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Title: Explain Your Name
Post by: Arc on January 06, 2009, 08:33:25 PM
During a helping of succulent to sucktastic sushi @ MAGFest, it dawned over us that we were unaware of the origins of those sitting directly next to and across from ourselves.

Rectification, yo.

My title came from the shorthand of Arcturus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcturus). Sharp. Easy.

Then some other gonk came along and every IRC visit since became a catastrophuck.

Where does your screen name originate from?
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Brentai on January 06, 2009, 08:36:53 PM
Some asshole gave me this name, and people haven't called me anything else since.  In fact I tend to get yelled at if I try to name myself anything other than Brentai.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: on January 06, 2009, 08:39:16 PM
Playing Secret of Mana (Back when SNES was hot) in my bedroom again I needed a name for the Sprite. Just started punching random letters in, and got "Lyrai"

A few years later, I decided to change my online handle that I had been using for less than two months no I will not tell you what it is even though I submitted something to GameFAQs under it.

Did a google search for 'Lyrai'
Zero results
::D:
It stuck!
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Thad on January 06, 2009, 08:39:44 PM
I went through a slew of names in my first decade or so on the Internets and finally decided handles are for pussies.

...which is, of course, why YOU'RE comfortably anonymous and I'VE got fuckwits posting pictures of places where I used to work.

Also, I na

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Some asshole gave me this name, and people haven't called me anything else since.  In fact I tend to get yelled at if I try to name myself anything other than Brentai.

...yeah.

I'm the worst friend ever.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Brentai on January 06, 2009, 08:43:36 PM
You're just lucky you have the good favor of CRASH JUSTICE!!!

By which I mean this guy apparently. (http://cdbaby.com/cd/crashjustice)

Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 06, 2009, 08:47:08 PM
Beats the fuck out of me. I'm not named Bill and I am terrible at playing or otherwise manipulating bongos. Began using it one day, long long ago, and kept it up out of consistency.

But I'm apparently the only person on the Internet to go by this moniker. I say apparently because every once in a while I'll try to sign up for some service and discover the name is taken. When that happens, I typically go by "Real Bongo Bill".
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Rosencrantz on January 06, 2009, 08:55:59 PM
During a helping of succulent to sucktastic sushi @ MAGFest, it dawned over us that we were unaware of the origins of those sitting directly next to and across from ourselves.

Oddly enough, I had the same discussion over Chinese food when I had a small party with Roger, MarsDragon, Burrito, and Kei-chan a couple of years ago.

For those who don't know, Rosencrantz comes from a minor character in Hamlet, and he (along with Guildenstern) are the main characters of a play (and also movie, in which Rosen is played by Gary Oldman) appropriately titled Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. When Guild pointed me towards #finalfight a long time ago, he suggested that we take those names for some reason.

My other main handle, Aett, is another (and dumber) story. The short version is, Aett is the name of a fictional character of mine that I created when I was eleven or so. The way I came across those four particular letters is a surprisingly long story.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Detonator on January 06, 2009, 08:56:48 PM
I can't really explain my name beyond that it was spontaneously thought up as a handle for Worms 2 online play a decade ago.  It seemed appropriate for use in a game about exploding sheep.

My AIM name, in which I add "Nova", was also spontaneous though it's appropriate in a few ways: A nova being a type of explosion, NOrthern VA is my current location, and NOV is the first three letters of my last name.  I wish I could be this clever on purpose.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Thad on January 06, 2009, 09:02:09 PM
For those who don't know, Rosencrantz comes from a minor character in Hamlet

...I assumed for quite some time that Ophelia and Fortinbras were part of your group.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Niku on January 06, 2009, 09:05:17 PM
Needed something to use as a handle on the Ecchi Attack forums while making THE GREATEST FIRST POST THEY HAD EVER SEEN.  Beforehand I'd been using various shit mostly ripped from anime, occasionally using my real name or Penis instead.  Since it was on the EA boards, I used a Waita Uziga avatar, and meat was the most appropriate thing to pair with it.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 06, 2009, 09:09:45 PM
My first name is Ted, and I-

(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/ILikeCastlevania.jpg)

...yeah.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: yyler on January 06, 2009, 09:14:00 PM
Some misunderstood lyrics to a song by a local musician, which I mashed together.

Also the name of a song from the Katamari Damacy soundtrack but that was an accident.

