Um... if anyone has read Mac Hall (now Three Panel Soul) there was a news post years ago about how the artist comes up with names for characters in video games. He smashes his fingers into the keyboard and adds vowels where he needs to...
A few years ago, I was playing an online DnD game (play by post RP), and I needed a character name. I smashed my hands down and got lfndrt so I added a few vowels... its now my go to name in ANY game
When I signed up for my first fourm (Libarium Online) I wanted to be the Fabricator General as I love the admech....well it was taken so, using all of my linguistic skillz I added my name Mike to it....Fabricator General Mike....ingenious eh?
Now my avie...that's another totally different story. =o]
When I first started getting into reading Fanatasy, the first real fantasy book I ever read was J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion. Galador is actually a famous Duke/Knight in Middle Earth,and he became the first Lord of Dol Amroth, and I always found the name interesting. When I played my first ever online RPG, Baldur's Gate (yeah, I am that old lol) I was stuck for a name, and Galador popped into my head, I thought it would work well, and has been my screenname and gamertag ever since!
Also, whenever I play a female character in a game, she is always named Galadriel the Light-Bearer, from J.R.R Tolkien's Unfinished Tales, but I still haven't figured out why I use the Light-Bearer part, seeing as I usually play evil races and characters!
My username means exactly what it zogging looks like you silly sausage. In the name of snuggle bunny, do I really have to explain what CuddlySquig means? It's still a lot better than the other username I had on those other warhammer forums, which was just my two middle names. crammed together. But I also like it because it's cuddly.
Mine comes from one of my old DandD stories, where for the whole session I was weeing in a corner (rolling 1's, we said the character was going for a pee) and at the finale where we were facing a necromancer and a vampire who had teamed up against us andcharcter went nuts and killed them both stone dead in one blow (each)
so i became known as the Necrovamp slayer, and the slayer part dropped off.
I've been using Martian_jo since I've been online.
I used it on red alert 2, starcraft, and gamespy back in the day. Now it's my gamertag on Xbox Live and steam. Someplaces there is no underscore because it won't let me use it.
If I remember the origin correctly some loopy girl said I was from mars and my real name was jo. It stuck like gakky names do in middle school...
Mines my surname, with my two favourite numbers after I'm not 37, I will be in 18 years. I've used other names (on other forums) such as Ginger Pele (was a nickname of a former Norwich football, and I got called it a few times playing football at school, the joke was we were both rubbish but would occasionally do something wonderful), and Badger bouncer, which was just a bit of fun.
Mine is a combination of my last unit and a verbal shorthand of my rate in the Navy
HCS-5 The Firehawks
Aviation Ordnanceman ( Ordie or Ordy)
Hence Firehawkordy, when I retired HCS-5 was one of only two SEAL Team support squadrons in the entire Navy and us AO's were the the best in the business.
... back in the days when I did some "grey hat" stuff/simple poking around where I shouldn't be looking I would choose twists on houshold items as false IDs.
One I liked was Ian Coleman (I Am Mustard)
My nick is a twist on me:
My surname is Bone, My father's surname is Bone, I am son of bone thus to twist add the ph instead of the f and take the greek for bone you get Sonophos.
In nigh on 20 years it has never been taken on any site or BBS unless I have been there before (please do not start)
I couldn't think of a name, as I really suck at coming up with them. I had some New Phyrexia magic cards laying around nearby and stole my name from there.
Phyrexia wrote:I couldn't think of a name, as I really suck at coming up with them. I had some New Phyrexia magic cards laying around nearby and stole my name from there.
I sure hope they stay out of ravnica, the art would be insane.
Mine is from two things.
One my love for Johnny Cash
And two everyone I know calls my Johnny and I am one of the most crass and unpleasant people to talk to if I do not know you
My name is easy, all gamers with any sort of pride has heard of R.A. Salvatore and the Dark elf Trilogy. The second book is my favorite as drizzt becomes "the hunter" or "lone drow". And the 02 part has been part of my handle since the days of Starcraft and Diablo 1.... ohhh the glory days..
Mine is a nickname that came about from my 3 year old nephew. My real name is Ben, so obviously Uncle Ben's Rice jokes (a brand of rice in the US, don't know how international the company is) were varied and plentiful. One day my sister tried to get my nephew to call me Uncle Rice Paddie, but when he said it it came out Rice Daddy. It's stuck ever since and has been my username of choice for the last year.
back in the day when I was 10, I liked Pokemon, so stuff got made up, likea freakn cyborg pokemon that would rip your head off. Thats Ledabot. Anyway, thats what I tell the kids.
Triple meaning
Iveagh means west land in Gaelic.
Originally the Barons of Iveagh was a title given to the O' Mahoneys, who lost it rebelling against England.
It was then given to the Guinness Family, famed for Grúdlann Gheata Shan Séamuis, Baile Átha Cliath
Lol, I might get a lot of hate for this, but I'm over all that.
My user name started out as 'Uri Lee R Pants' because I first started out on this forum with a very negative attitude, thinking that a lot of the posts and paint jobs were terrible and pointless, however I had a change or heart, after i realised that there were a lot of beginners posting images, so I asked a top administrator to change my username to just ' uri lee'. I'm glad now to see so many giving this hobby a go, irrespective of skill level, and after all, I am no expert!
Sorry, you asked!
