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Flyingcookie
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany164 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-19 06:03:52
March 19 2012 06:01 GMT
#2801
Back in the days when i started playing eve online all my usual names weren't aviable anymore and i ate cookies

game with spaceships + cookies = Flyingcookie :>

i stock till today with it :D
Try to (b)eat the cookie!
Pooka
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States140 Posts
March 19 2012 06:05 GMT
#2802
When I was about 10 years old, I saw an episode of the Pokémon cartoon with a surfing Pikachu, and its name was Pooka. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, so I used this screen name on any site I went to. 13 years later, here I am. Unfortunately, I later learned that the correct spelling is "Puka."
mono_regio
Profile Joined December 2011
Germany77 Posts
March 19 2012 08:25 GMT
#2803
I actually had no clue which name to use when I sat in front of the screen and I had to. don't know why I didnt want to use my usual name, I actually dont remember why. but I had recently read a book about roman emperors I read many times before, but years ago. So I just used one that sounded nice which turned out to be Heliogabal (though it should be Elagabal, the book is a bit older)
"I just don't understand ZvZ" [me] "yeah, me neither" [LiquidRet] | http://munich-starcraft.de
Mrvoodoochild1
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1439 Posts
March 19 2012 08:34 GMT
#2804
I'm a jimi hendrix fan.
"let your freak flag fly"
AlgeriaT
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden2197 Posts
March 19 2012 08:37 GMT
#2805
Well I'm a huge Bowie fan and I took my name from the character Algeria Touchshriek that he invented for his '96 album 1. Outside. The lyrics/background theme to the whole album is a so called "hypercycle" about art crime in some dark near-future featuring various characters who Bowie impersonates on the album. I always get Bladerunner-like imagery in my head when I listen to it. It's an album well worth checking out, even if you're not a Bowie fan at all. Songs from it were featured in the movies Lost Highway and Seven. So, the nick actually has nothing to do with the country per se.
CORN GIRL + Flash + FanTaSy + CholeraSC + iNcontroL 4 eva <3
darkscream
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada2310 Posts
March 19 2012 09:26 GMT
#2806
Originally, I was "HellScream". I made that up without playing warcraft 2, I swear.

When I found out about Grom HellScream, I felt like a dork and changed the word hell to dark.

Yeah, I was a pretty typical nerd kid.... skulls and dragons etc...
b3n3tt3
Profile Joined January 2012
595 Posts
March 19 2012 10:19 GMT
#2807
it's my real name, and back then 1337 sp33k was in. so there... lol
Xanatoss
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany539 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-19 11:31:34
March 19 2012 11:31 GMT
#2808
Xanatos is one of the main antagonists in the animated series "Gargoyles", which holds a special place in my childhood-memories. For Online-Games (multiple Characters) I use derivatives of it like Xan (referencing to the Mage in Baldurs Gate 1), Xanatar or like in SC2 Xanatoss, which is a homage to my Protoss-Race. Besides that it creates the wordplay Xan-a-toss.
Love it!
The chair slowly turns around. You see his face, but it can't be. He's not supposed to be here. Not him. Not a Protoss. Not THAT Protoss. MC says, "Hi Greg, long time no see." You back slowly out of the booth. But you can't. It's already forcefielded.
ThatGuy89
Profile Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1968 Posts
March 19 2012 11:35 GMT
#2809
me and 2 of my mates played 3v3 alot just after release and we wanted to think of 3 names that went together well

we ended up with ThisGuy ThatGuy and TheOtherGuy :p
unfortunately for me ThatGuy was taken so i just added 89. my year of birth
Oldgrain
Profile Joined August 2010
Finland165 Posts
March 19 2012 11:37 GMT
#2810
On March 19 2012 19:19 b3n3tt3 wrote:
it's my real name, and back then 1337 sp33k was in. so there... lol

1337 sp33k was never in!

I got my nick by opening my english text book on the adjectives page and closed my eyes and hit my finger on a word that happened to be Old. As that wasn't really a good id I turned to the dictionary part and did the same thing (first blindly select page and then blindly finger to a word) and came up with grain.

Probably the most boring story in this thread.
TWThoth
Profile Joined October 2011
New Zealand48 Posts
March 19 2012 11:46 GMT
#2811
Mine is the name of an ancient Egyptian deity, Thoth, the god of wisdom, knowledge and was the scribe of history itself.

I was referred to as wise on a number of occasions by friends, whether I am or not is up for debate (I honestly don't think I am, but I liked the name, and so it stuck, has been my nickname everywhere ever since). As for the tag, Thoth was taken, so I used the TW tag I normally use in this instance, this was before I formed mGG, so now my name should be mGGThoth, but I don't know if there is a way to change my name on TL .
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius
Mentalizor
Profile Joined January 2011
Denmark1596 Posts
March 19 2012 11:50 GMT
#2812
On March 19 2012 15:01 Flyingcookie wrote:
Back in the days when i started playing eve online all my usual names weren't aviable anymore and i ate cookies

game with spaceships + cookies = Flyingcookie :>

i stock till today with it :D


Sounds just like mine... While making a character in WoW on a new server all my regular names were somehow already taken. So I was going mental and thought... well... might aswell...
(yಠ,ಠ)y - Y U NO ALL IN? - rtsAlaran: " I somehow sit inside the bus.Hot_Bit giving me a massage"
Capiachi
Profile Joined October 2010
78 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-19 12:43:22
March 19 2012 12:02 GMT
#2813
Its a bit of a story, but here goes.

