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Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stunaep on October 05, 2002, 05:10:26 am: I think this might be fun to know. Why did you pick the username you have here. I know about Steaks, and ToT's, but I sure would like to know how the hell do people think of names like... well, most of you here.

So... let's begin!
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Gortef on October 05, 2002, 05:40:43 am: I didn't have any particular reason myself... about 7-8 years back I wanted to go chatting in KissFM's Chat city (only god knows why) and I needed a nick. Gortef just popped into my mind... quite quickly in fact... and I have used it ever since :)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Tiara on October 05, 2002, 05:45:04 am: ehhh... Its my name :p
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: vyper on October 05, 2002, 05:49:34 am: It was the name I chose for my first fs1 pilot... *sentimental moment*
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: RandomTiger on October 05, 2002, 05:54:24 am: I finally found a good name that wasnt used in most system.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Redfang on October 05, 2002, 06:37:53 am: Got it from a game called Blood&Magic (I think) many many years ago... don't know why did I take it, but I did. There was some guy called Redfang the Reaper in that very good game, but I dropped the reaper away after well, don't remember when.

Quote
Originally posted by Gortef
I didn't have any particular reason myself... about 7-8 years back I wanted to go chatting in KissFM's Chat city (only god knows why) and I needed a nick. Gortef just popped into my mind... quite quickly in fact... and I have used it ever since :)

:wtf:

;)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Razor on October 05, 2002, 07:03:48 am: Hm my nick. Well if any of you remember the show called Swat Kats, in it there is one cool guy/kat called Razor and he kicked ass, had a a good sence of humor and well when I went to VBB, I wanted to use the nick Razor but someone took it allready :mad2: so I tryed Razor_blade. I used it till the VBB was closed. About a year ago, I came to HLP and I used a nick razor_blade for some time but I didn't visit the forums that much. When VBB became soo boring I came back here and signed up as Razor. The nick wasn't taken before :yes: so I settled with it and I am quite happy with this one. It's way better than Razor_blade. Short, crystal clear and cool. ;)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: NeoHunter on October 05, 2002, 07:38:43 am: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara
ehhh... Its my name :p

Are you really a girl?:eek2:

Just joking.:p

Anyway, I got my name from a WinAmp skin really. The inspiration came from its skin name. I've been using it for like almost 5 years now.:D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Fineus on October 05, 2002, 08:03:18 am: I have no idea how I got mine - it's kinda corny but... meh ;)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Darkage on October 05, 2002, 08:05:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara
ehhh... Its my name :p

Nice name:nod:

When i got internet 3 years ago, i was sitting in my dark room at 1 am installing the cursed Wanadoo software on my old rig whit win95 on it. After 2 hours i fianly got it to work, by that time it was 3 am, and played a few matches of Aoe. When i was done playing ( also had a good amount of booze in me ) i decided it wsa time to chat dunno where but i found one and i thought back to the game and there it popped in my drunk head Darkage. Thats how i got my name.:)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Nico on October 05, 2002, 08:31:43 am: Quote
Originally posted by Thunder
I have no idea how I got mine - it's kinda corny but... meh ;)

same here.
I can be found as lachdanan on some other forums, this one comes from Diablo, I liked the background of that character
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Galemp on October 05, 2002, 09:02:29 am: I'm named after Palpatine in the Star Wars series. Trouble is, the word 'palpitate' means to throb or pulse :eek: so I decided against it, and went for GalacticEmperor instead. Been using it for, oh, about a year now. I think I'll change it soon, though; it's a pain to give out orally.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 09:29:45 am: All my other nicks got banned.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: wEvil on October 05, 2002, 09:33:02 am: Mine popped into my head the first time I had to think of one (that was the quake2 area on the M$ gamezone whatsis)

I actually thought about it sometime later and noticed it was also a kind of anagram of my surname - so it all fits rather nicely.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stunaep on October 05, 2002, 09:44:38 am: Quote
Originally posted by darkage

Nice name:nod:

LOL!!! :lol: :lol: ****ing :lol:

never mind. Situation comedy.

