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archardJoined: Jan 11 2007 |
Mine is a bastardization of my real name (Richard) that sort of became an inside joke among my friends.
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DANG |
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RembrantFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK Joined: Aug 12 2007 |
I was just sitting down and it came to me.
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I am working on Spiral Mountain Blues for Banjo Tooie. |
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rancidfetusClassical Metalhead Joined: Oct 09 2007 |
It all started when I was harassing some conservative, white-folk types many years ago. I told them nothing about my real self, and only that they may contact me through my (now dead) email address [email protected]. I knew they wouldn't email me, and I'd never had the need to own an email account. So, I kept it. Needless to say, years later, I still get strange looks from people when I tell them my new one. |
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nozzie
The talkbox guy. Location: Utah Joined: Apr 06 2007 |
My name is Zach Novak my friends called me oz so i put N last name first letter then oz then first name first letter n oz z end in ie nozzie
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Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygon |
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Jammy XIIIWielder of the Frop Joined: Dec 05 2007 |
my username for everything can be explained in a few very simple stages... my name is benjamin my mates started calling me Benjammy We decided to shorten it to Jammy and the 13 in roman numerals because its my lucky number i also go by Jammy the Mighty and The Supreme Benode
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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail A true friend will be sitting next to you saying 'Damn, we fucked up!' |
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RembrantFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK Joined: Aug 12 2007 |
"rancidfetus" posted:
Beautiful.
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I am working on Spiral Mountain Blues for Banjo Tooie. |
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doktai
Daniel Location: Toronto, Canada Joined: Jan 14 2008 |
I got mine by putting together random letters... I think for some stupid online game? I can't remember. It means absolutly nothing, but I've been using it for years now |
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ZelosLocation: Germany Joined: Jan 31 2008 |
Very original: Tales of Symphonia. |
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BluePhoenix
give me a dollar Location: Earth, Universe A Joined: Jan 21 2008 |
Well my favorite game is Starfox, People used to navigate the oceans by the stars, the ocean is Blue. And Falco's a bird, but he magically has more than one life like a Phoenix. See, how it works? it's really simple. |
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HeavensUltimaJoined: Apr 03 2008 |
in the days when i played ff 7. there's this one sword for cloud that just stuck with me |
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YggdrasilMaster of Tales Game Location: I'm there Joined: Apr 03 2008 |
My name is in honour of the best (in my opinion) enemy in Tales of Symphonia 'Mithos Yggdrasil'. |
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KitsuneFox59Location: California Joined: May 11 2008 |
@Yggdrasil: Yes! Mithos is not only the best boss, but the best character in the whole game, in my opinion. --> My name came from when I first discovered the internet and the wonders of RuneScape and was trying to find a username that wasn't taken. I was also heavily dosed with anime and Japanese at the time (an oft-suffered side effect of the discovery of the internet). So I used the Japanese word for fox, threw fox in at the end, then closed my eyes and hit two numbers on the keypad. I still use it because it's habit. I like all my accounts to match.
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Current Project(s): Sonic Boom- Sonic CD/SSBB |
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KitsuneFox59Location: California Joined: May 11 2008 |
I take it you aren't fond of my username? Seriously, it was like 5 or 6 years ago that I came up with it. I should probably change it soon.
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Current Project(s): Sonic Boom- Sonic CD/SSBB |
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insomniacgames master Joined: Apr 15 2007 |
self explanatory |
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silentcowsJoined: Feb 07 2008 |
i went to a farm where the cows made no sounds. |
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yoshistrings
ヨッシー Location: trapped in an egg Joined: Oct 29 2007 |
Yoshi- as in yoshi, my personal favorite game character simple as that |
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EshadoThe Fountain. Joined: Nov 25 2007 |
An imagination. On a side note, I found an interesting tidbit about my name(Note: I didn't know this at the time I made this name, when I was like...9.) Eshado, in Armenian or something, means Awesome Donkey.
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I be jammin', mon. |
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gamingnguitarTotal Gamer Location: Sylvarant Joined: May 12 2008 |
well, its not hard to guess
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Live. Learn. Listen. To Crush 40. |
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stinger9Joined: Apr 28 2008 |
Car from Grand Theft Auto. I originally used it on a GTA forum and it was so easy to remember that I use it almost everywhere. Except on some Fantasy based things where I use Max_Warrior. |
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slovibondShaun Location: Portsmouth, England Joined: May 19 2008 |
The name's Bond. Shaun Lovi-Bond.