The name of my High Elf lord in my first tournament which I didn't realize needed your characters to be named. Been using it as a screenname ever since.
My current name's actually an evolution of my original online handle. Many years ago, I started off as Skycat (Beast Wars fandom, heh), and friends kept dicking with it, the bastards. Skykitty, Skykitten, Skitten, Skittles (I hate skittles, argh. No I do not taste like rainbow! ), Skitty, Skits.
It suits me as it is now, and isn't fandom-specific, so I can use it pretty much anywhere. Including meatspace.
I was trying to think of a name. I had.just finished.painting up my Vindicare Assassin and was playing CoD Black OPs. I had a sniper rifle and was on a 23 kill streak, having fired only 23 rounds so far. Each one a headshot kill. Then.I saw the vindicare and had a revelation Its special rule allowing.it to pick its woundee is Deadshot. Hence...
I like tanks. 1944 was the year that tank to tank combat came of age. I have also used treadhead1945, treadster44 and my current XBox Live tag is Stormlegion2k for my SM army.
My original screen name is BlackTemplar40k as it has been for eons. It will likely continue to be that way for most of my video games even in the future. That changed here however because... well.. you'll see, I promise.
The result of video games and squid week on discovery all at the same time. It's stayed my username for most things, from Dakka to Steam, for the last couple of years.
I cannot remember when or how I got my name, but I've had it for at least 5 years now... On another forum somebody said it sounded like car wreck (can't think why, lol )
But anyways, I use it for everything on the internet, and named my chaos sorcerer with it
Simple enough really, I'm a sarcastic smartass, and I have a talent for remembering a lot of jokes, which I share with my friends when I'm bored. I'm also the kind of person that will crack jokes about my situation to paramedics as they're putting me in the back of an ambulance. They usually don't find it as funny as I do though.
I name 90% of my characters, models, etc 'Jimbob', the rest are normally either 'Bobjim', 'Jefferey', 'Humphrey' or 'Matilda'. I joined Dakka while being obsessed with the DOW series, and so added 'Commander' to the front
Everyone, at some point or another, had during his or her lifetime watched the hit-quasi science-fiction drama, “LOST”. Anyone who was in tune with this global phenomenon may recall how the creators, especially during the later seasons, seemed to ignore many establishing mysteries from the earlier seasons, in an attempt to simply “finish the show”; Mr.Eko, Walt and the “Dharma Initiative” rabbits. Further, to string together the shambled plot of the show, the creators resorted to introducing newer characters who’s many motives where either to die or act as a “Deus Ex Machina” force.
Lapidus, the pilot, whose name I don within these forums, is one such of these introduced non-sensical character. Hence, I don his name in order to remind everyone that you have a cold chance in hell of surviving an ordeal on a mystical, teleporting island if you’re not a pilot.
Actually, this video sums it up pretty well (sung to the beautiful-as-always melody of "MacGruber").
My name is derived from a series of elements. First of all, my name is Joshua, so I obviously settled for that in the Username. I also lived in Bavaria as a young child and henceforth developed a love for all things German, which accounts for the 'Von', meaning 'of' or 'from'. Also, the last part of my Username has links to the German feel, but it so happened to be a town in my WHFB Empire Army background; 'Wolkestadt'. It means 'Cloud Town', as I am often told that my head is always up in the clouds (partly due to reality being blinded by my imagination ).
... And, of course, I thought it sounded rather cool.
DOOMBREAD is a corruption of the name of a Daemon Prince known as Doombreed. On a thread awhile back, people started calling him DOOMBREAD, and it became a meme of sorts.
My names one ive had sense about 2005 when i started playing world of warcraft decided to keep it after i left online gaming and i thought it sounded krootish so i thought it would fit sense there my favorite people in the tau empire. Some one also once told me it sounds like what a chocobo from final fantasy says that too kinda funny.
My user name contains part of my name (Ray) and I chose it simply because I've used it for thousands of other websites and forums before as well as Roleplay characters, xbox live and various other outlets for years.
I actually got it years ago when I was a lot younger from a Name Generator for naming Dragons I believe it was, and I've just never let that go. It's also the name I've given to a small dragon shaped pendant I've worn since I was a kid that my dad got me from abroad. It's kind of funny because it also has the number '925' stamped in small print on the body, I didn't notice this at first, but it's weirdly coincedental that my lucky number is 9 and my birthday is on the 25th
As some of you have likely guessed, my UN ties into the Dark Angel character Interrogator-Chaplain Asmodai. The way it ties in was that my own original character I made for 40k Rahkhat Ragnitzu was a Chaplain that caught the fabled torturer's eye, and so he was taken in as his protege', and eventually his confidante. He rose through the ranks under Asmodai's tutelage and eventually became a frighteningly good interrogator in his own right by the fluff. Hence why Rahkhat is "Asmodai's Joy".
Mine is the leader of one of my small IG projects; saw the vid on the GW website months ago where some guy had Guardsmen with Empire WHFB heads and I was awed. So I quickly copied some parts, made Decio into Straken, and called them all Elite Italian Stormtrooper Commandos (not really, just the Rialto Bridge Grenadiers, Rialto is a nice looking bridge in Venice and happens to be the name of the main street of my neighborhood)
When I first started playing people were calling the Ultramarines "smurfs". I responded with "those arnt smurfs, I'll show you smurfs." Ever since I've been playing basic marines painted up like my profile pic
Tyrant because Im mean and ruthless when i compete(when i have to pay an entrance fee). FNM to grappling tournys, i turn into Mr. Hyde compared to my laid back normal self.
