my id is Unit and that has a bit of a story behind it which goes back to when i learned of SC (not BW, SC vanilla)
back in my freshman year of High school i joined a club at my school called the computer club
this club was pretty much a build robots on thursdays and play around the rest of the time playing SC
i had never heard of sc before that as i rarely played games since most in my eyes were retarted (former console gamer ^____^ )
so i had to pick an id to play on one of the spawns and i noticed that a friend of mine used Unit720, he got the name from star wars battle front bc he fought a guy named unit720 for months and then finally won and claimed his name...at that point i chose to be Unit714 (because 7 is my fave number and 7*2 = 14 ^___^ ) and that stuck for about a year til i changed it to Unit764 which is when i learned of BW and iCCup (the reasoning for 764 was because the only console i truly liked was the Nintendo64)
another year later i learned about TL.net from some guys on iCCup in a chat channel (hell yea chat channels!) at this point i was getting bored of the number scheme and chose to just be Unit...and thats how i ended up as Unit ^____^

btw irony here:
-for phase 2 my identifier number was 764 ^___^

GodIsNotHere

Canada395 Posts

July 19 2010 19:02 GMT

#1003

Mine is pretty simple I'm just a fan of The Exorcist but Sadly you can't fit "God is not here today priest!" into a name slot. :\

Masheyoon

United States781 Posts

July 19 2010 19:16 GMT

#1004

Masheyoon = Ma Jae Yoon.

One night, as I was lying in bed on the verge of drifting off to sleep, my thoughts began to wonder far and wide. I heard the great howling and screaming of many troubled commentators - "MA JAE YOON BO BY BOOOOO! AAAAHHHHHHH!" (

)

As sleep began to consume me, the howling became more and more distorted and fuzzy. Eventaully it got to the point where all I could hear was a faint "Mash..eeeyyy....ooooon..."

<_< ......Yeah.

fellcrow

United States288 Posts

July 19 2010 19:16 GMT

#1005

I don't even know how "fellcrow" popped into my head. I'm 20 now and I was around 9 I think when I made this nickname for the original Counter-Strike. Man...I wish I knew what I was thinking that night when I got my name. haha even I've always wondered.

Kolvacs

Canada1203 Posts

July 19 2010 19:20 GMT

#1006

When I was 10 - 11, my cousin played WoW.
His name on WoW was Kolvacs.
He got it from some book where the character's name was Kovacs.
Someone had taken it already on WoW, so he added an L and made it Kolvacs.
I stole the name a few months later for like my D2 character or something.
Stuck with Kolvacs ever since, though I am thinking about changing my name.

Belegorm

United States330 Posts

July 19 2010 19:22 GMT

#1007

I remember many years ago, I registered for this LotR fans' forum. I meant to put my name in as "Beregrond" but somehow I forgot how his name sounded so it ended up as "Belegorm." Since I've never ever encountered anyone else with the name, it kinda stuck (so I use it for my b.net and iccup ID's as well).

XenOsky

Chile2358 Posts

July 19 2010 19:35 GMT

#1008

My first ID was ArChOn back in 2003 - 2007 , it was because in wgtour the winner of the season was ArChOn_PatillOn (aka ZelotITO) i thought ArChOn looks cool so i took it...

some years after i was like "argj a lot of ppl use this ID..." so i was watching some old vods of boxer and saw this game on Legacy of Char , and the name of the map for some reason was changed to XenoSky , and i tought "that looks cool", and registred XenOsky.

Fuspup

United States17 Posts

July 19 2010 20:13 GMT

#1009

I got mine from a police officer...

I was going roughly 85mph in a 70 mph zone and got pulled over for speeding. Since it was pretty early in the morning, about 7 am, and the road wasnt busy he gave me a written warning. When he handed the warning to me i give it to my friend who was riding with me so he could put it in the glove-box. He then attempted to read my middle name. The officer had pretty poor handwriting though because middle name is Eugene and somehow he made it look like Fuspup.

Cellardoor

United States71 Posts

July 19 2010 21:57 GMT

#1010

My name is technically the most beautiful on the website....
Cellar door is the most beautiful combo of words Google it

HyruleanTubist

United States189 Posts

July 19 2010 22:07 GMT

#1011

I'm a Legend of Zelda freak, as well as a tuba player (tubist). Originally, though, I was going by Hyrulean21, but when I tried to sign up for Xbox Live, the name Hyrulean21 was taken so I had to get original. After a little thought, there it is!

FecalFrown

215 Posts

July 19 2010 22:10 GMT

#1012

Mine comes from when sometimes I take a gigantic shit, I look down into the bowl and the turd looks like its frowning at me. It makes me sad.

UberThing

Great Britain410 Posts

July 19 2010 22:11 GMT

#1013

My name is BigGonzo

Basically I like spanish people hence the Gonzo and I like big people too

brian

United States9643 Posts

July 19 2010 22:48 GMT

#1014

oh so thats where UberThing comes from

Brian

Gdz

United States1 Post

July 19 2010 22:57 GMT

#1015

Joined the Godz clan in SC1, went to wc3 as Godz]negro. Got banned for the name. Now I am Gdz

Narayan

Canada80 Posts

July 19 2010 22:57 GMT

#1016

Narayan is a song from Prodigy, a group I was into during the SC days! I use it for everything

anthonzi

United States1 Post

July 19 2010 23:07 GMT

#1017

Anthony with an East Asian twist.

mOnion

United States5660 Posts

July 19 2010 23:08 GMT

#1018

On July 20 2010 07:07 HyruleanTubist wrote:
I'm a Legend of Zelda freak, as well as a tuba player (tubist). Originally, though, I was going by Hyrulean21, but when I tried to sign up for Xbox Live, the name Hyrulean21 was taken so I had to get original. After a little thought, there it is!

you realize that something originating from Hyrule would be "Hylian" yes?

edit: nope i'm wrong
http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Hyrulean

collegeBored

United States1524 Posts

July 19 2010 23:09 GMT

#1019

obviously a pun on collegeboard.com, the name was actually the title of one of the earlier Daria episodes dealing with applying/visiting colleges that i watched right around the time I was applying to college. stuck with it since.

zerosiris

United States64 Posts

July 19 2010 23:24 GMT

#1020

Started playing SC when I was super young with the name "Wizzard", I thought 2 Zs looked cooler than one, used it for a little while when I played Counter-Strike 1.6 until I was old enough to realize that it was a really terrible nick, at the time I was studying Egyptian mythology and so I picked the name 0siris, 0 = zero again my vanity for what looked cooler got the best of me, as the god of the underworld, which was just the tiniest of upgrades of Wizzard.

Turns out my second shot at a nick was not very original, and already in use in just about every message board etc so instead of turning to my proven unimaginative nickname creating brain, I just started to spell out the 0 making "zerosiris" The only reason I stick with it now is because there are a lot of people that knew/know me in CS 1.6 as 0siris so changing it would make for too many re-introductions.