How did you choose your online gaming name?

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Luminance

Quote from: Penfold;153107My original name, Pendragon

Lol, the hanger on my necklace is called Pendragon, wich in a long funny way revered to Richard wich is my name, though i never used that nickname for many games, i like Luminance way better, it was a name given by a old friend of mine.

My first wow charactar wasn't Lumi, cuz i didn't liked as a character name. I really couldn't find a cool name for my shaman (that i wanted) and when i selected aggramar (where my irl friends played), my eye cought the word Aszune, it sounded nice in my head, but it was taken, so i chanced it to Azune.

Then noob as i am "destroyed" the lightning bolt spell of my shaman when i was lvl 3, and i thoughed, crap that seems like a pretty good spell for when i'm higher lvl and i feared i destroyed it for good so i deleted the shaman (noob that i was) and made another orc shaman, but i wanted the name to be abit larger, so i chanced it to Azunemezal, wich was my main char for lots of months untill i got so utterly bored of wow.

After 2 months i couldn't bear not to play wow so decided i would play agian, but i felt that if i started with azune or alts i would be bored soon enough again, so i decided to quit aggramar (was hard cuz i made lots of friends there) but since 2 of my classmates and friends played on aszune, and since Bastet couldn't stop talking about this great guild he was in, i decided to totally chance things things. Wich lead to lumi, This time i was out of inspiration, and i thoughed heck why not use my name Luminance anyways. So thats my story :)

Also known as Lycan Lumi - On Aszune known as: Luminescence lvl 80 shammy
Best knife, double kill:
-=[dMw]=-Lumi|T.Wolve killed -=[dMw]=-Sithy with knife.
-=[dMw]=-Lumi|T.Wolve killed -=[dMw]=-R@ng3R with knife.

sheepy

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Sheepy appears and begins to stroke my head. According to his slurred drunken speech I am "lovely and like a fuzzy felt". Thankfully he soon leaves and passes out somewhere. [/quote]

Thulsa Doom


Maus

#63
Not sure why, but when I was at university a few friends started calling me "mousey" all the time. A few years later I started playing online and resurrected that as an in-game name. I was Mouse for a bit, then started playing on a German TFC server and changed to Maus, then picked up DoD and decided to be Mouse as Allies, Maus as Axis ("bind k name [QRGR]Maus" or somesuch). I stayed as Mouse in CS until I got hooked on Natural Selection, where since the name "Mouse" was taken on the NS forums by one of the devs I picked Maus. I toyed with Souris (French) for a while, but Maus has stuck now for a few years.

However, I couldn't find a good Maus nick that hadn't been taken for BF2142, so it's time for a change -- Silverfish, in equal parts taken from the band of the same name and the first line of Iain Sinclair's Landor's Tower: "No flies, no flies on Billy Silverfish" -- Billy Silverfish was an old AIM username of mine.

Jesus that was tedious. I apologise if you read it all.

sheepy

no i have never been involved in ANY such activity with ANY animals. (although some of the women ive been with were dogs)
 
Maus - were you at the "I" lan where there was a drunk guy walking around in a hawain shirt, gas mask and shooting ppl with a bb gun? (yes it was me, it seemed like a good idea at the time)
Also I was in the TV shot with QRGR when we were on GMTV!!!!!! behind noodles
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Sheepy appears and begins to stroke my head. According to his slurred drunken speech I am "lovely and like a fuzzy felt". Thankfully he soon leaves and passes out somewhere. [/quote]

Maus

No, I never made it to I-series, sadly. All the QRGR peeps gave me no end of grief for never going along ;)

GhostMjr

I remember at my first Lan Doorman confronted me with the question : "Why exactly are you called GhostMjr"? This then provoked a long discussion about the meaning of each of our game names and how we began to be known by our call signs. My story starts back when i first got the internet, which is scarily quite a few years ago now. I played the tactical fps game Rainbow Six using a 56k modem with a few friends from school. I became part of their clan called |)óóM and played in a few leagues when i wasn't too busy. Inspired of course from the famous game we began to climb a few leaderboards but never took it too competitively. On joining i had to think of a suitable name.  I chose ghost as at the time Ghost recon had I think just come out. As i knew the founding members i was promoted to the rank of Major, so i had my rank at the end of my name : |)óóM_Ghó$t*Mjr*. On applying to dmw after a year or so with [CIGS] I clipped my name to GhostMjr to make it easier to read, by the request of Mr Tealeaf. I was then known as GM by TL and a few other dmw members :D

