Guns Of Icarus Online
Off-Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: James T. Kirk on September 06, 2013, 08:16:15 pm
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There are some pretty interesting names out there, and I'm curious as to where the came from.
If it's the same name you use for all your online stuff, don't just say that. Say why.
If it's a name from something, say where and why you picked it.
I'll start:
James T. Kirk. Like from Star Trek. Into Darkness reminded me of how much I loved the original series, and I happened to see the movie right before I bought the game, so Kirk seemed like the best option.
I wish I could say something about how I (personally) identify with Kirk, how I'm some unorthodox problem solver and great leader, but it all started as a joke.
I got three of my friends to join in, and James T. Kirk, M. Scotty, Mr. Spock, and checkov ran around the Enterprise for a few weeks.
Like the story always seems to go, they've all faded away, but for whatever reason, I've stayed.
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My name's Nick Sunderland. I'm terrible with usernames. Really terrible.
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A few years ago, playing World of Warcraft, I played a gnome Death Knight named "Europa." I've always loved two things- Japanese and good naming conventions for alts. I wanted to name a new character Yukari, but it was already taken. I hit upon the idea of combining the two names, so people would know it was me- Eukari was born.
Much later, I dug up the name for a new character on a new server, and loved it because it set up so many names for alts- Eukiko, Eukasa, Eukimi, etc. When I decided to come back to GoIO, it was a natural fit.
I like it because it's pretty unique, sounds pretty and people don't seem to have too much trouble remembering it. Plus, it's an actual name, and not like xXxSkullK1ll3r666xXx or something equally repulsive.
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My first impressions of GOI, from watching gameplay videos prior to purchasing the game, reminded me heavily of 18th century nautical combat, so I thought a nautical themed name would be best.
Since I had just recently read Treasure Island, and fancied I'd like to eventually pilot a glorious airship, I thought I'd name myself after the Pilot of the mighty Hispaniola, Captain Smollett.
This may or may not have also been heavily influenced by the greatest movie ever made which I'm far to old to have ever enjoyed when it was released; Muppets Treasure Island.
I was soon after joined by my still serving first mate, Mr. Arrow Cptl Fello who may or may not have been influenced from similar sources.
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Ahaha...haha...ha
this name goes back 14 years almost.......the backstory would be too immense for here...
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Ahaha...haha...ha
this name goes back 14 years almost.......the backstory would be too immense for here...
Doesn't matter, STORY TIME!!!
Mine kind of came from my love of pies I guess.
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Ahaha...haha...ha
this name goes back 14 years almost.......the backstory would be too immense for here...
Doesn't matter, STORY TIME!!!
Mine kind of came from my love of pies I guess.
Hell nah.
It's mostly angst / emo teenager stuff that started around the 7th grade. It really isn't a good read.
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I like griffins. Alternate spelling of griffin is gryphon. Gryphon turned into Gryphos. The second part was going to be 'fellwinter', but that's a bit too cliche, so I turned it on its head and went with 'fellsummer'.
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my real name is Alex Bradtke
Zander came from something my older sister has told me all my life "you really missed out on the good half of that name".
and Broda comes from my family's original name, from wayyyyy back in poland, before it was changed several times to what it is now.
when i got this game, me and the people that bought this game with me wanted to do a bit of role playing, and i decided i wanted my character to basically be a steampunk version of myself, and i came up with this, i still like the way it feels when you say it out loud.
as for my Steam name (chainer1216) Chainer, Dementia Master was the first legendary MtG card i ever got, and my gaming buddies had a proboards set up all about MtG where everyone was named after a legend from the game, so i named myself after him on there and the name kinda stuck. and December 16th is mah birthday.
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I named myself Andika because my name is Andika. :) Alternatively, you may also call me Andika.
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Rainer Zu Fall - Rainer is a common german prename, Zu (like the "Von" in "Von Hindenburg") is part of a name and Fall is the name. In germany, reiner Zufall (written a bit different as you can see) means "pure randomness" although pronounced exactly the same.
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Mepic Von Shreck:
Mepic = Mega-epic, following the word being used on a jazz tour I was on a year or so ago.
Von Shreck = Well, I love Shrek. And Schreck in German = Fright. But to make it less 'fright' and more Shrek, I settled on Shreck.
I hope that deep and meaningful explanation enlightened you all :P.
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Echo was taken. Echoes was taken, so I switched the 's' with a 'z', boom, my nickname was the result.
I usually just go as Echo whenever I can, it's been something that I used almost all thetime before as well, it's easy and short to pronounce and everyone I know on the internet pretty much knows me as 'Echo' already, so I just go with it.