Oh, and about mine. My old user account in hotmail got so devoured with spam, so I needed a new one. I was think of [email protected], but that was taken. So was [email protected]. So I figured, hey, I'll turn it around. And whaddaya know, no one had taken [email protected]

So now, I'm using it.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stunaep on October 05, 2002, 09:45:36 am: Quote
Originally posted by Razor
Hm my nick. Well if any of you remember the show called Swat Kats, in it there is one cool guy/kat called Razor and he kicked ass, had a a good sence of humor and well when I went to VBB, I wanted to use the nick Razor but someone took it allready :mad2: so I tryed Razor_blade. I used it till the VBB was closed.

aah, Swat Kats. That was a good show. Too bad they only had one season of it (or at least, I've never heard of more. :( )
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Corsair on October 05, 2002, 09:47:59 am: F-4U Corsair. One of the two coolest planes from World War II.

The other one would be the P-38 Lightning, but I thought that would sound a little messed up since we already had Thunder. ;)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: CP5670 on October 05, 2002, 09:52:16 am: I just typed in a bunch of random junk into my keyboard and it came out be "cp5670." :D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 05, 2002, 09:59:56 am: My name says what I am...
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Fineus on October 05, 2002, 10:03:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by Corsair
The other one would be the P-38 Lightning, but I thought that would sound a little messed up since we already had Thunder. ;)

You changed your name because of me? I'm honored ;)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: beatspete on October 05, 2002, 10:06:43 am: i like music... hence the "beats"... and pete being a common shortening of my real name (peter, duh) it rhymed and made sence.
"Beatspete"
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Corsair on October 05, 2002, 10:07:34 am: Quote
Originally posted by Thunder
You changed your name because of me? I'm honored ;)
Oh come on, you would have been like :wtf: if I had called myself Lighting. And anyway Corsair is cooler.

Although I could have been your alter-ego as Lightning :drevil:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Cannikin on October 05, 2002, 10:11:25 am: Look it up :p

Bah, fine for those of you too lazy to do so...

Cannikin was the code name for a 1971 nuclear detonation of the new warhead for the Spartan ABM (anti-ballistic missile) program. Conducted over a mile underground on Amchitka Island, Alaska, it yielded 5 megatons (5,000,000 tons of TNT for those who for some reason don't know) and was the most powerful underground nuclear test ever conducted. Seismic recordings measured 6.85 on the Richter Scale.

Also, indirectly caused the creation of the Greenpeace organization (a bad thing in my opinion :D )
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Fineus on October 05, 2002, 10:18:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by Corsair
Oh come on, you would have been like :wtf: if I had called myself Lighting. And anyway Corsair is cooler.

Although I could have been your alter-ego as Lightning :drevil:

Imagines a couple of spandex covered men in blue and white with golden helmets making comments taken directly from Batman comics... it's Thunder and Lightning!!
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stunaep on October 05, 2002, 10:38:40 am: just imagine...

nyanyanyanyanyanyannya THUNNNNNDER
nyanyanyanyanyanyanyanya THUNNNNDER
THUNNNNNDER, THUNNNNNDER, THUNNNNDER
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 10:53:17 am: After seeing the wonders of spandex in action on an hot 18 year-old college girl I think that it is one of mans greatest creations, in the context of the above however, I think it is a terrible, terrible thing.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: JR2000Z on October 05, 2002, 10:55:51 am: JR2000 was already taken.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Fineus on October 05, 2002, 11:13:04 am: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
After seeing the wonders of spandex in action on an hot 18 year-old college girl I think that it is one of mans greatest creations, in the context of the above however, I think it is a terrible, terrible thing.

Agreed, not to derail the thread but spandex = good. I'd just never wear it.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 05, 2002, 11:15:45 am: I always thought Thunder was some kind of lit-geek reference to the Wasteland. But, then again, only I'm lit geek enough here to think that.

