Well, why did you pick your username?

[Smiley Face]

Some people used to nickname me Smiley. I liked it, it didn't really stick, so here I am.

 

[lazysquirell]

I'm incredibly lazy and I love squirrels also the idea of a squirrel being lazy is humorous to me... Sadly I spelt it wrong but I've since decided that was intentionally unintentional and it's pronounced with emphasis on the 'ell'...

 

[Deathmageddon]

It's like Armageddon, only about five times more intense. It's like if Jesus and Chuck Norris were jousting on the backs of velociraptors, and everything was on fire. And there was an airborne AIDS and/or Super Cancer epidemic.

 

[Xeraxis]

I can't even say where Xeraxis comes from, honestly. It was something I thought of randomly that sounded cool, and decided that it would become my username.

 

[LunaticPanda]

I had played FF8 recently before signing up to steam, I recall I couldn't get LunaticPandora, but panda is so much better.

 

[Edible Avatar]

because i'm a delicious carbon based lifeform with a expiration date of 2/6/2078.

High in Calcium and Sodium and Protein!

Now with Dioxins!

OT: I try to pick the most confusing usernames. For example, on Combat arms my name is BunsMcSlaps

 

[Simonoly]

According to a close group of friends, Simonoly is apparently the name of my evil alter ego who skins and eats babies in a distant fairy tale land. I took it as a complement of sorts and now it's become my username for so many things.

 

[Torrasque]

5 is my favorite number. I added it even though it was unnecessary

Lin is the first half of my first name, Red is the first half of my last name.

It rolls off the tongue pretty nicely... Well I think so anyway.

Every time I see your name, I think of this:
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OP: I thought this thread occurred before, but thinking again, I think the thread I was thinking about was about avatars, not names. D'oh well.
My name is from my second WoW toon that I made, and the first that I ever put real work into.
I made a Tauren Feral Druid thinking, "Well I want my name to be scary, and I want people to get the impression that I can't ever be stopped... I KNOW!". Having played Starcraft: Brood War, the only name that fit this perfectly, was the Torrasque.
I've been called Torrasque/Torr for the last 3-ish years, and I'm just used to it. Lol, for a while, it was weird whenever someone called me by my real name. But to be fair, I did kind of play WoW a lot =|

 

[Sonicron]

About a gazillion years ago I was a player (and admin) in an online forum Transformers RPG called Sparkmasters; it was hosted on a long-dead UK site called The Axalon. The game was built around the concept of Energon-afflicted humans developing the ability to morph into sparks that could merge with a Cybertronian shell, thus effectively becoming Transformers.
My character was a sort of cross between twisted scientist and industrial spy called Karl Braxx, and Sonicron was his Transformer shell; basically it was a Soundwave revamp - I even found and reactivated two of the lost Cassetticons. I also remember my PC spearheading the research into the first Destructicon gestalt team, the Assaulticons.
Ah, the nostalgia...

 

[InvisibleMan]

Because no one can see me here!

 

[SomeBrianDude]

Well my name is Brian, and the rest came from when I was talking to a girl at a party, her friend asked her who I was, "Some Brian dude" was the reply. The birth of a screen name.

 

[ToMegaTherion]

To Mega Therion is greek for the great beast, and well... I like the occult and satanism

 

[MrGseff]

Try to think of a good username. Couldnt do so, ask some friends:

ME: Can you think of a good username for me?
Friend: errrrrrmmmmmm.....
Friend: Sorry bro, nothing comes to mind
Me: Oh well, thanks anyway
Friend: No problem Gseff

You may think I'm joking.... I'm not, this is actually how I got this username

 

[Savryc]

Well Carsus was something I pulled out of the ether and I'm fairly sure Tyrell came from Game of Thrones which I was reading at the time of registration and just sorta stuck in my head.

Although with all the backstory and lore there could well be a Carsus Tyrell in the ASoIaF universe.

 

[MintberryCrunch]

This should explain it quite well.

Only the grestest superhero to EVER HAVE LIVED. Ahem. Yeah, I was going through a South Park watching phase at that time, picked MintberryCrunch, and was quite happy that I got a midly comedic and orginal name with no numbers in it.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

5 is my favorite number. I added it even though it was unnecessary

Lin is the first half of my first name, Red is the first half of my last name.

It rolls off the tongue pretty nicely... Well I think so anyway.

Every time I see your name, I think of this:
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Google always wants to correct me when I google myself, saying "did you mean Redline 5?". Haven't even seen that show :/

 

[Torrasque]

5 is my favorite number. I added it even though it was unnecessary

Lin is the first half of my first name, Red is the first half of my last name.

It rolls off the tongue pretty nicely... Well I think so anyway.

Every time I see your name, I think of this:
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Google always wants to correct me when I google myself, saying "did you mean Redline 5?". Haven't even seen that show :/

Ohrly? :O
Dude, you really should check that show out. It is soooooo awesome. Even if you don't like racing anything, the show is saturated with hyperbolized anime stereotypes and hilarity. F Zero X + FLCL = Redline.

 

[Cyfu]

Cyfu is what you get when you try every nickname you can think of and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM is already taken, and in anger you smash your face to the keyboard.

 

[Biodeamon]

I've been using it since i was 12. that seems good enough reason for me