I go by "Incredible Chicken". My strategy is to go awesome adjective and mundane object/creature. During TF2 and L4D, most people just use "Chicken" for short. Some pyros who kill me think it's very clever to refer to me as fried chicken.
Chance was the name of my Elvaan Samurai in Final Fantasy XI - my first real foray into online gaming. When I moved up to WoW, Chance was already taken (went with 'Chances', sigh), but I ended up with a cool name for my sutblety Rogue alt: Splinter. Tell me that ain't the best name for a Gnome rogue?
Anyway, it makes my PSN name seem kinda' douchey. Chance and any variation thereof was obviously already taken, so I combined the two names and went with Chance_Splinter. Sounds like an accidental, incredibly minor injury.
But at least I miraculously got to keep 'Chance' for these boards. That means a lot to me, actually.
Edit: oh, and my favorite name that I've seen someone else use is a fellow Canuck on these boards - "Guidedbyvices". I fucking love that, and if I ever start writing again I will somehow make reference to someone who makes life decisions based solely on how it facilitates their addictions.
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My name used to be Herby. When I was in high school (long ago), a few friends of mine would make posters with Print Shop on the original Mac - one I made featured Herby, the Unholy Woodchuck. I've kept the handle. When there was a name change thread, I was drinking and requested The Love Bug just on a whim - I got tails and I'm now Lindsey Lohan.
On the flip side - my handle on most other stuff is N8 - as my name is in fact Nate. My band name in RB2 is The Unholy Woodchucks.
I picked my name years ago when I joined the World of Monkey Island forum. My reasoning was that the Rhesus part kept the monkey aspect of the forum in mind, and the Positive came from the blood group. In the classic episode of Hancock's Half Hour, "The Blood Donor", Hancock gets briefly annoyed by the insinuation that his blood is Rh+, exclaiming, "They're monkeys, aren't they? How dare you!"
Since I have few good ideas, I never bothered trying to think of another name. I tend to shorten it to Rhesus elsewhere.
A long time ago on a MUD, I tried using a name. The admins denied it. So I tried the name Sypha. They accepted it. So henceforth I was known as Sypha. Because Sypha was a freaking awesome character that I remembered from Castlevania 3.
Apparently I didn't remember that Sypha was a female.
Then one day on the same MUD, a bunch of people started making -fire/-fyre names. Starfyre, nitefyre, blowmefyre, etc. (actually the latter didn't get accepted). Hence from then on I was known as Syphyre.
Which is cool, because it sounds like Psi-Fire. Which means I can set your brain on fire. I guess.
Same exact thought crossed my mind when I read that.
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My name does not come from being a fan of punk music, despite what people assume all the time. I actually haven't listened to much punk at all, and the bits I listened to I wasn't a fan of. My name is a nickname my instructor gave me when I practiced Tae Kwon Do. I guess he thought I was a cocky kid or something. Pretty soon everyone at my school called me that.
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Dr. Evil -> Evil -(Too many People Named Evil in games, needed a last name ala Dick Dastardly)-> Evil Badman -(Couldn't Recover Evil Badman from XBL)-> Evil Badman MD (Making me a doctor).
I had two 1 month trial alts named Evil Badman RN and EvilBadmanOBGYN.
The Raiden part comes from Virtual On, the robot game. WHICH PREDATES MGS2 BY YEARS THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
The 333 part comes because I first registered my name on various forums when I was young and stupid and liked numbers, and it's easier to have all of my names be the same now.
I wanted to avoid numbers in my names as much as possible. I used to post under Infil (my online name used everywhere else), but switched to XenoScholar for some reason. I don't even know where I came up with this.
Infil is short for Infiltrater [sic], a name I used to go under. I shortened it to eliminate the embarrassing spelling mistake, and because I like the sound of "Infil".
My online name is Infilament, because Infil was taken. I'm part of another community that started a meme by adding "ament" to everything (ie, "lol donkaments" if you know online poker). Plus, Infilament sounds cool, since it sounds like it also could have arisen by combining two unrelated words. Plus, I didn't want to add any numbers to the end of Infil for my XBL name.
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Mine is a combination of an IRC/forum name I used while playing the Warcraft 3 beta (ElectricVoodoo, shortened to EV), and a name I used in another forum that I took from the weird mistranslation in FFVI of "Intangible" (which was reduced to Intangir; invisible super-enemies for the win!).
Mine is a combination of an IRC/forum name I used while playing the Warcraft 3 beta (ElectricVoodoo, shortened to EV), and a name I used in another forum that I took from the weird mistranslation in FFVI of "Intangible" (which was reduced to Intangir; invisible super-enemies for the win!).