Anyway. A long, long time ago, when I was a little kid, I thought this one sounded cool. Vaguely violent-looking/sounding, and if you sound it out, you get something that sort of sounds like "strychnine", and who wouldn't wanna be named after rat poison?

Anyway, I built up a bit of a reputation in certain trades, and kept the handle so that I'd be recognized by my associates. Now, however, I've gained a bit much notoriety under this name, so I'm slowly changing it to Ryder P. Moses on the few boards I can still go to (yes, it's another lit-geek thing. Free pixel to anyone who gets it)

Other handles you may or may not recognize include Satan and Pistola. Satan's kind of a contextual one.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Ulundel on October 05, 2002, 11:42:15 am: WE ARE BORG. LOWER YOUR SHIELDS...and all other ****...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! :D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: mikhael on October 05, 2002, 11:47:04 am: Mikhael is my character on FurryMUCK (yes, I hang out there). I picked the name because I like hebraic/angelic sounding names, my parents almost named me Michael, and because Mikhael is my favorite variant of that name.

In my first year on line, I went through a lot of names: Zeist, Ariel, M'Riss, Idriss, Sagan, Thorandin, Nin, Pinion, Anais, Asriel, Avariel, Louis, Ruiz, Bastien, Bastion, Spider, Weaver, Gnostus, DelGato, Ruhk, RuhkFerret and Musashiden and about six or twelve dozen more that I can't remember.

I've been using Mikhael for five years now, and I used Ruhk for about three years.

If I weren't using Mikhael, I'd be using 'lrrodrig', which was my username on the network at Uni when I was enrolled there (and is again now! :)) Its never taken, so its a good fallback.
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Post by: Ashrak on October 05, 2002, 12:24:04 pm: Ashrak is an uber-killer-get-payed-a-lot-guy in stargate SG1 :)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Grey Wolf on October 05, 2002, 12:24:43 pm: To tell you the truth: Writer's block, and the fact that "Grey Wolf" was already taken on the VBB.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Unknown Target on October 05, 2002, 12:37:22 pm: Well, when I first registered on the VBB, i registered as Fighter_Captain. Well, later I decided that name wasn't good enough, so I tried to change it to Unknown Target. Turns out that name was taken (inactive) so I switched it to Unkown Target.

That's the story I tell everyone. What really happened was that I mis-spelled it, and thought it was kinda cool to have, so I just kept it:D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Razor on October 05, 2002, 12:40:41 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep

aah, Swat Kats. That was a good show. Too bad they only had one season of it (or at least, I've never heard of more. :( )

I absolutely posetively, 1000000% agree with you. Hey there is a great site dedicated to Swat Kats. There you can download vidoes from the show, maybe some music, Swat Kats game ;7, Play RPG as any of the Swat Kats or new characters, see fan art, listen to sounds, lines and conversations from the film. The site is just too awesome. By the way, there were two seasons but I never got the chance to see season two. Go T-Bone and Raz. Commander Feral is also funny but kinda stupid. Here's the line:

Razor: Keep that missile insolated commander.
T Bone: Yeah this guy really messes up when he blows a fuse.
CMD Feral: What do you think I am? Stupid?!
T bone & Raz: Bingo! :yes:
Commander gets angry.
:lol: That was a pretty awesome scene.

Oh the site. SWAT KATS ZONE (http://www.whitestorm.com/sk.html)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Alikchi on October 05, 2002, 12:42:55 pm: My great great great (I don't know how many greats) grandfather, Peter Pitchlynn, was chief of the Choctaw indians in the 1815-1830s. He was referred to as "Alikchi", which was "magic man" or "shaman".

My full name is Thomas Pitchlynn Howell the fifth, and it's scary to see your middle name in the history books
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Sesquipedalian on October 05, 2002, 02:32:47 pm: In his book of advice for aspiring Roman poets, Ars Poetica, Horace cautioned against using sesquipedalia verba, words a foot and a half long. The deliciously amusing irony fits precisely my sense of humour, and since I'm known for linguistic dexterity anyway, Sesquipedalian is perfect for me.

