Explain Your Name

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  • Vash7h3StampedeVash7h3Stampede Join Date: 2003-02-28 Member: 14140Members
    My name is from Trigun like so many others. I changed to include a bit of L E E T speak so that I could actually sign up because "Vash the Stampede" was taken. Trigun is one of my favorites in the Anime world. When I started playing NS, I loved using the pistol (even though it isn't practical in all situations). Put two and two together and you have:

    \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
  • HWGuy_in_a_CanHWGuy_in_a_Can Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13397Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--DY357LX+Mar 27 2003, 01:44 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DY357LX @ Mar 27 2003, 01:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Ohh I get asked thi a fair bit. The amount of people who have
    actually guessed it and got it right can be counted on one hand.
    I've been asked:
    "Postal/ZIP code?" .......nope
    "Vehicle registration?"...... nah
    "Is it a fruity way of spelling dyslexic?".... haha.... no.

    It's actually from <span style='font-family:Optima'> Perfect Dark</span>. Basiclally I used
    to have loadsa mates around for multiplayer on the N64 and the
    DY357-LX quickly became the most sought after gun. I was extremely
    lethal with it and I decided to use it as screen-names for things like
    ICQ, IRC, display names in various games etc.

    What's so good about the DY357LX?
    Well its the only good in Perfect Dark you can't find by
    the default means. You actually have to run upto one of the
    enemies (Trent Easton) and "DISARM" him. Awarding with you
    with the .357 golden magnum that we humbly call the DY357LX
    It's also has a cool feature.... the bullets shatter inside the
    opponent, making every shot, potentially fatel.

    Yup.... I love that gun and that game. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Argh, I hated that cheapass Farsight. Wallhack and aimbot and one-hit-kill rolled up into a funky marine animal-like thing. At least the Gold Magnum had a slight delay between pulling the trigger and hitting someone.
  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    it's still explains the meaning, so it works for me

    let's get some more stories here shall we?
    c'mon pples, I know you have the power to hit that reply button, that means *you*
    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • DunsbyDunsby Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1042Awaiting Authorization
    My first name ever... Was... Mr.Niceguy, i have no idea why.

    Then i moved onto Headshooter (grrr people kept calling me Headshot) on TFC because i always sniped and got headshots.

    For my name at the moment, go to page 2 i think it is...
  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--DY357LX+Mar 27 2003, 01:44 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DY357LX @ Mar 27 2003, 01:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Ohh I get asked thi a fair bit. The amount of people who have
    actually guessed it and got it right can be counted on one hand.
    I've been asked:
    "Postal/ZIP code?" .......nope
    "Vehicle registration?"...... nah
    "Is it a fruity way of spelling dyslexic?".... haha.... no.

    It's actually from <span style='font-family:Optima'> Perfect Dark</span>. Basiclally I used
    to have loadsa mates around for multiplayer on the N64 and the
    DY357-LX quickly became the most sought after gun. I was extremely
    lethal with it and I decided to use it as screen-names for things like
    ICQ, IRC, display names in various games etc.

    What's so good about the DY357LX?
    Well its the only good in Perfect Dark you can't find by
    the default means. You actually have to run upto one of the
    enemies (Trent Easton) and "DISARM" him. Awarding with you
    with the .357 golden magnum that we humbly call the DY357LX
    It's also has a cool feature.... the bullets shatter inside the
    opponent, making every shot, potentially fatel.

    Yup.... I love that gun and that game. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    HAHAHA! I knew this already! ~_^ But The DY357-LX was fun, but I liked the Laptop Gun more!
  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    WOBILOWBAORWBOLOWAASOELOEABOE

    Take a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild guess <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    *thinks really hard*
    maybe when you were trying to think of a good name you saw the word insane, and you thought, hmm, that would be a good name <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Dude, your avatar flippin rules! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    cereal= serial and I guess you can figure out the rest of my amazing play on words
  • MarocMaroc Join Date: 2002-08-31 Member: 1255Members
    Maroc - that company that makes those delicious little Clémentines that are out during christmas time... i was looking around my basement for a good name (used to be known as Duplo or AxeMonkey) and that one struck my eye... not only that, it gave me my own personalized stickers, which I have stuck over everything.
  • St0nkingByteSt0nkingByte Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9223Members, Constellation
    I can completely explain my name with a handy URL:

    <a href='http://www.gamespy.com/naminator/' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespy.com/naminator/</a>
  • SpceM0nkeySpceM0nkey Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12480Members
    Quote from fight club.

