My favorite athlete growing up was Reggie Miller, #31 of the Indiana Pacers. When I started using this ID, I was in college learning to program, and our coding style requirements were to use camel case, so I wrote it out thusly.

Trifid

United States23 Posts

June 22 2010 05:31 GMT

#962

I am an amateur astronomer/star gazer and I chose my favorite nebula - simple ^^

Risen

United States7927 Posts

June 22 2010 05:44 GMT

#963

I wanted to make fun of kids who thought it would be awesome to put itz in front of their gamer tags to represent themselves as hip and good. So I made itzbrandnew, as in it's a brand new idea, and you're so cool for thinking to put itz in front of your name! (sarcasm applied heavily)

So that's my forum/online tag. I'm actually Risen in every game I play, though ^.^

Explanation behind that is, I needed a one word name that would describe me, and I chose Risen because I have Risen above where I was born.

famz

United States78 Posts

June 22 2010 05:48 GMT

#964

dixyNORMOUS

you know what it is.

Nithix

United States184 Posts

June 22 2010 05:49 GMT

#965

This current one was based off D&D, from a language I created that I can't remember very well anymore. But Nithix translated into blood, and I'm honestly thinking about using blood as my nick ingame for fun. I'm a nerd, so whatever.

Edit: Some old names when I first started playing SC and Diablo: The_Jew2 (Yes, part jewish, family joke with my cousins), ph34rz, Pit_Demon... I was 12, they were amusing to me at the time, alright? ;P

Ventez

Norway107 Posts

June 22 2010 12:08 GMT

#966

I just brainstormed it =/

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

June 22 2010 20:27 GMT

#967

Once upon a time, beyond recent memory for most (the 90's), the internet was a very dark and scary place. Many shied away from the foreign and potentially evil entity known as the world wide web. It was out of such paranoia that my ID was spawned.

As a young'un, one of my greatest victories was finally convincing my parents to let me get a Hotmail account. Since it was quite obvious that Hotmail, being a part of the oh-so-malicious internet, was out to get anyone foolish enough to step into its trap, my parents were sure to take precautions to avoid any danger. When the time came to enter my personal information into the account registration page, only the first two letters of both my first and last name were given. Co. Fo. This way, whatever evil people ran Hotmail would have a much more difficult time tracking me down in real life and killing me.

As it turns out, my parent's paranoia payed off, and I have managed to live to this day to tell the tale. Sure to never let my guard down, lest the bad guys of the internet seek me out, I have been known on the internet ever since then only as Cofo.

Soulish

Canada1403 Posts

June 22 2010 22:49 GMT

#968

On April 04 2010 18:32 mOnion wrote:

i originally wanted my ID to be Onion as in Onion Knights from the final fantasy's (the strongest

Actually Calculators/Arithmeticians are the strongest class if you take ridiculous amounts of time to level them up. Use the deleveler and switch to black mage, go back to a crap class, repeat.

999 damage on everything!

and my ign was cause I heard a song in my church with the word soulish in it so I thought it was kinda cool :D

Reptilia

Chile913 Posts

June 22 2010 22:54 GMT

#969

i really like the comic spawn
and spawn rimed with pwn and own
so i though
"owned, pwned and .........spawned!"
god its awfull
gonna change it in sc2 tho

Piski

Finland3461 Posts

June 22 2010 23:02 GMT

#970

I was born in russia but we moved to finland when I was 6 year old and my lastname is close to a finnish word Piski, which means pooch. So they started to call me Piski and it stuck even to this day.

In games I sometimes use different nick

intrigue

Washington, D.C9933 Posts

June 22 2010 23:03 GMT

#971

On June 23 2010 07:54 spawned99 wrote:
i really like the comic spawn
and spawn rimed with pwn and own
so i though
"owned, pwned and .........spawned!"
god its awfull
gonna change it in sc2 tho

is your sig related to this in any way?

Reptilia

Chile913 Posts

June 22 2010 23:06 GMT

#972

=( no =(

TanukTanukTuk

United States40 Posts

June 22 2010 23:10 GMT

#973

So this Teamliquid username came out of a drunken night in college. This was 5 years ago before I started playing Sarcraft. I was in a WoW guild and the "Tunak Tunak Tun" video was all the craze:

So one night after being slightly inebriated and striking out with the ladies, I wanted to do some frozen throne smurfing. You know, to make up for my lack of success at the bars. So I decided to make a new name. After all I mean it was only fair after all since I had a brain lag disadvantage. So I thought I was being clever by making by using the namesake of the song. Unfortunately since I was drunk I actually miss-spelled it. I woke up the next morning and kept it precisely because of this story.

As far as my bnet-name, it's BoboLuvRcoon, which is a shortened version of my full typical username which is "BoboTheLuvRaccoon". I think that started from when I played counter-strike (before warcraft 3 and after my BGH days of SC:BW). For those of you who don't know, in counter-strike whenever you kill someone, your name appears on everyone's screen, followed by the gun you used to kill your victim, followed by your victim's name. So I thought it would be great to have a name that nobody would want to be killed by. I thought about it for days and finally settled on "BoboTheLuvRaccoon". It has been my gamer name ever since, and several friends actually only know me as "Bobo".

YPang

United States4024 Posts

June 22 2010 23:12 GMT

#974

On June 21 2010 19:13 VeRy wrote:
I wanted to pick an everyday word to emulate Korean progamers. I made a list of such words and organized them into a bracket. Then I made the words fight for my love! I narrowed my list down to a few candidates with this method. My top choice was already taken (albeit with different capitalization,) so I settled on VeRy, instead. It's an adverb. It's mundane. It has alternating caps! It has everything I could ever want in an ID! It doesn't make me a better player but it does make me feel cool!

you and your name sounds gay.

Yuka

United States133 Posts

June 22 2010 23:14 GMT

#975

Just copied my name over from my WoW character because I came to SC2 beta to play with Blizzard-connected WoW guildees. In turn, my WoW character is named for and modeled after my girlfriend.

hejakev

Sweden518 Posts

June 22 2010 23:32 GMT

#976

"heja" (pronounced "hay-ah") is a Swedish cheer. "Heja Sverige!" means "Go Sweden!".

Kevin is my name, but most just call me Kev.

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

June 22 2010 23:40 GMT

#977

I hit three random keys on the keyboard. I used this nick for quite some while, even when I used to play Counter-Strike from 1.2 to 1.5 (best versions IMHO) and it turns out there was actually a German clan with that name (die kranke horde if I remember correctly). Even up to this day people ask whether I have anything to do with them. Dunno if they had a SC department but I get asked in CS and SC.

geetarzero

United States217 Posts

June 22 2010 23:48 GMT

#978

pun on the guitar hero video game series...

horang3

United States261 Posts

June 22 2010 23:54 GMT

#979

I always loved horang2 because he was just such a ridiculous guy and player. I guess i could relate to him because he always had weird strategies but isn't actually that good. Even though i know that the 2 is pronounced as the /i/ vowel, I always called him horang two in my head, but because it's like he's the second version of horang... I guess i'm the third one?

guii

Brazil31 Posts

June 22 2010 23:55 GMT

#980

My name is Guilherme.

When I was playing Ragnarök Online, I was about to create a new chracter named Gui.. But you can only create chars with at least 4letters.. Then.. Guii! =D