How did you choose your online gaming name?

[Doris]

you said paper because you forgot how to spell 'scissors'

[Blunt]

Originally posted by Doris@Sep 27 2005, 09:52 PM
you said paper because you forgot how to spell 'scissors'

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I was running...so I did a dynamic risk assessment and found that "scissors" ticked too many boxes

[JB]

Well I first started off as anything from El Kabong, to The Alabama Tick to all sorts of things, after a while of playing cs on my lonesome I got in with some of the original guys from BGAT and added a couple to my MSN, one of them said it would be confusing having soo many names so I dropped all the old ones and kept the one that was on MSN at the time.  Just so happened to be my initials,  boring nick  but it's got a certain Je ne sais quoi.  

[Ranger]

Originally posted by big-paddy@Sep 27 2005, 05:40 PM
Stone!

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people in glass houses! LOL

[big-paddy]

Originally posted by Ranger@Sep 27 2005, 11:17 PM
people in glass houses! LOL

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Just because your not as BIG as me!

[target]

Target - because I usually am ...

[Cadaver]

Cadaver.

My pathetic attempt at irony really, because in CS I used to end up dying rather quickly.  Things haven't changed with BF2...

[DuVeL]

Maybe this has been posted before but since we have alot of new players on the WoW-section and so, how did you get your name?
 
I got the name DuVeL a while back now, it used to be da_Shadow back in my Atari days. In my first onlinegamingadventures I still used this untill I got in my first clan. I changed it back then to FuBaR.
Since this name is used by loads of people I decided to think of something else...
I thought of changing my name to Gr0lsch as I got called a Grolschhacker alot but that didn't sound allright.
Then one evening I got called a devil with a gun and I was drinking a bottle of Duvel then. Then I was like: :g:
Mhmmzzz, that has a good ring to it!
 
 
So...How did you get your name?

[sulky_uk]

in about 92 we had a group of guys (and girls) and we started playing gp2 serial linked with 6 players on each computer taking turns to do laps in their own cars.
 
well anyway we had to decide a name so the guy who was my racing partner (in the same f1 team) called himself beaver and i thought hmmmm canary and then someone said, but you like star trek you geek, why not worf
 
and then it hit me canaryworf   !!!!!!, i still use this name on certain servers, forums etc
 
im called sulky_uk because my last name is o' sullivan and i coudnt log onto a server as sully, or sullyuk or sully_uk, so i thought feck it noone will have sulky_uk, and they didnt.
 
and i use this name for other forums servers etc

[StrontiumDog]

[suicidal_monkey]

I used to use the nick Moriarty (after Sherlock Holmes nemesis, was my dad's occasional nickname for me...) back when the only network gaming I did was red-alert, c&c, and doom2 at the local university. kind of like a mini-lan was run every weekend by the maths/it chap. Then when I got to the uk, and finally got broadband and a half-decent pc I got into quake2 (mainly the "catch the chicken" mod:lmfao:) and, deciding that the little characters looked sort of like monkeys started using the name monkey. I tended to run in guns blazing and die a helluva lot, so I gained the prefix suicidal_. In Unreal and other deathmatch games though I usually use monkey_of_doom because it annoys people:flirty:. These days I typically just use s_monkey because I started to get picked on for not being "suicidal enough" :narnar: heheh

[Bob]

The nickname I first used when I started with IRC was BofuR (as many of you might know, one of the dwarves from the book The Hobbit).  I still use that as my name for quite a lot of other sites and forums, but when I started playing WoW that doesn't sound like a good name for a Night Elf.

The only really criteria I had when I started looking for a name for my first character in WoW, was that it had to be something that sounded really elf-ish.  I found a couple of name generators on the web, got a looong list of names for male NE, and Threbrilith just poped up as the clear winner.  It has just the right sound, and it's also possible to shorten to Threb, still sounding quite good.
My other character's name (Thiril), I mostly came up with myself.  I had started naming my characters after the standard that they should all start with Th (have some low-levels called Thelimos, Thruum, and also two low-level horde chars called Thark and Thelimos).

Some of you might perhaps have noticed that alot of those who know me (from WoW) mostly refer to me as Bob.  That started out in a Zul'Farrak run in the 40s (talking about levels here, not year ) with Wab and Balric (two former guildies).
Wad was to tired of trying to pronounce Threbrilith on TS and spell it correct in chat, so he got ****ed and just started calling me Bob.  In a couple of weeks it simply spread, and it has kind of stuck since than

[Jamoe]

Befor dMw I played counterstrike in a small clan caled DeltaTeam [DT] (Wordan who post here on occaision was the founder). My name back then was [DT]SilentAmber (shortened to SA). That name came about when I use to play ghost recon (which was my first online game). I used it as I was sneaky and quite, I can't really remember how the Amber part came about, but I got confused as a girl (still do ).

Anyway, I kept SA up till about 2/3 years ago. DT split (was getting on for 4 years old), mainly due to inactive members (uni college etc). I decided that SA should die with DT.

Jamoe is a nick name I have in RL, given to me by my step uncle who has a habbit of giving ppl nicknames. Derived from my real name, James.

[RizZy]

One dark & stormy night in my local getting drunk, we were having the typical random convos, one that happened to be what could we call ourselves if we decided to be a **** take cover band ( in the days we still dreamt about rock-stardom ) one that came out was Limp Risted for Limp Bizkit, shortly after that night I started playing AvP on Mplayer, you had to register a name & you couldn't change it, well, all the names I could come up with being used & then the name came to me & i tried Limp Riztid, & after various levels of leeting myself up I turned into LiMP_RiZtiD.....people mainly called me Riz or Limp & my name changed from one to the other for a while & I eventually stuck with RizZy. so there.

[Gandalf]

<-- Well, duh :narnar:

Though I have dropped the LordOfJelly ending in recent years, that actually has a story behind it.

It all started sometime in the 90's when a 14.4 modem was the don and bulletin boards were the king for multiplayer gaming.

Doom was the game of choice and I used to connect to a bb server in South Wales called armageddon. The founder of that board had a rather feisty gf and for some reason she's always bring the worst out of me and in the open text area I just started shouting JELLY! As I was eating some black cherry jelly at the time. Every time someone asked me something the reply was JELLY! And so my nickname on there was unofficially Jelly as I signed up as Gandalf.

Anyway, once the bulletin board scene died and internet gaming took off I discovered CS. I initially started playing with the nick of Gandalf, but as you can imagine there were a lot of those around! So I appended LordOfJelly to the end to make it unique.

So there you go, if you're still reading, you're sad :narnar: