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Changing my Handle on SC2, give me your opinions.

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RumZ
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States956 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-14 17:56:23
February 14 2011 16:26 GMT
#1
So the name RumZ, which was a nickname that plays off a few of the first letters of my last name, has gotten a little old.

Recently on the ladder, and somehow more anyoingly frequently, the phrases,

"Dude, I love Rum"
"Rum is the shit, what is your favorite kind?"
"IS THERE A LITTLE CAPTAIN IN YOU RUMZ?"

and a few more dealing with a certain Sailor Jerry and other alcoholic references have really made me absolutely despise my sc2 handle. Whenever I log in to RumZ.232 all I can see is some drunk bastard playing the grind hours of online video games with a battle next to him wasted. It really has begun to piss me off.

So with this being said.. I'd like to grab a new handle. There's a free name change available, so I'm going to delve into these names, and I'm hoping the community could give me some feedback on some of the ideas that I've floated around. My close friends that play just think whatever is a good idea, so it's not even worth asking them. As a GM and a clan leader across a few Blizzard games and communities, it turns into a handjob real fast with just 'oh yeah that's great,' or 'ohhhh perfect' and etc.

The names that I've considered so far:

Fiarce - It's the name of the toon I've played on wow, DaoC, and Everquest. My one problem is that it comes close to farce... which.. I really don't want to deal with that nonsense..

Chrononaut - I think this is a really cool word I came across recently.

Starwisp - Another cool word. The name is interesting, but it doesn't have to deal with time traveling. But a concept involving propulsion.

Esper - I think it's a cool name but I feel like it's a bit much maybe?

The last name I was considering was "ShiningPolaris" but.... Polaris Prime is a popular map from SC2's predecessor.

Anyway.. just looking for input. Don't tell me that I should just stick with RumZ. I am actually sick of the handle after years of alcohol references being tied in with my name.

Turgid
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1623 Posts
February 14 2011 16:32 GMT
#2
Smurf as a famous progamer.
(╬ ಠ益ಠ)
limonovich
Profile Joined September 2010
England226 Posts
February 14 2011 16:36 GMT
#3
DealWithIt
BnkrRush
Trololo

Anything silly, because you want to make people smile with your nick :D
trololo
Obsolescence
Profile Joined August 2010
United States270 Posts
February 14 2011 16:42 GMT
#4
MarineQueenPrime
OneAtoVictorae
RumDMZ
DieTrying
It doesn't think. It doesn't feel. It doesn't laugh or cry. All it does from dusk till dawn is make the soldiers die. -Phyrexian Hulk
Kage
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
India788 Posts
February 14 2011 16:45 GMT
#5
VirginLiver?

Ok seriously though, I think you should choose the first 3 letters of the race you play, then add 2 letters from your first name and 2 letters from your surname and then see if you have something going on there. You should play around to make sure it's not dorky either.

Btw, can you tell me how you get a name change?
jlim
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Spain943 Posts
February 14 2011 16:51 GMT
#6
DragonBallX
Dieoxhide
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark53 Posts
February 14 2011 17:05 GMT
#7
Rhubarb
'Ex nihilo nihil fit'
aeoliant
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada361 Posts
February 14 2011 17:13 GMT
#8
aeoliant. then add me and we'll 2v2
Enervate
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1769 Posts
February 14 2011 17:20 GMT
#9
Sober
ishboh
Profile Joined October 2010
United States954 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-14 17:22:27
February 14 2011 17:21 GMT
#10
esper sounds cool.

not chrononaut, I hate stupid names like that. might as well call yourself Darkavenger or Machinefists

In order to make it cool you have to capitalize random letters though:

e.g.
espeR
eSPer
esPeR
EspEr
Dromar
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States2145 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-14 17:30:22
February 14 2011 17:29 GMT
#11
Just try something funny.

Or a really obscure character reference or celebrity from a while back.

edit: I did think esper sounded cool. I'd go with either Esper or EspEr. Probably the first if it were me.
psychopat
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada417 Posts
February 14 2011 17:50 GMT
#12
Of the ones you mentioned, Starwisp is probably the best. I prefer Esper but you'll probably get a ton of Final Fantasy comments. Chrononaut sounds tacky and like you said about Fiarce, it's too close to Farce.

ShiningPolaris you'd probably get annoying comments about both the Polaris map and about the song, considering how popular it was in the DDR/ITG community...
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11961 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-14 17:52:02
February 14 2011 17:51 GMT
#13
IRCheese

It is so awesome that I have considered changing to it for over a week now.
RumZ
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States956 Posts
February 14 2011 17:53 GMT
#14
It's definitely a tossup between Esper and Starwisp
jlim
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Spain943 Posts
February 14 2011 17:54 GMT
#15
Esperwisp
RumZ
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States956 Posts
February 14 2011 17:56 GMT
#16
On February 15 2011 02:54 jlim wrote:
Esperwisp



I'm gonna go with no, lol that's awful.
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
February 14 2011 17:58 GMT
#17
Ikea Catalog!

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TryThis
Profile Joined February 2007
Canada1522 Posts
February 14 2011 18:01 GMT
#18
On February 15 2011 02:21 ishboh wrote:
esper sounds cool.

not chrononaut, I hate stupid names like that. might as well call yourself Darkavenger or Machinefists

In order to make it cool you have to capitalize random letters though:

e.g.
espeR
eSPer
esPeR
EspEr


Esper is the best one of those. Dont do the capitalization thing though
Dwell
Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
February 14 2011 18:05 GMT
#19
Why not do something trolltastic? Something like probeRusher, and play zerg or something. Although making smurf pro accounts, and then doing completely retarded crap is funny too.
DaBears57
Profile Joined December 2009
United States300 Posts
February 14 2011 18:14 GMT
#20
What's wrong with a handle of rum? ^_^

Also, if you changed your name to Magnus, you would never lose another game.
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