep), and how his tag became a reflection of self.

It all leads to the ReRoll segment, where we co-design his official Gamertagged Trading Card — capturing the energy, tone, and aesthetic of the name behind the name.

🎙️ Guest: Ryanocerus
🎧 Hosted by: Scarto46
🛠️ ReRolled by: The Crew at Gamertagged Studios

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Ryanocerus:

I wonder if anyone has made a lo-fi version of that Crazy Frog song, because that could be a slow it way down.

Munahif:

Slow it way down.

Ryanocerus:

Slow it way down, put like a nice beat.

Munahif:

I need to find it in just the keyboard. Part A Crazy Frog Game Attack All right, everybody.

Scarto46:

Welcome to the first episode of Gamertagged. Tonight we will be interviewing Rhinoceros. Joining me tonight is our editor-in-chief, portabella, who will be listening throughout the podcast and also documenting some details around rhinoceros as we kind of get ready for re-roll later in the show. Also joining us tonight is Munaheef, who's going to be a guest on this podcast from time to time in a rotating chair to listen in and help guide and understand some of the digital identities that we have. Joining the show, rhinoceros will also be providing us music. During each episode you get to hear some of his cool synth sounds. So he's our first interview. Welcome, rhinoceros.

Ryanocerus:

Well, Munaheef gets a rotating chair.

Scarto46:

Yeah, he does yeah.

Ryanocerus:

That's what I've always wanted. It spins.

Scarto46:

He does. Yeah, he gets a rotating chair.

Ryanocerus:

I had to bite my tongue to not interrupt you the second. You said that Because the joke hit me and I was like I gotta wait, I gotta wait, I gotta wait. He's doing a thing, I gotta wait.

Munahif:

Gotta, let the intro roll.

Scarto46:

Yeah yeah, yeah, so we're here for talking about the digital identity that Rhinoceros has created. Right, that's the purpose of the show. In this show, we're exploring the digital identity that someone has created, you know, through their gamer tag or through other mediums YouTube, twitch, whatever, right, like, we really just want to understand, like, the thing that you've made yourself to be right, you chose this name, you chose a lot of things about this gamer tag or this identity, and we're exploring that. So, rhinoceros, where did your gamertag come from?

Ryanocerus:

Sure. So, spoiler alert, my name is Ryan in real life and my aunt always called me Rhino as, like, my nickname growing up For whatever. I guess. Just right, you know, it kind of goes together. Um. So when I was a wee lad, going into college and getting my first xbox of my own, um, so that I could, you know, not go to class and play oblivion for hours on end, um, I had to come up with the gamer tag and, uh, the rhinoceros gamer tag is kind of morphed and evolved with the way it's spelled, but, um, the first one was like rhino r-y-n-o and then osiris, and now it's ryan r-y-a-n. Osiris, and I've had some other cheeky gamertags between there, but that's kind of where it came from. My aunt gave me that nickname. I've always loved rhinos, so it seemed to just kind of make sense what's your favorite kind of rhino?

Ryanocerus:

oh yeah, a white rhino that sounds racist. I mean, I like all the rhinos but oh, you like the ones that are going extinct the one at the zoo by me is a black rhino and I really, I really like him. They don't have white rhinos are extinct. There are no more white rhinos, not wild ones. There's some in zoos, I think, but fun fact for you fun fact.

Scarto46:

Yeah well, I mean, hey look, that's cool I'm not fun fact, I don't know probably not fun fact, disheartening facts yeah sad things that make you sad when you think about it too much so so like what experience? Like being being called Rhino or Rhinoceros? What's people's vibe whenever they meet you? Have you ever gotten any random DMs from people about your name?

Ryanocerus:

Oh yeah, when I had it spelled R-Y-N-O, it was kind of Rhinoceros is how a lot of people would say it Rhinono Rhinono because there were two no's in it and they would get kind of confused on it. Um, I think it, you know, sort of I wanted something close to my name so that if I was playing games and somebody said it I could respond to it. Um, I didn't think building like a separate digital personality with like a completely different name, I just for me, I just think I would have, just not for any like co-op games or multiplayer games, I wouldn't have been responding to stuff. So having something close to my actual name helps my, my ADD pay attention a little bit.

Scarto46:

Oh yeah, it makes sense, so all right. So in the time period that you've had this identity, have you ever wanted to change this name? There are moments in my life where I have lapses in judgment, for instance right now, just so everyone listening understands your Discord title is titled Greatest Titan in North America.

