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Other Topics => Off-Topic Discussions => Topic started by: 7wavemaster on December 25, 2010, 10:17:21 pm
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This thread is going to be about why each of you chose your username.
I'l go first I was reading a book called Dot Hack and like wavemasters and so thats how i chose my username.
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I was working on a name for an RP character. I enjoy things from japan or has a japanese influence. So I came up with this name from just sounding vowels and consonants and eventually Kamietsu came about. The full name of the character I create was actually Kamietsu Aiamura. Kamietsu was simpler for forums and the such and a name I grew to love.
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Retribution just sounds plain awesome. ;D
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Well, who isn't the new guy some time or another? :P
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This name came up when I was playing cs 1.6 a couple of years ago. I was just ruling like the mast3r l33t haxx0r and owning the opponents team all by miself for a couple of turns (with a couple of stolen frags in between :( ). One opponent said: you are undestruptable, after I had a little luck to survive three opponents at once.
Thats when I remembered a lame joke: When the world ends, only two things stay the same: Cockroaches and the soft breads from mc donalds.
Just for the kicks of it I named myself Cockroach (or Kakerlake in german) because Soft Bread from MC Donalds didn't sound that pleasant. Somehow that name is stuck now since then ^^.
Before that I had the name Alfons. Solely due to the comic Gaston Lagaffe, where Gaston has a best friend called Alfons who is a genius. Well, I was reading that comic when I had to enter a username so I picked the first thing in my mind xD
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Fortunately, I wanted to keep all my account names consistent since 2 years ago - so I wouldn't get confused between them (Not that there were a lot of them, maybe 3?)
Unfortunately, the one I started with had the name DrunkDestroyer.
I must have thought it was a cool name at one point, but that time has long gone.
Now I'm sticking with more subtle and sophisticated names, like NukedDryRooster, and FatLikeYo'Momma!
(Ok, If I could actually pick a new name, it would be something like: Nemesis, Forgotten, Obscure...something gloomy and depressing like that)
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Mine's... just weird.
I took the greek words Necros and Pyros, and merged them in the worst possible way. In short, my name roughly means Flaming Death. I've used it for over a year, and will use it for several years to come.
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i was desperate for a username... don't laugh :'(
so i looked around the room and spotted a cookie
i added pirate because i was thinking of pirates... i think
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i was desperate for a username... don't laugh :'(
so i looked around the room and spotted a cookie
i added pirate because i was thinking of pirates... i think
I laughed.
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I used to play Megaman Zero a lot and liked it. This was around the time I first designed my user name. I based my username of the my favorite weapon of the game, the Z-Saber. Oh the good times of running around in that game, cutting every evil robot you found to pieces.
(http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq284/GenesisZeroGX/Sprite%20Animations/sommersault.gif)
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Well, I actually made like 2 accounts in-game before this one, one was called element of aether and the other firefly something. Eventually I began to like monsters with growth and lava golem was the best one back then. I liked the card so much I made yet another account based on an in-game thing. That was before i joined the forums, I decided I'd go for lava golem since the pictures in the game were also included here on forums :)
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I used to play Megaman Zero a lot and liked it. This was around the time I first designed my user name. I based my username of the my favorite weapon of the game, the Z-Saber. Oh the good times of running around in that game, cutting every evil robot you found to pieces.
(http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq284/GenesisZeroGX/Sprite%20Animations/sommersault.gif)
Shoulda been "Luke Skywalker" or "Darth Vader". I mean, just look at that gif. xD
Dm. Why Dm...
About 3 years ago, I joined a first massive multiplayer game.. and.. I was just pressing random letters on my keyboard. I wanted something easy to remember. I decided to press all the letters and then stay with the 2 firsts. Dm were the 2 firsts.
But Dm was 2 letters. The accounts NEEDED to be 3 letters/numbers. Damn Accounts. So I tried Dm1, but it was lazy. And I tried Dm12, but that sounded meh. Dm123 looked like I wanted to show off that I can count. So for some reason I just went "Dm1321". Annd.. For some reason I like the name, and I just stick with it wherever I go.
