to be a pebble is to be someone that can be like everyone else, therefore included into the community; 444 is a religious number, people in italy are very religious; i was trying to be just a pebble but username was allready taken, so that was the first idea to add at the time. a pebble is round, small, and fits in almost anywhere. it can be a weapon, a support, or a part of thousands of different same like minded individuals.
I fell in love with SKTelecom T1 back in the height of the golden ages, I also started as Opticom (No fuckin idea, smoked too much weed), and then I evolved into Telecom, I guess. All in all, I chose the nickname and just decided to stick with it after 10+ years or so, I gathered too many friends along the way to change my alias again.
On August 03 2020 02:52 puppykiller wrote: I can't tell you or I'll go to jail -_-
My first WoW character was a Troll Shaman named Brahmin, after the Hindu deity. Someone bought me a realm transfer which meant I needed a new name, so I went with Zam, a slightly trollier version of my name + Brah after Brahmin da Shaman, mon.
When I was in University, I started to suffer from anxiety. I started seeing a counsellor who has helped me tremendously with understanding myself. The first time I was in her office she had a saying written on her white board. The saying was, "Between Stimulus And Response There Is A Space. In that Space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom," by Viktor Frankl.
The reason for my ID is that first sentence. My name is an acronym for it. It has helped me tremendously as a person, but especially in my ability to stay calm and parent my kids in a way that I feel suits who I want to be. I still say this to myself fairly regularly and it helps me think about why I'm feeling the way I am.
On August 03 2020 03:21 Bsartias wrote: When I was in University, I started to suffer from anxiety. I started seeing a counsellor who has helped me tremendously with understanding myself. The first time I was in her office she had a saying written on her white board. The saying was, "Between Stimulus And Response There Is A Space. In that Space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom," by Viktor Frankl.
The reason for my ID is that first sentence. My name is an acronym for it. It has helped me tremendously as a person, but especially in my ability to stay calm and parent my kids in a way that I feel suits who I want to be. I still say this to myself fairly regularly and it helps me think about why I'm feeling the way I am.
On August 03 2020 03:07 Zambrah wrote: My first WoW character was a Troll Shaman named Brahmin, after the Hindu deity. Someone bought me a realm transfer which meant I needed a new name, so I went with Zam, a slightly trollier version of my name + Brah after Brahmin da Shaman, mon.
I looked it up. Kinda looks like a Zealot with slightly different clothing. ;O
On August 03 2020 05:58 prosatan wrote: Black metal fan since forever! My quote is also quite strange (not the part with JD fighting , the other one...)
Anyway, nice thread and I am glad to answer !
\m/ I saw there were threads like this one before I posted it but I think we are doing it better so far.
On August 03 2020 04:36 art_of_turtle wrote: I was learning how to play terran in a 2011 DRTL League but didn't want to use my original name. After the teamleague the name stuck.
It's why this emoji T_T was invented. It means Turtle Terran makes me cry.
Once I managed to get back to B.Net and having an existential crisis realising I didn't have a specific name and was a nomad in the BW universe, I had a lightbulb moment and settled on Psycrow, who is the protagonist from the Earthworm Jim series, which was one of my favourite ROMS to play. Being young and trying to be stylish, I felt psyCrow worked best. It didn't feel complete though, so I took inspiration from a surname (Crowe) and added the 'e' to the end to make it a bit more complete for me.
Polish people often comment on how my name is funny to them as 'psy' means 'dog' in Polish, so my name loosely translates to 'dog crow', which of course is both ridiculous yet great. Although since coming back to Remastered late last year, I've often thought of rebranding to something else, but stick with this in the hope I come across some old friends while playing public games.
Rather sedate. In my youth would go to my dad’s work for the then-novelty of browsing the internet. Their computers’ passwords rotated around various marsupials and I subsequently thought a wombat must be some cool, vicious badass creature and adopted it as my handle.
Kept it even after discovering the humble wombat was not quite as I imagined.
Use the NI here as apparently there’s another Wombat, being from Northern Ireland. Despite being my listed location a few users have thought it was NL and I’m Dutch.
i used the name 'proxa' for a long time who some of you might know as a former US team BW player / halo dude.
i was like 13 and copied it because i thought it was a cool name and i guess he quit bw by the time i played around ~05-06. It was funny because i was really bad....probably around the c1/c2 in wgtour days...but anyway i got a ton of messages from old bw players like eriador...ret...geoff etc.....so i phibbed! i pretended to be the dude and joined 88) with geoff and 2p with ret....then they found out a while later and that was that....but at least i got to play with some notable players and got a lot better at BW using some of that clout!
