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Xtal
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Haiti385 Posts
April 05 2010 05:29 GMT
#441
I was looking for a good ID, for a terran player in SC.

and came across Aphex Twin's ~ Xtal

I was blown away by the song and the imagery used in the video.

Have you ever heard the story, about the Zergling and the Probe? The Probe didn't make it across the creep.
Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20665 Posts
April 05 2010 05:29 GMT
#442
mine is a vague reference to yellow + a musical era

lol -_-`
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JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
April 05 2010 05:33 GMT
#443
was watching the hilarious movie blazing saddles one day and changed my name from Raven to SaddleS and then I just stuck with it
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
Inkblood
Profile Joined February 2010
United States463 Posts
April 05 2010 05:36 GMT
#444
Inkblood, comes from the fact that I write a lot of fiction, and the only thing that made a decent name attached to writing that I could find was Ink, so I stuck with that. But since I wanted something a wee bit longer I added blood.

This comes from a freaky dream I had a few years back, where there were white foxes, who bled white blood. And I don’t know why, but in the dream I remember finding this out and finding it absolutely chilling, it was just really frightening for some reason. And the memory of that dream has stuck with me, and thus I added on blood, from the white blood of the foxes.
VManOfMana
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States764 Posts
April 05 2010 05:36 GMT
#445
I am a huge Secret of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 2 fan since I was a child.

VMan is a shorthand of what my brother used to call me back then; I came up with it since the "enter your name" screen of Secret of Mana allows a maximum of six characters.

So, pretty much, "VMan, [Knight] of Mana"

My alternate nick is Seiken. I just like how the word sounds.
Woo Jung Ho, FIGHTING! | "With the death of BW comes the death of an idea. And that idea, held by many BW fans, was that a computer game could actually outlive the Next New Game cycle. And to some extent it did." -Falling
0neder
Profile Joined July 2009
United States3733 Posts
April 05 2010 05:37 GMT
#446
That Thing You Do is a fun Tom Hanks movie from a decade ago about a one-hit wonder 60s band.

Their band name was originally the "one"ders but everyone kept mispronouncing it "oh-need-ers" and "oh-nehd-ers" so when a label signed them they switched to the standard "wonders."

I've thought about switching my name to I Am Spartacus, another inside joke from the movie.
peckham33
Profile Joined April 2010
United States267 Posts
April 05 2010 05:42 GMT
#447
i just through the town i was born in into the runescape sistem and this was the easiest name to remember that poped up. yes, i have a level 79 and have never payed Jagex a cent. i have no life.
dead men tell no lies, and i am dead, yet i can talk so i must be alive, but i was just shot in the head five times so i must be dead, but if i am dead then all i have said must be true, so now i am dead and alive?
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-05 17:06:23
April 05 2010 05:45 GMT
#448
My ID is a reference to both Athos the Musketeer and Athos the Archsage. I thought of the tag back in 6th grade after reading The Three Musketeers and playing Fire Emblem 7. Athos seemed like the coolest of the three Musketeers, he was older, wiser, and good with the ladies. I'd like to think I got the name primarily from the novel, but a part of me realizes I played an assload of FE7. You didn't get to play as Athos until the final mission, but he was so powerful he could take out the final boss by himself. I think these two characters sort of merged in my head. I ended up changing my ID to Athos on an Advance Wars forum I frequented and the name stuck. For a while, I was Athos on USEAST and it was such a cool tag because there were no damn numbers on the end. I also got the same tag on TL, and most forums I frequent have some variation of Athos in them. I like the idea of having one identity for everything I do online. Sure it's not my actual name, but if somebody yelled it in a crowded room, I would turn my head. I guess IDs really become a part of your own identity over time.
hahaimhenry
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada368 Posts
April 05 2010 05:47 GMT
#449
My friend told me he saw me on Maple Story and i told him I didn't play anymore so that was impossible. He then told me he was joking and saw a guy's name "hahaimhenry". I thought it was clever and stuck to it .

CREDIT TO THAT GUY!
:]
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8035 Posts
April 05 2010 05:57 GMT
#450
I originally started out with the username lasercannon because I loved Star Wars. It was also a testament to how awesome the photon man cheat in Age of Empires was:



Eventually I decided to change my username since I wanted something a little less juvenile, but I still wanted it to be related to my original handle. I settled on spazer for those reasons, but also because Metroid is a fantastic game.
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fEAthEr
Profile Joined July 2004
Canada482 Posts
April 05 2010 06:01 GMT
#451
I used to play on a counterstrike server that had a war3 mod loaded on it. One of the abilities your character could get was to become partially invisible. I played this for several months while only using a knife trying to sneak up on people and shank them. I would customize my spray to various things to help me camoflauge, or to try to distract their attention (a big ol pic of cleavage for example).