    "Without pain, without suffering.... like the first monkey shot into space. I name you SpaceMonkey."
  • def_onedef_one Join Date: 2002-05-21 Member: 641Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    back in the day with half-life lan parties, i killed a friend of mine who called me an **** wipe. so from then on, i took the handle of ass_wipe wherever i went. when i got into modelling and animating junk for HL, i decided that ass_wipe was probably not the best name to use. so looking around my room i saw my deftones poster, thought about it, and reaching back to the 80s rap scene, def_one came about. def being one of those incredibly dated slang words that died with 'fresh' and 'fly'.
  • UZiUZi Eight inches of C4 between the legs. Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13767Members
    Iv always been called The Incredible Hulk by most people. Till one day I see on TV this cartoon called the "Justice Friends" and this big guy who liked to watch cartoons and acted nutty kinda reminded me of myself his name was "The Infragable Krunk" so I took the name. Been with it ever since.

    TV PUPPET PALS!!!
  • LeetVegeTaLeetVegeTa Join Date: 2003-02-27 Member: 14103Members
    one time i used to watch dbz
    there was vegeta
    he pwnzzzd allll
    so i was like im him!
    then i decided that i was "elite" but aim wont let u start ur name with a number
    so i changed it to a l
    thus
    l337vegeta
  • BioHazBioHaz Join Date: 2002-02-18 Member: 226Members
    I chose my name cause the symbol and its meaning I think is very cool. Then I shortened it, cause at the after school Computer Gaming Club a friend of mine suggested that it was too long to say outloud, so BioHaz has stuck with me since 1997. Since then ppl have shortened it even further and just call me "Bio". It was also kinda funny cause in the club, we knew eachother's callsigns before we knew real names, so other members called me BioHaz around school, and I call a couple other people by thier nicks too. I called this one dude DarkHawk for at least a year before I finally learned his real name. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    And in the BeforeTime, before I had net access, when I would use a direct serial connection to play my games with friends (ROTT, Wing Commader: Armada, and Syndicate Wars, those were the days) I used to use CyberFox, cause I thought it sounded kool, but BioHaz was the one that really stuck. And when I feel like using some other <i>nom de net</i> for whatever reason, it is either Baron Von Bonerhugenstein, A Sandwich, sometimes even A Midievil Sandwich for Dungeon Seige games. Lately the other its been A Cute Fluffy Bunny in NS cause its funny to see A Cute Fluffy Bunny (Big nasty skulk teeth) Some Poor Marine. HAHA!
  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    ROTT was an uber cool game
  • BigDBigD [OldF] Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1596Members
    edited March 2003
    BigD describes me. But after discovering it by itself was *gasp* taken, I slapped the name of my snowmobile on the end. Rolls off your tongue real nice eh? BigD XLT...


    BTW Stonkingbyte...

    that naminator is great! Just call me, RaunchyBiggins... I like that! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • CrouchingHamsterCrouchingHamster Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1181Members
    I'm a big fan of Kung Fu movies, and Elvis.

    Add random animal, voila, instant nick.

    Either that or I was drunk.
  • KeyserKeyser Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13591Members
    Mine has a dual meaning. I used to live on Keyser street in West Virginia, and also you can't ignore Keyser Soze =).

    BTW: its pronounced KAISER, not KEESer, with a long I, that pisses me off when people call me keester over the mic.
  • MilagreMilagre Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8927Members
    My name means Miracle in Portugese. I got it from the Ender's Game series. It's the name of the town on the planet Lusitania.

    Pronunciation: meal-AH-gray (imagine a portugese accent and this is about as close as you'll get using english)
  • WindelkronWindelkron Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
    Windelkron!

    It was a word I made up when I was in the fourth grade (along with Doodlekrin, Blargadoo, Flum, etc). Often paired with "noodles" as in: Windels of Noodles!

    Anyway, I've been using this name since I was in 4th grade. I didn't know until a little while ago that "Windel" actually means "daiper" in German. Whoops.
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    amuzing things:

    1) Cereal, your name is allready in use ;D Go Watch the movie Hackers (and anyone who disses hackers b/c it aint 'real' gets their buts kicked <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->)

    2) BigD, go read the ShadowRun source books.
    Shadow run is a magic/cyberpunk PnPRPG (very fun, though very clunky)
    well, the name of the Dragon who ended up as the president of the US (well what used to be the US) was named Dunklezahn (sp?) and the handel he used when online (the matrix) was Big D.