Don't ask. =P
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Unlike popular belief my name has nothing to do with the English word beef, it was a dutch nickname. Then when I made my first e-mail account I tried everything Beef-ish without adding numbers, Beef, theBeef, etcetera, and found out TheonlyrealBeef wasn't taken yet, so I used that name ever since :)
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I used to play Megaman Zero a lot and liked it. This was around the time I first designed my user name. I based my username of the my favorite weapon of the game, the Z-Saber. Oh the good times of running around in that game, cutting every evil robot you found to pieces.
(http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq284/GenesisZeroGX/Sprite%20Animations/sommersault.gif)
Shoulda been "Luke Skywalker" or "Darth Vader". I mean, just look at that gif. xD
Dm. Why Dm...
About 3 years ago, I joined a first massive multiplayer game.. and.. I was just pressing random letters on my keyboard. I wanted something easy to remember. I decided to press all the letters and then stay with the 2 firsts. Dm were the 2 firsts.
But Dm was 2 letters. The accounts NEEDED to be 3 letters/numbers. Damn Accounts. So I tried Dm1, but it was lazy. And I tried Dm12, but that sounded meh. Dm123 looked like I wanted to show off that I can count. So for some reason I just went "Dm1321". Annd.. For some reason I like the name, and I just stick with it wherever I go.
Don't ask. =P
Meh, Zblader sounds cooler. :D
Oh and I'll ask. Why'd you like it? ;)
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I'm not even kidding when I say that my username is my real name in a form of elvish. Why, yes, I do carry a "NERD" card, why do you ask?
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I used to play Megaman Zero a lot and liked it. This was around the time I first designed my user name. I based my username of the my favorite weapon of the game, the Z-Saber. Oh the good times of running around in that game, cutting every evil robot you found to pieces.
(http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq284/GenesisZeroGX/Sprite%20Animations/sommersault.gif)
Shoulda been "Luke Skywalker" or "Darth Vader". I mean, just look at that gif. xD
Dm. Why Dm...
About 3 years ago, I joined a first massive multiplayer game.. and.. I was just pressing random letters on my keyboard. I wanted something easy to remember. I decided to press all the letters and then stay with the 2 firsts. Dm were the 2 firsts.
But Dm was 2 letters. The accounts NEEDED to be 3 letters/numbers. Damn Accounts. So I tried Dm1, but it was lazy. And I tried Dm12, but that sounded meh. Dm123 looked like I wanted to show off that I can count. So for some reason I just went "Dm1321". Annd.. For some reason I like the name, and I just stick with it wherever I go.
Don't ask. =P
Meh, Zblader sounds cooler. :D
Oh and I'll ask. Why'd you like it? ;)
Luke Skywalker has "The Force" (A.K.A Ducktape.)
I like it because it kinda sounds "off". Like I don't really know what I'm inputting but it still makes sense in a way I don't know and you don't really know either, thus not making sense anywhere or in anyway.
You understand? Yeah, I don't either.
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Name + Initials for me (3 of course meaning I am the third...). The fact that my user name just happens to look similar to the word "willing" is purely coincidental :)
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Luke Skywalker has "The Force" (A.K.A Ducktape.)
I like it because it kinda sounds "off". Like I don't really know what I'm inputting but it still makes sense in a way I don't know and you don't really know either, thus not making sense anywhere or in anyway.
You understand? Yeah, I don't either.
Meh, Zero's a robot that can perform special attacks while not sounding or looking like an idiot.
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It was very long ago, and the first version was 'Shantuger', if I remember correctly.. This name just came when I was thinking of a nickname for a game (Populous I think?). I didn't have internet access back then, so I used it only in games I played. After that, I used 'Solitrone' for a while. The origin of this was from primary school: we were playing something between lessons when one of my friends called me something like 'Sholti' (instead of Zsolti).. and then, Solitrone hit me that moment as a cool name. I didn't use it for long though (perhaps a year?). For some reason which I do not know, I switched to Shantu. I do not remember why I chose this name, but I've been using it ever since. I didn't even realise for a long time that it looked like the old name I used, I didn't make a connection in my mind. It's pretty interesting, as it means 'absolute quietude' or 'peace' in Hindu, and is one of the Rasas.