Besides, it is hardly a common handle.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 05, 2002, 02:35:07 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mikhael
FurryMUCK (yes, I hang out there).

See, this is a prime example of when full disclosure is a BAD thing. I coulda gone all week without thinking of furries sites, for one thing.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: heretic on October 05, 2002, 02:44:22 pm: I was kicked out of church for asking "un-christianlike" questions. and the priest called me a heretic (probably in anger or something)

it was quite a shock, but it stuck.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 03:00:01 pm: A preacher once called me an "Evil, deceitful, wicked, unholy, blasphemous......" I forget the rest, but to be fair I was threatening him with a knife so I suppose that was to be expected.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: wEvil on October 05, 2002, 03:06:28 pm: remind me to shake your hand if I ever meet you.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stunaep on October 05, 2002, 03:08:24 pm: thank god, you didn't use all of them as a user name!
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stryke 9 on October 05, 2002, 03:11:15 pm: Wouldn't fit in the name entry, anyway.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Crazy_Ivan80 on October 05, 2002, 03:25:44 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Thunder

Imagines a couple of spandex covered men in blue and white with golden helmets making comments taken directly from Batman comics... it's Thunder and Lightning!!

no, it would be worse than a batman-lookalike.... no, it's too horrible... I won't tell :p

Anyway, don't really know how I got my nick. Most likely explanation is the reference to 'Hunt for Red October'
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: CP5670 on October 05, 2002, 03:26:32 pm: Quote
A preacher once called me an "Evil, deceitful, wicked, unholy, blasphemous......" I forget the rest, but to be fair I was threatening him with a knife so I suppose that was to be expected.

I would actually take all those as compliments. :D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Unknown Target on October 05, 2002, 03:33:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by heretic
I was kicked out of church for asking "un-christianlike" questions. and the priest called me a heretic (probably in anger or something)

it was quite a shock, but it stuck.

What were you asking him?

Heretic: Oh, masterful priest?

Priest: Yes?

Heretic: How many boys have you fondled?

Priest: About 5, why?

Heretic: I was just wondering how I would defend myself if you came after me...?

Priest: Heretic! Heretic! All your dicks are belong to us! Go away!
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Post by: Tiara on October 05, 2002, 03:34:38 pm: :lol::lol::lol:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 03:36:52 pm: I was on this trip to France with my school and me and my pals were walking along the street. He was standing on his little box outside the church shouting about repenting and **** (in English for some strange reason, although the town was mostly a haven for holiday makers), then he saw me and some of my obviously un-religious friends and pointed us out. I was slightly less intoxicated than my friends and happened to be carrying a very large, very sharp knife. So I pushed him off his box and against a wall, whipped out my knife and held it infront of his face then said something......I'm not actually sure what, but whatever it was, he seemed to take offence and started ranting. The rest of the evening is somewhat of a blur althought I do seem to remember a cat being involved somewhere along the way.

Gotta love school trips.

Anyway, back on topic..........
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: aldo_14 on October 05, 2002, 03:40:25 pm: (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/aldostuff/aldo.jpg)
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Mr. Vega on October 05, 2002, 04:02:02 pm: I'm Vega after the Street Fighter character. I always like speed instead of say, strength. Seems the smarter thing to do. Same reason my favorite animal is a cheetah. Plus there's the Vega system.

But I still can't figure out where the Mr. came from.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 04:03:01 pm: Pffff. Blanka and Dahl-Sim 0wn j00.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Tiara on October 05, 2002, 04:20:13 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Pffff. Blanka and Dahl-Sim 0wn j00.

Guiles hair 0wnz j00!
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 04:36:56 pm: Sonic.....BOOM!
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 05, 2002, 04:42:01 pm: Anaz licks it.
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Post by: Kamikaze on October 05, 2002, 04:42:36 pm: Hmm, my name came from, originally, a depiction of suicidal obsession from the "tokoutai" (suicide squad).

