[haloboy100]

Take a guess. 

I ****ing hate my name.

Thankfully, you're only 12 years old once.

[Flipside]

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...

[bobbtmann]

Mine's a typo.

[headdie]

and an awesome typo it is

[Phantom Hoover]

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.

[Rodo]

A typo of bob-batman?

[LordMelvin]

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' 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} Faith^less and Protector of ^{roughly 1/5th of} the Realm"

[z64555]

Yeah, but nobody bothers to try remembering that. We just call him That Guy Melvin. 

[bobbtmann]

A typo of bob-batman?

Hah, nothing that interesting. The "t" is just next to the "y" on the keyboard.

[Husker]

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.

[Droid803]

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.

[666maslo666]

My teenage satanism.

[jr2]

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!     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  , for those sites, I use 0x6A7232 (hexadecimal for jr2). 

[CommanderDJ]

I just thought "Commander" was the coolest sounding rank and appended my initials.

[deathspeed]

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.

[ssmit132]

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.

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...

[Hopeful]

Inspiration for my username? Hopeful is the General Resource, Inc. Defense Force callsign of the player character from Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, Nemo.

[DireWolf]

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.