If Norondor doesn't explain his, I will.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: McDohl on January 06, 2009, 09:21:24 PM
As for me...

Duh.

The last nickname I held was Yamucha, which dates WAAAAY back to early high school, when I was still hanging around the VERGE crowd, and was totally retarded for Dragon Ball.

EDIT: I'm remembering the tale of why I changed my name to McDohl.  I was sitting in #finalfight one night, and Sharkey berated me for having a Dragon Ball-related nickname, and I had just finished falling in love with Suikoden for the first time.  You do the math.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Ocksi on January 06, 2009, 09:21:45 PM
i figured meadowtron was a play on the metatron.

norondor of the eldaaaar
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Royal☭ on January 06, 2009, 09:26:44 PM
It's my last name.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Joxam on January 06, 2009, 09:28:25 PM
Pern + I can't spell = Joxam.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Thad on January 06, 2009, 09:33:11 PM
Pern + I can't spell = porn.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Brentai on January 06, 2009, 09:36:30 PM
You're just determined to name everybody after types of wank material, aren't you?
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: on January 06, 2009, 09:42:32 PM
Both of you get a room and fuck already, jeez.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on January 06, 2009, 09:44:26 PM
Needed something to use as a handle on the Ecchi Attack forums while making THE GREATEST FIRST POST THEY HAD EVER SEEN. 

Same here, and it just seemed to work on so many levels.

Also, Ecchi Attack popped my forum cherry. :kowhyee:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: MadMAxJr on January 06, 2009, 09:49:47 PM
In the early to mid 90s my father ran a BBS out of the home on blackcat BBS software.  This was pre-internet days.  Modems dialed up a local file sever/message board/text game server.  The board was called Thunder Dome.  My father, the SYSOP, was Mad Max.  Being his son, I took up Mad Max Jr.

When the internet came around, I discovered my name was not unique, so I capped the second A, so when you see Mad MAx Jr., you can think it's a witty identifier for me and totally not me fucking up usage of the shift key.

Briefly around 96, 97 there was a [PPC] on the front of my name when I played MechWarrior: Mercenary leagues on Kali with Parkers Pirate Corp.

I was briefly a part of the Qoole quake editing community, not good, not terrible mapper.  I had objects get onto their retail CD, and I had a map packed in with the Special Forces Quake mod that had guns by the infamous Gooseman (He did the early CS weapons.)

I still have a copy of my Quake 2 map 'Disfunction Junction' which was the last quake stuff I ever did.  It's a pretty looking killbox map that was distributed around on ftp.cdrom.com for a time.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Koah on January 06, 2009, 09:58:18 PM
Mid-nineties, Tenchi Muyo fandom (self-insertion fanfic not included, mostly because I was way the hell too lazy to actually get around to writing it), stock fan "tribute" name.  Found out later that there was a last name to go with the first name I was aping, so I started using it.  Then I found out the way the first name could very easily be read as being feminine, so I started abbreviating it.  Fortunately the knowledge of the last name is so obscure that nobody would actually know what the origin of it was unless I explicitly told th-

...

:facepalm:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Brentai on January 06, 2009, 10:00:27 PM
Hunh.  Never made the connection, honestly.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Friday on January 06, 2009, 10:47:16 PM
This name, I kid you not, comes from a bunch of girls shopping and giggling in a mall about how fabulous Fridays are.

My friend who was there still calls me Fab, or Fab Fri, sometimes.

Also I hate my real name with BURNING JUSTICE and so I adopted this name in real life in all but legal matters.

The only person left who calls me by my real name is my brother. Even my mom calls me Friday.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Fortinbras on January 06, 2009, 10:48:41 PM
Still reprasentin' the Hamlet Squad.

Have also gone as Riggwelter on the WFE which is a Welsh or Norse? word for a sheep that's fallen over onto its back and died because it couldn't get up.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Doom on January 06, 2009, 10:54:39 PM
maou: I bet if you joined #finalfight you'd never fit in it's a terrible hazing process they're xenophobes etc etc(all true to this day)

me: lawl I'll call myself Doom

Doom has joined #finalfight

Doom: MAN I SURE DO LOVE VIDYA GAMES ALSO THE COLLAR BONE IS THE HOTTEST PART OF A LADY

#finalfight: This guy's alright, also pretty classy and obviously cultured and refined and rich.