My first serious nick was capMan, this was during a pretty long period when I used to wear a cap all the time(even during summer...) The added bonus to me about the name was that it was sort of a superhero name for obvious reasons When I came to my senses and started wearing it less and less the nick became weird so it became Capi because I simply liked the sound of it. However I still felt like something was missing, so I added "achi" to it since Im a huge fan of anime and such. The name has no meaning that i know of though.

I have noticed a problem with it though as alot of people are unable to spell and pronounce it.

EDIT: Just remembered back when Counter-Strike beta 6 came out and I started playing it, must have been around 10 years old at most. I called myself -:MaRinE-001:-, because I liked the army guys from movies, and the 001 because I wanted to be the best sortof, the number 1 marine. You can imagine how quickly I changed it when people at school started laughing
Maynarde
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia1286 Posts
March 19 2012 12:13 GMT
#2814
My favourite singer's name, with an "e" on the end

I'm NOT the brood war guy. He didn't have an "e"!
CommentatorAustralian SC2 Caster | Twitter: @MaynardeSC2 | Twitch: twitch.tv/maynarde
Zythius
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Norway94 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-19 12:19:36
March 19 2012 12:18 GMT
#2815
I made mine up at about 14 years old. Have been using it on discussion boards and in games ever since. I wanted something cool and unique. At least it's pretty unique. Inspirations? Maybe from Star Wars?

Since I played a lot of games under this nickname I decided to keep it, even though it might be a bit 14-year old-ish
And my friends have made fun variants of the name in my native language, so it has to stay
SirSoup
Profile Joined December 2011
Australia19 Posts
March 19 2012 12:25 GMT
#2816
A long long time ago, my id used to be called 8ubbletea, one because, lets face it, who doesnt love bubbletea, two i was a fan of hyuna and 8 for the chinese lucky number 8. When i joined a war3 clan called getz, i had to change it to getzbubble, that sounded weird so i changed it to 'click' GetzClick. Soon after i switched to starcraft and left getz, click by it self seemed somewhat lonely, so i changed it to DoubleClick. It wasnt soon after that i became a HUGE HUGE fan of marineking, and being the crazy fan i am i changed my name to ClickPrime, in honor of marineking. There you have it how i got from 8ubbletea to ClickPrime
One can not lose what was never had, example: ur brain
Tektos
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia1321 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-19 14:23:06
March 19 2012 14:16 GMT
#2817
I'm actually pretty proud of my name and it's origins


I was about 12 or 13 at the time and it all started when I used to play an MMORPG called NosTale. In this game I was making a mage character and wanted a name with some thought behind it. Mage's got a special ability at a higher level where they could temporarily turn into a Fire Mage - whose strongest ability was a skill called meteor.

I thought hey, i'll name myself something that has to do with fire/meteors!

So anyway, I researched for a little while on meteors and found out that when a meteor strikes earth (often in sandy/desert areas) the heat and force of the impact causes particles from earth to melt together and form a "glass" like substance - this is called tektite.

I thought HEY cool tektite is fucking awesome, but did not quite like the sound of the name for my character. I looked into it a little more and discovered that the origin of the word "tektite" comes from the greek word "tektos" which means molten.

YES! That sounds awesome I thought to myself - and have been calling myself Tektos ever since


On my 20th birthday my girlfriend (who is also a gamer, so knew my ID quite well) actually managed to get in touch with the geology professor at her university and organised to get some tektite for me. So I have sitting next to my bed a small rock of tektite dug out of the ground in China. It is pretty awesome.

Wikipedia article on tektite, its pretty interesting stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite
[UoN]Sentinel
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States11320 Posts
March 19 2012 14:44 GMT
#2818
About 2-3 years ago I was on iCCup under the name fallenarchon. I sucked and did mostly UMS games. So I started creating new accounts because I couldn't clearstats fast enough to stay at D level. So fallenarchon became arcticarchon, which became arcticwarfare, which became Arctic_warfarE.

So first came the Sentinel. I was into mapmaking at the time (and still am), and played Zerg at the time. I was still Arctic_warfarE and I had this buddy who constantly, CONSTANTLY fucked me over with expansions (I was semi-decent, in the next 3 months I'd hit D+ rank and C- soon after). And there was this one unit I loved, Guardians, perfect for attacking from the sea or from a cliff. He's Terran and Guardians outrange turrets.

So I upped the stats of the guardian but not super-noticeable, to 30 instead of 20 per shot. Turrets decimated, SCV's die in two shots instead of three. Fucking A. I called it the Zerg Sentinel, kind of a synonym for Guardian, and I'd just host a map but my own version where the Guardian is OP. And became SentineL-EX.

On TL I didn't want to be associated with Combat (for obvious reasons) and later I found out that there was already a dude named Sentenal who I didn't know too well but tried to stay away from as well, so I took my old clantag, University of Narnia. UoN.

[UoN]Sentinel.
Нас зовет дух отцов, память старых бойцов, дух Москвы и твердыня Полтавы
DukeMumford
Profile Joined February 2012
United States4 Posts
March 19 2012 14:53 GMT
#2819
Mine is derived from a silly game that my friends and I played to determine our "pornstar" names. You take the name of your first pet, and the name of the street you grew up on and combine them.

Pet = Duke
Street = Mumford Drive (drop the drive)

Duke + Mumford = Duke Mumford.

Kinda stuck for everything I do that needs a codename or username.
Afterstar
Profile Joined November 2010
67 Posts
March 19 2012 14:58 GMT
#2820
Back in the good ol'days, my favourite games were C&C:Red Alert:Aftermath and Starcraft.
I was thinking of RedStar,but that sounded too soviet-russian like,so i combined other words from the game titles and voila.
Don't cry because it's over,smile because it happened.
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