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Millz
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada30 Posts
December 05 2010 23:49 GMT
#1
Over the years I've gone threw maybe hundreds (slight exaggeration) of different names. There hasn't been one that I've ever had that stuck and I've used long enough. I want a name that no one has ever really thought about something original and won't be taken most of the time, a name that won't get boring...

How do some of you do this?
IamBach
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1059 Posts
December 05 2010 23:51 GMT
#2
it just came to me in a dream. OtheR...
Just listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__lCZeePG48
ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
December 05 2010 23:51 GMT
#3
i've used ieatkids for a few years, then i used swamp for a few years and im still using it.
5ahj4g
Profile Joined August 2010
72 Posts
December 05 2010 23:52 GMT
#4
-something on your desk
-name of an sc pro you look up to
-name of some character in some drama you like
-your initials

all i can think of atm, feel free to contribute :D
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 05 2010 23:53 GMT
#5
I've gone through I couple names as well, all of which i still like. How I do it is first find a single syllable that sounds good to you. Then you make a huge list of every single other syllable that sounds remotely good, and then add it as a prefix and a suffix to your chosen syllable. Keep going until you find something you like.
Dark.Carnival
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5095 Posts
December 05 2010 23:53 GMT
#6
I use song titles/parts of song titles. I'm terribly uncreative when it comes to names, both in writing (characters) and game names.
@QxGDarkCell ._.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-05 23:56:55
December 05 2010 23:54 GMT
#7
Look for a random page on wikipedia. =]

Here, I did it for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thitson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decamethyldizincocene


I think Decamethyldizincocene is the best.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Ryalnos
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1946 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-05 23:55:40
December 05 2010 23:54 GMT
#8
I was making an account for this browser-based strategy came called Utopia and figured I should roleplay. After trying account names of darklord, darclord, darklor, etc and finding them claimed, I settled on 'darclo'.

But then 'Ryalnos' just popped into my head randomly for a character name. Used it ever since.
Kibibit
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1551 Posts
December 05 2010 23:56 GMT
#9
On December 06 2010 08:54 Sufficiency wrote:
Look for a random page on wikipedia. =]

That's actually precisely where mine comes from. :D
R.I.P. 우정호 || Do probes dream of psionic sheep?
Millz
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada30 Posts
December 05 2010 23:57 GMT
#10
It's funny I post this on a SC forum because most Korean pro gamers have really generic names, lol.
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8031 Posts
December 05 2010 23:57 GMT
#11
Reversing the spelling of stuff seems to be popular.

eg. Rekrul, Grobyc
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Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
December 05 2010 23:59 GMT
#12
how about IGN
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-06 00:02:16
December 05 2010 23:59 GMT
#13
On December 06 2010 08:57 Spazer wrote:
Reversing the spelling of stuff seems to be popular.

eg. Rekrul, Grobyc

omg
blew my mind
omg and i just realized orb backwards is bro.

My username just comes from my childhood stuffed animal. Just pick a name that is aligned with something about you, whether it be an inside joke, one of your interests, or just be epicly normal with a username like Chair.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
December 05 2010 23:59 GMT
#14
On December 06 2010 08:57 Millz wrote:
It's funny I post this on a SC forum because most Korean pro gamers have really generic names, lol.


I got a good name for you: Brisk. Now it's your job to become a pro gamer and have a rivalry with Nestea.
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
December 06 2010 00:01 GMT
#15
listen to tastosis, they have a knack for coming up with some pretty sick ids.
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pinenamu
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States770 Posts
December 06 2010 00:01 GMT
#16
Haha this brings memories on old IDs. In the early tween/teenage years I used to make ID's to things that are "dark_____ (fill in the blank)", something I really like ("lakerfan90") or something korean like "koreanperson"<- actually had that ID on bnet hahahaha, someone took it now . Then I thought up of "pinenamu" which I thought up from my name 진솔 (JinSol). My mom told me that it meant honest pinetree so my ID is pinetree where namu is tree in Korean. I used it since forever now.
Phos
Profile Joined April 2010
Iceland106 Posts
December 06 2010 00:01 GMT
#17
do a faceroll
Mashes
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada441 Posts
December 06 2010 00:02 GMT
#18
On December 06 2010 08:59 Chairman Ray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 06 2010 08:57 Millz wrote:
It's funny I post this on a SC forum because most Korean pro gamers have really generic names, lol.