I like it as a nickname because it has a nice tribal or indian feeling to it and it has grown to me. :)
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Asymmetry was a band name I thought of, but the guys scrapped it after i found "The asymmetry" already in use. And they played like the same genre. Meh
My (at that time) band dissolved by the date I made my forum account, (good musicians but unmanageable egos, not cool at all) so I said to myself ¿why not?
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:| I haven't the slightest inkling as to why I chose this name, maybe I was looking at a clock....?
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Im a man... That like money... Yeah....:P
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Name of a Korean female singer/artist group that I used to be a fangirl of.
Now I'm not a fangirl anymore and honestly regret taking this name, but I decided use it to demonstrate the power and the significance of females. I guess I'm living up to this standard, since I'm the first female elemental Master appointed as well as having a variety of roles in this community :P
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at first, this name was used on my Kongregate alt account, mainly as a joke
then I started playing kongai with this account, and a couple months after that, I became pretty well-known in kongai community, so now, this is my main internet avatar name...
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We can't stop here, this is Bat Country!
Hunter Thompson reference.
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When I was in primary, I had a group dedicated for gaming, and the character's name must contain "mana". I'm a new guy there, so I picked "boy". The "100" part is a obligatory part too. I remember and use this name everywhere xD
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wierd, im having a strange case of deja vu...
ANYWAY.... i chose my name to try and kill my arrogance flashes. it worked for a while, but then i adopted the name as a reason to be arrogant for my humility, so it failed a while longer, then i went back to being a "robot" and was humbled once again, so the name sticks... for now... im thinking of changing it in a few months though...
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Well, I was watching Avatar: The last airbender, and they have a flying bison named Appa. I put appa as the beginning of my name. I noticed that appa, sounded like oppo, so I added sum, like opposum. I had Appasum. Asum sounds like Awesome, so I changed it to Awesome. AppAwesome. I then noticed it had App in it, so I capitalized the A. And I remember it having to do with awesomepposum or something...
If you say appawesome out loud, it sounds like opposum.
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iirc, I was on Kong playing random games and I stumbled on a game called Minions. For some reason, I didn't feel like using my Kong name (MrEPerson) probably because it was getting old. So I decided to make a new name, started thinking, and eventually just decided on implosion. I liked it better, so I used it for stuff from then on.
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I actually love God of War (shame that I don't have PS3 to play GoW3 :( ), and the main character is Kratos, which also means power, and sounds good. When I first used it I thought it had an "h" in between the "t" and the "o", and I made like 3 different accounts named Krathos. Then I discovered that Krathos was less common than Kratos (because of being badly written), so I stayed with it. Now I hate it and I want to change it, but meh...
BTW, I'm really looking forward to hear 918273645*'s story (and the other that started with 92something* too) :D
*both called numbers for easy management
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I have a history of being very much in my head, contemplating past events and fantasizing future ones, and coming up with ideas and following through them till the thought is more intricate and complicated than I could be bothered to execute in real life.
In short, you could say I'm very... cerebral. ^_^
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I've been Pepokish since I was a kid -- I can't even remember how long ago it was, but I must have been somewhere around 10 years old or so. I was on Neopets, and a friend of mine was rather fond of giving everyone crazy, unusual nicknames. She wanted to call me Coke, but I wanted to be called Pepsi (only now do I realize that she meant the "other" kind of coke, considering her own name was 'pothead'... but I was just 10 at the time. rofl). So we settled on Pepsi+Coke...ish. Pepokish.
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hmm... in my cs-times long time ago... i had 4 names, but this one makes it, cause it is german (one other close to mine was english) and is the most best definition of mine... im a alltime crazy, gambling and playing child... and all people around me are saying this... so why not 8)
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Well I have been using this name in some form for a long time. it is my Birthstone and my Chinese Zodiac sign.
