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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lepanto on May 18, 2014, 08:15:23 pm
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Many usernames only make sense to the people who came up with them. Where did yours come from?
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My friends call me that, it's somewhat related to my real name.
Where does yours come?
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Boomer is my callsign in all combat flight simulator games. It started back with Janes ATF and has stuck since then.
As for the 20, thats how old i was when I signed up to this forum.
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Interesting thread idea; I've often wondered about the origin of a lot of the user names here and elsewhere.
The name "Dr. Deathspeed" just sort of popped into my head when I needed a name for the leaderboard on "The Great American Cross Country Road Race" on my Atari 1200XL, way back in 1987. It sounded fast and dangerous to me. :)
On Rogue Squadron for PC, or other places where a first name can be used also, I go with "Tans" cuz it sounded Star Wars-ish.
So Dr. Tans Deathspeed, at your service.
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My friends call me that, it's somewhat related to my real name.
Where does yours come?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto
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We've called together one promising young diplomat from each of the fifty states. After meeting with a series of congressional experts capped off by (lol) Newt Gingrich, you will each be assigned a role in a simulation of Turkey's attempted accession to the European Union.
Mr. Battuta, you will be assigned the role of General Mehmet Battuta, chair of the Turkish National Security Council. Your role will be to suppress dissent, keep the civilian government in line, and secure your security interests by the threat of coup d'etat.
Young Mr. Battuta, your commitment to this role is...remarkable.
Young Mr. Battuta, we think you are maybe having a little too much fun with this simulation.
Young Mr. Battuta, it is not, strictly speaking, necessary to remain in character when outside the simulation. Also, we think it is unlikely that the barista at the coffee shop will respond to a 'requisition' from a 'sixty billion lira military budget'.
Mister Battuta, they're waiting for you at the Turkish Embassy. They'd like to have a little chat.
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z64555: Originally z645555555555 when registering (with *some* difficulty) on Red Alert 2 multiplayer, shortened to something saner.
ShadowZ: Concocted during a match in DF1 (Delta Force) when I needed to alter tactics to something sneaky, Sniper & supressed weapons.
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Was reading about Pythagoras' Theorem in high school and decided to learn more about the man behind the numbers. Needless to say I quickly got on Wikipedia and followed a link to his mentor and learned a lot of things by doing further
google-ing "research".
Plus the name was pretty badass. :p
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The Silmarillion, and life lessons regarding pride.
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Star wars, one of Karen Travis's books. I liked the idea of armor at the time
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I needed a name for an aerospace superiority fighter I designed, later I re-purposed it for a forum name.
Plus Wedge Antilles, translated into Twi'lek then translated back into Basic
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I go by "Top Gun" pretty much everywhere else, but as you'd expect that name is already taken on many sites, as it was here. These days I usually just add on a pseudo-tag that's a reference to my first Internet home, but way back then I tried to come up with something else related. I think what I was originally going for was "Goose," wingman extraordinaire, but I had a massive brain derp, and "Mongoose" was the result. In retrospect it wound up being for the best.
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one day in my youth i decided that i like explosions of the nuclear sort. being the person who doesn't like change that i am, i never changed it (well i did but **** nuke is easier to remember).
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My HLP username is taken from a character from a novel I will probably never get around to finishing. My IRC username of "MageKing17" is from my general preference for spellcasting characters in fantasy games, although I have long forgotten what the "17" was for (it certainly wasn't my age when I started using that username).
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Xeno-Life-Form comes from my Alien vs Predator 2 days, where I tended to play as an Alien. Which makes me wonder what names I used to use before that. Sometimes later it got le37-ified as I moved to playing with friends on Counter Strike & other things. I also used to have different handles depending on the type of game I was playing, but at some point I decided to normalize the whole thing outside of LANs & RPGs.
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My brain.
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I wanted to ask a quick question on the forums so I made up something using my initials and email name. If I had known that I would post more often I would have probably used one of my normal usernames.
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Starcraft 1998
Killing things were fun
Ergo
Deathfun
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my last name is klaus
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:nervous:
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My last name was mispronounced by a friend once and it came out Wobble, it kinda stuck as I was also skateboarding (badly) at the time! 73 is from the year I was born!
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Karajorma was the goddess of the undead in an AD&D game I used to run. One day I needed a username and since all the other gods and godesses in my game were even more unpronounceable, I used that one. And then it kinda stuck.
