Username Origins
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A while back at this restaurant my friend used to work at there was this big fratboy like guy who worked there. He wasn't a douche bag or anything, but he called beers brewskis and rootbeer rootbrewskis. I was told about this before I went there, so when I ordered I asked for a rootbrewski.
The next couple times we were there he called me Rootbrewski and I just decided to use it as a username like 4 years ago.
As for the avatar I just found it somewhere one day
The next couple times we were there he called me Rootbrewski and I just decided to use it as a username like 4 years ago.
As for the avatar I just found it somewhere one day
I'm paranoid and so online have several usernames, it's a portmanteau of two of my..."face" names that I use for forums/other places people can see the username.
When I was younger I used: Scorchedface
Now I'm a bit older I tend to use: Cascadeoflies (Cascade of Lies rather than Cascade o'Flies)
Hence Scorched_Cascade.
Except that's a load of lies because I made this name before I swapped to Cascadeoflies and this name inspired the second one...
Uh...I think I took my face username and added it to Cascade (as in fall, flow, resonance) I don't remember why to tell the truth.
When I was younger I used: Scorchedface
Now I'm a bit older I tend to use: Cascadeoflies (Cascade of Lies rather than Cascade o'Flies)
Hence Scorched_Cascade.
Except that's a load of lies because I made this name before I swapped to Cascadeoflies and this name inspired the second one...
Uh...I think I took my face username and added it to Cascade (as in fall, flow, resonance) I don't remember why to tell the truth.
I was about 16 and needed an original username. It was a particularly grey and horrible day where I was in Ireland (most days are grey there don't believe the forty shades of green hype)
and what 16 year old doesn't need space.It was also a reference to Raymond E Feists' Magician's 'grey space between the worlds' which I was reading at the time I think.
I've had it for 20 years now 'cause it's easy to remember and still would you believe according to the interents, original.
I have no avatar because I is lazy.
and what 16 year old doesn't need space.It was also a reference to Raymond E Feists' Magician's 'grey space between the worlds' which I was reading at the time I think.
I've had it for 20 years now 'cause it's easy to remember and still would you believe according to the interents, original.
I have no avatar because I is lazy.
I was in my 3rd or 4th fight against Ornstein and Smough, refusing to call on the Sunbros for my first victory against them. When I won it involved slamming at least 15 swigs on the flask, and I was thinking that 15 slams on a flask should make things a little blurry (also I believe I was a little drunk at the time). So it just came together like that, and at the time I just thought it was damn brilliant and that I would stick with it. These days I realize it's not all that clever but it's gained meaning beyond its face value and I associate it with myself on the internets.
Well I had to think of a gamertag for xbox and I was watching looney tunes then a while later MASH and from the combination of both yelling hawkeye at me I thought hey that's a good name! Then I slapped my keyboard for some numbers and got 1466 and so that was that now I use it for pretty much everything. The picture is one I photoshopped it's agent 47 with an ODST'S helmate on him.
At the time of account creation, the thing I was most preoccupied with was a broken hard drive that needed some salvaging/transplant love. It was lying next to my right hand.
Next to my left hand, there were a bunch of screws. Philips head screws.
Just added a little mixing them up, hey presto new screen name.
Why just leave passwords to the Chaos gods of random? I think names are valid targets, too.
Order wouldn't be half as much fun if it weren't for chaos, just as life would be a pretty bland and boring affair if it wasn't for death keeping a tab on things.
http://media.indiedb.com/cache/images/members/1/323/322945/thumb_620x2000/Chaos_Gods_Representation.jpg
Next to my left hand, there were a bunch of screws. Philips head screws.
Just added a little mixing them up, hey presto new screen name.
Why just leave passwords to the Chaos gods of random? I think names are valid targets, too.
Order wouldn't be half as much fun if it weren't for chaos, just as life would be a pretty bland and boring affair if it wasn't for death keeping a tab on things.
http://media.indiedb.com/cache/images/members/1/323/322945/thumb_620x2000/Chaos_Gods_Representation.jpg
I made my name for Pokemon Crater. I was like 12 and It was supposed to be Natester001 but I forgot the e so it became Natster001. Then on Runescape I made an account but forgot the password so I remade it as Natster43, and that is how my username was made.
Back around 1990, I wrote a poem about mother dying during childbirth and the newborn's name was Evenest (just a name I made up. I liked the way it sounded within the tempo of the poem).
When I was trying to set up an email address, I found that everything I chose relating to my actual name required a number at the end. I wanted something without a number and that name I created popped into my head. I had not realized then how difficult it would be to tell people my email address as the letters S, T, and N are often confused with F, D, and M.
Of course, since the creation and popularization of the band Evanescence, I've found that I can't create a gmail account with my handle without having to add a number at the end.