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Drow + Hobbit = Drobbit
It's a race I created once for a game ^^
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Elements wasn't loading on our computer and to prove that to my brother I made an account called nerd1, and since it actually did work :-[ i just went with it. six months later I'm still a noob :-X
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Figure it out.
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well..... its my school ID
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I chose something related the game, as in all previous forums and chat rooms I never really got involved, and didn't feel a need to pick anything that sticks out.
Obviously this has changed, and my post count here is currently 1362x higher than any other forum I've used ;D. That just proves that you are all awesome people :D
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It was the nick i've used in Ogame...and... it comes from here...
;)
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Mr. Multiples of 9 - That's what it is, but we still don't know why you chose that in particular.
Spike for the win. ^_^
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Mr. Multiples of 9 - That's what it is, but we still don't know why you chose that in particular.
Spike for the win. ^_^
I think he picked the 9 numbers at the top of the keyboard, and pressed the one all the way to the right, then the one all the way to left, 2nd right, 2nd left, 3rd right, 3rd left...
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Mr. Multiples of 9 - That's what it is, but we still don't know why you chose that in particular.
Spike for the win. ^_^
I think he picked the 9 numbers at the top of the keyboard, and pressed the one all the way to the right, then the one all the way to left, 2nd right, 2nd left, 3rd right, 3rd left...
Then why wouldn't his name start with a 0? >_>
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Figure it out.
Why don't you just tell us?
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Figure it out.
Why don't you just tell us?
multiples of 9
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Figure it out.
Why don't you just tell us?
multiples of 9
That's only the implied theory. Could be another reason. ;)
Nah, jk.
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Mr. Multiples of 9 - That's what it is, but we still don't know why you chose that in particular.
Spike for the win. ^_^
I think he picked the 9 numbers at the top of the keyboard, and pressed the one all the way to the right, then the one all the way to left, 2nd right, 2nd left, 3rd right, 3rd left...
Then why wouldn't his name start with a 0? >_>
Because he doesn't like 0s.
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You went like this.
Far right.
9.
Far left.
1.
Second right.
8.
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918273645
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My nick in other forums was DarkCrusade, which I chose when I was 11 maybe. I joined deviantArt and wanted a more serious one, so I went for ArtCrusade ;)
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"Lionheart" comes from my Passion for Final Fantasy VIII.
Later on, i've used "Tha Truth" (wich is my IGN) cuz of tha Influence of Hiphop.
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why not :P
was searching for a nickname once and someone said this and i liked it so kept it for almost every online game now :P
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Mr. Multiples of 9 - That's what it is, but we still don't know why you chose that in particular.
Spike for the win. ^_^
Why not? I like 9.
And it is a prime example of this:
Entropy may have risen, but there is secret order behind everything.
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Huuuuuuh.
I have been Rabbid since Rayman Raving Rabbids came out.
When I went to kong, Rabbid was already taken, I chose RavingRabbid.
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Wayne is a synonym for "not giving a f*ck"
i am wayne
the rest is obviously obvious ...
Wayne is given away as a username in most games though, so i chose to add a Core as i am the essence of not caring at all ...
basically this is not the case because i want to feel cool, but because i am the laziest person you will have ever heard of ever ever in the whole of your very long lifetime and never in the history of mankind will there be someone regarded to as "as lazy as Wayne was" because that is impossible. i am the god of lazyness and you shalt bow down before be ... well you should if i would care but *jump to the beginning of the post here*
if you read this sentence you didn't follow the instructions.
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One day, I decided a cool username would be Berserker.
It worked a couple times, but it's often taken.
Then I moved onto Berzerk.
Still taken often.
xBerzerk isn't, but now I regret it. The "x" makes it look terrible.
Can we have name changes!??
...Please? :D
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One day, I decided a cool username would be Berserker.
It worked a couple times, but it's often taken.
Then I moved onto Berzerk.
Still taken often.
xBerzerk isn't, but now I regret it. The "x" makes it look terrible.
Can we have name changes!??
...Please? :D
I think Retribution was Redemption at some point, or the other way around... I'm confused :(
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One day, I decided a cool username would be Berserker.
It worked a couple times, but it's often taken.