I add -ville to the end of words that describes a person's attitude, i.e. "you must be from jerkville"
I imagine Loserville to be the place obnoxious jerks go when the rapture finally comes, and im gonna be the one to give them just desserts.
I usually go by BATERSQUADZERO (steam/PSN) but that is another story for another day.
TheDraconicLord is a very old username I made up several years ago when I read Dragonlance. I still like Dragons very much today, and I was a big fan of the Draconians.
Ever since then, I have been using this nickname pretty much everywhere .
Mine, well its a handy conjunction of my real name. t humble. i got ran over a few times so people said I tumbled along. lol. The bomb part was added as in my first FPS multiplayer game (enemy territory) 'tumble' was taken.
Nevelon was the name of my character in a rolemaster campaign a long time ago. Fallen paladin, seeking redemption. I've used it in a number of online games and forums over the years. Nevelon the Betrayer is also the name I use for the vampire lord heading up my WHFB undead army, so I use it on the tabletop as well. Other characters from that old campaign show up in my chaos army as well.
not sure if 1-2 days out from the next month is considered threadromancy, however mine is also self explanatory, my usernames character is possibly the sole main bad guy in the Armaggedon Wars
He made along with his army of meks and a endless sea of gretchin and flagon's of fungus brew, helped create 45%-90% of Ghazgkhulls Warmachines and Gargants, and Teleportas, Orkmarines (Submarines) Landing Craft (via the sea), vast fleets of Fighta Bommaz (from the air), some orks tell me he was building kroozers as well and beside that is from guesswork,
by any rate Orkimedes the greatest mek boss to ever live and breathe in the 40k universe.
best of all, he is still lurking anywhere in IOM space, in the Maelstrom and the warp, just awaiting an opportune time to launch yet another most "Kunnin' most plan ever, but ork's is never beaten in Battle"
I am a geography graduate, and I enjoyed study tectonics and seismology. It originally started as a Warcraft character, leading to my gamer tag and now my forum tag!
I used to go by pykeman back in my Age of Empires days. My last name is Pyke, so I changed the "i" in the medieval pikemen to a "y" to match my name and viola! pykeman!
The only problem is that no one got the pikemen reference and always thought I was saying something stupid like "I'm the man!" so I just added my first initial to my last name to make cpyke like google told me to.
My forst foray into wargaming was WHFB. I played Lizardmen. For those of you old enough to remember the Leisure Suit Larry games, the name of the first one was "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards". So here you go.
PrehistoricUFO wrote: I once saw a drawing on the inside of a cave that showed men with spears, and one was pointing in the air and there was a single disc in the sky.
Imagine them visiting us in prehistoric times, seeing us as a fledgling specie, so much potential, so young . . .
And look what we've done to our planet, a once fragile womb, now more akin to a furnace!
Venser is was a planeswalker in Magic the Gathering who died. I always like Venser so now that he's dead, I use VnsersRevenge as my name. I might eventually change it to VenserLoken though.
There is this Korean pop group called Big Bang that had a song I found catchy. Then one of their members called G-Dragon went solo and made a song called - Gossipman.
I found it amusing and wanted to make one of my online game accounts Gossipman, but it was taken. Typed in Gossipmeng, pressed enter, the game accepted it - and it stuck.
When I was stationed in Groton at the Sub base, a group of us would get together to play Halo. We all picked a feeling and something about us, so we had Happy Jew, Unhappy German, Angry Canuck, Depressed Injun...
I was a Squad Leader in the Army...I led 11 grunts, and was also responcible for a 1.3 million dollar Stryker ICV.
I was a Staff Sergeant and no one could pronounce my last night, so my nickname became House. SSG. Is the abbreviation of my rank.
Its hard to throw 16 years away....so it stuck
My username is based on an old danish song about a poor worker named Jens Vejmand. It's from way back when Denmark wasn't rich. I was taught about the song in school, and thought that it was a sad story, so I stuck with me. I have since then used it as a username for a lot of things.
The Mortal Engines quartet. More specifically, Shrike, a warrior resurrected and sustained by ancient technology beyond comprehension (well, ancient in context, but thousands of years ahead of our civilisation), driven mad by occasional glimpses of his first life. Effectively immortal, he survives he ages alone, remembering the past.
Tl/dr: he's a Necron Lord combined with Wolverine.
I also occasionally sign (paintings, drawings) as Shrike in Saxon runes, but I have no idea why.
Mines a mix of the Warpig (The heavy metal band Motorhead's symbol - a wolf-like daemon with a horned maw) and the date for arguably the greatest British victory of all time - The Battle of Waterloo. It kinda sums up my warlike nature...
I was sitting in my office looking out the window seen a girl eating sun flower seeds. She spit a whole bunch out and the wind blew them right back into her face. I thought it was funny and all the cool names i was using where already in use.
