My name is the way it is because essentially i'm just another plain old mediocre terran player who doesn't stand out : (

Otherwise i use dyllyn for like my email and everything. Typed my name into a "LOTR NAME TRANSLATOR" website and out it popped. Been using Dyllyn since like 12 years old

In other news: used my free name change to change my IGN from Dyllyn to GenericTerran. Except I only got as far as GenericTerra, stupid character limit. So now it's GTP.

GTP actually rolls off the tongue pretty well imho lol

Tennet

United States1458 Posts

November 12 2010 17:17 GMT

#1462

Theres a family who lives on my street and their last name is Tenant and at the time I didn't even know it was a word, so I needed a name and I though that sounded cool but I spelled it as Tennet.

Zorkmid

4410 Posts

November 12 2010 17:27 GMT

#1463

I used to play nethack, and I like the letter Z

TurdFerguson

Canada32 Posts

November 12 2010 17:30 GMT

#1464

It's a funny name..

zyglrox

United States1168 Posts

November 12 2010 17:33 GMT

#1465

song from a metal band

PJFrylar

United States350 Posts

November 12 2010 17:37 GMT

#1466

My name is a spoof of (T)

firebathero.

The localization for marauders in the korean sc2 client is firebear (or at least that's what I've heard from watching the GSL). Being that the firebat was removed from multiplayer and the marauder is basically in the same tech position as the firebat was it seemed like a natural replacement.

tehplank

977 Posts

November 12 2010 17:37 GMT

#1467

My forum name initially was plankton. I got that name because I couldn't think of a name when I registered in a forum many years ago, and plankton from that Spongebob cartoon was in the TV at that time so I just picked that.

I dropped the -ton just recently. Added teh before plank because I liked it when an Australian shoutcaster called me "the plank" in a CoD4 online tournament match in SEA. It was kind of a habit for him to say 'the' before a player's name, and it stuck on me ever since. The 'teh' is misspelled intentionally because of preference.

As for my Bnet ID, I picked Litebrite because it sounded cool. My inability to produce quality names hinders me so much whenever I get to enter a name so I just grab hold of whatever word I think is awesome and call it a day.

Esel

Germany151 Posts

November 12 2010 17:52 GMT

#1468

First Esel means Donkey , so i came to this ID because before I started playing SC2 i played WoW and there is a race called Tauren which is half human half cow and my really first idea when i saw this was : " wow that looks like an donkey " and since that i decided to call myself donkey , even alot of people do very bad jokes I like this name because i also get a lot of positiv notes for it :D

Jhuyt

Sweden365 Posts

November 12 2010 17:55 GMT

#1469

I smashed my keyboard

slith

Germany165 Posts

November 12 2010 18:12 GMT

#1470

Slith is a critter in the game Unreal. Was in search for a nickname when I got my Internet. Picked this. People came to know me by this nick. Guess I'm stuck.

Aelip

Denmark321 Posts

November 12 2010 18:16 GMT

#1471

On November 13 2010 02:17 Tennet wrote:
Theres a family who lives on my street and their last name is Tenant and at the time I didn't even know it was a word, so I needed a name and I though that sounded cool but I spelled it as Tennet.

David Tennant, eff yeah.

DoXa

Switzerland1448 Posts

November 12 2010 18:20 GMT

#1472

On November 13 2010 02:55 Jhuyt wrote:
I smashed my keyboard

lol, nice

My ID is a part of the Album "Doxa o Revelation" from the French Black Metal Band Crystallium.
edit: it's also a swiss watchmaker, and apparently it means glory in greek. didn't know that^^

Phantasy

United States16 Posts

November 12 2010 18:26 GMT

#1473

Rune from Phantasy Star 4 was really cool.
Game-i was a big ladder when I was playing serious.

Rune + Game-i = RuNei

de1irium

United States121 Posts

November 12 2010 18:27 GMT

#1474

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/180/1385

Damn good beer with a name that happens to make a damn good nick.

Sandster

United States4054 Posts

November 12 2010 19:51 GMT

#1475

My name is Sandy, and Sands was taken on AIM, so I just added -er to it. Now if I create characters I just add Sand to everything (including purposely lame ones like Sandle).

I still like my D2 barbarian though. I had a friend named Harry who couldn't grow a whisker if his life depended on it, so I named my barbarian ScaryHairy.

Pizzadouglas

Canada21 Posts

November 12 2010 20:03 GMT

#1476

There was this indian guy i worked with and I called him Father Bear, because he was older then me by about 15 years and he looked like a bear. He called me douglas.

One day we were eating together in the lunch room and i was eating pizza. The name douglas kinda spread pretty fast in the store and someone came in and said "How's the Pizza, Douglas?" and the old indian man broke out in laughter saying Pizzadouglas.

Clearly it stuck.

Stirlitz

Greece28 Posts

November 12 2010 20:59 GMT

#1477

I take my names from characters I like in books that I read, most of the time. Stirlitz is the german name a soviet spy took to work in germany during the time before and during the second world war in a fiction book called "17 moments of spring". It's one of my favourite books(or series as it has 3 more following it) and as I liked the character a lot I took the name for my ID. A series was made out of it in the cinema too and it's an incredible series if you like espionage films, you can find it on youtube with english subtitles.
In RPG games I usually went by the name "Morkai" who was a wizard in one of R.A.Salvatore's books. I didn't like that character, but I liked the name and the title that followed(He was Morkai the Red, I think and I always pictured my RPG toon as a wizard in a red robe so I adopted it

It's not really creative, lol, but that's how I picked mine.

WGT-Baal

France3426 Posts

November 13 2010 00:44 GMT

#1478

when i was younger (like high school) i started studying ancient languages (in France it can be a subject so i picked ancient greek, dont ask...) anyways I was really into it and into history of the mediteranean civilizations and I came across the phenician for some reason.

In phoenician ba'al is a title meaning something like "lord" or "master" a bit like "sir" in English.

I thought it was neat so i picked it. Then diablo 2 LoD came out and everybody made a couple jokes about how they "ran me" etc... but i guess i was still alright with having the name of the final boss.

At one point I used Hrvatska (meaning Croatia for it s a great country and i love the Tshirt of their football team (red and white squares) but it was a bit tricky for people to pronunce it offline so I came back to Baal.

As for WGT it stands for WGTour, an old and now dead ( sadly) website that usd to have a great clan league and a nice ladder before iCCup existed.

Nebo

United States44 Posts

November 13 2010 00:49 GMT

#1479

I literally spun in my chair when I made my first char on diablo 2 and saw my sleeping bag: Nebo. I've used this for 8 or so years now

jinorazi

Korea (South)4948 Posts

November 13 2010 00:57 GMT

#1480

norazi is my actual handle but i forgot the password and the email i used was no longer available so i had to make a new account.

norazi was something random that just came up when i had to create an name to play halo for the first time. stuck with it throughout counter-strike phase.

my name jin + norazi = jinorazi