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I eat html for breakfast. |
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VoxHumanaYou spoony bard! Joined: Apr 20 2008 |
The human choir soundset on especially really old synthesizers (mellotrons even?). Sounds damn cool. Saying Vox Humana, i mean, although the synth is pretty kewl tew.
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Gaming atm: |
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KrimsonMuch nerdy love Joined: Jun 01 2008 |
Everyone always assumes my username's a King Crimson (old 60's or 80's band) reference, but no. Suikoden II is my favorite RPG. Pesmerga is my favorite character. The name of his his weapon his the King Crimson. Take away King and change the C to a K (though I do use King Krimson as well). |
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Waladuz
Der Kritiker Location: Germany Joined: May 31 2008 |
I was playing Harvest Moon on the GBA and needed to give my horse a name. After playing with the lettres I came with this.
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"Yo, buddy...still alive?" - Larry "Pixy" Foulke |
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MetalMario702The Mario of Metal Location: Rhode Island Joined: Oct 27 2007 |
metal mario = shiny = cool
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Those too weak to follow their own dreams always find a way to discourage others... |
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sam250Joined: Apr 11 2007 |
Mine is quite elaborate: You see, my first name is Sam. And then I added the number 250. Hence, through a complex process, you are left with the username, Sam250. Amazing stuff, eh? |
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irvoke123Location: Helsinki, Finland Joined: Apr 10 2008 |
I used to go with the nickname "Domestos" for quite awhile before switching to irvoke123. Nowadays I'm officially irvoke123. It was my email address during the Domestos period (it's still actually, I just switched service providers from jippii.fi to hotmail.com) so I thought it was kind of logical to pick that up when I was trying to come up with a new nickname. Now, the word "irvoke" doesn't actually mean anything (atleat not in any language I know of), it's just supposed to be a derivation of the Finnish words "irvikuva" and "irvokas", which would translate as "antic" and "grotesque" in English. Then I just added the numbers 123 to the end to make it more unique. With "Domestos" I encountered a lot of sites where my nickname, and usually some alterations aswell, were already taken by someone so that's why I came up with irvoke123, due to it's "meaninglessness" and, hopefully, uniqueness. I have seen a few "irvoke"s here and there now, though, which I find quite amusing since I really thought I was the first one on planet Earth to think of that word. =P |
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wako-kunMM tabber Joined: Jun 14 2008 |
mine is actually pretty far-fetched... understand on japanese is wakarimasu a shortened version: waka... a missunderstood version: wako so wako is a shortened misunderstood version of understand. and lots of people misunderstands this... then I added -kun to be polite reffering to myself.
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I'm 'alternative' because everyone else is... |
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MaximillianJoined: Apr 06 2008 |
Well, Dark Cloud 2 is my favorite game of all time, and the main characters name is Max, short for Maximillian. Plus it sounds wicked cool. |
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SamuraiDannyRising Guitarist Location: Among the Stars Joined: Jun 18 2008 |
Well, people started calling me Samurai once I started putting my hair in a ponytail, so I just combined that title along with my name and voila. This is my latest username, normally my username is PlatinumFinger or SilverFinger (Yes, all based on Goldfinger from James Bond and I love precious metals).
