I have suffered 7 Spontaneous Pneumothoraxes.

A Pneumothorax is a lung collapse, spontaneous is basically it happening 'out of the blue'. Have just used it as my alias ever since

AmericanUmlaut

Germany2576 Posts

July 11 2011 12:57 GMT

#2182

On July 11 2011 21:52 Pneumothorax wrote:
I have suffered 7 Spontaneous Pneumothoraxes.

A Pneumothorax is a lung collapse, spontaneous is basically it happening 'out of the blue'. Have just used it as my alias ever since

Holy crap, that doesn't sound like fun.

I learned the word pneumothorax from a Japanese novel in which a character has one induced -- air pumped into the outside of the lung, to relieve the symptoms of TB, if I remember right -- and just reading the word again gives me the squicky shivers.

I really wish I could remember which book that was.

snexwang

Australia224 Posts

July 11 2011 13:03 GMT

#2183

At 7 years of age, I started to play magical internet computer games. It wasn't long until I realised I needed to come up with a "nickname" for myself. I thought long and hard about all of my favourite things ever before finally deciding on "SNES" (as in the Super Nintendo).

Unfortunately, when I entered the name into the game, I made a minor typo and ended up with "SNEX". It actually took me a few hours to notice my error and when I did, well.. needless to say, kids under 10 seem to be utterly fascinated by the letter "x" (the more the better!) and I was no different. So I stuck with it.

Several years later, I discovered that my alias had another meaning: anal fisting.

.... Which I thought was fucking hilarious.

So I stuck with it.

A few more years later, "snex" appeared to pick up in popularity. I was aware of at least two other people by the name of "snex" in the world. Adamant on being a unique snowflake, I added "wang" (because LOL WANG LOL IT MEANS PENIS XD XD XD!!1!1!) to the end of it. However, I'm convinced I was the original snex.

There you have it. I've been snexwang since 2006.

I think it kind of has a nice ring to it.

Also, no homo (honestly).

Archontas

United States319 Posts

July 11 2011 13:12 GMT

#2184

Archontas is the Greek word for "lord" or "master". When I played WoW, I hit the random name generator a few times and got some name that was close to it, and thought "hey, that would be a cool handle" and I've been using it since.

weareallclowns

Denmark113 Posts

July 11 2011 13:13 GMT

#2185

When I was a teenager and rebellious I listened a lot (!) to Korn, one of the songs on their debut is called Clown. My name for a time was Klown, or D'Klown, when I played CS. I got older, it changed to b-thor (lame, but in relation to my real name), and btor (kewl!); the clowny thing disappeared. When it was time to find a name for sc2, I didn't want a one word name but something deeper (as deep as possible for 12 letters), I like Timothy Levitch's quote: We are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novel starring clowns, so it became "werallclowns".

MaYuu

Sweden516 Posts

July 11 2011 13:18 GMT

#2186

When I went to high school you all got login names for the computers and mine was 89majo50 since my name is Mathias Johnsson, and I'm a major anime geek so I made it sound japanese with Mayuu :D

Am0n3r

United States254 Posts

July 11 2011 13:23 GMT

#2187

Needed a nickname to play CS, friend suggested to get something SpecOps related, figured Omon is one of the most badass teams there are. Later on started looking into more details about the name. Funny thing is that a discovered some DJs, real people with that name later on in life. Amoner - Amun - Egyptian God, Omon - Russian SpecOps, Amon - a goetic demon...

AegonC

United States260 Posts

July 11 2011 13:33 GMT

#2188

My name, Aegon, is taken from "Aegon the Conqueror" from the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series by George R.R. Martin.

reapsen

Germany559 Posts

July 11 2011 13:49 GMT

#2189

When i got my first own computer around 1997, me and my friends were mostly into Quake and CS. I somehow came up with the name "Dr.Death", which sounded super badass to me at that time.

About a year later i started to find that name incredibly cheesy and stupid so i tried to come up with something else. At that time i played this trading card came based off of Shadowrun and there were plenty of "heroes" with pretty cool names. So i decided to pick "Reaper". With time passing the name has gone through some dozen of variations in notation (ReApEr, reAper, ... ) and form (reapinho, reaphimself, rpr, ...). The one that stuck was then "reapsen", with -sen beeing a popular suffix in northern germany to give people nicknames, like Tobias -> Tobsen, Jens -> Jensen and so on.

Badfatpanda

United States9719 Posts

July 11 2011 13:51 GMT

#2190

Freshman year of college I went to a Halloween party as sexual harassment panda from the South Park episode. When I started singing one of my friends said, "No. Stop it, bad fat panda." So I made it one word and thus has been my ID ever since.

LioRawr

56 Posts

July 11 2011 13:52 GMT

#2191

When I started playing MMO's & RTS games, I had to think of a name but I wanted to be able to be called like it RL, too. I'm not a big fan ob abstract names or spellings with numbers or such. I used google to check several name-giving pages and stuck with the name "Lioba", which I had never heard of but is an actual name for daughters. I somehow fell in love with that name, yet I added another "i" and made "Liobia" out of it. Most people tend to go for "Lio" for short, but I really like the sound of both names. The Rawr was added later for the reason of ... rawr!

KyNe.

United States3 Posts

July 11 2011 13:57 GMT

#2192

KYNE is wat i used to write on the side of walls. sounds cool but looks even cooooooler when written

Eleaven

772 Posts

July 11 2011 15:01 GMT

#2193

One of my original sc names was "Scrimpton"
Which is a completely factitious word created by Ricky Gervais when Karl pilkington asked him to come up with a "new word" for a scientific ingrediant in shampoo.
(the first word was cranbrily, but karl said it wouldn't get past advertising lol)

KimJongChill

United States6429 Posts

July 11 2011 15:03 GMT

#2194

On July 11 2011 22:57 KyNe. wrote:
KYNE is wat i used to write on the side of walls. sounds cool but looks even cooooooler when written

why would you write that on the side of walls? O.o

k10forgotten

Brazil260 Posts

July 11 2011 15:13 GMT

#2195

k10: My name's Caio. K = Ca phonetically (in Portuguese). 10 = IO. ;P
and forgotten is a really cool name to say.

Man, I was 13 at the time I chose this nick! And as far as I can tell, no one has taken this nick in any forum or whatever besides me - because of that I've been using this ever since.

Playguuu

United States926 Posts

July 11 2011 15:17 GMT

#2196

starsucks

233 Posts

July 11 2011 15:20 GMT

#2197

I registered here after masterleague had been introduced in order to flame about the ugly medal for this league.

tripledoubles

Australia213 Posts

July 11 2011 15:21 GMT

#2198

Triple doubles in basketball means you've gotten double figures in 3 categories eg 30points 10rebounds 10assists. Very hard to do, and you've dominated the game.

I've been using the tag since I was 17, so been about 8 years now, use tripdubs or trips when it is too long though, so I'm trips in sc2 now

seoul_kiM

United States545 Posts

July 11 2011 15:23 GMT

#2199

My name is Sol Kim.
My id is miklos
My team liquid id is Seoul_kiM. (capital of South Korea and sounds like my name).

radscorpion9

Canada2252 Posts

July 11 2011 15:28 GMT

#2200

I played Fallout when I was about 8 years old, and thought it was the best game I've ever played. Years later I still think its the best RPG ever, with Fallout 2 coming in as a close second. I try not to think about Fallout 3.

Suffice to say, I thought radscorpions were really cool (they were oversized scorpions due to the effects of radiation after global nuclear war)...and I like numbers, so I combined the two and voila: Radscorpion9