It means little in Latin. It's also the last half of the Latin name for the Little Raven, my favorite kind of bird.

Edit - Also first post on a new page is always super awkward.

vetinari

Australia602 Posts

July 15 2011 14:47 GMT

#2282

Lord Vetinari, Ruler of Anhh-Morpork. The discworld series, by Terry Pratchett.

Awesome bloke, in my opinion.

Farow

Northern Ireland24 Posts

July 15 2011 14:50 GMT

#2283

Fire Arrow, I think.
That was the general idea at the time I believe. It was a very long time ago.

Bobble

Australia1493 Posts

July 15 2011 14:54 GMT

#2284

Well, I was sitting in an IT class, fiddling around, not doing much, and the guy sitting in front of me was drawing halo characters, like jackals, grunts, etc. One day, he decided to give a Grunt a massive head. The thing was bloody adorable, and I said it to him. He was really weirded out by it, and just said, 'you really like that bobbleheaded grunt?' I said yeah, and he was like, 'Hmm, 'you were slain by Bobble, hmm, that works'.

And that's how I got the name. When it's taken, I use Bobblefighter, it makes my I.D a bit manlier, but the whole key is that it has a unique story, and when I beat you, you have to go and tell people you were beaten by a guy named Bobble.

probob

Germany227 Posts

July 15 2011 14:58 GMT

#2285

A good friend of mine had this funny word lowbob to describe noobs. Basically low being their skill and bob just for a random dude. I loved it and we started saying it IRL, so probob obv is the opposite, pro being my skill

Southlight

United States11767 Posts

July 15 2011 15:01 GMT

#2286

I took Northern Lights, turned it around, and made it more name-like (was for a GW char). Kinda stuck.

TheGiz

Canada708 Posts

July 15 2011 15:40 GMT

#2287

My last name is Italian. The original non-English is "Gizzi"

The name means that my family either comes from or went to Egypt at some point in our history. If we came from Egypt we were once either Muslim occupiers or slaves. If we went to Egypt then it means we were once Crusaders who fought in Egypt. That, to me, is the far more awesome prospect, and since there was once a Gizzi in line to be Pope, I tend to believe that's the more accurate one.

The original pronunciation of the name is "Jeetzy," but has since been Americanized to "Gizzie" or Giz for short. I have somewhere around 14 different nicknames as a result of my unique-sounding last name, the most prominent of which is "Giz." I added the "The" many years ago for reasons I forget.

The biggest problem with my name is that the "g" sound is the voiced velar plosive 'g', not the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate 'j' sound that people think it is. This has resulted in a lot of BM/trolling in SC2 where people think my name is 'Jizz.' Most of the time I'll just say 'L2pronounce' or ignore it.

etherwar

United States45 Posts

July 15 2011 17:28 GMT

#2288

Started playing online games back in the 1996 or 97 Subspace beta (game is now called continuum). The message that displayed when you killed somebody was "xxxxx was killed by xxxxx". I had the name Cancer for a while, but after I decided that was a bit less creative than I was capable I tried to come up with something original. Ether- as a prefix to Ethernet (this was the golden age of LAN parties) and Ethereal etc stuck out to me, and I thought Etherwar was a cool double entendre meaning ethernet war and also ether war (as in space war). I don't complain how it is pronounced, but I do it with a long E.

Teddyjex

Canada35 Posts

July 15 2011 17:43 GMT

#2289

One of my friends was playing FFX and named the final Aeon with the three sisters Teddyjex, Turtelemoe, and Dumbkid. I hijacked Teddyjex for my online ID for eeeeeverything, and have been using it ever since. Now I'm kinda bored with it but my online friends would consider it heresy to change after almost a decade.

hunts

United States2113 Posts

July 15 2011 17:49 GMT

#2290

aaah my sad story. I started playiong WoW a long time ago, I made a hunter and as a joke named it "thehuntsman" which is a character from an old cartoon called freakazoid, I did it as a joke figuring I would just play wow for a few weeks and quit. I ended up leveling it to 60 (the max back then) and joining a guild and playing it seriously, and so everyone called me hunts, and the Id kinda stuck. Now everyone asks if I named myself after the ketchup brand

DoomDragoon

United States38 Posts

August 07 2011 05:48 GMT

#2291

SC:BW name, DoomDragoon
SC2 namme: currently DoomDragoon, but I am going to change to AniKi once I hit 100 zerg wins(currently have 96, so hopefully tomorrow or in 2 days

)

Reason: I mained protoss in BW and for season 1 1/2 of sc2. DoomDragoon is the name of a protoss mod in BW.

