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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: disgaeniac on September 23, 2013, 03:50:32 pm
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So, what's the origin/backstory of everyone's user-names...here or elsewhere?
Mine should *really* be pretty un-exciting & self-explanatory ;)
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I'm a composer, and the first piece of music I wrote was called "Halo of the Sun". I'm not very familiar with the Silent Hill series, but I've been told that's some sort of thing to do with Silent Hill and most people assume that's what my name is from, but it's not :P
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I'm a composer, and the first piece of music I wrote was called "Halo of the Sun". I'm not very familiar with the Silent Hill series, but I've been told that's some sort of thing to do with Silent Hill and most people assume that's what my name is from, but it's not :P
That's neat.
What kind of music do you compose?
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Not sure if Ive mentioned this before ... but mine is actually from a game too. Miracle warriors on the SMS. On the map is the list of all the cities and continents. One of them is called Areos. Its the name I used for my very first EQ character. I then wanted to make a character to play at the same time so I flipped the spelling to Soera. That name is the name that followed me to DDO and then to all my forums.
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My parents gave me my name. ;)
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My parents gave me my name. ;)
Was gonna say the same thing. I don't use usernames/screen names. I use my real name.
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I like foxes.
I like game hacking.
Voila.
I have another name that I haven't really used for several years but it's kind of a boring backstory so bleh.
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I miss my child hood from the 80s and mainly 90s :(
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My parents gave me my name. ;)
That's hilarious :D
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I just thought it sounded cool years back, and I've used it for a username on many websites.
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Oheao was a name me and my brother came up with. I think it sounds pretty unique.
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Well I bought a copy of Pac-Pix for DS 5 years ago when I was in sixth grade. After that I started collecting Pac-Man stuff, which brought me to retro gaming again. My account name on Runescape was PacPix5 so on every site after that it has been PacPix. My old online name from when I played toontown (Which sadly just closed, but a private server is being made) and neopets was Justin835722 ha.
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Someone back in high school (which is estimated to have happened 50 million years ago), one of my friends randomly called me Jobocan during some school break, and it stuck. Nothing too exciting...
There is the fact that Joe Bocan is actually an actress/pop singer that used to be popular here in Quebec in the early 90s, but it doesn't have anything to do with it :P
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Mine is based on math. Most people read sin as in original sin instead of sine cosine tangent. However, it is the nerdy math pronunciation. It comes from when I was working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center with the BaBar collaboration measuring CP Violation. About 5 years of my life was based on this trigonometric measurement. Which in hindsight seems kind of sad. But I enjoyed it... I'm a nerd. It comes from stuff like this: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/9912002 Or as seen in this picture
(http://ckmfitter.in2p3.fr/www/results/plots_moriond12/png/rhoeta_large.png)
I've kept the name because surprisingly, no one ever picks this name and it is always free. Imagine that... ::)
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(http://ckmfitter.in2p3.fr/www/results/plots_moriond12/png/rhoeta_large.png)
???
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(http://ckmfitter.in2p3.fr/www/results/plots_moriond12/png/rhoeta_large.png)
???
I'll be honest, after about 5 years, I still don't have a full understanding of what that friggin' picture means. I understand the basic triangle and where it came from (although that took years). But all of the color coding... bro... I don't even know.
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Mine's even more boring than Sin2Beta. (I'm an engineer. I always read it as Sine :P )
My last name is Overturf. As long as I can remember people have called me Turf. There was a stretch in college where my family were the only ones to call me Jason. I would bet in my lifetime more people have known "Turf" than Jason.
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I'm a composer, and the first piece of music I wrote was called "Halo of the Sun". I'm not very familiar with the Silent Hill series, but I've been told that's some sort of thing to do with Silent Hill and most people assume that's what my name is from, but it's not :P
That's neat.
What kind of music do you compose?
Concert works, orchestra mostly. Every now and then I do some video game music.
