Author Topic: The story of ingame-names (Read 20820 times)

zybork · « **on:** January 31, 2011, 03:08:33 pm »

As you might have realized, my ingame name is … a real darling. Being a 30+y old man, this is kind a weird, but I like it. The principle idea comes from the (in?)famous Blackadder-series (with Rowan Atkinson, a brilliant actor unfortunately known mostly for his mediocre role of “Mr. Bean”), where a character appears who's second name in fact is “Darling”, leading to a lot of comic situations, when for instance people enter a room and greet him with “Hello, Darling”.

My ingame names so far were “zybork” (obviously), then I realized the potential of the usual ingame-messages, and switched to “a loser”, which, to this date, I still am, for sure, but I just liked messages like that somebody was “gunned down by a loser”; later, I used “something special” for a similar effect (who does not want to be bitten by “something special”), but this still didn't satisfy my need to make unmisunderstandably clear that I take myself ab-so-loo-ta-lee and po-see-tiff-a-lee SERIOUS, and eventually, inspired by Blackadder, I succumbed to being … a real darling.

Player was machinegunned by … a real darling
Player was bitten by … a real darling
Player was gunned down by … a real darling
Player was crushed under … a real darling's weight

Also, who would dare to shoot … a real darling. Well, honestly, a lot of people, however, I hope you enjoyed that li'l history of an ingame-name, and I would really be curious to learn yours.

Pazuzu · « **Reply #1 on:** January 31, 2011, 03:43:25 pm »

Quote from: zybork on January 31, 2011, 03:08:33 pm

As you might have realized, my ingame name is … a real darling. Being a 30+y old man, this is kind a weird, but I like it. The principle idea comes from the (in?)famous Blackadder-series (with Rowan Atkinson, a brilliant actor unfortunately known mostly for his mediocre role of “Mr. Bean”), where a character appears who's second name in fact is “Darling”, leading to a lot of comic situations, when for instance people enter a room and greet him with “Hello, Darling”.

My ingame names so far were “zybork” (obviously), then I realized the potential of the usual ingame-messages, and switched to “a loser”, which, to this date, I still am, for sure, but I just liked messages like that somebody was “gunned down by a loser”; later, I used “something special” for a similar effect (who does not want to be bitten by “something special”), but this still didn't satisfy my need to make unmisunderstandably clear that I take myself ab-so-loo-ta-lee and po-see-tiff-a-lee SERIOUS, and eventually, inspired by Blackadder, I succumbed to being … a real darling.

Player was machinegunned by … a real darling
Player was bitten by … a real darling
Player was gunned down by … a real darling
Player was crushed under … a real darling's weight

Also, who would dare to shoot … a real darling. Well, honestly, a lot of people, however, I hope you enjoyed that li'l history of an ingame-name, and I would really be curious to learn yours.

That's how I got mine. There's a superhero from South Park with perfect hindsight, named, naturally, Captain Hindsight. And now you can have perfect hindsight too, if you let yourself be bitten by "a retroactive spider".
Next phase, I'll see if I can fit "a lion, GET IN THE CAR!" into the name field. >:3

Qrntz · « **Reply #2 on:** January 31, 2011, 05:18:38 pm »

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Qrntz
Qrntz
Qrntz
Qrntz
whatever.
Qrntz
{NoS}Qrntz

Aw hell, I'm boring.

DraZiLoX · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2011, 06:48:04 pm »

Lizard (was my favourite animal and still is?) is draziL backwards, so my nick was Drazil first. Then i added o to the end for looks and it was Drazilo. Finally i added X to make it somehow cool, and ta-da, thats how my name is. I'm not sure why i decided to make letters DZLX capital, but i did, so its now DraZiLoX.

c4 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2011, 09:28:47 pm »

Duck was the name I used in Lazertag. People started hatin' so I changed to MTG Card names. Mindstab first, now Spthysis

Aviator · « **Reply #5 on:** February 01, 2011, 12:24:35 am »

I met Jet.^Pk back when I was an UnnamedPlayer and I asked him to help me with a name.

Lecavalier · « **Reply #6 on:** February 01, 2011, 12:36:38 am »

When I was thinking of a name, I thought: "Lecavalier is a pretty cool name" and the rest is history.

Deadbeat Engineer · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2011, 02:57:24 am »

Whether it's email, or a new username, I try to think of something that sounds cool to me. Deadbeat Engineer did that, and has other connotations to it. I've also done (but not on here) abstract disorder, and on aim, adeceaseddog. "adeceaseddog wants to chat with you"...

Also, I like red, black, and purple but black didn't work properly in names at the time so i used white instead, and the pink was misleadingly labeled as purple.

kharnov · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2011, 03:06:22 am »

your face · « **Reply #9 on:** February 01, 2011, 03:35:26 am »

Lakitu7 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 01, 2011, 04:28:49 am »

Lakitu was already taken on AOL when I was 13 or whatever and liked Nintendo games but didn't want to be something as common as Mario or whatever.

KillerWhale · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2011, 07:30:38 am »

"UnnamedPlayer was bitten by a killer whale" -> "UnnamedPlayer was swiped by A^Killer^Whale's basilisk" -> "UnnamedPlayer was gunned down by KillerWhale" -> "UnnamedPlayer was lasgunned by Whale" -> "UnnamedPlayer was chomped by I <3 whales's dragoon" -> |AoD|Ozzyshka: sup whales -> everyone calls me whales -> "UnnamedPlayer was rifled by whales".

True story.