Doom:  :nyoro~n:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Kayma on January 06, 2009, 10:56:32 PM
My story's the same as Lyrai's, except the game I was mashing phonemes together for was Suikoden. I was totally Kayma McDohl.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: jsnlxndrlv on January 06, 2009, 11:20:29 PM
I was lurking the Seven Deadly Forums back in mid- to late-2003 when Thad posted the Newbie Guide.  Something about it bothered me, and I can't remember what that was--possibly the instruction to never refer to oneself as "new", since that would be self-evident to the longstanding members of the community.  I registered as Newbie in protest and have regretted it ever since.

I also posted as "Barathrum" for maybe a week.  Can't remember why, but the name itself is just a synonym for the Abyss.

I tried to change to jsnlxndrlv but you guys made me change back.  It's just my name (Jason Alexander Love) minus all the spaces and vowels.

Sometimes I post as Intentionally Wrong on other forums, because I like to play Devil's Advocate.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Spaco on January 06, 2009, 11:23:13 PM
High school nickname acquired in Junior? year. Stupid story and tired of telling it, but somehow the name got stuck to me and old high school friends call me it since.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Disposable Ninja on January 06, 2009, 11:28:50 PM
Well, five years ago this exact month I donned the title Disposable Ninja when I joined the Dork Club's message boards (seriously, check it out, five years ago (http://www.dorkclub.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=16)). I had just gotten out of a horrible relationship with a message board for furry super heroes and strange young men who wanted to fuck Nidoqueen, and I decided it was time for a fresh start.

Anyway, I recall seriously deliberating whether to call myself Disposable Ninja or... Disposable Whiteboy.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Mongrel on January 06, 2009, 11:33:17 PM
Old handle I picked up in a hurry to register for a forum a long time ago. I was half-assedly trying to be consistent by carrying it over to pyoko, but I have no particular attachement to it other than 'mongrel' is an excellent description of my heritage.

Went by Nobby Nobbs for a short bit. Heh.

I've gone by 'Bjerg' a lot in real life (pronounced 'byerg' or 'buhyerg', like 'Bjorn')... it's a goofy fake-nordic-sounding twist on half my last name (ends in berg). My friends called me Berg a lot, and then one day they were joking about the fact that the last name is Swedish. It went from there to "Ja, heey meester Bjerg!", to that just being my nickname.

I'm mainly pissed that I want to buy Bjerg.com, but some asshole squatter company is sitting on it and I don't know the first thing about trying to get those kinds of URLs.  Even if I did, it'd probably cost the monies.

 :sadpanda:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Spaco on January 06, 2009, 11:43:33 PM
I'm mainly pissed that I want to buy Bjerg.com, but some asshole squatter company is sitting on it and I don't know the first thing about trying to get those kinds of URLs.  Even if I did, it'd probably cost the monies.

 :sadpanda:

Same 

::(:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Dooly on January 07, 2009, 02:24:55 AM
A guy on a radio show I heard in high school was named Dooly, and I thought the name was funny.  I don't like it so much now, and I'm thinking of changing it.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Alex on January 07, 2009, 02:26:07 AM
I went through a slew of names in my first decade or so on the Internets and finally decided handles are for pussies.

Ditto.  At some point a year or so back, I sat back and asked myself whether or not being anonymous would give me superpowers other than being amazing wuss.  The answer was 'No, I'm not Rumpelstiltskin', so I started going by my real name.

As for my real name, I was named after Alex Karras (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karras#Movies_and_television) and Michael J. Fox's Family Ties persona (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_P._Keaton).  I just gave my mom confused looks when she mentioned it.

Guildenstern

I immediately thought of Onimusha when I saw it.  :hurr:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Zaratustra on January 07, 2009, 03:17:14 AM
This name, I kid you not, comes from a bunch of girls shopping and giggling in a mall about how fabulous Fridays are.

The wonderful thing about Fridays, is that Fridays are wonderful things.

mine actually comes from a brazilian short story about a man in a isolation experiment that starts calling himself progressively weirder names.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Roger on January 07, 2009, 04:08:13 AM
...

I got nothing.  :nyoro~n:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Catloaf on January 07, 2009, 04:10:10 AM
I used to go by the name of a character I drew up as a kid which later turned out to resemble a pokemon to a horrifying extent.  I then began to resent this character and dropped that name.

