Title: Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: |MP|Nomad on December 18, 2002, 04:35:33 pm Hey ppl, I am at school and i was checking out the forums and i thought to myself after reading a few ppl's post and many of them from friends I have known now for a long time like pyrex etc, and it hit me!!!
Where did u guys come up with the names you have? Mine....well I got it from Kirok (my bro)who got it from an episode of Star Trek i believe and he also got his from Star Trek. What bites the most is when you see someone else come onto GR etc and they have the same name as you, well i have seen a few Nomad's but I am THEE true Nomad *crowd cheers*...NOMAD NOMAD NOMAD!!!! Anyway, should be interesting to see where/how ppl got their names. LATER Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: tasty on December 18, 2002, 05:24:51 pm The story of how I became known as tasty is a long and interesting one. It all started in 9th grade basketball. My friends and I were too lazy to try very hard or run in any of the sprints, so rather than playing on the "a" team or the "b" team we made our own team: the egg team. The primary tenets of this "egg team" were eating eggs, not running, and depantsing unsuspecting teammates. Needless to say, we ate a lot of eggs (scrambled, omelettes, eggs benedict, etc.) that year and I changed my AOL screenname to "tasty eggs" (which it has been ever since). When I started to get into warezing/hacking/hotline, I shortened it to just "tasty". I then transferred this name over to gameranger and the rest is history.
Just to follow up: I still eat eggs as much as humanly possible (because they are the ambrosia of our humanly world). I also still play basketball, and I am still really, really lazy. w00t. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: kami on December 18, 2002, 05:56:01 pm My first GR nick was really bad so I'm not going to reveal that. But well about 2 and a half years ago I changed it to kamikaze, which a world war 2 crazed friend of mine liked since I'm half jap, I had that for quite a while, then I changed it to kamisama which is japanese for ?holy spirit?, then it just shortened down to kami, which everyone had been calling me all the time anyway. That's the short story of my nick ;)
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: KoS PY.nq.ict on December 18, 2002, 06:22:33 pm This is gonna be corny but oh well
My original screenname on GR was stewcow. Don't ask how I came up with that because I don't want to explain. Then one day I was looking around my dorm room and saw a pyrex dish. BAM. I took up the name Pyrex. A few months ago I changed my name to PY since a lot of people were calling me that instead of pyrex. Plus I was getting ragged on for having the name of a glass cooking dish. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: *NADS Capt. Anarchy on December 18, 2002, 06:37:57 pm mmm... well, I got "Capt. Anarchy" from an Anti Flag song. Was just minding my own business, bored as fuck, song comes on, and i think "oh, i'll use that as my name!" Of course, it look terrible without any clantags or anything so that was also the moment of creation for *NADS.
what a load of bs I thought of it! Die capt!, Bung I have other online names for other games... Capt. Anarchy just doesn't work for them. and soooo Starcraft: spazmotik. just because it sounded cool. Tacops: TheIdealTaco. Because "spazmotik" was too boring. i don't know why i chose this... i don't really even like tacos. But it had a nice ring to it. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: KoS PY.nq.ict on December 18, 2002, 06:40:48 pm I think its because the initials make T.I.T. Your subconcious was quite active when you thought of the name. Assuming that you like tits...cough...or cock...cough
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: kami on December 18, 2002, 06:41:45 pm Cap, I think the Ideal Taco sounds really lame ;)
I just use the same nick for most things. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: bronto on December 18, 2002, 09:25:59 pm I've always been bronto on gr. My friend gave me that name when we were watching a movie in class about african people and there was those people with the rings on their necks to make them really long, so i was like they look like brontosauruses so mike just decided to call me bronto from then on...and i like it. its sexy.
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: kos.viper on December 18, 2002, 09:29:40 pm Hmm, well back in the day... which was 9th grade, I was a noob and discovered AIM while in a Computer class and friends were IM/ing back and forth across the room. At the time I liked vipers so from then on my online nick has always included "viper."
