[Lepanto]

Many usernames only make sense to the people who came up with them. Where did yours come from?

[Rodo]

My friends call me that, it's somewhat related to my real name.
Where does yours come?

[Boomer20]

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.

[deathspeed]

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.

[Lepanto]

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

[General Battuta]

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.

[z64555]

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.

[An4ximandros]

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.

[Turambar]

The Silmarillion, and life lessons regarding pride.

[Beskargam]

Star wars, one of Karen Travis's books. I liked the idea of armor at the time

[StarSlayer]

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

[Mongoose]

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.

[Nuke]

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).

[AdmiralRalwood]

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).

[X3N0-Life-Form]

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.

[The E]

My brain.

[Jeff Vader]

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[Mpez]

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.

[deathfun]

Starcraft 1998
Killing things were fun
Ergo
Deathfun

[Klaustrophobia]

my last name is klaus