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Someone back in high school (which is estimated to have happened 50 million years ago), one of my friends randomly called me Jobocan during some school break, and it stuck. Nothing too exciting...
There is the fact that Joe Bocan is actually an actress/pop singer that used to be popular here in Quebec in the early 90s, but it doesn't have anything to do with it :P
Crazy Canadians; eh ::)
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Someone back in high school (which is estimated to have happened 50 million years ago), one of my friends randomly called me Jobocan during some school break, and it stuck. Nothing too exciting...
There is the fact that Joe Bocan is actually an actress/pop singer that used to be popular here in Quebec in the early 90s, but it doesn't have anything to do with it :P
Crazy Canadians; eh ::)
Lol, I'm Canadian, and I don't ever say eh.
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While we are all giving the reason for our name's, any one care to mention their age?? 8) I'm old! I'm 25 :'(
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Really? Youre old? I just turned 39 last month.
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i saw "redblaze" as a character in Soul Calibur Broken Destiny's "Quick Match" and thought that sounded good. I just always put 57 at the end of my usernames cause for some reason that number was never taken whenever I would make a username for anything so I just always add it.
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I'm 27.
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Turing 27 on Oct. 2.
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33 here.
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16/F/America
Single :-* :-* ;) ;)
Actually 16 and male.... and single ha.
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I'm younger than all of you! I'm 15.
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 42 on Oct. 25th...
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Oh man. Disgaeniac has over 10 years on me. 31 over here.
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friends started calling me it.
ste the bubble
bubble and squeek
greek
everyone thinks im greek.
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Oh man. Disgaeniac has over 10 years on me. 31 over here.
He has almost 27 years on me!
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Oh man. Disgaeniac has over 10 years on me. 31 over here.
He has almost 27 years on me!
he has 20 years on me
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Oh man. Disgaeniac has over 10 years on me. 31 over here.
like wise. i think
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Mine is a variation of wrestlers names and I use the first initial of my real name...
X-Pac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8qwep2oIRc)
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Austin 3:16 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-O9_yp3i8)
I was a big wrestling fanatic then. Not that I'm not now but not as big these days. But I had this name for over a decade now. First made it up in the old Dreamcast game "Chu Chu Rocket" online and I have used it ever since then. I sat looking at the login screen trying to think up a name and that's what popped up in my mind.
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I've been using my screen name for almost 20 years now, it's a character from an independent graphic novel called Kings and Thieves.
Oh, same age as Scott, 31.
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Since everyone else is naming their ages, I'm 30.
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Well I'm older than disgaeniac I'll be 43 on Nov. 19th. :'(
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Well I'm older than disgaeniac I'll be 43 on Nov. 19th. :'(
We're not just older -but- also wiser (...and...we've played lots & lots of games over all of those years) ;)
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Well I'm older than disgaeniac I'll be 43 on Nov. 19th. :'(
We're not just older -but- also wiser (...and...we've played lots & lots of games over all of those years) ;)
So True ;D
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Well I'm older than disgaeniac I'll be 43 on Nov. 19th. :'(
Actually, I've still got ya beat (by a few weeks)...my B-Day's 10-25 :o
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Mine is a variation of wrestlers names and I use the first initial of my real name...
X-Pac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8qwep2oIRc)
and
Austin 3:16 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-O9_yp3i8)
Heh didnt think anyone ever liked X-pac. I miss Degeneration X and that era of WWF (Screw the WWE).
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Mine is a variation of wrestlers names and I use the first initial of my real name...
X-Pac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8qwep2oIRc)
and
Austin 3:16 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-O9_yp3i8)
Heh didnt think anyone ever liked X-pac. I miss Degeneration X and that era of WWF (Screw the WWE).
I liked X-Pac. I liked him when he was Syxx in the n.W.o over at WCW, too. I never did see him as the 1-2-3 Kid except in retrospect WWE DVDs, though.
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Mine is a variation of wrestlers names and I use the first initial of my real name...