Ryanocerus:

Yes, correct. So I've been Rhino nonoceros, I've been el spancosaurus, I've been colorado chewies, trying to think I'm not going to go through all the discord ones because I changed those based on whims, but yeah it is currently greatest titan in north america. Um, mostly because that, I think, was suggested by you, and then it made me laugh, so I was like that's a, that's a great idea.

Munahif:

I should change it to that yeah, I was thinking they may not know what. What makes you the greatest titan in north america, and what is a titan?

Ryanocerus:

oh, titan is a class from destiny 2. It's a game that we used to play and then we stopped playing and then we started playing again. Um, and titan is the class that I play because it's the one that's in the middle of everything. I'm not I'm not the greatest titan in in north america. Is it north america, north america? Um, because I am. Uh, I don't pay attention to things and I get myself into trouble and or killed a lot of the time.

Ryanocerus:

But yeah, I mean sure, but I bring that titan energy, and I think the energy is what I'm the greatest at.

Scarto46:

I agree with that.

Ryanocerus:

yeah, I may not be the best skilled Titan, but you're going to have a good time, whether I'm being helpful or not.

Scarto46:

Do you think Titan energy and Rhinonosaurus energy is the same vibe?

Ryanocerus:

Oh yeah, I mean, when I first played that game, I was playing a different class and you both were like why are you playing this? You should be a Titan. Yeah, you're playing a floaty warlock, I was playing floaty warlock and I did not like the game. I thought it was bad. I was like this is not fun and then I converted.

Scarto46:

Yeah, I think back then I was playing Titan and I was like your personality says that you want to run at stuff, not float over stuff that you want to run at stuff not float over stuff. So why are you playing this? We just kind of got into this a little bit, but where might people know your name from or have seen you in-game, most commonly Knowing that you've changed your name?

Ryanocerus:

Sure, I mean most recently Destiny. If it's a random person, I typically play. I mean I'm usually rotating one or two multiplayer games to play with my friends. If I'm not in those, I'm playing like a Skyrim or a Fallout or something that I'm going to spend hours playing. I like those games with like good stories. I'm more about the storytelling in the game than even the mechanics. A lot of the time, if something has a good story, I will get sucked in right away yeah, that is the wildest thing you've ever said because, having known you, I don't know.

Ryanocerus:

I hate all the destiny lore, you don't care I skipped the cut scene. I think it's because I didn't that destiny too. I didn't play like from the beginning, like when it came out, yeah. So I feel like so lost on any of the lore anyway that I'm like, well, I don't care, I just want to punch things a lot of it's inaccessible.

Munahif:

Now too, you can't even go back. Yeah, so it's.

Ryanocerus:

I mean I could go, actually lost I could go read a wikipedia or watch hours of youtube video, because the game's just been out for so long.

Scarto46:

There's just hours of content now, and so seven years of story of it's a lot to catch up on.

Munahif:

Shout out to my Name is Byte keeping everyone on track with Destiny lore, I mean.

Ryanocerus:

and that's not saying I don't skip cut scenes or like blow through conversations in those RPG style games, because I definitely do that too, depending on my mood. That was my favorite game.

Scarto46:

Let's dig a little bit deeper into your, your persona. So use the same name across your like, your creative work and so like. For folks who may not know, you're also a spotify artist and you do lo-fi synth. I have some real sick charlie brown remixes out there. If anyone's looking for some christmas music. Uh, um. So, when you know, using the same name across your creative work, was that deliberate?

Ryanocerus:

So the name rhinoceros I'm actually like this just hit me. I, I I don't know why I remembered this, but so that I was using rhino no serious for the last you know 10 to 15 years however long it's been. Ryan osseous actually came from my matchcom profile name. I distinctly remember it made me have a username that wasn't my name and I wanted to pick something that had my first name in it but also told a little bit about me and I like rhinos, so it just kind of made sense. Fun fact, I met my wife on Matchcom, so I ended up keeping that name and moving it over into the gaming space and then now also into um music oh my man, so like this name has like been a lot of different places with you, it has and it's.

Ryanocerus:

I mean I use it for a lot of the you know other stuff now too, um youtube and other logins and you know. Just again, because I can't remember things.

Scarto46:

So it's consistent. Yeah, yeah, I get that, and what's fascinating is you use your name on Spotify and matchcom.

Ryanocerus:

Yeah.

Munahif:

Yeah, okay, people ever look you up from match to see what kind of music you made.

