Black Op Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 How did you lot come up with your usernames? What influenced you in creating them? Let's see how interesting these stories get.As for me, I created my name Black Op 2 years ago. At the time, I was interested with a (dead) Half-Life MOD in which you played as Black Ops, who were enemies in the HL add-on Opposing Force. I was hopeing for a decent BO MOD as I thought they were cool and showing my interest, I used the name Black Op, which I now use on forums.My other and far older username is El Rando, which I use when playing computers games on-line and when playing Real-Life. It was inspired by Bart Simpson's (of The Simpsons) alias, El Barto.So, what are your stories behind your usernames? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akya Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I created my username 4 yrs ago, I had a friend who was writing stories and I decided to write stories as well. 4 yrs ago I was inspired by the Forgotten realms books and decided to create a half-elf. That's when I invented the name akya it seemed proper for an elvish name and at the same time it felt a bit japanese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 A while back, we had a friend over and were playing Midtown Madness 2 demo multiplayer. His computer kept freezing up, and he said, "It's hopeless!"I knew it was probably all the crazy background apps he was running, and I told him so. He didn't really think so, so I said, "You can play on my computer, and I'll play on yours!"He thought I was predicting my own fate But I changed my in-game name to Optimist and shut down his background apps. It ran fine after that, of course Then, when I was trying to think of a new online handle, I added Code to the Optimist (since I'm a programmer), and created the legendary CodeOptimist! Ok, maybe it's not legendary, but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazgul11 Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Well I saw the movie Lord of The Rings and I liked the wraith's so I decided that my name on the internet could be Nazgul11! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElfTheHunter Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I was signing up for something on the Lord of the Rings website (I assume forums, 3-4 years ago)I tried Hunter (which was my usual first choice name but of course it was already used), then I tried my combinations of it which all failed I even went down to my lame Sir_Shane (which I was glad was already taken). Then while trying a combination of Hunter I tried The Elven Hunter, then eventually got ElfTheHunter which has worked in every single place except one (someone stole it for WarCraftIII.net!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I made widgets in a former life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Render Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I was having my walls Rendered at the time I needed to come up with a name for regerstration of the AOE forums to keep it seperate from my personal email. So Render it was, I decided to use it as a username also and it stuck.Later it made sence as I got into graphics, but that was a just lucky. Im really happy with it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I got the nickname Cougar on a youth trip 10 years ago and I couldn't think of anything cooler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acumen Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 A thesaurus and a sackful of pretension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Hawk Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Night Hawk was already taken on the older forums so i switched to Black Hawk Night Hawk i made up about 3 a 4 years ago, not know how exacly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 I was formerly The Quacker, gained it from my last name (Quackenbush). I'm not sure why i picked it, it just kinda came and stuck.I also go by Lt. Skitzafreni (or just Lt. Skitz) on games such as Medal of Honor. Gained that because while back we had 6 of us playing Delta Force (the orig) on two different computers. We were thinking of a name, and Lt. Skitzafrenia was thought of (a disease ), but the A wouldn't fit as that was too many characters, so Skitzafreni became it, then i've hacked it down to Skitz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 The controversial issue in angels that work for the dark side simply fascinated me. SO I had DarkAngel. Then my friend and I founded an AoK Clan called "Best German Eagles", so I got the BGE and concatenated it with the DarkAngel. That way I got DarkAngelBGE and it stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUD Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 Back at the end of 2000 I signed for the Spanish-Latin American SUD clan for AOK, all the members were SUD_something , I was SUD_Commander. One month or two later I joined the recently created and promising team called Wildfire Studios *wonders* and there people started to call me "SUD", so that is it. At first I didnt like much that I was called SUD because in the AOKH forums there were other SUD members and I felt a little..you know, but in a few months after that the SUD clan dismantled and disapeared completely and I took property of SUD name My AOKH is still SUD_Commander, though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeXoR Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Fexor was the name of my first pen and paper roll playing character. It came out of a mixture (not quite, I know but that was how it came up) of the Latin words ferox (wild, bold, gallant) since that fitted the characters idiosyncrasy and ferrum (iron, hard, steel) since it was a fighter and a smith. Since I myself are "ferox" and FeXoR has the same letters I decided to take this as my digital name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraitii Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 Huge EV Nova fan for me. There was a weapon called Wraithii. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight32 Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 (edited) I came up with greenknight as my chessroom handle years ago - I like to use my knights agressively and I'm an organic gardener. I add 32 where "greenknight" is already in use. My avatar is an illustration from the Middle Ages of the legendary Green Knight. Edited November 5, 2012 by greenknight32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilves Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 (edited) I came up this way: it's just my last name (Which means "lynx" in Estonian language) Edited November 5, 2012 by Ilves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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