What's in your name?

Fren256 · Post by **Fren256** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:27 pm #690119

What's the story behind your username? How did you come up with it? Did you give it some thought or was it the first idea that came to mind? And have you always used the same name or has it changed throughout the years?

Pepper · Post by **Pepper** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 2:54 pm #690125

big boobs

kinnebian · Post by **kinnebian** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:07 pm #690127

Better Idea: Guess how other people came up with their username.

conrad · Post by **conrad** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:09 pm #690129

First name was my best friend through college.

Last name was a dwarf noble I got in Dwarf Fortress.

Itseasytosee2me · Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:37 pm

It should be easy to see.

Unsane · Post by **Unsane** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:40 pm #690141

turns out my chemical is imbalanced and now my emotions are out of the windows at times with other issues

unless you meant for ckey, it's Rice and Beans

sinfulbliss · Post by **sinfulbliss** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:46 pm #690145

a guy baby sinful looked up to in the competitive Territory War Online clan scene

Fren256 · Post by **Fren256** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 4:00 pm #690157

kinnebian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:07 pm Better Idea: Guess how other people came up with their username.

I dare you to guess mine then. Hint: Contrary to what others may believe, my name doesn't come from hacker 4chan

AwkwardStereo · Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:54 pm

Like 14 years ago I thought the word Stereo was pretty cool. Still think it is. The Awkward prefix came later since Stereo was always taken and comes from an in joke with an old group I used to run with (many of us still talk, all cool guys).

scamoppi · Post by **scamoppi** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 6:15 pm #690196

I used to use my very first username everywhere for many years until I started getting kinda jealous of people with catchy usernames. I couldn't really find anything I wanted to stick to though. I tried Hella Munchies for a bit because of a tf2 video. Eventually my nephew got so sick and tired of me saying that I was planning on getting a new username that he sat me down in a discord call to look for names. We tried username generators and stuff and eventually we landed on a page with names for pet frogs. One of the names on there was Keroppi which turned out to be the name of a licensed hello kitty character. One of us had the idea to switch some letters out. I think I had watched Evangelion around that time and I had recently found out that Kaworu's name wasn't spelled the way I thought it was even though I read the subtitles. So I thought about that and that's how it turned into Kawoppi.

Post by **Striders13** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:04 pm #690214

kinnebian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:07 pm Better Idea: Guess how other people came up with their username.

that's what the name rating thread is (was?) for

Boot · Post by **Boot** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:08 pm #690215

I had a much longer name that got shortened to boot by lads on a TTT sever (real homies remember LG) and it just stuck.

Super Aggro Crag · Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:25 pm

a tv show

RedBaronFlyer · Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:49 pm

I did a wax museum thing on Manfred Von Richthofen (with the other time being Emperor Nero of the Julian-Claudian dynasty of Rome). RedBaron is almost always taken, and RedBaronFlier looked weird to me.

Super Aggro Crag · Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:53 pm

RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:49 pm I did a wax museum thing on Manfred Von Richthofen (with the other time being Emperor Nero of the Julian-Claudian dynasty of Rome). RedBaron is almost always taken, and RedBaronFlier looked weird to me.

red baron pizza

Scriptis · Post by **Scriptis** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 7:59 pm #690229

scripter was taken

scriptis is cooler anyway

kinnebian · Post by **kinnebian** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:01 pm #690230

mangled last name of a friend

Post by **TheRex9001** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:03 pm #690231

Rex9000 was taken, and ever since then I have add this tag. Also t rexes are cool

Post by **iansdoor** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:45 pm #690236

Iansdoor was never originally mine. It was vex bleh bleh bleh overlord. The thing with older siblings is that them, teens, buy games and you, kindergartener, play them. Eventually, in xbox and warcraft 3 communities. My brother's IGN was just mine after 34,000 hours of playtime and I will continue to keep it. I don't know the meaning of why he made it, but I believe I can show you the door.

BeeSting12 · Post by **BeeSting12** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 8:58 pm #690239

I was 12. Put two related words together. BeeSting. Not much more to it.

Not-Dorsidarf · Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:00 pm

lord of the rings online character was a dwarf

TheLoLSwat · Post by **TheLoLSwat** » Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:50 am #690314

I wanted people on roblox to know i was funny but Thelolking was taken so i settled for Thelolswat. Ive since moved on but since thelolswat is my ckey thats my forum name

Fri Jun 16, 2023 2:55 am

When I was like 10 I realized I needed an online nickname. I just thought of some random ass word and remembered "Justice". Then with time I realized it wasn't specific enough, so I tried to add 123, but Justice123 is also very used, so I tried Justice12345, which is ALSO rarely available, so I just swapped the 4 and the 5 and got Justice12354

yobihodazine2 · Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:05 am

I plagiarized it from a chemical that used to spawn in the RDs office on goon, made you immune to space.

Post by **NoxVS** » Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:31 am #690319

I was kinda in that edgy elementary school -> middle school phase when I started using the same username rather than making new ones up for each game. Now I'm stuck with it.

InfiniteGalaxies · Fri Jun 16, 2023 3:50 am

its cool

Constellado · Sat Jun 17, 2023 12:02 am

Constellation and tornado.
Two things I find cool.
Mix em together done easy.

CMDR_Gungnir · Sat Jun 17, 2023 7:26 am

I was moving away from an old alias just due to not really associating with it anymore. Couldn't decide what to go with instead, so figured since it's a space game, I'd go with my Elite Dangerous name.

