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[MrWiggles]

Well, my username extends back to when I first used the internet. Much like the other stories here. It was my second AIM screen name, since I lost the password to my first aim screen name, 'notsogood666'. It was also around that time, that I got my first online journal, a dead-journal. (It used the exact same code for Live Journal, but it was for, I dont know, dead folks.)

And there it was Mr. Wigglesworth the 3rd, though thats a rather thing to be carrying around.

And through the years, it's became Mr. Wiggles. Mr. Wiggles isnt that uncommon of a name on the interwebs, as you can imagine, so I often have to an alternative spelling Mr. Wigggles. The extra G, is generally skipped right over, but when I can go with the proper spelling.

Over the years, its become my internet face, as it were. Its the name, I use just about fuckin everywhere. My curent avatar, is the latest iteration of the Mr. Wiggle Seals of Approval. (With the addition of the shades.)

The first iteration of the Seal of Approval was some years ago, which can be found here: http://mr-wigggles.deviantart.com/#/d5nl9p 

Its quite terrible. Though the sword, I have there, looks kinda of spiffy. The story and document on the kinds of Role Playing, are also probably terrible.

[Jopax]

Waay back when I was in elementary and was regularly playing CS and WC3 with my friends I thought up of just adding an x to my rl nickname to make it sound cooler and exotic, sticked with me for most of my online career with a couple of places where I go by Djoze (again a slight change of a rl nickname).

[ChairmanPoo]

Back before I was visiting this forum, I used to attend several forums on the topic of politics (it was politicalforums.net or politicalforums.com, or somesuch). These were haunted by a notorious individual called Interrupt-OOH, sometimes Chairman OOH, who claimed he was a (I shit you not) nazi cybersatanocommunist. I regarded him as only slightly more sane than Gene Ray and referred to him mockingly as "Chairman Poo". Later on, upon joining this forum, I decided that it was an inherently funny nickname, and decided to use it myself. These forums, and Whalesdev's, are about the only ones in which I use it.

I tell you this because you're too smart not to be curious, and because I don't want someone to spot this madman OOH's ramblings and think it is actually me.



Back when I played Starsiege online, I was The Unknown Guy.

[Ehndras]

Both my names come from dysgraphia and runescape. Nine or ten years ago when I started playing (in fact I believe it was also the first thing I actually used the internet for) I was making my guy and I could spell... Well. Nothing. So I needed a made up name I could remember. So I used Plkmasdf. Pronounced Pickle My/Me Soft. Which is still a name I use sometimes. But. Not often anymore. A bit later I was making another file for some reason or another and I needed a new name, and since I had a bit of a necromancy/dark magic fetish at the time (actually I still do, but I do actively try to downplay since it is so overplayed) I chose CryptFiend. Only... Dysgraphia and I was like nine or ten. So Criptfeind. Which works out fine since no one ever spells it that way it is never taken and it is a good conversation piece.


TL;DR: Yes I know it is spelled wrong, No that is not a accident, No it has nothing to do with War Craft and in fact I was using it before WC3 came out.

Edit: Jorn, a third name I use a lot, was the name of my bothers main on WoW back when we played it.

Cryptfeind; Also the name of a very badass goth-related group I can never find anything about. Damn my obsession with seldom-heard bands and strange music you can't even find on youtube. :| I should stick to CLassical, Industrial/EBM and Aggrotech, which is a lot more manageable.

As for mine, its based off of Ehndras Varykos Aurea, counterpart to Lentias Aurea, two characters in my unpublished Epic Fantasy novel series. I've always used the heroes of my short stories, novel stories and poetry as my usernames. My current obsession is a Scifi text RPG I'm running here on the forums, which I randomly decided to infuse with Lore from the 3 Scifi projects I created. Its gotten to the point where I've created a timeline that spans 100 trillion years, features hundreds of space-faring alien species, and an expansive multiverse with thousands of dimensions and a plethora of raging foes, villains, horrifying Lovecraftian terrors, and interdimensional conflict. Needless to say, I'm about to update it today with a TOTALLY different concept for long-term plotline that what I originally began with.

[Dutchling]

When I signed up for the Starcraft II beta I decided that I needed a new username. This is because I once had a chat in a Warcraft 3 MP game for half an hour or so with my team mate when he asked me where I was from. We quickly found out that we were both Dutch and had been chatting in English when we could have done the same in Dutch.
My decision was quickly made.
Dutch + Zergling = Dutchling.

[Telgin]

I use this user name everywhere, but it started with Everquest way, way back about 8 years ago.  I'm terrible with coming up with names for characters, whereas my older brother is Proficient at it.  I rolled up a new human Paladin of Rodcet Nife, randomly generated a few dozen names I hated, and he suggested Telgin.

I went with it, and now use it in just about every game / forum / whatever I'm on.  The name doesn't make a whole lot of sense sometimes (i.e. in a modern setting game), but whatever.

[nenjin]

At 15 I needed a name for my first long-term Everquest character, a rogue. I wanted something that implied ninja without beating the reader over the head with it. After like a 15 minute think on it, I came up with this. Been my moniker ever since. It's loosely tied to the word for carrot in Japanese, and also close to the name of a town in Japan where apparently there was some horrible massacre. (Yes, I've been in a number of these threads over the years.)

