So where does your username come from?

[Hyena]

I once made a stupid prank phone call to the operator. When she answered, I just laughed at her. A loud, evil, maniacal laugh. The whole school hallway heard me. My friend nicknamed me Hyena. The name probably wouldn't have stuck, except that soon afterwards we formed the Green Hamster Terrorist Group. It was in actuality not a terrorist group, but in fact a bunch of kids who drew green hamster skulls on things and wreaked almost havoc.
One of the gimmicks was that the members needed to have animal names. I just went with Hyena.

:)

My old username (before I came here) has a much different story, but I'll glaze over that one.

[sargebaldy]

I thought this thread was about Username at first.

My nick comes from the first thing I thought when seeing a sarge in Doom (heh, I even guessed correctly it's a sergeant). Although it might have just been one in roughly the same area, this is the sergeant i generally associate with the term.

[Draconio]

sargebaldy said:

Although it might have just been one in roughly the same area, this is the sergeant i generally associate with the term.

E1M3, right after the big outdoor vat. Am I correct?

[sargebaldy]

Indeed you are. Back in those days I was playing on HMP so that's about as soon as you'd see one :)

[Stealthy Ivan]

I have had the same username since 1993 on virtual arcade bbs.
STEALTHY Ivan...
This name came from a PC game called U.S. Navy Fighters, one of my favorite flight sims.

[Sharessa]

DOOM Anomaly said:

Hurray for Fraggle Rock. :D

D'oh. How did I miss that joke?

[EarthQuake]

I've had the same username since Quake was released. When playing with my friends on the lan, I needed a name cause "Player" sucks. EarthQuake was the first thing that came to mind. I've used it as a player name in every game and every forum from that point on. So roughly, I've had this name for 7-8 years.

[Scabbed Angel]

"He is the angel with the scabbed wings
hard drug faced wanna power his nose
He will deflower the fresest crops
dry up all the wombs with his rock n' roll sores."

[Sharessa]

Somehow, I figured that's where it came from.

[DooMer 4ever]

My username is very obvious. Why did I choose it? Well, I have poor imagination and this was all I could think of.

[Doom-Child]

This festering sack of organs created me to battle his personal inadequacies. The proliferation of the Internet allowed me to expose him to the world. Unfortunately, he does have control over most of said organs, which means he can make life rather difficult for me.

DOOM was the first game he was really moved by, both as a technological achievement, and as an immersive world. That idea seems farfetched and stupid now, but I assure you that it was so.

My actual date of birth is a mystery, even to me. That being the case, I decided to use Judgement Day as my birthday. It just has a nice ring to it.

DC

[Ichor]

You could just use February 29th. That way, you'd have a birthday only once in four years. The only down side is that you'd have to wait more or less 80 years to be able to buy alcohol.

[Doom-Child]

It's just as well that the meatbag has his own driver's license. I let him do the boozing. Unfortunately, the asshat has landed us in a dry county in Arkansas, and he goes to a school were alcohol isn't tolerated. What a dumbass.

DC

[Grazza]

DooMer 4ever said:

My username is very obvious. Why did I choose it? Well, I have poor imagination and this was all I could think of.

Heh, I'd assumed you'd chosen it because it was similar to a pornstar's name. :p

[DooMer 4ever]

Grazza said:

Heh, I'd assumed you'd chosen it because it was similar to a pornstar's name. :p

It is? :p

[Grazza]

Replace "DooMer" with "Diamond". Better not give any links though.

[Ichor]

That sounds a lot more like that old James Bond movie, Diamonds are Forever.

[-Jk-]

Well there's always google....

[dsm]

Scabbed Angel said:

"He is the angel with the scabbed wings
hard drug faced wanna power his nose
He will deflower the fresest crops
dry up all the wombs with his rock n' roll sores."

Heh, I gotta confess that everytime I see your nick, I automatically think "Scrapped Angel" :-P

Hope you didn't take offence of that.

[Nanami]

Nanami's the name of my favorite RP character. It was either going to be Nanami or Asella, and I picked Nanami.

http://nami.mancubus.net/chars/Nanami.gif <-Unfinished picture of Nanami.

[Szymanski]

I lost the password to my fen boi account

[Scabbed Angel]

dsm said:

Heh, I gotta confess that everytime I see your nick, I automatically think "Scrapped Angel" :-P

Hope you didn't take offence of that.

Heh heh, not at all. Crapped Angel? Oh... dear.... God.....

[Kate]

My nick? Simple: If it's shootable, I'll shoot it.

[Tyockell]

Im not a very creative intelect so my user name is Tyockell cuz my first name is Tristan and my last is yockell.. meh go figure.

[wildweasel]

My nickname actually came from two different places.

WILDWEASEL - Back when I used to play Half-Life on the 'net (before Steam, and before Team Fortress Classic even), I was with a clan called IWG - The Idiots With Guns. That clan consisted of me, my brother, and a couple of friends. I was asking my dad about a clever nickname and he suggested this. It's actually the code name for radar jamming equipment on a variant of the F-4 Phantom jet fighter.

R3000 - Model number of the main CPU in the Playstation, the MIPS R3000 RISC processor. My strategy to get my nick accepted in any online medium was this: Take any combination of adjective/noun, and add the name of a random technology to it. Sometimes I have used Wildweasel68k (named for 680x0 series, most notably in the Mac and Amiga systems), Wildweasel_3DFX (graphics chipset, now owned by nVidia), and WeaselMan6502 (main CPU in the NES and TurboGrafx 16).

[Grimm]

Grimm said (gasp) a mere two months ago:

Mine came from the movie, "Quick Change" (or maybe Easy Money); at any rate, it was the one with Bill Murray, Gina Davis, and Randy Quiad in it.

As for the origins of RTDscout, that's top secret shit.

[Amaster]

My username?

Well, this one time, at band camp...

[Nanami]

Assmaster said:

My username?

Well, this one time, at band camp...

That was you?!

[Cyb]

erdemon

(which is why it's pronounced sibe, not sib, jrks)

[Sharessa]

I'll never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever write a song about Cybie.

/me runs