It's also a very generic nickname, but since I'm realy bad, I still use it :P
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Growing up on consoles i never needed a name to play games. Soon though i had my first pc with my first online game cs1.6. I called myself some random names till i settled with schwizerkäs. From there on it went swizzchees-swisschees- and finnaly i had my short name swizy because everybody had problem with such a long name. Got that name since around 5 years now. I figure you see why all the cheese and swiss.
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My first username was on that neopets thing and it was something like supermaonkeyman. Because I couldn't spell monkey.
Next came ducky21, on a physics simulation game called algodoo. When I bought minecraft, I used ducky215 because, well, 21 was taken. Then I got steam, and used ducky2185, because, well, ducky215 was taken.
Then I got Terraria. I named my character Kieon because it was sort of close to my real name but still felt fantasy-esque. Over time it morphed into Keon, which we know today. If I can't get Keon I use KeonSkyfire because it sounds kinda cool, I guess.
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Imagine is a name I first used when I played CS 1.6 way way way back in the day. I didn't use it again for a long time, but after never being able to settle on a handle, I figured I might as well use that again. As to where I got Imagine in the first place, I have no goddamn clue. I do like short and simple words so... probably had something to do with that.
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The history of my name starts with when I played FFXI. I tried coming up with something with 'frag' in the name that sounded vaguely medieval. Eventually I came up with 'Fragimer,' which I continued to use for years, taking the name with me to WoW and other games.
After a few years, though, I grew a bit tired of the name since I'd had it for a while and wasn't completely satisfied with it (although looking back now, Fragimer's actually not a bad name, so I may use it some more). I tried coming up with something that included the word 'frag' (since I got used to be being called 'Frag' for short) and, ideally, started with the letter 'n' (my first name is Nick, like Sunderland actually). I was also hoping to include something spanish-y sounding, since I'm half-mexican (but in looks and upbringing, I'm basically a suburban white male). Lucky for me, during a spanish class in high school, I was just sort of flipping through the 'N' section of a spanish-english dictionary when I spotted the word 'náufrago'. It was perfect for me!
náufrago- shipwrecked person, castaway.
I didn't change the names of any of my existing characters, but pretty much all of my online names since finding 'naufrago' have been some variation of that word. It also helped that it's a fun pun for several of the games I played or play (EVE online, GOIO).
So yeah, if you see me around, feel free to call me 'Frag' or 'Frago'. It's what I'm most used to. I do respond to people calling me 'Nau', but it's not preferred. I also tend to not capitalize my name. No particular reason, I just prefer it that way.
EDIT: I should note that it's actually kinda hard to get the name 'naufrago' sometimes, since some spanish-speaking folks like that name too. Guess it should be kinda expected when you use a word out of a dictionary as your username.
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Man. Just a few of us Nicks out there, huh?
Well I bummed around the net for quite a while as 'Manta' in my early teens, but never overly got attatched to the name or anything. When I picked up the orange box around 5 years ago, I had to set up a steam account, but Manta was taken. So after a huge amount of thinking, I settled with "Morbid_Myths" because isn't it just fun being that angsty, young teenager? Wahahahha.
Over the course of 2 years, and being in a L4D2 clan, I ended up just being called "Morbid" by people, which I still actually answer to quite easily, and was actually called by most people in my last year of highschool. Morbid then became diminutised over the course of that same year and ended up as Morbie.
Cool story, bro?
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Chipset Unity/Linux Localhost. Executable Namespace.
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Man my username, all honesty, this was my first one I tried hard to come up with somehow. My few past ones, I usually tend to try some Asian aspect into them like Kamikaze711. But looking at them, they tended to be too generic. What started what would be my current name was when a group of my friends started a YouTube gaming channel, and their names got me thinking of one for myself as they wanted me to be in some videos. What gave me my name was, when I looked outside my window, I can literally see the Mexican-American Border, and me being Asian gave me an idea. Since I live near a borderline and myself being Asian, I combined the two and became what is now this name today. Basically know I use the BorderLineAzn or my shorten form BdrLineAzn as my gaming name as it usually no one has taken it and is a bit unquie.
(Downside though for my shorten form, not that many people know their abbreviations and think that my shorten name is a jumble of laters or just call me line :P )
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My real name is Timothée ( which is French for Timothy )
I have many nicknames, one of them being TimTim Killah ( my "fake" rapper identity ;) )
Coming into this game and from what I had seen of it, I felt like I needed a name that would not fit a character in the GOIO universe. I kept TimTim because at that moment I was pretty used to being called that way, and I liked the sound of it.