After lurking on Pyoko, which Saturn noisily brought to my attention (not intentionally, but when he lols...) I later joined him at a Pyokon, well, part of it anyway.  There I didn't have a internet name to go by and some one, I forget who, tentatively gave me the title of Kong.

Later on #finalfight I became Catloaf.  Partially based on my cat at the time who had a way of sitting particularly loaf-shaped, partially on vaguely remembering a picture of a loaf of bread with a cat face (I think it was titled nekopan) and partially because I memories of geese sitting being called goose-loafs by my father, so that made me already think of my cat as a Cat-loaf.

The said cat has since passed away. He was 17 years old, as was I at the time. :sadpanda:  Because of that cat's habits, to this day, I still sleep better with a weight of some sort pressing down on me.  The one thing I don't miss about him though, was his habit of drooling on me, usually my face, while sleeping atop me.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Alex on January 07, 2009, 05:57:28 AM
partially on vaguely remembering a picture of a loaf of bread with a cat face (I think it was titled nekopan)
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Catloaf on January 07, 2009, 06:10:16 AM
Yep, that's the one.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Bal on January 07, 2009, 08:09:44 AM
I was playing Virtual On in 99 or 2000, while at the same time, quite by coincidence, I needed an internet handle, so I went with Bal Bados, my favorite robot in the game. Everyone immediately started calling me Bal, and I've gone by it ever since. By this point I identify with it as much as my real name.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Kashan on January 07, 2009, 09:24:23 AM
There was some anime I saw back in the day where a computer character repeatedly mispronounced caution as ka-shan, so that's what I went with.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: JDigital on January 07, 2009, 09:50:24 AM
In pre-Internet days it was just Jonny, short for Jonathan. I later added the fictional surname Digital, after "Digital Defiance", a name change for the Amiga software group of mine that never got off the ground. That in turn was named for the "digital convergence" technology fad that was popularly discussed in Amiga magazines but never really happened, and largely meant "a computer in every refridgerator".

When I first joined IRC I removed the space from the nick, but the network at the time shortened it to "jonnydigi", which I abbreviated to JDigital, and people abbreviate to JD.

Almost everyone now calls me "JD" in real life, now, as I once joined a D&D group that already had a Jonny, and as he had seniority we settled on calling me JD. Even my family call me JD now.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on January 07, 2009, 11:10:27 AM
BATTLE HARD AND LIVE SO YOU CAN CONTINUE BATTLING (http://nedroidcomics.livejournal.com/180365.html)

One day maybe I'll get bored of this and change back to good ol' Burrito Al Pastor, because I really love those goddamned things.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: François on January 07, 2009, 12:09:42 PM
I've always put ZED as my arcade initials as a kid, mostly because it seemed more memorable than FRP or whatever else I could put in there. Then I got a NES and played Zelda and Dragon Warrior, and was amazed by the 8-character limit on names, but my name is François and there was no ç to be found. I wanted to go back to Zed but felt that not using all eight characters was a waste. I used "Master Z" for a while, then "ZedPower".

That said, when I got on the Internet, I first used Zed_the_Great_One, but eventually I got sick of how long it was and, to be honest, I loathe seeing underscores replacing spaces; it bugs me on an aesthetic level. So I went back to ZedPower.

Every now and then I've flirted with the idea of just using my real name, but, well... I don't mind being (one of the) the foreign kid(s), but I don't want my ethnicity to color the first impressions of people I interact with either. For good or for ill. Ehhh, I know I'm probably worried for nothing. That's why I'm still thinking about it. It'd mostly be about fighting the inertia now.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Guild on January 07, 2009, 12:56:23 PM
Back when Sharkey's website still made me pee myself laughing I emailed him about the Commodore 64 article about Goonies, which I'd played and hated, and passingly asked what the shit #finalfight was. I had no idea what a chatroom was at the time, and he unhelpfully told me, "Oh, it's on the esper.net server."

Five hours of intense computer-illiterate research later I was in #finalfight as Ender. I later changed it to Third (in honor of Ender but less pretentiously so) and finally Guildenstern (From the greek: Guilded and the Howard: Stern) when Rosen joined #ff.

Throughout I trolled until one day Cait permabanned me. Now I miss Vance.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Aintaer on January 07, 2009, 01:23:31 PM
Aintaer is an entirely unique creation following several rules I had arbitrarily set.

