Embarrasing gamer tags

[Tuesday Night Fever]

A few years back when I was working for a chain electronics store they started selling ready-to-play X-Box 360 and PS3 consoles. Basically, they took a few consoles out of each shipment, opened them up, downloaded all of the software updates, and created basic user accounts... then tacked an extra like $30 on to the price tag as pure profit to the store. Basically just a shady business practice to scam parents who were buying their kids consoles for Christmas and didn't understand how ridiculously easy the setup process is.

Anyway, when we set up those basic user accounts the company hadn't given us any sort of naming guidelines beyond "nothing offensive." So for a while we were selling consoles with intentionally crappy account names like "Cpt_McAwesome" and whatnot.

Eventually someone complained though because they thought they had paid full price for a used console, so they made us use generic names like "User001."

I don't know if they're still doing it, though. I quit shortly after they started doing this to go to a better job.

 

[putowtin]

PSN and Xbox Live... Skorms Boss

Only a few get it, and as it takes longer to explain... then again I don't suppose my username here/ on steam is any better!

 

[mysecondlife]

I remember seeing a guy called JellyTits, who friend requested my sister when he learned she was in fact, female, why do I get the feeling he wears a trilby...

That was your Sis??!

So So sorry bro...

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EDIT: Sorry guys. I tried hard to remember if I came across anything funny. I have nothing to contribute

 

[Charli]

fagbastic...

Utterly awful user name but I ended up having a blast with the guy.

But still jeezus...

 

[Viral_Lola]

I think mine is pretty silly but I use it for everything. It's my name on here as well. My favorites that I've seen so far are; brotato chip, bufu bunny, omg dinosaurs, and various cpt crunches.

 

[MysticSlayer]

I've used the name Lasdurgost before. It's a name that fits within the Elven language from the Middle Earth mythology, though, to my knowledge, Tolkein never created an elf by that name. For the record, I didn't think it up myself. It was the random name generator from Lord of the Rings Online, but I still used it for Xbox LIVE.

Also, the name MysticSlayer might seem juvenile to some people. I like the name, though, so I intend to keep it anywhere that it hasn't already been taken.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Hrm... back in the inception of Quake, in high school I did have a penchant for bad names. But luckily in Quake names weren't permanent.

Spoiler: NSFW! LOL

Sgt. Thundercock, TesticleesTheMighty, stuff like that. Most of them were awful but on purpose, those two stick out in my mind though

As for permanent handles, I've always liked mine even though it means nothing.

 

[Blacklight28]

Teconocy and TecoBanana were mine back in the days when I played Runescape. After that I decided to make the name change, and I've been calling myself Blacklight ever since.

 

[sanquin]

Can't say I've had embarrassing ones. I've only had 3 in my 13~14 years of gaming really. GateCrasher, Vampiric and now Sanquin.

Okay, maybe Vampiric can be seen as embarrassing. I mean...pretty cliché and such. But ah well.

Captcha: hoity-toity...epic gamer tag!

 

[Fireaxe]

For a very short period of time, I was playing as "Dr Tran". This was around the time of the youtube short "Here Comes Dr. Tran" which was hilarious, the problem of course arises when people haven't seen it!

 

[Catfood220]

Catfood220. I mean its a bit silly isn't it?

I got fed up of it a few years back and tried being more edgy with name Echonarc. It wasn't me, I'm slightly embarrassed by it. Back came Catfood220, seemed to be me, a little bit silly.

Moral of the story, be comfortable being yourself.

 

[Something Amyss]

My PSN, XBL, and Steam GTs are all Zachary Amaranth.

That's either not embarrassing or completely, depending on how much of me you can take.

 

[Akytalusia]

can't say as i've ever used a name i'd be embarrassed about. i use akytalusia for everything, or if there's some reason i can't, then i have a few other names to use and i'm fond of each of them for various reasons. no hint of shame.

 

[Platypus540]

My XBL name, created in 7th grade, is EpicPlatypus540. I still use Platypus540 for damn near everything, but I really wish I could drop the "Epic", it just sounds so juvenile and dumb (at least to me).

 

[Bestival]

I've no idea why someone would let their name be chosen for them. Just doesn't make sense to me

That's like, literally how 99.99% of us get our real life names, heh.

OT: Not really a gamer tag, but I had a shaman in WoW Called Sadmandies. This was from an inside joke with a friend, where I claimed a had multiple personalities, who are all called Mandy. Can't quite remember where the sad came from.
Anyway, it was only way later I realized that most people will read it as Sad Man Dies.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

Shroud of Grey, was using it for my Starcraft II account, PSN account and LoL. The reason I chose it was from a line I liked from "You were there" from ICO, "Distant hills wear a shroud of grey".

Now cue everyone I meet asking "Oh you mean like 50 Shades of Grey?". I die inside every time someone draws that comparison

 

[Eamar]

I pretty much use Eamar for everything. It's a Quenya name I made for myself, but I don't consider that embarrassing. It just annoys me that I can't usually include the umlaut - should be Eämar.

My early teens/pre-teens produced some truly cringeworthy email addresses though, including such gems as:

Spoiler: It hurts me to think these once seemed like a good idea

slytherin_princess_serpent_girl
jedi_knight_chief

I die a little inside every time I remember them.

 

[Drummodino]

<.<

I don't really like Drummodino, however since I've used it for everything since I was 13 I can't be bothered changing it. Especially considering you can't change your PSN name at all and I'll be damned if I'm losing all my digital media and trophies.

Although my steam account name is worse, darthyoda133. I usually just roll with Drum there now.

[sub][sub]It was a phase.[/sub][/sub]

 

[Someone Depressing]

I actually made a gamertag for my brother because he was having trouble making one. Then again, I was annoyed at him for telling mother that I was reading porn (guess what I was reading...? Lucky Star. *facepalm* so I put his gamertag as "h3_loves_stallin". It's pretty minor compared to others on here, though. Or something to that effect.

Then again, he did get a very angry, three screens long message, saying how he was a nazi (that's pretty backwards) and a "European poisonous wankstain".

 

[StormDragonZ]

A friend of mine used BrokeBackLVR because his favorite PS1 games was called Broken Helix & Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. His initials were LVR.

I then told him about the movie Brokeback Mountain... and that LVR can be short for Lover.