Ryanocerus:

That was after. Yeah, I wasn't making lo-fi style music until I've only been doing that for like the last three years or so, and I was on match. I was on match like seven years ago, crazy. And then, yeah, I had a few names and I asked one of my buddies I'm one of my, my friends that does like music production too. I'm like, which one of these names says like lo-fi beats to you? And he was like, oh, definitely rhinoceros.

Scarto46:

So I was like, cool, I'll go with that so how did your name show up when you're performing or making music, like, do you like get into a headspace, like, all right, this is the like, the vibe of this character that I am. How does that work? Because I you probably have some idea of like in your head, like what this shapeless thing is that you are. How does it? How does that show up whenever you're making stuff?

Ryanocerus:

Sure, it's the rhinoceros name. For me at least, it's not shapeless. If you look at my Spotify, you'll see a very nice hand-drawn picture of a rhino in like a suit with like an I old ipod in his hands, um, listening to music. I had a guy in, I think minnesota drew that for me, um, and that's kind of the logo and what the look is. So that's sort of what I'm trying to channel is that it's it's a rhino, but he's got he's skinny and he's got a suit on and there's a little bird on his shoulder and um, I'm just trying to, you know, I'm just trying to channel, like fun vibes can't have a rhino without a bird. Yeah, he's got the bird, yeah that's cool.

Scarto46:

I'm gonna switch gears a little bit because I so. I think this is one of the things right about like your, your identity, right like you know what it looks like, right like you have a good idea of what you're trying to channel. And then that thing takes like different shapes when you're engaging in different things, like when you're playing as the greatest titan in north america or when you're making music. I know you said you had someone draw it, but how did you describe what that person could draw like? How did you tell that person what it was?

Ryanocerus:

I'm trying to think. I think I saw, found him on instagram, um, he had actually had a drawing of an astronaut rhino. So it's like a regular, like a regular rhino, like you know, four feet on the ground, um, but in like an astronaut outfit with like the helmet, and I was like dude like this guy gets me I, I saw I was like man, I love, I love that because it's just such like a, it's like it's a rhino.

Ryanocerus:

Why is it in spade, like it's just, it's a weird conversation and a just a, you know, a, not a normal thing, and I think I had asked him if I could actually either buy that, you know, or use it as my thing. Um, but he was selling that on other designs and stuff. So he had offered to draw me this, my own, you know, kind of custom thing, and he just sort of asked you know what, what I was doing, what I was wanting to do with it, and I kind of described the music I was doing and then, and that he kind of just went with it and he, honestly, for someone who like I don't know, like just nailed it, um, it's, it's so cool. I have the original drawing actually in my, uh, in my music studio. That's super cool, framed and hung up, yeah.

Scarto46:

So you, you like, had the idea in your head right Like um, and then, like, once you saw it, you're like I, I totally resonate with, like this, yeah.

Ryanocerus:

And because I think he sent me the digital version and was like let me know if you want me to make any changes, and I was like I don't know what I would tell you to change. It's perfect. Like really legitimately, I don't know what I would have changed on it.

Scarto46:

All right, so also knowing a little bit more about you. You work with data a lot. Do you ever think about how this online identity like you mentioned a couple of different things you've been involved in or places on the internet like this identity shows up? Do you ever think about how your online presence shows up analytically from that data perspective?

Ryanocerus:

You know that's a really interesting question. I don't think so. I don't. So I do data for work and I do data for fun, cause I like baseball. That's about the extent of it for me. I don't, uh, I haven't thought about, like, the trail I'm leaving necessarily, or like, um, I mean, I have thought about that and I've, I've, I've, uh, I swept up some of the loose, the loose crumbs from you know younger days when things were posted or, you know, compromising pictures were posted.

Munahif:

Deleted the urban dictionary definition of rhinosaurs Right.

Ryanocerus:

But I don't, I don't think I've thought about it in that regard, so I I don't know how to answer that. No, I mean that's a good question though.

Scarto46:

It's a fascinating question is like our world becomes more digital right like I don't know how I would answer that question either other than, like I always try to think about like well, in the time period I've been this thing like what is that brand I'm trying to build? And, honestly, like I don't know how you feel about this, but like you sound like you found a vibe and you just wanted to chase it.

Ryanocerus:

Yeah, I think I don't think of the rhinoceros even as a brand. It's just me, and so the music that I do is just kind of part of me. I mean, it is a brand, so to speak, especially in the way I'm describing it. But I don't. I don't think I think of it that way. I'm just like this is just something I do. Like this is something I put my hands on. Uh, same thing with like games.