It must start with A, same as Alex, which is the Western name I chose when I emigrated at the age of 8.
It must include a portion of my old nick, which used to be internutt, back when I thought that was supercool.
It must violate rules of English pronounceability, either with lots of consonants (e.g. Nrvnqsr Chaos) or lots of vowels (e.g. oiseaux).

I chose vowels for anagram potential; plus, English diphthongs are extremely ambiguously defined. The ai diphthong can be pronounced as long A (pain), long I (baibai, Zaire), or short e (lair).  Ae could be long A (aether), long E (Caesar), short e (aesthetic).  In the end, there is no right or wrong way to pronounce Aintaer.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Büge on January 07, 2009, 01:42:18 PM
It's a shortened version of my surname, which, as my clutchcard (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=1681.msg51564#msg51564) indicates, people have difficulty pronouncing. It had made me the brunt of many immature monikers. One example would be "huge-ass."

...I probably shouldn't be telling the internet this, but anyway.

So the least offensive nickname I had throughout High School was "Buge." I tossed on an umlaut because... well I don't know. Probably that scene from This is Spinal Tap. I mean, how many people can say they've got a smiley face in their user name?
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Guild on January 07, 2009, 02:38:51 PM
Aintaer, you are brilliant for choosing a name intentionally open to pronounciation interpretation. There's nothing funnier than people arguing about how to say something. I pronounce it, "AYN-teer," for the record.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Brentai on January 07, 2009, 03:01:37 PM
Saa-bihn
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: on January 07, 2009, 03:03:35 PM
something something TSUKIHIME

::D:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Guild on January 07, 2009, 03:27:57 PM
Air ith
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Catloaf on January 07, 2009, 03:47:08 PM
In the end, there is no right or wrong way to pronounce Aintaer.

I've always liked thought of it as either, "Ain't air," or "Ayn ti-air"--that "ti" bit with an almost "ch" sound to it and sort of a tonal drop there too, I can't really accurately describe it any better than that without studying phonetics.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 07, 2009, 04:07:22 PM
The origins of Rygaron are boring.
Back when Everquest was new and super-fresh, I actually played two characters to a decent level and didn't want to just delete either and restart, which I always just did, so I decided to make a third. This was the first time I ever made a third character in anything and couldn't think of a name, so I kept pressing the "random name button" until I got "Rygarath". Noticing the Rygar NES game in the reference in the beginning of it I wanted to keep it but though it was a little... off. I deleted everything but the Rygar suffix, and decided even just that was still... off. I thought for another minute before deciding "Fuck it, I don't want it to be off so I'll make it on, Rygaron. Even then it sounded funny, but I had just spent two hours at name creation and wanted to play my damn Necromancer.

Occasionally after Rygaron's original creation I would use "Outlaw Hunter" because Outlaw Star was the total shit and I loved it but thought if I lived in that universe where everyone called themselves an Outlaw I'd be much better off just killing them for a living.

My very first was "BelthasarBelief" because that was my favorite line in a videogame at the time and I was not subtle in displaying that in my name... I was like six, shut up.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Niku on January 07, 2009, 04:08:07 PM
you people put way too much thought into how to pronounce chinaman.

then again people who call me "nickoo" on xbla or steam tend to induce violent rage, so.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji on January 07, 2009, 04:29:19 PM
I think this name is starting to show it's age. I say that because I've used it since high school, which probably means it came around during my "JAPAN IS STILL TOTALLY AWESOME" phase. I'd like to think I was trying to think of something less weaboo, but I don't give teenage me that much credit.

I like the sound of Armored Bore, but even that's pretty nerdy. Seems more like Angryoptimist's thing, anyway.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Niku on January 07, 2009, 04:39:20 PM
I like the sound of Armored Bore, but even that's pretty nerdy. Seems more like Angryoptimist's thing, anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PIdWdw15U
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Mongrel on January 07, 2009, 04:40:09 PM
Actually, the funny thing is that on no less than three different messageboards my screen name was forcibly changed to 'Killjoy' by the admins.