-=[dMw]=-GhostMjr

Sebas

Well I give you three chances to guess how I got my "online" name... :rolleyes:

Short story: My first name is Sebastiaan, which I and many others find waaaay too long to write every time so I shorten it almost always to Sebas, and tadaa there's my WoW name.
Used in WC3 names like Shadow-0f-Death, or Shadowsfury, but they didnt last more than one game due to not being able to use '-' in WoW. And the lazy dude that I am, I just named my Dorf after me. (And no I dont look like a dorf in RL! :angry:)
My Warrior alt has a funny name though for all Swedish chaps over here. His name is Solkram which was a name that popped into me when I created him and it turned out that it means suncream in Swedish <_<

So... WTB decent online name! Ill give 2g! :narnar:

lunares

Lets see:
 
lunares: is 2 words in 1.
namingly luna which means moon. this was chosen cause the night elves (the race i play) have a religion based on the moon goddes elune.
res comes from the spell ressurrection.the class i play is a priest and they can ressurect ppl. hence lunares was formed
 
Lunares
When you feel yourself sinking into madness..... Dive!

Luminance

Quote from: sheepy;153169no i have never been involved in ANY such activity with ANY animals. (although some of the women ive been with were dogs)

u wish :P

@ luna,

so ur the one ressing the moon all the time? :P

Also known as Lycan Lumi - On Aszune known as: Luminescence lvl 80 shammy
Best knife, double kill:
-=[dMw]=-Lumi|T.Wolve killed -=[dMw]=-Sithy with knife.
-=[dMw]=-Lumi|T.Wolve killed -=[dMw]=-R@ng3R with knife.

OldBloke

When my son, Nik (aka FrEnZy! here abouts) got me hooked on FPS and early CS in particular he said I needed a handle. Did he suggest 'H3dSh0t KiLaH' or maybe 'GuNDeAtH D3Str0Yer'? No he didn't (good lad :biggrin: ). Instead, he said it would be cool to call myself by the name he'd been calling me ever since he grew out of calling me 'Dadda'.

So Oldbloke it is - Oldie if shortened. :flirty:
"War without end. Well, what was history if not that? And how would having the stars change anything?" - James S. A. Corey

smite

Useless crap enters my head and i use it :biggrin:

Bk

#72
Seeing the amount of new members the dMw have been getting, I thought it might be nice for people to come forward and simply explaine their names. Also, if this has been done before, instead of mocking me for not finding the correspondent thread, make yourselves usefull and link to them instead :D
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Penfold

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=16259

and

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10690

For me:

My original name, Pendragon is twofold:

Firstly, I wrote my thesis on Roman Britain andthe Romano-British. Uther Pendragron kept popping up in various legends and folk-lore and I always liked it as a name

Secondly, a good friend died in a motorbike accident and the last time I had spoke to him he was at the PENDRAGON Festival in Wales, so it seemed fitting.

My lastest incarnation, Penfold, is what Tealeaf kept calling me a couple of LAN's ago, and at the time I was thinking that I should have a name change. I went with PENFOLD as I used to love that little chubby hamster fella on Dangermouse and, best of all, it can still be shortened to PEN which is what most people call me.

PEN

PS. Penfold is also a rather nice New World wine I'm rather partial too :)

Eternaluk

Well, I picked EternalUk because I like the name and I wouldn't like to live forever.( And Uk, Because that's where I live. ) yet in Css, living and completing the objective, and you have to be the last one alive to complete the objective. /That may be because after a while, you would get bored../
I used to go for the name Fastcut or SpudGun, ( As in potato gun ) but I then developed a liking for names such as Dark-Killer and XDarkX.
Soon afterwards, I realised that they didn't really suit my style of play /the way I played games./ So I tryed diffrent names.
And that's really it.
And that is the story about how I became to be known as" ÉtérnalÚk "
Hokí - Dwarf Marksmanship Hunter.
Shather - Rogue Twink.