Funnily enough, despite everyone calling me Kara, it has absolutely nothing to do with BSG. :p
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My name arose from a fascination with orbital mechanics and the kind of ego only a teenager can have. I mean, at the time, I considered being the closest possible orbital approach to the sun to be pretty badass. So, it is a bit of a relic from a previous and much less mature life (you know, the one BEFORE marriage and kids). If I had to pick one today, it'd probably be something more descriptive, like "AssholeEngineer."
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Kobrar is a fantasy character my sister made up a whole lot of time ago and I liked this name so I started using it in games and in general on the internet. 44 is a number I will remember for those times when someone is already using bare Kobrar. It is a significant number in poetry of Adam Mickiewicz meaning the name of the "messiah" and also 1944 is a date of the Warsaw Uprising so it's overall hard to forget.
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Although my name is bloody obvious, I do use "MoerasGrizzly" as a moniker just about everywhere else. My romantic mind indicated that one should not choose a nickname for himself, but let other's choose for him.
In High School, I was often refferred to as both "A bear" (due to various factors including build, being extremely huggable, tendency to wear black and brown, and the habit of pacing around "like a polar bear" (dutch saying). I was also refferred to as "that guy who lives in the swamp" (My villlage was very small and very far off, due to the high school there being crap). Hence, "SwampGrizzly". MoerasGrizzly since I wanted to show my dutchness, but a lot of people don't catch it's an adjective.
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What inspired my username? Well, it's an emotionally scarring backstory. Back in Drusselstien in the days of my youth...
jk :lol:
Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.
P.S. First time I encountered Battuta here I thought he was from Turkey :P
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mine came from a stupid dream involving stereotypically british shivans
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Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.
Your name always brought Baron Harkonnen to mind for me. :D
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Mine is derived from old campaign name I had in mind when I was younger. It was Aeon of Betrayal. Later it evolved into Aeon_Betrayal I'm still using sometimes. While I requested change of my username a few times, Goober refused to change my nickname to Teeraal I really like because he won't change my name to something that is name of demon :P. Well, Betrayal remained.
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I was literally 12 when I made this username and has stuck since then. It has no real meaning nor does it have any connection to anything special in my life, just another one of my foolish childish mistakes that I shall forever wear as a mark of shame.
Mine is derived from old campaign name I had in mind when I was younger. It was Aeon of Betrayal. Later it evolved into Aeon_Betrayal I'm still using sometimes. While I requested change of my username a few times, Goober refused to change my nickname to Teeraal I really like because he won't change my name to something that is name of demon :P. Well, Betrayal remained.
If you can request username change... I can rid myself of this mark of shame! Yay!
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Mine comes from my favorite fighter in WC4. I picked it before finding out who actually flew them... :) Still, it kind of stuck.
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If you can request username change... I can rid myself of this mark of shame! Yay!
Sorry BTA. They won't change your name unless you have a really good reason for it. I saw a thread once where this was explained. I tried to find it again for you but I couldn't. As Betrayal said, his name wasn't changed.
Mine comes from my favorite fighter in WC4. I picked it before finding out who actually flew them... :) Still, it kind of stuck.
Heh. I'm sure people would have thought you were named after a different fighter called Dragon. :)
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If you can't guess why I go by Scotty, ten points from Gryffindor.
Elsewhere, including Steam and Skype, I frequently go by Strobe, which is a combination of my first initial, middle initial, and the first for letters of my last name. Being an actual word is just a cool bonus.
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Damn I was afraid you'd say that, oh well.
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Boomer is my callsign in all combat flight simulator games. It started back with Janes ATF and has stuck since then.
Cool, I grabbed mine from Janes FA!
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"Rather be fighting the NTF if you ask me. I never signed on for hunting Shivans."
well... I signed on for hunting Shivans. They were on the box art and everything. GTVA ftw (except the Gefs are the best faction because they use my ships)
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mine came from a stupid dream involving stereotypically british shivans
:lol:
what where you on!
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mine came from a stupid dream involving stereotypically british shivans
:lol:
what where you on!
absolutely nothing
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As a kid, I came up with "Lohon" as part of a save name on one of my playthroughs of Starcraft. I've always sucked at thinking up original names, so it got re-used, and later truncated to LHN/LHN9/LHN91.
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Back in the late 90's I was playing a browser, tic based strategy called Planetarion. My leader name from one of the rounds was D Rebel which when I got into counterstrike became D_Rebel, then I joined a just for fun CS Clan called CBM but one of the co founders went by the name Rebel so i needed to change and as my most common way of dying in the game was by headshot I started using Headshotted (one game even had an english teacher trying to explain to a kid that Headshotted is not a real word :-D ) anyhow Headshotted is a bloody pita to say and type so i soon shortened it to headdie.
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My first internet alias, made when I joined lego.com at the age of nine, twelve years ago. Portmanteau of Kopaka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toa_(Bionicle)#Kopaka) and Christopher, my first name. I've been using it all over the internet ever since.
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"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?"
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Metroid Prime 2 has an evil version of Samus Aran, called Dark Samus.
The Space Pirates refer to Samus as "The Hunter", and they therefore call Dark Samus "The Dark Hunter".
Dark Samus is a supremely awesome badass, so I stole its title. :p
Of course, the name is often taken when I go onto other websites. So I often tack a "Sol" onto the front. "SolDarkHunter".
That one was a suggestion from XBoxLive, believe it or not. "Dark Hunter" had been taken, so it suggested some variants, and I thought the "Sol" one was actually kind of cool, so I went with that.
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Inspired by butt-piracy on the high seas.
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Middle school, was a fan of Yoshi's Island back in the day, and on one of my binders, I had the wallpaper for Yoshi's Island DS.
One of my classmates said Black Yoshis were racist, then half the class got into an argument about it for about 20 minutes straight.
That's how I came to my username. The "1230" was tacked on because when I made my YouTube account, the clock said "12:30" and I was "eh, I need a number, I'll go with that."
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Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.
Your name always brought Baron Harkonnen to mind for me. :D
hes not really insane in the book like he was in the 80s movie, lust for power and slave boys yes, but not insane. the miniseries better portrayed his character.
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I used my middle name.
I'm not very creative.
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"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?"
"You know, whenever the name of Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian comes up, the words 'It's worse than that' ring in my ears. Sometimes I hear them when I'm dreaming."
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"You know, whenever the name of Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian comes up, the words 'It's worse than that' ring in my ears. Sometimes I hear them when I'm dreaming."
"There are three types of dress clothing. The kind that offends the wearer, the kind that offends the viewers, and the kind that offends everybody. I'm going for the third type. Fair is fair."
Is this going to devolve into a Starfighters of Adumar quote-off?
RIP Aaron Allston. :(
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The name itself comes from a Saturday Night Live sketch starring Christopher Walken which satirized one of Walken's earlier movies "The Dead Zone (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407/)". I won't go into details regarding the film or sketch, but I have occasionally displayed uncanny and quite unintentional clairvoyance on matters completely inconsequential. Apparently its a family trait from my mother's side. Anyway, my brother joked about it once, referencing the SNL sketch. I decided to take it on as a nickname. In full it is "The Trivial Psychic", but I sometimes drop the "The", (as here). I also sometimes condense it to "TrvPsyc", which I began back in my Need for Speed: High Stakes online racing days, because it would fit on a license plate.
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Boomer is my callsign in all combat flight simulator games. It started back with Janes ATF and has stuck since then.
Cool, I grabbed mine from Janes FA!
Yeah I recognise FIZ as one of the callsigns in it. I always found it cool how the ATC would actually call you by your callsign when clearing you for takeoff or landing.
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"Scourge" was my Starcraft profile, but it wasn't enough. So I tacked on "of Ages" from the Def Leppard song, I figure.
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I'm actually surprised how Starcraft keeps getting mentioned
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If you can request username change... I can rid myself of this mark of shame! Yay!
Sorry BTA. They won't change your name unless you have a really good reason for it. I saw a thread once where this was explained. I tried to find it again for you but I couldn't. As Betrayal said, his name wasn't changed.
I just asked one day "Hey dude, can you change my username" and BAM, done. Best regards, former Lobo.
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I think it was around -95 or -96 when I wanted to join in an internet chat room by myself for the very first time and needed an alias... thus I started randomly punching keys, after three keys I had "Gor" and then decided to end it "tef". And so I was reborn as Gortef which has stuck with me ever since.
Though around the same time I was called as "Ninja Kangaroo" by my fellow scouts for a very short while, but that name didn't live long.
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Unsuprisingly, my username comes from the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice ... most beautiful love story I've read during my formative years (yeah, I'm that weird kind of a romantic)
I had to modify it "a bit" since "Orpheus" is usually taken
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Everyone assumes mine comes from the Star Fox games, and as a result, bombard me with orders for barrel rolls. Indeed, the original Star Fox ('Star Wing' in some countries) for SNES and Lylat Wars for N64 were top favorites of mine growing up. So was Tribes 2 in its glory days, which is where my name really comes from; Tribe 'Starwolf', the blue-themed tribals who kept you safe from the Bio-derms with some shiny spinfusors. And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.
SHAZBOT!