But my Elite Dangerous name was too long, and my OLD Elite Dangerous name had the part that I was moving away from. I was watching a lot of Symphogear at the time, so I chose the Gear for my favourite character. Which was based on Odin's spear, Gungnir.

I also just kinda like the name Gungnir, but it alone would pretty much always be taken in things, so CMDR Gungnir works well.

Post by **JusticeGoat** » Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:15 pm #690536

I saw a gif many years ago of some guy being a dick to a goat and it knocked him over.

Rhials · Post by **Rhials** » Sat Jun 17, 2023 6:49 pm #690539

I would stand next to Phials on W330 OSRS and get called slurs for making people misclick onto me.

AlamoTurtle · Sat Jun 17, 2023 10:04 pm

Teenage me had a brain vomit of words I've recently picked up/enjoyed and this name was the splattered residue. It's actually funnier to bullshit people into thinking I put thought into it instead of just being the result of unplanned decision-making.

Sun Jun 18, 2023 3:21 am

some books melted. nothing else happened.

Post by **dendydoom** » Sun Jun 18, 2023 6:47 am #690578

my name isn't english so as a child my nickname was bambi and through the years it became danbi and then dendy and the doom is because im so freakin epic random dude. no one outside of the online realms calls me that anymore and if they did it would feel weird as hell.

i've been told it's also the name of some russian NES console and honestly that makes me like it even more.

Post by **Drag** » Sun Jun 18, 2023 2:42 pm #690593

Thedragmeme sounded cool when I was like 15. It was a play on "the drag queen" when I didn't really know what that specifically meant at the time.

I will die with all of my fuck ups on my sleeve.

Post by **Fikou** » Sun Jun 18, 2023 5:29 pm #690598

i saw someone i knew from club penguin on a bionicle forum chat so i decided to join that chat with a bionicle name

chocolate_bickie · Sun Jun 18, 2023 7:32 pm

I was eating digestives when asked to pick a username.

It's really that simple.

Chadley · Post by **Chadley** » Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:24 pm #690655

Hello. I... Like Harley Quinn.

If you couldn't tell.

Add a C, and what do you got. cHarley Quinn

Chadley is because I'm Charley, and a Chad.

Nothing further, I can't explain Armodias.

Timonk · Post by **Timonk** » Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:22 am #690689

Real name + what sounded cool

Indie-ana Jones · Mon Jun 19, 2023 10:04 pm

I don't even like Indiana Jones all that much. I just thought it would work for a name.

Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:25 pm

aeons ago, long before the dawn of mankind, I was playing a multiplayer 2D flash shooter called "project sandbox" or something like that
the gimmick was that maps were super easy for users to make with a tile-based placement system where you could place down both destructible and non-destructible tiles, as well as make tiles team-based for CTF/TDM maps (or just go for FFA) so that members of that team could pass through em while others couldn't. Every kill you got resulted in a certain amount of money as set by the server host for each individual server (and you could open any game to MP through the game, so anyone could be server host if you had an interesting enough sounding game) and there were a huge chunk of available guns (standard shit like ballistics to lightning guns/railguns/lasers/etc)

you COULD play as a guest/anonymously, but little me wanted to make a name for himself because he was Very Fucking Good at abusing those railguns to nail people (high damage, low ammo, long reload, huge range, instant travel time)

I was a nerd, so I liked greek letters (Omega) and the "darkpotato" part came from just random picking, I think.
I shorten it to OmegaDark now on most platforms that have that available, or it's left as Omega_DarkPotato/OmegaDarkPotato

click on people the moment they enter your field of view for 90 damage and then follow up with the lightning gun's pitiful damage but extreme firerate and insta travel so that you can trace em when they try dodging for a 0.2s kill, or if you're as good as I was predict where they'll be offscreen with the nearby player indicator
AKcels coping over railgunchads

HeyHey · Post by **HeyHey** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:50 pm #691003

Hey Hey people HeyHey here.

Timonk · Post by **Timonk** » Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:36 am #691015

Omega_DarkPotato wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:25 pm aeons ago, long before the dawn of mankind, I was playing a multiplayer 2D flash shooter called "project sandbox" or something like that
the gimmick was that maps were super easy for users to make with a tile-based placement system where you could place down both destructible and non-destructible tiles, as well as make tiles team-based for CTF/TDM maps (or just go for FFA) so that members of that team could pass through em while others couldn't. Every kill you got resulted in a certain amount of money as set by the server host for each individual server (and you could open any game to MP through the game, so anyone could be server host if you had an interesting enough sounding game) and there were a huge chunk of available guns (standard shit like ballistics to lightning guns/railguns/lasers/etc)

you COULD play as a guest/anonymously, but little me wanted to make a name for himself because he was Very Fucking Good at abusing those railguns to nail people (high damage, low ammo, long reload, huge range, instant travel time)

I was a nerd, so I liked greek letters (Omega) and the "darkpotato" part came from just random picking, I think.
I shorten it to OmegaDark now on most platforms that have that available, or it's left as Omega_DarkPotato/OmegaDarkPotato

click on people the moment they enter your field of view for 90 damage and then follow up with the lightning gun's pitiful damage but extreme firerate and insta travel so that you can trace em when they try dodging for a 0.2s kill, or if you're as good as I was predict where they'll be offscreen with the nearby player indicator
AKcels coping over railgunchads

Man I wish I had a origin story