Author Topic: How did you get your username? (Read 10663 times)

spartan_0214 · **Reply #60 on:** August 17, 2006, 01:29:40 pm

a friend introduced me to a Halo group calling themselves the Spartans. They requested a certain format to your user-name: spartan_02(two-digit number). 13 is my lucky number, and I wanted that one, but my friend had already taken it, so I took up spartan_0214. When registering w/ Hard Light, I tried using my alternate, the one I use when places don't let you have the underscore, spartan214, but I was having troubles. Instead of taking time to constantly type in spartan214, I abbreviated it to 214, and couldn't change it to spartan214. . .

Roanoke · **Reply #61 on:** August 17, 2006, 02:20:10 pm

EAS Roanoke from B5. I just kinda liked the sound of it. I think it's a valley , or somethin', in America. I actually think I'm due a name change (aka re-register) if only to make some work for Grug ha ha.

Quote from: aldo_14 on August 16, 2006, 08:11:47 am

Roasted as in Premiership footballer roasted? Oooh-er.

heh heh heh, I think that went over most of their heads.

aldo_14 · **Reply #62 on:** August 17, 2006, 02:25:52 pm

Quote from: Roanoke on August 17, 2006, 02:20:10 pm

EAS Roanoke from B5. I just kinda liked the sound of it. I think it's a valley , or somethin', in America. I actually think I'm due a name change (aka re-register) if only to make some work for Grug ha ha.

Roanoke was an island, IIRC, on the north-west coast of the US; it was home to an early British colony where all the colonists mysteriously vanished (there were no sea trips for 2 years to supply the colony, due to war). The only clue was 'Croatoan' carved on a tree (which is the name of a nearby island, but inclement weather meant the resupply fleet never managed to check it).

EDIT; I think it was also a battle in the US Civil War or something.

Dark Knight · **Reply #63 on:** August 17, 2006, 02:57:13 pm

It was back in the grand old days of the VBB, I'd just finished Freespace and was off to buy FS2 that afternoon. I wanted to get in on the whole fredding side of things so I decided I'd better get about and introduce myself... so I logged onto the the VBB and went to type in usual SN.

Apparently someone had already taken "Dark" and as it turned out, the next four or five names I tried also failed to work, in a fit of dispair I turned to my TV and low and behold, the old WB Batman cartoon was on.

Hence Dark Knight. It came with me to the VWBB and from there to here.

Goober5000 · **Reply #64 on:** August 17, 2006, 03:40:27 pm

Quote from: Dark Knight on August 17, 2006, 02:57:13 pm

Apparently someone had already taken "Dark"

Not just "someone". Old modders never die, they just fade away...
http://www.wild666.freeserve.co.uk/Mainpage.htm

CP5670 · **Reply #65 on:** August 17, 2006, 03:58:39 pm

I wonder what happened to that guy. I never saw him around even in the early days of the VBB, but it seems that he was for a long time the only one who knew how to make custom pof models. (that was before we had any pof editors available)

Dark Knight · **Reply #66 on:** August 17, 2006, 05:23:43 pm

Quote from: Goober5000 on August 17, 2006, 03:40:27 pm

Quote from: Dark Knight on August 17, 2006, 02:57:13 pm
Apparently someone had already taken "Dark"

Not just "someone". Old modders never die, they just fade away...
http://www.wild666.freeserve.co.uk/Mainpage.htm

I was trying to be Ironic but forgot to put the "" around the someone. I remember Dark well, he was one of the few who took the time to explain anything to poor little newbie me. He told me how to make custom nameplates for the Orion... he said I could convert his probe to fs2 for use in some campaing or another I was working on with some others that fell apart just as soon as the webpage got finished.

In fact, thats generally whats happened to any campaign I've worked for... no wonder TAP hasn't had a release yet.

Goober5000 · **Reply #67 on:** August 17, 2006, 06:28:05 pm

Quote from: Dark Knight on August 17, 2006, 05:23:43 pm

I was trying to be Ironic but forgot to put the "" around the someone. I remember Dark well, he was one of the few who took the time to explain anything to poor little newbie me. He told me how to make custom nameplates for the Orion... he said I could convert his probe to fs2 for use in some campaing or another I was working on with some others that fell apart just as soon as the webpage got finished.

Hmm. You don't happen to have any of his old models lying around, do you?

Dark Knight · **Reply #68 on:** August 17, 2006, 06:52:51 pm

Quote from: Goober5000 on August 17, 2006, 06:28:05 pm

Hmm. You don't happen to have any of his old models lying around, do you?

