How did you choose/get your nickname ?

[DarkZell666]

This is something I've been wondering about for some time now : how to people choose (or get from others) their nicknames ?

Mine is quite old (from when I was still pre-teen, I'm 19 now :/) :
Dark - just a silly wanabe prefix
Zell - my fav ff8 character at the time
666 - another silly wanabe thing (I'm no satanist ;))

My other (more commonly used nickname) is XaS.
One night, when founding our first counter-strike team (-={?a?}=-) we decided to invent nicknames with 3 letters (preferably with an A in the middle, but there were only few possibilities so we dropped that last condition xD).
I chose XaS 'coz I wanted one with an X in it.
And there it was ^^ I've been using it for 5 years now.

How about you ? ;)

[Waleska]

Your nick was pointless before the explanation, now it's pointless and pathetic, no offense :D

[dani82]

well, when i joined, dani through dani81 was already taken, so i had to settle when dani82

[CWR03]

I dropped a cat on the keyboard.

[buzzqw]

i hope the cat wasn't harmed by this shamefull procedure ? :D

btw, at work i had to reistall the WinXp on pc of our client, that was "hackered" by numerous pidgeons... regedit/IE/SyStem32 folders all get scrambled...

my nick came from an old pc game (i cannot even remember the name... i can suppose "Vendetta"), "The Buzzqw" was one of first enemy to splat...

BHH

[xyloy]

I got my nick by a random keyboard typing. :D

[check]

Opened up a dictionary and picked the first word I saw :)

[DarkZell666]

Nice findings here ^^ I find those methods pretty original ;)


But :

Your nick was pointless before the explanation, now it's pointless and pathetic, no offense :D
Did I say otherwise ? In fact it was the point of the hole thing, rofl. What about yours then Waleska ? your post was just as pointless as my nickname, no offense huh ? ;)

[Waleska]

My name is Waleska, no other nick would have honored me better :D

[hitbit]

Heatbeat was a brilliant musician active many years ago in the Amiga demo scene (heck, am I really this old?). I used his nick for some time as a kind of hommage to him, then I opted for the shorter, and with similar sound, "hitbit".

[Teegedeck]

I dropped a cat on the keyboard.Now this is what I call style. In order to top that for my next nick I think I'm gonna have a nekkid lady lash the keyboard with her whip while the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra will be inciting her with a hummed version of the Enterprise themesong (classic series) from behind the sofa. Standing in buckets of custard, of course.

Oh, I chose my current nick by picking the first word I saw when I let my gaze wander through the room.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Oh, I chose my current nick by picking the first word I saw when I let my gaze wander through the room.Hmmm..... Sounds like one of those "Keyser Soze" moments ;)

[Audionut]

I like audio, and as most of you would have guessed, i'm a nut.

[Mug Funky]

walking through a supermarket with my housemate, we came across mugs that had knockoff Shag paintings on them, most likely without permission.

the product name on the price thingy was "MUG, FUNKY - $3.00"

thought it sounded cool...

[Moitah]

I randomly made it up as a character name for a game I used to play. It was originally "Moytah" but later I changed the spelling.

[fccHandler]

"MUG, FUNKY - $3.00"
Lol, that's great! :D

I picked mine from VFW.H, because I wanted something geeky that only Windows programmers would understand. Contrary to what some people suppose, "fcc" does NOT refer to the Federal Communications Commission! It's actually an abbreviation of "FOURCC." My signature is a play on its resemblance to the word "Force," and my love of Star Wars.

[sysKin]

My surname translates to "siskin".

[Morte66]

I'm named after the first NPC you meet in the game Planescape: Torment, a sleazy flying skull called Morte. Only somebody already had Morte, so Morte66 it was.

[Arachnotron]

I used to play Doom a lot. In fact, I assembled my first computer just so I could play it. Arachnotron is one of the demons in that game.

[shevegen]

I picked a virtual char name. Since I dont like it a lot, I have often considered to change it to a more fitting to _myself_ but still i havent come up with a better one (i am lazy)

[deuce2]

When I was a kid ( a Canadian eh) they called me deuce because my last name is German...and the last part of my name is ...dorf and Dusseldorf is in Germany, I guess; kid logic. Don't ask me, :confused: I didn't pick it but it stuck. Since deuce (from the Duss part of Dusseldorf) is two I just put 2 and 2 together and there you have it. :o

[Boulder]

Mine comes from the old classic, Boulder Dash. I never was a great fan of the game, but somehow hearing the tune of the first game gets me back to the early 80s.

Yes, I'm an old fart.

[setarip_old]

It is a REFLECTION of my OPPOSITION to those who steal and disseminate the efforts of software authors/publishers. I'd be surprised if such people can "look themselves in the MIRROR" ;>}

[Gerard V]

Having read the previous posts I feel ashamed to admit that my nickname is simply my name. I usually sign emails as Gerard V or GV because in New Zealand where I live, people struggle a bit with my surname "Verschuren", and in order to avoid having them mangle it, I abbreviate it to V. This does not prevent them going on to mangle my first name but thats a different story.