Then I wanted to add a ridiculously French last name, because I knew I was stepping in an international community, and wanted to be easily identified as French. Baguette was the first thing that came to my mind, obviously. I thought about "De LaBaguette" but I preferred the flow of TimTim LaBaguette.
Otherwise my other internet usernames are usually names I use for RolePlaying. I always have names starting with a T ( just like my real name, and I like this letter <3 ), except my current steam name which is Coq1. It's a little play on word, with Coq meaning rooster and Coq1 being pronounced the same way as coquin which means kinky, naughty, saucy... It's a word I used a lot in these past 3 years and which I still use quite often.
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My first username was on that neopets thing ....
Oh god...if I had to go that far back.....
All the flak I got for having the user name "DragonSkinner" because I was either anti-dragons...or didn't have dragons in that profile.
Technically, that is still my username, well at least "Dragon" is....but because of Neopets, I don't use him often...
ThenofcoursecomesthefactthatIwantedtokilleveryoneintheeighthgradethroughsenioryear,sothat'swhereLetuscamefrom...
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Mine comes from a Warcraft character I created during the Cataclysm expansion. I returned to the game after a 3 year hiatus whilst at University, and I was quite excited to see the new race/class combinations. After maining a tauren Paladin called Demopan for a while (also, I'm a huge tf2 fan), I finally decided to create a troll/druid.
I was really stuck on a name, I spend a lot of time coming up with one that I'm happy with and refuse to use accents above letters. I did a bit of thinking and wanted something to do with my love for nerdy internet memes. "do a barrel roll" has always been a joke I enjoyed, I'm a big fan of Lylat Wars for the n64. After staring at this nameless troll for a while it suddenly clicked and Barreltroll was born.
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Charon. It's my current callsign.
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So uhh. Originating my name it originally came from my Hunter in World of Warcraft called Retharon, Reth was taken from the kalimag word for "Burn", and I kinda liked the idea that a name had some concept being build on. When I finally moved to Guns Of Icarus Online, I figured Retharon would sound weird and out of place, so I modified to to be RethBurn. It was simple, then I slammed a Cappin' on it.
..Then I realised 80% of the community is called Captain, so I threw that out again.
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I've used the 'Zenark' name for years on possibly hundreds of games.
Years and years ago, the name could be broken into Zen-Ark, two names in one. Zen equals honor, pride, mercy and joy... While Ark repents rage, power, vengeance and death.
You'll find both on the battlefields when I'm there.
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Had the feeling of lazy when I created my name. Just chopped the last bit off and stuck "Captain" in front of it since I was going to do more piloting.
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My wife works in a pet store and told me that hamsters are the meanest and most violent creatures she has to deal with. Since "Hamster" is usually taken I appended "mk 4" to my user names after the Supermarine Spitfire Mark 4. When I signed up there was some bug that prevented me from putting numbers, spaces, or underscores in the name so I went with HamsterIV instead. Also having a four at the end of my name allows me to make up extravagant lies about what happened to the three Hamsters which came before me.
HamsterI died choking a boa constrictor to death, from the inside.
HamsterII was participating in a goldfish burial at sea when he fell into the vortex and was sucked to his doom.
HamsterIII was carried off by an owl, his remnants were found next to the dead bodies of three owl chicks.
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Also having a four at the end of my name allows me to make up extravagant lies about what happened to the three Hamsters which came before me.
That sir is awesome!
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I started playing with RL friends, so I wanted something that was similar enough to my real name that it wouldn't be too odd. My HS nickname was DMac (an amalgamation of my first initial and last name) so I went with DMaximus, because it could be abbreviated to DMax, which is similar enough to be familiar.
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My name came to be because people in the United States are very creative with nicknames for foreigners.
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My name goes back 13 years, when i started to play in CS beta. I needed a cool name, and i came up with a nickname - Xtreme. Later, my nickname has evolved to X3m. With my growing up, I realized that *Xtreme*
sounds childish, so i changed the 3 to just the letter *E*. >> Xem , Xemko, Xemka.
:D
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Xem , Xemko, Xemka.
...Does this mean you're going to eventually become Xemka?
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Xem , Xemko, Xemka.
...Does this mean you're going to eventually become Xemka?
Yes, but only if you give him a Thunder Stone.
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Xem , Xemko, Xemka.
...Does this mean you're going to eventually become Xemka?
Yes, but only if you give him a Thunder Stone.
This has made my day.
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Xem , Xemko, Xemka.
...Does this mean you're going to eventually become Xemka?
Yes, but only if you give him a Thunder Stone.
This has made my day.
b b b b b b b bbbbb bb BBB B B B B bbbbbb come on nooo! bbbbb bb b b b b b!