X-Pac (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8qwep2oIRc)
and
Austin 3:16 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx-O9_yp3i8)
Heh didnt think anyone ever liked X-pac. I miss Degeneration X and that era of WWF (Screw the WWE).
Yeah, didn't there used to be an "X-Pac sucks" chant that was pretty popular?
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 42 on Oct. 25th...
Yes, but according to what you posted earlier you will be turning 42 and I'll be turning 43 this year, No?
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 42 on Oct. 25th...
Yes, but according to what you posted earlier you will be turning 42 and I'll be turning 43 this year, No?
He's starting to get confused in this day and age.
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 42 on Oct. 25th...
Yes, but according to what you posted earlier you will be turning 42 and I'll be turning 43 this year, No?
He's starting to get confused in this day and age.
;D Good one
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Pretty self-explanatory here too. FFXIK = Final Fantasy XI Kovalt. Short hand game name then first letter of my main handle on the Remora server. I started using it way back when so my friends on that server would know me. It just kinda stuck.
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 43 on Oct. 25th...
Fix'd.
My bad - must have hit "2" instead of "3" :o
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 42 on Oct. 25th...
Yes, but according to what you posted earlier you will be turning 42 and I'll be turning 43 this year, No?
He's starting to get confused in this day and age.
;D
Damnable, tech-savvy whippersnappers - *GET OFF OF MY LAWN* >:(
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 42 on Oct. 25th...
Yes, but according to what you posted earlier you will be turning 42 and I'll be turning 43 this year, No?
He's starting to get confused in this day and age.
;D
Damnable, tech-savvy whippersnappers - *GET OFF OF MY LAWN* >:(
Well, the good thing is that you should have at least 30 years of your life left.!
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I'm older than all of you! I'm turning 42 on Oct. 25th...
Yes, but according to what you posted earlier you will be turning 42 and I'll be turning 43 this year, No?
He's starting to get confused in this day and age.
;D
Damnable, tech-savvy whippersnappers - *GET OFF OF MY LAWN* >:(
Well, the good thing is that you should have at least 30 years of your life left.!
Ehh...
One good...well...at least *FUN* thing about being my age was getting to grow-up/be a teen-ager in the 80's ;)
If one was into the whole "Sex, drugs, 'n' Rock-n-Roll - Metal/Power Ballads & Hair-bands" thing (which, I was - whole-heartedly)...it *really* was a kick-ass time to be growing up.
I mean...we didn't have cell phones -but- then again, we didn't have AIDS to worry about either. It was a very different (and, I think) exciting time to be alive!
We got the 2600 as soon as it was released - and have had the opportunity to play & experience games/gaming from the Arcade/Atari days until now.
As far as having another 30 years to live...I just might ;)
I *vividly* remember being shocked to reach the age of 18 -and- couldn't believe it when I hit 21. A lot of my friends & family *didn't* :'(
So, as far as I'm concerned...I'm already living on borrowed/extra/undeserved time -so- it's all gravy, really!
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hahaha! ok now I got it ??? I agree that being a teenager in the 80's was a great thing, and the music just can't be beat from then. I really wasn't into the sex and drugs part of it all but I did go to my share of parties where all my friends did drink and do drugs but those things just never interested me, I was more concerned about finding an abandoned house with a empty pool that we could skate in. :P My first Video game system was the Adam Computer but I played soooo much of the Atari 2600 cause my best friend had an Atari. So obviously my username comes from my love of the atari system.
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hahaha! ok now I got it ??? I agree that being a teenager in the 80's was a great thing, and the music just can't be beat from then. I really wasn't into the sex and drugs part of it all but I did go to my share of parties where all my friends did drink and do drugs but those things just never interested me, I was more concerned about finding an abandoned house with a empty pool that we could skate in. :P My first Video game system was the Adam Computer but I played soooo much of the Atari 2600 cause my best friend had an Atari. So obviously my username comes from my love of the atari system.
Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
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Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
pretty much sounds like me in my adult life. I'll be your friend ;D
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Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
pretty much sounds like me in my adult life. I'll be your friend ;D
Okay, sounds great!! ;D
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Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
pretty much sounds like me in my adult life. I'll be your friend ;D
I'd be careful. I saw a story on 60 minutes that started off with a post like this on an internet forum. :P
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Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
pretty much sounds like me in my adult life. I'll be your friend ;D
I'd be careful. I saw a story on 60 minutes that started off with a post like this on an internet forum. :P
Yeah, I've had very bad experiences making friends online before, so I'm a lot more careful now. I don't think AtariBoy will cause trouble to me though.
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Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
pretty much sounds like me in my adult life. I'll be your friend ;D
I'd be careful. I saw a story on 60 minutes that started off with a post like this on an internet forum. :P
Yeah, I've had very bad experiences making friends online before, so I'm a lot more careful now. I don't think AtariBoy will cause trouble to me though.
I don't think he will, either :)
(thinking that maybe it should evolve into AtariMAN by now)...
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I didn't realize we we're posting ages as well. Just hit 30 a while back.
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I'm pretty boring. dstone = first initial, last name. Never could come up with an online alias that "clicked." Then I decided to start using my full name on a few forums around the same time I founded a now-defunct game expo (it's Drew, by the way, if anyone cares).
So, yeah, a pretty uninspired and boring origins story.
Oh, and 26 y.o., too. Going to be 27 in a few months.
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(thinking that maybe it should evolve into AtariMAN by now)...
Naw, when it comes to playing videogames I will always be a kid at heart. ;)
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So Disgaeniac bugged me to come over here, so now I'm catching up. For some reason, I thought this thread was about videogames and *their* names.
Well I bought a copy of Pac-Pix for DS 5 years ago when I was in sixth grade. After that I started collecting Pac-Man stuff, which brought me to retro gaming again. My account name on Runescape was PacPix5 so on every site after that it has been PacPix. My old online name from when I played toontown (Which sadly just closed, but a private server is being made) and neopets was Justin835722 ha.
Haha, Neopets! I think I had Deso[long string of numbers].
While we are all giving the reason for our name's, any one care to mention their age?? 8) I'm old! I'm 25 :'(
I, too, made the mistake of thinking I was the oldest one when I joined the site. Alas, Scott and I are the same age -- 31.
Oh man. Disgaeniac has over 10 years on me. 31 over here.
He has almost 27 years on me!
he has 20 years on me
Way to make Disgaeniac feel old, guys ;)
Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
Sounds like me when I was your age. And look how I turned out! :o Yes, you, too, can be a 31 year old gamer girl.
I'm Desocietas, and my name came from my teenage self when mainstream internet began to infiltrate American homes in one-hour increments. I didn't want to go the route of Nancy[insert birth/current year here] or qtazn143 or some gawdawful username that most teenagers (and adults!) came up with. So I thought I'd be "clever" and "interesting" (read: emo) by making one up from latin/foreign word origins. I think it ultimately meant "apart from society" or "of society" or something weird (*cough*embarrassing*cough*) like that. I can't even recall the meaning of my other (even older) username Devegari31 outside of this vague interest in wanting the number 31 to symbolize luck.
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So Disgaeniac bugged me to come over here, so now I'm catching up. For some reason, I thought this thread was about videogames and *their* names.
Well I bought a copy of Pac-Pix for DS 5 years ago when I was in sixth grade. After that I started collecting Pac-Man stuff, which brought me to retro gaming again. My account name on Runescape was PacPix5 so on every site after that it has been PacPix. My old online name from when I played toontown (Which sadly just closed, but a private server is being made) and neopets was Justin835722 ha.
Haha, Neopets! I think I had Deso[long string of numbers].