I got a good name for you: Brisk. Now it's your job to become a pro gamer and have a rivalry with Nestea.


hahahaha well played sir!
"life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery"
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
December 06 2010 00:03 GMT
#19
On December 06 2010 08:54 Ryalnos wrote:
I was making an account for this browser-based strategy came called Utopia and figured I should roleplay. After trying account names of darklord, darclord, darklor, etc and finding them claimed, I settled on 'darclo'.

But then 'Ryalnos' just popped into my head randomly for a character name. Used it ever since.


O wow. That game is still going on?
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
HazMat
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States17077 Posts
December 06 2010 00:04 GMT
#20
I like my aka ShakeDrizzle that I use a lot now. Just took 2 names from an Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode.
www.youtube.com/user/ShakeDrizzle | League and SSBM content creator | Armada's Youtube Editor
DamnCats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1472 Posts
December 06 2010 00:06 GMT
#21
DamnCats

aka when im playing and my dumbass cat jumps onto my keyboard, ruining my perfect (not so much) micro.
Disciples of a god, that neither lives nor breathes.
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
December 06 2010 00:08 GMT
#22
I'm DivinO, which is a club in Spain. I also play as surgeonprincess but someone else has been using that too. :/
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
Ation
Profile Joined July 2008
Finland102 Posts
December 06 2010 00:08 GMT
#23
My name is noita written backwards. It is a Finnish word for "witch". I was playing runescape... :-----D.

I think a name should be something that you can closely relate to or something that you think is coool . All the awesome stories may build up later.
Stenstyren
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden619 Posts
December 06 2010 00:09 GMT
#24
My nick comes from an old joke several year ago. The bad thing with having the same nick practically everywhere is that you can google said nick and find out that I am a member of a fanfiction website called Dark Lord Potter and that I have a twitter account linked to Rickard Styrén (my real name).
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9757 Posts
December 06 2010 00:10 GMT
#25
I've always really liked 2-syllable IDs. The hard part for me was choosing which letters to randomly capitalize.
boomer hands
Mr Tambourine Man
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands190 Posts
December 06 2010 00:11 GMT
#26
The formula for an awesome name is= (Name of First pet) + (Name of street you grew up on)

I've also hear that all the really gosu amazingly cool 9000 point diamond people have Bob Dylan song titles as their name...
shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
December 06 2010 00:14 GMT
#27
Capitalize only the first and last letter of your ID and you'll be pro.

Slayers_BoxeR
IdrA
SelecT
Photographer@shindags || twitch.tv/shindigs
tnud
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden2233 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-06 00:17:54
December 06 2010 00:15 GMT
#28
+ Show Spoiler +
How about kcoc? :D
//tired.


My nick comes from something my friend once said, used it/variations on it ever since.
The random wiki page seems to be a good idea though.

Mashing hero and other character names together usually works well too.

EDIT: Since there is no sc2ranks profile on that awesome name in spoilers I assume blizz didn't think it was funny.. There are 3 CrackCocaine though lol
- ಠ_ಠ - | disinfect wrote: AHAHHAHAHA 2DG FUCK ME ALREADY.
Ygz
Profile Joined June 2010
England370 Posts
December 06 2010 00:21 GMT
#29
I've always went for the smallest name possible, ~3-4 letters long, anything long I find too noisy. For instance I've used "Ygz" circa 5 years. Small and succinct, plus it's something that easily rolls off the tongue. Some other names that strike accord with me are(all stolen from other people):

Muqq
Yggr
Yogg
Epi
Oi
Idra
Id
Luck
Rage
Rarj
Gd
Mek
Skar
Zool
Kemi
Kai

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