When I was in SERE school part of the training is getting captured, they simulate a POW experience and your interrogated etc. One of the guards was seriously gigantic, he wasn't super tall but his forearms were the size of my thighs, and I'm not small myself (6' 2" and 240lbs at the time). Anyway my buddy Kawasaki (no relation to the motorcycle company, although he is Japanese) made some smart mouth comment to one of the guards. Bad. Idea. The giant comes over and picks Kawasaki up by the front of his ABU's with one arm, the other (much smaller) guard is screaming at my friend but the giant just holds him there and stares at him. Later on in our club med adventure we learned the giants name was Spartak.
Your mission is to infiltrate the Infosphere and plant this quantum-interface bomb, blasting them into an alternate universe from which there is no return.
Then outrun the blast on this Scooty-Puff Jr.
My Warhammer 40k Warbosses name is Gutsnagga Mo-ork
Named because he uses his Power Klaw to kind of snap his foes intestines like an over-stretched piece of elastic
And Mo-ork because he has a mohawk and is an Ork.
So yeah, my username is just his first name.
well I was a big fan of C&C red alert back in the day, and I wanted my username to be my favorite character yuri, I was just a really bad speller back then. heck I didn't even know what the little red squiggles under words meant back then.
Give that man a cookie!
I got mine years ago when creating a Runescape account. It was meant to be Dirk56, as in the huge knife scottish people used, but I was 9-10 so I misspelled it and it ended up being derke56, can't remember where the 56 is from though... In any case, it just stuck and I use it everywhere
Mine is based on the latin name for the tribe of britons the romans first encountered when entering britain for the first time via Kent.. thought it was an awesome name.
A foul mouthed squirrel with a drinking problem that made for one helluva n64 game. Also a gun that I like, the M249 SAW, hated lugging that thing around through field exercises, but man did you feel power when you held the trigger.
My nickname when I was a kid was Ru (Roo), so when my brother was reading the Inquistor books from BL and saw Ruberu, it quickly became my name for everything. Mostly used as a last name Marius Ruberu is my fictional name for games and Forums. Marius from old Roman times.
I kind of based my name choice around the action and thoughts that I thought created one of my favourite space marines, Uriel Ventris. His character i found was one that, whilst he believed the codex was right, there were times that he went with his gut and his heart and reinterpreted or followed through with what his emotions decided to be the proper choice or thought process in a situation. An example was Uriels almost child like attachment to the Unfleshed and that he believed any citizen of the Imperium who followed the Emperor with their hearts deserved a place in His empire.
Kind of epitimizes the character I would want to be if I was a space marine, one who still cares for the mortal people around him, despite how inhumane he himself has had to become in order to protect them.
well, mine comes from this pic... stumpled upon it some day, i have no friggin idea how that turned up, but i found this to be so funny i made continous jokes about it with my friends, and Fistus Maximus is also my IRL nickname
(i know this is really, really childisch, and most people will not find it THAT funny, but there is some RL backstory to it, which made it so funny to me and my friends, but trust me, you DO NOT want to know )
Mine is completely random, first thing that came into my head, apart from 'rath' which is the name for a clan or settlement in Darren Shan's Bec from the Daemonata series.
Back when I bought all of the Rogue Trader rule books by Fantasy Flight Games I decided to invent a name for a Rogue Trader character. I'd never been very good at thinking up names, so I decided to simply anagram my own name. This took a while, and I had to modify the parameters a bit in order to work in my middle name (which is actually three words, only one of which is longer then four letters,) but I finally came up with something that I liked. Mostly. I was never satisfied with how my first name turned out, and eventually I swapped a vowel in my last name for a different one so the spelling wouldn't make me twitch like it used to.
When I decided to join some 40k forums, I decided to use my Rogue Trader persona for a screen name.
Hence, Lord-Captain Cepinari. To be precise, Lord-Captain Xalerdane Crechirk Drovan Cepinari, Head of the Cepinari Rogue Trader Dynasty.
Was from Watchdog (British TV programme) in the '80s, was one of the presenters catch phrases - thought it suitable for a war gaming username and domain name
FistusMaximus wrote: well, mine comes from this pic... stumpled upon it some day, i have no friggin idea how that turned up, but i found this to be so funny i made continous jokes about it with my friends, and Fistus Maximus is also my IRL nickname
(i know this is really, really childisch, and most people will not find it THAT funny, but there is some RL backstory to it, which made it so funny to me and my friends, but trust me, you DO NOT want to know )
It is not yet as silly as Biggus Dickus XD
My username comes from the Iron Hands. I read Wrath of Iron, and the captains of the Iron Hands there are called Iron Captains.
A couple of my brothers and I quickly realized from spending time with each other that we had an animal that best represented our personality. We made similar gamertags or usernames for years, and i know its cliche but i have had a name with a Wolf or Dog in it since. My other brother went with Mercfox or something along those lines.
I did the Young Eagles Program. They give me my certificate, with the wrong last name. They spelled it "Sertile" Now almost everyone at school refers to me as Sertile.
Gozer is the main antagonist of the first Ghostbusters movie (and many other aspects of the Ghostbusters universe). Since Ghostbusters is my favorite movie of all time, it only felt right that I should show my devotion to her/him/it through religious praise.
Mine came from the days of dnd and my love of playing characters with mechanical or construct aspects to them often with Jack as some part of their name. Then I picked up 40k and I played. . . Necrons and Iron Warriors, that only further cemented the name as my moniker.
I was DM of our gaming group at the time. I was *very* good at using player characters backgrounds against them....quit twisted at times (sure, everyone knows about the succubus, but what about the incubus...muhaha!).
