Sometimes. It was hard (and felt weird) to not show my face to JBP, for example, since he was (and still is) such an important person in my life.

It would also be nice to have a "proper" name sometimes, since people will not tend to cite you or mention you in "serious" conversations if you are a nym. I didn't pick my nym carefully, so if I'd do it again, I'd go with a "Firstname Lastname" style nym.

But it could be worse, it could be poopfeast420 instead of dergigi.