my name is kenshiro, so people that can't pronounce it liked to say kencheeto since it was easier and 'funnier'... it stuck.

Also, no one ever has it as a handle.

Antedelerium

United States224 Posts

December 09 2010 07:25 GMT

#1622

On December 09 2010 16:15 kencheeto wrote:
my name is kenshiro, so people that can't pronounce it liked to say kencheeto since it was easier and 'funnier'... it stuck.

Also, no one ever has it as a handle.

hahaha, that is actually hilarious. Back in the day, I was helping my friend run an FF fansite. I couldn't think of anything original, so I just threw my first name into an Al-Bhed translator a few times, reversed it, and tweaked it to get my gaming name (Dassic).

My forum name is based off me trying to figure out a secondary name. I realized that I was always online late into the night and right before I slept. Ante = before. Delerium = sleep. Hence, Antedelerium, which ended up becoming my forum/IM names. Also, I loved the Tiesto remixes of Delerium's songs.

fuzzy_panda

New Zealand1681 Posts

December 09 2010 08:40 GMT

#1623

Well i was trying to come up with a name that was ruthless and aggressive, so i immediately thought of the panda. This kinda fitted me well as i was also born in china and the panda is the national animal of china. But then i thought panda was not quite aggressive or mean enough, so i added fuzzy in front of it :D
by pure luck theyve also included a panda-marine avatar in sc2, and since i play terran i immediately went about unlocking it haha

Salivanth

Australia1071 Posts

December 09 2010 08:47 GMT

#1624

Unfortunately, I don't have much of a story behind my nickname. I've gone by a lot of names, and Salivanth is my most recent one. I sort of freeformed it, though I have a strong suspicion I based it off the Pokemon "Salamance". Really though, I just thought it sounded cool.

Lorken

New Zealand804 Posts

December 09 2010 09:00 GMT

#1625

Lorkan or something like that was one of my favorite characters in some Darren Shan book I read when I was little, and I just changed a few letters around (I'm sure it wasn't just the a)

Rain...

United States201 Posts

December 09 2010 09:04 GMT

#1626

I used to go by Hwasin bcause he was my favorite player in SC1 but... everyone knows what happened so i wont go into details...

Anyway I started using Rain when i bought my new computer and had to "name" my computer's c drive and stuff because Rain is my favorite Tekken 6 pro

ScarletKnight

United States691 Posts

December 09 2010 09:07 GMT

#1627

The first online game I ever played was Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, and under the ID MagicalMagician. Since then I've used several variants with Magician over the years including DuskMagician, DarkMagician, RedMagician, etc..

I finally just shortened it to Magician because SC2 has a restriction on characters and I couldn't use some of the variants I had liked over the years so I'm sticking with this one for a while ^^

Jarek

Australia35 Posts

December 09 2010 09:13 GMT

#1628

Mines (Jarek.. or Jarek Mace) from a novel I read when I was like 11 or 12. It's a retelling of Robin Hood by David Gemmell called Morning Star. I believe it's also a common Polish name too, so it's kinda fail I guess but I really liked that book when I was a kid and I've just stuck with it. Any alias or w/e I use to smurf also generally comes from novels I read or musicians etc.

Blasts

Netherlands99 Posts

December 09 2010 11:04 GMT

#1629

It's the name of my mage in WoW, who spended hours spamming a spell called Arcane Blast. Didn't want to think of anything else, so, on TL en SC II I just entered Blasts and it wasn't taken anywhere

Kitani

United States44 Posts

December 09 2010 11:24 GMT

#1630

Kitani is usually my forum name, and it's just my family name. I know, how terribly original and creative... my Bnet ID is a lot more amusing though: Lemonade.

I felt like creating something new and original for a screenname and for some reason, I ended up picking Lemonade and Seiryu (Sei meaning heaven, ryu meaning dragon, so heaven dragon). I'm not really sure why Lemonade stuck out to me, maybe it's because I like lemonade, but I figured that it's somewhat memorable and that if I ever get good enough to be commented about, Lemonade's just gonna stick. It's easy to remember, it's somewhat amusing, and if there's ever a game I'm in that gets cast, there are plenty of jokes to go around. I eventually asked about 40 people or so which they liked better and the majority went with Lemonade so I figured I had made the right choice.

Then I learned about Fruitdealer. Lemonade vs Fruitdealer, ZvZ. Never gonna happen, but I just thought it was amusing.

himynameisho

Australia11 Posts

December 09 2010 12:06 GMT

#1631

my name is ho, as simple as that =]

meeyoop

United States131 Posts

December 10 2010 17:43 GMT

#1632

My SC2 name is sycorax, the name of an obscure character from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Unfortunately, that name was already taken on these forums so I went with meeyoop, which was the closest I could get to spelling out the sound that probes make.

nsepnsep

Indonesia19 Posts

December 10 2010 23:38 GMT

#1633

Origin of this nick is very lame, but whatever. It comes from 4chan /b/ when there used to be daily "desu" threads and threads where 'newfa#s' couldn't fliptext. So one thread lead to another and I flipped desu phrase onto desu thread. Few days later, I think, I started using secure tripcode: nsǝpnsǝp##desuupsidedown. And eventually I just made it as nsepnsep instead of nsǝpnsǝp. I used that tripcode maybe few days at most, but I sticked with that name on other sites.

Opponent

Canada32 Posts

December 10 2010 23:47 GMT

#1634

In the Simpsons when Homer fights Drederick Tatum for the world championship he has Opponent as a nickname. I found that hot :p

CurLy[]

United States759 Posts

December 10 2010 23:49 GMT

#1635

So in like 6th grade we had a class play for of Mice and Men.

I played the role of Curly.
A lot of my friends irl were named john
People started calling me Curly

it stuck. Curly was a badass, he fucked up that big doof lenny so I'm with it.

summerloud

Austria1201 Posts

December 11 2010 00:04 GMT

#1636

summerloud is the made-up anti-thesis of wintermute, the ai in the novel "neuromancer"

im an ai sceptic as well, so thats part of the reason

B.I.G.

3251 Posts

December 11 2010 00:04 GMT

#1637

when i moved into my current appartment about a year ago with 2 friends of mine, we soon found out that for some reason a lot of stuff broke like all the time. (like lamps, doorhandles etc.) we decided that it must be the ghost of an angry black man, and decided to name him fookwon lelulu. hence my current sc2 name was born (lelulu). my tl tag is an homage to my first sc1 clan.

KMARTRULES

Australia474 Posts

December 11 2010 00:07 GMT

#1638

Because we all know target is over priced.

MiStAh

United States98 Posts

December 11 2010 05:12 GMT

#1639

The full user name was mistahdoran but i just changed it to mistah eventually.
my dad called me a mannered person, and always called me a "mr". and i was about 13 then, and decided to use that to make mistah, and doran is my name. :D

Iskarott

Canada37 Posts

December 11 2010 07:02 GMT

#1640

it's bastardization of Iscariot (Judas' last name), thought it sounded cool.