I was suffering a bout of insomnia several years back and was jonesing for some new books to read, as I'd exhausted most of my collection of good stuff.
Unfortunately, all that was available were some books by David Eddings.
When you've gone without sleep for a few days, even the stuff he writes seems like fantasy gold. Luckily most people don't get the name, so I don't get bothered much.
I usually go by Koro in places now, and that itself is pretty interesting in the fact that it's also the word some rural folk in Southeast Asia use for "genital retraction syndrome".
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Back in the days before the internet existed as we know it now, I ran a local BBS. Being the Metallica/Megadeth fan I was in junior high and high school, I called it Tornado of Souls, and my sysop name was Polaris. The 314 I started using when running into cases where my name was taken, so nowadays I just add it anyway, since I'd rather have a consistent handle I can share between games/sites/forums/etc.
I started off with Kendo and Kendomagic, after my brother's friend used to call me that as a kid. (real name is basically Ken___, depending on who i'm talking to). Then playing Diablo II i came up with Billington, because i thought (think) it is hilarious and I still use it regularly. Back in the old UO days, my brother played as Kid Rock and I was Mel Gibson. On occasion we'd also have a thief named ODB. I stuck with ODB and Mel Gibson through most of my online playing days because they are awesome, until I was playing free UO shards just a couple years ago and needed a new name for my PK, and thought Flanky sounded neat.
Cue Steam, and TF2, ended up as Dr. Flanky. I kinda switch between the two now.
Unfortunately, all that was available were some books by David Eddings.
When you've gone without sleep for a few days, even the stuff he writes seems like fantasy gold. Luckily most people don't get the name, so I don't get bothered much.
I loved David Eddings when I was younger. Sure, I know its mostly fluff now, but I still enjoy reading them.
That said, I have no idea where your name comes from.
Unfortunately, all that was available were some books by David Eddings.
When you've gone without sleep for a few days, even the stuff he writes seems like fantasy gold. Luckily most people don't get the name, so I don't get bothered much.
I loved David Eddings when I was younger. Sure, I know its mostly fluff now, but I still enjoy reading them.
That said, I have no idea where your name comes from.
Wait.... oh those fucking Mimbrates?
I wanted something obscure, and there's nothing more obscure than a sickly dude from a family of cousin-fucking royalty.
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elevature is the name of a song and EP by a band called the Flashing Lights. I loved them back in '98 or so, which is when I started using this name online. I'm not a fan any more, but I've registered this name everywhere and it would be a huge pain to change it (and in some places, like here, it's not changeable at all). I could start using a different name but I like having the same name everywhere. Makes things easier to remember. Also it's never taken, so I've been able to register it everywhere I want without having to change it or add numbers or anything, which I like.
The worst thing about is that people can't pronounce it (it's like elevator, but instead of 'tor' at the end its 'ture' like in 'signature'), and it gets annoying listening to people butcher it in online games, or call me elevator, or yell at me because they can't pronounce my name.
Anyone with a pot reference or 420 in their name gets muted. Pot is great, but the people who use it as online names are universally douchebags.
One of the best names I've seen online is omgboomlol, who posts on the platformers forum and may post here. It's really the combination of the name and the bob-omb av/sig he uses that make it great.
My other favourite is SpunjBaab. I played with him once in UT99 ages ago, and I never forgot that name. If I could easily change all of my online names, I'd steal that one.
Oh also, a name i've liked, I played UO with a guy named WrathOfGod. A super lame name. But then I added him on AIM, and his AIM name was AMindAtLarge.
(I stole it for my GMail)
obl (omgboomlol) used to post here a while back. I think they left as part of some mass exodus for some reason or other, though they may still be around in forums I don't frequent...
My name came from a complex Lord of the Rings parody that spontaneously happened on another forum I used to frequent. The One Ring equivalent was 'The One Dashing Straw Boater to Rule Them All', and all the characters were hat themed, or a pun on the original name. I was Faug the dragon, and the dark lord of the whole thing was The Lord of Hats.
After leaving that forum, I discovered that the name was open pretty much everywhere, so I continued to use that as my handle.
Also, I staunchly refuse to use numbers or symbols, because they're a pain in the ass to remember.
I took this name back in about 1998 for chatting on AOL/mIRC. The proper name "Orestes" (based on the character from Greek Mythology) was taken so I swapped a letter, and I've been using it for everything ever since.
