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Footler
Profile Joined January 2010
United States560 Posts
October 18 2010 23:19 GMT
#1421
Randomly came up with the name Footler back in earlier BW days for the purpose of practicing different races, strats, builds, etc. without looking like a noob on my main clan name.

Later found out 'footle' means 'to waste time' so to me a 'footler' would be 'one who wastes time.' Seemed appropriate since I play games so much!
I am The-Sink! Parting bandwagoner before it became a soul train.
Mooncat
Profile Joined October 2007
Germany1228 Posts
October 18 2010 23:32 GMT
#1422
Story behind my ID
"[Lee Young Ho] With this victory, you’ve risen to Bonjwa status."
FecalFrown
Profile Joined June 2010
215 Posts
October 18 2010 23:45 GMT
#1423
On October 19 2010 06:14 Logginurkeyz wrote:
My name is one I've used since the days when I played WoW a while back... There was a funny post on the Paladin forums by a guy who was either 10 years old or had a supreme lack of understanding of the structure of a proper English sentence; I'm guessing it was his 3rd language...
The part really funny part about the whole post he made, was keyloggers were starting to pop up in forum posts everywhere- and since his post already had terrible English and a whole buncha links in it, it was a great place for the keyloggers to start.

The keyloggers took his thread, replaced the links with ones that gave lesser skilled netizens a keylogger, and were all about ret paladins... So, as a joke, I specced my paladin ret and had someone report my name so I could rename him to "Logginurkeyz"
So whenever I posted on the realm forums, it would say Logginurkeyz, show my spec as ret (this was many moons ago in the second iteration of the WoW forums) and I'd get a few laughs.

It ended up that most of my friends knew me by my paladin's name, so when I migrated over to SC2 I made my handle my paladin's name so my friends would recognize me. Besides, it's always funny when you hit paranoid people in the ladder or just someone with a sense of humor, and the either make jokes about me loggin their keys or just outright leave from paranoia (I've had this happen more times than I'd like to admit)...

This is a link (non-keylogging) to the wiki page that has the original non-keylogging links on them.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Server:Sargeras_US/I_am_the_Ret
They're mostly crudely circled screenshots of him PvP'ing or badly done paint drawings which made his OP that much more hysterical...



Small world, I'm from Bonechewer too. My main is Peevector. =D

Actually, my WoW name was orginally Fecalfrown, before it got reported and I had to change it to Peevector. (1st year engineering student, I had vector geometry on my mind a lot) Fortunately, Sc2 gave the name Fecalfrown the chance to live again!

As for its origins, I'm not sure. I'm 23 years old and for some reason poop and pee and their joke derivatives are still hilarious to me. I think it came from me taking a gigantic dump and seeing the turd frown up at me from its watery home.
aztrorisk
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States896 Posts
October 18 2010 23:47 GMT
#1424
AzTroRisK

Astro (Space like in starcraft) + RisK (the strategy board game) = a synonym for Starcraft

the Z takes place of the S because it looks like a lightning bolt (a scar that I have on my finger) and I can relate lighting to space (well at least the atmosphere)

A lock that opens to many keys is a bad lock. A key that opens many locks is a master key.
StripedBlueCrow
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States506 Posts
October 19 2010 00:01 GMT
#1425
Striped blue crows are a type of butterfly.. I use to collect butterflies when I was much younger..
Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
casualman
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1198 Posts
October 19 2010 00:08 GMT
#1426
I originally played this game League of Legends back a year and a half ago while it was still in closed beta.... my IGN was something completely irrelevant, but I changed my Livestream account name to lariat because there was this important Emissary named Larias whose dick everyone would suck. I figured that changing my name to be similar to his would give my voice more power in that small community... I then migrated to SC2 and I guess the name stuck.

I also was coffeeFK for a while during the sc2 cb account wipes; a bad joke referencing to Deadly Premonition. Oh god that game is so good. Giant Bomb / Dtoid forever.
GuMiho <3
Logginurkeyz
Profile Joined September 2010
United States375 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-19 00:40:18
October 19 2010 00:39 GMT
#1427
edit: wrong button, thought I clicked PM =0X
Jemag... Jemag... you're like an alcoholic telling me why you drink... you have your reasons, but it's still bad... <3 iNcontroL
Ahielia
Profile Joined October 2010
Norway53 Posts
October 19 2010 00:44 GMT
#1428
Ahielia was the name of my first ever real main character in World of Warcraft.
Was going to make a Night Elf Huntress, and I wanted a name that started with an "A".
So I started typing letters, sounding them out loud to see if they sounded good. I went through a lot of letters that day... :p
But in the end, I came up with a name I liked, and it's stuck with me ever since.
I'm really happy with it.
Basically it's a random mashing of buttons.