While we are all giving the reason for our name's, any one care to mention their age?? 8) I'm old! I'm 25 :'(
I, too, made the mistake of thinking I was the oldest one when I joined the site. Alas, Scott and I are the same age -- 31.
Oh man. Disgaeniac has over 10 years on me. 31 over here.
He has almost 27 years on me!
he has 20 years on me
Way to make Disgaeniac feel old, guys ;)
Yeah, I try to stay as far away as I can from drugs, and I've never had sex, so I guess the way I'm growing up is quite a bit different from Disgaeniac, and I have never really been the social type person, I'm pretty shy in person.
Sounds like me when I was your age. And look how I turned out! :o Yes, you, too, can be a 31 year old gamer girl.
I'm Desocietas, and my name came from my teenage self when mainstream internet began to infiltrate American homes in one-hour increments. I didn't want to go the route of Nancy[insert birth/current year here] or qtazn143 or some gawdawful username that most teenagers (and adults!) came up with. So I thought I'd be "clever" and "interesting" (read: emo) by making one up from latin/foreign word origins. I think it ultimately meant "apart from society" or "of society" or something weird (*cough*embarrassing*cough*) like that. I can't even recall the meaning of my other (even older) username Devegari31 outside of this vague interest in wanting the number 31 to symbolize luck.
I liked hearing about your old names and how you came up with yours. Reminds me of creating mine when I was around 12. Anyone else care to share their abandoned.
I went by:
DarkLink (directly a Zelda reference... This one was just hard to get)
NegativeCreep (Nirvana Reference. I was/am a HUGE Cobain fan)
T2PunkRocker (This was from a StarCraft "guild" my co-op partner was T2HeavyMetal)
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I liked hearing about your old names and how you came up with yours. Reminds me of creating mine when I was around 12. Anyone else care to share their abandoned.
I went by:
DarkLink (directly a Zelda reference... This one was just hard to get)
NegativeCreep (Nirvana Reference. I was/am a HUGE Cobain fan)
T2PunkRocker (This was from a StarCraft "guild" my co-op partner was T2HeavyMetal)
Kitsune Sniper.
I liked the 'Kitsune' name, but didn't understand what it meant until an episode of The X-Files said what it was. (Fox.) Sniper, well, I was good at light gun games. :p
I got sick of the name a few years ago and changed it around, but a few stubborn sites refuse to acknowledge the name change and keep using the old one despite my requests to change the info.
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I liked hearing about your old names and how you came up with yours. Reminds me of creating mine when I was around 12. Anyone else care to share their abandoned.
I went by:
DarkLink (directly a Zelda reference... This one was just hard to get)
NegativeCreep (Nirvana Reference. I was/am a HUGE Cobain fan)
T2PunkRocker (This was from a StarCraft "guild" my co-op partner was T2HeavyMetal)
Kitsune Sniper.
I liked the 'Kitsune' name, but didn't understand what it meant until an episode of The X-Files said what it was. (Fox.) Sniper, well, I was good at light gun games. :p
I got sick of the name a few years ago and changed it around, but a few stubborn sites refuse to acknowledge the name change and keep using the old one despite my requests to change the info.
Nice! Is that what got you into the fox theme? That X-Files episode? FOX Mulder? What channel did that appear on again? Too many coincidences...
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Mine is from what everyone expects...Donnie Darko. I picked it up when I started playing online games years ago. It's funny because the name fits my personality. I've even considered adding it into my actual name. Before I settled on Darko I used several others. The earliest I can remember is doubledown. I think I was watching the movie Rounders or something when I started using it. I'll probably never alter it away from Darko (except for random variants like darko2424 for xbl, psn, etc).
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Nothing game-related for mine. It's a combination of a Diamanda Galas project called Insekta, which is (very briefly summarized) about small, resistant forces that can kill you, like viruses, and the AI character of Wintermute from the book Neuromancer.
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Mine is actually from a Song just called "kingrat" I started using it a couple years ago on al my accounts and it just kind of stuck