Before on B.Net, you could have "special" character in your name. Mine was something like that (-_-)(x_x)(u_u) but I couldn't use this in the forum so I used FaCe_. I don't recall why the _1, I think I forgot my password and created a new account not long after
fanatacist - My English was not good and I played D2. If Fanaticism is my favorite ability, then the person using it must be a fanatacist, right? Spelling error unintentional.
Murderotica - A portmanteau I saw elsewhere which I thought was dope.
ILOVEKITTENS - I love kittens. Also, how does it feel to get rekt by a player named ILOVEKITTENS when you're Xx_EviL_LorD_xX or whatever? Counter-edgy.
Jealous - I resonated with the story of this character in Death Note.
sGs.BaBo - Starcraft Generations newbie clan, babo because that's what my gf nicknamed me at the time. Didn't know there was an iambabo who was already known when I made it.
imatthebeach - May be not known to most of people who know me, but this was originally my account on ICCup. I made it while I was on vacation in Aruba and I was crushing D rank scrubs, while drinking a cocktail, you guessed it... At the beach, on a beachchair, using hotel WiFi.
ChoboSwaggins - Saw some LotR parodies of "BilboBaggins" and figured that this fit too well to give it up. Not even a fan of LotR, just thought it was funny.
Late 98 I believe it was. I was on the battle net for the first time and used my dads full name because I thought I had to seeing that he was the one who paid for the game. Then a small clan called NoS recruited me and I became NoS-Craig. I forget what NoS stood for though.
The clan was mainly a 2v2/FFA and UMS type of clan just for fun. I decided to keep the name because it reminds me of my first time using the internet and the great fun I had on the b.net back in the day.
imBLIND - basically cause i was trying to make a login name before I got glasses, only thing that I could think of is ofc "im blind"
omnomnomnomn - sick of trying to figure out available usernames on LoL, so I just typed in every combination of the word "nom" until one of them was available.
On August 03 2020 10:57 Jealous wrote: fanatacist - My English was not good and I played D2. If Fanaticism is my favorite ability, then the person using it must be a fanatacist, right? Spelling error unintentional.
Murderotica - A portmanteau I saw elsewhere which I thought was dope.
ILOVEKITTENS - I love kittens. Also, how does it feel to get rekt by a player named ILOVEKITTENS when you're Xx_EviL_LorD_xX or whatever? Counter-edgy.
Jealous - I resonated with the story of this character in Death Note.
sGs.BaBo - Starcraft Generations newbie clan, babo because that's what my gf nicknamed me at the time. Didn't know there was an iambabo who was already known when I made it.
imatthebeach - May be not known to most of people who know me, but this was originally my account on ICCup. I made it while I was on vacation in Aruba and I was crushing D rank scrubs, while drinking a cocktail, you guessed it... At the beach, on a beachchair, using hotel WiFi.
ChoboSwaggins - Saw some LotR parodies of "BilboBaggins" and figured that this fit too well to give it up. Not even a fan of LotR, just thought it was funny.
I am a relatively new player so I doubt this will be of anyone's interest but here goes. I've always been kind of indecisive when it came to making nicknames so I usually had to make them on a whim to prevent myself from overthinking.
Anc13nt - Thought it sounded cool and I have an interest in history.
ZergSquidward - Played someone named Squidward and I realized that the character bore some resemblance to the overlord portrait so I made the account name and gave it the overlord portrait because I thought it would be silly.
Xeralos - I usually make a lot of typo errors when typing in the middle of a game (especially when I'm tilted) and there was a game with a friend where I was annoyed that I mis-microed some zealots so I tried to complain about it. Instead of typing "zealot" I wrote something more like "zeralos" instead. Thought it sounded original as a name and I adapted it
i was playing on europe @ op ToT) saw this dude "LostTemple" i and i tought that shit is cool, i'll do the same, so i registred "LegacyOfChar" old as fk map that nobody played anymore, then i got into NrG. and i couldnt be NrG.LegacyOfChar, too many characters, so i used the korean name of the same map "Xeno Sky" so i became NrG.XenOsky
On August 03 2020 15:00 Chris_Havoc wrote: Mine is pretty simple. Chris is indeed my real first name and Havoc was a nickname I was given when I was a practitioner of the martial arts.