Many people seem to have a problem with the vowels though.
Some of the things I get called: Ahelia, Ahilia, Ahiela...
But like I tell most people that I interact with on a regular basis, if you can't spell my entire name, just call me "Ahi" :-)
Tiegrr
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States607 Posts
October 19 2010 00:53 GMT
#1429
I used phonetic spelling for my name.

Seriously.
Jollyranc
Profile Joined October 2010
United States5 Posts
October 19 2010 02:47 GMT
#1430
When I was about 10 or so, I ventured into the new and strange world of online gaming. When I was asked to create a username, I was at a loss. I had never been asked to supply one, and therefor I couldn't, off the top of my head, create a name that I really liked and felt was unique, a name that defined who I was. So after trying numerous times with some pretty silly names (Snickers, lol), I tried the name of one of my favorite candies back then: Jollyranchers. It told me it had accepted the name, but apparently edited it to simply "Jollyranc". Ever since I've used that name for everything I do online, as It is unique and defines part of who I am (nice, happy-going, funny ).
sung_moon
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States10110 Posts
October 19 2010 02:53 GMT
#1431
had a friend named sung when i was really really young and taking tae kwon do classes. he was my "rival" i guess at the time during sparring matches and we were like the only asians in the class. we were close friends for a good two years and both our mothers become very close friends who even went to the same gym to take yoga classes. However, while i continued training he had to leave due to an illness which he eventually succumbed to 4 years later (he had an increasing worsening degenerative disease. I heard from his mother during the funeral he was in a vegetative state near the end of his life).

and i got the moon from the wc3 player "moon" when i was into wc3 before i got in the BW scene.
Forever Young
Holcan
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2593 Posts
October 19 2010 02:58 GMT
#1432
On October 19 2010 11:53 sung_moon wrote:
had a friend named sung when i was really really young and taking tae kwon do classes. he was my "rival" i guess at the time during sparring matches and we were like the only asians in the class. we were close friends for a good two years and both our mothers become very close friends who even went to the same gym to take yoga classes. However, while i continued training he had to leave due to an illness which he eventually succumbed to 4 years later (he had an increasing worsening degenerative disease. I heard from his mother during the funeral he was in a vegetative state near the end of his life).

and i got the moon from the wc3 player "moon" when i was into wc3 before i got in the BW scene.



thats a nice reason, i knew a guy who changed his name to Bright in mourning of one of his friends who passed away, its a shame he didnt keep to it though, more disrespectful than anything sort of like "oh im forgetting you now, name change !"

Inhail Holcan is my rapper alias.
Reference The Inadvertant Joey, Strong talented orchastrasted intelligent character.
Phrost
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States4008 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-19 03:00:29
October 19 2010 02:59 GMT
#1433
I was playing WoW like a million years ago (or however long since just before TBC) and I saw this video:


My friend asked me to roll a shaman on his server and me, being the clever teenager I was, decided to reserve the name Phrostshock (because every one and their mother had the F permutations on horde side)

Consequently after getting to 70 (was that the max level?) I healed for like 5 raid tiers then decided enough was enough. I rerolled a legendary druid on the gorefiend server, named Coldturkey and vowed to never do any of that crappy stuff i did before (I played a mage in vanilla and a resto shaman for most of TBC). Since then I have never spec'd less than 40 points in feral.

I kept Phrost as my handle because most people knew me as that for a long time and it was readily available in Sc2, here, and League of Legends (which I had to unfortunately add a 0 to my name even though i was like one of the first non-family and friends beta players)
iamphrost.tumblr.com // http://howtobebettermagicplayer.tumblr.com // twitter @phrost_
Sverigevader
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden388 Posts
October 21 2010 12:13 GMT
#1434
The story of my name goes back a few years when me and my friends were playing Diablo 2.

