Your alias! where did you get yours?

BillBill Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1108Members
<div class="IPBDescription">And what is were your past ones?</div>(May have been a topic like this in the past.  If so, SORRY.)

<b>Out of curiosity, where did you get your name from?</b>

I didn't plan to ever actually post in the forums so I just used the name Bill, it's what my friends call me in real life(No it's not my real name... My brother always referred to me as his "little brother" when he was on the phone and I told him to stop so he said he'd call me "Bill" from now on and it just sort of stuck. Now, everyone I know(except my parents/grandparents) call me that)

<b>ANYWAYS</b>

The names I've used in the past are:

4-Lom:  I used this when I first started playing TFC, it's the name of the thief/bounty hunter droid in Tales of Bounty Hunters(a stars wars book--yes, I'm a dork)

IG88:  I used this one for awhile in TFC, it's also a Bounty Hunter droid from Star Wars.

-DepthCharge-:  I've used this name for an extremely long time, it's a character from Beast Wars(another robot =/)

Now I use the name =Atari=.   I got tired of DepthCharge because it sounded too much like the names people use to try and sound "kewl" (Capt. Destruction, Lord of Destruction, Bringer of Destruction, etc, etc) plus people had the really annoying habit of calling me "Death Charge" ingame.  Why Atari?  I just think the name sounds cool, plus the Atari 2600 was the very first gaming system I owned.  

So, how about you guys?

[Edit: "WHAT IS WERE YOUR PAST ONES"? Oooops.]
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  • TomodachiTomodachi Join Date: 2002-08-16 Member: 1175Members
    Wandering_Youth - It was an alias used in the game, Xenogears by the main character.

    Noir - Means, "Black" in French. It's the name used by a pair of female assassins in the anime Noir.

    Tomodachi - Means, "Friend" in Japanese. I chose it because I'm a friendly guy in RL.
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Nemesis Zero is, aside from 'Scythe', which I don't use anymore because of another forum member, my first and only online alias.
    I came up with 'Nemesis', because it sounded cool in the time (remember, I had no web back then), and 'Zero', because it corresponds so well with my scores.
  • trevalyantrevalyan Join Date: 2002-09-26 Member: 1338Members
    "Trevalyan" is, of course, from the brilliant Sean Bean in Goldeneye. The only way other people could play as him in Goldeneye 007 when I was within 50 feet of the console would be to pry Controller 2 from my cold, dead, hands (and feet- I'm rather thorough as a defender. =) )

    I also used "Roviet" on Westwood Online... come on, thoughts of the Soviet Union and my name (Rohan) just circled through me head until being at the top of the proletariat dictatorship came to a head. =) I also used "comradero" for the same reason.
  • SlycasterSlycaster Limited Edition Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 24Members, NS1 Playtester
    I currently use my alias Cyanide... not sure why, just thought i would use it one day and it stuck.

    Some of my past alias's include Grim-System, Zero-Breed, and a few other wierd ones <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • RhoadsToNowhereRhoadsToNowhere i r 8 Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 33Members
    I started playing Half-life around late 2000, when I first went to college.  At the time, I had really started to get into Ozzy Osbourne's music, so I found it appropriate to try some nicks associated with Ozzy.  I went through "Mr. Crowley", "Luke's Wall", "A National Acrobat", and "dreamer/believer" (those last two were pretty brief, though) before settling on "RhoadsToNowhere."  I got that name by combining the last name of Randy Rhoads, an awesome guitarist who played on Ozzy's first two solo albums, and the song "Road To Nowhere," which appears on the "No More Tears" album.

    For some other games that I don't play as much, such as Starcraft and Quake 3, I generally go by Exstoxor.  This name has absolutely no meaning at all, but it's kind of an interesting (and geeky) story of how I got it.  "EXSTOXOR" was actually the randomly chosen name of one of my Temporary Internet folders on my old computer, and I just thought that it sounded really cool so I kept it in mind.
  • TzarconTzarcon Join Date: 2002-02-28 Member: 259Members
    wow rhoads, THATS geeky

    I just got my nick-name from stolling back and forth in my living room while trying to think of a good internet alias. My previous one was "Non-Affiliated", which I didnt like, and my old OLD one was "Big Daddy", which I used BEFORE the movie came out
  • Evil_Sonic_Death_MonkeyEvil_Sonic_Death_Monkey Join Date: 2002-08-09 Member: 1125Members
    Nova - a name i used since gr 2 <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> but stopped 2 years ago
    Nighthawk - didn`t use for a long time
    Evil Sonic Death Monkey - a name i used in firearms for 4 months, but i changed recently
    h4z3r1d3r - my current name, got it off a card in Magic: The Gathering

    (gotta luv numbers in ur name <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->)
  • EosEos Join Date: 2002-06-08 Member: 738Members
    <b>Eos</b> This has been my nickname for a long time! I mean long time! What I found funny was I didn't get it from Red Faction, I just sort of thought it up.