Now exactly HOW I earned the Havoc nickname is a story better left untold.
Breaking nerds IRL and in game! Few can claim the same.
On August 03 2020 15:18 Anc13nt wrote: I am a relatively new player so I doubt this will be of anyone's interest but here goes. I've always been kind of indecisive when it came to making nicknames so I usually had to make them on a whim to prevent myself from overthinking.
Anc13nt - Thought it sounded cool and I have an interest in history.
ZergSquidward - Played someone named Squidward and I realized that the character bore some resemblance to the overlord portrait so I made the account name and gave it the overlord portrait because I thought it would be silly.
Xeralos - I usually make a lot of typo errors when typing in the middle of a game (especially when I'm tilted) and there was a game with a friend where I was annoyed that I mis-microed some zealots so I tried to complain about it. Instead of typing "zealot" I wrote something more like "zeralos" instead. Thought it sounded original as a name and I adapted it
Xelaros will be my next DND character. I really thought Anc13ent was because you've played for long in some long lost clan or something... ; D
On August 03 2020 15:39 XenOsky wrote: i was playing on europe @ op ToT) saw this dude "LostTemple" i and i tought that shit is cool, i'll do the same, so i registred "LegacyOfChar" old as fk map that nobody played anymore, then i got into NrG. and i couldnt be NrG.LegacyOfChar, too many characters, so i used the korean name of the same map "Xeno Sky" so i became NrG.XenOsky
Used to play WoW under the name Jammer on horde, met a cool gnome rogue called Etch and after that I always thought 4 letter names were cool. When I switched to Alliance during WoTLK I was trying to think of a 4 letter name and this came into my head.
On August 03 2020 15:39 XenOsky wrote: i was playing on europe @ op ToT) saw this dude "LostTemple" i and i tought that shit is cool, i'll do the same, so i registred "LegacyOfChar" old as fk map that nobody played anymore, then i got into NrG. and i couldnt be NrG.LegacyOfChar, too many characters, so i used the korean name of the same map "Xeno Sky" so i became NrG.XenOsky
been that dude ever since.
That's next level!
haha lol, i got lucky that legacy of char came to mind instead of "Jim Raynors Memory" or "Korhal of Ceres".
On August 03 2020 15:39 XenOsky wrote: i was playing on europe @ op ToT) saw this dude "LostTemple" i and i tought that shit is cool, i'll do the same, so i registred "LegacyOfChar" old as fk map that nobody played anymore, then i got into NrG. and i couldnt be NrG.LegacyOfChar, too many characters, so i used the korean name of the same map "Xeno Sky" so i became NrG.XenOsky
We still haven’t heard the story of how puppykiller became your tag!
Man I miss the ease of making smurfs in the olden days. Was never good enough to be doing troll builds and de-ranking, I did it for the thrill of making stupider and stupider IDs.
my tag comes from a game i picked up in 2013 where my favourite characters has the japanese kanji for either Rain or Wind in their names, thus RainStorm. it is a pretty ironic ID in Starcraft since i am so terrible at spellcaster micro. i do main Protoss, however. 148 is just a number combination important to me.
On August 03 2020 19:33 Wombat_NI wrote: We still haven’t heard the story of how puppykiller became your tag!
Man I miss the ease of making smurfs in the olden days. Was never good enough to be doing troll builds and de-ranking, I did it for the thrill of making stupider and stupider IDs.
I wanted an original nickname around 99-2000, so I came up with the first letter of different SC characters and made a word that didn't sound that bad. Zeratul Artanis Kerrigan Raynor Overmind and Mengsk = ZakRoM
My story is quite dull, I took a new handle for every team I joined and the period I was most active with the community or what to say I was named Return[SomE], on some give back type of idea(???). I was admin on ggnet with that name so when I came back I figured it was probably the one most recognizable so went with it. Figured if I take an id that people have bigger chance of remembering I might get contacted by old friends seeing me.
I've noticed now that changing id each time I joined a new team(and joining a wee bit many teams maybe) wasnt particularly smart. Since I can talk to a person and say "hey I remember you I was .... uh... I had this id maybe you know that? okay you dont remember that one okay... well I had this id I think, well atleast I was in these teams you maybe remember me" its hard to match up what id's I had in what periods now that I'm old and trying to remember how it correlates with the player I'm talking to and in all honestly return wasnt like the id I liked the most either of the ones I've had.. It is what it is ^^
On August 03 2020 15:39 XenOsky wrote: i was playing on europe @ op ToT) saw this dude "LostTemple" i and i tought that shit is cool, i'll do the same, so i registred "LegacyOfChar" old as fk map that nobody played anymore, then i got into NrG. and i couldnt be NrG.LegacyOfChar, too many characters, so i used the korean name of the same map "Xeno Sky" so i became NrG.XenOsky
been that dude ever since.