Then I moved onto Berzerk.
Still taken often.
xBerzerk isn't, but now I regret it. The "x" makes it look terrible.
Can we have name changes!??
...Please? :D
I think Retribution was Redemption at some point, or the other way around... I'm confused :(
Is there anyone we can speak to regarding name changes? I'm really eager to know, and get a name change if possible.
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This is just the name I use for all accounts if I can, but here's the history.
Once upon a time there was a band called Polka Tulk Blues Co. This band decided to change their name to Earth, but then discovered that name was taken by another band, so they took the name "Black Sabbath" from an Italian horror film. They also changed their style of music to be scary (because they thought it was interesting how many people would pay to be scared at a horror film) but still have it's roots in bluesI like Black Sabbath, and thus heavy metal was born. I like them very much, so when I was reading about them and found out about "Polka Tulk Blues Co." I really liked that name. One day when I was making a new account on some mmorpg I don't play anymore PolkaTulk was (sadly) already taken but I really wanted to use it so I decided to capitalize random letters in a way that looked appealing to me. So that's how I chose my name.
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As you can probably tell, I'm not very creative with these things :O
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"Bloodshadow" is a pretty bad translation of my Chinese username, "血影" (literally "blood shadow"). The Blood Shadow is a secret hidden boss monster in a Chinese game I played. That game is the first game that I got addicted to; the second was Elements. I liked the name Blood Shadow quite a lot, so I chose it as my own username. Then I came to Canada and began visiting websites in English, so 血影 became Bloodshadow. I've used this name in almost all websites, and if Bloodshadow is not available then I use Blood_Shadow.
And in case anyone is wondering what the Chinese incantations just below my avatar are (don't ask me to translate please; I tried once and the results ain't pretty), they're ripped from a fantasy novel I've read a couple of years ago. It's the incantation for an extremely destructive demonic spell that basically creates a singularity out of black lightning and blood-draining dark energy. Just my type of spell.
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Good thing I searched before posting this over again.
Usually my forum names are comic book references, but I decided I wanted something different when I was signing up for this one. I guess I was feeling science-nerdy at the time. Astrocytes are a type of brain cell, so named because they usually have a star shape or starburst shape.
(http://sites.univ-reunion.fr/best/astrocyte.jpg)
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I got my user name years ago.
I started playing runescape when it first became popular at my elementary school.
I didn't really know what a user name was, so I wanted to incorporate my own name.
My last name is Hamilton, so I looked at that.
Ham-il-ton.
Ham
Hmmmm, what to do with Ham?
Well, ham does come from pigs...
What if I was hammypig. No
How about Hammy the pig? Thats using my name (in short form) and giving it to a pig.
Even at that age, I saw the irony.
And so my user name is hammythepig for almost everything, expect X-box,
because my friend stole that name to annoy me, and he never uses it >:(
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well it started when i was mucho younger. i heard about star wars from my cousin and lego star wars came out and i bought it. loved it and my love for star wars began. Then i thought about stormtrooper when i set up my xbox live account and people always replace s with z so ztormtrooper sounded cool. and it went to many places
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Because I did. Do I really need a reason to choose it?
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Well I loved the Oracle back then because it gave me several Nymphs, and the Forbidden comes from us being forbidden to see him outside of once per day (not counting spare accounts). Although it seems the Oracle has come to hate me now :'(
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I made my name on Kongregate 3 years ago. I was trying to come up with an original name (no numbers please) and at the time I liked N the game and thought rednecks were cool. I mashed a couple of related words together a couple of times and this is what came out. I always use this one because it either autolinks accounts or has the name already there or I use it for easy remembering.
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I like kitty
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I played a silly but addictive game called "Epic War 1" or something like that; it took a lot of time from me to finish that and I was a bit angry because I wasted so much time killing those bosses and bosses of the bosses, so I asked myself "Are you satisfied now, pervert?". Then I registered myself in Kong for some reason and soon I found Elements from there too as a new game. It was autumn 2009 I guess.
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Ja meaning soul.
Xly for Sly.
So Sly-Soul.
Seemed good for a card game.