I took this name back in about 1998 for chatting on AOL/mIRC. The proper name "Orestes" (based on the character from Greek Mythology) was taken so I swapped a letter, and I've been using it for everything ever since.
Even bannings and being made fun of for being Korean.
Mine's not too interesting, but I've been "Dark Warrior" in one incarnation or another since 1991. It's just kinda stuck with me. Makes for somewhat embarrassing work conversations when people want my email address, though.
I took this name back in about 1998 for chatting on AOL/mIRC. The proper name "Orestes" (based on the character from Greek Mythology) was taken so I swapped a letter, and I've been using it for everything ever since.
Even bannings and being made fun of for being Korean.
You must be referring to another oreztes, probably on mIRC... far as I can remember I've never been banned from anything and I'm certainly not Korean lol.
I do the random keyboard thing to name my characters in Nethack - most of them don't survive to Level 10, so there's not much point in caring what they are called. The thing is, my typing has reached the stage where I type groups of letters or whole words automatically, so the names always make some kind of phonetic sense.
For example: Squiggly, Milfinfar, Squagboar, Chillisoan.
Also, I tend to pre-judge people with ridiculous usernames, like the ones already mentioned. But if they are cool, using a mic, and arn't talking about being racist/talk (yelling) at their parents with the mic's still tuned on/being an asshat in general (all very likely on Xbox Live), then I will generally throw my assumption out of the window.
Masked_Mullet, i got this from a couple guys i knew in grade 9...i was rocking a mullet, and well i was into wrestling an this was what my wrestlers name was going to be. While Mill1gan, my last name was taken so i just added the number in it.
right so...I used to be Spictacular on live but that got tedious after a while...it really brings out the nut job racist smack talk ( which I enjoyed going back and forth for a bit but like all good things became more work than fun ). I then went with doubttom (my name is Tomas...Doubting Thomas....doubttom). Soon my doubt progressed into nihilism and I became nihilisttom. I'm still doubt on live and on here nihil. I like nihil, I use it for everything now.
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My name came from an old joke with a couple of buddies when we were playing some war game about a new player walking up to a freshly thrown grenade thinking they could pick it up and saying "Hey look, a grenade! but wait wheres the pin-" and being blown up.
I really didnt have a name for games until I picked up an xbox and was thinking up a gamertag and wanted a jokey name, so I went with lookfreegrenade.
Short story: My name was chosen at random from a lost of Greek/Latin suffixes in the back of my 9th grade biology textbook, about 10 years ago.
Long story: I was creating a tabletop RPG world/short story/whatever thing with some friends at the time, and as character ideas, I picked a bunch of random words from said textbook. Names like Glykys, Caedere, Spirare, etc. all became characters I ended up using. Because I was a geek (and a furry to boot), it ended up being an anthro RPG thinger.
I moved away not long after, but I was attached to Caedere in particular as a character, so I worked on developing more and more backstory over the years (right now I have outlines for a few novels and a shit-ton of notes). To amuse myself, whenever I'd play an MMO or RPG or whatever, I'd recreate Caedere for that particular game. I have Caederes everywhere now.
Now, "Caedere" isn't my primary screenname, but my main one screams "HOLY SHIT GUYS I'M A FURRY" way too much, so I just register as "Caedere" for any non-fur fandom websites.
I'm TrueCaedere on Xbox Live, because I registered "Caedere" on the original Xbox and forgot all of the login info. "TrueCaedere" is a pun - it sounds similar to "Trucidare", which has a similar meaning to "Caedere"; "Caedere" means "to cut" or "to kill", and "trucidare" means "to massacre".
What pisses me off is that I was the only Caedere anywhere for a good long time, until some godawful death metal band came around and chose that as their name....
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Anyway, it makes my PSN name seem kinda' douchey. Chance and any variation thereof was obviously already taken, so I combined the two names and went with Chance_Splinter. Sounds like an accidental, incredibly minor injury.
But at least I miraculously got to keep 'Chance' for these boards. That means a lot to me, actually.
Edit: oh, and my favorite name that I've seen someone else use is a fellow Canuck on these boards - "Guidedbyvices". I fucking love that, and if I ever start writing again I will somehow make reference to someone who makes life decisions based solely on how it facilitates their addictions.
On the flip side - my handle on most other stuff is N8 - as my name is in fact Nate. My band name in RB2 is The Unholy Woodchucks.
Nope, don't get it.
Since I have few good ideas, I never bothered trying to think of another name. I tend to shorten it to Rhesus elsewhere.
Apparently I didn't remember that Sypha was a female.
