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DarkShadows
06-01-2009, 07:39 PM
Well, I chose DarkShadows because I thought I'd use a somewhat dark-themed username, although it doesn't have to do with the TV series which some of you may have not seen, including me. http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/smilies/tongue.gif
x (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059978) x (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101075)
In case this gets mixed up with Joe's avatar threads, I've searched the boards and just found a rant thread, whatever that was..
evanazzo
06-02-2009, 10:22 AM
Real Name: Evan Azzopardi
My Name/school server login: EvanAzzo
nuff said
AllAmericanJBert
06-02-2009, 10:57 AM
I chose AllAmericanJBert because it's my alias, and it's my email address
Scotty
06-02-2009, 11:25 AM
"Redline" and "Iceman" were both taken back in 1998, so I just used my first name.
ZuljinRaynor
06-02-2009, 11:27 AM
Zuljin from Warcraft 2
Raynor from Starcraft
Favorite characters; throw it together.
ZuljinRaynor
My first nick was "sangluss".. That account is still on here somewhere but unused, you can find some of my ancient posts with it :) It was just sunglass with the vowels switched around.
Over time the "luss" part was dropped and replaced with nothing, "man", "dude", "mahn" and so on.
The Dukenator
06-02-2009, 12:17 PM
Some of us have 'The' in the name as that may be a reference to The Terminator.
Mine is a reference to The Terminator & Duke Nukem
Micki!
06-02-2009, 12:38 PM
I simply put an excelamtion point in my real first name, because just using my real name as such seemed a bit dull and boring... The exclamation point means lot to me, but not all places allow signs in usernames, my aliases would be MickiMatsu and MinceF.Supply...
When i first joined here my name was tueresfeo, it's spanish, and i think it roughly means "youareugly" thought it was annoying to carry around an insult in my name though, so i came up with my own name having an exclamation point attached...
I don't mind it much that people forget using it when talknig to me, but i do mind if they spell my name incorrectly, it's NOT Micky or Mickey...
X-Vector
06-02-2009, 02:26 PM
As long as they don't call you Wickie...
http://log.krak.nl/wateenswas/wickie.jpg
fast-1
06-02-2009, 03:10 PM
I used to buy this magazine called Hip Hop Connection. So I knew KRS ONE had his name with a one on the end, so I just thought of something like Fast then thought of adding a 1 on the end Fast-1. Then I wrote some rhymes on paper still got them. It has nothing to do with the saying pull a fast one. But just put fast and one together.
johndough
06-02-2009, 03:41 PM
Anonymity.
ZaphodB
06-02-2009, 04:59 PM
Big Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy fan, used Zaphod back in the BBS days before the net got everywhere (dial another computer at 110 baud!!!). Been using it on everything I do on computers since 1981.
Jiminator
06-02-2009, 05:02 PM
I chose it because the first thing I do when I join a new forum is start a new "what is the reason you chose your username thread". If there are a bunch of suckers there they will not realize that they are getting trolled...
ryche
06-02-2009, 05:04 PM
I like Queensr˙che (http://www.queensryche.com/)
Waiter
06-02-2009, 06:58 PM
Well, considering the situation I may as well quote Jonny Logan:
I've been waiting
souch a long time
looking out for you
but you're not here
What's another year?
:rolleyes:
Micki!
06-02-2009, 07:01 PM
As long as they don't call you Wickie...
http://log.krak.nl/wateenswas/wickie.jpg
I actually liked that cartoon, used to watch it when i was kid, it's still on some german TV Channels, i sometimes watch it for nostalgic reasons...
DarkShadows
06-02-2009, 07:08 PM
I chose it because the first thing I do when I join a new forum is start a new "what is the reason you chose your username thread". If there are a bunch of suckers there they will not realize that they are getting trolled...
Um, why would I troll when I'm trying to blend in with the 3DRF community?
Nice accusation there, Jiminator.
:doh:
Kev_Hectic
06-02-2009, 07:47 PM
It was just lack of originality on my part... Honestly, I just couldn't think of anything better at the time. :p
Kevin Wolff
06-02-2009, 10:04 PM
I was very young when I signed up here, and I wasn't clever enough to come up with an actual nickname. So, I just typed my name into the username box.
I've since adopted an online nick, but I like to keep the 3DR persona separate. ;)
Superczar
06-02-2009, 10:14 PM
Embarassingly enough buried in this thread:
http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3189&page=3
Da_Lurker
06-03-2009, 12:38 AM
I thought I'd never be posting lots of stuff in here, so the idea of a "Lurker" came up to mind.
And the "Da" it's just "The" misspronounced, 'cuz it sounds funny :P
Da_lurker
Grande 3:16
06-03-2009, 06:34 AM
When I was at tech I created a Latino crooner character named Don Juan Grande, who was a cross between Antonio Banderas and Julio Iglasias.
At the time I was also into WWF and Steve Austin was my favourite wrestler.
Don Juan Grande + Austin 3:16 = Grande 3:16
jimbob
06-03-2009, 08:00 AM
some folks used to call me jimbob, so it stuck. its either jimbob or james.