But then now it signifies the divine wind which saved japan a few hundred years ago, a blissful, complacent wind :wink:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Unknown Target on October 05, 2002, 04:46:00 pm: ...or idiotic nutsos:D

j/k
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Post by: Galemp on October 05, 2002, 05:12:32 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
I was on this trip to France with my school ... and happened to be carrying a very large, very sharp knife. So I pushed him off his box and against a wall, whipped out my knife and held it infront of his face then said something...

*is terrified of an0n* :shaking:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Shrike on October 05, 2002, 05:14:05 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kamikaze
Hmm, my name came from, originally, a depiction of suicidal obsession from the "tokoutai" (suicide squad).

But then now it signifies the divine wind which saved japan a few hundred years ago, a blissful, complacent wind :wink:
If you dropped the 'kaze' it would simply be 'superior being'.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Kamikaze on October 05, 2002, 05:27:40 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
If you dropped the 'kaze' it would simply be 'superior being'.

actually it's usually interpreted as "god" or "diety"... :p
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Shrike on October 05, 2002, 05:32:08 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kamikaze
actually it's usually interpreted as "god" or "diety"... :p
Yes, by westerners, but saying a kami is a god isn't always exact, as many kami didn't have all the traits we'd normally associate with gods. 'Superior being' is a better descriptive term.

Heh, japanese history class, gotta love it.
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Post by: Carl on October 05, 2002, 05:37:56 pm: I got my name from Tell a Story. who was it how saved that to his HD?
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: StratComm on October 05, 2002, 06:11:40 pm: I got my nick from the fact that the first computer games I started playing were RTS. (That and the fact that I have a memory for military related stuff, don't know why, and Strategic Air Command was something I heard from time to time that I thought sounded cool) I was StrategicCommander for a number of years, and since it is often too long for name entries I just shortened it to StratComm. And yes, I still want to be the guy on the bridge of a Hecate ordering a fleet around rather than flying a fighter or bomber. My choice of nicks reflects absolutely nothing about my personal life, too, so that's a plus. The downside is that my particular nick is often taken on strategy game sites.
Title: This should make you gigle
Post by: Knight Templar on October 05, 2002, 10:37:56 pm: Peanuts!
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Post by: an0n on October 05, 2002, 10:40:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
for some reason a long time ago, i knew Stunaep's name.. like
what it meant, thne i forgot what it meant and assumed it was another egyptian name :lol: :p

There was some wierd news post about it a while back. Something about people with food-names.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Silver_Scythe on October 05, 2002, 10:44:10 pm: Quote
Originally posted by darkage

Nice name:nod:

When i got internet 3 years ago, i was sitting in my dark room at 1 am installing the cursed Wanadoo software on my old rig whit win95 on it. After 2 hours i fianly got it to work, by that time it was 3 am, and played a few matches of Aoe. When i was done playing ( also had a good amount of booze in me ) i decided it wsa time to chat dunno where but i found one and i thought back to the game and there it popped in my drunk head Darkage. Thats how i got my name.:)

More like "Dorkage"
J/king
My user name came from the FS squad, the Silver Scythes
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 05, 2002, 10:58:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by an0n
Pffff. Blanka and Dahl-Sim 0wn j00.

Yeah, nothing quite so cool as a little, old Chinese man who can kick your ass from three yards away. And he FLOATS! I always wanted to float!

Blanka, well, he woulda been cooler if I coulda figured out what the hell he was supposed to be. Rip-off of the Hulk and Wolverine, basically.

It was Dhalsam, anyway. One word, no hyphens. Get it right or feel the FOOT OF LONG-DISTANCE PAIN!!!
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Joey_21 on October 05, 2002, 11:29:41 pm: Think back to the prime days of Napster. Knowing just plain "Joey" was taken (since they told me so :D ) they offered some alternative nicks I could go by and Joey_21 was one of them, so from then on, to avoid confusion with anybody, wherever and whatever I might get involved with, people will still know me. :)
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Post by: vadar_1 on October 05, 2002, 11:52:45 pm: vadar stands for an acronym that i have long since forgotten... i shoulda wrote it down... but that was 8 years ago. And since "vadar" was used alot because of its similarity to "vader", i added the classic _1 to it. As for my alt name Resorath... much of random letters to make a word... worked out good.
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Post by: Knight Templar on October 06, 2002, 12:16:10 am: Fire Frei!
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Post by: Stryke 9 on October 06, 2002, 12:22:45 am: As opposed to the big green toothed thing ploughing into someone?