Granted, there was cross-traffic between all three boards, but still.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Norondor on January 07, 2009, 04:57:28 PM
I got my name from a Tolkien MUSH i was in back when i got on the internet for the first time ever. I am the worst.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Guild on January 07, 2009, 05:23:49 PM
The worst of the Worst!
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: yyler on January 07, 2009, 06:27:22 PM
Actually, the funny thing is that on no less than three different messageboards my screen name was forcibly changed to 'Killjoy' by the admins.
nice, i love styx
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Joxam on January 07, 2009, 06:32:40 PM
Idiot.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Thad on January 07, 2009, 06:40:03 PM
My story's the same as Lyrai's, except the game I was mashing phonemes together for was Suikoden. I was totally Kayma McDohl.

Or KcDohl!
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: MarsDragon on January 07, 2009, 07:35:31 PM
Back when I was ten or so and first getting online I was big into Sailor Moon. Since Sailor Mars was my favourite, I decided I'd go with "Mars" as a kind of first name online. Since I also liked dragons at the time (I repeat that I was ten), I went with "Dragon" as a surname, then shoved them together with camel case for a retarded weeaboo reason. And it's been my handle online ever since.

I'm pretty embarrassed about the origins by now, and sometimes I think about changing it, but at this point it's so divorced from the original idea, I've had it for so long, and I really can't think of anything decent to change it to I'll probably keep it in perpetuity. Besides, it tends to make people think I'm a guy. That's pretty handy.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Aintaer on January 07, 2009, 07:42:07 PM
Wait wait


There are girls on the internet?
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Friday on January 07, 2009, 07:54:57 PM
well, in my experience the only girls are lesbians that need your hard cock now.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: yyler on January 07, 2009, 08:01:27 PM
Idiot.
If you're thinking Killjoy is by RUSH, you're wrong. I thought that too for a while, though.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Guild on January 07, 2009, 08:12:18 PM
Idiot.
If you're thinking Killjoy is by RUSH, you're wrong. I thought that too for a while, though.
Moron.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: King Klown on January 07, 2009, 08:20:46 PM
Back when I was first getting into the internet (around age.. 12?) and it's many applications, I had to enter a name to enter a chat room. I first went with Peyt, because it was a name up for interpretation and I'm a prick like that.

After about a week of people asking why I typed properly with capitals and punctuation, and because I was playing Xenogears at the time, I changed it to Wiseman, improperly thinking that because people told me I acted older than I was semi-properly typing, I had a bit of wisdom to me.

Stuck with it ever since.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Bongo Bill on January 07, 2009, 08:39:08 PM
In the past I've considered just dropping my handle altogether and going by my real name, but socially speaking in casual circumstances it often is preferable to use a handle, and my name is distinctive. I've also considered adopting a new handle, as my current one is silly, misleading, and arbitrary, but in other places I've made such a fuss about being consistent with one's handle that I really can only change it to something like the original. Which wouldn't solve the issue at all.

I might yet just change it anyway, now that it's been brought up. But this would be a big thing, since I've been using "Bongo Bill" since 2002.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Mongrel on January 07, 2009, 08:44:55 PM
Idiot.
If you're thinking Killjoy is by RUSH, you're wrong. I thought that too for a while, though.
Moron.

If any of you guys actually think I earned that because of a random song title...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Mongrel on January 07, 2009, 08:49:02 PM
In the past I've considered just dropping my handle altogether and going by my real name, but socially speaking in casual circumstances it often is preferable to use a handle, and my name is distinctive. I've also considered adopting a new handle, as my current one is silly, misleading, and arbitrary, but in other places I've made such a fuss about being consistent with one's handle that I really can only change it to something like the original. Which wouldn't solve the issue at all.

I might yet just change it anyway, now that it's been brought up. But this would be a big thing, since I've been using "Bongo Bill" since 2002.

Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the Congo
Deep down in the jungle
I started bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong
I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the "king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong"
Hear me when I come
King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong
They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm the king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong
Hear me when I come
"King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong"
Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong
Hear me when I come, baby, king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: SCD on January 07, 2009, 10:30:36 PM
SCD is an acronym for "Something Completely Different"

When I first posted on the other place sometime back, Kazz said how he would enjoy calling me by acronym, or something to that effect.  Also something about how I screwed up my own acronym. 

