So where does your username come from?

[GarrettChan]

Just now, TheV1perK1ller said:

Your name backwards? ;)

I always thought your ID is VampireKiller, until one day I learned how to read. Probably playing too much Castlevania ;P

[TheV1perK1ller]

4 minutes ago, GarrettChan said:

I always thought your ID is VampireKiller, until one day I learned how to read. Probably playing too much Castlevania ;P

Haha. My username makes no sense at all. I first started using it as profile name for when I first had Xbox Live back in 2011. The name sounded cool, and I wanted to blend in with the cool kids, lol. The name had stuck ever since. Literally the first thing that popped into my head, or whatever reason.

Edited July 3, 2017 by TheV1perK1ller
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[Guest]

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Edited July 26, 2017 by Guest

[Moktar]

Simple. Cuz' Titus rules!

Edited July 3, 2017 by Moktar

[Albertoni]

My last name. I like it. Not too much other than that; In hindsight it is maybe a constant reminder that I'm posting under my real name, so I have to control my words. Not that I ever needed to, but who knows.

[antares031]

Quoting my own post from the past:

 

On 2016. 4. 17. at 7:44 PM, antares031 said:

One of the first nicknames I've created was "alclsth031", along with a few more nicknames that I can't even remember now. What does "alclsth" mean... well, if you have a korean keyboard, you can type these letters in korean and you'll know its meaning. I'm not going to tell you since it's not a good word at all. So, One day I decided to change it to less negative, and also appealing to english-speaking people. I wanted to leave A at the beginning, and I wanted to retain the amount of letters, which means the new nickname should begin with A, and with 7 letters in total. And this is what I picked: antares. About 031, my birthday is March 19th, and you can type it as 0319 alternatively. But I didn't want to expose my birthday to the public, so I deleted 9 at the end.

 

 

[GuyMcBrofist]

Just a play on my name. A co-worker called me that one time and it stuck.

[SleepyVelvet]

television -> noisi velet -> noisy velvet

 

I just take random household objects sitting around me and spell them backwards to make names.

 

[CzechMate29200]

@GuyMcBrofist  hehe, that name is pretty sweet :)

[The Nate]

I actually kinda liked Mark's name, although I used Jack because Sgt Nate V doesn't have the same ring to it.

[Capellan]

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Capellan_Confederation

 

House Liao For Life! :)

 

[Not Jabba]

When I first found out about pwads and the Doom community in late 2004, the first site I landed on was Doom Wad Station. I made a post as a guest on their forum asking how to load some pwad or other, but at the time, the site was naming every guest poster as "jabba" for some reason instead of "guest." So when I actually registered, I named myself Not Jabba.

Edited July 3, 2017 by Not Jabba

[Royal_Sir]

Started off as a joke in class where we had to write our names on our desk for our teacher to keep track of us. I wrote Royal Sir Masterton in the hopes she would call me that. XD

[nxGangrel]

"Gangrel" comes from one of the 13 clans  from the pen and paper rpg "vampire the Masquerade". Quote from wikipedia ^{"Gangrel: A clan of animalistic shape-shifters who shun the cities for the wilderness beyond. Independent and more interested in their own survival the Gangrel prefer to run with wild animals rather than play politics with others of their kind. Gangrel are masters of the Discipline Protean which allows them to change their bodies into bestial shapes. When Gangrel frenzy they begin to resemble the Beast taking on animal features and disfigurements. Gangrel are one of the seven founding clans of the Camarilla, although they broke from it close to the end of the game line"}

The "nx" before it was just a cheap way of making the name unique and so people know it's me.

[geo]

One of these threads exists. I chose Geo because it is my name. Its like Geography... some have tried to pronounce it Gey-Oh.

[Moustachio]

I came up with Matt534Dog in the 4th Grade. If I got rid of it now I would miss it like a hernia.

 

Edit: Not missing it.

Edited August 9, 2017 by The Mysterious Moustachio

[Psyrus]

I once noticed some random guy on TV named "Syrus" some number of years ago -- about 2001-ish.  On the fly, I slapped a silent 'P' in front of it, and there we have it.