    Mind you, this was before Red Faction was even released! <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo-->
  • alius42alius42 Join Date: 2002-07-23 Member: 987Members
    Alius is the latin word for "other". I pretty much decided to use it on the fly because I wanted a more original name and one that I would never see a duplicate of. Alias is also derived from it. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
  • RamsesRamses Join Date: 2002-05-21 Member: 642Members
    My real-life name is Rasmus and one day a friend started to call me Ramses instead of Rasmus. Due my king-like nature this name sticked when I get into Computergames and Internet. A bit newer is Ramjid, also given by a friend, but that name I only use if Ramses is already taken.
  • ZcaliberZcaliber Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 93Members
    Heh. Mines a typo and a mispelling. ^^
  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    I rearanged the words on a ceral box for mine
  • humbabahumbaba That Exciting Tales From the Frontline Guy Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 86Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/humbaba.html" target="_blank">http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/humbaba.html</a>

    I have also been told my name means "Hugeness". I chose it after reading the Myth of Gilgamesh and Enkidu when I was about 8. I thought it sounded cool, and Gilgamesh and Enkidu were taken for AOL (ah . .the good ol days. My first exposure to the Net).
  • wickedkarmawickedkarma Join Date: 2002-09-25 Member: 1326Members
    Well back in the day i was a beta tester for Ever Quest.
    our guild was called Karma Watch at the tiem i was playin a rather bad a$$ monk hehe one day i got a razy crazy crazy HUGE train an someone said that was Wicked Karma.
    That as they say is that i also go by the name Kiddlife
    but oddly enough every game i try to play now has a Kiddlife an it aint me. =( not sure where i came up with it just kinda did an i dig it =),
  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Gah, I've got ya'll beat on geekyness. Tycho Celchu is the rebel pilot in RotJ who lead some of the tie fighters away from the falcon and wedge to the surface, so that the rebels could reach the reactor core. 3 u's because some ####### always takes the right spelling.
  • C0nan_The_LibrarianC0nan_The_Librarian Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1039Members
    I started playing Hl in 1999 where i was a noob and my name was Geoff_In_Time taking it from my brothers name Justin_Time (i was 11&#33<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->. Then i saw the movie UHF and WALLLA Conan_The_Librarian and its stuck with me ever since.
  • MooMoo_the_SnowCowMooMoo_the_SnowCow Join Date: 2002-08-03 Member: 1057Members
    How I got my orinal name Grim Sniper was from tfc, when i use to play alot over 3 years ago, and i was orignaly Grim Reaper but sence i like sniping alot and am pretty good at it some people started calling me Grim Sniper and it stuck.  Untill I had to do a sudden name change.
  • CollateralDamageCollateralDamage Join Date: 2002-07-15 Member: 949Members
  • WillowWillow Join Date: 2002-06-27 Member: 829Members
    eehemz.... i got mine coz of some woman on a Ultima Online server, she called me willow coz i kept living more in the woods then in the city (the real reason was that allotta ppl hated me there and used to call the guards on me, i was murderer coz of 327 pk´s).

    Other names i used are: Aethis (i used this one when NS was still in its child shoes, i then stopped viewing it coz of school)
    Fox (my first online name)
    alpha_trooper1 (name i used in cs and yahoo)
    Mr.HappyPants (name for Tribes 1 and 2)

    c´est tout, hope u liked my online name history.
  • MouseMouse The Lighter Side of Pessimism Join Date: 2002-03-02 Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    Mouse - This was (and still is) my nick name that most people call me, infact there are some people at school who don't know my real name and just know me as mouse. I think I got it in grade 2 or something, I forget how.

    Pole Stalker - a short lived alias that I got from an amusing conversation I had with one of my friends, guess what the topic was <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

    PS_Mouse - when two aliases love eachother very much...

    Mathias, Blade, Norac - I only use these on some RPGS, they will never see the light of an online game
  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    Hmm, I wish I could change my name to FTD_JediYoshi

    R.i.P FlapperTheDuck <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    A little bio class here, let's disect my (pathetic) name:
    <b>Comp</b> - a short name for what I am typing this on
    <b>Rox</b> - A shortened version for "rocks", as in cool and awesome and all that.

