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DemiSe
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
883 Posts
June 06 2010 00:14 GMT
#861
On June 03 2010 17:11 Neos wrote:
To anyone's surprise, my ID isn't actually from The Matrix. When I was like 5 years younger, I used to watch Yugioh a lot and there was a real cool-looking one called Neos, so I just decided to use that as my ID.

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Another Yugioh fanboy. That makes us two!
Anyway, my first nickname was "Mammashjälte" which translate into "Mommasboy", which was suitable when I played vanilla WoW and had a Rank13 warrior smashing everyone. Long story short, I decided to go with a more mature nickname and I wanted a short(<7 letters) yet a cool one. I wanted a name that inflicted terror and fear uppon my opponent!

Prepare to meet your DEMISE!

Let's See Who's Stronger, Your Tricks, Or My Skills.
AeonStrife
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States918 Posts
June 06 2010 02:41 GMT
#862
My name + I am crazy
Whats worse...US Poltics or SC2 Balance Talks...
keNNabis
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada159 Posts
June 06 2010 02:47 GMT
#863
was originally "Mydnyte" for a long time on bnet, cuz i would start playing around midnight, it was when i got home from work ;o so i just respelt midnight to mydnyte ;o

my real name is ken, and i really like/enjoy/the culture of cannabis
sooo thats how keNNabis came to be :D
I ARE VANCOUVER CANUCK
Mr. Elusive
Profile Joined May 2010
United States26 Posts
June 06 2010 03:05 GMT
#864
Well, I first started in the FPS genre with Quake 3. My friends would complain that I kept dodging their rockets, and I was hunting for a name.. Figured to dodge a rocket, I must be pretty elusive.
It caught on, and now I'm Elusive or Mr. Elusive in games from CSS to WC3 and SC2.
BackupHero
Profile Joined June 2010
United States5 Posts
June 06 2010 03:08 GMT
#865
Amongst my old co-workers, I was rarely the first guy they called when they needed something, but I always saved the day (at my old job, at least ).
maneatingshoe
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada484 Posts
June 06 2010 03:10 GMT
#866
So basically one day I watched the movie called "The little rascals" which is about these kids who all seem to have some sort of skill and a hideout and they make soapbox cars. Either way there's a scene in the movie where they advertise that they have a 6-foot man-eating chicken. expecting a large chicken that can consume people it's just a kid on a box with a trenchcoat on eating a bucket of kfc or something. Then I drew a picture of a shoe (kind of looked like chucks) eating a man the next day in class. The same day I drew the picture I made my first email account, so when I had a block about what to name it I just thought of my picture, and the ID has kind of stuck since then.

Although I've largely switched over to TyrantsInc (which has no particular backstory) I still have maneatingshoe for some of my accounts
adiyo011
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada125 Posts
June 06 2010 04:46 GMT
#867
The one I am currently posting under comes from one of the first online registrations I have ever done.

Adi is the nickname some of my close relatives call me by (My real name is Adrian). The 011 comes from my age at the time and the yo was because simply "adi" was already taken.

However, when I play games, I normally go by the ID Fearless which is a reference to the movie by Jet Li which I had just finished watching. Beforehand, my name was Waking The Fallen which is a reference to Avenged Sevenfold but I eventually realized how emoish/stupid the name was and switched to Fearless.

Tada~
RedTaisha
Profile Joined June 2010
United States51 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-06 06:03:20
June 06 2010 06:03 GMT
#868
Red is my favorite color; the "taisha" is a notoriously complicated corner play from the ancient board game called "Go".
One in a million is next Tuesday.
bossy
Profile Joined December 2009
Italy18 Posts
June 06 2010 06:13 GMT
#869
I got my name because lindsay lohan had this song out a couple of years ago called bossy, and i used to think she was sexy as hell when she wasnt a partyholic/druggy. still love that bish tho <3
"Even using the word cheese pisses me off. It's a word created by people incapable dealing with strategic variance. And thus incapable of playing Broodwar." -Liquid`Nazgul
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
June 06 2010 06:15 GMT
#870
On June 03 2010 23:25 mirai wrote:
mirai hoshizaki.

Google me.


