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Author Topic: What's the origin of your usernames?  (Read 16006 times)

Hubris Incalculable

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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #45 on: December 16, 2011, 01:06:49 am »

My headvoice has been saying 'Uld'.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #46 on: December 16, 2011, 01:36:44 am »

Don't we already have a topic like this one?

Been quite a while actually, and this one seems more active and interesting then the ones before.

Also, I don't head voice any of your names, I use your avatars to see you in my head so I assume anyone without a avatar is the same person. With a few exceptions like Grek.

Edit: And people on my ignore lists do not have avatars obviously, so one or two of them I know by name and not avatar.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #47 on: December 16, 2011, 01:52:01 am »

Same as Criptfeind, I used 'anzki' (or was it 'anzki1', can't remember) some ten odd years ago in runescape. It is kind of based in my real name which is Antti. I can't actually remember when the four came in first time, but I remember it being my 'favorite number' during elementary school.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #48 on: December 16, 2011, 02:05:29 am »

Some girl I liked freshman year of high school liked penguins. Really dumb, yeah, but I like penguins too so hey, it works for me. Though I've been using PenguinPaladin more recently since I like the alliteration.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #49 on: December 16, 2011, 02:35:39 am »

Got mine from one of my favourite books, the Snake by Stig Dagerman. It's about fear, and takes place during the Swedish "Preparation Years" of WWII following some conscripted soldiers (though it's not a war genre book). Scriver is the name of the authors self insert character (though, since Dagerman was a damn writing genius, this is not a bad thing and no author bias or anything), a intellectual/poet kind of guy, who was nicknamed "Scriver" because he was always typing on his damn Scriver brand typewriter. Hence why I also had a blurry picture of a cool steampunkish typewriter as an avatar for the longest time, and sometimes refer to myself as a typewriter.

Also, at the end, Scriver tries to prove to himself that he can conquer fear by climbing out an upper-floor window in the middle of winter. Of course, he slips and falls to his death.

Also also the Snake is fear.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #50 on: December 16, 2011, 02:42:29 am »

Was playing Phantasy Star Online, wanted to name my character after the star Sirius (aka "The Dog Star"). I made a spelling error, liked it, decided to keep it, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #51 on: December 16, 2011, 04:44:21 am »

I was obsessed with Star Trek when I started using this as my username, now on to the numeric sequence.

I realized that just "Klingon" was uncreative and would be already be taken in any decently sized community, so I tried to find a unique yet non generic set of numbers to put after it. Something like k123, k1, k911, ect might already be taken, so I settled on with 12345 with every other number skipped, so it would be 135. Then I just kind of stuck the missing numbers on the back of it to make 13524.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #52 on: December 16, 2011, 05:07:14 am »

This username was originally inspired by the Ultima spell from FFVII,
then I simply added two letters as to make it different from other usernames which may have taken the same idea.
This was long before I joined Bay12, before that I widely used another username Psionicle which I try to get away from, as it reminds me too much of my.. younger immature self, I still use it on some occasions tough, such as my Gnome mage in WoW. (Terenas Server, for you guys who seem interested to know.)
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #53 on: December 16, 2011, 05:07:55 am »

I can't really remember. I think I was aiming for a Tolkien-esque dwarf name when I made my first character in WoW.
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« Reply #54 on: December 16, 2011, 05:29:25 am »

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« Reply #55 on: December 16, 2011, 06:02:02 am »

One of the gameboy zelda games there was a kid you could name, I named him kedly, and kind of stuck with the name after that. Kedly, Zama-Tisaru, and ShoobFloob are usernames I often use. (currently Zama is the most common one, I created it for gaiaonline). shoobfloob came from my first email account and I didnt want hotmail knowing anything about me so I said I was shoob floob from shooberton shoobada... >.>
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #56 on: December 16, 2011, 06:07:24 am »

I honestly have no idea. Basically, the thought process was "new site -> sick of old username -> make something up -> Zaerosz". This is the first site I used it on.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #57 on: December 16, 2011, 06:15:48 am »

It's a play on "The Merchant of Venice"
Yumi suggested it.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #58 on: December 16, 2011, 06:53:44 am »

Extremely minor warhammer character...and it was similar enough to my own name.
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Re: What's the origin of your usernames?
« Reply #59 on: December 16, 2011, 07:02:10 am »

I'm not actually sure how I came up with Dsarker. All I know is that it was something to do with Baldur's Gate 1.
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