Author Topic: How did you get your username? (Read 10664 times)

Sarafan · **Reply #40 on:** August 16, 2006, 03:26:05 pm

How dare you call a trial!

*fires ERLLs at ngtm1r*

NGTM-1R · **Reply #41 on:** August 16, 2006, 03:41:50 pm

I started IS. But I eventually moved from the FedCom (felt betrayed by how the FC Civil War ended thanks to Victor) to the Combine and from there to the Nova Cats.

Dark Hunter · **Reply #42 on:** August 16, 2006, 04:04:51 pm

Got mine from Metroid Prime 2. For those who aren't Nintendo fans (your loss!), a character there, Dark Samus, who is one of the coolest-looking villians EVER, is sometimes known as "The Dark Hunter". Anyway, I like the idea of the mysterious darkness, and my playing style on Halo is most definitely a "hunting" style, so I went with that.

Pic of Dark Samus:

Taristin · **Reply #43 on:** August 16, 2006, 04:14:57 pm

Goober changed it.

achtung · **Reply #44 on:** August 16, 2006, 04:40:34 pm

Back in '02 I was at a school library and my dad was there to pick me up, I asked him for a german word to use as a password as I was setting up a Yahoo! account. He said "Schwantz" or something which I decided to condense down in "Swantz". After a while I changed the passwords I had used it for and started using it as a username because it was easy to remember.

Also, thanks to my dad's wonderful knowledge of fifty year old German, due to him leaving the country at nine years old, I had no clue of the more modern meaning of the word, which may or may not be "tail" as he suggested.

Nuclear1 · **Reply #45 on:** August 16, 2006, 05:31:15 pm

I was 13 or so when I first registered, and since my email already started with nuclear1, I just decided to be oh so original and use that as my username here.

Everywhere else I'm registered as Nuclear, though.

Getter Robo G · **Reply #46 on:** August 16, 2006, 06:10:21 pm

An anime from the late 70's and an impressionable youth are a great combination:
Been using it as my name (either Star Dragon or Getter Robo G) on BBS's and now the internet since 1984?

More detailed info:
http://web.mit.edu/sseligma/www/star.html

Youtube video intro clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Q3XCguKn4

vaang · **Reply #47 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:26:45 pm

Quote from: Swantz on August 16, 2006, 04:40:34 pm

Back in '02 I was at a school library and my dad was there to pick me up, I asked him for a german word to use as a password as I was setting up a Yahoo! account. He said "Schwantz" or something which I decided to condense down in "Swantz". After a while I changed the passwords I had used it for and started using it as a username because it was easy to remember.

Also, thanks to my dad's wonderful knowledge of fifty year old German, due to him leaving the country at nine years old, I had no clue of the more modern meaning of the word, which may or may not be "tail" as he suggested.

Schwanz is german and means tail or penis

Blue Lion · **Reply #48 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:27:04 pm

When I registered at at PXO way back when I used the named "Black Lion". Then, thinking that was my pilot name, tried to log on. But it didn't know the name, so I made a new one, "Blue Lion"

Lo and behold I found out they were two seperate things, I just never got around to changing them.

And no I didn't name myself after the Blue Lions.

(This was all way way back in the day, god I'm old)

Rand al Thor · **Reply #49 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:30:33 pm

A series of books. Fantasy to be exact, which paints a certain image, but, excepting diskworld, its the only one of the type that I read.

Main character from the books, a straight-laced, heroic good guy (at least originally), and probably becaused I'm a straight-laced, boring good guy.

Mars · **Reply #50 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:31:34 pm

Quote from: Taristin on August 16, 2006, 04:14:57 pm

Goober changed it.

But why?

Nuclear1 · **Reply #51 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:33:28 pm

He always used to go by Raa, but everywhere else, he goes by Taristin.

achtung · **Reply #52 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:45:11 pm

Quote from: vaang on August 16, 2006, 07:26:45 pm

Quote from: Swantz on August 16, 2006, 04:40:34 pm
Back in '02 I was at a school library and my dad was there to pick me up, I asked him for a german word to use as a password as I was setting up a Yahoo! account. He said "Schwantz" or something which I decided to condense down in "Swantz". After a while I changed the passwords I had used it for and started using it as a username because it was easy to remember.

Also, thanks to my dad's wonderful knowledge of fifty year old German, due to him leaving the country at nine years old, I had no clue of the more modern meaning of the word, which may or may not be "tail" as he suggested.

Schwanz is german and means tail or penis

Woo! Thank god I added an unneeded T in there.

Axem · **Reply #53 on:** August 16, 2006, 08:53:45 pm

http://axem.ytmnd.com/

More specifically, I started making up my own sequel to SMRPG and one of the bosses was called Axem Power (cuz he's liek powerful omg). So when trying to register a name on the MSN Gaming Zone (5,000 years ago), all my attempts were taken, so I chose AxemPower. Eventually the Power part was chopped off as everyone just called me Axem (Though I use AxemP if someone's already taken Axem).

Goober5000 · **Reply #54 on:** August 16, 2006, 08:54:49 pm

Shortly before I joined HLP, I had to pick an internet handle and I picked "Sesquipedalian", for exactly the same reasons that our Sesquipedalian did. And then Sesquipedalian and I registered here and at the VWBB at almost exactly the same time -- three days apart to be exact (check our registration dates). The funny thing was, Sesquipedalian registered here first, and I registered at the VWBB first, so there were two different Sesquipedalians in the FreeSpace community. Then Sesquipedalian registered at the VWBB as Sesquipedalian!, causing even more confusion.

Apparently Sesquipedalian had been using his handle for longer than I had, maybe at the VBB or somewhere, so he and I had a chat and I decided to change my username to Goober5000, both here and at the VWBB. I've been Goober5000 ever since.

Quote from: Taristin on August 16, 2006, 04:14:57 pm

Goober changed it.

I can change it back if you're not happy with it.

Blue Lion · **Reply #55 on:** August 16, 2006, 09:07:25 pm

Why don't you just call yourself Goober?

Goober3000?

No, not high enough. Go 5000.

Oh, ok.

<bows>

Sarafan · **Reply #56 on:** August 16, 2006, 09:28:57 pm

Quote from: ngtm1r on August 16, 2006, 03:41:50 pm

I started IS. But I eventually moved from the FedCom (felt betrayed by how the FC Civil War ended thanks to Victor) to the Combine and from there to the Nova Cats.

Another Warden? That's more like it. btw, I'm from between the Dragon and the Wolf. GHOST BEARS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Polpolion · **Reply #57 on:** August 16, 2006, 10:08:14 pm

I don't know where my name came from, but I am very proud of it. It did not come from a weird al song.

Ford Prefect · **Reply #58 on:** August 16, 2006, 10:16:20 pm

I even won employee of the month after I put out that grease fire with my face! Yeah everyone was pretty jealous of me after that!

Gortef · **Reply #59 on:** August 17, 2006, 12:34:04 pm

Back in -95... or something... out of curiosity I decided to check out some role playing chatroom with a proper nickname. After a short time of thinking and typing some random letters to the nickname box I had a name "Gortef" in front of me, and I was pleased. It has been the same ever since, and as far as I know I am the only Gortef around.

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