How did you come up with your name?

[Capitanrex7839]

I am kinda curios and every name has its story so here is mine:

 

I came up with my name when I was like 10-11 and at that time I was a huge Star Wars the clone wars cartoon fan and in that cartoon my fav character was Captain Rex so when I started playing online I had to choose a name so I thought that my name could me Captainrex but that did not work so I added 7839 (at the time I was not that good at English cuz I'm not from England so I spelled wrong). And I have stuck with that name ever since. That's the story of my name what is your?

[SethAbercromby]

The name Seth stuck with me from an early age. It was one of the suggested names in the Pokemon Colloseum game for GCN and I really liked the sound of the name. It has always been part of my usernames since then. Unfortunately, Seth by itself teds to not be avialable for some reason, so I ended up sticking numbers or very early on the super mature "Xx" to it to get it through registration. The Abercromby came a good deal later, when a friend and I got hooked on the movie "Reign of Fire" and I borrowed (read: blantatly stole) Quinn Abercromby's name as the last name of my alias.

 

Being a proper name and all, my alias does have a fictional persona added to it, which I sometimes fall back on when posting things on the internet.

[MAD_3R_Marauder]

Normally, I go by "Hawkeye" on forums, but that name was already taken.

With my two all-time favorite non-PC games being BattleTech and Shadowrun, it was either MAD-3R Marauder or Dunkelzahn

 

Since this is more of a wargame, I thought the BatteTech reference more fitting.

[Dai2]

Dai is my family name in chinese, and it was already taken , so I chose 2 koz in french it sounds like: DaiDeu, and its funny.

[MaxxyNL]

Simple, one of my dogs name is Maxxy and since i am 100% Dutch, the combination of both was MaxxyNL. 

 

[Historynerd]

Well, hardly a surprise here: since I was little, I was really into history, and when I was old enough I realized I really am a history nerd. So... might as well be honest.

 

Anyway, wouldn't this discussion better be in the off topic section or something?

[Phantombeast]

Well the case of my computer was sold under the name "Phantom" and since this computer is a real beast compared to the previous one... the phantom beast was born ^^

 

 

Edit: Before I went with "Mad Larkin", a WH40k character. A sharp shooter with hallucinations... the author has earned a medal for this idea

[ddod]

It was a brain fart back in the days... tried to write my short name "dodo" but mistyped  "ddod" and submitted without checking... and it stuck.

[TheDraconicLord]

TheDraconicLord (or variants) is my standard username. 

 

I got the idea after reading the Dragonlance books probably 13 years ago. Love the Draconians and I've always been a huge fan of Dragons, so, TheDraconicLord was born and forever used in everything that requires a username. 

[Dai2]

It was a brain fart back in the days... tried to write my short name "dodo" but mistyped  "ddod" and submitted without checking... and it stuck.

 

Best way of having a new name EVER.

[fugepilot]

About 14 years ago I rebuilt a UVA Fugitive IV from the chassis up - it's a kit-car or sand rail, the sort of thing you saw bouncing wildly across the wastelands in Mad Max.

Two years of hard graft later, and it was (and is) road-legal with me as it's pilot ...

 

Hence, fugepilot.

[Vulpes79]

Mine is my family name in latin- Fox= Vulpes and 79 because it's my date of birth and since Vulpes alone was already taken, I started using the date afterwards and it stuck

[Ast3lan]

Astelan is the character in one of Warhammer 40K's books, he's the former chapter master of one of the companies for the 1st legion and is latter on presumed renegade due to a catastrophe that is befalllen the world of caliban. I kinda like him, as tons of other characters in the 40k universe and he's quite unknwon so i his borrowed his name.

[mtm78]

Marvin the Martian, I always felt like an alien on this planet and like him I'm not very sociable at times 

 

You neuro typical's can be very confusing to me 

[BossTroll]

When GW celebrated it's 25th anniversary, I won the impersonate a River Troll contest, BossTroll has been my RL nickname ever since :-)

[Djinni]

Mine has always been Djinn as in the Jinn the supernatural beings kinda like genies. Occasionally it will be Djinnius like genius.

[valkarianism]

One of my first games was Valkyrie Chronicles.

 

From there, I read up on Norse Mythology and was generally taken by the idea of a goddess of war. As a follower, but not as the goddess herself, I took to the name Valkarian. It's stuck for over 10 years now. 

[Shepbur]

I used to play Runescape alot when i was younger... There was a NPC in the game called Lieutenant Schepbur and i used the name (mis-splet because i hadn't seen the NPC for like a year) for a couple of accounts on other games, and it's slowly become my default name for pretty much every game.

 

The other names i normally go by if i don't want to use Shepbur is "Hayaxe"(used it for like... 7? years) or "Drake Fargoth" both of which were just made up. the latter as a dark elf for Morrowind back like 5-6 years ago... I think i've been using Shepbur as an account name for a good 7-8 years

[We_Just_Dinged_Em]

I came from WOT, where I am a total douchebag with an ego the size of a small planet, hence I named an entire clan after myself.

[Ishiro32]

When I was playing ragnarok online back in the day, I inherited one of the accounts which user login name was Ishiro325. Earlier I was using nick "Near" because I watched Death Note and thought it would be funny to have invisible assassin with that name. All of my friends from that time call me Near, but since that nick is always taken I started using Ishiro32, I have droped 5 because I never felt like writing it. I know that random numbers at the end of the nick are really lame, but it just stuck with me. I also never felt a need to think up something different, all of my friends with whom I play and meet and talk call me by my old nick, because we are so used to it and as for other people, I don't really care what they call me. For all I care they can call me "that guy".

Fun fact, my current password to this game is the same password that I received when I first started playing Tibia.

[beercrazy]

simple me like beer a lot like crazy amounts

 

 

[HE_magnet]

I took mine from a sign that used to be put up in the UK during WW2 if a dropped bomb had not detonated

 

[Zgicc]

Friend's dog. 15 years ago. Was at friend's house on the internet (first time on the internet) and was making an account for something. Didn't know what to come up with as a nickname so my friend just typed in his username with a 2 added at the end (Zgicc2). Kept using that on pretty much every website I signed up with and eventually dropped the 2. The dog died recently actually.

 

Its all kinds of weird.

[Kais_S012]

Aegean Ghost is a Aviation Camouflage pattern used by the Greeks and several other Countries Airforce and Air Arm aircraft.

and it does seem pretty fitting with the game about naval combat when you can slip though the archipelagos in a destroyer or cruiser unseen to get behind and strike the enemy

[Grimulous]

Mine is pretty simple, I stole it from an old radio comedy called the Navy Lark that the BBC used to broadcast many, many years ago