Anyway....there was a lot of "Omfg, that was mean!" and other villain-worthy compliments from my group.
During one of our more fun (and bloody) sessions, my wife (a non gamer) got out the labeling gun and printed a label with "Mean DM" on it, just for me.
it has stuck ever since (10+ years now).
This was in contrast (sort of) to another friend of ours who's moniker was "The Smiling DM". The problem, though, is that if he was smiling, you knew you were in deep, deep doo-doo. He was even more evil than I was, I have to admit....
Mine is the name of my Wolf Lord. In 3rd ed, GW said that your general was your personal avatar on the field, so I wanted him to be named after myself (Andrew). So the "And-" part is derived from my name, the rest was just added because it sounded cool.
Now that he had a first name, he needed a last name/title of some sort. The model I had was armed with a frost blade, so I creatively decided that he was a good sword fighter, and earned the name "Greatsword".
Very first Character name in the IceWindDale series and a character name for pretty much all games i played since 2000, it originates from greek mythology (Talos).
Then, i simply made a choice of colour; Which sounds best, BlackTalos, RedTalos, GreenTalos?
Tjomball is nickname given to me by my colleagues..
I asked what a Tjomball is..
The answer given was "Tjomball, that's you. "
Still to this day I have no idea what a Tjomball really is..
My username's origin:
While my parents were gone (I am a 15 year old high school student) I looked at Dakka Dakka. And my first question was this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/629537.page I was really interested in Flash Gitz, and knew that the leader of the Flash Gitz was Kaptin Badrukk.
So I was originally going to make my name Kaptin Badrukk (note the space) but DakkaDakka said that username was already taken. So, it was KaptinBadrukk.
The Home Nuggeteer wrote: List: 1 sammeal master of the ravenwing in speeder
130 typhoon speeders
1 unupgraded speeder.
total of 132 speeders, half on turn one, other half deep strike
/thread
What in the blazes?!?!?!?!?!?!
Never seen anyone with THAT many land speeders.
Sounds like computer but isn't but actually means computer in a pseudo old timey kind of fashion and has nothing to do with Computron who coincidentally was a character in Transformers? which I never watched so can't be from there unless I subconsciously heard the name and filed it away for later use thinking it had come from somewhere else.
My user name is just my 40k ork army's Warboss name. I started posting on an orks-exclusive forum before I came to dakka and decided to stick with the name so that folks would recognize my work wherever I posted. I have no idea if it worked or not.
The Warboss' full name is Waaazag da Kan't Stoppable.
Vermis, Latin for worm. Way back when I first found myself online and in need of a username, my mind went to the last book I read - an anthology of Stephen King stories - and the ancient tome mentioned in one: De Vermis Mysteriis. It also had a slight self-deprecating tone and a hint at my interest in natural and unnatural history, not always the fluffy, huggable kind. If you knew what it meant.
I...think that's a site about porn? Either way, far to many dangles on display in the ads to link it in a family friendly forum like this. If you disagree, PM me and we can discuss it
"Hey Frank, where do ya work again?"
"The Bastard Factory. They've got me doing double shifts, again."
"Have you talked to the Bastard Union about it?"
"Hey Frank, where do ya work again?"
"The Bastard Factory. They've got me doing double shifts, again."
"Have you talked to the Bastard Union about it?"
Mine comes from a joke in the show Father Ted, where Ted is attempting to explain perspective to Dougaul by comparing small toy cows with distant real ones:
'These cows are small, those ones are far away. Small, Far Away'
Mine is supposed to represent Skarbrand before his betrayal of Khorne, when he was Khorne's ultimate bloodthirster champion, rampaging across countless worlds cleaving skulls from bodies. I envision him as hyper powerful and thought it would be sweet to watch him in his former glory take on anggrath.
When i was first getting into 40k, Skarbrand and his fluff was one of the biggest things that caused me to collect daemons. I've only used him in-game once though haha. I just found his fall from glory and the exact kind of anger it would have produced incredibly interesting. I'm a fan of tzeentch as well, so it was doubly cool for me. I wish there was an option to field him as he was before his betrayal.
A crank pin is a crankshaft engine component. A tenuous nod toward my Iron Hands army which I started to re-collect Warhammer with. It's also part of an anagram of my name.
I absolutely adore the characters Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel) and the Joker, and considering I'm of female origin, I chose Harley Quinn to relate to me the most.
Hahaha. "of female origin", why did I type it like that?
But yeah, that's mine.
Mine comes from a credit card commercial i saw a few years ago where one guy mentions that he wants a picture of kittens on his card, his companion asks if they are War Kittens. Plus the idea of war kittens amuses me
War Kitten wrote: Mine comes from a credit card commercial i saw a few years ago where one guy mentions that he wants a picture of kittens on his card, his companion asks if they are War Kittens. Plus the idea of war kittens amuses me
I remember that commercial! So funny !!!
My username mostly comes from the fact that I love the StarCraft games and I have probably played against the Zerg more times than any other faction, especially in the campaign missions. Hence, ZergSmasher.
My current name, which has 2 forms, depending on if it is taken or not where I register, comes from the word redleg, which is an american artilleryperson(like my PC way of putting that). The US Artillery person's used to have red leggings they wore to denote them as the King of Battle.