I remember that it was one summer, a particularly rainy summer, and I'm quite sure it even snowed some even though we were in June. So, I was furious at the weather because yeah, it's summer and we want to go to the beach and do outside stuff! So I created a Blizzard speced Sorceress and named her Sverigevader.

Sverige is obviously sweden, and vader is actually not Darth Vader, but the word we swedes use for weather, except that it's supposed to be väder, but obviously special letters don't fit in everywhere so here we are
"I can answer this, you're just a god damn sexy mofo." http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=147829&currentpage=7#139
Monarch.StarCrack
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States169 Posts
October 21 2010 12:32 GMT
#1435
The Monarch is the main villain on one of my favorite shows of all time, the venture brothers
@HearthstoneOpen twitter
reQ
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom45 Posts
October 21 2010 12:33 GMT
#1436
Only just changed to reQ but the development goes:

Used to be called Scatterbrain because I'm a huge fan of Radiohead, then changed to Reckoner after their latest album (and its the best song on the album) then changed to just Reck or Reckon and now its reQ because I know there are quite a few Reckoners/Recks around and I wanted to feel more unique :p
~
NSGrendel
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom235 Posts
October 21 2010 13:05 GMT
#1437
Mine comes from Matt Wagner's Grendel. The NS, prefix I adopted after being QA Lead for Natural Selection, the RTS/FPS hybrid.
TrueRedemption
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States313 Posts
November 12 2010 03:56 GMT
#1438
I've actually been TrueRedemption since the small but entertaining competitive Black and White scene.

[image loading]


I was co-leader for one of the first major clans in the game, Edenic Gods (EG, kind of funny looking back considering the weight that clan tag means here), under a different handle (Inkster0). Things were good, but the best clan at the time was actually made up of only a few players, called themselves Strength Through Defiance (yeah, STD.) Anyway a month after release or so I was actually the person who found out that by killing everyone in a neutral or enemy controlled town, then adding one of your own disciples, you reset then steal the influence over that town. Aware of the impact this was going to have, me and my best two friends from EG essentially used this as a bargaining chip to get into STD (which actually was renamed to NoD).

Speedy and I felt bad about ditching the clan, so I actually took a new handle. TrueRedemption is actually the perspective I had in making the move; in EG I had been bogged down with clan stuff and it was sortof just a social fun thing, but with this opportunity I wanted to really pursue the competitive side and make up for breaking up EG by becoming one of the best in the game. If any of you ever played it online you might remember that there is literally no ranking system in the multiplayer, so best in the world was actually more a matter of community opinion. In those next two months however I did achieve a recognized spot I am still proud of, even for being such a small game.

Unfortunately however the game became broken using the mechanic I found, after a few months the competitive scene only consisted of who could do the one strongest strategy best. Kind of a terrible end to a very ambitious and fun game, tragically Lionhead is now spending all of their time on Fable after B&W2 was a flop.

I've moved on to better games but kept the handle for the past 10 years, still really like the concept, if a stupid mistake costs me a game the only true redemption is to learn from it, play harder in the next game and become a better player.


Completely true story, crazy as it is. Its probably all still chronicled on Lionhead's forum archive somewhere. For any of you too young to know about Black and White you should check it out, amazing concept and fun single player.
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MrProphylactic
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
296 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-12 04:10:20
November 12 2010 04:01 GMT
#1439

I am a ranked Fide master ( try to guess what my banned handle was ) , so I have always enjoyed both chess and general strategy terms and concepts . I like the strategic implications of the word ( as it also applies to star craft ), and the added sexual connotation
"The Beauty of a move is not in its appearance, but the thought behind it" Nimzovitch
NeXiLe
Profile Joined February 2006
Canada262 Posts
November 12 2010 07:01 GMT
#1440
Always used Matt (my first name) for all my console game names. Eventually I started playing warcraft/warcraft II and was finally able to play online. Around then, I was using a name from an amazing snes RPG called crono/chrono. When my brother introduced me to starcraft, I figured it was a good time for a new name. I like protoss, I liked nexus so I made it NeXuS.. Got made fun of for stealing my name from a building, changed it to NeX and eventually figured iLe on the end would look nice. The capitals are because I was like 10 at the time and although I don't like them, they kinda stuck.
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