The first time I ever had to choose some sort of gaming ID was in Maple...
I've always wanted to make an archer, so I just combined "A" (as in archer), and my name (Benson) to make Abenson!
Horribly creative, I know....
I was like 13 back then though

(Spiff)

Canada82 Posts

March 04 2011 05:48 GMT

#1883

As a little kid I always used to read the Calvin and Hobbes comics and the big books. Calvin pretends he is a superhero who travels in space and fights alien monsters as Spaceman Spiff. The whole name sounded way too long and I felt that Spiff was the right length for the job. The brackets are only on TL because someone already had Spiff -_-

Dhalphir

Australia1305 Posts

March 04 2011 05:57 GMT

#1884

I actually don't remember how I came up with my name. I used to use the name Pineapple, which had its origins in getting extremely drunk and running around screaming that I was a pineapple.

But then I started playing Runescape and the name Pineapple was taken so I just sort of took some words and sounds and put together Dhalphir.

these days I mostly just go by Dhal, though, which is funny because people always think I'm talking about the food dhal, and no one ever believes me when I say its just a coincidence.

Kaonis

United States243 Posts

March 04 2011 06:02 GMT

#1885

Wayyyy back when, there was a game on the GameCube
It was called Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, and I loved the HELL out of it.
There were four races you could play as, and one was basically a race of angry, short plants that wielded spears (Lilties). Well, my young mind got to work, and soon I boasted the title....
Liltis.

A few years later, I started playing World of Warcraft, and I realized Liltis wouldn't be enough. So I took the word Chaos (phonetically) and smashed and beat them together to get Kaonis :D

Brethern

231 Posts

March 04 2011 06:06 GMT

#1886

Mine's simple. I misspelled Brethren, because online games are filled with the grammar police. That way I am the brotherhood of the bad spellers.

Maynarde

Australia1286 Posts

March 04 2011 06:12 GMT

#1887

My first ever ID during SC:BW and on WoW was "Arknot" after the leader of the group of ugly mercenary monsters on The Fifth Element (awesome movie). Then when I was listening to music alot I loved this singer and wanted his name to be my new handle in WoW, but it was taken. So I put an "e" on the end

Now it's my ID forever.

Take THAT WoW.

Kizu

United States81 Posts

March 04 2011 06:20 GMT

#1888

due to my lack of creativity and imagination, my friend actually came up with my ID when we were playing IRO about 8 years ago, and its been Kizu ever since. lame right??

ControlMonkey

Australia3109 Posts

March 04 2011 09:34 GMT

#1889

My first online ID was Fwiffo - A character in Star Control 2.

Then I changed to rawnski - a name a friend in high school gave me because I was scrawny, and he gave me a nick name to use which was a reworking of that.

My current ID (for about 8 Years) is Control Monkey. I was in a university lecture for a subject on drugs in world wide cultures, and they were talking about the effect of ecstasy tablets on the behavior of monkeys. They had "ecstacy monkeys" and "control monkeys". At first I wanted to change my name to ecstasy monkey, but I realised that that was a terrible name. So I changed it to Control Monkey because it is way better.

It can also be shortened to CTRL Monkey if you need to.

DNAPolymerase

United States4 Posts

March 04 2011 10:25 GMT

#1890

Hi Everyone! I'm new to TL and though I don't play SC much I know a lot from my boyfriend who is a super fan! Nice to meet you all =D

My ID is DNA Polymerase because I used to be a major BIO/CHEM nerd. I loved that stuff so much that I would make up jokes in and out of class. DNA Polymerase was my favorite of all enzymes cause I always associated it as a hero in their role of DNA replication...

Crusader13

United States6 Posts

March 04 2011 10:37 GMT

#1891

Hey guys. My name is from a very old socom 2 name I used to use. Crusader. I've always believed in fighting for the right issues and such so I figured it would fit me.(Even though the crusades were fought on very trivial religious points) . Plus I love knights nd such so I deemed crusader a fitting name

Team liquid fighting

BenBuford

Denmark307 Posts

March 04 2011 21:11 GMT

#1892

BenBuford, is a sidekick character from the original Shaft movie:
+ Show Spoiler +

I like his style.

turdburgler

England6749 Posts

March 04 2011 21:12 GMT

#1893

i probably have closet homosexual tendencies

: <

Geisterkarle

Germany3257 Posts

March 04 2011 21:22 GMT

#1894

When it came to online gaming I started out as "TVB" - the first letters of my name. But many people asked me about "TV Berlin", a local television of the town Berlin. As a southern-German I couldn't live with this "Northern mark"

A while I went with "Diabolic" (that has another story behind

) but I settled to "Geisterkarle".So here is the history:

In school, because we had nothing to do *cough*, me and a buddy wrote our own comic strips with new fictional characters. The main characters of my strips were a human named "Willi Weizenkeim" and a ghost named "Geisterkarle". (maybe for translation: "geist" is "ghost"). They were reaaaaaally bad, but I liked the name and started to use it! And well... I still use it! I have a website with this ID and I'm well known through many forums by this nick. The nice thing is: It is unique! So if you see "Geisterkarle" you know it is me (if not for real: Tell me, I have to sue the imposter!)

Dalguno

United States2446 Posts

March 04 2011 21:23 GMT

#1895

I was trying to get it to be get some in Spanish, da alguno in one word. But the verb dar is actually 'to give,' so it means give some. Lose.

Kimoleon

United States210 Posts

March 04 2011 22:07 GMT

#1896

Oh boy, back in the days where Toonami had midnight runs and they actually showed good anime (the discontinued Candidate for Goddess, Ranma, DB and DBZ, Robotech, etc.) I used to play a lot Starcraft. (rofl 56k modem)

I was just doodling around, making friends on USEast (Lived in Delaware during this time) and then thought to myself, why not make a clan?

So I thought of one, MC - stands for Mythril Crisis no real meaning behind it haha
(at max, it had around 30 members, sounded so cool when I made it)
and my SN was also simple, MC-Kim (my last name)

Lucavious, Rinoa, Seifer, Priestess, Abyayatutu, Killer and Garb (members closest in clan) and some people outside of clan Angel, Ultra, and Ranger used to call each other nicknames for fun and guess what I ended up with, XD

Kimmy, Kimotherapy, KimmO, Kimberly (omg hated when they called me that) but then the coolest one I thought was Kimoleon so I've used that nick ever since on other stuff too haha, and probably will continue to use it ^^.

ChaoticBlack

Australia288 Posts

March 05 2011 16:42 GMT

#1897

Chaotic because I always chose to be Chaotic Evil in Neverwinter Nights and Black because my friends have a joke where they say we think we are black (though he is asian and im brazillian). Now I go as Screwby because its a word Stafford says in Generation Kill

AndyBear

Canada132 Posts

March 05 2011 17:58 GMT

#1898

My ex called me Andybear (Andy is my name, bear for... cuteness? Idunno lol), I sorta liked it and it stuck. Yeeep.

RoosterSamurai

Japan2108 Posts

March 05 2011 18:00 GMT

#1899

Rooster-head...

Kizza

United Kingdom9 Posts

March 07 2011 03:38 GMT

#1900

Kizza- popped up in my second year of school in England (I'm originally Russian).
Me and some of my mates were discussing dance styles and joking about the kossak dance, that led to it being wrongly called kizzak.
The next day our drunk mate gets on and shouts over vent "KIZZAAAAAA!" Now, my name is Kirill and responded to it forgetting about the whole convo the previous day, ever since then I've been known as Kizza, stuck with me for six years now.