Username Origins

[Sqrt(-1)]

Sqrt() is the function in C++ for finding the square root of a number, and the square root of -1 is an imaginary number, i. This comes for an argument in a history class during my freshman year. We were discussing the idea that the universe was created 5 minutes ago, and that we were just created with our memories. I added to the discussion and said I could just be a figment of everyone's imagination, and they were all imagining me at the same time. Now, whenever I come up with a witty remark in conversation, the response is 'I imagined you would say that.' So, my username is just a geeky way of saying I'm imaginary.

My profile pic is my cat. I photographed her, developed the print, scanned the print into the computer, and shopped it. Now, instead of a fat cat looking at a toy, it's a cat head looking at the HL logo...

Waiting.

 

[Ultress]

I was playing FF6 advanced at the time and Ultros was my favorite boss,So I used his goofy self given nick name,UncleUlty. I've sort of become attached to it and use it for most forums I frequent.


As for the avatar,it's the baby of PSL and google image search

 

[Andy Shandy]

It's a nickname I've had for about 10 years now, so I decided to use that.

As for the avatar, I love Community.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I misread one of the registration options, I thought it said to enter my real name so I put my real name in.


That's it.

 

[exessmirror]

xbox live suggestion

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

So...Stephanie Meyers fan? >.>

What in the name of Ford did you say? My name coming from some Twilight novel? Sir, forgive me or such forwardness, but are you lacking in your soma intake? I must warn you sir, if you go too long without taking your soma you could end up like Linda and her savage son, John.

 

[doomspore98]

Doomspore is sort of running joke with some of my DnD friends. We were walking in a swamp when we found a field of doom spore, a spore that can kill you. My friend had the great idea of running through it, amazingly he survived until he decided to eat some at the very end. He died. and 98 was when I was born.

 

[MetaKnight19]

Loads of people think I chose mine because I played Super Smash Bros Brawl. I chose it because I played the hell out of Kirby Super Star, where one of the games was called 'MetaKnights Revenge'. I thought at the time, this is when I was about 10, this MetaKnight guy is awesome. The 19 comes from it being my favourite number...

 

[evilengine]

EvilEngine is derived from the game Skullmonkeys, the name of the big planet eating machine; Evil Engine #9. Which is ultimately destroyed by a clay mute with a potato.

My avatar, on a similar note, is Klogg and comes from the prequel to Skullmonkeys, 'The Neverhood'. He's rather grumpy because he isn't allowed to have a god's magic crown.

 

[Little Duck]

Every website I used to go to, I wanted to use my name (John Carter). But it's more common than muck. So instead I'm using a translation of my middle name (Patiño) meaning Little Duck, which has kind of stuck now.

As for my avatar it was more or less how I looked about 2 years ago. I try not to create an online personality of myself. I'm not very good at pretending to not be me.

 

[MattyintheHatty]

In my circle of friends there were too many "Matt"s so we all got nicknames to keep it simple, being french they just added an "y" to mine and thus i was Matty. As for the Hatty, I blame my love for Dr. Seuss.

 

[TheWojo]

My username orgin started in early 90's:

Fact#1: My real name is Wojciech.

Fact#2: Most of old games High Score list could hold only 3 characters.

Combine 1&2 and You'll get "Woj" part. Later, when You could input more characters I just added "o" because I couldn't be bothered to type my Full name.
I've been using this nickname since late 90's and now even my parents sometimes call me Wojo.

The "The" part was neccessary to distinguish myself from all other Wojos out there.

Fun Fact about my name: Wojciech can be translated as "The joy of war" or "smiling warrior".
Yeah, my name is awesome

PS: English is my second language (as You probably already noticed), so please, forgive me any errors or mistakes.

 

[Chknboy]

It was my username when I played the original Team Fortress. They had that chicken spray that I used, and it just so happened that I also raised chickens, so there ya go. Should really switch over to RoosterMan now though...

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

This is gonna be a long one...

When I was in high school, I would write a bunch of short stories in my free time. One that I did was called "The Littlest Ninja" and it was complete and utter parody. My friend read it and decided to print multiple copies and it ended up all over the school. Problem was it was ridiculously vulgar and full of alcoholic abuse, so it sort of became outlawed by the teachers (private school, you see). It was so popular, however, I wrote another one where the Littlest Ninja got upgraded and went super saiyan, growing a couple inches in height and becoming the Sorta-Short Ninja. It was also a hit, but it got me suspended since I was specifically told not to write anymore of it.

Flash-foward, and I'm in college, no longer constrained as I was. I did an image-driven narrative project for my first class during my freshman year. We were to compile a set number of images together and make a story with them. Very basic stuff. While racking my brain as to what to do, I came up with a machinima using my mods for Oblivion to capture screen shots and put them together to create a narrative with audio that I voiced myself. But the Sorta-Short Ninja had died with my high school career. If I wanted to create another success that would skyrocket me to popularity, I needed to aim higher... I needed to aim greater and upgrade the Ninja to become the greatest machinima ever conceived... This is where I decided to just call the main character the Drunk Ninja.

And, of course, just like in high school, it was a hit with the whole class--okay, nobody really laughed since it was full of cheap jokes and was overall an embarrassment that I wish never existed. Give me a break! This was years ago! I was young and naive and had no concept of real comedic timing!

Anyway, it's on YouTube if anyone is actually interested in seeing my utter failure. I'm sure as hell not posting it here.

But yes, that's how I got my name.

 

[saintdane05]

This guy.

He's Saint Dane from the Pendragon Adventures, a personal favorite book series of mine. He pretty much had his entire plan from the begining, and he won. Sort of. But he could also turn into any creature, manipulate events of the terratories, and could not die. Why? 'Cause he was everything evil about humanity put in human form. Or, usually human.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

First of all: I didn't get my name from League of Legends, For the love of God stop asking!
Instead I started off as 'Blitztank' which is from the name Blitzwing (from Transformers Animated) and one of his Alt-modes (A Tank).
I decided to add 'Baron von' to the beginning of it because I felt 'Blitztank' by itself was a little bit short and remembering my childhood days and the game "Croc: Legend of The Gobbos". I remembered the villain Baron Dante and thought that Baron was an awesome title so I decided to just roll with it. "von" was added because I thought it sounded cooler.

 

[OblivionSoul]

Mine comes from combining Oblivion (the song by Mastodon) and Demon's Souls, which I was playing a LOT of at the time.

 

[Meatspinner]

Only thing i will say that it involved a lot of booze

 

[Mrcolie5]

Mine came from a friend's account that he gave me, it was quite nice and worked and therefore i just used it for most things.

 

[Fijiman]

Well I had come up with Fijiman in place of my real name on the leader boards on Miniclip.com.(I believe after watching the animated Sinbad movie) I hadn't used it in years until I started posting in the comments of webcomics and needed a name to use. When I created my profile I here I decided to keep using it.

My current avatar was taken for one of the recent "what do you look like right now" threads.