When trying to find a variation one day, I had to an an ER to the end to make it work. Now for some reason people pronounce it as red ledger. But there is no D, so It makes me sad.
bound for glory wrote: Mine is from a hardcore band i was in. Back in the late 80's to mid 1990's.
What kind of music did you play?
Alpharius wrote:'hardcore' from that era usually refers to 'Punk'...
Well, yeah... pretty much.
Hardcore was/is a kind of punk rock that sprang up in the late 70s/early 80s, personified by bands like Black Flag, Fear, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Adolescents, and so on.
It's an internet username I started using when I was about 10. I don't remember where it comes from. I also use ClockworkTopHat (a reference to my two Empire of the Dead factions) or IcarusInFlames.
mine is xofox mainly because of the fact that when I first got on the internet (when I was like 4) I had no clue how to spell one of the coolest thing at the time (will not divulge) so I settled for the next best thing. I just haven't ever changed it because I was too lazy and it sounds sweet.
Mine's a nickname my dad had called me, and the 2 and 1, put together, makes 21, which I assume that people know why it fits then. (Plus just 'blackjack' is normally taken, and the seemingly random numbers makes it more likely to be open.
There's also the entertaining side note that a blackjack is another name for a nightstick, or baton. Add that to the fact that I plan on being a police officer, and this name fits even more.
Either, I mistyped Battery Commissar, and was too embarrassed to ever admit it...
Or I received a greasy miniature in an unwashed Lurpak tub in the mail from eBay, and after declaring "Ew! Buttery commissar!" aloud, thought it was fun to say...
"Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice."
Heh. This is my 'standardised' username. Never taken, no-one pronounces correctly, easy to shorten (Danny, I've seen Rul or Rulx as well.) and L337 SP34K free!
2BlackJack1 wrote: Mine's a nickname my dad had called me, and the 2 and 1, put together, makes 21, which I assume that people know why it fits then. (Plus just 'blackjack' is normally taken, and the seemingly random numbers makes it more likely to be open.
There's also the entertaining side note that a blackjack is another name for a nightstick, or baton. Add that to the fact that I plan on being a police officer, and this name fits even more.
Every time I see your name I first read it as '2black2jack'
2BlackJack1 wrote: Mine's a nickname my dad had called me, and the 2 and 1, put together, makes 21, which I assume that people know why it fits then. (Plus just 'blackjack' is normally taken, and the seemingly random numbers makes it more likely to be open.
There's also the entertaining side note that a blackjack is another name for a nightstick, or baton. Add that to the fact that I plan on being a police officer, and this name fits even more.
Every time I see your name I first read it as '2black2jack'
I know I need to do a spring clean of my mind when I find myself being disgusted yet entertained when I read '2black2jack' haha.... aha... ha.... I need help...
My username is a combination of a nickname 'Nini' (NOT 'Ninny' ) and 'Illuminati'. Coined it a few years back after I needed a new, unique nickname that wasn't my typical variation of 'Death Knight' or 'Doom Hammer'.
Mine is a nickname I had back in school; 'greebo' was a ninties word for one into metal, but my love of indie pop, and the tight jeans that went with, was misdiagnosed as being 'greeby', and somehow 'noggin' got tagged onto the end, so I was greebynoggin, greebynognog or just greebynog. People in my home town still call me that. I don't know why I chose it, I don't really like being called it...
As my full name is Christeena , and from which the nick name derived would be Teena. I would go for Teena.
Mine is a reference to one of the factions in the game Destiny. My favourite faction, with the bright uniforms and a creed that's not too far off from the Orks.
Its my name, email whatever... BIff, but couldn't get "Biff" on hotmail and anywhere else when I signed up. So a friend said add "hey" to the front. rest is history.
A reference to my favourite space marine chapter the raven guard.
Raven guard captains use the title Shadow Captain.
Edithae is the species name for the Somali Crow. I basically just googled the raven and crow family of birds looking for a cool name.
Mine's 'whispered' because I actually joined dakka with the intention of not telling my boyfriend I was interested in gaming, so I could learn some stuff on the sly and surprise him next time he brought it up he's on dakka too so I assumed it was the best way to do! He knows I'm here now though
Mine is my company name. I needed to include PIG in there because I am passionate about potbelly pig rescue and pigs as pets. Most people don't know about pigs and I advocate for them. I even donate a set amount every month from my sales from my store. If you are interested in learning more about it or would like to see the piggy my customers have sponsored, check out the "GIVING BACK" page on my site!
Like a few others, my name is from an RPG back in the day. I had an assassin character and the GM decided it would be darn entertaining to turn the guy into a women (present social issues excepted). So I came across a word that I thought sound like it could be a pretty woman's name but is in fact the genus with some of the most toxic and deadly mushrooms known.
On a side note it made my character's job rather easy so the GM got frustrated and turned the character back into a man.
I am an incredibly drunk pens fan who has just opened this thread for the first time. This is my first time touching alcohol since my breakup(see my other thread about breakups) But yeah I dont know what we're talking about in this thread but go pens and as a side note go steelers in the next season! (Ps go pirates but they kinda suck)
My name is Tony. Not Anthony. Not Antonio. Not Anton, though that is the name my mom WANTED to name me. I'm just Tony. And since I have to say it so much, I figured saying Just Tony instead of just Tony works better. It also works to my simple and humble nature.
