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ApoNow
Profile Joined May 2010
Luxembourg100 Posts
July 19 2010 23:34 GMT
#1021
Back in 1997 when I was 13 I needed a name for my first online game Diablo. I thought the movie Apocalypse Now's title sounded quite cool (though I haven't even seen it to this date) but since it was too long I cut it down to ApoNow, which also fitted this whole internet slang thing (at least to me at that age; I've never been into leetspeak since I think it rather looks weird). I stuck to this name in Starcraft as well as Warcraft III but later in WoW every letter except for the first one had to be miniscules, leaving me the only option of writing it Aponow which, in my opinion, looks stupid. Thus, my name in WoW is Apo and that's how I had already been called by my internet friends back in Starcraft and Warcraft III.
But I'm still choosing ApoNow over Apo if it's possible.
A Tiamat tour is like Space Mountain in Disneyland… A roller coaster in the dark
jnay
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada107 Posts
July 19 2010 23:36 GMT
#1022
On July 20 2010 03:55 unit wrote:
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 ^___^

wowww, what are the chances for that identifier eh? =p
MutaDoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1163 Posts
July 19 2010 23:46 GMT
#1023
I bet noone can guess how I got my name :O

I know it's boring Actually, (Z)July was the reason I started using it in the first place. He was so amazing.
JinjoBust
Profile Joined April 2010
Korea (North)130 Posts
July 20 2010 00:09 GMT
#1024
The name was born from a meme on gamefaqs boards where someone would just post a picture of a jinjo from banjo kazooie. I combined this concept with the SC slang of "bust", making the entire name an exercise in redundancy

I love nuances.
no one expects jinjos, and by extension, the jinjo bust.
Height
Profile Joined May 2010
United States53 Posts
July 20 2010 00:11 GMT
#1025
I'm part Greek, and I've always admired Achilles- being a fan of ancient Greek literature- and the movie Troy. Of course Achilles would probably always be taken no matter where I went, plus it's someone else's name which wouldn't sit well with me. So I made Achillean out of that. Basically meaning one who is like Achilles. I'd like to think I'm as bad ass at gaming as he was at killing people.
Practice, practice, practice, practice...
Hynda
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden2226 Posts
July 20 2010 00:18 GMT
#1026
Swedish term for Bitch, as in the female dog. It's a real old-school word that also means "Unruly teenager" rather than being as derogative as it is in the English language. Why I got it was simple, when I was groving up my grandfather, who is a master of words always managed to fit it in perfectly whenever he got upset about kids, creating some of the more wonderous sentances I've ever heard in my own language.
Andyl194
Profile Joined June 2010
United States17 Posts
July 20 2010 01:11 GMT
#1027
My ID is Roadkill:

WAAAAAAyyy back when I was just a little kid... like 12 or 13, I was signing up for SC1 and I had to think up a name. I was trying to pick something funny and original and what I came to the conclusion of is that line from the mask which is something like "look mom! I'm roadkill!" which everyone seemed to be saying would be good. I didnt even know what roadkill meant. but Thats been my alias in SC and beyond forever now.
Something clever
OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
July 20 2010 01:24 GMT
#1028
My actual StarCraft name, Frozen, was made by me and some friends from a long time ago. We used to play a lot together but I would often go MIA all of sudden for various reasons e.g. having to help my mom with chores, taking a phone call, or getting the door. Eventually those friends gave me the name Frozen for being "frozen" and unresponsive frequently. I've stuck it with it ever since, for about six to seven years. Too bad the Frozean bastard decided to change his name to Frozen. What an unoriginal novice.

As for OneOther, I just wanted a appealing name with alliteration. Nothing much to go with that. I think I was 13 when I made this account. Damn, that's crazy.
Beef Noodles
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States937 Posts
July 20 2010 01:32 GMT
#1029
When I first moved to China, I only knew 3 chinese characters -- niu ro mian = beef noodles. Because I didnt knwo how to say anything else, I just always ate beef noodles and that became my name in China.

When I moved here, it stuck.

Damn shitty noodles...
catabowl
Profile Joined November 2009
United States815 Posts
July 20 2010 01:39 GMT
#1030
When my family first got internet, my mom picked the ID name and it was Catabowl. And I've never changed it since. haha.
Jung! Myung! Hoooooooooooooooooon! #TeamPolt
[Garlic]
Profile Joined February 2010
8 Posts
July 20 2010 01:51 GMT
#1031
I'm a chef ^^
"Love and eggs are best when fresh."
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
July 20 2010 01:54 GMT
#1032
I was a big time troll on WoW forums and some guy asked me if I liked nerd tears

to which I replied "why yes old chap, they are the sweetest tears on earth"
#1 arb fan -- Raelcun is Nuclear backwards. Rekrul is Lurker backwards. Grobyc is Cyborg backwards. Eniram is Marine backwards.
Schurk
Profile Joined June 2010
Netherlands47 Posts
July 20 2010 08:54 GMT
#1033
it's basicly a pun on a recruitment commercial from the dutch railway company made by an old classmate of mine years and years ago.