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well..
i suppose i got my name from me just liking pandas, but panda as a user name didnt really sound right to me i came up with Deathpanda but it turns out that was taken so DeathPanda1 was created.
Although i have DeathPanda1 i may also use SilentSneaker as a username that one i just made up on the spot while thinking for a username.
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I chose "Monox D. I-Fly" as my username because "Monox" is my nickname when I was a 10th grader. Why did I get "Monox" as my nickname back then? That's because when I was a Junior High School student, there was a humour contest show at TV and one of its contestant called himself as "Monox". My classmates thought of me as a funny person, so I was given that nickname. About the mid-name "D", I think you who loves One Piece manga should know: Yes. The mid-name "D" is a symbol of a special clan like the name of "Monkey D. Luffy", "Portgas D. Ace", "Marshall D. Teach", etc. And what about "I-Fly"? Don't be mistaken. It has nothing to do with flight at all. I just shortened my real full name: Faizal Yunus Ibrahim. Since in any book references last name comes first, then I switched it to be: Ibrahim, Faizal Yunus. And then I shortened it to be "I-Fly".
Now I'm going everywhere with this username. Try googling and type "Monox D. I-Fly" and you'll see that I've many accounts in many places.
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
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I really dont know why I chose Flayne as my nick, It was 5-6 years ago that I wanted a nickname for myself, and suddenly I thought of Flayne.
When you think about it though, I must have subconsciously thought of the following words:
Flame, Pain, Insane, Chain.
thats the only thing i remember before I thought about it.
After a few years, I checked for it on the internet, there were Very few people who's names/surnames were Flayne, the rest of the results linked up to wherever I was named Flayne in forums and stuff.
At high school, we got to pick what nickname went behind our jerseys, so I chose Flayne. At first everyone laughed, but then in the next 4 days, everyone started to call me FLAYYYNNEE! *with an extremish charged accent/voice and sometimes even just repeatedly saying the word for their own pleasure or amusement!!
I Felt good that time and really thought that Flayne was the name for me :)
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
Ng? You want my username?
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
lol why
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I actually preferred [removed] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
Less forbidden code plox.
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And in case anyone is wondering what the Chinese incantations just below my avatar are (don't ask me to translate please; I tried once and the results ain't pretty), they're ripped from a fantasy novel I've read a couple of years ago. It's the incantation for an extremely destructive demonic spell that basically creates a singularity out of black lightning and blood-draining dark energy. Just my type of spell.
I won't ask you to translate, instead, I went to google translate ;D, and it is kinda weird:
Swallow-day satisfaction, the magic crosses beings. Of all things, only I am supreme.
Pretty cool though.
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Bare Naked Ladies' One Week's line: "laughed at a funeral," I thought it was the most poetic thing I've ever heard... at the age of 14 hahaha
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I chose something related to the game, and at the time I joined I loved using Flying Fahrenheit spams.
I also couldn't spell.
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I originally had some crappy name I made when I was 10.
Some nub misspelled it, and the new name stuck.
Now I've been RootRanger for 4+ years.
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I won't ask you to translate, instead, I went to google translate ;D, and it is kinda weird:
The epitome of this trope (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LostInTranslation).
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I won't ask you to translate, instead, I went to google translate ;D, and it is kinda weird:
The epitome of this trope (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LostInTranslation).
True :)), but it didn't turn out that bad. :)
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
I prefer SpikeSpiegel too...
;D
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
you know your not aloud to use the code outside that humor topic
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
you know your not aloud to use the code outside that humor topic
Apart from spelling allowed, Kitty is right! Don't use that code please.
Jappert has been my nickname since kindergarten and it always stayed that way. It's been my name through years of gaming now, so a pretty obvious choice.
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My name is just shorter version of my real name.
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I was developing a game with some classmates for a while and was in charge of story/NPC development. My favorite character that fit into the story was named Gavran, which is a name I use for a lot of things. When I came to register on Kong, Gavran was already taken so I used Gavsword (or Gav's Word) as my username. When I signed up here I used the same name since I started playing elements on Kong.