I guess so. Doesn't really make a difference in gamelands- you've got Americans, you've got Posh Brits/Eurotrash, you've got Evil East Germans/Russians, and you've got your Asians. That's about it for most games.
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Post by: Anaz on October 06, 2002, 12:40:20 am: Analazon, made it up for a multi-player quake 3 game when it just came out, and I was running it on a 333...

yeah...that was before I learned from Warpstorm that it could be split after the first four letters...and they had lots of fun refering to me as 'anal'...
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Dr.Zer0 on October 06, 2002, 01:57:15 am: hwo did I get my name, ahh, in a stupid game I cant rember, but then I wanted to play no team, so then Dr.Zero came to mind, later on I thought of , "wouldent it be neat to but a 0 at the end instead of an o" then I used it in Napster and beyond
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Post by: Ulundel on October 06, 2002, 02:44:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Analazon
Analazon, made it up for a multi-player quake 3 game when it just came out, and I was running it on a 333...

yeah...that was before I learned from Warpstorm that it could be split after the first four letters...and they had lots of fun refering to me as 'anal'...

No ****. You were called ANAL??? :D :lol:
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Post by: Dark_4ce on October 06, 2002, 04:04:35 am: Whoah. I'm called so many things... Oh well, Basically I started out first as Steba (Which is a nickname my brother gave me).

Then went on to be known as Viper 1, which is still use on IRC today (Used when X-Wing VS. Tie-Fighter came out and I started a small squadron called, You guessed it, THE VIPERS). What else...

Oh yeah, theres Kodiak (Big cudly bear that can rip you're head off for no apparent reason... Like me. :D) which I used for a while.

Then there's my Mutliplayer name, Astro Monkey (Started in Tribes 2, when I formed with my friend the Shadow Monkey Clan), which I still use.

But the origins for Dark_4ce is actually quite simple.... I wanted something that sounded cool. So I came up with Dark Force. It was taken, so I changed the FOR to a 4. Tadaa... Nothing special I guess...
Title: Re: Re: This should make you gigle
Post by: Stunaep on October 06, 2002, 05:02:39 am: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

There was some wierd news post about it a while back. Something about people with food-names.

I never saw that. But considering, YOU remember it, it's probably a good thing. :p
Title: Re: Re: This should make you gigle
Post by: Sandwich on October 06, 2002, 05:26:08 am: Quote
Originally posted by an0n

There was some wierd news post about it a while back. Something about people with food-names.

*ahem*

As for my nic, I know there was a post I made about it a while back, let's see...

Ahh: found it (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,4288.0.html). :D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: vyper on October 06, 2002, 05:45:28 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/reciprocity/aldostuff/aldo.jpg)

*goes to watch old firm game*
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: aldo_14 on October 06, 2002, 06:20:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by vyper

*goes to watch old firm game*

1 hour 45 and counting......
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: vyper on October 06, 2002, 11:47:00 am: Rangers 3-3 Celtic

Good game, dissapointing result, although it could've been much worse.

Right, anyway, I'm off to listen to my new Disney CD. :D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Sandwich on October 06, 2002, 03:51:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by vyper
...new Disney CD. :D

:wtf:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Blue Lion on October 06, 2002, 04:05:11 pm: My first name (and my PXO login is still) Black Lion, but I liked Blue Lion better, and you can guess my surprise when the last squadron was the 70th Blue Lions, I was a bit shocked.