Was playing the Goldbox game of "Curse of the Azure Bonds".
He was a character name thought up on the fly for a Fighter-Magic-User.
For some unexplained reason he would slowly regenerate between battles mid-way through the game (A game bug? bitten by a vampire? no clue...).
He could never die completely.
Due to some random event, he was the most awesome character I have ever played: when a game creates some unforeseen "magic" of it's own I like to take note of these strange bits in life.
<edit> It would be amazing to see any of this series modernized (again), I am constantly grateful for developers who dust-off adventure with good stories, character development and progressively less hostile user interfaces.
Talizvar is not comparable to Minsc, but I think he would approve (or at least Boo would).
Something I came up with for forums and video-games, using a random name generator.
I use it when I don't want to be pretentious and latin...for which I borrow the name of a lovely giant God-Machine named Gloria Vastator.
I used to play Utopia Online browser game a very long time ago. And I had a "freak" ruler type. It was an unusual choice. Because of this, in messaging with people they were calling me Freakazoid sometimes and it sticks to me. I used different nicknames at that time. later, I started to play WoW and tried to use a Freakazoid nickname, but it was already taken. Freakazoit was also unavailable. I ended up with Freakazoitt nickname, which I used in other games too.
My user name is pretty simple. It is my name. I don`t want to use an alter-ego because when someone finds out your real name they just post it online and then anything you have posted especially if it is private becomes open territory for people to search. I just avoid that and use my real name but avoid posting personal information on the internet.
I am originally from Dumbarton in Scotland, famous for Dumbarton Castle, built on Dumbarton Rock. A person born in Dumbarton is known as 'a son of the rock', the local football team are colloquially known as 'The (mighty) Sons'.
My first Space Marine Chapter are painted in the orange, white and black colours of the team and are called 'The Sons of the Rock', thus my user name.
It is a long, painful, and potentially boring tale. I shall tell it to you now.
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Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished.
A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang, and although his airbending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
My name came from a Locust Toybox album called Scribble Beats. The song's title was Pixelboy but when I tried to use that on an old forum I used to visit, it was taken so I changed the e to a 3.
my nick was originally a role-playing character which was then used as a user name on BBSs (both as member and sysop) and usenet. I have used this name since the early 80s
Hah! I once did one class in "Ninjutsu" years ago; it was hilarious we practised throwing foam Shuriken then rolling and throwing Shuriken and, now on hindsight, completely impractical martial arts techniques. Apparently, twice a year they would go to practice stealth in the middle of the bush in Northern New Zealand, it was even more cringy than it sounds, so don't feel too bad.
My name is from the villain of Tales of Symphonia Yggdrasil who I thought was a great villain so I stole his name and changed it to...well: Adrassil. I gave it to a main character in a story series I began as a teenager who was like a super OP mercenary hired to be the main character's bodyguard when he went to train with a martial arts master in my world's equivalent of China. It turned out he was secretly an agent of a secret police who was like their version of 40k Inquisition; then it turned out it was Inquisition as I decided to make it part of my 40k fanfic Secret War continuity.
Despite being a very pretty long haired blond dude Adrassil was terrible with women and had to pay prostitutes to sate his sex addiction. And was pretty much crap at everything except fighting and acting as he would have to rely on his master to psychically tell him what to say, he also only used kicks as Sanji from One Piece was my hero at the time. I was actually subverting the 'Mary Sue' or 'Gary Stu' archetype before I even knew it existed. But then went ahead and wrote my unironic Gary Stu, Leonard Rodyille for 'Of Thieves and Murderers,' but oh well, most fanfic writers go through that phase lol
I liked Adrassil so I started using his name as my user name and...well everything is history.
Many, many, many moons ago, I was wanting to join a Great Big Sea chat room. But I needed an email account, and being the first email account I ever set up, I was like, "GreatBigSea@whatchamucallit.com", but it was taken.
So I started looking around, staring at the walls of my grandfather's house, when I looked out the window and what did my wandering eyes behold, but a GreatBigTree… which became my email address and my go-to nickname for the last twenty-some years.
Several years later, while attending some training for work, the presenter asked me what my email address was. I replied, "Greatbigtree@somethinorother.com". and he asked me, "Do you think that's a professional sounding email address?" To which I replied, "I don't think anyone is all that surprised by my email address."
To which he replied, "You don't think that having an email address that might as well be bigswingingdick@emailaccount.com is a problem?" Which just goes to show that something as innocent as staring out the window of your grandfather's farmhouse can be misconstrued as being offensive.
Hah! I once did one class in "Ninjutsu" years ago; it was hilarious we practised throwing foam Shuriken then rolling and throwing Shuriken and, now on hindsight, completely impractical martial arts techniques. Apparently, twice a year they would go to practice stealth in the middle of the bush in Northern New Zealand, it was even more cringy than it sounds, so don't feel too bad.
I actually watched a very short documentary about a Japanese Ninjitzu practitioner and historian recently. He was saying that Ninjas were actually just Feudal Japanese wartime messengers, and that all of the emphasis was on being fit enough to run long distances and witty enough to avoid enemy patrols, and that this notion of Ninjas being warriors and assassins is entirely a Hollywood fabrication. Apparently Ninjitzu/Ninja isn't even the real word!
