Your Alias' Birth

[thegrandtaco]

well my friend told me runescape was the best game ever made and wanted me to try it. so got taco bell went to my computer and needed to make a name for the character. i took a look at my taco and was like man i wish this thing was bigger. thus spawns TheGrandTaco for runescape that was like 5 years ago. and the name has stuck ever since.
the only this is everyone thinks im mexican... im not lol

 

[luckshot]

when i first began playing computer games, specifically fps' i was horrible, so when asked for a username i just put in "badshot". Then i had a few lucky kills and changed it, now years later i don't suck nearly as much, maybe its time to switch to moderatelyskilledshot

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

A book and a funny word when I was 9, and it has just stuck

Without the knowledge behind it, It just seems like a regular "I like death" name, with a random addition so I could use it, but I like to think of it as more.

 

[Mookie_Magnus]

Mine is a combination of my IRL nickname that my family calls me and the main character in the novel I am writing, I like the name Magnus..so, boom. Main character and now I use it for almost all of my RPs.

 

[Spider Expert]

Round early 08 on 7chan, fag word filtered to spider expert. I found this charming for some reason.

 

[Ignignoct]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3AB8f7Rxes

Eloquent, comedic character that uses unnecessary and very precise verbiage.

My WoW character was a Mage with the same name. It let me click with the kool kids.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Well pretty simple for me. I always played assassin or rogue like characters in MMO's, I always used sneaky tactics in RTS's and I always played sneaky in shooters. That combined with the fact that I barely have any creativity, end you end up with "Assassinator". Nowadays I prefer Cowabungaa though, just because it sounds awesome. Came up with that one when my brother was making his first WoW char, obviously a tauren.

 

[Hookman]

Its my brothers nickname for me. I use it for most website names.

 

[ChickDangerous]

Mine is simply a reference to one of my all time favourite childhood games, Rick Dangerous.

I do use an alias in real life though, mostly for when I'm writing things. I chose to use another name because my actual name is not the kind that rolls of the tongue smoothly. Plus I was also told once that writers should use a name that's in the D-M range so that your books aren't stocked at the top or the bottom of the shelves.

 

[Echo3Delta]

irl Im a Lance Corporal in the Marine Corps. Lance Corporal is the 3rd Enlisted rank (E-3). My last name starts with D. E-3 D = Echo 3 Delta in the phonetic alphabet. It's common for Marines to use this formula to come up with quick and dirty callsigns for themselves when doing radio training. e.g. Sergeant Smith would be Echo 5 Sierra; Captain Johnson would be Oscar 3 Juliet (3rd Officer rank); and once I get promoted to Corporal, I'll have to change all my internet and gamer tags to Echo 4 Delta. The more you know.

 

[konkwastaken]

Konk...because...why the hell not?

 

[RAWKSTAR]

Mine sounds like Rockstar... but isn't. Thought it was cool.

My eBay one rocks though - PornstarChampion - THE CHAMPION OF ALL PORNSTARS!

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I got my current alias on the forum for the webcomic Sheldon [http://sheldoncomics.com] and it was the first time I actually had one I liked more than a few minutes. Very fickle I am, hmm. It's from The Road Warrior, because I figure myself to be the kind of person who would not only have a working flying machine after the holocaust, but operate it with a pet snake on hand and wearing goggles, helmet, and longjohns. Gyro as a sandwich can be pronounced "hero", so there's another good reason.

Hunde Des Krieg, Dogs Of War. Thought it was Dog of War but whatever...
Heard it on The Postman, and translated it to German, cuz it sounds cool and Dog of war was taken on Live.

The genitive form tends to be really formal and awkward in modern German, and that's actually closer to "dogs of THE war", not to mention I have the niggling feeling Hunde should become Hunden in the genitive, but I won't tell. Wait, crap, I did. *makes obeisance and pleads forgiveness*

*Hund von Krieg, cough, cough

You know I've heard so many ways it "should" be translated that I just don't care anymore.

 

[Jesterz]

Thanks for all the replies guys. There are some pretty cool stories with all your Alias'.
This thread even helped my find that something extra I was looking for with my pretty generic alias "Jester". It is now "Jester LeRoy". Jester coming form the obvious, but Leroy is my real name and it means The King in old French. So not only does Jester LeRoy sound cool, it has twice as much meaning and its a paradox. Jester the King. Jesters entertain kings, So who does the jester entertain if he is the king?? HMMM!?

 

[Noamuth]

'Noamuth' is the name of my first roleplay character. I use it for most things, games, accounts, etc.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

I am Russian and I like to kill people, or at least the idea of killing people. Therefore I am a Russian_Assassin

 

[Failhammer]

Failhammer because of something one of my mates said when I opened the RA3 box. It had a code for a unique Warhammer Online item, and when he saw the card he said "Look! It's failhammer!",(or words to that effect).
I liked it and started using it.

 

[Rhayn]

I just made it up. Rhayn sounds kind of mysterious and viscious, yet somehow comforting. So I went with that.

 

[Elurindel]

This was the name of one of my Neverwinter Nights characters. I was scrolling through the random names, and this one stuck out from the crowd. Years on, I've googled it, and only I ever come up on it, apart from one or two mentionings on some German sites, which I can't tell what they're about.

 

[090907]

This one is the date i got engaged, my wife has made noises about doing one with our wedding date to "keep an eye on me" but that's a joke. So is the thought of her joining a gaming community.
I still use one of my old role-playing character's name for almost everything, not sure why I didn't on here....
EDIT: Zebadiah Zephaniah Zorander.
I read The Number of the Beast when I was younger, liked the whole Z name side story, nicked it and took it too far And have been too lazy to think up a new one... You know, the usual.