Doesn't really mean anything, not a Voltron reference or anything like that, just a name I picked.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Knight Templar on October 06, 2002, 04:32:22 pm: " a hamburger walks into a bar. The bartender says. "sorry we don't serve food in here." "

:lol:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: vyper on October 06, 2002, 04:53:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sandwich

:wtf:

Got it free with a newspaper. Its 'cos of Lilo and Stitch getting released here in the UK. :) What can I say, I'm a big wean at heart!
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Knight Templar on October 06, 2002, 04:58:32 pm: Alladin 0wns j00.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Admiral LSD on October 06, 2002, 06:06:49 pm: My nick stems from back before I even got the internet. I was trying to think of a name to go by in Yahoo chat (IRC was banned on the school network) and after trying several variations of something I can't really remember (James Bond I think- "Lysergic Acid Diethylimide" popped into my head for reasons I can't even begin to fathom. The misspelling was unintentional but lucky. After it was pointed out to me I discovered the correct spelling, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, was already taken.

After discovering Freespace it became "admiral_lsd_of_the_gtd_ares" since it sounded cool at the time and since I only had the OEM version of FS2 I didn't know there was already a GTF Ares fighter. It became Admiral_LSD at the VBB since I didn't realise at the time that UBB allowed spaces in nicknames. It's now gone full circle and I've started signing up at places as Lysergic Acid Diethylimide again.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Knight Templar on October 06, 2002, 06:44:59 pm: Bang Bang!
Title: Nick name
Post by: Star Dragon on October 06, 2002, 09:21:02 pm: For those of you who may not be aware the name I choose at age 6 as my nickname comes from the 70's robot Getter Robo G (Star Dragon in the US). There were many like him before and after but that is the name I have chosen. Go to the pic site in my sig to see the page dedicated to him... I command you! (except for the Emperor, him I humbly request... I don't mess with ancient religions that can choke me in my mecha!!!) :lol:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Turnsky on October 06, 2002, 10:04:39 pm: eh, mine came from when i had my head shaved once,
some people said i looked like a russian spy or somesuch, game my name a slight russian tint: "lukavich turnerofsky" (luke turner)
or just "turnsky" and it sortof just stuck there. as a result, i no longer shave my head..
Title: Re: Nick name
Post by: Galemp on October 06, 2002, 11:06:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Star Dragon
Go to the pic site in my sig to see the page dedicated to him... I command you! (except for the Emperor, him I humbly request... I don't mess with ancient religions that can choke me in my mecha!!!) :lol:

:devil: At last, one who does not underestimate my powers! *cackles*
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: demon442 on October 07, 2002, 12:15:11 am: lets see...my nick...

The demon part comes from my friend calling me a demonic bastard(i laughed at the thought of frying a live rabbit in an oven, so sue me, i was 10.). The 442 part came from the same friend's yahoo ID. his was 336 and i decided that i liked it and came up with my own.

I might switch to DeathBringer in the near future tho, simply because it nearly get me expelled from school:devil:.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: delta_7890 on October 07, 2002, 05:52:19 am: Well...Delta was already taken way back when, so...instead of thinking of another, I just slapped the last four numbers of the keyboard on. ^^;
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Thor on October 07, 2002, 08:54:47 am: My name is taken from my nickname in RL, the Drummer of Thunder. I got that from playing drums, playing them dam loud and hard (like thunder), and I named my kit the Goddess (I was young, and it still works). So I That was often shortened to DofT, which doesn't cast to much light on intelligence. I was going to use it here but saw that there was a Thunder roaming around, so it be wise not to be drumming on him. So, I thought for a bit, watched stargate, and relised that Thor would be the perfect name. You can find me either as Thor or Thor_DofT.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: diamondgeezer on October 07, 2002, 09:28:03 am: Quote
Originally posted by Admiral LSD
Blah...