Scarto46:

Oh, this is something I do, so that's the name I'm using so if someone heard your gamer tag right and like didn't know you, what assumptions might they make about you and would they be wrong?

Ryanocerus:

oh man, um, I'm trying to think of assumptions I've made based on Like clearly you're not an actual rhino right, I mean I might be. Are you sure you guys can't see me? You don't know.

Scarto46:

I don't know what your DNA correlation is to you know the rhinoceros? I don't either.

Ryanocerus:

That didn't show up on, like the ancestry thing that I did. It didn't give me any animal DNA, which is probably good, I think. Who knows?

Munahif:

I mean, I'll tell you when I first heard your name I thought you were going to be some kind of wildlife enthusiast or you know wildlife preservationist person with the Rhino affiliation and I don't know that you're not that, but it's definitely not the focus of your name for the time I've known you. But it definitely gave across the you know this guy's in a rhinos vibe, I mean.

Scarto46:

I am yeah, I am into rhinos I thought you were a hardhead. That's what I thought.

Ryanocerus:

Like I thought I thought this dude wants to like butt with his own head and figure it out and I was like that's my energy, you know I mean kind of I'm, you know, I definitely I will run in headfirst into things, you know, not just in gaming, in life too, um yeah, but I'm just like I want to do that, let me, let me throw myself full force into this and then we'll see how it goes you've also worked on plays and you're a creative person, right like that's your vibe.

Scarto46:

How does this character, how does that, show up in a play Like how would you like? What kind of play would this your, your persona, I mean, even though you're saying it's one-to-one with you, right, cause I think that's true for a lot of people that, like your digital identity and your real identity start to like fuse. But how would this character show up in a play from your perspective?

Ryanocerus:

yeah, I mean it. It definitely shows up in. Like I was just saying you know how I will throw myself head first into things. Um, I'm definitely always wanting to learn. I want to learn things, like on my own terms. I don't want to be told what to learn, but I really do like continuing to learn and continuing to try new things, and the theater space has given me a lot of that. So I will, you know, I will throw myself headfirst into those situations and even if I don't know what I'm doing, I'm all in. I'm going to, you know, and I'm doing it. I'm doing whatever it is until it's completed.

Ryanocerus:

On the reverse side of that coin, it can also be bad, because I can get tunnel visioned, I can get hyper focused, and I'm really bad about A asking for help and then B delegating that help once I get it. I'm kind of a control freak. So when it comes to, you know, for theater stuff like, like set builds and sound stuff, like I, I want input, but I don't necessarily. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to follow the input that's given, unless it's from a director, you know something, someone who's above me, but, like, I'm really bad at asking for help.

Scarto46:

You walk to the beat of your own drum.

Ryanocerus:

I do, asking for help. You walk to the beat of your own drum? I do, and I have. You know, I have visions and thoughts of how I want things to look or sound and it's hard for me to like adjust those once you know, once I get the tunnel vision going, I'm like no, no, no, this is I got to get this thing done, and I don't always trust people to do it Not necessarily the right way, but the way that I want it done.

Scarto46:

So I end up probably doing more than I should and wearing myself out yeah, man, I super get that I didn't know we were gonna get so deep on this hey, man, I mean, I I think it all kind of like connects together. That's the point of this show, right, like we're talking about the blend of like your, your digital persona and your real persona and like those things kind of mesh, and that's cool. I, I think I think a lot about that too, where you know the character that I make up in my head that I am, you know, on the internet, um, I do cowboy shit and I do that continuously in life, right. So like I totally, I totally get where you're coming from. What's one moment or story that only makes sense because of your gamer tag?

Ryanocerus:

What's one moment or story that only makes sense because of my gamer tag? I've definitely met people and not necessarily even people, you know, that would be digital digital friends, quote unquote, um, that have heard of me, um, and it may not be that they necessarily know the rhinoceros name, but they know that energy, if that makes sense. Um, I've gotten, you know, theater work because of the, the manic tunnel vision psychosis that I will bring to whatever project I'm assigned to, um, and that I won't just do it excellently, but I'll also like go above and beyond, um, and I put in an insane amount of hours for that stuff, um, when I'm doing it, and that's that energy that I bring, that big rhino energy, the big rhino energy. That's just like we're going to put some fake walls up and some fake doors and put some wheels on a couch and that's going to blow their fucking minds.

Scarto46:

All right. If you were starting from scratch right New account, new platform Would you pick the same name again? Oh man, that's a wonderful question you get to like, reinvent, right magic wand, like am I am I just starting out in video games or do I have?