I also use this nic as my stage name for hypnosis gigs because "The Amazing Whatever . ." and similar names don't work for me.

:cool:

[zambelli]

It's not much of a backstory... My nick is my last name. It's fairly uncommon, so I rarely run into situations where the user name is already taken and I have to come up with something else.

[bourtzovlakas]

My user name translates in Greek, as "extremely stupid"...
I also rarely run into situations where the user name is already taken, especially in Greek fora...

[Inheritthewind]

a classic golden oldie film, check it out here! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/)
we're all here for the films, right?

[JimS]

...
Mine is easy.
First name is James, nickname Jim.
Last name starts with an S.
...

[Firesurfer]

I used to play StarWars RPG with some friends. I had a smugglers vessel we called "Eimer" (Bucket). One Session we were chased by some Tie-Figthers. I I flew the bucket close to a sun to get rid of the Ties. Or Gamemaster had a shrewd sense of humor and said: "there's protuberances coming, brace for impact". I turned the ship saying "I'll surf that thing to get away from the Ties". He was impressed, we survived, et voilá: the name of the ship became Firesurfer. I used that nick at various places since then.

[DarkZell666]

Many are quite original indeed ;)

[smok3]

smoke* was a name of a software i was working on at that moment...., but that was taken everywhere so i changed last letter to get some 1337ness.

[Shinigami-Sama]

I picked a friend who was piss'n me off and threw him across the room
next day they started calling me this

[Sirber]

Sir Bérubé --> Sir Ber --> Sirber ;)

[johnhamler1]

too hard for me to find a nick name, here what I did:

john became john
and hamler became hamler
and I added 1

at the end: johnhamler1

[Isochroma]

One night in the semidark after a joint, a voice came out from between the fine edges of hyperreality and whispered it in my ear.

[rcubed]

My initials,

For those old Fortran Folks R**3

[SeeMoreDigital]

My name is a spin of "Three Wise Monkeys" saying, "To see no evil, hear no evil, and to speak no evil": -

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6274/monkeysnikkojapan5vc.jpg

"See No" became "See More". With DRM and other forms of encryption being the "Evil" of any "Digital" media format ;)

[DarkZell666]

Lol, I like that one very much !

[clutch]

I picked something that has absolutely no relation to me. This is the internet you know.

Clutch

[smokeslikeapoet]

I worked at a restaurant back in 1999. I was smoking out back when this girl walks up to me and said, "You smoke like a poet." It stuck.

[bob0r]

My internet name is Bob.
When i try to type linux commands like: rm -r /test, i usually type this: rm 0r /test

So bob0r =)

[DarkZell666]

My internet name is Bob.
When i try to type linux commands like: rm -r /test, i usually type this: rm 0r /test

So bob0r =)

On what sort of plutonian keyboard can we find the - with the 0 key ? :D
Oh my it's true, at the very least the english keyboard has this particularity, here the - is with the 6 key ;) The 0 key has the à character (accentuated a, in case you can't see it) ^^

Edit: Actually, I've just noticed on doom9 that the pages are encoded in latin1 (ISO-8859-1), and the special char's aren't replaced by entities (no à to replace the à), so I suspect some of you won't be able to see the "accentuated a" ... sigh :rolleyes:

[MvB]

Just 3 letters taken from my exceptionally long name :)

[Dragon Shenron]

I like dragons and I'm a big fan of Dragon Ball... So...
Growing up on DBZ made me like Shenron cuz he makes all their wishes come true (when they gather the 7 spheres and summon him).

[HyperHacker]

"Hacker" because I was hacking Gameshark codes. "Hyper" because I was doing ~50 per day at least.
On what sort of plutonian keyboard can we find the - with the 0 key ? :D
Oh my it's true, at the very least the english keyboard has this particularity, here the - is with the 6 key ;) The 0 key has the à character (accentuated a, in case you can't see it) ^^

Edit: Actually, I've just noticed on doom9 that the pages are encoded in latin1 (ISO-8859-1), and the special char's aren't replaced by entities (no à to replace the à), so I suspect some of you won't be able to see the "accentuated a" ... sigh :rolleyes:
My US keyboard has the number keys at the top: `12...90-= backspace

[shakey]

Mine's from my first year at uni, my hands tend to shake a lot for some reason, so my hallmates decided my name was shakey.

[Solo_Senshi]

I've been using my nick since since about mid 2004.

Solo = on one's own; alone or unaccompanied
Senshi = Japanese word for warrior/soldier

So it's kinda like the lone warrior or something. Decided to put them together with an underscore, because I'm kinda dorky <_<;

[mimage]

I was saving images as "image1" "image2" "image3", then for some reason put an m in front of it one time and liked the way it looked, and because I like to mess around with images, I decided to use it as my name. :)

[cc979]

mine is a bike engine size - i would have liked to have ... in dreams :D

[ilovejedd]

This is Jedd: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/aerischan/avatar/ava-jedd.png

I hate him now but the name already stuck. It's already a lot of trouble remembering passwords. I didn't want to have to remember usernames, too, so I decided to use this for forums. As it is, I'm using at least 10 different nicks already.

Yeah, pretty lame.