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Mr.Mellow on December 18, 2002, 10:07:26 pm Let's see, my first GR name was Swoop, because I played a lot of F/A-18 Hornet Korea back in the day. Then, I changed it to Mr. Mellow, cuz that's pretty much my philosophy in life. Just be laid back and mellow. On Vendetta(anyone play that?), the name I use most is Professor Penguin. I saw a cartoon with a penguin wearing a tophat and one of those glass opticals over his eye, and it just gave me the idea. I think it's pretty funny. I also use Penguin, Ph.D. When I used to play StarCraft and stuff on B.net, my name was Pork Soda, after the Primus album.
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: BTs_Colin on December 18, 2002, 10:32:41 pm well my parents named me colin so from then on people have been calling me colin. I decided to use it online because theres always so much fuss about not using your real name on the internet so i decided to say 'screw that'.
actually the name I used to use for everything was CAR_12. It's my initials and the age I was when I got the internet. Sweet eh. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Mattster on December 18, 2002, 10:47:40 pm Well my real name is Matt, everyone knows that. Well one day on Gr i couldnt think of a name. So i decided to use my name Matt. Then my dad started calling me Mattster, so i used the name. Its been my name ever since. (besides when i changed it to Infinty), which is a course on Bristol Mountain where i snowboard.
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Agent Wallabie on December 18, 2002, 11:04:08 pm I've had alot of names but this is the only one that really stuck. I went to Australia over the summer and at a Zoo I saw two Wallaby's fucking. I got pictures too :D But enny ways, I tryed to find the way to spell it (stupid huh?) and actully found the wrong way, 'Wallabie' It's the name of the Australian Rugby team. So you see I got mine from two Wallaby's having sex and a spelling error ;)
Wallie~ Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: MainMaN on December 19, 2002, 12:22:32 am let me c here..."mainman".. well. a friend came over 1 day showing off his wheels and we tryed to get gameranger 2 work... Finally after the stupid program works.. It askd me for the screen name so i thought.. the man, main man.. so then... i just kept it cause.. wHoS Ur MaIn MaN? 8)
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Jeb on December 19, 2002, 12:25:43 am I was united in a great battle with my 8000 year old sameri master, after we defeated the great Pokemon Clan of the North he became mortaly wounded. As i held him dieing in my arms, his final words were "farmer.... Jeb"
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Cow on December 19, 2002, 12:33:48 am oooooooooooo forums *stretches*, yea so, i got my name from a clan i joined in the R6 stays called a_ and you had to have an animal name and i so happened to pick Cow, who else can go moo anyways?
-Moo Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Cossack on December 19, 2002, 01:17:36 am I got Cossack because my family were Cossacks. They were people on horsebacks with no bosses, they drank, they were dirty stinky cussing renegades. More importantly they were insane. I drink, am dirty, I fucking cuss all the fucking time, and I am a renegade.
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: EUR_Zaitsev on December 19, 2002, 01:24:29 am I began as "hal" which is my true nickname in life but then I changed it to sniper because thats what I did a lot and I liked the Sniper in Saving Private Ryan. then I create Clan |ROTC| (yes yes all you critizers snicker if you will) and the then PnzrLeader and I met. We were best of online friends and both newbies so stuck together. Then we wanted a name change. PnzrLeader, although a New Yorker is closley tied to the German Governemtn and all that good stuff and although is not a nazi or not racist he did think had a smart general been in charge The German army could have won in the 1940's (he doesnt again he DOESNT support the views of the third Reich). At anyrate he wanted something german I wanted something Sniper and we wanted named that fit together (Salt and Pepper type deal) And we find the perfect match, the Russian SNIPER Zaitsev, and the GERMAN sniper Konig. And they fit together. Also I am partly Russian though not by birth, My Grandfather was and changed name @ Angel Island. At anyrate thats the end of story time.
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: kami on December 19, 2002, 02:18:10 am Hehe, there are quite a few interesting stories here, more than I thought :)
Jeb, that is so lame ;D Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: darkdestiny on December 19, 2002, 02:36:23 am well my first name was hoorayforboobies, then it was ChickenChoker, then it was MonkeySpanker5000GT, and now is Darkdestiny....i dont know i just like masterbation?
