How Did You Make Up Your Name?

[Psyco Slim]

i nick name use to be Skini Trini because im really skinny and im also from Trinidad. when i got a 360 that name was already taken. for a while my gamertag was H. Senghor (which is my real name). i had to change it because people had trouble pronouncing it online. i have always liked The Grim Reaper and the whole philosophy behind it so then i came up with Slim Reaper. that too was taken so i just added the 10 since that is my favorite number.

Spoiler: why 10 is my favorite number

i play soccer and in soccer #10 is usually the best player on the team. my first year of soccer i wore #10

 

[SuperGoomba64]

Well, there's Super Mario. So I think, "hmm, what about goombas? What if they were 'super'?"

And there you have it.

Oh, and I just added 64 because it gives my name even more parody goodness.

Plus I seem to like most of those overly common enemies in games for some reason, like those little metools from Megaman.

 

[Matronadena]

my name is Adena....and I'm a Matron


really creative huh?

 

[Fuhjem]

Initials are F.J.M.

when pronouncing all three letters as a word, it sounds like Fuhjem (pronounced: FEW-JIM)

Heh, people always thought I was Asian because of my username:

"Hey FEEEEEWJIIIM!!! ARE YOUUU, LIKE, JAPANEEEEESE OR SUMPTHIN?"

"Uh, no, kid. I'm as white as Zoey (i was playin Left 4 Dead during this conversation)"

"But you seem rEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEaly Japaneeeeeeeeeese to meeeee!"

"And you seem like an annoying 12 year old who covered up the M-Rating on the box when his mommy bought him this game"

He was quiet the rest of the campaign.

 

[DreamKing]

My first graphic novel that I really enjoyed reading was Neil Gaiman's Sandman. I was thinking of name for Gamespot and settled for King of Stories. Then when I came here, I settled for something shorter and thus DreamKing was created.

 

[Hades74]

It fits who I am, a god of death

 

[Vexer_Zero]

I....don't know...

The "Vexer" bit was a highly original concept created by my psyche in a sense of slumber...until I looked it up on Google and found a french rapper of the same name and countless other less famous people with it...grr

The Zero part is based on two people, one being from the megaman series and the other being the entity known as Zero from "Code Geass"...

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

Screw Attack. They gave me the idea. It's also my gamer tag so instead of remembering like a billion accounts, I just name them all the same thing.

 

[Mardy]

My brother invented it, he no longer uses it. I was lazy.

 

[Hatredcopter]

Well, it's a song by Dethklok.

 

[boandpop]

I've had it since... 2005. Just my two birds, Bo and Pop......... so inventive, but hey! It's never taken when I sign up to sites.

 

[brodie21]

my dog and my number in ice hockey

 

[Dragonblade146]

I don't know.
Wait nope. Now I remember.
Dragon Blade was a awsome game.

 

[thiosk]

First unleashed upon the world during vanilla wow, the "thio" in thiosk is loosely derived from the sulfhydryl group in organic chemistry-- a thiol. The -sk just makes it sound coo.

And much like my last name, it is often butchered.

thoysk. Tahighawks.

how i long for legomyeggolas

 

[Hypochrisy]

Mine is just the word Hypocrisy (as in being hypocritical) with a letter 'h' in so it has my name (Chris) in the middle.

You'd be surprised how many people miss that...

 

[ShockValue]

This is my PSN account name. I just chose it by looking around my room and there it was.

 

[Higurashi]

Sounds like Rockstar... Yeah thats the best I can come up with.

Play Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year Door.

On topic, this has been done. Anyway, I came across a cultural phenomena in Japan that was connected the cicada. A name for it was "higurashi", which roughly translates to "that which brings darkness", as it awoke with dusk. It fitted at the time, and it is what I call what I used to be now. Of course, it did not take long for me to find the anime Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, and it goes without saying that most think I got the nickname from there. It does not bother me, however, as it is a unique anime that everyone should watch.

 

[Chicago Ted]

I read the writing on the wall...