Ryanocerus:

have I been playing video games and I'm now doing this online thing?

Scarto46:

I don't know right, I mean so I think it would be because in your case, you've kind of blended all of the you know, the different platforms together into this singular identity that you are. Would you, if you magic wanded the situation, would you, you know, carve that up, partition it off? Would you make it different?

Ryanocerus:

I think if I was just starting out like man, I haven't I've either haven't played games ever or I haven't played games in like 10 years and I don't have any sort of existing online portfolio or profile I think I would go with the same name if I had been playing games, though I'm I, I had. I had ideals, you know, at one point, like probably many of us gamers did, of you know, I'm gonna make it on youtube, or I'm gonna be a streamer, um and I, that stuff's fine, that's, you know, good on people that do that. I don't have the, I don't have the energy to like be on for somebody, if that makes sense, like I I get. If I'm gaming like I'm not, I wouldn't, I'm not focused on an audience or a camera, um, so I'm not, I'm not. It's just not my personality, I'm not a good fit for that.

Ryanocerus:

But I I am curious as to if I was starting out now, if you know, I, I think I might be, because I've done that already, but if I'm restarting and I hadn't done that, I might be interested in the oh you know, maybe I'll try this streaming thing, and then for me it would be building that online personality and trying to actually develop something that's interesting and something that's different. And I don't know I'm not saying it would be or wouldn't be the rhinoceros persona, but it could be something different.

Scarto46:

Yeah, and so this question to me is really important because we get to choose these things, that we are in this format. You're given a name, you're given an identity, right, but like you kind of build this digital identity, so like you get to shape that however you choose to. And I don't know, man, like, uh, I think, like when you're talking about streaming, like your point I think you're making, there is like I don't know if I want to connect like my personal life and like the yeah, the life I want to have like out on the internet, right yeah, do I do.

Ryanocerus:

Do I want you know if I was gonna live kind of more? I'm pretty private, you know, um, do, if I'm doing the streaming thing though, like that's you're making, whether it's you or not, you're making that you know yourself a little more public. So what I want, do I want the you know yourself a little more public. So would I want, do I want the you know that being then connected to my music and people then being able to figure out who I am. I don't know, like I, because I do value my privacy, um, I do value, you know, kind of not being anonymous, but, like I definitely kind of go with the flow.

Ryanocerus:

I I stay in the background. I'm not trying to ruffle feathers, I'm not trying to climb a corporate ladder, like I'm just trying to get by a lot of the time. Yeah, so I, yeah, it's. It's that weird juxtaposition of if I wanted to do, if I wanted to, if I was restarting and I wanted to be this more outward facing, outgoing kind of thing. Would I pick a different name that's then not associated with this rhinoceros thing, that is, is it part of me already?

Ryanocerus:

right, right, yeah, because then you can like almost label two sides of your personality yeah, and if I you know, and there's preconceived notions of what the rhinoceros is, they're probably not crazy preconceived notions but, like you know, there's probably those preconceived notions and if I wanted to do something like really, really different, I'd probably do a different name.

Scarto46:

Yeah, so when you say preconceived notions, you mean like you've already kind of shaped this identity.

Ryanocerus:

There's a shape to it. Even without the streaming and stuff, I mean, you listen to the music. That gives you a good vibe of like I hope it's a oh, this guy's, you know this guy's kind of chill, uh, he's, he's laid back um, and I if, if I was streaming that's, I think I would want to do that, but again, what animal do you think would best represent that like that group streamer therapy persona that you ideated on?

Ryanocerus:

there I mean, and immediately I think sloth, but I think that's wrong. Um, just because, like it's so chill, but I don't, I don't think that's the right answer. So now I'm trying to think of what the? Uh, maybe the caterpillar from alice in wonderland? Just like, just like doing some, just doing some drugs and like hanging out I have a very different recollection of alice in wonderland.

Scarto46:

You don't know no no that whole end of that scene was 100 about. Uh, it was the 70s man, like that's when that was made.

Munahif:

I get it I just I guess I don't remember the drugged up caterpillar preaching good vibes. Yeah he was. I don't think he was preaching good vibes.

Ryanocerus:

It would be a good vibe, caterpillar oh yeah, okay, all right, all right.

Scarto46:

Your potential persona here for this this thing would be a good vibe.

