Gamertags and other usernames you hate

[Ghoti]

Anything that is impossible for me to physically -read- drives me right off the ruddy wall. I hate any and all bookend characters, excessive abuse of the letter X, and numeric references to pot and or simultaneous oral stimulation. But what kills me more than anything else are the people who try and create really dark, brooding names. If your name contains the word "Dark", "Shadow", "Zero", "Lone", or any other teenage-angst-buzzword, please just delete the account now and start over. Your future self will respect you more for it.

And to avoid accusations of hypocrisy, my username on this site is a nickname from high school and is actually pronounced "Fish". Specifically:

"Gh" as in "enough"
"O" as in the plural pronunciation of "Women"
"Ti" as in "Locomotion"

"Ghoti" = "Fish"
Also, at first read it looks like it's trying to say "Goatee", which is the manner of facial hair I had during high school. Not an ideal username, but at least it's grounded in observations of the English language instead of blunt idiocy.

 

[Total LOLige]

All the MLG wank bags choose words for there names that sound 'cool', I knew I guy that was called...wait for it... xX i Mad Logisticz Xx.

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Only usernames that piss me off are the ones that are phonetically written "blah blah", but the person insists theyre pronounced "bleh bleh". Its like: why dont write it that way then jackass?

Also console gamertags are the ones that are usually just a pile of fuck and the letter x, pc gamertags are usually references or something clever (no references arent clever)

 

[Terminate421]

XxXHeadshotBxRSnip3rsoldierXxX
XiXSmokew33d4life420XiX
KSI MLG Cool guy
Snipuh Soldier


Any name like that sucks.

The coolest name I've ever seen was

"The Shaft"

Probably the most clever thing for a gamertag ever.

 

[Terminate421]

Playing WoW, names drive me insane. I wonder wtf people are thinking when they make them.

The millions of rogues in the game with dark or silent or stab in their name, the other millions of deathknights with the word death in their name. The other people who think of a name, but it's taken, so instead of thinking of a new name they put those fucking retarded letters in it.

Oh come on, EVERYONE knows that the best rouge name is SiLeNtDaRkStAb.
Fact.

OT: Anything with unnecessary numbers. The only case i liked was a guy called Teatime42.
His second name was Teatime.
I have No idea where the Forty-two comes into it.

For a split second I saw that Teatime42 and thought that was me. But then I realized my name actually has a purpose

 

[AnarchistFish]

The ones in Halo who make their little 1-4 digit code names "117", "0000" or "N00B".

And all the obvious ones people have mentioned

 

[AnarchistFish]

The best gamertag I've ever seen however, was Obama Bin Lama. Made me laugh

 

[kortin]

If I could punch every person who has a drug-related nickname or username or gamertag or whatever, my hand would be severely broken. And then there's the obligatory hate for people who use stuff like "XxXn00bpwn3rXxX" and such.

 

[La Barata]

I have a hard time telling if all the __xXxLoNeSnIpEr420xXx__s are ironic or not. I hope so.

You have to imagine some are. We used to name temporary free Gold accounts stuff like that. We used more dick jokes though.

A classic for the ages.

HOLY SHIT I KNOW THAT GUY!

I KNOW POOPFEAST420!

Wow, this is fucking hilarious.

But yeah, OT, I only ever use a name like that if I'm trolling.

 

[Tayh]

HOLY SHIT I KNOW THAT GUY!

I KNOW POOPFEAST420!

Wow, this is fucking hilarious.

But yeah, OT, I only ever use a name like that if I'm trolling.

Or, more likely, you know a guy who started using that name after he saw it in that youtube/TV clip.

 

[La Barata]

HOLY SHIT I KNOW THAT GUY!

I KNOW POOPFEAST420!

Wow, this is fucking hilarious.

But yeah, OT, I only ever use a name like that if I'm trolling.

Or, more likely, you know a guy who started using that name after he saw it in that youtube/TV clip.

