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"TK421 was the identification of the unfortunate Stormtrooper in Star Wars (and the only named Stormtrooper in the Star Wars movies) whose uniform was stolen by Luke and Han after they ambushed the scanning crew. The Stormtrooper disappeared from guarding the Millennium Falcon to supposedly assist the scanning crew, thus the line by Sub-Lieutenant Pol Treidum, Gantry Officer of Docking Bay 327, "TK421, why aren't you at your post?""
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MooMan
ive had this name for well over 12 years
My name comes back from when I was 13 and a big Final Fantasy fan. I'd initially wanted to name myself Bahamut as he was and still is my favorite summon of the series, but it was taken already.
So, instead of naming myself Bahamut85 or something like that I thought I'd just try something else. At first, I was going to use Sky Dragon but I didn't think that was really original either, so after mixing up the name a bit I came up with Dragkonias. It has pretty much stuck with me ever since.
Which came from Hot Pants - kid was trying to start a fight and my pants were far from baggy that day - became Pantalones Calientes in Spanish class later that week (must have been freshman year of HS) with the rest added on. "Pants" followed naturally and by 10th grade that's how most teachers knew me. I've got friends who still call me that and I'm 27.
B is the initial of my last name. I use Pants and PantsB pretty widely as its pretty rare for it to be taken. I've never seen another PantsB so it works pretty well.
My first "handle" was "Woundweavr" based off a referenced General in David Gemmell's "Legend". I'll go with the standard "I was 13" (and later the 10 character AOL limit) excuse.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
That's how I feel about my Live GT and PSN ID, SuperJumpMan. I'm a big Nintendo fan, but didn't want to go with the typical Mario85 or that kind of crap. Instead, I decided to go with his much less known name, Super Jumpman. The capitalizations are just to make it easier to differentiate the words (I was unaware you could use spaces when I made it).
As for my forum name, it came from my first character on WoW I created back in 2004-ish. One that I proudly still play to this day.
On a side note, my Steam log-in name, Azarius, is my old character name on a MUD I used to play back in highschool.
A couple months later I was signing up for a MUD (Ages of Despair) and that was the first name that popped into my head. For some reason it had like, an 11 character limit or something around there, so I replaced letters trying to keep it phonetically the same until it fit. Which is a good thing, because it was sort an RPish MUD and the name in it's original form would not have fit in. Oddly enough, because there were a lot of Swedish folk on that particular MUD, due to my name lots of people thought I was one of them.
I kind of like the name, as it is unique, and nobody else is stupid enough to want it. Having the same name everywhere on the internet helps me moderate myself. Though Bog knows you can still find plenty of stupid stuff I've said. I also get enjoyment from watching people try to puzzle it out. Only a few people get it fairly quickly.
Most people call me Tofy (pronounced Toefee), or Tof (toff or tofe). Occasionally I get Two-Fist or Tofster. My old captain in YPP calls me Tofu, and my new captain sometimes calls me toffee. My favorite wizard from AoD called me T-dude. Brahs on XBox Live frequently stumble around it for a bit before just settling on Fag.
Some of my favorite names I've come across:
One of my roommates uses Thanatopless.
Another one was Sargent Sarcasm for a long time (which worked really well for him) until he decided he should get promoted and became Lieutenant Groyn. It didn't fit in XBL so we made him British so now he's LeftenantGroyn.
We've come across Jehovatron and Defenstrator on XBL which was good for some laughs.
I've also seen Sean (or some name like that) and SeanLikesGuys playing doubles in Halo.
The best though, has to be Dr. Abortion, MD. If it was just Dr. Abortion, it would have only been mildly funny, and of questionable taste, but the added MD just gets me every time.
However, I have a group of friends, we get together every once in a while to play.. whatever we feel like playing at the time, and if there is a custom naming feature we just go insane.
Most famously among us we often have Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren as characters.
You killed Calvin Klein
Khavall's Beginner's Guide to Music Everything(Theory Blog)
I eventually got tired of Gayles and got my own monkier when I signed up for a hotmail account, taking Oh-Boy. I occasionally use OhNoBoy when the former is taken. I still use it sometimes, but not often... it's usually taken anyway.
Later in life I worked as a camp counsellor. Everyone on staff had a nickname that they'd use during camp hours (so the kdis rarely if ever learned your real name). After 2 weeks of training, somone suggested "Apogee", since I was a resident nerd, and Commander Keen rocks. It stuck, and I've used it a lot since. I love how many people recognise it
Recently, after I got my girlfriend into WoW, she took the username Linx (or Lincks). I made a matching character, Lanx (or Lancks). I use those two occasionally.