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Everyone assumes mine comes from the Star Fox games, and as a result, bombard me with orders for barrel rolls. Indeed, the original Star Fox ('Star Wing' in some countries) for SNES and Lylat Wars for N64 were top favorites of mine growing up. So was Tribes 2 in its glory days, which is where my name really comes from; Tribe 'Starwolf', the blue-themed tribals who kept you safe from the Bio-derms with some shiny spinfusors. And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.
SHAZBOT!
Add me to that. I nearly responded to one of your posts with "We'll just see about that, Starwolf!" one time. I'm glad I didn't now. :D
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Back in the late 90's I was playing a browser, tic based strategy called Planetarion.
Planetarion! That **** was the **** back in the day.
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http://acecombat.wikia.com/wiki/Mobius_1
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Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.
Your name always brought Baron Harkonnen to mind for me. :D
Typed the name into wikipedia, and... WHOA! That guy is UGLY! :lol:
I never was involved with Dune unfortunately, so I suppose that got lost on me when I picked the name.
I should have mentioned Baron Soontir Fel as well I suppose.
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Yeah I also connected your nick with the fat red baron.
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... And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.
I just realized I've been using this name for longer than many people here have existed.
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Back in the late 90's I was playing a browser, tic based strategy called Planetarion.
Planetarion! That **** was the **** back in the day.
hell yer !!!!!
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... And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.
I just realized I've been using this name for longer than many people here have existed.
Agreed. Being old rocks!
This name is from Wing commander 4/prophecy.
Because DEKKER IS TOUGH. He may be a bootneck/leather neck. But the sheer amount of explosives he uses leads me to believe he started as a combat engineer much like myself.
My prior (LOA--JK47) name was from the legion of apocalypse.
And older than HK 47, My first name being James, Russian assault rifle....... do da math.
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Talon is the callsign I use whenever I play Wing Commander, FreeSpace, or any other space combat simulator game. :)
As for the 1024... Well, I just thought it would look cool. :)
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(http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130207205934/disney/images/0/02/Hercules-disneyscreencaps.com-451.jpg)
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(http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/2824401_700b.jpg)
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As for the 1024... Well, I just thought it would look cool. :)
Propably did in a time when widescreen resolutions for games were still unheard of ;)
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Laziness and a lack of creativity.
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Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.
Your name always brought Baron Harkonnen to mind for me. :D
Typed the name into wikipedia, and... WHOA! That guy is UGLY! :lol:
I never was involved with Dune unfortunately, so I suppose that got lost on me when I picked the name.
I should have mentioned Baron Soontir Fel as well I suppose.
And here is me thinking your name was related to Baron Von Münchhausen????
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Add me to that. I nearly responded to one of your posts with "We'll just see about that, Starwolf!" one time. I'm glad I didn't now. :D
I get a few of those too. Funny how many people get the quotes wrong when they see my name. Like, 90% of the time. My face still feels sore from all those facepalms.
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What started my name?
I have a strange fascination of the chicken as one of the greatest food sources of man... the rest is history.
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MP = Mango Platoon, a now mostly-defunct gaming clan/team I belong to - it's usually stylized as (MP)
Ryan = My name, because I wasn't clever enough to come up with something better as an online handle.
Please hold your questions and awe until the end of the thread. I know it will be difficult, but try.
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Yeah but what about that dash man
It's so meta you don't even know man
What inspired you to use the dash man and not like, an underscore?
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Comes from a tabletop BloodBowl gaming group. We created a yahoo group to track the league standings and game days.
My team was high elves and the players were named after the angels in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Zeruel, Samael, etcetera.
Also I like alliteration (multiple words with the same first letter) so for a town of origin I picked Akalabeth, which is first game by Richard Garriot (pre-Ultima 1). I believe Akallabeth is also from the Silmarillion or somesuch which is probably where Richard Garriot took the name with modified spelling.
Thus it was Akalabeth Angels which here was just Angel and in other forums I usually drop the effeminate Angel and just go by Akalabeth.
Links to those interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_bowl
http://wiki.evageeks.org/Angels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akalabeth
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MP = Mango Platoon, a now mostly-defunct gaming clan/team I belong to - it's usually stylized as (MP)
Ryan = My name, because I wasn't clever enough to come up with something better as an online handle.
Please hold your questions and awe until the end of the thread. I know it will be difficult, but try.
And here I thought that the MP portion of your name was related to the Canadian governmental apparatus. The more you know.
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I always read it as "Member of Parliament Ryan." Though that's just because that's what I'm used to MP meaning here in England and being put before people's names, so my brain just did that automatically. :)
I did however wonder if it might stand for "Military Policeman."
