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My name comes from a TV series that few people seemed to have heard of: Corner Gas. It was a comedy series on CTV that my brother and I used to watch all the time, and apparently it was one of CTV's most successful comedy series at the time. In one episode, a decal for "Corner Gas" was misprinted as Corner G, and the person who owned Corner Gas liked the sound, and used it throughout the episode. The term wasn't mentioned again in the series. When I was around 8 and the show was still in production, I was making an account on the YTV site, I wanted something short, to-the-point, and that rolled of the tongue easily, and with that being my favourite show, I began thinking of any iconic terms from the show I could use, and since what I was looking for in the name was the same thing the character in the show liked about Corner G, I thought of that, and settled with it. The site I was making an account for did not support spaces or ascii characters in usernames, and I didn't like the looks of "G" capitalized right next to the word "corner", so the only way I could think of to separate the letter from the word was an underscore, which is what I ended with.
To start off, I pronounced it exactly as it was written, "Corner Underscore G", and I was happy with it for quite awhile. Eventually, when I started branching out into a few more sites, and started saying my username more, I grew tired of saying such a long name, so I started not pronouncing the underscore, just saying "Corner G", and to date, that is how I pronounce it most of the time.
Everyone says my name differently, and what is even more diverse is people's abbreviations of my name. Some people shorten it to "Corner", some people shorten it to a simple "G". Myself, I find 'corner' just makes me picture a corner, which is just weird, and 'G' sounds like some gangster name..
Even broader than people's shortenings of my name is the context it can be put in. It was a long time ago that I started using this as my username, and since then I have pictured many things that relate to the context of "corner G". I have pictured the corner of a square 'G' shape, I have pictured someone "cornering" a G, I have even pictured a face in the corner of a room thinking "gee...". I know that other people would have also come up with some weird interpretations of my name, since "corner" is just a weird word for a name.

Corner is a word that seems weird to have in a name, "G" seems like some gangster name, and the name was from a long time ago. If I could change it, I certainly would, I have a lot of better names in mind. However, I used the name in so many sites, and built a reputation in so many places as "corner_G" that if I changed now, I would basically become a newcomer again, who nobody knew.

You have drawn enough interest in me with this one that I couldn't help but reply.

I play Minecraft in what is likely a weird way to most people. I play single player, as a lone gamer working on my own skills. I start off with the typical survival method, and I always have it on hard for the thrill of the challenge. I continue as most survivalists would by building temporary shelters and obtaining the first materials and building up. However, The end to which I play the game is a much farther and less definite one than what Mojang has directly supplied us with. I try to make houses with comfy looking rooms and inviting atmospheres inside, and working traps and item harvesters around the outside, in addition to farms, including tree farms and crops. I play the game to master all aspects of survival in said game, which in this case, is mobs, blocks and designs. I try to have traps and harvesters to master mobs, which means I need to prove my ability of physically and mentally outsmarting them so they are incapable of attacking me while I collect their loot and spoils. I master the blocks by exploring the farthest reaches of the Minecraft universe in search of the most illusive materials with which I make decorations and legacy pieces to prove to myself I have "mastered" the exploration and mining aspect of the game. I do this in the same way other people would generally play the game, with a small mine as a start, then a larger mine, then a final mine that I begin under my house for ease of access. Once I have "mastered" the overworld by obtaining the rarest minerals, I move on to the Nether, and collect Netherrack, Quartz and Nether Brick with which I make more decoration in my house as more proof of my mastery of Minecraft's survival mode. I master the design, the most creative aspect of Minecraft, by trying to make the best houses possible. This connects to the blocks and exploration aspect, as I need materials of all kinds to make such a build, but this poses it's own challenge as it is something requiring completely different skills from the other two. I try to make the most amazing builds I possibly can to prove to myself that I can master the art of creativity. This is what always keeps the game interesting in the end because it can always be built upon, and anything I build can always be improved, and better things can always be made.

For me, I see Minecraft as three aspects given to us be Mojang. I play Minecraft as a challenge to master all three aspects to prove my abilities to myself, as a sense of achievement. And the better I get at each, the more I accomplish and the more I prove to myself, thus the better I think of myself as a gamer.