UPDATE: don't try and act cool by posting ambiguous one liners that only explain your reference to people who already understand the reference

actually EXPLAIN the idea behind your ID

☆★☆ 7486!!! Join the Ban mOnion Anti-Trolling Initiative! - Caller | "on a scale of machine to 10, how bad is that Zerg?" - LZgamer | you are the new tl.net bonjwa monion, congrats - Rekrul | "Cheeseburgers dynamite lilacs" - Chill
Myxomatosis
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2392 Posts
June 06 2010 06:29 GMT
#871
radiohead is my fave band, this is a cool song title by them
Hyren
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States817 Posts
June 06 2010 06:41 GMT
#872
So there was this rpg for Game Boy Color called "Magi Nation" that I consider to be one of the most underrated games....evah!* Its sorta pokemon-esque but more mature and much more than a typical pokemon clone. The strongest creatures you could get were called "Hyrens" (think "legendary pokemon) and I wanted something unique for my id so thats what I picked :D

*Ironically the game was only made to promote a trading card game and although reviews were pretty positive, no sequel was made
Power-tripping mod for Trump's stream
Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
June 06 2010 06:43 GMT
#873
On June 06 2010 04:54 molamann wrote:
mola = "don't know" in Korean
mann = man but with an extra n, don't know why. Just like even numbers. :/


i guess you could say mann=man in german
Iri
Profile Joined January 2010
150 Posts
June 06 2010 07:53 GMT
#874
I have three gaming nicks: Colonel Steel, Iridor, and Eerie.

Colonel Steel evolved out of playing Natural Selection, a Half-Life mod. When I went to college half the campus played NS. I started playing and found that I was good at defending as an alien. There was a campus joke about how alien defense was like a wet paper bag. My roomie suggested I nick as Steel Bag, which I did for a few games, but people didn't want to say "Steel Bag" calling for me, so it was shortened to Steel. Everyone got the joke anyway. Then I captained a team a couple of times for an on-campus league, and became Captain Steel. Then I captained, organized, and administered an on-campus league twice, and captained a team in an inter-collegiate tournament, and my team decided that Captain wouldn't cut it, so I was promoted to Colonel Steel.

That's still my preferred nick in FPS games because other people gave it to me, but it's always taken for games when I start playing. When I started playing AoE II online, I had to pick something else. I had just read about Isidore of Alexandria and thought that Isidore was a cool name, but it was taken. So I switched it to Iridor because that sounded cooler anyway.

Played as Iridor in several games, then started playing WoW casually. I played several alts, all named Irisomething. (Iridor, Iridos, Iridon, etc.) People started calling me just Iri (earee) on Vent. About the same time a couple of my regular buddies in AoE put up a website for our clan to use, and somebody decided to have a list of the members with short descriptions. We all teased each other about them. Mine said something about how I had eerie gamesense, and I took a fair amount of ribbing. So when the clan broke up and I started playing SC:BW and needed a nick on ICCup, Iri/Eerie came naturally. I've used some variant on those for everything Starcraft since.

How's that for a long and convoluted story? :-D
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu
PhiliBiRD
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2643 Posts
June 06 2010 08:06 GMT
#875
My name is

Phil Baird
PhiliBiRD

me and my friends were high and it was the result. :-D
Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
June 06 2010 08:09 GMT
#876
Saechiis is Say Cheese in "cool" phonetics, subliminally warning my opponents for a shameless incoming cheese
I think esports is pretty nice.
Pull
Profile Joined April 2010
United States308 Posts
June 06 2010 08:10 GMT
#877
I rolled a tank in WoW and Pull seemed to be an epic tank name...I came up with it on the spot. So when it came time to come up with a new name for forums/new games because my old SN was nsioeis...don't even ask about that one, I still have no clue where it came from...I just stuck with Pull!
Co-Creator of the FRB Grand Tournament...Check out my epic commentaries at YouTube.com/pullsc and twitch.tv/pullsc ESPORTS FIGHTING!
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
June 06 2010 08:10 GMT
#878
its bra spelled backwards
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
shieldbreak
Profile Joined February 2010
United States406 Posts
June 06 2010 08:23 GMT
#879
rTrap

Well I let my friend use my account and on the day of the patch he thought it would be cool to pick my name for me. So he decided to take the first letter of my horribly long name and add the last 4 letters. Ironically...he spelled it long...or he actually pronounces it that way (my name is Ranapratap, okay? (shorter: Rana)).
Many a sleepless nights were spent doing absolutely nothing.
Torenhire
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States11681 Posts
June 06 2010 09:17 GMT
#880
I just....well...

A guy with shaggy brown hair huddles over his computer keyboard in a dimly lit room, focusing intently on the World of Warcraft Vanilla beta character creation screen...He loved the paladin hero in Warcraft 3, it only made perfect sense to reroll one in WoW...

"To..ren..hire", he types slowly, cautiously, as if he might fumble and ruin this moment.

Looking up at the screen to seeing the result of his work, he leans back in his chair with a creak and exclaims,



"Genius!"



Literally, my name was randomly made up in my head. It means nothing, it stands for nothing (Except my friend told me it means "Tower Here" in Dutch? Someone able to confirm that? lol) other than me. If you ever see a "Torenhire" or "Torengire" or any variation in any game or forum, it's me.
SirJolt: Well maybe if you weren't so big and stupid, it wouldn't have hit you.
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