Is Legacy of Char a Blizzard map pack original?
i don't think so, the map is pretty solid compared to blizzard maps.
But right before Azriel I had a nickname Shiroime which means in Japanese White Eyes, I found it cool.
But since people had trouble pronouncing it and I found it a bit old I finnally named myself Azriel (Aszriel because Azriel is taken actually but it's pronounced the same way) which I find more beautiful, also it's easier to pronounce :D !
Uncreative, unfunny 12 year old. FlaSh was my favorite player, so I wanted FlaSh to be in the name somewhere. I think I got the idea from Bisudagger's name and was like, well if he can have Bisu in his name, surely I can have FlaSh in my name. Yeah... if only FlaShFTW was anywhere near as cool as Bisudagger. Welp, here we are 10 years later, and my name is still awful imo. No one will ever let me change it either.
On August 04 2020 05:08 FlaShFTW wrote: Uncreative, unfunny 12 year old. FlaSh was my favorite player, so I wanted FlaSh to be in the name somewhere. I think I got the idea from Bisudagger's name and was like, well if he can have Bisu in his name, surely I can have FlaSh in my name. Yeah... if only FlaShFTW was anywhere near as cool as Bisudagger. Welp, here we are 10 years later, and my name is still awful imo. No one will ever let me change it either.
Haha... Well not with close to 9K posts! Im LUCKY I don't post a lot so I was able to reclaim LUCKY_NOOB... Shoutout to TL's Gods for doing so. I praise you \o/
On August 04 2020 02:24 Return wrote: My story is quite dull, I took a new handle for every team I joined and the period I was most active with the community or what to say I was named Return[SomE], on some give back type of idea(???). I was admin on ggnet with that name so when I came back I figured it was probably the one most recognizable so went with it. Figured if I take an id that people have bigger chance of remembering I might get contacted by old friends seeing me.
I've noticed now that changing id each time I joined a new team(and joining a wee bit many teams maybe) wasnt particularly smart. Since I can talk to a person and say "hey I remember you I was .... uh... I had this id maybe you know that? okay you dont remember that one okay... well I had this id I think, well atleast I was in these teams you maybe remember me" its hard to match up what id's I had in what periods now that I'm old and trying to remember how it correlates with the player I'm talking to and in all honestly return wasnt like the id I liked the most either of the ones I've had.. It is what it is ^^
Hahah... Yeah I've personally had this problem with your nicknames... ON the positive side however it makes it seem more people are playing!
On August 03 2020 19:33 Wombat_NI wrote: We still haven’t heard the story of how puppykiller became your tag!
Man I miss the ease of making smurfs in the olden days. Was never good enough to be doing troll builds and de-ranking, I did it for the thrill of making stupider and stupider IDs.
It is much easier now! What r u talking about?
I mean I’m too trash to play BW, perhaps it is easier there.
More contrasting my experiences in WC3 making an alt for the craic in about 2 minutes with SC2 and having to make another Bnet acc with an email etc
On August 03 2020 19:33 Wombat_NI wrote: We still haven’t heard the story of how puppykiller became your tag!
Man I miss the ease of making smurfs in the olden days. Was never good enough to be doing troll builds and de-ranking, I did it for the thrill of making stupider and stupider IDs.
It is much easier now! What r u talking about?
I mean I’m too trash to play BW, perhaps it is easier there.
More contrasting my experiences in WC3 making an alt for the craic in about 2 minutes with SC2 and having to make another Bnet acc with an email etc
Yeah I was going to say back in the day if I remember corrected you needed an email...
In SCR you have 3 nicknames per server. Every1 has at least 1 barcode :D
I guess I've always been rather harsh towards myself, plus I started early to like wordplay and the like. Before really playing online I kept calling myself Faylior, because I was such a failure I couldn't even spell failure correctly.
I did have one or two other nicks when playing in Norway's equivalent of high school/college. Like Doomed, Fallen and other jolly nicks as girls rejected me and goals were failed.
At one point I decided to change nickname for some reason. So I went for "Inconplete". I felt somewhat clever, because the "n" is an incomplete "m". So in part it played to me thinking I'm a fuckup, and in part it symbolized the meaning of the nick.