    There are also now shotgun rounds called Big D's temper shells (basicaly phospherus spewing shotgun rounds, OUCH)

    hehe, yes I know to many random things <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • StakhanovStakhanov Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14448Members
    Alexeï Grigorievitch Stakhanov , miner in USSR. Was rumored to have extracted 14 times the average ammount of coal in mines (he was assisted by a whole team in fact)
    Symbol of the communist emulation , encouraging workers in their race to mass production. (some of them were forced to imitate him the harsh way...)

    If it's usefull and not impossible , do it. If it's not hard , try harder.
    (this is in no way based on my real life performance... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)
  • ZupiCoZupiCo Custom titles rule&#33; Join Date: 2003-03-22 Member: 14792Members
    It was actually my friend who came up with my nick. I was tired with my old one, so I said for myself that I needed a new nick, when he suddenly said "Supiko!". I asked him where in the world he got that from, but he didn't have an idea.
    WTH, i thought, I'll use it. So I changed the spelling a bit, and voila.
  • EplekongenEplekongen Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8915Members
    In norwegian Eplekongen translates "The Apleking". Eple = Aple, kongen = the king. The last letter "n" ing "kongen" is what makes the "the" ing "The king". If I were to use an English version of my name it would be Apleking, not "The Apleking," sounds too presumtious.

    I am not on any ego-trip with this name, I just played around with different words one day when suddenly "Eplekongen" was uttered. I found it suitable and used it. I have now been using the name since I was, I think 11 - 13 years old. I never changed it, I find myself wierd. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • EplekongenEplekongen Join Date: 2002-11-16 Member: 8915Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--BioHaz+Mar 29 2003, 03:49 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BioHaz @ Mar 29 2003, 03:49 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I chose my name cause the symbol and its meaning I think is very cool. Then I shortened it, cause at the after school Computer Gaming Club a friend of mine suggested that it was too long to say outloud, so BioHaz has stuck with me since 1997. Since then ppl have shortened it even further and just call me "Bio". It was also kinda funny cause in the club, we knew eachother's callsigns before we knew real names, so other members called me BioHaz around school, and I call a couple other people by thier nicks too. I called this one dude DarkHawk for at least a year before I finally learned his real name. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    And in the BeforeTime, before I had net access, when I would use a direct serial connection to play my games with friends (ROTT, Wing Commader: Armada, and Syndicate Wars, those were the days) I used to use CyberFox, cause I thought it sounded kool, but BioHaz was the one that really stuck. And when I feel like using some other <i>nom de net</i> for whatever reason, it is either Baron Von Bonerhugenstein, A Sandwich, sometimes even A Midievil Sandwich for Dungeon Seige games. Lately the other its been A Cute Fluffy Bunny in NS cause its funny to see A Cute Fluffy Bunny (Big nasty skulk teeth) Some Poor Marine. HAHA! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Hey, did you use to play on the Norwegian e-sport servers? I remember someone called "evil fluffy bunny" biting stuff. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    Can't remember what game I started using this, probably at a friends LAN. Was thinking of the cool guy from the expansion pack of Starcraft ( a Protoss), and I knew it began with A. This was the name my head popped up with. Shame I thought of the wrong Protoss <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> It should of been the Praetor Artanis instead the this one, the Judicator Aldaris, but I'd been using it far too long by the time I found out.

    I wonder if rat tastes like chicken?
  • DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
    I was usually a conc-jumping medic harassing snipers on the deck and everyone leaving the spawn in 2-forts.

    (If you knows what I'm talking about, you'd know what I'm talking about.)


    Nowaday I'm using "Eagle Archer", a direct reference to Jin Yong's famous Kungfu Novel.
  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    edited March 2003
    I was playing a game of Rugby a couple of years ago andI managed to get hold of the ball after the opposing team dropped it, I picked it up shrugged off a tackle and ran all the way to the try line with the opposing team's winger right behind me. After that I got the nickname velocity man cos my teamates had never a forward weighing in at 18 stone leave a winger for dust <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> .
  • Ph0enixPh0enix Join Date: 2002-10-08 Member: 1462Members, Constellation
    I'm quite into mythology/fantasy and the imagery of Phoenixs appeals to me.

    In game I guess it just signifys i'm gonna keep rising back from the death deliver my holy vengenace upon you!!

    Or something like that anyway...<!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Phoenix is just my handle online. On LANS I usaully go by Mr. Potatohead. No idea why <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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