Bad Sector
06-03-2009, 03:55 PM
I have a natural talent to destroy floppy disks. And sometimes CDs too.
ryche
06-03-2009, 05:12 PM
I have a natural talent to destroy floppy disks.
You're magnetic? :cool:
alas I like your nick though, clever :)
Ironside
06-03-2009, 07:22 PM
The right side of my c*ck is made out of Iron.
Nessus
06-03-2009, 09:43 PM
I chose mine after Nessus the the manic depressive 2 headed alien from the Larry Niven Ringworld series.
Dopefish7590
06-04-2009, 12:10 AM
I used to be shadow7590 on the very first thing I ever signed up for. After searching my nick and seeing some nasty results... I decided to change it to my favorite character. The 7590 also has a lot of importance to me as well, but I won't get into that. (Seven five ninety)
DarkShadows
06-04-2009, 10:51 AM
Embarassingly enough buried in this thread:
http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3189&page=3
Not the same thread. :doh:
"This" thread as in "this one that I will now link you to", duh.
Blue Lightning
06-04-2009, 12:57 PM
I wanted a name that reflected my reflexes in online gaming ;)
hellchicken
06-04-2009, 12:57 PM
Dear god, I think I was 16 or 17 when I chose my username for this forum. All the other good names I could think of were taken, so I chose something that I was sure wasn't taken.
Sure enough, no one else was stupid enough to use the name "hellchicken". :p
Also, I think the idea of a chicken from hell greatly amused me at the time.
Still does. :D
Mariamus
06-07-2009, 05:34 AM
I used to role play a character called Maria back on the old Transformers Chat website. One day things developed and I was suddenly called Mariamus Prime. I used that for a few years, and then I dropped Prime and just called myself Mariamus. Those were the days. back before everyone decided to call themselves Somethingmus Prime.
Damien_Azreal
06-07-2009, 09:16 AM
Damien_Azreal....
I don't know. Just two names I really liked individually, Damien was already taken IIRC so I threw the two together. Nothing special.
But most people here know me simply as Damien or D_A now.
lordlonelobo
06-07-2009, 11:00 AM
A long time ago, I started off using a name of "Killer", but it's far too common and bland.
I then switched to "Swinger" instantly after playing Interstate '76. However, one Yahoo! search (the common search engine at the time) informed me it was a poor choice of handle.
Sometime after this, I read a book, in which the main character has a handle of "Lone Lobo", which I took and used for my name everywhere I needed to. Apparently it was liked by other people, and is quite commonly taken before I end up anywhere that I need to be (I managed to snag the Gmail address, though. Granted I got it when Gmail was still invite-only). At some point, I played Star Wars: Jedi Academy online, and someone said "My Lord". I added Lord in front, every once in a while. For example, my alt-name on IRC is usually prefixed with lord.
Since then, I've added lord in front, in some cases, depending on whether I want to or not, not necessarily because it's been taken, for example, these forums. I didn't bother to check if lone lobo was taken, I just went with lordlonelobo.
On Xbox LIVE, LoneLobo was already taken, so I added Lord in front.
Edit - changing my name at this point is probably a waste of time. I feel unique enough with this name, I like it, and I'm identifiable by it.
Altered Reality
06-07-2009, 11:02 AM
My favorite movies and stories are those where the main character questions reality and reality itself starts unraveling and/or altering around him. That's also a theme of my Prey mod, which is called, unsurprisingly enough, Altered Reality.
Rider
06-07-2009, 12:39 PM
My name is actually derived from Raider. I was playing Total Annihilation a lot at the time and I needed a password, which became Raider, one of the units for the Arm (I think). Shortly after, whatever silly service I was using the password for required me to change my password, and since I'm terrible at remembering anything I just chopped off the a.
Not long thereafter I registered here and it kind of stuck.
lordlonelobo
06-07-2009, 05:48 PM
My name is actually derived from Raider. I was playing Total Annihilation a lot at the time and I needed a password, which became Raider, one of the units for the Arm (I think). Shortly after, whatever silly service I was using the password for required me to change my password, and since I'm terrible at remembering anything I just chopped off the a.
Not long thereafter I registered here and it kind of stuck.
zomg, so your password is still rider!
brb, h4xxing.
ixfd64
06-07-2009, 06:57 PM
Several years ago, I was addicted to the computer game Final Doom. The URL of the Final Doom official site was http://teamtnt.com/ixfd.htm. For some odd reason that may never be explained, I thought the letters "ixfd" sounded cool. The game had 64 levels and I thought 64 was a really cool number. Yeah, I blame Nintendo 64 for starting the trend.
lordlonelobo
06-08-2009, 09:21 AM
Several years ago, I was addicted to the computer game Final Doom. The URL of the Final Doom official site was http://teamtnt.com/ixfd.htm. For some odd reason that may never be explained, I thought the letters "ixfd" sounded cool. The game had 64 levels and I thought 64 was a really cool number. Yeah, I blame Nintendo 64 for starting the trend.