However, after being corrected on my grammatical error a few times too many (ranging from "it's written with an m you dumb retard" to "Nice nick and all, but I think you misspelled it"), I grew tired of explaining it and just went for Incomplete.
On August 04 2020 05:53 Incomplete..ReV wrote: I guess I've always been rather harsh towards myself, plus I started early to like wordplay and the like. Before really playing online I kept calling myself Faylior, because I was such a failure I couldn't even spell failure correctly.
I did have one or two other nicks when playing in Norway's equivalent of high school/college. Like Doomed, Fallen and other jolly nicks as girls rejected me and goals were failed.
At one point I decided to change nickname for some reason. So I went for "Inconplete". I felt somewhat clever, because the "n" is an incomplete "m". So in part it played to me thinking I'm a fuckup, and in part it symbolized the meaning of the nick.
However, after being corrected on my grammatical error a few times too many (ranging from "it's written with an m you dumb retard" to "Nice nick and all, but I think you misspelled it"), I grew tired of explaining it and just went for Incomplete.
I remember the controversy when you switched to Heaven , although pretty sure you were always referred to as Inco :p
On August 03 2020 15:39 XenOsky wrote: i was playing on europe @ op ToT) saw this dude "LostTemple" i and i tought that shit is cool, i'll do the same, so i registred "LegacyOfChar" old as fk map that nobody played anymore, then i got into NrG. and i couldnt be NrG.LegacyOfChar, too many characters, so i used the korean name of the same map "Xeno Sky" so i became NrG.XenOsky
My real name is Dirk and one girl from school always called me dörk, another guy from my class switched that to drök which can be written as droek as well, i thought this could be my online nickname. However, i added a y at the end and entered our school IRC-channel and one idiot really asked me why i would call myself a doctor?! After laughing for some time i ended up shorten the nick from droeky to oeky (omg, when i think about it, its been 20 or 21 years from now when i decided to go with this nickname... good ol days)
I love stories about bad cops. The guy who played Jim Raynor went on to play a good cop who had a bad partner. The movie was filmed in and around the burger/shake/french fry dive that was a prime high school hang out for me.
I had a strange fixation with phoenixes at the time so of course it had to be inserted into online usernames. That was married to my edgy interest in "void" as well, giving birth to this awkward name. In retrospect this was a terrible ID. It's not witty, funny, personal or a Bnet ID. It's just jamming and bashing together together two things I happened to like at the time. Oh, and if anyone was ever curious, it has nothing to do with Phoenixes or Void Rays in SC2.
On August 04 2020 05:53 Incomplete..ReV wrote: I guess I've always been rather harsh towards myself, plus I started early to like wordplay and the like. Before really playing online I kept calling myself Faylior, because I was such a failure I couldn't even spell failure correctly.
I did have one or two other nicks when playing in Norway's equivalent of high school/college. Like Doomed, Fallen and other jolly nicks as girls rejected me and goals were failed.
At one point I decided to change nickname for some reason. So I went for "Inconplete". I felt somewhat clever, because the "n" is an incomplete "m". So in part it played to me thinking I'm a fuckup, and in part it symbolized the meaning of the nick.
However, after being corrected on my grammatical error a few times too many (ranging from "it's written with an m you dumb retard" to "Nice nick and all, but I think you misspelled it"), I grew tired of explaining it and just went for Incomplete.
On August 04 2020 11:00 PhoenixVoid wrote: I had a strange fixation with phoenixes at the time so of course it had to be inserted into online usernames. That was married to my edgy interest in "void" as well, giving birth to this awkward name. In retrospect this was a terrible ID. It's not witty, funny, personal or a Bnet ID. It's just jamming and bashing together together two things I happened to like at the time. Oh, and if anyone was ever curious, it has nothing to do with Phoenixes or Void Rays in SC2.
I for one am glad it has nothing to do with SC2. ^_._^
On August 04 2020 09:36 JimmyJRaynor wrote: I love stories about bad cops. The guy who played Jim Raynor went on to play a good cop who had a bad partner. The movie was filmed in and around the burger/shake/french fry dive that was a prime high school hang out for me.
On August 04 2020 08:33 oEkY wrote: My real name is Dirk and one girl from school always called me dörk, another guy from my class switched that to drök which can be written as droek as well, i thought this could be my online nickname. However, i added a y at the end and entered our school IRC-channel and one idiot really asked me why i would call myself a doctor?! After laughing for some time i ended up shorten the nick from droeky to oeky (omg, when i think about it, its been 20 or 21 years from now when i decided to go with this nickname... good ol days)
Dörk is my new favourite word! Tell that girl I love it!
