How did you choose your username?

[carnex]

It's my nickname, one out of 4 i have and 1 out of 3 I use on the net. Plain and simple.

Also it's one of the largest meat processing companies in Serbia

 

[elvor0]

Elvor has been my D&D character name for about 13 years now and when I came to pick my username for the very first time, elvor was rather fustratingly taken, so I became elvor0.

 

[laggyteabag]

I don't really know. My first username for things was "Jobeyku", then I started to play Runescape and I wanted something a little cooler, so I changed it to "Lordjobeyku" (imaginative, I know), before I eventually wanted to change that, and somehow I landed on "Laggyteabag". Unfortunately, Xbox Live wouldn't let me have "Laggyteabag" as a username, so I just stuck with "Lordjobeyku" for that and "Laggyteabag" for everything else. It doesn't really suit me anymore, but that being said, I have pretty much signed up for everything under the name "Laggyteabag", and it is a little too late to change things. I don't really mind though; I like to think that every now and again, someone looks at my name and has a slight chuckle to themselves, and that makes me kinda happy.

 

[Twinrehz]

It's my last name put through a code generator thing. I've always wondered if it's a bad idea to tell people that, considering how easy it would be to find me, and I use that handle fukken EVERYWHERE.

 

[Hoplon]

I had to kill a man for it. he was the best of men, a giant, i weep for him every night.

 

[Dr. Crawver]

No idea actually. I like to think it had something to do with a dartboard with some words on it, or that I was gifted it by the mighty Xenu, but in reality I guess it was something I thought sounded good at some point, and it stuck.

I've been known by worse in my past, so I can go with it.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

well...Originally it was Gears_grl99 because I loved Gears of War and such, but I changed it to Sarah Kerrigan because Sarah is my name and I adore the starcraft storyline. I've read the novels, the comics, the mangas and I beat every game...I adore it, heh.

 

[Robert Marrs]

I logged in the first time cause I am lazy. So my name is just my name.

 

[Elfgore]

Back in the day, around Middle School or so, my friend and I wanted nothing more but to play WoW. Seeing as we were like 14 and 13, we didn't have the money to afford the monthly payment. Hell, we didn't even have the internet speed. One day, his Grandpa moved to house in the suburbs. He had high-speed internet, a laptop, and he let me and my friend over. We went over every weekend and each time we had to pick another username and password for the WoW trial. One week it was my turn and I thought of Elfgore. Just kinda stuck ever since. No one else ever picks it and it sounds cool, so everything works out.

 

[RariShyZealot]

I got this name from my friends; translated from Swedish with some heavy poetic license. MLP was also the first well... anything where I actually felt the need to ship anyone, so I thought it would be a nice tribute.

It is also very fitting, as I spit on all you non-rarishy shipping, heretical scum.

Nothing personal, I just object to your entire existence and find your views on a piece of fiction to be physically revolting and severe enough of a crime to hate you with no other information other than that one part of your personality.

 

[Vigormortis]

If you find that someone else has 'parked' a username you want, and has abandoned it years ago, you may be able to change your username to the one you want if you ask reeeally nicely via the contact form.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/contact/subject/account

I know of at least two cases where they've granted a name-change to an already taken username, when it was clear the other account was only created to 'park' the username and has only one or no posts..

Hmm. I was unaware of this. Thank you.

To better my chances should I include promises of cupcakes, hugs, and puppies? Or would liquor and blow be more their bag?

 

[DayDark]

I'm daydark because I'm dark as the day.

 

[TheMann]

Here's the somewhat silly story of my username:

So, sometimes when I'm at the bar I play those touchscreen games when I'm really bored. One time I was playing a trivia game, which is sometimes fairly difficult as some questions can be really obscure. Anyway, one time I absolutely owned the game and got a ridiculously high score for only one person playing. My friend saw that and told me I was "the man" at that game. So, that's what I decided to punch into the high score screen, but I accidentally hit an extra "N" at the end. I figured I just leave it and that's what I use all the time for that now. Sometimes I also use it as a username.

The reason there's no space in it is because many forums don't allow spaces in usernames. I didn't know that when I created my account. I know I could get it changed, but I've just been lazy so far.

The story of my avatar is far more interesting...

 

[Spider RedNight]

"Spider" - the name of one of my favourite movies and one of my favourite living things on the planet

"Red" - Named after Red Dragon... the novel, not the mythical beast

"Night" - Nightcrawler

Simple, I know but it's already leagues better than my previous one which made me sound like a Twilight-obsessed weeaboo/wolfaboo

 

[Zen Bard]

On topic...I'm a practicing Zen Buddhist (one day, I'll get it right!).

Why zen.
If I'm not mistaken they have some of the most brutal practices(surviving), (perhaps it's another sub school but I do remember zen stories about masters killing students for incompetence).
which is odd from what I've been told Mahāyāna traditions tend to be lighter then Theravāda.

There are absolutely no stories of Zen Buddhist masters killing students as that would severely contradict the fundamental tenants of Buddhism.

That being said, there are stories (and I stress that they're stories) of some masters using violent methods to shock students into enlightenment.

However, Zen IS a type of Mahayana Buddhism. But it de-emphasizes studying the sutras as the main way to achieve enlightenment in favor finding one's Buddha-nature through experience.

My analogy is this: If ask a Buddhist hanging out by the pool and about the water temperature, he'll stick his toe in and tell you how he thinks it is.

If you ask a Zen Buddhist, he'll jump in and know for sure.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

At the time I was really into Death Note. I was also playing Devil May Cry 4 on Dante Must Die mode. I decided to put the two together.

The brackets are just there to look cool.

 

[Colour Scientist]

To be honest, I wanted to get one with him doing his chicken impersonation, but I don't think there's gif that can do it justice. The sounds he makes are too important!

Probably for the best, you don't want to piss off any Mexican members of the forums.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Lunar - I like the moon, I find it rather pleasing to look at, (and I getta lot of time to do that seeing as i work at night) and a lot of 'moon' related things like mythology, and some of the creatures the moon holds sway over. The decision to use it however.

Princess Luna from MLP FiM.

Templar - I play tanks and high DEF DPS almost exclusively, in pretty much everything. it's the first class type I seek out, and since those are rather easy to pull off, is the barometer by which I judge the rest of the game. After all if they can't pull off a simple fighter, I've no reason to think they could handle something more complex.

Also, like above, there's a media related thing attached, in this case, the Black Templar Space Marines.

The best part is that the name it self isn't dependent on me continuing to like 40k or MLP to continue to work. It's two things I've always liked in one package.

 

[lowtech redneck]

The first half is a brutally honest admission of technological ineptitude; the second half is half irony and half defiant Southern pride. Also, I just like the way it sounds.

 

[Chancie]

Uhh, mine's kind of weird, I feel, and maybe a little cheesy, but I like it. So, I'm a writer, and one of my characters that I have written about is named Chance. One of my other characters calls him "Chancie" as a nickname, so, that's why I use the name. I feel a little self-absorbed for it, but whatever, it works for me.