SamusDrake wrote:...and quite fond of Keeley Hawes from Ashes To Ashes(DI Alex Drake). Strange but true.
Isn't she the bird from Bodyguard? Yeah! I'm quite fond of her too.
greatbigtree wrote:So I started looking around, staring at the walls of my grandfather's house, when I looked out the window and what did my wandering eyes behold, but a GreatBigTree…
I like it. Native American style.
greatbigtree wrote:Several years later, while attending some training for work, the presenter asked me what my email address was. I replied, "Greatbigtree@somethinorother.com". and he asked me, "Do you think that's a professional sounding email address?" To which I replied, "I don't think anyone is all that surprised by my email address."
To which he replied, "You don't think that having an email address that might as well be bigswingingdick@emailaccount.com is a problem?" Which just goes to show that something as innocent as staring out the window of your grandfather's farmhouse can be misconstrued as being offensive.
The hell is wrong with people nowadays that we just assume vulgar intent? That story says more about where that guy's mind wanders than it does about you.
As i am a miniature war gamer, old DnD player (3.5 for life), with an affinity for drow and dragons it seemed a perfect fit.
My alternate is M.U.G.H.I.-military untility genetic higher intelligence. from japanese anime and novel fame -the dirty pair. (he was the pet alien cat/panther )
Sjoe that's a question going back to the dawn of time itself.
Originally it was Kickback, named after a manouver in Origins Wing Commander. Shortened to KBack. Then when playing LaserQuest for the first time they needed a name of 7 letters or less. I said "KBack" and they entered "Kayback" and I liked it.
Been using it for 27 years now. It is who I am online.
Am terrible at remembering usernames for any forum etc, I generally remember passwords without issue, I don't know why.
When talking to someone whose name you don't know 'mate' will generally suffice, regardless of your affinity towards the individual, when referring to them to another 'old mate' will generally suffice. Regardless of age.
It has potential to cause further confusion, but it's a common enough term in my part of the world.
It's one I'll remember, and it suits. It proclaims I am some random. But you know the random that is being refered to and they're very likely a bogan.
Therefore a suitable username.
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greatbigtree wrote: Many, many, many moons ago, I was wanting to join a Great Big Sea chat room. But I needed an email account, and being the first email account I ever set up, I was like, "GreatBigSea@whatchamucallit.com", but it was taken.
So I started looking around, staring at the walls of my grandfather's house, when I looked out the window and what did my wandering eyes behold, but a GreatBigTree… which became my email address and my go-to nickname for the last twenty-some years.
Several years later, while attending some training for work, the presenter asked me what my email address was. I replied, "Greatbigtree@somethinorother.com". and he asked me, "Do you think that's a professional sounding email address?" To which I replied, "I don't think anyone is all that surprised by my email address."
To which he replied, "You don't think that having an email address that might as well be bigswingingdick@emailaccount.com is a problem?" Which just goes to show that something as innocent as staring out the window of your grandfather's farmhouse can be misconstrued as being offensive.
That's hilarious GreatBigTree. Not sure how he drew that conclusion
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Marine_With_Heart wrote: I kind of based my name choice around the action and thoughts that I thought created one of my favourite space marines, Uriel Ventris. His character i found was one that, whilst he believed the codex was right, there were times that he went with his gut and his heart and reinterpreted or followed through with what his emotions decided to be the proper choice or thought process in a situation. An example was Uriels almost child like attachment to the Unfleshed and that he believed any citizen of the Imperium who followed the Emperor with their hearts deserved a place in His empire.
Kind of epitimizes the character I would want to be if I was a space marine, one who still cares for the mortal people around him, despite how inhumane he himself has had to become in order to protect them.
Graham Mc Neil is a good author and Uriel and Pasinius are awesome characters.
I liked the moment when Uriel visited the hospital put the purity seal on the wounded whiteshield's chest in recognition of the man's actions in the trenches during the battle on Taris Ultra.
My username is my steam username, and I use it because I have a computer not built for gaming, and whenever I play a game (usually tf2), I have really bad lag (usually at 10 FPS with freezes that can last seconds) and that causes me to have very bad aim.
The DEEP LORE of my username is fairly simple. When I was new to forums- although not the internet- I had recently seen a meme labelled (with corresponding cartoons) “dalek, dalek supreme, dalek supreme with cheese”. I signed up to a forum under that name, but was told by a mod it was too long. Thus it was shortened to DalekCheese, and that’s what I use everywhere now.
Kiro was a character in a flashgame I used to play a lot as a kid (Sift Heads).
The name came from that, 'the Avenger' I think came because Kiro was already taken when I first created the name on the Bolter and Chainsword and 'Kiro the Avenger' sounds cooler than 'Kiro1234'
Mines a bastardisation of Thanatos. First used as the name of my Necromancer in Diablo 2.
I honestly had no idea about its greek origins until after I started using it as my general online name. When I first made it I was basically copying the name of the villain in Secret of Mana, a somewhat appropriately named lich.
I've had other names online but this is the most consistent, I've never had the dreaded "this name already exists" when using it.
I'm not 37, I will be in 18 years. I've used other names (on other forums) such as Ginger Pele (was a nickname of a former Norwich football, and I got called it a few times playing football at school, the joke was we were both rubbish but would occasionally do something wonderful), and Badger bouncer, which was just a bit of fun.
handed to me)