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Agent Wallabie on December 19, 2002, 02:39:02 am Now Cossack's story is cool, family pride, "Russian Pride" ;)
To bad jeb had to make his up, I wanted to know where he got his name from. On a childrens TV show there was a guy named Farmer Jeb. Maybe he got it from that ;) Wallie~ Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Jeb on December 19, 2002, 03:36:51 am ok fine the real un glamorous truth about my name comes out...
it was the 2000 election with the whole hanging chad thingy and they kept talking about Jeb Bush, at the time i was reading the LoTR for a sifi class in school and one of the charicters was named "farmer maggot" or something like that. So i just put the two togeth somehow and Blam "farmerjeb" Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Brain on December 19, 2002, 09:48:18 am well, instead of reposting my story, i think i'll just post the link to the previous tread of this typehttp://dynamic.gamespy.com/~damnr6/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=137;start=0 (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~damnr6/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=137;start=0)
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Ace on December 19, 2002, 10:47:07 am Ace - My first time on GR I needed a name so I went with it. I had used it as a nickname before that, but explaining it would be a rather bland story. In retrospect, I wish I picked something more unique. There are way too many people named "Ace"
Malleus - This is the my online persona outside of GR. Anyone who has talked to me on AIM would recognize it. It comes from an AFI song ("Malleus Maleficarum" off Black Sails in the Sunset), and it means "hammer" in latin. I find it to be a lot more unique and cool than Ace, but everyone on GR knows me as Ace so I doubt I'll change anytime soon. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: kami on December 19, 2002, 02:37:48 pm Malleus is also where the word ?malleable? comes from, which means easily able to form. Just for your information, I know how interested you all are!
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: [[EUR]] HoloGram on December 19, 2002, 10:42:35 pm My original and true GR nick ( also my nick in other things ) HoloGram, has been thought out by me in an dark rainy day. I though of something special, a nick that not evry body uses - sure some ppl have the same nick too - . I didnt want something normal like Killer, or God, or any Name of a action Hero of a movi.
But i alsway liked the startwars movies and the technolgie - and the teleporting stuff and the Holografic Rooms. A hologram is funny, it is something that u can see but it is not there - its an illusion. and after i though me beeing a HoloGram for the gaming community and my opponents i desided that should be my nick name. The Nickname Angel, came from an other Idea after i joined EUR. when the clan ANGELs got inactive for a while, i needed a new nick for EUR b/c i did not want to use the same nick for two Clans. HoloGram was always and will stay an *ANGEL*. The i desided to take something that reminds my on my old Clan. so i took Angel. Skul nick is comming later - i have to go now! Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Agent Wallabie on December 19, 2002, 11:50:06 pm I liked the other story better Jeb...
But enny ways I remembered my very 1st name. K-jah, taken from GTA3, and my other name Swami, I got that one from the movie 'The Devil's Advolcate'. Great movie by the way ;) Wallie~ Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Flame on December 20, 2002, 12:11:01 am Ok, I logged onto a computer, and found someone with the aim s/n "flamewind66", so I took that over, and used it as my GR name, except people called me flame, so I shortened it. Weee, lies.
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Agent Wallabie on December 20, 2002, 02:05:02 am Just tell the trueth Flame, you picked that name becouse ur a big flamer ;)
Peace out man. Wallie~ Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: .vooDoo. on December 20, 2002, 02:56:07 am I have only had 2 names on GR. Some of you that have been around for a while may remeber me as Father. When snake and I decided to form our own clan I decided to change my name to tabu for a day, then to voodoo.
On another note i basically stumbled onto GR by accident one day. I had bought Elite Force and loved playing it on there servers. It was easy to find a game at low pings. I was going through some of the files about, 3 months after i bought it, and stumbled onto the GR folder. I was like, WHATS THIS. So I installed it and took on the name Father and it was history from there. Download the RS demo, so on and so on... Some ppl. even called me Padre. ah well, lame story. 8) Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Flame on December 20, 2002, 03:05:19 am Actually walla, my first name was Falcon for some reason, and then I had to change it (won't tell why). I then picked flamewind for some reason also.
Also, you picked your name because you are a big wall-of-pee ;). Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Agent Wallabie on December 20, 2002, 03:54:30 am Blah Flamer. If you read I got it from two Wallaby's fucking in a petting Zoo at Australia :D
Wallie~ Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: jn.preciousroy on December 20, 2002, 06:05:05 am My original GR name was "[Janitor] Mort". Because I was in the Janitor clan, and because my name is Mort.