When people decide to flame me in online games, it's usually some sort of asian-themed slur as a result. Which I always find funny, personally. Because truly blind racism is kind of hilarious. Like that Dave Chappelle sketch.

[Heliman]

My name? Its a long story. It involves a forum for shitty knockoff games that noone talks about, a sun god (that's right, the sun, helio. Most people just think that heli- was for helicopters), and a man with a bannana for a head.

[Darvi]

(that's right you guys probably thought helicopters)

Actually I didn't make the connection to helicopters until you pointed it out.

I guess I'm just that thick.

[Kastrol Aslaasri]

My second adventurer of the "aimed attack" release, was named Kastrol Aslaasri. His ear was ripped off and spit in a cave.
Later, with another adventurer I found the ear..... that was the first time that I realized that the world is dinamic and you can find corpses or stuff of previous adventurers.
Also, Kastrol was my first adventurer who become an hero to many civilizations.

Oh, and my english sucks, in case you did not notice xD

[Necro910]

(that's right you guys probably thought helicopters)

Actually I didn't make the connection to helicopters until you pointed it out.

I guess I'm just that thick.

I always read his name as "Helioman". I never noticed it was "Heliman" until just now 

[Delta Foxtrot]

Dwarf Fortress = DF, DF + NATO alphabet = profit
I don't have a web wide username that I could have used so I had to make one up on the spot. Since NATO alphabet was fresh on my mind and sounds cool to any wannabe armchair general's ear, it was an obvious choice.

[DeKaFu]

Back when I was 12 or so and Digimon was the coolest thing ever, I started using the internet. Ended up on the Pokémaster's drawing board chat (aw yeah) and named myself Flamedramon because Digimon 02 had just started and I was thoroughly impressed by that particular 'mon. Ran into another Digimon fan and some fantastic on-the-fly RPing later I was Digimon Kaizer's Flamedramon ('cause of a dark ring, natch).

Ended up using that as my username everywhere ever since. When I wanted to get away from the Digimon thing explicitly, I converted it to Japanese and took the first letter from each word. Dejimon Kaizaazu Fureimudramon.

I also like it because it looks a bit like "decaf" and I drink a lot of decaffeinated stuff. It's cool.

It's pronounced like the Japanese syllables. How you pronounce your Japanese syllables is between you and your conscience.

[Starver]

I'm sure I've told another thread on this subject (way back when), but I'll tell again:  When I joined the forum, I was particularly bad at the food industry element in DF.  I am no longer in that situation, when I'm not overwhelmingly concentrating on digging out some complex future infrastructure immediately upon embark, of course.

Spoiler: A little bit of additional blurb about my general approach to on-line naming, probably unexciting (click to show/hide)

I only use this name on this forum.  I use separate online identities for every other online aspect of life (barring a few side-projects from an existing community, such as some MyMiniCity settlements) and all (except the previous exceptions and one notable other one) are intended to be essentially dissociated with my RL-presence (and I'm not a Facebook-type person who would want to extend Life 1.0 into Web 2.0).  ...although, thinking about it, one particular brand of online life extends into real-life, in that I'm known and recognised in RL by the OL name taken with me to meetups of that particular community.

While I won't go through all my other names in detail, of the ones that come straight to mind, one was chosen from a "Random name chooser", another was an inversion of an alias previously used at university (derived, itself, from a joke), one from a character heard by change in a family-history situation on the TV.  Various other eclectic mixes of sources contribute to my other electronic presences, past and present.

Delta Foxtrot: I've done much the same for a (non-online) RPG, but using a historically-relevant version of the phonetic alphabet for the period involved.  I suppose "Dog Fox" would have been your equivalent in that situation, but in the years since I could still remember which was which, I've probably mixed up the naval/army versions, or something.  I could Google/Wiki it, but nah...

[Itnetlolor]

I've been through a decent number of usernames, but for this forum, and maybe a couple other games (at least games and Steam where I tend to look forward to playing with/against others on this forum) and such, I based my username off the Dwarven dictionary with the term Uncertain Letter, which translates into Itnet and Lolor; sort of assuming a previous identidy I once had.

I realized later on that it's a bit off from it, fortunately enough, to remove myself from a past ID that had been target to a ton of crap (cyber-bullying level attack taken up to 11) in the past. No need to re-open that wound. I was lucky enough to come out of that in one piece, and still have my family's respect after such a strike, and maybe provide a bit of counter-attack while at it (which either left regret of unleashing a psycho that was once a docile nobody; or some crap in their pants with a hint that I will not forget those who done me wrong, and I have learned their methods by letting them attack me, and I had no further use of my old ID, which I falsified on a social network site to research how such strikes are organized and executed (okay, there's some truth in that; I was going down, I would drag some down with me, and learn their methods while at it)). I make sure to have at least a minimum of several aliases nowadays and stay off social networks for good to prevent a repeat incident. I also use my experience as an example for everyone else in my family of what not to do, or as a reminder to them to be careful what they do/post.

To be safe, I also acquired enough countermeasures, education on how hacks work, and so forth that can make even conspiracy theorists look sane by comparison. Unlike most targets to bullying, I learn and continue to evolve.