I probably did, then my Hard disk died of heat stroke a few months back. Sadly, that was my back up hard disk.

Nuke · **Reply #69 on:** August 18, 2006, 02:40:23 am

like most people i pulled mine out of my ass. back when i was in highskool i decided nukebomb was adeq1uit, this was my first screen name. then it became nukebomb overkill. because i wanted it to kcijk ass. but then because its not kvlt to name a band with more than one word, i truncated it to nuke to save m ethe hassel of typung 17 chartacters t log in. this post was brought to you by several shots of vodka!

Mars · **Reply #70 on:** August 18, 2006, 03:02:13 am

Know the feeling

Col. Fishguts · **Reply #71 on:** August 18, 2006, 06:09:51 am

Quote from: Goober5000 on August 17, 2006, 06:28:05 pm

Hmm. You don't happen to have any of his old models lying around, do you?

I have the two Polaris pieces and some of the planets on my old FS1 gaming box. I could get them if you're interested.

Goober5000 · **Reply #72 on:** August 18, 2006, 12:20:04 pm

I have those. I put all the FS1-era models* from Dark that I could find into the Port for version 3. But I'm wondering if there are any models out there that I couldn't find.

*except for the planets, but I suppose I could add an optional planet pack if people are interested

Scuddie · **Reply #73 on:** August 18, 2006, 02:03:29 pm

Crossposted from another forum:

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Back in mid-late '97 I received a beta teaser disk for a game called "Scud, the Industrial Evolution." Scud: I.E. for short. I installed it, it crashed windows 95, and when I was able to play it, I found it to be the most buggy and lackluster software I had ever played. I threw the disk away, and never gave it a second thought. However, the name of the game sounded catchy. With some examination and manipulation of the title, my name was created. So you could say Scud: IE inspired my name. But I'd rather you not .

Hmmm... Is 8 and a half years a long time to keep a name?

Mr. Vega · **Reply #74 on:** August 18, 2006, 05:02:39 pm

Vega. After the lovely star system that developed the meson bomb and the fastest of the street fighters.

Lately though, I ether go as Arouet (a homage to Voltaire, and I just like the name) or marxharr.

m · **Reply #75 on:** August 18, 2006, 06:55:48 pm

Mine is my First-person shooter gaming alias. *how original* :

m can mean a number of things, some of which I prefer not to divulge...
One meaning is "mutant"

(See "more proof of evolution" thread 4 more details {if you can find it in there; it's somewhere in the twenty-some-odd^th page.})

BS403 · **Reply #76 on:** August 19, 2006, 11:54:11 pm

Quote from: aldo_14 on August 17, 2006, 02:25:52 pm

Roanoke was an island, IIRC, on the north-west coast of the US; it was home to an early British colony where all the colonists mysteriously vanished (there were no sea trips for 2 years to supply the colony, due to war). The only clue was 'Croatoan' carved on a tree (which is the name of a nearby island, but inclement weather meant the resupply fleet never managed to check it).

EDIT; I think it was also a battle in the US Civil War or something.

Roanoke was on the east coast about halfway up near virginia I think

BS403 · **Reply #77 on:** August 19, 2006, 11:56:24 pm

Oh yeah I got mine from my favorite card game.

Wild Fragaria · **Reply #78 on:** August 20, 2006, 09:03:22 pm

Quote from: BS403 on August 19, 2006, 11:54:11 pm

Quote from: aldo_14 on August 17, 2006, 02:25:52 pm

Roanoke was an island, IIRC, on the north-west coast of the US; it was home to an early British colony where all the colonists mysteriously vanished (there were no sea trips for 2 years to supply the colony, due to war). The only clue was 'Croatoan' carved on a tree (which is the name of a nearby island, but inclement weather meant the resupply fleet never managed to check it).

EDIT; I think it was also a battle in the US Civil War or something.
Roanoke was on the east coast about halfway up near virginia I think

It's in the North Carolina. So it's located on the south east coast.

Kosh · **Reply #79 on:** August 21, 2006, 06:01:23 am

Quote from: Goober5000 on August 17, 2006, 03:40:27 pm

Quote from: Dark Knight on August 17, 2006, 02:57:13 pm
Apparently someone had already taken "Dark"

Not just "someone". Old modders never die, they just fade away...
http://www.wild666.freeserve.co.uk/Mainpage.htm

Ummmm, website isn't working for me.........

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