Why did I use it?  Because while I was drawn to the lot of you for in-depth game analysis, image-fu and funny posts (and especially the old sharkey napkin posts on his site), I feel that I'm different, so I stuck with it.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Kazz on January 07, 2009, 10:34:40 PM
I don't remember saying that.  Or anything.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: SCD on January 07, 2009, 10:59:13 PM
Also:  "Best first post ever"

not a word of lie.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: PhilosopherDirtbike on January 07, 2009, 11:05:14 PM
My name is ripped from the lyrics of a They Might Be Giants song I like. I got the one I previously used all the time in a similar fashion.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on January 07, 2009, 11:22:23 PM
Huh. I always thought that was one of the weakest songs on that album.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Joxam on January 08, 2009, 01:21:17 AM
Idiot.
If you're thinking Killjoy is by RUSH, you're wrong. I thought that too for a while, though.

Styx has no song named Killjoy on any of their studio albums (or live albums, if a quick search serves me right). They do, however, have an album named Kilroy Was Here, in which the song Mr Roboto has the lyrics "I am Kilroy" repeated at the tail end. That is what I thought you were referring to, and that mistake (misunderstanding the lyrics or thinking that you were somehow being witty) is why I called you an idiot.

However, even though your argument (which was incorrect by the way) shows that you and I were not thinking the same thing, you're still an idiot, none the less.

Idiot.
If you're thinking Killjoy is by RUSH, you're wrong. I thought that too for a while, though.
Moron.

If any of you guys actually think I earned that because of a random song title...  :facepalm:

No, I figured it had to do with your glowing personality (which I love, by the way). I just thought he was being an idiot (either by blatant stupidity, or by dense irony).
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Kayma on January 08, 2009, 10:47:51 AM
My story's the same as Lyrai's, except the game I was mashing phonemes together for was Suikoden. I was totally Kayma McDohl.

Or KcDohl!

 :facepalm: Yeah...
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Guild on January 08, 2009, 11:00:19 AM
Idiot.
If you're thinking Killjoy is by RUSH, you're wrong. I thought that too for a while, though.
Moron.
If any of you guys actually think I earned that because of a random song title...  :facepalm:
No, I figured it had to do with your glowing personality (which I love, by the way). I just thought he was being an idiot (either by blatant stupidity, or by dense irony).
I actually have no idea what any of these quotes are talking about. Stupid.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: yyler on January 08, 2009, 12:31:34 PM
 :shrug:
Title: SUDDENLY I BURST INTO THE ROOM!
Post by: Angryoptimist on January 16, 2009, 07:55:42 PM
I like the sound of Armored Bore, but even that's pretty nerdy. Seems more like Angryoptimist's thing, anyway.

ARE YOU CALLING ME A NERD?!?!?!  i guess it's true

I haven't been that much into Armored Core lately.  Still haven't finished 4, even!  The last time I seriously played something in the series was a play-through of the original a while ago (without PLUS).  Most of my game time these days is fooling around in sandbox games and cursing the (apparently hard-coded) 128,000 brick limit in retail Blockland.

[spoiler]"Angryoptimist" was a 'dissatisfaction with present, optimism for the future' kind of thing.  Don't laugh, I came up with it 10 years ago.[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Lady Duke on January 17, 2009, 03:39:56 PM
I got my name from Kazz's con at his place however many years ago that was.  When Doom met me, he was making jokes about calling me Lady Duke because der, Kazz was the Grand Duke of the Duchy of Kazzia.  So I told him that if I ever joined pyoko, that'd be my handle.  And then it was.  The end.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: François on January 17, 2009, 03:55:41 PM
I was about to post "the word is duchess!", but yeah, Lady Duke sounds much cooler.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Zach on January 17, 2009, 05:11:51 PM
Right before high school started, I needed a new moniker. I picked Nekobasu because I had just seen My Neighbor Totoro and really identified with the true star of the show. The name served me well for many years, even when it became apparent that I was becoming less like cats or buses with every year that passed. Also, every time that someone tried to shorten the name, it became confusing. There are far too many neko out there.

When the shift to WFE rent the earth, I took the chance to use my real name. Now if I ever need to argue with John Byrne (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Byrne#On_Internet_Screen_Names), I'm ready.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Kazz on January 17, 2009, 05:20:52 PM
My internet names were many, once upon a time.  Back when I trolled people's BBS chatrooms (I was 11 or so), I called myself "Beaver," because one of my brothers convinced me that they were hilarious (although I realize now that he was just trying to get me to repeat a synonym for "vagina").