On August 04 2020 08:30 pebble444 wrote: another story that could be interesting is...
What is the story of your quote?
Well DO share yours... Mine is simple. But I can only tell you, if you join the NHFFA Discord and swear to secrecy. Otherwise if I tell you I must end you.
Falling- For myself, I've never liked names that had random letters and numbers and wanted a simple name that would be unlikely to be picked. It was somewhat similar to the fake name I created for emails etc (I'd put absolutely no personal information online prior to Facebook.) Also, there was a band called Falling Up around the same time. Or maybe it was from Shel Silverstein's book on poetry by the same name. I don't know anymore.
Passafist (my iccup/ gamer tag). An obscure band, but I liked the irony in the misspelling. Also, my ancestry is heavily rooted in pacifism, so I enjoyed the multiple layers of irony as I played war games.
29 fps: I used to play counterstrike on a shitty computer, so I only had 29 frames per second while others had 60. It was hard to play. Same problem when I played Overwatch. Life changed completely after getting a new computer, but the nickname stayed.
On August 04 2020 16:22 Falling wrote: Falling- For myself, I've never liked names that had random letters and numbers and wanted a simple name that would be unlikely to be picked. It was somewhat similar to the fake name I created for emails etc (I'd put absolutely no personal information online prior to Facebook.) Also, there was a band called Falling Up around the same time. Or maybe it was from Shel Silverstein's book on poetry by the same name. I don't know anymore.
Passafist (my iccup/ gamer tag). An obscure band, but I liked the irony in the misspelling. Also, my ancestry is heavily rooted in pacifism, so I enjoyed the multiple layers of irony as I played war games.
I really liked Zeratul character when I first picked up a game - invisible ninja, that one shots pretty much anything. So I just shortened it for an easier pronunciation.
It was an ugly old shirt I found in my room during my senior year of high school. I had it signed by my favorite band. I wore it until it literally became rags.
RIP Hoby 2000 Shirt. You were good to me. May your legacy forever live on in my username....
On August 04 2020 05:08 FlaShFTW wrote: Uncreative, unfunny 12 year old. FlaSh was my favorite player, so I wanted FlaSh to be in the name somewhere. I think I got the idea from Bisudagger's name and was like, well if he can have Bisu in his name, surely I can have FlaSh in my name. Yeah... if only FlaShFTW was anywhere near as cool as Bisudagger. Welp, here we are 10 years later, and my name is still awful imo. No one will ever let me change it either.
I always knew you were a fangirl of mine. Anyway, you did it wrong. Acceptable names would have been FlashGod or BisuFlasher.
On August 04 2020 20:05 Zera wrote: I really liked Zeratul character when I first picked up a game - invisible ninja, that one shots pretty much anything. So I just shortened it for an easier pronunciation.
On August 04 2020 09:36 JimmyJRaynor wrote: I love stories about bad cops. The guy who played Jim Raynor went on to play a good cop who had a bad partner. The movie was filmed in and around the burger/shake/french fry dive that was a prime high school hang out for me.
Mine is derived from the son of Marcus Aurelius, Commodus (not related to the movie). He marked the end of the Golden Period of the roman history. In Spanish it is called Cómodo and I just changed it to Komodo because the system of a game (cannot recall wich one) already had Comodo in their player base.
When I first discoverd BW around 2007 it was with a group of friends in my school's computer/robotics club. We alternated days between actually doing stuff like writing code and building robots or just playing games. The school shut down counterstrike due to "guns and shooting people is bad" So we found a new game. SC:BW and massed big game hunter matches. At first we all made new nicknames every game and kept making nicknames designed to anger everyone else. This led to a few arguments and we settled down to nicknames would just be Unit with a number after it. Like Unit721, Unit64, Unit420, and so on. Down the line I ended up hanging on to the ID as everyone else stopped playing for one reason or another. I do use another ID as well in other games which is just my last name backwards.
On August 05 2020 08:50 Komodo wrote: Mine is derived from the son of Marcus Aurelius, Commodus (not related to the movie). He marked the end of the Golden Period of the roman history. In Spanish it is called Cómodo and I just changed it to Komodo because the system of a game (cannot recall wich one) already had Comodo in their player base.