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Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
For the longest time I was the only darkmayo out there.. recent google searches show more hits that arent mine but are usually the words broken up by a space. If you google and see a post by a darkmayo and its in english it was likely me.
Some guy on a message forum I used to post on claimed that "you gotta wanna" was his new motto in life after seeing it.
You're muckin' with a G!
Holy shit! Is this a prize thread?
I demand it be turned into one.
And it's a numbername because I use it everywhere, and I got tired of remembering if I'd managed to get it without numbers or with every time I was logging in somewhere.
I also used to go by Remus when my friend and I did 2v2 in Starcraft, he was obviously Romulus. We argued in all-chat about who deserved to get the city and I called his mother a bitch. People didn't really get it.
And I think the only other one I use with any frequency is Ondine, because it sounds cool and because "Ondine's Curse" is just the weirdest and worst thing.
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Wasn't that a joke in Scrubs?
For quite a while I was "a Vehicle". There were some priceless reactions at lan parties when people were first killed by a Vehicle.
I was really into Halo 2 at the time.
Terrible name I know, but I'm too lazy to change it.
when i was little i used to goto the lasertag places where it would show you who shot you on the back of the gun. i would use the name 'error' and people would call for help a lot of times after i shot them.
My forum name is "yourfatauntsusan" because I have a fat aunt Susan and didn't want to use what I use outside of this forum.
In L4D, my name is Tom Cruise-control. Why? I don't know.
This is the funniest shit I've ever heard.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Nothing original has ever come out of Scrubs. Please remember that.
The "Dr. Acula" joke was written by Mitch Hedberg. Before that, it was also the name of a character in Night of the Ghouls
buff said also favorite name ive seen askurdaughter i find this name particularly hilarios because of a COD sniper moment:
Me: WTF WAS THAT.
Reply: askurdaughter
Me: wtf man i dont have a-ooooohh
SC2: XxKhrushchev.539
Season's greetings, Satan!
Element Brian... the reasoning behind this one is stupid, trivial, and middle schoolish, so whenever people ask, i just make something up, So basically it means whatever you think it means.
HA!
I was like 11 or something at the time and D2 rocked, I used to use BlackDeath5 and sometimes still do because you know, the plague was cool.
cows are fucking the raddest
MooMan
The best name
Khavall's Beginner's Guide to Music Everything(Theory Blog)
His name is Freion, after the stuff that keeps a fridge cold (he was an Electricity/Ice Blaster, so it only seemed right to name him after what keeps an electric device cold).
The problem?
Spell check. It's Freon. No I. I dunno where I got the I but I got it.
Anyway, I decided to write this into a backstory for him. Where he told someone how to spell it because he always sees it "spelled wrong".
Then, when asked why there's an I (and confronted by a reporter who says "There's no I in Freion..."), he insists it stands for Freeze/Ion.
My friend and I started poking fun at it.
Me: Pfft, who names their character Freion?
Him: Yeah its not even spelled correctly.
M: Seriously, it's like he couldn't be bothered to spell check it.
H: I bet he even claims it's "freeze/ion" or something lame like that.
Kinda generic, but still unique... It represents me without necessarily being another OLOL "potsmoker420" on Xbox Live.
Unfortunately, I have more than one "X" in my name so I am to be forever shunned by my PA brethren.
but everyone thought it said Hitler
I was like "what?"
It was also a joke in the movie Ed Wood, which is where I first heard it.
I used to use that in Starcraft and WCIII online, people always thought I was referencing Mitch Hedburg.
I think Roman Numerals are exempt from the multiple X hate. And at least CDXX is creative. However, the most creative pot reference I ever saw was in binary.
You're muckin' with a G!
The villain in this particular episode was a man named False-Face (who, I somehow get the impression from, didn't go on to very great heights). I thought this was a great name because I was an idiot or something, so this became my handle on Warcraft 3, the only online game I ever played due to it being fairly able to deal with a dial-up connection. Naturally over time it just shortened to Falsey.
2) I would say I don't generally judge others by their names, but often names can give me a strong indicator of what a person will be like. People who use random strings of numbers and letters in screen names are a red flag, as are any attempts at 1337 or immature gamer slang (I0wnzn00bs is a name that I'd instantly be disgusted with).
... I don't have any good stories or anything for 2.5 or 3.