How did you choose your online gaming name?

[GhostMjr]

Hopefully if enough people answer we can get this stickied.

My story is a simple one.

Once upon a time i had a really crap p1 133mhz which to get the hdd to boot you had to physically hit the side of the computer and then a long drone would start meaning the pc was at last booting.

Anyway cut a long story short i was friends with some people who got into rainbow six.

Remember that game?

Well we created a rank structure and as i was really into it decided to go for Ghost.

My rank was of Mjr and so i was named Ghost*Mjr*.

I then removed the stars after removing the unnecessary stars and here i am today.

So whats your story?

[RizZy]

The 1st game that I took any interest in the online multiplayer side of it was Aliens vs Predator, I ended up using a program called MPlayer which was a chat room & game launcher type thing, when I came to register on it every name that I could think of to use was taken, the night before down the pub we'd had a random drunken conversation about what would make good p*** take cover bands & one that came up was Limp Wristed for Limp Bizkit (we where quite drunk) so I tried that & it worked.

Various versions & spellings over the years have ended up with this, I'm pretty sure I was the original RizZy as searches never turned up anyone else using the name.

[sulky_uk]

i have 2 gaming names

1st one is canaryworf, in the very early 90's, 7 mates and myself used to play Geoff Cramond's GP1, where as you could "serial" link 2 pc's together and using a playing sharing technique. You did say 10 laps then the comp would take over your car and run it to your next stint  at the pace of the last lap you drove, so we used to have the laps set to 80 so everyone could get 2 stints each. Anyway we were all drawn into teams of 2 and then allowed to paint our team colours. my team mate did all the designs and the car was various shades of yellow, to which i replied im going to look like a canary driving that so i said that is what my drivers going to be called, to which some relied why not canary wharf, but spelt canary worf. I said cool but i got rid of the space in between. still use the name for certain games

2. sulky...easy one this my last name is o sullivan,,,,which in work is either sully or if im in the poop or bad mood ppl call me sulky

[Jim]

When i was a young'un, my Parents would always call me Jimbo instead of James and as i grew up and started gaming, i decided to keep with the Jimbo tradition from my parents (My dad is also a gamer) but as i got older Jimbo started to sound like a kiddy name so i shortened it down to Jim, which i now use for pretty much all games where i can... As well as prefering to be called Jim instead of James now as well

[T-Bag]

Mine is a nickname I have at uni. My name is Tim in real life and on my physics course there were 4 Tims, plus a few others I knew around uni on other courses, so I had a whole range of nicknames. My Norwegian friend called me Trym as was different and caught on with her housemates who I hung out with a lot, and my physics friends gave everyone ridiculous nick names. There was one guy called Turkey just because he looked slightly Turkish. Anyone one day I get named T-Bone as one of a whole series of names I'd been given that didn't stick and someone misheard and loudly asked "Why are you calling him T-Bag?" and that was enough to get it to stick.
That birthday in lectures I had dozens of tea bags thrown at me, other people on campus were wondering why the place was covered in pyramid bags, and now you know.

I still use Trym for my MSN name, and have T-Bag in the middle of my facebook name. So naturally when I was thinking of a name to game with I went with T-Bag.

[delanvital]

I just KNOW there is a post here somewhere... 3 years back or so... where we all spill the guts on our names, but I can't find it :|

Anyhoo, mine came about when I was making music in a huge two-man band starting in 1994. We made acoustic/electronic music that was dreadfully sad, and with elanvital roughly meaning giving life, I figured the d in front would make it mean the opposite... that was pretty cool until l'oreal made el'vital, which apparently everyone would mention when they heard my gaming name. Shortening it to delan made turkish men very interested in me, figuring I was a middle-eastern female. Making it shorter to del has worked the best, albeit with the obvious addition of delboy of which human tormentors like The Big Man Zootoxin has been an avid user.

I like delanvital because it makes me almost unique on the net - I think there are 1-2 others - something I have come to reconsider with facebook's creation etc. and whether it should be possible to link a gaming name to real life name - thus me removing all references to my real life name in all older posts here on dMw. Voila!

[BrotherTobious]

Oh the shame of this .......  First clan I joined was the Hellfire Squad playing X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter.
I had to sign up so being the very creative person I am I cam up with my best spelling of Tobious,  but around that time watched a film that had the "Rev" which would sight some passage from Bible before battle.  I decided I liked this and not very religious I went more towards the Monks.