64-bit computing strikes again?
MAT is a word in Turkish, meaning "lackluster".
Heh, in Dutch, mat means rug. :)
One day this vital piece of information will save your life. Maybe one day some guy on a bridge will ask you "so what does the Dutch word "mat" mean in English" and then you'll have me to thank for your correct answer.
Well, that would be true if mat didn't mean rug in every damn language :D Mat means rug even in Turkish :)
Altered Reality
06-09-2009, 04:59 PM
Well, that would be true if mat didn't mean rug in every damn language :D Mat means rug even in Turkish :)
Not in Piedmontese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmontese_language). "Mat" means "kid" or "son" in that language. And a rug is a "tapis" in Piedmontese. :p
Not in Piedmontese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmontese_language). "Mat" means "kid" or "son" in that language. And a rug is a "tapis" in Piedmontese. :p
Ah, of course. That was foolish of me to not think of Piedmontese, my bad! :p
X-Vector
06-10-2009, 04:39 AM
Heh, in Dutch, mat means rug. :)
In Dutch, "mat" also means "lacklustre/tame" and "matte" (non-glossy).
As for my nick, I took the name of an Unreal Tournament skin and put "X-" in front of it.
The Baskinator
06-12-2009, 05:20 PM
My name is Baskin. I am very original.
My name is Cassan.
Cassan = K100 in french.
dan2091
06-13-2009, 01:26 AM
My first nick was "sangluss".. That account is still on here somewhere but unused, you can find some of my ancient posts with it :) It was just sunglass with the vowels switched around.
Over time the "luss" part was dropped and replaced with nothing, "man", "dude", "mahn" and so on.
Sang in french means 'Blood' :).
Actually, I always wondered why you choosed 'Sang'.
I used dan2091, which is also part of my e-mail. dan stands for my name 'Daniel'.
2091 is my birthday, and before someone says I was born on year 2091 (which I wasn't :)), let me explain that bit. it mixes the number of the day with the last two numbers of the year of my birth... which I used instead of putting the number of the month, which would have sound like 2007.
I was going to use the username 'Daniel', but at the time I believe it was already in use.. Later I realised someone else picked that username in 2007 (he's actually active now.. hi, :p).
That's it. If I could change something from it, I'd take off the numbers..
Parkar
06-13-2009, 08:28 AM
Ah, of course. That was foolish of me to not think of Piedmontese, my bad! :p
And in Sedish it is food.
My nick is simply the user name I had at uni with a "-1" removed as I suck at comming up with names. In other words it's just my first name (Pär) followed by the 3 first letters of my last name (Karlsson).
Turns out it's aperantly a name in Inda and Pakistan but apears to be fairly uncommon as a nick anyway. Only thing that sucks is that I didn't manage to snatch parkar at gmail. I did how ever manage to get a hold of parikar which is an alternate version of parkar made by adding rik as in my middle name Rickard.
Spiker
06-13-2009, 03:54 PM
Because I'm a serial killer and I use spikes.
And in Sedish it is food.
I was like wtf is Sedish. (after Piedmontese) :)
Then it occured to me that you failed epic-wise.
Belgarrath
06-19-2009, 09:00 PM
Well, that would be true if mat didn't mean rug in every damn language :D Mat means rug even in Turkish :)
...and in English too...sort of
Pikachu
06-24-2009, 10:15 AM
Pikachu rocks! A cuddly ball of lighting! @.@
ReadOnly
06-24-2009, 11:40 PM
Because I was not going to write. Yeah...
As for Lotan. I've 'created' it by substituting one letter in Wotan. Later I found out that Lotan was also some kind of god/thing/whatever.
Micki!
06-25-2009, 03:05 AM
You should make it read "Emo God" :D
Joking, half-joking :o
ReadOnly
06-25-2009, 03:12 AM
Emo Goth is more appropriate. :censored:
Micki!
06-25-2009, 03:13 AM
Hahaha :D
Kennerado
06-25-2009, 04:05 AM
My name is Judge
not really
Pikachu
06-25-2009, 09:15 AM
as for lotan. I've 'created' it by substituting one letter in wotan. Later i found out that lotan was also some kind of god/thing/whatever.
it reminds me of Lo Pan from BTILC.
joey007
07-01-2009, 09:06 AM
I chose mine because my name is joe, but 007,I don't really know i just liked it :p
ReadOnly
07-01-2009, 11:53 AM
How are you doin'?
joey007
07-01-2009, 11:56 AM
:confused:
ReadOnly
07-01-2009, 03:05 PM
Joey. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc2Z7CL4Cv0)
joey007
07-01-2009, 07:57 PM
:D:D:D how you doin:cool:
ronjoo
07-02-2009, 05:32 PM
I used to role play a character called Maria back on the old Transformers Chat website. One day things developed and I was suddenly called Mariamus Prime. I used that for a few years, and then I dropped Prime and just called myself Mariamus. Those were the days. back before everyone decided to call themselves Somethingmus Prime.
it going a excited website for transformers, thanks for having this one, nice ...
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