    Made this name...ooo... 6 or so years ago now? I got it the very first day I got a hotmail accont, back when hotmail was about a month old. I've tried to change it once, but folks in various IRC channels screamed bloody murder, so I left it <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->



    <!--EDIT|Comprox|Sep. 27 2002,01:12-->
  • BioHazBioHaz Join Date: 2002-02-18 Member: 226Members
    Mine is simple enough, got it from the biohazard symbol, then a friend of mine said that it has too many syllables, it would take to long to say in a frenzied game of after school X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter (we had a computer gaming club in HS and we would play it on the school comps back in '98), so I decided to stick with it anyways, but lop off the end.  And voila!  BioHaz, and I've been usin it ever since.  And like Mouse, people in the club used to call me by my nick before they learned my real name.  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

    Before that, I used to use CyberFox for the games I would use to play over a Direct Serial Connection with my friends machine, but I changed it before I ever went online.  (Ahhh, good ol' Direct Serial gaming, brings back very fond memories of ROTT and Wing Commander: Armada  <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> )

    Fascinating, No?  <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
  • TenebraeTenebrae Join Date: 2002-09-16 Member: 1321Members
    I used to be Renegade but I found that other people used it too (there is a renegade on this forum for example) So i wanted Mors Repo Pistris Infra Tenebrae but it wouldn't fit on a screen so I went with Tenebrae. The translation is (roughly) death comes fast in darkness. So my new screen name means darkness.
  • SinisterSinister Join Date: 2002-04-15 Member: 451Members
    My first alias was Chryon, which i got by altering the word crayon a bit... heh, I sat for a long time trying to come up with a good name, became desperate and saw a box of crayons... <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

    My second, which is Sinister, I started using after I found out what it meant... And sometimes when Sinister is taken, I go with SinisterEvil instead... (in runescape for example)

    And I actually came up with a new alias today which I will be using from now on. I dont remember how its spelled exactly, but it was something like, Giri Bonzb..Bozn..bo.. bah! I dont remember... And I forgot the paper which I wrote it down on in school. Anyways, it means something like, "that which flies like a deer" which I thought sounded funny... <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    Lol, this is going to be long........
    Lets see, the mighty original nickname:
    DARK ITUNEV =) my lastname is venuti..... figure out the rest :p
    then,after 2 long years the change came. I began to listen some semi metal bands and this was my nick:
    L1nk1n P4rk.
    after 3 months:
    Alien horde (The alien fanatism got me again when i began to play avp :p)
    Then it came:
    Burrito Bandit (hehe i heard this somewhere and i laughed so hard that i changed my nick to this :D)
    2 months later:
    DaBrokenDark
    5 months later:
    WorldOfFear
    3 months later:
    Luigi.Teh.REAPER
    2 weeks later :p
    DeathIllusion
    4 months later
    DeathWish
    1 month later Rurouni Kenshin came to me :p
    Battousai The Slasher
    then changed to:
    Battousai
    then: Battousai^^x
    and now, since 3 months:
    Battousai <NightWish>
  • 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
    Although I am forced to use InsaneUK in IRC, mine has always been Insane.

    You can guess why.

    BAAAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAAAAANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

    /me shoves banana up nose
  • NovakoalaNovakoala Join Date: 2002-07-17 Member: 962Members, Constellation
    Monkey_830 was simply a randomly generated name that I got when I subscribed to something or other. It's grown on me somewhat since then and I can't shake it off.

    The only other internet alias I've ever had was 'Player'.

    I'd change my alias if I could be bothered... but I'm not going to go around changing all my settings and stuff. Everyone knows me as Monkey_830 anyway, so...
  • Llama_KillerLlama_Killer Join Date: 2002-07-30 Member: 1029Members
    My very first name in  a hl mod was Stranded Pilot (for dod)

    then i was Col.Klink for a while in other games

    then i moved on to Llama Killer cause i hate gamming llamas!
  • Llama_KillerLlama_Killer Join Date: 2002-07-30 Member: 1029Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--humbaba+Sep. 26 2002,19:25--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (humbaba @ Sep. 26 2002,19:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href="http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/humbaba.html" target="_blank">http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/humbaba.html</a>

    I have also been told my name means "Hugeness". I chose it after reading the Myth of Gilgamesh and Enkidu when I was about 8. I thought it sounded cool, and Gilgamesh and Enkidu were taken for AOL (ah . .the good ol days. My first exposure to the Net).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    all hail HUMBABA!!!!
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