Thus BrotherTobious I became and I am too lazy to every change it

[Luminance]

Well as a kid I was fan of MTG (quited only recently) and I used the name Masticore a lot, after my favorite card. Later with The Matrix my friend took the name Mr.Wizard a nickname of one of the movie side charactars, so I took on Morpheus for a little while. (Originality wasn't my strongest point back then). I grew bored of these names pretty quickly as "everyone" seemed to be nicknaming themselves like that.
I then started playing Hattrick, an online soccer managing game, and decided it would be Wolveman from now on (Wolfman I didn't like, nor Wolvesman).
However with WoW I needed a new one for my Shaman (horde - aggramar) and I made up a name: Azunemezal a degradation of the server Aszune, (I liked Aszune as a name) and Mezal means friend in some language I forgot  
Basically it meant Friends of Azune or Friends with Azune (or Azsune) which is typical as its the server I play on today

I used the Azune theme for a while as people started to recognise me by it but after our raiding guild disbanded and none of my irl friends played on that server anymore, WoW grew dull and so I quit WoW.

Now, on to the main story After overhearing 2 fellow students about this game they were playing, I recognized it as WoW and we started talking about it more and more. One of them nicknamed Bastet kept telling about this great guild on Silver Oak Guardians, which were busy with hardcore raiding, without the hardcore demands (no 24/7 raiding or preparing for them) and how much fun they where having while doing it. Especially the fun part made me want to join them, as thats what I missed on Aggramar after the big guild disband. So I decided to rejoin WoW, completely the opposite of what I was doing, no more male orc caster but a female nightelf meelee (I found the general movements and fighting moves to gay for my taste, especially when handling the bow, there was no way someone could fire an arrow like that )
Anyhow, I needed a new name, and as I always like the elemental side of the shaman and the blue lightning you saw a lot with fanart, on top of that, I heard rogues had this skill blind so I imagined a great flash or something, so I decided I wanted a name with a light or lightning theme, so I took on Luminance.
Even after SoG disbanded and I quited WoW once again, I stayed with deadmen thanks to CS:S. Also because I very much liked my flashbangs back then, I kept using my nickname Luminance.

Ofc I rejoined, quit and Rejoined WoW again (Like many others) I kept using the Lumi theme, mainly thanks to the lazy people who kept shortening it to Lumi. All my charactars I frequently play with, start with Lumi now and even some my friends call my Lumi irl, so I doubt I'll ever change it again, its just a part of me now.

@ delanvital:
link to the thread you meant?

[Penfold]

I just KNOW there is a post here somewhere... 3 years back or so... where we all spill the guts on our names, but I can't find it :|

Anyhoo, mine came about when I was making music in a huge two-man band starting in 1994. We made acoustic/electronic music that was dreadfully sad, and with elanvital roughly meaning giving life, I figured the d in front would make it mean the opposite... that was pretty cool until l'oreal made el'vital, which apparently everyone would mention when they heard my gaming name. Shortening it to delan made turkish men very interested in me, figuring I was a middle-eastern female. Making it shorter to del has worked the best, albeit with the obvious addition of delboy of which human tormentors like The Big Man Zootoxin has been an avid user.

I like delanvital because it makes me almost unique on the net - I think there are 1-2 others - something I have come to reconsider with facebook's creation etc. and whether it should be possible to link a gaming name to real life name - thus me removing all references to my real life name in all older posts here on dMw. Voila!

Aye there is. I'll have a look for it.

[Luminance]

Aye there is. I'll have a look for it.

Look no further, its in the post above you?? :flirty:

(unless there is another one)

[delanvital]

Look no further, its in the post above you?? :flirty:

(unless there is another one)

Why, +1 forum search skills for Wolveman!

[Penfold]

Here it is:

Started by BK in April 2007

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?19384

[GhostMjr]

Here it is:

Started by BK in April 2007

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?19384

Pen,

Any chance we can merge all the topics and put them somewhere on the forum as a sticked thread?

[Soon Jung]

Hm, I am adopted, from South-Korea. So, my Korean name is Kim Soon Jung. It doesnt take an Einstein or Isaac Newton to figure out where I got my gaming name then
Besides, I started out as Elenionet in WoW, which no one could pronounce, so I got the nickname Elly. But come on? Elly would be a weird name in a FPS game, its too girlish!
So I took my real Korean name as I was given there. Plus, it means something to me

[TeaLeaf]

All 4 threads merged into one gargatuan thread!