The Commandments for Making Gamertags, Screennames, ect.

[The Great JT]

I followed these rules. How many wizards do you see on XBL? None. It's all pirates and ninjas. Soon, the wizards and vikings will rise up and smite the pirates and ninjas!

 

[llewgriff]

I like my gamertag rebles cursor, it tells people I can't spell rebels and like cursors.

 

[meatloaf231]

Why is X considered the coolest letter anyway?

It's got nothing on D.

Because it's eXtreme, just like rollerblading and Gogurt.

It's not as extreme as extremadura

Spoiler: It's the most extreme part of Spain

 

[Berithil]

When people are so uncreative that they just slam their head on the keyboard and go with whatever comes up.
But seriously, I hate it when I run into people with the name "askjdhkljasdhgal" (and yes, I do run into people with those kinds of names".
I also hate it when people have twice as many vowels than consenents in their name (aaawsoomeemaaaan, i have seen that before).
This implies to MMOs as well

 

[joytex]

Don't make it a character from the game your playing I swear if I see one more "MasterCh1ef1232" I wont be held responsible for my actions...

 

[Kiytan]

It's really not all that hard to come up with a decent name *looks at the 1500 page dictionary of mythology next to him* I take something roughly fitting from that, and adapt it a little, Except Kiytan, that was just random sounds that seemed good (oh - and Kiy is pronounced to rhyme with Sky, not to be pronounced like Key)

 

[Helmet]

See I went with Helmethead47 for mine. And there is a reason behind it.

In soccer in high school two different people got concussions after headbutting me, so my friends made the necessary "you don't need a helmet if you join football!" jokes. Hence the Helmethead part.

47 has been the number I took for every sport I've ever played. I like it.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

Never put 420 in a username.

 

[Henzi]

I used to make people who actually took tags seriously really annoyed with my old CS name. Being killed by xVaMpIrE.NiNjA.SaMuRaI.KiLlEr.UKx really got to some people!

 

[Guerrilla1]

Using your real First and Last name; what is the point of even having a screenname / gamertag then?

becuase we don't need immature names such as all of these

 

[watchman 2353]

Final Rule: Never place anything to do with shooting in your name.
"sniper" is from now on forbidden.

 

[Lexodus]

I go by Lexodus on EVERYTHING, and have for years, so, as you can imagine, I was a little surprised when I came across "Lexosus", which, conveniently, had been created after me. They guy's explanation was a little sketchy.
"Well, you know... I just made it up."

 

[Cliff_m85]

I broke number 15 and 4. But my birth year is 1985. Add that I just used my first name and last initial as well.

 

[Lexodus]

Oh, another tip for if your name has been taken- spoonerize. It can be very funny.
If you don't know the legend of William Archibald Spooner, basically, swap the first sounds of the first word, i.e 'Ch', from 'Chuck', with the first sounds of the second word, i.e 'N', from 'Norris', to get from "Chuck Norris" to "Nuck Chorris". Other ones I have seen include Pig Bimple, which was a friend of mine with a rather odd sense of humour, and "Shoving Leopard", a play on a Christian title for God. Plus, Q is sooooo the best letter.

 

[Sgt Doom]

You've convinced me to have my name as xXshadowassassinXx in every game I play in from now on.

 

[DukeOfStupid]

DukeOfStupid FTW...
you know wat...
xXxDuKE0fstUpidmasTErMlGxXx

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

I just see the X's as hugs and laugh at the xXxL33tT4rddxXx that did it

-BTAMRD xoxox

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

When people are so uncreative that they just slam their head on the keyboard and go with whatever comes up.
But seriously, I hate it when I run into people with the name "askjdhkljasdhgal" (and yes, I do run into people with those kinds of names".
I also hate it when people have twice as many vowels than consenents in their name (aaawsoomeemaaaan, i have seen that before).
This implies to MMOs as well

I had a friend with 'ASDFGHJKL137' as their name he is not the coolest around

 

[DMShade]

Any of the following Non-Words: Crzy, Azn (Asian), Boi, and Grl/Grrl. Would it kill you to use some more vowels? Your name isn?t going to overload the servers!

Some of those words have specific subcultural meanings.

"Boi" implies a certain general kind of gendered behavior (kind of a softer masculinity) for people in various LGBT subcultures.

"Grrl" (from "riot grrl") can imply aggressive, punky feminism.

"Azn" says that the person using it isn't just Asian, but likely part of a particular American subculture of young people of Asian descent -- folks who have assimilated into the local culture but retain a certain kind of (often racialist) pride in their ethnic identity. "Azn" implies a certain specific range of tastes in fashion, music, &c. that "Asian" or "Asian-American" do not.

That's the thing that makes them useful for Internet-names and "gamertags" in the first place: communicating a bunch of shit about your identity in just a few characters of text. Labels like this can become rather watered-down over time, of course, and lose their utility -- especially as more people who don't get their context start using them for stuff.

-- Alex

Unfortunately, I've never seen those three words EVER used separate from each other. Back on some MMOs I would Meet dozens of CrzyAznBoi/Grls. It's the heavy lack of creativity I take the most offense with.

 

[Archaon6044]

rule 15 made me lol!
i think it took nearly a month to think up the name that became my GT. originally i used to be Archaon666 for everything, then i had a stint on Runescape, where they wouldn't allow the 666, so it became 6044, which was my candidate number at GCSE level exams. it's just sort of stuck from there