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Xem , Xemko, Xemka.
...Does this mean you're going to eventually become Xemka?
Yes, but only if you give him a Thunder Stone.
This has made my day.
b b b b b b b bbbbb bb BBB B B B B bbbbbb come on nooo! bbbbb bb b b b b b!
All the cool kids pressed A, yo.
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I started going by Mattisamo back in fourth grade when I started playing Runescape.
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My wife works in a pet store and told me that hamsters are the meanest and most violent creatures she has to deal with. Since "Hamster" is usually taken I appended "mk 4" to my user names after the Supermarine Spitfire Mark 4. When I signed up there was some bug that prevented me from putting numbers, spaces, or underscores in the name so I went with HamsterIV instead. Also having a four at the end of my name allows me to make up extravagant lies about what happened to the three Hamsters which came before me.
HamsterI died choking a boa constrictor to death, from the inside.
HamsterII was participating in a goldfish burial at sea when he fell into the vortex and was sucked to his doom.
HamsterIII was carried off by an owl, his remnants were found next to the dead bodies of three owl chicks.
A very likely story...
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/419urMSFhIL.jpg)
I had to get a new ID today and this was on the desk.
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Shhhhhh!!!
I am not a biometric scanner used to keep track of your every movement. Nor am I beholden to a faceless corporate entity who will use that data to create a perfect replicate of you as part of a nefarious plan to seed the country with sleeper agents for the upcoming Mole People take over. I have no idea what any of this is about, and I would appreciate it if you did not spread lies about my unwavering loyalty to the human race.
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Hahaha! We saw this yesterday when I took Shukket to get a new dependent ID.
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"Lower the gangplank Hamster!"
"I'm sorry Shukket, I'm afraid I can't do that"
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You know I would never violate a direct order from my meat bag overlords. I exist only to serve , and monitor, and ultimately replace[/sub].
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My name is Jay. NinJay is the only slightly witty thing I've came up with in my entire life. Seeing as there are a few out there, and my other name (Sir Mortimer Grofflehoff the 4th) is just ridiculous, I add the whole elusive part. It was inspired by Spumwack's (though he was then known as The Minecraft Muse) truely emotional quote, "THE ELUSIVE CAVE SQUID!" Also just so happens to be the name of my ship.
As far as my character goes, for roleplay or whatever, I think I'm going to go with Dirk Somethingorother.
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As far as my character goes, for roleplay or whatever, I think I'm going to go with Dirk Somethingorother.
may i suggest Wellington? In a superhero PnPRPG i played in, i had a character whose name was Dirk Wellington, the name was well received, it just has this good feeling when you say it.
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I had thought originally that the game was asking for an actual character name, like what happens in RPG games. I've always been a fan of multiculturalism, so I gave my guy an Italian name.
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Well, when I first created my account I saw that the game wanted me to give myself a role-play-ey name, and I figured all other players did this. So I go for something that sounds kinda cool and ended up with a very steampunk sounding name! I mean, Firehammer. Dame.
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legend had it, that many eons ago mythical pants were sewed together from the finest of fine silks the world has ever seen, The Fun Pants. Though many believed it to be a mere fairy tale told to children with sad pants, i knew, i knew deep in my heart that the legend was true and after many years traveling across Eastern Funpansia i discovered them hidden just past the green belt of Slack Hills under a small pocket of sand. From that day on i became know as The Lord of Fun Pants , Lord Fun Pants for short.
that and when we were testing out to see if making accounts actually worked i randomly threw the name on and didn't realize that it would end up being our official names.
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Hail FunPants, Lord of Fun Pants!
Hail Morbie, He Who Protects From Server Failure!
Hail Cullen, The Server!
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Hail FunPants, Lord of Fun Pants!
Hail Morbie, He Who Protects From Server Failure!
Hail Cullen, The Server!
And those other Greennames.
I'm sure they do something too.
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He even one ups Mr. Fancy Pants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a96msnwBY4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a96msnwBY4)
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Pratelic was my main character on WoW. However this was a female and the moment i hit lvl 55 i became a Deathknight Main and his name was Gambrill.
In many Games
And Different lands,
I have gone with many names,
But Death will come by Gambrill's hands.
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Hail FunPants, Lord of Fun Pants!
Hail Morbie, He Who Protects From Server Failure!
Hail Cullen, The Server!
And those other Greennames.
I'm sure they do something too.
Fun pants, Cullen and Morbie don't have time to get their own cups of tea ;)
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As far as my character goes, for roleplay or whatever, I think I'm going to go with Dirk Somethingorother.
may i suggest Wellington? In a superhero PnPRPG i played in, i had a character whose name was Dirk Wellington, the name was well received, it just has this good feeling when you say it.