So later I read Shlonglor's (now he is GFrazier) website and it was great and I played WarCraft II and was terrible at it but anyway through that website I found Blizzard's StarCraft Suggestion Forums and a story-writing group called "CWAL" and they were really funny so I just sort of interjected myself into their community, calling myself The Infamous Beaver, and writing truly terrible stories.  Other people abbreviated it to "TiB" but I never did, instead preferring my annoyingly long nick.

One day, I wrote The Infamous Beaver's origin story, about a military company of chainsaw-wielding beavers waddling around destroying stuff, and in it my character's CO addressed him as "Lt. Kazz."  I didn't think too much about the name at the time, thinking it was just a cool combination of K's and Z's (the two most badass letters in the Roman alphabet), but after the story other people in CWAL started addressing me as "Kazz" instead of "TiB" (so strong was our community's connection to its self-insert characters).  It annoyed me a bit, because I liked posting as The Infamous Beaver, but soon I just started posting as Kazz instead.

The surname that accompanies Kazz (on my AIM name, for instance) is "Tawdal," which, when asked, I often claimed was just a silly word with no real origin (because I was foolish enough to have "Tawdal" sown onto my backpack for high school and I didn't care to describe what an enormous dork I was).  In truth (if I remember any of this correctly), near the end of my tenure with CWAL, I joined a Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri forum and started writing fiction for them as well.  This wasn't in the script-format of my CWAL stories, but actual prose, and I think it was at least a little better.  It centered around a sly young man who wore a black T-shirt and black pants (which is really a hideous style) and called himself The Anonymous World Domination Association Leader.  I don't recall much about the WDA except that Tawdal apparently commanded a tremendous wealth of resources, because he was always flying around on black starships loaded with black tanks and black-uniformed soldiers obeying his every whim, while he walked around being an overconfident smarmy cockbag.

I adopted this smarmy cockbag persona myself, on both the SMAC and CWAL forums, because I had this strange idea that that is how awesome people act.  Around this time, I found Sharkey's website.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Defenestration on January 17, 2009, 06:21:11 PM
I actually don't remember my original delvings into the web, but I went with "Raiyen" for it. I recall hearing from one of my dumb friends that "rayen" was a Norse word for demon and I thought it was totally rad. I now doubt the veracity of the claim since both I and my friend were pretty retarded at the age of 12, but I do still think that the added "I" makes Raiyen pretty alright. I still use it as an alternate moniker. I also believe it's what started my love of unusual letter combination in personal screen names, but that didn't really come until later on.

Next, I found the the Bob And George community. And I was about 14 and thought that sprite comics were totally cool and awesome and a way for me to make something neat and cool and funny even though I was completely unartistically gifted. I of course was terribly, horribly wrong, but I can forgive myself on the account of being 14. What I can't forgive myself is making my personal character "Six." Specifically, my idea was that Zero was a prototype, and his name was his version number. Six was version 6.3109. He was also yellow, had two additional spikes on his helmet fins, and was retooled in many different ways, but it was still a slight retool in the end. I actually had it all statted out and ended up being one of the slightly more recognizable fan characters in that community, despite how horrible it is.

Defenestration was an attempt to distance myself from the 14 year old idiot I was. And really, it's a pretty awesome word. I'm still unable to believe there is an actual verb dedicated to the act of throwing someone out a window. And I learned it from an actual dictionary, not the one comic character that carries a window with him and shoves badguys through it.

But... I ended up making and keeping a LOT of friends from that community, so the name "Six" follows me still. I'm actually hearing "Six" more than my actual name amoung people that I hang out with in real life too, which is confusing because I know one of them from BnG. I'm contemplating just giving in and changing my forum name here to Six. It's easier to type, and after a bit of introspection I've come to identify with it personally.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 17, 2009, 06:29:48 PM
Right before high school started, I needed a new moniker. I picked Nekobasu
Ooooohhhhhhh.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Kazz on January 17, 2009, 08:49:39 PM
If you call yourself Six then you're going to remind me of BSG.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Büge on January 18, 2009, 07:32:40 AM
If you call yourself Six then you're going to remind me of Blossom.

Tonight, in a very special thread.
Title: Re: Explain Your Name
Post by: Defenestration on January 18, 2009, 11:17:15 PM
I've not followed BSG at all, though I intend to at some point in the future. And I actually think I am going to switch, but it will be when I can be bothered to.