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*oops posted in wrong thread
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Take a guess. :doubt:
I ****ing hate my name.
Thankfully, you're only 12 years old once.
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:lol:
I'm not even sure where my name came from to be honest, I remember later it turned out that it was the company that distributed Homeworld:Cataclysm, a record company (obviously) and, I think, something to do with Japanese cartoons, though I've never really got round to investigating.
I might have got it from 'what happens when this is all over' (as in 'see you on the Flip-side'), but even if that's the case, God alone knows why...
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Mine's a typo.
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and an awesome typo it is
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If you can request username change... I can rid myself of this mark of shame! Yay!
Sorry BTA. They won't change your name unless you have a really good reason for it. I saw a thread once where this was explained. I tried to find it again for you but I couldn't. As Betrayal said, his name wasn't changed.
That's... questionable, Zacam added a space into my username a while back. Maybe it's only for trivial changes.
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A typo of bob-batman?
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I wanted a name that was mine and mine alone.
I wanted a name that no-one else would have.
I wanted a name that no-one in their right mind would ever want.
I wanted a name that nobody else would think to use.
I wanted a name that just reeks of 'nobody-in-their-right-mind-would-ever-deliberately-choose-this-name'.
I picked Melvin.
I thought about it for a minute.
I decided that 'Melvin' was going a bit too far in the nebbish direction.
I decided that 'Melvin' was going a bit too far in the 'Woody-Allen-movie-protagonist' direction.
I decided that 'Melvin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBRpW2GGlc)' was a bit too reminiscent of the wrong parts of High School gym class.
I decided that 'Melvin' needed a bit of class, a bit of panache.
I picked Lord Melvin.
I've expanded that out into, at various times, several variations on, "The Right Honourable Lord Sir Melvin Huffleston III, Defender of the Faithless and Protector of roughly 1/5th of the Realm"
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Yeah, but nobody bothers to try remembering that. We just call him That Guy Melvin. ;)
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A typo of bob-batman?
Hah, nothing that interesting. The "t" is just next to the "y" on the keyboard.
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For this site it comes from my first Freespace name. I was thinking of cool callsigns and "Husker" from nu-BSG came up.
My usual internetz name however is Worf359 or a variation. Came from my very first MMO and I needed a name. At the time, (I was 10), I thought the star's name was Worf 359, instead of Wolf 359. After that the name sorta stuck. Mainly because it sounds kinda Bad*ss to me.
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Mine was from some assigned designation from school - D803. From what I figured, it was D-block 8th class 03rd student, alphabetically by last name.
Then I was registering for some Star Wars game modding site and they needed my name to be longer than four characters so I just turned the D into Droid becuase it was pretty much the first agreeable word that started with D that I came across.
It stuck.
Before that I was using stupid stuff like YOURMOM, because 12 years old. Thankfully, that didn't stick.
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My teenage satanism.
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Mine was from a work login at my first job.
Store number + First name initial + Last name initial + number to differentiate between people with the same initials. Someone stole my initials! :mad2: So I was jr2. When I signed up for HLP, I just used that. And now, as other forums have imposters stealing the username jr2 :hopping: , for those sites, I use 0x6A7232 (hexadecimal for jr2).
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I just thought "Commander" was the coolest sounding rank and appended my initials.
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I always read it as "Member of Parliament Ryan." Though that's just because that's what I'm used to MP meaning here in England and being put before people's names, so my brain just did that automatically. :)
I did however wonder if it might stand for "Military Policeman."
Military Police is what I always read it as in my head.
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My username? Actually, I took it directly from the username I was given at my high school. Yeah, I was unimaginative then and for a long time I kept using it out of habit. It's kinda embarrasing to me now. :P
When I made my YouTube channel in 2011, I created a new username which, since then, I use for everything new I sign up for. Maybe I should consider asking to change my username here to it, but... I'm not sure. I haven't done much here, but I've been around for a while now...
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Inspiration for my username? Hopeful is the General Resource, Inc. Defense Force callsign of the player character from Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Nemo.
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My first and only tag since I started playing games online. Nothing screamed "badass" in my ten year old mind like the 100 ton assault mech's rendition in Mechwarrior 3. I didn't go with Daishi because a) even for someone who wasn't familiar with battletech the name would still sound cool b) I fancied myself a clanner and c) so that people wouldn't think I was Japanese.
Whenever the name was taken I usually added 2000/2K because I played MSFlight Sim 2000 too much and thought the number was kewl.