Meisseli · « **Reply #12 on:** February 01, 2011, 12:33:28 pm »

Just a random alias from a multitude of aliases that evolved into the real one.

Meisseli is Finnish for screwdriver or penis (slang).

Qrntz · « **Reply #13 on:** February 01, 2011, 01:28:16 pm »

But well. If you really want to know (and you don't but nevertheless), here's why I am unpronounceable.

Quote from: kharnov on February 01, 2011, 03:06:22 am

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What the game was about? I never touched a single NES.

Also, OH MY FUCKING GOD KHARNOV KHARNOV MY GOD WHAT IS WHY HOW ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG. Ok?

Dracone · « **Reply #14 on:** February 01, 2011, 04:09:00 pm »

Dracone since I was 13, because in UT2k4 I saw too many other people named Draco.

KingOfBaslick is kind of a close alternate.

CreatureofHell · « **Reply #15 on:** February 01, 2011, 04:15:26 pm »

Well I decided on CreatureofHell back when I was a youngling...The main problem with it was that if you added a clan tag and colours it was too long for trem

So I did a bit of brainstorming and came up with many alternatives, none of which I use now...
I don't even remember how I came up with this one either...but I can assure you it has nothing to do with my personality

Tremulant · « **Reply #16 on:** February 01, 2011, 04:41:48 pm »

Not very interesting, but let's face it nothing so far has been, so i'm in good company;

Pazuzu · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2011, 05:29:52 pm »

Quote from: Tremulant on February 01, 2011, 04:41:48 pm

Not very interesting, but let's face it nothing so far has been, so i'm in good company;
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Does this make you a Eunuch Provocateur?

Conzul · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2011, 06:05:06 pm »

Back when I played Freelancer, I had two aliases: Conzul, for when I was being nice to new players/clans; Or Luznoc, for when I was pirating or being generally desctructive. Here in Tremulous, I tried for Dark Conzul instead of Luznoc, but black in names wasn't allowed. How did I get Conzul? Same way Leca got his

Pazuzu · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2011, 06:40:17 pm »

Quote from: Conzul on February 01, 2011, 06:05:06 pm

Or Luznoc, for when I was pirating or being generally desctructive.

And nobody caught on? Sdrawkcab really works?

My opinion of humanity plummets again.

Celestial_Rage · « **Reply #20 on:** February 01, 2011, 06:47:04 pm »

Celestial and Rage are both Conquer Online skills. I put them together and got my name.

swamp-cecil · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2011, 12:10:07 am »

Rune Scape has the most stupid Autogenned names (i was 11)

Pazuzu · « **Reply #22 on:** February 02, 2011, 04:09:43 am »

How about the stories behind colors (if anyone has any)? All my names have at least one character in red, and the rest white. The reason for that is that I didn't really like using colors at first, but if you don't have any, people might... judge you.

So at first, I had a bind that joined a team and set the first letter of my name blue for humans or red for aliens. I dropped the blue part of that recently, when I started playing aliens a lot more, so now it's just white, with a splash of red. So at some point, I'll probably start playing as "The Wolf In Red".

mooseberry · « **Reply #23 on:** February 02, 2011, 05:08:16 am »

Honestly, I have no idea.

Mustard · « **Reply #24 on:** February 02, 2011, 05:17:27 am »

Quote from: mooseberry on February 02, 2011, 05:08:16 am

Honestly, I have no idea.

Flawless post.

Pazuzu · « **Reply #25 on:** February 02, 2011, 05:30:54 am »

Quote from: mooseberry on February 02, 2011, 05:08:16 am

Honestly, I have no idea.

I'd imagine you're made of moose and berry.

Thoth · « **Reply #26 on:** February 02, 2011, 08:16:44 am »

Back in 1.1 I went by some generic ass name that I used when I was new to any game, Johnsonq:). Got tired of it and went with Thoth. Ever since I was like 5 or something I've been obsessed with Egypt and I still am sort of.

Kasofa · « **Reply #27 on:** February 02, 2011, 09:14:44 pm »

Well, I got Kasofa from slamming on my keyboard at age 6.

The name of Snail came from someone in Nexuiz saying "_@"" and I liked it. _@" didn't look as good behind the GT tag, so I used ''GT)_, and then after 6 months of inactivity, came back, lost the GT bit, and just changed my name to Snail or TheSnail.

Turtles Forever is a painting that was in my geometry book.

Green and white are the colors I use in honor of the GT tag colors.

-K

CorSair · « **Reply #28 on:** February 04, 2011, 07:23:23 pm »

I saw some program about frech privateers named, by chance, corsairs. They were cunning people, as well good inventors, when it is about sailing. More found on on Wikipedia. If you are interested.

I have love of space combat simulators, and the next that set my name as it is, was game Freelancer. There was faction called Corsairs, that had best ship in game (I don't remember if there is better than Titan.)

Conzul · « **Reply #29 on:** February 04, 2011, 07:39:17 pm »

Quote from: CorSair on February 04, 2011, 07:23:23 pm

I saw some program about frech privateers named, by chance, corsairs. They were cunning people, as well good inventors, when it is about sailing. More found on on Wikipedia. If you are interested.
I have love of space combat simulators, and the next that set my name as it is, was game Freelancer. There was faction called Corsairs, that had best ship in game (I don't remember if there is better than Titan.)

Titan is my fav in MP also, though technically Eagle is better since the devs gave it HF physics by mistake.

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Author Topic: The story of ingame-names (Read 20820 times)