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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2783 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | |
Beat Writer  Posts: 149 Joined: 16 Aug 2008     | Well, my old one was DsideAngel, which stood for Dark Side Angel, a story I had been working on for years. I got tired of it after two years, so I thought, what am I? What can be used to describe me? I'm not magical and I write poetry, so I got NonMagicPoet. I use it for just about everything including Aim. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2912 Joined: 12 May 2008   | I'm an Aries, and Split comes from an old phrase of mine. "Split on sexuality." |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 909 Joined: 15 Jun 2008     | Limos is a greek daimon of Hunger and Starvation. The opposite of Demeter and Ploutus. (Food and Plenty) I searched it up for an Rp a while back where I was running the evil side and the good guys had to fight four super baddies. Thanatos, Nergal, Ares and Limos. (Death, Pestilence, War and Famine.) I tend to use Thanatos or Limos as my screename. |
On the Record  Posts: 7399 Joined: 23 Dec 2007  | Mine is a portamanteau of "Anarchy" (The adjective) and "Archemitis" (The owl belonging to Merlin the Wizard from King Arthur and the Legend of Excalibur, pronounced 'Arr-k-emm-ee-tee-zz) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 409 Joined: 14 Aug 2008   | well, mine was kinda funny. I had a friend online that I talked to a lot and his name was NiceGuy_14 and I just wanted to see what hey would say if I changed my SN to NiceGurl, we got a good laugh out of it but even after I changed it people would still call me NiceGurl so I just kept the name. I've had it for like 3 or 4 years now so the 14 is incorrect, I just haven't bothered to change it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1587 Joined: 5 May 2008     | Jobz...Jobz was taken from a book called Remnants by K.A. Applegate which was at one point my favorite series. One of the main characters who was a computer whiz called himself Jobs after Steve Jobs, because "He created a revolution in his parent's garage". At the time I was quite a techie myself (Still am I suppose), he was my favorite character in the series, and I just liked the name. So I took it, changed the "s" to a "z" and made it my own. I add numbers to the end of it once in a while if I feel like changing it up, usually numbers of MI6 agents from the James Bond movies. For example, I'm Jobz007 on XBL, and Jobz006 on GameFAQS. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1664 Joined: 9 Aug 2008     | Being that this is an internet forum based around gaming, I used my X-Box Live gamertag as my username. Ares Tyr is a combination of two names. Ares, the Greek God of War and Battle. And Tyr, the Norse God of War and Victory. I thought they fit nicely. Being that I am half Greek, Ares came naturally (though my first choice was Achilles). Tyr comes from my love of mythology in general. That's about it. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2912 Joined: 12 May 2008 |
Norse mythology is my favorite. Followed closely by Greek. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 7 Joined: 14 Aug 2008  | About 4 years ago when I was making my account for some online game (I forget) I couldn't think of a name...so I asked a friend of mine and he said just call it anything. So I took it literally.... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1311 Joined: 4 Jul 2008  | the protagonist is not an original name...but Epitaf,my Gamefaqs account,was an idea i came up with after seeing someones gravestone with the word on it,misspelled. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 127 Joined: 21 Jan 2008  | KRAJ: <<my initials. about 50%-70% of the people i know call me kraj. thats about it. oh, my ex called me kat. >_< girls call me that rather often once they get to know me, dunno why. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 80 Joined: 1 Sep 2008    | I just like using words that, when put together, sound like a name, even though they're just silliness. So Asparagus Brown it was. If I ever write a silly book parodying crime fiction, the detective protagonist will have this name. I also occassionally like to use Abdominal Strain, which I came up with while playing Jade Empire, just because it sounded like the names they had already given to their characters. |
On the Record  Posts: 5181 Joined: 16 May 2008   |
I've seen you around, and I always thought it was for Experiment Kraj, from Magic the Gathering pictured here:
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008  |
Actually Tyr is the god of single combat (one on one battles). Odin is the god of war. I made a movie with my brother a few years ago about a fellow called Alfred von Himstracht. Who was chased out of his appartment by a trio of evil dudes, I played the part of one them, which was the Iron Ninja. He was supposed to be a parody of the host of Iron Chef America (who says "todays secret ingredient is..." then screams out whatever the secret ingredient is) except instead of proper ingredients, the Iron Ninja's secret ingredient was always pain. So I took a screenshot of a scene of the movie, added a spatula and a chef hat (to make sure people got the whole 'chef' side of things, though they probably still don't) and made it my avatar. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 54 Joined: 9 Jul 2008 | I'm too poetic of a person (in b4 emo) and wanted a name that, at least to some people, would be a little fearful. To sailors, the old adage "Red sky in morning, sailor's take warning", means that stormy weather is approaching. It's also my XBL Account, for the same reason. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 575 Joined: 21 Jun 2008  | I think I've told this story quite a few times now, but I'll go at it again for the sake of the thread. Back in 2002 I joined my first forum, and for that I needed a name. I had just completed Final Fantasy VII and had it on my mind, so I decided to name myself Neo Sephiroth. I have no idea where the Neo part came from, but whatever. Anyway, a few years later I got into playing Initial D: Arcade Stage and wanted to advance my playing by buying a players card so I can store my car and saved data. Since I had been using the alias of Neo Sephiroth for a while now, I decided to shorten it for the game (which only allowed 5 characters). So I wrote in N.Sep. My friend commented that the 'Sep' part was lame and suggested I put in 'Sef' instead. So I did, the dash in the middle came afterwards. I have a lot of fond memories attached to my alias, since I made a lot of real life friends from those forums. But the whole Neo Sephiroth bit was done with, so I decided to now commonly use the shortened version. |
Paperboy  Posts: 33 Joined: 25 Jun 2008    | Simply put, my name is Zaharias...(It's said Zack-a-rye-us for any of you who think it's Za-hair-e-us or anything else of the like I hear all to often...I'm aware of the lack of a "c" but my name is the Greek version) |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1664 Joined: 9 Aug 2008 |
How about you shut the fuck up? How's that sound? Huh? Sound good? Thanks, next time I need your fucking opinion I'll ask... You should get on AIM, btw. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 196 Joined: 12 Aug 2008 | For my internet names it's whoops1995 because it's a jab at myself(and a funny word) I'll give you a hint if you don't get it, 1995's my birth year. Self-esteem issues aside, my xbl name is treadligtly. Being the dumbass I am (self-esteem issues again, damnit), I left out the H and am forever called by dumbasses who can't connect a word missing one letter, "treadligatly,treadligitly,treadligaaghgh whoever the fuck you are." And i found out that treadlightly with an h is already taken. How i picked it is wierd though. I heard an alternation of a quote by Theodore Roosevelt, "speak softly and carely a big stick." to "tread ligtly and carry a big stick" so i thought treadlightly would be a cool name. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 |
You don't ask anything of a Ninja, either a Ninja gives or a Ninja kills, there will be no questions. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1664 Joined: 9 Aug 2008 |
Gods of Combat do not give anything. We either kill or we don't kill. Keeping your life is gift enough in our eyes. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 | Yeah but your two gods will be bickering as to whether they should follow the rules for greek warfare or the rules for Norse one on one combat. So I'd win, plus I'm a Ninja. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1664 Joined: 9 Aug 2008 |
Apparently you didn't know that Ares was not one for rules. That was Athena. Ares was the God of brutal, bloodshedding, battle-frenzied war. Not organized warfare. Also Greece was one of the first cultures to derive the concept of the duel. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 108 Joined: 6 Dec 2007  | My Moniker was stolen from the Darkness Spirit in Secret of Mana. As for the DM part, I honestly don't remember. For one thing just Shade was taken everywhere I went. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 438 Joined: 28 Apr 2008  | A deliberately overly literal translation of my family name "epshtain", used it first for a druid character in WOW, and I've been sticking to it ever since. I like the sound and the image generated by it. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 |
I still think the two would probably end up disagreeing over certain points. Edit: Here I go again, sidetracking yet another thread. Apologies all around. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 438 Joined: 28 Apr 2008 | haha, just realized I don't use my common user name here :) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 481 Joined: 11 Aug 2008    | I got mine after I had a motorbike accident, i broke my femur and knee and had to have lots of sugery so plenty of scars, plus I refused to use crutches in the house so use to hop everywhere hence the bunny bit. Also used MonkeyFromTheMoon for a few years after my missus called me it out of the blue, my friends know me as loki as I like fire and mischeif |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1664 Joined: 9 Aug 2008 |
I hope you're proud of yourself... you should be ashamed. |
Muckraker Posts: 272 Joined: 6 May 2008    | I got mine from a one of Scott Westerfeld's novels "The Risen Empire" |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 | I'm a robotic Ninja, I have no shame, I have no fear... I have no heart... I have no soul... |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1664 Joined: 9 Aug 2008 |
That explains the athiest bit, I suppose. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1113 Joined: 19 May 2008   | It's not very interesting, and I don't usually use this nick. Not sure why I did here, I guess I felt I needed a new one. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008 |
No that's due to my robotic logic mainframe. |
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Dang man that's some heavy stuff.