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so I used Gavsword (or Gav's Word) as my username.
Ha, I've totally been reading it as "Gav sword" this whole time.
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so I used Gavsword (or Gav's Word) as my username.
Ha, I've totally been reading it as "Gav sword" this whole time.
Ditto ;)
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My username is an old and long story...
In like grade 6 we did a school project to design your own island. On my island you could find certain gemstones, and one of them was "Etheria".
After that, my friend was making a sort of universe thing, where he mapped out planets and stuff, and we were thinking of names. I offered "Etheria" as one, and he misheard me and wrote Evaria instead. It became the Ice planet...
Since then I started to like using Evaria as a character name.
But at around grade 8 I started to think a lot, and one of my thoughts was basically:
What could you do if you had perfect control of the air?
After things like Flying, Air Pressure, Wind Cutter and stuff, I thought of temperature extremes.
If you could control the temperature of air, you could make it so cold that things freeze over instantly, or so hot that they set fire and burn.
I attributed this "Control" of air to the name Evaria that I liked so much, and started to create a character around it. (I was influenced by anime.)
There's sort of a split personality. Eva is the "Chillwind", and represents the cold extremes of temperature in the air.
Ria is the "Searwind", and represents the hot extremes.
I started to play around with how to represent the 2 together.
EVA:RIA, eva/ria, etc.
I finally settled on EvaRia, which is the username I try to use the most now. (If it's not taken)
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My username was derived from my name, and has no relation to flying angels that seem to have a particular affinity to fire.
My name is Indian, but I live in America, so many of my elementary and middle school teachers pronounced my name wrong. Through years of mispronunciation, I can't pronounce my own name right, even in mostly Indian parties or family reunions. My name sound pretty close to Seraph, or sometimes Sir-Half (on Smogon [competitive pokemon]).
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My username was derived from my name, and has no relation to flying angels that seem to have a particular affinity to fire.
My name is Indian, but I live in America, so many of my elementary and middle school teachers pronounced my name wrong. Through years of mispronunciation, I can't pronounce my own name right, even in mostly Indian parties or family reunions. My name sound pretty close to Seraph, or sometimes Sir-Half (on Smogon [competitive pokemon]).
I'm funerallaughter on Smogon too ;D
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My user name has a very small part of my name Miguel, Mig-. -ster and 99 were just random.
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
wat. Bahahaha. I beat you to it, eh? There's only one way to settle this. How long have you been using Higurashi for? I'm at 9 years in total. :D (yes, this is a joke)
Why did I choose it? Well, I was actually reading about Japanese culture and happened upon the cicada by this name. The duskbringer. It rises when the sun goes down. There's a lot of backstory as to why it fit my mood at the time. Maybe I'll disclose some of it in time.
About a month later I found the anime and facepalmed because I knew everyone would assume I got it from there.
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
LOL!!!!!!!
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I actually preferred [you] as an username, but well, it was unavailable :(
LOL!!!!!!!
Meh, forbidden code. Stupid me...
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Zerg + Protoss = Pergoss. Neo cause I made a new account, and that one stuck for some reason.
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Fortunately, I wanted to keep all my account names consistent since 2 years ago - so I wouldn't get confused between them (Not that there were a lot of them, maybe 3?)
Unfortunately, the one I started with had the name DrunkDestroyer.
I must have thought it was a cool name at one point, but that time has long gone.
Now I'm sticking with more subtle and sophisticated names, like NukedDryRooster, and FatLikeYo'Momma!
(Ok, If I could actually pick a new name, it would be something like: Nemesis, Forgotten, Obscure...something gloomy and depressing like that)
Ahahahaha ... my belly hurts. Gee this thread is old and long ... Destroyers post was ages ago.
A friend of mine once named himself "MyFather" in all sorts of forums. He was always hoping to be quoted ...
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For me it was 4-5 years ago, I was with a friend and wanted to change my facebook name, but didnt think of anything good, all of a sudden my favourite murdered came into my mind, Jack the Ripper! so I thought Id make my name Jim the Ripper. But couldnt make that so I chose Jimmy Ripper. So when I found etg I tried to put the same username but it was taken, so I tought what the hell? dark ripper it is!