During this time i was surfing the internots, and saw the iconic Apache web server feather, and ripped it and made it a spray (it used to be much more abnoxious / brightly coloured) and i used to spray it in whatever room i was in, to give people a hint as to where i was (or simply to lure them).

The server was always on all-talk, and people just coined me as feather.
Later i found if i put a - at the beginning, i could shape the name like a feather

-fEAthEr
zerglingsfolife
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1694 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-05 06:06:55
April 05 2010 06:02 GMT
#452
It was 2001 and I needed a handle quick.

The song Bad Boys for Life was playing.


I thought they were saying Bad Boys fo Life. I thought it sounded cool.

I was playing Starcraft, and what sexier unit is there than the zergling? Thus zerglingsfolife was born.

Edit: This has created funny situation in SC since I usually play as Terran. Some protosses would forge FE against me, or do not optimal openings. Pretty funny
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crown and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness.
tonight
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States11130 Posts
April 05 2010 06:08 GMT
#453
tonight's end was a band I was in like 5-6years ago so I used tonightsend as a lot of my IDs, but now it's just tonight because it's nice.
if I come without a thing, then I come with all I need @tonightsend
OptimusTom
Profile Joined October 2009
United States154 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-05 06:14:33
April 05 2010 06:09 GMT
#454
I used to work at a radio station when I attended Seton Hall, 89.5FM WSOU. We were all given DJ names before we got our on-air clearance. You never got to choose your own name, that was lame.

I walked in one day to see my last name crossed off the assistant producer (fancy name for the guy answering phones) grid and the word "Optimus" in front. It was awesome, and it stuck. People thought I gave myself the name but I couldn't have. It was a mystery for over a year.

I had a friend (Scarecrow) at the station I assistant produced for while he DJ'd. After flexing my incredible nerd muscles in a Transformer conversation, he apparently ran around to all the schedules in the station and crossed my name out in favor of the new nick name. I found this out not too long ago, haha.

I'm just lucky I wasn't stuck with a lame DJ name XD

I just carried it over here, on to Brood War, etc. I tried making it my SC2 beta name, but apparently it's considered offensive? So I can't use it I use CecilFail instead, which (in another incredible display of nerd muscle,) is the name of my first Dungeons and Dragons character.

Before either of those, I was known as dartski, which originated from a character I created when I was about 12 or 13 and used to role play in text based games and chat rooms. The character was originally called Dart Strife, referencing both The Legend of Dragoon and Final Fantasy 7. I just got lazy one day and gave him a nick name.
JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
April 05 2010 06:12 GMT
#455
good thread =)
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
OptimusTom
Profile Joined October 2009
United States154 Posts
April 05 2010 06:15 GMT
#456
On April 05 2010 15:12 JoeSaddles wrote:
good thread =)


Haha, I agree. I read almost the entire thread before realizing I should contribute!
RoTaNiMoD
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States558 Posts
April 05 2010 06:19 GMT
#457
On April 05 2010 07:44 FragKrag wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 05 2010 07:42 RoTaNiMoD wrote:
After a string of poorly chosen names (with one exception, SoulCutter), I decided to choose a cool backwards name. Retsam was the first I thought of, but I had on rare occasion seen other people with that. After long reflection, rotanimod finally came to mind. Not only is it unique (at least it used to be, I have seen a couple posers now) but it has a sweet alternating consonant-vowel pattern which makes it look badass with alternating caps.

Now that I am older and more professional, alternating caps is less befitting and I generally go by rotanimod or Rotanimod. My actual gamer tag, though, will forever be RoTaNiMoD.


I remember a decent WC3 player who went by RoTaNiMoD o_O


Dude that's me.
Enderbantoo
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States465 Posts
April 05 2010 06:20 GMT
#458
When i played Anarchy online my name was Banshee, but my bro was like ender87 because he loved ender's game

when we made an upgraded account we combined them, but idk where the too came in from
At the biggest upset of all of bw, Shanghai SPL finals 2011
SeeDLiNg
Profile Joined January 2010
United States690 Posts
April 05 2010 06:20 GMT
#459
On April 05 2010 15:12 JoeSaddles wrote:
good thread =)

+1
SweeTLemonS[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
11739 Posts
April 05 2010 06:24 GMT
#460
On April 05 2010 15:20 Enderbantoo wrote:
When i played Anarchy online my name was Banshee, but my bro was like ender87 because he loved ender's game

when we made an upgraded account we combined them, but idk where the too came in from


Ender and Banshee too (as in as well)?
I'm never gonna know you now \ But I'm gonna love you anyhow.
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