Ryanocerus:

Caterpillar from alice in wonderland it'd be like a frog hanging out on a lily pad yeah, okay, all right, just chilling, yeah, just like, chilling like a frog, like legit lounging, not sitting like a frog would sit, but like like laid back, like yeah, man, we're just wherever the water takes us is kind of like a gerald of rivia bathtub frog, yeah, yeah, but yes, yes, that, exactly that well, I mean, this is why you decided to be part of this adventure.

Scarto46:

We're starting here at Gamer Tag Studios because that's what we do we're talking to people and trying to understand the shape of their identity. So it's cool man. All right, we're going to get closer towards the re-roll segment, which will be coming up here in a minute. I know Portabella, our editor-in-chief, has been has been taking notes throughout conversation. We're going to show you the prompt before we build your card. You already have someone, some image of like who this persona is. We'll kind of see like, does that?

Ryanocerus:

yeah, I'm, I'm excited to see. You know, I had that guy draw that thing and he nailed it without knowing me, so I'm kind of excited to see what this does oh yeah, this is gonna be.

Scarto46:

Who going to be, who knows?

Ryanocerus:

A three-headed rhino looking at the moon, or something.

Scarto46:

All right, we're going to hop into our re-roll segment of the show. So in this segment of the show, our goal is to create a visual representation of your digital persona. Throughout the show, our editor-in-chief, portabella, has been taking notes, as you've been kind of going through, and she's going to read off some of the things she picked up on during the conversation, that kind of stand out to her about, like, your personality, the shape of your digital persona, and then we're going to take all of that and we're going to feed it into chat, gpt and create an official gamer tagged trading card. You'll get two re-rolls and you can, you know, say, hey, I want to change the way it looks, I want to make this adjustment, whatever, and we'll re-roll them live with you so you can see it. But after that your gamer tagged trading card is final, you're locked in. Locked in.

Ryanocerus:

Terms and conditions required. I Locked in. Locked in Terms and conditions required. I want to re-roll that, like I like the other one better, or am I just moving forward? Is this linear, you're?

Scarto46:

moving forward. It's linear Period, yeah, so be thoughtful about your choices. If you like the way it looks at first, you know who knows what happens.

Ryanocerus:

I'll probably just stick with it. I'm pretty.

Munahif:

You're having your classic Scardo microphone experience of sounding half robot, oh good, that's good yeah, so Portabella what are the things you picked up on in the interview with Rhinoceros?

Portabella:

So one of the key things just throughout is that you are a very sarcastic, humorous person. Like you probably crack so many jokes at the best time.

Ryanocerus:

That hurt my feelings.

Portabella:

Yeah, you're a very fun person. You clearly love rhinos if that was not clear enough Specifically white rhinos, that's the one you called out the most. You like the different types of vibes for just game worlds. In general, you typically tend to go towards like fantasy-esque games, but also kind of like any type of multiplayer, that type of thing, anything that you can kind of get sucked into. You're also very creative and musical, based on your artistry doing Lo-Fi and being a Spotify artist, and then we're going to put in your frogs and see what happens.

Ryanocerus:

Oh yes.

Munahif:

Excellent.

Ryanocerus:

It says loves white rhinos and frogs. Frogs are dope. I like frogs yeah.

Portabella:

I'm curious to see what the mix will be. We'll see.

Munahif:

So hear me out Frogs riding rhinos.

Ryanocerus:

I was going to say if it could be a frog sitting on a rhino's neck like the bird. I will never re-roll.

Scarto46:

Well, we're going to put all this information in and see what we get. So you can see the prompt, you can see everything that we're entering in, right, and so we're going to enter all this information in and see what the card looks like. Are you ready? Yeah, yeah.

Ryanocerus:

Let's do it. This is great for the audio audience. I'm sure they're going to love this portion For sure.

Scarto46:

Put the card in the image for the podcast title um, while our drawing gets started. So, um, you've got a stylized persona description right, so I'll read this. A towering frontline force named rhino. This persona strides into battle with the cadence of a showstopper, shoulders squared, drumbeat steady, and they wear an armored synth wave exosuit with matte white rhino plating. Its horned helmet split open to reveal a smirking stage lit face beneath neon accents, pulse and rhythm, with the beat of a hidden soundtrack casting purples and pinks across battle-worn gear. From their back swings a hybrid warhammer microphone staff doubling as a sound weapon and a dramatic prop. Their stance is theatrical, always mid-movement, as if dancing through chaos. Oversized shoulder pauldrons, sport frog, frog sigils, tongue-in-cheek nods to their sly humor. The world around them flickers like a fallout, a fallout broadcast fused with high fantasy, glitch, core, neon ruins, crystalline castles and offbeat musical cues underscore every rich step. They're not just surviving the apocalypse, they're riffing on it live I feel attacked by the offbeat musical cues.

