How did you get your gamer name?

[octafish]

I use octafish, sometimes neon_meate if octafish is taken. It comes from Neon Meate Dreams of an Octafish a song by Captain Beefheart.

The other name I sometimes use is Big Bopper, sometimes leeted up a bit, that comes from way back in the day when I used to play with some friends and we used the call signs from Mad Max. Goose, Max, Fifi, March Hare, and of course Big Bopper. I used to be a skinny runt back then, now the name has very little irony.

 

[Claymore007]

here & League of Legends: Claymore007, I like the manga Claymore and I like James Bond.

online games in college: General_FUBAR
...Medal of Honor Allied Assault Multiplayer Demo was "somehow" copied to EVERY computer in the library and EVERYONE was playing. And it seemed only fitting that I would lead the gaming frenzy...Diablo 2 eventually followed suit and nobody's papers were getting done that week...

older names
Evil, inc & Edward_Evil, I was the evil twin...

even older name
Awesome1, my brother took the name Grand1,,,we were twins, copying eachother was actually quite common.

 

[A Weary Exile]

You might recognize my name if you've ever played Fallout 3. Seems to be an apt description of my life in general.

~I'm a weary exile, singing my song of loneliness~

 

[CAPTCHA]

Djinn - hang over from the days when you could only enter your initials on scoreboards (DJN).

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Steam and Xbox Live - Dat Zach

My Xbox Live Gamertag used to be "The 1337 King," because I was 15 and stupid in 2006. "Dat Zach" rolls off the tongue more, and it was time for a change, anyway.

Plus, that's my real name.

 

[Jodah]

I read the Magic the Gathering books. The main character for the Ice Age saga is named Jodah (there are also cards about him) and it just kinda stuck.

 

[StBishop]

Bishop from Lucas Bishop (Xman)

St because I wanted to add something in front when Bishop is inevitably taken. So St (Pronounced Saint).

"Amarok" is the name of an album by Mike Oldfield (and also the name of some Linux software but that's not what this account is named for)

My usual gamer handle "Humanfishboy" refers to a little comic series my sister drew up about ten years ago in which random passers-by accused me of being a fish.

It's also the name of a Volkswagen Ute(Truck) so yeah.

 

[Smeggs]

Well I drew a lot of original stuff back in high school. I once drew this big psychotic mutant guy which I named Graw. Graw was sort of ghastly looking.

Get XBL, think up a unique GT...GhastlyGraw. Though I haven't used it in a very long time.

So many dumbass people do not realize the difference between Ghastly-an actual word-and Gastly-a Pokemon. So every now and then some moron gives me shit about Pokemon, to which I laugh at them, bemoan them for their ignorance of the English language, and then teabag their corpse.

 

[krazykidd]

Seriousjokar , is my xbox live name . It was the name of my guild in world of warcraft, and my toons name was jokar . Jokar is the name i use to have on diablo2 , because the joker was my favorite villain in comix books . Since joker is always taken , i switched the e for an a . Sometimes i would add a 69 at the end of jokar , because in highschool everyone wore joker69 clothes . That an 69 is my favorote sexual position.

Is that enough backstory? Lol

 

[Aidinthel]

I started playing WoW before I really ventured out into the internet very much, so when I made my first character I hit the random name generator button a few times until I found one I liked. I've been using it ever since, even though I actually stopped playing the game years ago.

 

[darkcalling]

Gamertag: iacon21 Old email, Transformers reference. Autobot capital city for those who don't know

Escapist Username: Title of a comic series I wrote in high school. In hindsight it wasn't that great but I like the name.

 

[Lilani]

Lilani is a name I made up when I was 13, I first started playing Final Fantasy XI. I chose it because I was on an anime/manga kick and thought it sounded Japanese. I found out later there was no L sound in the Japanese language, but I still rather like it.

My Steam name is Jessica 'Trouble' Rabbit, because I wanted a name that was definitely female but also a bit badass. At first it was just Jessica Rabbit, but then one of my friends had a nickname in quotes in the middle of his name, and I thought that was cool. I was on a bit of a Pink kick [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFu3YzRnyDU] at the time, so Trouble became my nickname. Because if I'm not causing trouble, I'm in it.

 

[Luftwaffles]

From a simpsons episode. The one where homer sings the opera on his back i think.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

"Fontaine51", because I really like Bioshock, and at the time I could have sworn that the ruined New Year's celebration from the first level was for '51. Pretty sure it's actually 59, but whatever. It's got a nice ring to it. Although people tend assume I'm a 60 year old man named Fontaine.

My name here is a bit more obscure. I will greatly reward the first person to figure out what it's from.

 

[theevilgenius60]

My gamertag(also my screen name here) came from a philosophy class I took as a junior in college. Our professor was going in-depth about different views on creationism. He brought up the idea that maybe reality was created, but not by a benevolent creator. He asked,"What if all reality was created by an Evil Genius," I could hear the capitalization of those words as he spoke them,"and He or She just made this all up as an experiment in sadism or for some other purpose." This kind of stuck with me, even though I HATED that class. I've used variations of theevilgenius as a screen name ever since. 60 was my number when I played football, I was(ok, still am) kinda attached to it

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

the nickname "Ed" was from my year 10 camp, where the camp leader in charge of my group asked each of us a nickname we wished to be called. I was really tired of my name constantly being mispronounced so I chose chose mine after the character from Ed Edd and Eddy. The 130 came from me being the 130th Ed on TradeMe (New Zealand's ebay) and it stuck.

 

[Drenaje1]

Drenaje1. A name, if I recall correctly, that I rather shamelessly nabbed from a friend on RuneScape who came up with it for a character one day, long ago. He got rid of it soon enough, but this has stuck with me for maybe two years after I got sick of Roland 13x. And THAT name I took out of the manual for Call of Duty: Big Red One. It was from a screenshot of someone creating a multiplayer account.

I am so unoriginal.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

I just made mine up ^.^ I'm actually pretty decent at coming up with these kinds of names! Ask me if you are curious about other ones :3

 

[PuffinBox]

I had a animal book next to my desk and decided to look through it to see if it had anything interesting I could use as a name. There may or may not have been a box next to me.

 

[Mr. In-between]

Munruthel415 after the Ukrainian musician (I have a Nokturnal Mortum tattoo).