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origin of usernames

I started a new game on Fallout: New Vegas under the name "King Shawn", and I decided to play through with bad karma, then I proceeded to save my game, and when I re-loaded it the next day, it said, "Renegade" next to my level.

I think what came next is pretty obvious.
 
I'm a terrible, terrible event during the Second Boer War!

But for real, it was inspired by that in a round-a-bout way. I picked up on the word from the street that Ralph Tranter, a book critic, lives on in Sebastian Faulks' "A Week in December."

I've always wanted my job to deal with books in some way (author, editor, you name it) so the idea to name myself after Ralph stuck. However I didn't want people thinking my name was actually Ralph so I went for the much more convoluted way of picking his street name. Brilliant, right?
 
contrary to popular belief i do not like zebstrika or blaziken

although blaziken is cool

i'm a fan of naming all of my pokemon and i'm not very creative so i usually just pick random letters. zebraiken was the name of my first lv 100 scizor which is my favorite pokemon so i use it everywhere now

the end
 
hearts break every time i mention this, but my name isn't actually glen

around 8 years ago i needed a gamefaqs handle and, being quite enamoured with chrono trigger at the time, chose the nick glen_the_frog

unfortunately i wasn't enamoured enough to actually spell his name with the appropriate double n, OOOOP
 
Nick (Middle Name) + Gliscor = Nickscor

It sounded good at the time. (The username Nejiki was taken at the time, which I've been using as my character name since Platinum after Nejiki from the Battle Factory.)
 
I'm going to say this right here.

It has nothing to do with the restaurant Bojangles or the song Mr. Bojangles.

That is all.
 
my name isn't really 'dan'.

...okay, yeah it is. i normally use 'dan', but it was taken. umbreon is cute, and i liked the gimmick with eric the espeon, whom i already knew.
 
tried to think of an innocuous and uncontroversial username, so cookie crumbz it was

the z because my 14-year-old self thought that was cool

later dropped the crumbz. still a shit username but despite being able to change it outright it feels wrong if I do because that's what my "name" is online (DOOMMULLET TAKE NOTE)
 
On another forum there was one of those spam threads called "The Spoon Republic". And I joined it, and declared myself a general in it. I've used this handle ever since.
 
no i dont like wrestling, so many niggas ask me "jeff hardy" and im like who is that.

i like ironic / sarcastic / phrase-y type alts and usernames. one day i heard "in a twist of fate" on the news, and it stuck since. shortened to tof for conciseness :). twist of fate is perfect for pokemon too since, you know, hax is a tof.
 
When I was on IRC I just typed in the first Pokémon to come to mind that I really liked for my nickname, and then it stuck so I changed my name on the forums to reflect it.
 
I love Lucario, but using it as a username isn't as cool as I'd like it to be.

Oh wait, I'll just put a 'jr' at the end! Foolproof!
 
rey has a car face therefore his name must reflect rey's car face

hes also a scarf ace therefore rey scarf ace

but no dont you dare think of rey scar face, nope thats not it
 
Originally Floppy Disk because my very first storage medium was a floppy disk...in 2004. When I upgraded to CDs i contemplated a name change but Floppy Disk had already stuck.

Fast forward to 2007, 3 years after i joined here, niiggas started hating... calling me "floppy dick" and stuff, assumedly cos I was getting stronger than them; that's cool, I can take hits. This would go on for another few months or so as I continued to climb the ranks. It finally came to a point where I decided enough was enough and went into buddha mode; it wasn't long before a genius idea struck: "maybe if i dropped the disk...dudes wouldn't think of me as a penis anymore!" And so I did. I dropped the disk. And since then I have been Floppy.

For the record, as time passed I eventually converted a lot of those baseless haters into loyal cheerleaders. Exhibit a: Jackel.
 
Captain Falcon used to be my best SSBM character, now it's Sheik. He is also really cool with his catchphrases that are corny etc...
 
started on another forum, it was a trend to have 3 letter nicks, as in names that could be shortened into catchy letters

so, i made Get Thunder Struck, after AC/DC :p i dont rly care for them but, i thought it sounded cool. Originally I wanted Rise Above Mediocrity, so it would spell RAM

but nope. GTS. I registered as GetThunderStruck here, then later shortened it to GTS. This was before the GTS found in Diamond and Pearl, mind you.

@_@
 
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