but it basicly just means "crook" or "fiend" like a villain from an old batman movie.
Vei
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2845 Posts
July 20 2010 08:56 GMT
#1034
On July 20 2010 09:09 JinjoBust wrote:
The name was born from a meme on gamefaqs boards where someone would just post a picture of a jinjo from banjo kazooie. I combined this concept with the SC slang of "bust", making the entire name an exercise in redundancy

I love nuances.

That's pretty hilarious heh.

I came up with this name back in middle school, 8th grade I think. I was playing D2 and my assassin's name was Xei and I thought it was okay, but eventually I made one named Vei and liked that way more. And it's stuck since -- nearly a decade now.
www.justin.tv/veisc2 ~ 720p + commentary
Ahseyo
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Sweden80 Posts
July 20 2010 08:57 GMT
#1035
My name: I give you a clue. Look at the korean Anyonghaseo. And pronnounce the last part. That's how I got it.
"Luck isn't some kind of mystical energy that floats around in the universe, randomly discards people with satisfaction and joy. You create your own luck" Jay-Z
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
July 20 2010 08:59 GMT
#1036
On July 20 2010 10:54 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:
I was a big time troll on WoW forums and some guy asked me if I liked nerd tears

to which I replied "why yes old chap, they are the sweetest tears on earth"

lmao someone asked me the same thing after a bw game I played with him. that's hilarious haha
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Ahseyo
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Sweden80 Posts
July 20 2010 09:00 GMT
#1037
Nerd tears are serious lolworthy shit.
"Luck isn't some kind of mystical energy that floats around in the universe, randomly discards people with satisfaction and joy. You create your own luck" Jay-Z
hoppipolla
Profile Joined January 2010
Australia782 Posts
July 20 2010 09:04 GMT
#1038
So I needed a name for Battlefield Vietnam (;p) and some Sigur Ros started playing on the radio. I loved the song and thought the name was pretty awesome, so now I use it everywhere and I'm a big Sigur Ros fan.
"It's not acceptable"
PiaMango
Profile Joined July 2010
New Zealand19 Posts
July 20 2010 09:06 GMT
#1039
My first nick was 'Pie' in CoD2, oh the good 'ol days. Not 100% sure why i chose that maybe i had just had a pie for lunch or something?
From there it changed a bit, something like: Pie -> TeammatePie -> TimmyAtePie -> ManPieEater (had a friend called ManWithoutHat)
I felt that ManPieEater was too long so i shortened it to PieMan, maybe the simpsons episode played a bit of a subliminal role.
I found that PieMan was quite widely used in online Forums and Games. I would've never put a number in my ID so I used ManPieEater, got sick of it again and raged so i finnally decided on.
Pie -> Pia
Man -> Mang
= PiaMang, not to sure how i went from Pie -> Pia but i guess i was called a Pain In the Ass (pia) sometimes.
I played NWN sometime after that and while making my character first name: Pia last name: Mang, I though, i cant have a last name thats just Mang. And then it struck me 'Mango'.

so no it was not my obsession of Mango or them being a pain in the ass at any time, it was alas, my lunch one day that resulted in this nick.
FuRong
Profile Joined April 2010
New Zealand3089 Posts
July 20 2010 10:33 GMT
#1040
On July 20 2010 18:06 PiaMango wrote:
My first nick was 'Pie' in CoD2, oh the good 'ol days. Not 100% sure why i chose that maybe i had just had a pie for lunch or something?
From there it changed a bit, something like: Pie -> TeammatePie -> TimmyAtePie -> ManPieEater (had a friend called ManWithoutHat)
I felt that ManPieEater was too long so i shortened it to PieMan, maybe the simpsons episode played a bit of a subliminal role.
I found that PieMan was quite widely used in online Forums and Games. I would've never put a number in my ID so I used ManPieEater, got sick of it again and raged so i finnally decided on.
Pie -> Pia
Man -> Mang
= PiaMang, not to sure how i went from Pie -> Pia but i guess i was called a Pain In the Ass (pia) sometimes.
I played NWN sometime after that and while making my character first name: Pia last name: Mang, I though, i cant have a last name thats just Mang. And then it struck me 'Mango'.

so no it was not my obsession of Mango or them being a pain in the ass at any time, it was alas, my lunch one day that resulted in this nick.


I think I remember you from WC3...at least, there can't be too many guys from NZ who used Pie variants as nicknames...
Don't hate the player, hate the game
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