When I was a kid, it was always fun to say, "I was born on a pirate ship with a bunch of dirty apples," whilst fish hooking the corners of your mouth. Apparently, I'm as immature now as I was then.
How Did You Make Up Your Name?
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Crawford Tillinghast was a pen-name I went under, based off of a character with the same name from a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. He was a guy who basically created a device which allowed him to see that which dogs bark at and cats prick up their ears towards in the midnight.
He also saw strange, elementary physics defying jellyfish, and a force that could give people seizures if they looked at it.
It became "Crowghast" when my friends would always pronounce "Crawford" (CrAH-Ferd) as CrOH-FORD. I realized that "Crowghast" sounded way cooler.
And here we are today.
He also saw strange, elementary physics defying jellyfish, and a force that could give people seizures if they looked at it.
It became "Crowghast" when my friends would always pronounce "Crawford" (CrAH-Ferd) as CrOH-FORD. I realized that "Crowghast" sounded way cooler.
And here we are today.
I'd used several names over the course of the years. I just liked how this one sounded, and decided to use it on all my various accounts on the internet.
I was sick of my names always been taken so abbbout 10ish years ago I had a random flick through a dictionary and I found Acaroid
some dictionarys say it is a type of resin.... the dictionary I was reading when I found it says it is comes from the latin word acarus
and means 'Shaped like or resembling a tick or mite.'
why did I pick it?
Because Im sure no one else would XD
so if you see an Acaroid in a game etc, a good chance it is me...
some dictionarys say it is a type of resin.... the dictionary I was reading when I found it says it is comes from the latin word acarus
and means 'Shaped like or resembling a tick or mite.'
why did I pick it?
Because Im sure no one else would XD
so if you see an Acaroid in a game etc, a good chance it is me...
Heh...I make up nicknames for all the characters in the games I play. When I was playing FFXII, Vaan was puppy dog because I thought his hair looked like anime dog ears...stupid, I know.
And of course I tried it, and laughed my ass off. How the hell did I MISS that!?!? My youth was wasted...Dirty Apple said:
Hmm. I made it up when I was picking an XBL name.
My nickname in high school was G Ro (not very imaginative; it is the first letter of my first name and the first two of my last, which is apparently my "thug name")
And then grok, as in to share another being's line of thought or perception (from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein)
I wanted it to be GroKker, but that name was taken on XBL.
So, I changed the Kk to an x and added an s to make it look like boxers, I guess.
My nickname in high school was G Ro (not very imaginative; it is the first letter of my first name and the first two of my last, which is apparently my "thug name")
And then grok, as in to share another being's line of thought or perception (from Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein)
I wanted it to be GroKker, but that name was taken on XBL.
So, I changed the Kk to an x and added an s to make it look like boxers, I guess.
it was thinking of two of my favorite game characters. Maxima from the king of fighters series and axel from kh:com.
Well, there's people in Germany who (for whatever reason) think it's cool to wear their socks over their pants. We call these people "Socken Gangster", which basically means "sock gangster" (surprise, surprise).
So when my character in an MMO I played got namelocked (the name was Hartcor Gettogangs Ter, was a char made to just fuck around with), I renamed him "Socken-Ganxter" (for those who care, the game is Tibia and the server is Astera).
And thus I was called Socken from this day forth.
So when my character in an MMO I played got namelocked (the name was Hartcor Gettogangs Ter, was a char made to just fuck around with), I renamed him "Socken-Ganxter" (for those who care, the game is Tibia and the server is Astera).
And thus I was called Socken from this day forth.