Ryanocerus:

Firstly, like it's never offbeat I'm very upset about that I also don't know what a pauldron is. It's like a cauldron with a P in front of it.

Scarto46:

It would be shoulder armor is what it would be.

Munahif:

Can I just throw out there that that is the most AI slop sounding description that I've heard in some time. You can throw out whatever you like. I don't think I'm not going to come up with a different one. I just think it's ugh. Yeah, okay.

Ryanocerus:

Is this supposed to be human me? Yeah, this is your card, cool, okay you get two re-rolls from here um, I didn't know if we were, if, um, it was supposed to be like. Yes, if it's supposed to be a representation of me or my digital persona, because it has a human face, that's throwing me off, but not okay so you want to.

Scarto46:

Uh, is the re-roll you want to make that? You want to change the face to being an actual rhino.

Ryanocerus:

Yeah, yeah, that's the only change. And if those frogs could look more angry.

Munahif:

Angry or frog pauldrons.

Ryanocerus:

Angry or frogs, and then an actual rhino R-I-H-O-N-G-O oh my god.

Portabella:

What are you doing?

Ryanocerus:

R-I-H-O-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I-N-G-E-R-I.

Munahif:

Yeah, yeah that's good.

Scarto46:

I like the stats Cool.

Ryanocerus:

I hope this doesn't. If this is a lot worse, I'm going to be upset Actually. I'll just say undo as the prompt, and then I'll go back to the other one. I will break your system. I'll break your system, Skardo.

Scarto46:

Now we're getting into the real. Is he like a?

Ryanocerus:

sun. I like that.

Scarto46:

Yeah, we're shifting. This is the great part about Rebo it looks like a rhino head.

Ryanocerus:

It looks like the. Is it a cowboy or bebop from Ninja Turtles? A bebop, bebop.

Munahif:

Bebop and.

Ryanocerus:

Rocksteady, rocksteady. How, where did I get cowboy from Good God?

Munahif:

Because cowboy bebop also exists. Oh, look at that frog that is a crazy frog.

Ryanocerus:

Oh, that frog looks so mad. God, I just want to. I almost want to re-roll it, just because I just To get even angrier. No, I don't I just like. I'm like, what else can we change? I like the castle in the background.

Munahif:

I like that. It somehow got a predator gun on its shoulder. We didn't ask for that, it just showed up.

Scarto46:

Do you want to? What would you change about? I don't want to change.

Ryanocerus:

I'm not sure if we can improve enough on it without the risk of it taking some of the stuff away that I like.

Munahif:

So if I was to feedback it, I do think this is very good and I wouldn't want to change much. But right now the Warhammer is going through its leg the left leg, right as you look at it you can fix that in post right.

Ryanocerus:

That's a.

Portabella:

No this is a last shot.

Scarto46:

This is a last shot kind of thing here.

Munahif:

So I mean you gotta choose wisely what you want to edit, and I do feel like for a rhino in armor in the future, Hammer's got to be bigger. Right, Like that's a yeah.

Scarto46:

Whatever you remember, the space on this is a trading card, right. So you know you need to choose. You know, rhino or hammer. You could also have him riding a frog if you really wanted to.

Ryanocerus:

Don't put ideas in my head that might be too big of a shift.

Munahif:

You don't know what you're going to get. Whatever comes up next is all you got.

Ryanocerus:

I need you to say I really like this. All right, be thoughtful.

Scarto46:

Be intentional.

Ryanocerus:

I'm trying to. It's like when you wish with a genie and they screw you Trying.

Scarto46:

It's like when you wish with a genie and they screw you Trying to think of the right way to say what I want.

Munahif:

I'm ready to type in the prompt. Oh no, you hit enter that wasn't all you needed to know.

Ryanocerus:

You could build a whole crew around me. That's what.

Portabella:

I wanted.

Ryanocerus:

Is that a?

Portabella:

choice. You could get war frogs.

Munahif:

Right upstairs and his war frogs.

Ryanocerus:

Oh, you got y'all. Hold on, yeah, um, make the hammer bigger, remove the microphone from the back, but don't change anything else. We'll see how smart. This is a good test for uh ai, to see how smart it is too. If it's a.

Munahif:

Oh you said, don't change anything you change literally everything I'm gonna change all of it if I don's a. Oh, you said, don't change anything.