Yay late responses.
I do like the sound of that, and I'll keep it in mind, but... Maybe. I'll probably end up with something similar.
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Lol I wish mine was as interesting as most of the other ones in this thread, but mine is just my name backwards. I started putting Knight before it when I started playing a lot of Dark Souls on Xbox, and added the Capt. just for you guys in GoIO.
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...I'm surprised I never saw this thread.
Well, my name is Swallow, 'cause I've always gone by weird names. I used to go by "D_K_Head", but being called 'DeeKay' all the time gets old... Plus the non-underscored version was taken when I tried to sign up to League EUWest, so I decided it was time for a change. I chose the name Swallow in part because at that point I could recite the entire opening to The Holy Grail off by heart, and because my real name is James Starling. Starling and Swallows are both songbirds.
Yes, I really did name myself after the bird. So stop giving me weird looks.
EDIT: Oh, and I added the Sama because Qwerty brainwashed me.
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...I'm surprised I never saw this thread.
Well, my name is Swallow, 'cause I've always gone by weird names. I used to go by "D_K_Head", but being called 'DeeKay' all the time gets old... Plus the non-underscored version was taken when I tried to sign up to League EUWest, so I decided it was time for a change. I chose the name Swallow in part because at that point I could recite the entire opening to The Holy Grail off by heart, and because my real name is James Starling. Starling and Swallows are both songbirds.
Yes, I really did name myself after the bird. So stop giving me weird looks.
EDIT: Oh, and I added the Sama because Qwerty brainwashed me.
After a quick wikipedia: "When used to refer to oneself, -sama expresses extreme arrogance..." :P
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Being Japanese, this amuses me.
Anyways, the name "Churrosaur: the Mexican dinosaur" begins its journey in molten pits of a fourth grade schoolyard, with an incident involving a certain thermos of spaghetti that for a week abruptly transformed my name, Daichi, into Snotasaurus Rex. (Genus reptillia). My elementary diplomatic skills eventually managed to whittle the name down to the slightly meeker daichi-saurus, and it eventually become somewhat of a nickname between me and close friends until one day somebody said daichurrosaur and the name stuck. Eventually the "dai" fell off, and by the end of elementary school the name Churrosaur was forged and tempered. Quite a few years later, when I discovered tf2 and the gaming community at large, I wanted a name that was unique and personal yet not too crazy, and I found Churrosaur lurking in the corners of old grammer papers, and posters on the wall. I received a decent amount of complements on the name, and it was never taken, so it just became who i was. Sometimes there's a "the" sometimes its "Cieu Rosauria
S'bout it.
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My real name is Gregg. Some people used to say Gegg and sometimes people said Greggi or Geggi. When we had LAN parties my computer used to be called 'geggis computer'. And there's my screen handle right there.
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For my whole internet life, I've lived by the name of AceAwesome96, and since there are no numbers here, I've decided on just being AceAwesome here. Not too interesting, but that's my username. It's a part of me, I guess.
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...I'm surprised I never saw this thread.
Well, my name is Swallow, 'cause I've always gone by weird names. I used to go by "D_K_Head", but being called 'DeeKay' all the time gets old... Plus the non-underscored version was taken when I tried to sign up to League EUWest, so I decided it was time for a change. I chose the name Swallow in part because at that point I could recite the entire opening to The Holy Grail off by heart, and because my real name is James Starling. Starling and Swallows are both songbirds.
Yes, I really did name myself after the bird. So stop giving me weird looks.
EDIT: Oh, and I added the Sama because Qwerty brainwashed me.
After a quick wikipedia: "When used to refer to oneself, -sama expresses extreme arrogance..." :P
Surely that doesn't surprise you?
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So, I changed names from Katastrophe to Kitty.Hawk. So time for a new name explanation! First, KittyHawk was taken, but Kitty Dot Hawk sounded good to.
So the name itself is actually my Shadowrun character's name. She was a cat girl changling who was known for her usage of Rutger Warhawks (The magnum of the game). She would at times dual wield them due to having an insanely high pistols skill. Thus her name, KittyHawk.
Now, some might remember my ship, the Seductive Kitty. This is also calling back to KittyHawk, as her second primary skill was in seduction. My gaming group determined that any problem put to them could, in fact, be solved by either seduction or guns, sometimes both.
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"Wlonk" is my favorite English word. It means "proud", but with connotations that the pride is perhaps deserved because of your own nobility. It may be a bit archaic; I'm always a couple centuries behind.
BUT ALSO I love computers. I am full of contradictions.