Then one day on the same MUD, a bunch of people started making -fire/-fyre names. Starfyre, nitefyre, blowmefyre, etc. (actually the latter didn't get accepted). Hence from then on I was known as Syphyre.
Which is cool, because it sounds like Psi-Fire. Which means I can set your brain on fire. I guess.
Same exact thought crossed my mind when I read that.
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I had two 1 month trial alts named Evil Badman RN and EvilBadmanOBGYN.
The 333 part comes because I first registered my name on various forums when I was young and stupid and liked numbers, and it's easier to have all of my names be the same now.
Infil is short for Infiltrater [sic], a name I used to go under. I shortened it to eliminate the embarrassing spelling mistake, and because I like the sound of "Infil".
My online name is Infilament, because Infil was taken. I'm part of another community that started a meme by adding "ament" to everything (ie, "lol donkaments" if you know online poker). Plus, Infilament sounds cool, since it sounds like it also could have arisen by combining two unrelated words. Plus, I didn't want to add any numbers to the end of Infil for my XBL name.
Current characters done: Ryu, Dan, C. Viper
Xbox Live: Infilament
Forum names are weird.
With m' burr stompin' boots!
It should be noted that everyone in Atlanta is either like me or T.I.
FFVI-inspired names for the win.
Unfortunately, all that was available were some books by David Eddings.
When you've gone without sleep for a few days, even the stuff he writes seems like fantasy gold. Luckily most people don't get the name, so I don't get bothered much.
I usually go by Koro in places now, and that itself is pretty interesting in the fact that it's also the word some rural folk in Southeast Asia use for "genital retraction syndrome".
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Cue Steam, and TF2, ended up as Dr. Flanky. I kinda switch between the two now.
Koalas aren't bears.
I loved David Eddings when I was younger. Sure, I know its mostly fluff now, but I still enjoy reading them.
That said, I have no idea where your name comes from.
Wait.... oh those fucking Mimbrates?
I wanted something obscure, and there's nothing more obscure than a sickly dude from a family of cousin-fucking royalty.
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Really?
'cause the burr stompin' boots work just fine on 'em.
Indeed.
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The worst thing about is that people can't pronounce it (it's like elevator, but instead of 'tor' at the end its 'ture' like in 'signature'), and it gets annoying listening to people butcher it in online games, or call me elevator, or yell at me because they can't pronounce my name.
Anyone with a pot reference or 420 in their name gets muted. Pot is great, but the people who use it as online names are universally douchebags.
One of the best names I've seen online is omgboomlol, who posts on the platformers forum and may post here. It's really the combination of the name and the bob-omb av/sig he uses that make it great.
My other favourite is SpunjBaab. I played with him once in UT99 ages ago, and I never forgot that name. If I could easily change all of my online names, I'd steal that one.
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(I stole it for my GMail)
After leaving that forum, I discovered that the name was open pretty much everywhere, so I continued to use that as my handle.
Also, I staunchly refuse to use numbers or symbols, because they're a pain in the ass to remember.
Even bannings and being made fun of for being Korean.
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You must be referring to another oreztes, probably on mIRC... far as I can remember I've never been banned from anything and I'm certainly not Korean lol.
For example: Squiggly, Milfinfar, Squagboar, Chillisoan.
I don't know?
it's not really a good name anyway, most people just call me gilbert or gilthert
on the ps3 - doubttom
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I really didnt have a name for games until I picked up an xbox and was thinking up a gamertag and wanted a jokey name, so I went with lookfreegrenade.
Long story: I was creating a tabletop RPG world/short story/whatever thing with some friends at the time, and as character ideas, I picked a bunch of random words from said textbook. Names like Glykys, Caedere, Spirare, etc. all became characters I ended up using. Because I was a geek (and a furry to boot), it ended up being an anthro RPG thinger.
I moved away not long after, but I was attached to Caedere in particular as a character, so I worked on developing more and more backstory over the years (right now I have outlines for a few novels and a shit-ton of notes). To amuse myself, whenever I'd play an MMO or RPG or whatever, I'd recreate Caedere for that particular game. I have Caederes everywhere now.
Now, "Caedere" isn't my primary screenname, but my main one screams "HOLY SHIT GUYS I'M A FURRY" way too much, so I just register as "Caedere" for any non-fur fandom websites.
I'm TrueCaedere on Xbox Live, because I registered "Caedere" on the original Xbox and forgot all of the login info.
What pisses me off is that I was the only Caedere anywhere for a good long time, until some godawful death metal band came around and chose that as their name....