And, you were the first person to respond to my very first post at the VBB, which I discovered during a quest to find out why the campaign wouldn't end after what was so obviously the final mission... happy days...
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stunaep on October 07, 2002, 12:20:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by demon442

I might switch to DeathBringer in the near future tho, simply because it nearly get me expelled from school:devil:.

eh.. why?
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Martinus on October 07, 2002, 01:09:54 pm: Anyone who read te elvish thread will know that my name was a sort of half assed Tolkien inspired jobbie which basically means 'to seek understanding'. It can also be twisted into 'mega lamor' but that's Setekh and Styxx's comedy version. :wink:

The only other nick I've used is 'Jimmy Ninja' I suppose. It's another comedy based one I usually use when playing counterstrike (a rarity these days).
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Levyathan on October 07, 2002, 01:33:15 pm: I got mine from a history class around five years ago; it's the title of that book by Thomas Hobbes. I just changed the I for the Y because it looked better. By that time I didn't know it had already been used pretty much everywhere, and now it's too late to change.

Quote
Originally posted by Dark_4ce
But the origins for Dark_4ce is actually quite simple.... I wanted something that sounded cool. So I came up with Dark Force. It was taken, so I changed the FOR to a 4.

Weird. I always thought it was supposed to be Dark Ace.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: HotSnoJ on October 07, 2002, 04:33:50 pm: HotSnoJ is an oxymoron.....word.

Well I started out as Coolman. then I went to Coolboy. Then to Coolteen. Well then I started to think about snowmen. So Whats the opposite of cool/snow? Hot! So HotSnoJ was born. the J comes from my first name Josh.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Knight Templar on October 07, 2002, 05:26:56 pm: :ha::ha:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Goober5000 on October 07, 2002, 09:16:10 pm: Goober5000 was just a completely random name I chose on the spur of the moment. I needed a temporary ID, and haven't gotten around to actually taking the time to think up a new one.

My original first choice, one that I've used for years almost everywhere but here, was Sesquipedalian...

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Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
In his book of advice for aspiring Roman poets, Ars Poetica, Horace cautioned against using sesquipedalia verba, words a foot and a half long. The deliciously amusing irony fits precisely my sense of humour, and since I'm known for linguistic dexterity anyway, Sesquipedalian is perfect for me.

..for nearly the exact same reasons (I thought I was reading about myself).

Quote
Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Besides, it is hardly a common handle.

(http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Argh.gif)

Bah...I've used the same nickname for so long I've gotten rusty about thinking up new ones. I registered Sesquipedalian2001 after finding out Sesquipedalian was taken, but I'm still debating whether to use it.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Knight Templar on October 07, 2002, 09:39:10 pm: :wtf:
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Goober5000 on October 07, 2002, 10:18:27 pm: Uh, no... :rolleyes:

Look here (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/memberlist.php?s=<r=S). Sesquipedalian and Sesquipedalian2001, registered three days apart, before I had any idea who the username belonged to.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Kellan on October 08, 2002, 05:51:15 pm: It was my name in Total Annihilation. It had a nice ring to it, without being something ludicrous that I would hate like "Dethlok the Destroyer" or something.

Ta-da.
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Knight Templar on October 08, 2002, 06:05:19 pm: phear
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Mr. Vega on October 08, 2002, 07:14:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
:) hehe i had no idea for over 2 years that freespace didn't end with capturing the Taranis :lol: :D

Hehe, I know how you feel.

I'm here because Dell shipped the demo with the computer I'm using now. *scary*
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Sandwich on October 08, 2002, 07:53:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
TA owns! i still have friends who want to play it

Add me to that list. :D

I lent out my TA discs to a friend a fwe years ago and haven't seen them since. Of course, I only see this person once a year - maybe. I saw TA repackaged as an oldie-goldie game in the local computer store here for 15 shekels - that's around $3.2, American. :D I think I'll pick it up. :D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Alpha on October 08, 2002, 09:59:47 pm: You can all guess where mine came from. Odd enough as late as I registered and my user name wasn't taken. Same thing at the :v: BB, may it rest in peace!!

:cool: :D
Title: How did you get your user name?
Post by: Stunaep on October 09, 2002, 08:50:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by Mr. Vega

Hehe, I know how you feel.

I'm here because Dell shipped the demo with the computer I'm using now. *scary*

ahh, so the plan is working. Yes, YES!!! First HLP, and then THE WORLD!!! ;7