Greth was born as a character in a Warcraft 3 fanfiction. Back then I was still using 'Hidden' - from Hidden Horror the magic card.
It was a little hard to get that name on youtube, when I wanted to make my first 'Video Report' to post on battlereports.com Who gave a shit about account names, so I chose 'SathYaneh' which was an edgy spin on something.
I switched to GrethSC when things were getting more serious in the Starcraft business - the SC ofc to mimic Klazart, Diggity and Moletrap - now that I got hired as a columnist on sc2gg following my hilarious Vidrep attempts.
The character Greth still exists, a fanfic character, moved to a realistic novel, back to a fantasy setting, then back to a dnd campaign. The character itself is a horrendous tortured soul, stuck in a time-loop that he can't change. No matter his own actions, he is doomed to his fate. He hopes, still, that one day someone will listen to him and change the outcome. But he's far too mad for that now; all he spouts is nonsense. No matter the effort, history never records his actions, it is as if he isn't there.
I didn't intend to use him as a persona. But as the years progress, and the madness of the Vidreps and other rants I make accumulate, I have a deep fear that he isn't made up at all.
On August 05 2020 23:53 Greth wrote: Greth was born as a character in a Warcraft 3 fanfiction. Back then I was still using 'Hidden' - from Hidden Horror the magic card.
It was a little hard to get that name on youtube, when I wanted to make my first 'Video Report' to post on battlereports.com Who gave a shit about account names, so I chose 'SathYaneh' which was an edgy spin on something.
I switched to GrethSC when things were getting more serious in the Starcraft business - the SC ofc to mimic Klazart, Diggity and Moletrap - now that I got hired as a columnist on sc2gg following my hilarious Vidrep attempts.
The character Greth still exists, a fanfic character, moved to a realistic novel, back to a fantasy setting, then back to a dnd campaign. The character itself is a horrendous tortured soul, stuck in a time-loop that he can't change. No matter his own actions, he is doomed to his fate. He hopes, still, that one day someone will listen to him and change the outcome. But he's far too mad for that now; all he spouts is nonsense. No matter the effort, history never records his actions, it is as if he isn't there.
I didn't intend to use him as a persona. But as the years progress, and the madness of the Vidreps and other rants I make accumulate, I have a deep fear that he isn't made up at all.
Maybe Greth's arguments and pleas just aren't convincing enough 😂
In 2023 I predicted that Serral will win the WCS 2018 Global Finals. Nobody believed me then but hey it's already 2020 and we're getting closer to that reality.
On August 06 2020 12:23 evilfatsh1t wrote: i thought the thought of an evil fat shit would be funny. i would change my id now, but i dont think tl would let me.
On August 05 2020 23:53 Greth wrote: Greth was born as a character in a Warcraft 3 fanfiction. Back then I was still using 'Hidden' - from Hidden Horror the magic card.
It was a little hard to get that name on youtube, when I wanted to make my first 'Video Report' to post on battlereports.com Who gave a shit about account names, so I chose 'SathYaneh' which was an edgy spin on something.
I switched to GrethSC when things were getting more serious in the Starcraft business - the SC ofc to mimic Klazart, Diggity and Moletrap - now that I got hired as a columnist on sc2gg following my hilarious Vidrep attempts.
The character Greth still exists, a fanfic character, moved to a realistic novel, back to a fantasy setting, then back to a dnd campaign. The character itself is a horrendous tortured soul, stuck in a time-loop that he can't change. No matter his own actions, he is doomed to his fate. He hopes, still, that one day someone will listen to him and change the outcome. But he's far too mad for that now; all he spouts is nonsense. No matter the effort, history never records his actions, it is as if he isn't there.
I didn't intend to use him as a persona. But as the years progress, and the madness of the Vidreps and other rants I make accumulate, I have a deep fear that he isn't made up at all.
I knew all that actually. And it's been so long since the last VidRep your sanity might be returning... This is not good. ^_._^
On August 05 2020 09:48 unit wrote: When I first discoverd BW around 2007 it was with a group of friends in my school's computer/robotics club. We alternated days between actually doing stuff like writing code and building robots or just playing games. The school shut down counterstrike due to "guns and shooting people is bad" So we found a new game. SC:BW and massed big game hunter matches. At first we all made new nicknames every game and kept making nicknames designed to anger everyone else. This led to a few arguments and we settled down to nicknames would just be Unit with a number after it. Like Unit721, Unit64, Unit420, and so on. Down the line I ended up hanging on to the ID as everyone else stopped playing for one reason or another. I do use another ID as well in other games which is just my last name backwards.