[Dragonfly]

@Matt534Dog sounds like you wouldn't miss it at all, or better yet, would feel relief from it's change/removal. :p

[CARRiON]

Carrion, for those that might not know (?) is the rotting flesh of dead animals. My name actually began as CARRiON+FLOWER, which is a real flower also commonly called the "corpse flower" due to the pungent odor it emits which is said to smell like rotting flesh. I found it sort of darkly humorous that something as beautiful as a flower could smell so vile and cause people to back off and completely avoid it. "Carrion Flowers" is also the title of a Chelsea Wolfe song, and I'm a big fanboy.

 

I eventually shortened it to just CARRiON, or CARRiON-XCII. Both for ease since some places don't allow large names, and because more often then not I feel like a walking dead piece of meat, so the name still applies. The number 92 is due to the significance I have with it, the lowercase i and roman numerals are just stylistic choices to stand out.

[Avoozl]

I got mine from a character in Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness (an old point and click adventure game from 1993 which I really love) who was supposed to be some sort of Cthulhu inspired being from another dimension who wields the power of darkness, and it got trapped and petrified between dimensions after an unsuccessful summoning.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 3, 2017 by Avoozl

[Doomkid]

I chose this name because I was (and still am) immensely original and creative

[BadLuckBurt]

Because Burt is awesome and I have bad luck playing video games, that doesn't stop me from enjoying them though.

[BadLuckBurt]

36 minutes ago, Avoozl said:

I got mine from a character in Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness (an old point and click adventure game from 1993 which I really love) who was supposed to be some sort of Cthulhu inspired being from another dimension who wields the power of darkness, and it got trapped and petrified between dimensions after an unsuccessful summoning.

 

 

 

 

Ah,  the game that taught me being a thief is supercool :D

[Lila Feuer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanosis
 

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The name cyanosis literally means the blue disease or the blue condition. It is derived from the color cyan, which comes from kyanós, the Greek word for blue.

I like blue. I like cyan. I like association with the cold. I'm also just associated with a lot of really 'nice' things as a result as listed under the causes section of that Wiki link.

This name was chosen near the end of 2010 as my new handle as its title was literally the opposite of hot (my prior handle was BurningCadavre for the longest time). For around three to four years I had it spelled as just Cyanosis and I liked this as pretty much made me undetectable in search engines, but sometime after I got Steam and stopped giving a shit I started spelling it as cyan0s1s. Eventually I re-named myself on Doomworld to match and just about anywhere else I go as it's the #1 way to pinpoint my presence anywhere online, as there can only be ONE Cyanosis. Plus I like the number 1 for a couple reasons (Ichi from Koroshiya Ichi / Ichi the Killer, Max Damage's vehicle number in Carmageddon series) so it's perfect for me.

[Voros]

That moment when you're playing Pokemon Ruby and you randomly made up a name for you're guy. Voros.

I do this a lot when it comes to usernames. Viga and Delo are 2 other names I randomly conjured up. One for SRB2 and the other for YouTube, I think. Regret the YouTube one.

But my very first username was on Roblox. At that time, I never registered on anything. So I followed the advice given for creating new usernames.

1. Two capital letters
DI

2. Two lowercase letters
ed

3. At least one random number
456

Username: DIed456

Maybe that advice was related to passwords...

[seablock]

the rhythm guitarist of Weezer, Brian Bell, used to have a side-project called Space Twins which he started with his then-girlfriend in 1993. the original plan for the band was to play at kids' birthday parties wearing silly sci-fi outfits and calling themselves Spacehelmet and Moonboot. i thought moonboot sounded cute so i've been using it as my username wherever i can

Edited July 3, 2017 by moonboot

[MFG38]

I didn't. The username chose me.

[Doominator2]

When i was 14 i thought i was being clever by making a pun of the word dominator, by adding the word doom in it. I added 2 at the end because someone else on this forum previously had the name doominator.

 

I only ever really use this username here. Everywhere else I go by Lord Karnage or bmailbox.  

[MTF Sergeant]

I made a stupid username as my first one by adding 'Doomguy' to my own name as "AbhinandAnilDoomguy". Then I once regretted it and then changed my username to TFK, which is one of the enemy clans from Need For Speed:Carbon.

[Negostrike]

I was inspired by Turbonegro and wanted something totally unique.