CAN'T I HAVE MY DREAMS?!

 

[namhorFnodroG]

I don't really mind usernames with xX, 0r wr1t3s numb3rs 1n th3 m1ddl3 0f th31r us3rn4m3, or just specific words such as Sniper, Toxic or something like that. Sure, it's not original at all, it's not clever, or anything like that, but it's nothing horrible or something like that. It can most of the times just be funny to see. One time, when i was playing TF2, i was 2 people with almost the same name. One had xXToxicSniperXx, and the other one had T0xicSn1per^ as a username. It was hilarious to just watch the chat when they tried to argue that the other one should change name. ^-^

 

[laggyteabag]

And body that uses -
xX Xx (or any variation of that)
1(I) 3(E) 4(A) 5(S) 7(T) 8(B) 0(O)
Total, Assassin, Sniper, 1337 ect
Game specific names (MW35N1P3R) which is ironic when they play a different game

 

[Palademon]

I will demonstrate the kind of gamertags I hate by posting the mock version of my university personal statement I made when my tutor told me my old one was "too negative".

Spoiler: Personal statement

"I want to be a game designer. Playing games has always been my greatest hobby. I want to stick it to the publishers of big games and make the next big thing and watch them all go bankrupt as I sit in my wheely chair, stroking my white cat, and cackling. I want to ignore the rule about games never being finished before release. I want to be the guy playing with dinosaur toys at his desk, about to make the next biggest breakthrough in fun. If I don?t get the job I might as well die, because reasons. Also I like economics and am going to go swim with turtles in space in my gap year. And this gap year will take place between the years 1985 and 1955. Because the new speed limits will be 80, and so 88 will be on the edge of the ?10% variation?. My games will cure cancer, and give all children in the world super power AIDS. I also plan to revolutionise cloud gaming by eliminating the need to leave your house to do jobs. All lorries will be wirelessly controlled by an online server running ?Euro Truck Simulator?. I will saturate the iRectum market with vibrator apps. And all the world?s cars will run on procrastination. The world?s leaders will just be the tallest ones. America has already taken advantage of this idea, and it is working well. I will become the world?s only pimpking gamer president contortionist, with the highly unique and respectable nickname of XxzzLe3TShn1PZZZZssx the Third. Every male?s love spuds will be replaced with corrupt Aperture Science personality cores, screaming for space and cake ingredients. And as they all look up to my grand nutsack tower, and beg for rhubarb, I?ll look down and whisper??FREE DA DEEDAH!!?."

Let's see if that ISN'T TOO NEGATIVE. Sorry that optimists enterperet realism for pessimism. If I did have some negativity to get over in my personal statement it may have something to do with people called negative when I'm being honest. When I say I have very few interests, it is true. As much as my tutor would like to believe I don't have some hidden talent. YES I SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY SURE OF MY CAREER AND MY ABILITY IN THAT CAREER AT THE AGE OF 17.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Stuff like boy/dude or girl/chick annoy me. Just unnecessarily pointing out your gender it seems.
Mr/Miss isn't too bad, or having your actual name in it.
Stuff like 'SexyGurlGamer69xXx' or 'HotDude69' is just asking for the wrong sort of attention.
Never understood the 'xXxXx' I see. I always think of it as kisses :/

Oh also people who put stuff like 'SexyStud' and insinuating that they get lots of sex, even though they've never touched a member of the opposite sex. XD

 

[White_Lama]

As previously stated, people using _, X, Z, II, random numbers, the words shadow/assassin/MLG/PRO/Sniper or other symbols or any of that sort of thing drives me insane. Also when I see someone called something like "GOW3 Pro" or "MLG BLACKOPS" when I sit and play Halo: Reach, it just makes me confused as to why they want to play other games with that sort of gamertag.

My gamertag is the same as my username here, White Lama, and yes, I know how to spell llama, but I'm from Sweden and we spell it with one l and it looks better in my opinion, more clean or something like that.