Then, when Mort had a reputation for sucking and for being a jackass in games, I changed my name to Precious Roy, in honor of my favorite Sifl & Olly character: Precious Roy. He's a sock puppet. He likes the indigo girls. He thinks you guys smell like old soup. He's making lotsa suckers out of boys and girls. And now I'll stop talking, because it's better for everyone if I do. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: MacMan on December 20, 2002, 09:43:49 am hmm..well
i started out as "macfundamentalist" on Napster mostly. Think i had to change it when i got GameRanger with AoE1. Sine macfundamentalist is too long for the name box of GR (i think) ;D then, well, uh, i just started using my brain, and came up with MacMan. I'm almost always online with MacMan or a variation of it. (MacMan.stoned, firstMacMan (on AIM and iChat) wewt, i like kami's story. it at least has some depth. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Overthrow.aHa! on December 20, 2002, 03:38:04 pm hmmmmmm it all happend one day when i realized i wanted to kill bush and overthrow his regime..............sooo thats my name
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: |MP|Cringe on December 20, 2002, 04:01:16 pm It happened like this:
1. I got a mac. (8/11/02) And realised how much peecees suxxor. 2. Infect made me dl GameRanger. 3. Wombat told me that i should be Cringe. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: kami on December 20, 2002, 09:32:24 pm Haha mac, my story had depth? Well perhaps if you compare it to some other people's stories here ;)
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Mr.Mellow on December 20, 2002, 09:49:23 pm Hmm. I changed my name from Swoop to Mr.Mellow on GR because someone kept spreading rumors about me TKing and stuff. Wasn't very nice of them, and I'm pretty sure it was Chinka/Rock who started it. haha. I ended up being in a few clans with him, too..Freaky.
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: KoS PY.nq.ict on December 21, 2002, 01:33:08 pm Kami...I think your name should be Assmuncher....or....King Lobster of Cocks. Don't take this the wrong way. I just think it fits your posts here on the forums ;)
Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: cookie on December 21, 2002, 06:57:46 pm well, i've been cookie for as long as i can remember online.
i think it started something like this: AOL Instant Messenger?: pick a name. me: hrm. i like cookies. so uhhh... cookie? AOL Instant Messenger?: ok. your name is now cookie. for all eternity!! me: ok. and then of couse the "*NADS gen" part came later when i joined *NADS and decided because capt. had a rank, i should too. then he suggested i be general, which i humbly accepted. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Mr. Lothario on December 21, 2002, 09:24:16 pm Long, long ago, in the days of misty yore, there was a boy named Nathan. This boy played a game, a game known as (music swells) GEMSTONE III. Gemstone (GS) was a MUD, and Nathan's ability to hunt-and-peck at 60 WPM grew. Nathan played many characters in the world of GS, most of whom were named Jaltir, and most of whom were wizards. In these times long past, Nathan's AOL (yes, AOL) screen name was Big Red 100, for Nathan is a towering redhead, and was called by that name by friend and foe alike. Some months after taking up adventuring in Gemstone, Nathan changed his screen name to Jaltir, and he saw that it was good. When Nathan finally got a real ISP with his cable modem (and said the holy w00t), the time had long passed for a change. Nathan had recently watched "Grumpy Old Men", in which Walter Matthau is called by Jack Lemmon a "lothario." Nathan was intrigued by this word, and looked it up, yea, and discovered that its meaning was "a successful womanizer" or "a seducer of women". Nathan's ability to spell and construct meaningful English sentences had won him much success with the women of AOL, and with a surge of hubris, Nathan took the name "Lothario". But alas, Nathan discovered that the chosen name was taken! Disdaining to append numbers, Nathan thought of variations on the chosen name. Soon, "Mr. Lothario" was decided upon, and it was not taken, and so Nathan took it. And he saw that it was good.
I hereby vow never to speak of myself in the third person again. Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: kami on December 21, 2002, 10:01:30 pm Haha PY, so you're saying my posts are assmunching and gay? If you think so then 95% of all the posts on this forums must be assmunching and gay.
Lothario, what the hell are you doing here with that english of yours? :o Title: Re:Where did you get your gaming name? Post by: Mr. Lothario on December 21, 2002, 10:04:52 pm Seducing Pyrex, duh.
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