When I was trying to set up an email address, I found that everything I chose relating to my actual name required a number at the end. I wanted something without a number and that name I created popped into my head. I had not realized then how difficult it would be to tell people my email address as the letters S, T, and N are often confused with F, D, and M.
Of course, since the creation and popularization of the band Evanescence, I've found that I can't create a gmail account with my handle without having to add a number at the end.
Mine came from about 2000, when I bought a copy of RPG Maker for the Playstation 1 when I was 10 off of Ebay.
I had a plan for a video game (before I actually tried playing it and finding it damn near impenetrable to use) called Shogun Blade. I wrote sketches of characters, planned names of weapons, maps, hidden spells and upgrades (I was heavy into Final Fantasy 8 and 9 at the time), stories and timelines were irrelevant, because I was more excited about making a game rather than a good game.
The game never came through (Sad panda was I), but I kept all my original plans. I bought a copy about two years later, found I couldn't play it (The instruction booklet reads like Stereo Instructions), still have it, but I have found I'm better at story writing than programming.
But yes, Shogunblade was Originally two words, and it stemmed from an RPG idea I had (and still kind of want to make one day), but I haven't got the talent to program it (Even PC versions of RPG Maker are too hard to look at without making my eyes hurt).
I had a plan for a video game (before I actually tried playing it and finding it damn near impenetrable to use) called Shogun Blade. I wrote sketches of characters, planned names of weapons, maps, hidden spells and upgrades (I was heavy into Final Fantasy 8 and 9 at the time), stories and timelines were irrelevant, because I was more excited about making a game rather than a good game.
The game never came through (Sad panda was I), but I kept all my original plans. I bought a copy about two years later, found I couldn't play it (The instruction booklet reads like Stereo Instructions), still have it, but I have found I'm better at story writing than programming.
But yes, Shogunblade was Originally two words, and it stemmed from an RPG idea I had (and still kind of want to make one day), but I haven't got the talent to program it (Even PC versions of RPG Maker are too hard to look at without making my eyes hurt).
It's not anything Witch Mountain (though I remember enjoying those, too), although you're spot on with the oldschool Disney aliens. The cat in question just so happens to be one of those aliens. Sure you want me to give it away?Copper Zen said:
Corvus Corrax: Scientific name for the common raven
Also the name of the Progentitor and Primarch of the XIX legion astartes
Also the name of the Progentitor and Primarch of the XIX legion astartes
Growing up I was a big Metroid fan, still am. But being a guy, I didn't want to use Samus's name in any way, didn't want to use numbers either.
So I had a long think and came up with Chozo Hybrid, it's essentially what Samus is, a combination of human and chozo.
Had it for almost 12 years now, and it's a username that I hold very dear
So I had a long think and came up with Chozo Hybrid, it's essentially what Samus is, a combination of human and chozo.
Had it for almost 12 years now, and it's a username that I hold very dear
My friend was getting me into WoW and I was having trouble thinking of a name. He grabbed a random book off the shelf, opened to a random page and saw Yassen. It's the name of a russian assassin in the Alex Rider series, it seemed pretty good so I used it. And since I completely lack originality I just use it as my online alias for everything.
I made it the night my family had gotten Xbox Gold and it asked me for a username. I decided to put my name along with 2019 (which is hopefully my college graduate class). It had already been taken. I tried my full name. Taken. InvaderZim2019? Taken. I tried everything. It came to a point where (mind you I was about 11 or 12), I just said "Dangit2019" as a joke, and it finally registered permanently. I decided to just make light of the crappy name, and it's stuck ever since.
Hmmmm, the old days when I got hotmail, Windows Live wouldn't let me have just "acer" and it recommended me a few names as well as "acer840". That's how I got my old online name. My new name I got while I used to Scrim in Counter Strike Souce, I was using akspray, and I told my team the enemies had gone towards Short A (Dust 2) and to loop around behind them through tunnels. Bad idea as there were 3 T's with Paras just in case. My team mate said I was just full of Bad Intel. I changed my name to "Bad Intel" the next round and it stayed.
After lurking for about a year I decided to make an account. My characters name in WoW was Dugraka but everyone just calls me Dug. Then it got me thinking of Dig Dug and whether or not he was a robot of some sort... so I put Machine and pressed enter.
Soooo birth of DugMachine. The name that makes no sense and honestly I don't even like but whatever!
Soooo birth of DugMachine. The name that makes no sense and honestly I don't even like but whatever!
I was bored, had the username "NightWingX3" on a couple things (still do), and I was sitting around thinking, "I want an original name." and my friend and I later made a joke about the power of elephants, The Elephant of Power (on The Escapist anyway, fits some places, but not most), didn't fit, so I changed it to lies, because, well, why not.