Playing WoW, names drive me insane. I wonder wtf people are thinking when they make them.

The millions of rogues in the game with dark or silent or stab in their name, the other millions of deathknights with the word death in their name. The other people who think of a name, but it's taken, so instead of thinking of a new name they put those fucking retarded letters in it.

Yeah, couldn't agree more. I am a very serious person when it comes to naming my characters in role-playing games, up to points where I sit for 10 minutes with a finished character just trying to figure out a good way to name them.

The ones in Halo who make their little 1-4 digit code names "117", "0000" or "N00B".

Yes, yes and oh by Odin's eye yes, how I agree with this statement.

The best gamertag I've ever seen however, was Obama Bin Lama. Made me laugh

Might have been a relative to me then

 

[Loethlin]

OT: Anything with unnecessary numbers. The only case i liked was a guy called Teatime42.
His second name was Teatime.
I have No idea where the Forty-two comes into it.

Maybe a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

OT: All the previously mentioned examples of obnoxiousness annoy the hell out of me, but nothing comes even close to names derived from characters in a book, a movie or other medium.
You just HAD to go for Llegollas8765887, right? Or (sorry for this) DrIzz7 of some fucking sort?! Get a clue, if all the PREVIOUS variation you tried are taken, I guess it's popular! Use your goddamn head!
Girl variants include stuff like LegoLassLovUr (what do they have with Legolas anyway?) IH3ArTzHaRRy. Oh, fuck off.

Then again, a friend of mine got a 3 days long ban in WoW for naming his priest AdolfHealer. It's funny, if in a vaguely offensive manner. I don't mind these kinds of names, as long as they're applied with caution.

 

[smearyllama]

Luckily, I got the simple "SmearyLlama" from the XBL random name generator, so I lucked out on that.
As has been said before, phallic/sexual references are always a pain. That said, my Tribes: Ascend username is SuperPatBalls (from an obscure joke made on GameInformer a few years back, though). Also, using ASCII art to make pictures of guns. I've only really seen this on steam, though, but I always facepalm.

 

[Torrasque]

Oh hey, the name I wanted, Torrasque, was taken. I guess I will just change one letter to a number so I can have that name! T0rrasque! FUCKING. GENIUS. Or I'll add X's to it! xXTorrasqueXx. AH MAH GAD. How about changing it to phonetic spelling? Torrask? I AM DA BOMB. I'll be super edgy too and spell it with alternating caps ToRrAsQuE. HOW AM I SO SMART. Now to combine them all: xXt0rRa5qU3Xx. I'm a fucking genius...

This is the kind of internal monologue that I think every retard with a stupid gamertag has.

Other examples of stupid shit that people do:

vl Coolguy lv : would be alright if it didn't have the vl's in it because someone already has "Coolguy". I'm not even mad that he thinks he is a cool guy, because that vl is so fucking stupid.
iTz Fitzy : Why do you have that iTz there. Is it your clan? Are you one of those idiots that changes their gamertag every fucking time you join a new clan? Do you really have to change your identity every time you join a new group of people to play with? Or are you just trying to be clever and say "hey, its Fitzy here!" and using "itz" instead of "its" because you're a fucking idiot.
L3git 5nip3r : Remember when spelling things with numbers was cool? I sure don't. That was never a cool thing, so fucking stop it.

And to give some hope for humanity, here are some good gamertags:
Fussyparts
My Grandparents
The Game
Sideways
uJelly, iJelly, weJelly, theyJelly

 

[Torrasque]

Kind of ashamed that my XBL gamertag is "AoA Zero50".

But, in my defense, I was 13 at the time. I've since matured and taken a much better name. "Irridium".

Now, I hear you say "you idiot, it's misspelled!" Well my dear forum commenters, that's the point! Adding more r's and rolling them off your tounge makes the name sound sexy!

Who's the fool now?

I... am... ?
/not sure if disappointed in self ;-;