How did you choose your online gaming name?

[TeaLeaf]

I refer the honourable gentlemen to the post made some years ago....

TeaLeaf started as [TEA]_Leaf in CS as a joke name - I had the idea of getting a group of casual gamer friends together to set up a joke clan and all play using the [TEA] clan name, my name was [TEA]_Leaf.  Old timers still know me as 'Leaf' or 'Leafy' from my [TEA] days.  Other potential clan [TEA] members would have to follow suit and would be called [TEA]_Cake. [TEA]_Bag, [TEA]_Pot, [TEA]_Towel, [TEA]_Time, etc - you get the idea.  Anyway, the idea remained a private one and I never bothered to persuade friends to join me in my comedy [TEA] crusade and when I joined dMw the potential clan name -=[dMw]=-[TEA]_Leaf was deemed just a bit too wierd, so I became -=[dMw]=-TeaLeaf.  TL is the obvious abbreviation for TeaLeaf.  TL however spawned my WoW names: phonetic TL = Teaelle and the 'elle' bit also made reference to the fact my first toon (my mage) was a female character.  The rest of the WoW names came about because I couldn't be bothered to come up with a bunch of unique names, so Teaell, Teael, Teaele and all the other variations were created.

TL.

[Gone_Away]

WD that TL.

[lionheart]

Mine is LionHeart cos I hate Moslems.   No Seriously, I played in a lot of European matches with UT and wanted a name of someone that had led a winning crusade across many lands. King Richard just seemed to fit the bill
Previous to that I was soldierblue after the 1974 film about the rape of the American Indians.  Which was also my CB handle back in the day....

[Gone_Away]

I'm a Ninja. Also, I'm a Freak in the classic RPG sense of the name.

what he said back in Sept 06

[TheLeonKing]

My name is Leon, it sounds like Lion.

[vladic]

Have a thing for Russian names since coming across the serbian name Anton Slavic whilst playing Tiberium Sun back in 1998 (one of the first games i played) and when i first joined WoW (other MMo's before had auto generated names and i just stuck with them) i attempted to use Slavic as my warriors name however it was taken by some fat gnome (whome i have subsequantly assasinated) so i messed around with the name coming up with vladic as vlasic simply sounded like some sort of medical condition. ever since then ive jsut stuck with the russian theme'd name etc

[ArithonUK]

I used to be Nevyn (from Katheryn Kerr's Deverry cycle) on GameSpy in Quake 2, Mech Warrior, but that name got pinched by others, so they I went for Arithon after the main character in Janny Wurts "Wars of Light and Shadow" (a good read) and i've stuck with it. I used it online for Quake 3, Medal of Honour Allied Assault and Call of Duty (1), then BF2 and BF: Vietnam and BF2142 after which somebody hijacked the name in BF:BC2 so I had to go with ArithonUK, but since my Origin account was taken from "ye olde EA account" I got my Arithon name back "All hail Origin!"!!

You have probably guessed from my choice of gaming names, I read a lot. I met Janny Wurts in 2003 and she gave me a print of one of her paintings of Arithon (she's also an artist).

[TheDvEight]

becase fightingforhonour and AJust cause were taken in bc2 i had a mini brain wave and realised i used to watch wacky races on cartoon network and i always liked the baddie, DickDastardly

[faust82]

DD, is your alt character named Muttley?

Mine is a result of being a pretentious ******* who also happened to have a bit of luck with the shotgun in CS (waaaay back in the Beta 5.2 days). At a lan, someone accused me of having sold my soul to the devil for my shotgun. Granted, that was after seven kills in two rounds in a 4v4 (the only thing stopping me was our sniper being a bit triggerhappy and blowing me away with the AWP ).
Having just read Göethe's version of Faust, the new nick was sort of a given.

Later I added the year of birth, seeing as how there's a million people calling themselves Faust.

Wish I was still that good with the shotgun...

[TheDvEight]

DD, is your alt character named Muttley?


Wish I was still that good with the shotgun...

You were never that good with a shotgun it's all lies.

[TommyGuner]

A long time ago, my first game name was called RedAndRaw, this was because I came back from Tescos with some mince not too long ago before I made the name based on that - eventually as I matured I realised it wasn't the most appropriate of names.
My name's Tom/Tommy, the Thompson WWII sub-machinegun was called a tommy-gun, named myself TommyGuner because some other rascal had already taken one with the extra 'n'.

Stuck with the name when I found myself to be somewhat decent in CS and the original Planetside when I used the name

[CoolHand]

EDIT: My nick is now.. over 20 years old...

I actually started this thread once upon a time, but I never told anyone why I have (a somewhat lame) nick.... well, it is time to get the truth on the table.

Back in the early -90s, I played a lot of flight sims (nowadays I play the DCS a10). In the city where I studiet, there was a competition in a gaming community. THere was lots of games to compete in, but I chose to play the Gunship sim. We played all day and the better of the night. The objective was to have the best score of all, in 25 missions. Of course, this meant actually surviving 25 (or was it 50) missions. I didn't win, but I got a pretty cool award. The diploma is lost, but I still remember that moment with pride. I finished all 25 missions completed without "dying" in the game. The only problem was, I got shot down in every one of them on the way back to base. I never landed on the base. Not once. Every mission ended with an autorotation    In the end, some guys actually asked me to take off, fly the chopper and then cut the engines to show the how to autorotate. A basic landing, i didn't do once.

One of the guys then used an expression that said something like, you have a steady hand, real cool. And there it is....

So, lame, yes. Cool? Maybe not. A story behind the nick ? Yes! And the avatar to show.

[TheDvEight]

EDIT: My nick is now.. over 20 years old...

I actually started this thread once upon a time, but I never told anyone why I have (a somewhat lame) nick.... well, it is time to get the truth on the table.

Back in the early -90s, I played a lot of flight sims (nowadays I play the DCS a10). In the city where I studiet, there was a competition in a gaming community. THere was lots of games to compete in, but I chose to play the Gunship sim. We played all day and the better of the night. The objective was to have the best score of all, in 25 missions. Of course, this meant actually surviving 25 (or was it 50) missions. I didn't win, but I got a pretty cool award. The diploma is lost, but I still remember that moment with pride. I finished all 25 missions completed without "dying" in the game. The only problem was, I got shot down in every one of them on the way back to base. I never landed on the base. Not once. Every mission ended with an autorotation    In the end, some guys actually asked me to take off, fly the chopper and then cut the engines to show the how to autorotate. A basic landing, i didn't do once.

One of the guys then used an expression that said something like, you have a steady hand, real cool. And there it is....

So, lame, yes. Cool? Maybe not. A story behind the nick ? Yes! And the avatar to show.

I much prefer my assumption that you got it from the film cool hand luke (great film).

[CoolHand]

Yeah, well the truth will set you free.... your assumption is cool. But not true. So, the sad thing is: The truth is not cool. It is uncool. Pun(s) intended.... :-)

[CoolHand]

Avatar fixed. Just to make your world better, Dickdastardly. What I don't do for friends....