Reason for the change: I currently use the Immortal pic because it is the closest to a dragoon. I can't bring myself to use the hydra, even tho I think it looks sweet, while my name is DoomDragoon. Also, I have been wanting to change to something a little more elegant, but never had a reason to. Aniki is the nickname Simon gives Kamina in the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

lubu42

United States314 Posts

August 07 2011 05:53 GMT

#2292

Dynasty Warriors is my favorite game series of all time. Lubu, being the most BA character ever and my personal favorite, made me decide to add numbers to the end of it that rung with the name. Hence, Lubu42 :D

Open_

New Zealand73 Posts

August 07 2011 06:02 GMT

#2293

Well, my TL name is pretty crappy and simple, its the same as my SEA account which I named open because I seem to lack creativity and was hoping it would have the same effect as it did on WC3 with the custom games having open and closed as slots..

My NA account however, is name Chocobo, the most cuddly awesome creature ever imagined. Plus it would make for awesome fanart if I ever got good enough to get fans (being a zerg n all)

mcmartini

Australia1972 Posts

August 07 2011 06:05 GMT

#2294

My ID on tl is simple, it's my initials plus my last name and my game handle is Excuses, because back in the CS days, 7 years + ago my net was super laggy and whenever I would mention this I always got one word back; Excuses. Been using it as my ID ever since.

Sc2Requiem

United States121 Posts

August 07 2011 06:16 GMT

#2295

My in-game name used to be Nialo, which I stole from my favorite WoW toon at the time. I didn't think I'd get so into Sc2 because I never really enjoyed RTS games. A year later I'm still playing Sc2, and finally quit WoW so I no longer wanted that WoW association whenever I logged into Sc2. I decided to use my free name change.

Then it happened.

Years and years of playing games and creating website accounts where 'first come first serve' rules with an iron fist when it comes to getting a name had programmed my brain. I completely forgot about Bnet 2.0's naming policy where you can have whatever you want. So as I was trying to figure out a new more "starcrafty" name I decided to mess around and put in dull cliche names that were surely taken. I almost typed Sephiroth, but my fingers wouldn't allow me to be that lame. I punched in "Requiem" while lulzing a bit and hit enter.

The "That Name Has Been Taken" window didn't pop up... WTF.... I was at the Bnet menus?... my new name "Requiem" staring at me from the upper corner like a trollface.jpg? Dammit.

+ Show Spoiler +

Haegr9599

United States210 Posts

August 07 2011 06:17 GMT

#2296

Basically straight copied from the book Wolfblade by William King, used it for my WoW account, and now basically every account that i use, but it was taken so i had to add numbers like a newb =(

bdbrufus

United States36 Posts

August 07 2011 06:36 GMT

#2297

My battle.net ID is Rufus which is actually my middle name that i have hated my whole life, I was named after my grandpa and when i was younger my older brother and his friends would always make fun of my middle name (not sure why ...) anyways I ended getting made fun of so much that like 10 years later (by now it was an inside joke that i no longer took offense to) it caught on to me. So that's why I use it ha and the name I use in everything else because things like Rufus are taken is Stormleaf I actually created this one a long time ago probably when i was around 10 because I wanted to play D&D with my older brothers lol. Anyways after hours of searching through random elf name generators on line i decided (since my concept of elves were pointed eared green Indians that lived in trees or something whack) that i would just take to nature nouns and put them together so i ended up with Stormleaf. Ha and I wouldn't actually care about this name but as we were playing D&D my guy was unstoppable even though i had no idea how to play i would basically just do what my brothers said and roll 20s ^^ and it just stuck with my young imaginative mind

lhamilton13

United States2 Posts

August 07 2011 06:42 GMT

#2298

Current battle.net ID is iNFiniTe and it originates from the Eminem album of the same name due to me being a huge fan of his work. Add a few immature capital letters and BAM!

luck_star21

United States264 Posts

August 07 2011 06:44 GMT

#2299

I looked up synonyms for "worthless" after a bad stretch of league games in wc3.. changed my name to "jejune" because I liked the look of it, thought the definition suited me well enough, and noone else seems to use it, so I've just stuck w/ it ever since!

..My TL ID's just what this dude trying to bm I played kept calling me + my favorite number

Shoe555

China199 Posts

August 07 2011 06:46 GMT

#2300

Shoe is how people who aren't Chinese mispronounce my last name (Xu), I believe the sound is unique only to the Chinese language.