Your turn! :D
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My username is my real name in a sense. I think a few of my contemporaries on here know the story.
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My name is my real life name with an extra "R". :P
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Randomly chose it. 7's my favourite number
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My nick is a combination of my abbreviated name in real life, and some random letters from my last name. ;)
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There is already a topic about this ("A thing about nicknames" iirc)
Anyway, I just put my names there. (Iancu Dorin Marian)
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There is already a topic about this ("A thing about nicknames" iirc)
Anyway, I just put my names there. (Iancu Dorin Marian)
Inded, but that thread is focused on how people call you, this thread is why you picked your username, and the story behind it^^
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me in the past
Meh, this name doesn't sound crap. What's that? It's not taken? Sweet!
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Opsinis made some time ago a thread called 'A thing about nicknames' in general discussion that was exactly this.
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One of my favorite characters from Fire Emblem. Naesala has been my handle since I first started doing online stuff (Naesala20 on Runescape, later Naesala on Kongregate and then Naesala or KingKilvas everywhere else). For the longest time he was my avatar too, but recently changed that to avoid gender confusion.
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This name came up when I was playing cs 1.6 a couple of years ago. I was just ruling like the mast3r l33t haxx0r and owning the opponents team all by miself for a couple of turns (with a couple of stolen frags in between :( ). One opponent said: you are undestruptable, after I had a little luck to survive three opponents at once.
Thats when I remembered a lame joke: When the world ends, only two things stay the same: Cockroaches and the soft breads from mc donalds.
Just for the kicks of it I named myself Cockroach (or Kakerlake in german) because Soft Bread from MC Donalds didn't sound that pleasant. Somehow that name is stuck now since then ^^.
Before that I had the name Alfons. Solely due to the comic Gaston Lagaffe, where Gaston has a best friend called Alfons who is a genius. Well, I was reading that comic when I had to enter a username so I picked the first thing in my mind xD
The story behind my name hasn't changed and probably never will, as I intend to stick with it.
But when "Kakerlake" is already in use, I sometimes pick "Insektenplage" (german for 'plague of insects'), "Blatta" (genus of the cockroach) or "Amöbe" (german for 'ameba').
*woah, has it already been ~3.5 years? :O*
*woah, did I really write with so many mistakes back then? ... I must've been drunk xD *
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There is already a topic about this ("A thing about nicknames" iirc)
Opsinis made some time ago a thread called 'A thing about nicknames' in general discussion that was exactly this.
Ummm, read other people's replies Chapuz...
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eljoemo is one of my 3 online nicknames, and the one with the most interesting story behind it. The other 2 (ninja of lemons - my ign and Xbox live name at some point - and Tactical Squid - minecraft and CW) are just chosen because they sound awesome. But eljoemo actually has a better reason behind it.
I first used eljoemo when I registered for my Kongregate account 5 years ago, making me 11 at the time. Around then, and still kinda today, I was a pretty big Simpsons fan (it is pretty hilarious). For those who don't know, the son Bart has the sort of graffiti/ street name El Barto. I thought it was pretty awesome and so applied it my name, turning Joe (or Joseph) into eljoemo (sometimes El Joemo if I feel like it). It's the name I've used the most, I've used all 3 randomly for social online accounts.
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dont you need to be 12 or 13 to make a kong account? :-\
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asymmetry was my silly band (started and dissolved around 2009), then my kong account (2010) then ofc my elements username, and here we are.
Fun fact: asymmetry is now a prog metal album by Karnivool, some crazy australians: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhfVNeJKaA) Definitely worth a listen.
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dont you need to be 12 or 13 to make a kong account? :-\
Now, now, are you telling my you've never lied about your age to sign up for something? :P
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As I have said in a similar thread it is my birth stone and Chinese Zodiac.
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I chose my username because someone on a legendary journey of my self needs names to remember the journey. I mined pretty stones and have slain exploding green creatures for crying out loud! So I reign death. It was death reign or sesameseedsoflife. You choose.
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