Just please make sure you read up on stuff like Unit731 and its horrors before assigning random numbers (Unit721 got me thinking)
In the past I've used quite a few nicknames, mainly rlyfastcar, TurbORaceR, Ikirouta & rOuta.
I used to mainly be an Age of Empires player, rlyfastcar (R1YF4S7C4R or some other variation sometimes rlyslowcar etc etc..) was the name I used to enter AoE2 lan tourneys in Finland in the early 2000's. When I travelled to lans there usually were lots of people playing SC and I started playing with them and I wanted a cooler nickname for SC. I chose Ikirouta, it means "permafrost" in Finnish. You know the frost that never melts. The reason why I chose this name was because once an aoe2 tournament admin told me that I'm like the permafrost of Finnish aoe2 lans, I'm always there, I never go away.
Anyway, I started playing SC more casually and aoe2 was the game I competed in when I went to lans, but I started playing more and more SC after I'd lost (or sometimes won!) the AoE2 competition. I mostly played BGH, hunters, teamgames or UMS cause I didn't really wanna start playing sc so seriously. I can't remember at which lan this happened but at some lan I met some really cool people from a clan called "Metsän Eläimet" ("Animals of the Forest" in Finnish) and their clantag used to be "Elukka" (Slang word for "Animal" or "Beast") for some almost all the games they played. They convinced me to start trying 1v1 on low money maps and join their clan, and so I did. But ]Elukka[Ikirouta didn't fit in the Bnet name so I shortened it to Elukka]rOuta. (Routa means frost)
Eventually those guys stopped all playing SC and moved onto other games that they still play together this very day, I play some CS or smthing like with them once in a while. I ended up changing my name to TurbORaceR for a while when I was clanless and switching race from Z to P so people didn't recognize me. A couple years passed and I was in some clans but didn't use my original SC name in a while, but then I ended up joining another Finnish clan called [Kilju] and I took back my old name and became rOuta[Kilju].
And well, I haven't changed my main name after that (I've used TurbORaceR & Rlyfastcar once in a while), so I guess the origin is a tournament admin calling me the permafrost of Finnish AoE2 tournaments
On August 07 2020 01:41 Ikirouta wrote: Hmm, ok so.
In the past I've used quite a few nicknames, mainly rlyfastcar, TurbORaceR, Ikirouta & rOuta.
I used to mainly be an Age of Empires player, rlyfastcar (R1YF4S7C4R or some other variation sometimes rlyslowcar etc etc..) was the name I used to enter AoE2 lan tourneys in Finland in the early 2000's. When I travelled to lans there usually were lots of people playing SC and I started playing with them and I wanted a cooler nickname for SC. I chose Ikirouta, it means "permafrost" in Finnish. You know the frost that never melts. The reason why I chose this name was because once an aoe2 tournament admin told me that I'm like the permafrost of Finnish aoe2 lans, I'm always there, I never go away.
Anyway, I started playing SC more casually and aoe2 was the game I competed in when I went to lans, but I started playing more and more SC after I'd lost (or sometimes won!) the AoE2 competition. I mostly played BGH, hunters, teamgames or UMS cause I didn't really wanna start playing sc so seriously. I can't remember at which lan this happened but at some lan I met some really cool people from a clan called "Metsän Eläimet" ("Animals of the Forest" in Finnish) and their clantag used to be "Elukka" (Slang word for "Animal" or "Beast") for some almost all the games they played. They convinced me to start trying 1v1 on low money maps and join their clan, and so I did. But ]Elukka[Ikirouta didn't fit in the Bnet name so I shortened it to Elukka]rOuta. (Routa means frost)
Eventually those guys stopped all playing SC and moved onto other games that they still play together this very day, I play some CS or smthing like with them once in a while. I ended up changing my name to TurbORaceR for a while when I was clanless and switching race from Z to P so people didn't recognize me. A couple years passed and I was in some clans but didn't use my original SC name in a while, but then I ended up joining another Finnish clan called [Kilju] and I took back my old name and became rOuta[Kilju].
And well, I haven't changed my main name after that (I've used TurbORaceR & Rlyfastcar once in a while), so I guess the origin is a tournament admin calling me the permafrost of Finnish AoE2 tournaments
That was A GREAT STORY... Until... "switching race from Z to P" that permafrosted my heart right there... T_T