Ryanocerus:

Change literally everything. I'm going to change all of it. If I don't, if it starts loading and I don't see that sun, I'm just going to turn my computer off. Oh, I'm turning it off Bye. Oh, I changed the color palette. It's not purple anymore.

Scarto46:

No, you just got to wait, buddy.

Ryanocerus:

You just gotta wait, buddy, trust the process here. I made a mistake.

Scarto46:

I made a mistake.

Munahif:

We kept the angry frog, and it's angrier.

Ryanocerus:

I like the frog bodies on the other one, but I do like the size of the hammer. I'm missing the sun. I did like the sun.

Munahif:

We've got a Disney castle in the background now instead.

Portabella:

Oh your deep head.

Ryanocerus:

That's it. That's the winner. That's so good.

Scarto46:

We've played our first game of Reroll. We got to make the two changes you wanted to make and this is your official Gamertag trading card For all you audio listeners you wanted to make and this is your official Gamertag trading card.

Munahif:

For all you audio listeners. You will want to go find this one. It looks great.

Scarto46:

And you can find it on our website at GamertagPodcastcom. This will be out there for everyone to see. So this are you down with this? Do you like this one? Oh, how could you not.

Ryanocerus:

What an improvement yeah the only thing I would do is make the frogs have bodies on the shoulders, but that's such a small thing. This is great.

Scarto46:

All right, we made it.

Munahif:

We made it. Can you scroll up? Wait, wait, wait.

Ryanocerus:

The hammer, he's holding it, but it doesn't go. The shaft doesn't go through. What is it connected to?

Scarto46:

This is AI, don't worry about it. Our this is our first re-roll segment. What is you like? Did we capture the essence of all of the things that you are and your digital identity? It's a pretty dramatic shift from, like your, spotify, rhino right dramatic shift.

Ryanocerus:

It's got the purpley stuff and the I. I think as much as I'm like you know it's kind of encompassed with everything like the spotify rhino is definitely a different rhino than gaming rhino, so yeah, I do think him not having boots but having the hooves out is very cool yeah it's like the hooves are already battle-ready.

Munahif:

Nothing even.

Ryanocerus:

And I want to knee something so that that little satin mad face is pretending, to be into something Even the color palette.

Portabella:

The color palette's really cool, yeah, I like the color palette.

Scarto46:

It captured the synth and the lo-fi style to it. It's really dope. Alright, rhinoceros, so where can people find you? Is there anything you want to shout out or talk about, like your work, or anything you want to promote on the podcast?

Ryanocerus:

I mean, yeah, you can check out the Spotify. That's where music is getting released in a very untimely manner.

Scarto46:

Good deal. When can we expect that lily pads and frog frog vibes?

Ryanocerus:

um, I'm gonna. I'll start working on that, uh, in a couple weeks, once I've got one show I'm working on right now, but once that shows opens I'll have time to work on the frog pad, lily pad, whatever it was. Yeah, lo-fi, frog beats to lily pad on okay, perfect, lo Look out for that.

Scarto46:

Listeners for Lo-Fi. Frog Beats to Lily.

Ryanocerus:

Pad. It'll be available on the Gamertag website before it's available on Spotify.

Scarto46:

Oh yeah, special release Special release. Alright. Well, rhinoceros, thanks for joining us tonight on our first episode of the Gamertag podcast. Super, appreciate your time and sharing your story, yeah yeah, this was super fun.

Ryanocerus:

I didn't know what to expect, but it was a yeah, it was a good time all right.

Scarto46:

Well, special thanks to moonah for coming in tonight as our rotating chair co-host uh, you might see moon hiff in here, or you might see, who knows, maybe rhinoceros might join too, who knows? And special thanks to our editor-in-chief, portabella, for her work tonight and her future work of trying to edit all of this podcast. Good luck. This episode of Gamertag was produced by Gamertag Studios. Music by Rhinoceros, editing and production by Isabella Sumner, visuals by Opal and Ink Design, hosted by me Scarto46. Thanks for listening to this episode of gamer tag. If you enjoyed today's episode, hit, follow on your favorite podcast, leave us a rating and share it with someone whose username has always made you curious. We drop new stories every other week featuring creators, gamers, streamers and digital personalities who shaped their identity online. Got a gamer tag story of your own or know someone we should talk to? Visit our link tree or our socials to reach out. You selected your character to find your tag and build your persona. Now come tell us your story. Transmission ending Goodbye.