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Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, but other times, you get some. |
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DevandraDark Jesus Location: Le Mans, France Joined: Mar 02 2008 |
I'm a big fan of Devendra Banhart. |
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BooDoo
People Location: Somerville, MA Joined: Mar 24 2008 |
I took mine from Hellsing: |
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BloodeyesLocation: France -> Picardie -> Oise -> Beauvais Joined: Jun 30 2008 |
An imagination too Have this nick since I play Counter-strike :p (I was 14 yo when I've begin) |
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CanisArctusEnjoyer of cheese Location: Norway Joined: Jun 08 2008 |
I love wolves, so my nick is "Arctic Wolf" on Latin.... Only mispelled by an accident when I made my YouTube account, but I liked it and kept it
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If you're reading this, it means I just wasted 3 seconds of your life. |
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GabranthJack Of No Traits Joined: Jul 03 2008 |
Gabranth is this sweet Judge off of Final Fantasy XII who duel wields swords. |
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atukomanga
Shiny/Glowy object collector Location: Orlando, Florida, United States of America Joined: Jun 13 2008 |
My name comes in two parts, both of which show how much of a geek I am. Most people can guess the second part, Manga, which is a comic book from Japan, ranging in styles from 3 frame newspaper print to full novel sized picture books, usually in black and white with occasional colorizations for special printing or celebratory issues and covers The other part, Atuko, is the hard one, and makes people go "huh?" It's actually two things I found wrapped into one. It's both an anagram of Otaku, which I proudly claim the title, and will defend to the death the sacred holding of the name from those that have only watched TVanime and rave about why Naruto or Goku can defeat anyone, though they've never seen what Hellsing, an Eva, or even the mighty Dragon Slave or Ragna Blade from a cute little sorceress named Lina Inverse can do. Try me...I've convinced the most childish TVanime goer they know nothing of anime and the Ways of the Otaku (in other words, I have no life). The second reason I am known as Atuko is due to the wicked awesome game Thunder Force IV (known as Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar in the US) for the Sega Genesis. The voice actor, who only spoke the names of the upgraded weapons like Hunter and Freeway, was known in the credits as Atuko, and after many years of being forgotten, I have adopted the name in hopes that his legacy in that game will live on. The most interesting part about that game was that everyone on the credits had a nickname, with no actual name given (at least on the english version, still looking for a full Japanese version) so you got to see some very odd names. I hope that some people that have names like Sephiroth1987 or ilikecheese will scour these names and attempt to use one of them. They are very interesting. If anyone wants to check them out, and get a new nickname or at least a s/n, the credits are at
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blankglitteringprizes Location: Vivec, Morrowind Joined: Feb 15 2008 |
I was just really sick of lame kids putting so much thought into a username, so.....blank is my way of sticking it to all those with in-depth usernames. I mean sheesh, you don't need to write a book about it O.o
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! |
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carmanJoined: May 19 2008 |
its my last name dood. |
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atukomanga
Shiny/Glowy object collector Location: Orlando, Florida, United States of America Joined: Jun 13 2008 |
"blank" posted:
Yeah, but how many people have used names like 'blank', 'insert name here', 'whatever you think of', etc etc, as a screen name. The best part about thinking really hard about a screen name is when you think of a really good one, not only does everyone think your at least somewhat original and not just another bandwagon, trend-following, boob-tube watching, brainless internet user (not directing this at anyone in particular, just an over all insult to all the people that have used "DoomSlayer####" in the past), but you don't have to think about it ever again. It's yours and the more original it is, the less chance people will steal it...or at least you have the satisfaction of being the only one without a number attached to the end, the immediate tip-off that someone else has the name. And books are cool...
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blankglitteringprizes Location: Vivec, Morrowind Joined: Feb 15 2008 |
I get what you're saying, and I had hoped my post didn't offend you. When I meant lame kids who try and make something of a username, I meant kids who use "ChiodosPhilly" for one, a band who means oh so much to them -.-", and two...Philly as in the home town they grew up in. Meh..I mean atleast blank isn't as tacky as insertnamehere. Oh, and books are totally rad.
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! |
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atukomanga
Shiny/Glowy object collector Location: Orlando, Florida, United States of America Joined: Jun 13 2008 |
"blank" posted:
Nah, no offense taken. I understand the feeling. I have to deal with people that rant about things that no one cares about on a daily basis, and have been for the last...since I was born. I really hate it when people give the seven paragraph long speech about A. something only locals know or B. something 90% of people have written off as useless. However, if you ever decide to change your name, let me know...I have a list of names, as well as a generator for just such an occasion. >^_^< Current favorite I'm throwing around, My Home Papa - Director of Thunder Force IV. I thought it was cool...
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L10N
I am the user, Lybaerd
Joined: Feb 10 2008
I only checked on the first page of GD to see if this has been started but I don't think so?
If not, post about why your username is what it is. On a bunch of forums I've seen some odd ones,
So makes you wonder..
Mine is very simple.
Two things I've been called by friends.
One friend named me Outlaw for my style and wearing a bandanna to work.
And pretty much every one says my hair style makes me look like a lion.
And I used japanese forms of the words.
Autoro-Outlaw, Just shortened Autoro to Auto, to sound like "Out-o"(No reference to cars as some think).
Raion-...self explanatory in japanese there's the forms, Raion and Shishi for Lion. I prefer Raion.