Where did your nicknames came from?

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:04 pm

Tell your stories here.

Of course my nick came from Orion's constellation, but currently it's just a forum nick, in Quake I got kinda sick of that name. I actually use Rick that's the abbreviation of my name, but I think I'll change it again.

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:15 pm

my name i made up, i was looking for a good role playing name for an rpg game (i dont remember which) and i took the first letter of my first name and x and tried to come up with something. iv used it for years.

Biodude · Post by **Biodude** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:37 pm

My dad always called me t-man, so that was my name for a long time. Then I got xbox live and thought of something random, and i liked bioshock so.......

Chip · Post by **Chip** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:42 pm

Well, my name is Chip. It's the first part of my name, and sounds good in English. The full version is Ciprian.

goldenboy · Post by **goldenboy** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:34 am

My nick here comes from a manga postcard that was hanging in my father's room in their old house... it stuck in my mind since I used to stay there often.

I haven't actually watched the TV series.

It's kinda stupid. I use better nicks elsewhere

avirox · Post by **avirox** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:04 am

I was probably thinking of "Xavier" from X-Men but spelled it as "xavior" instead while playing Worms online. avirox is an anagram thereof

Post by **scar3crow** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:44 am

Scarecrow was taken on DALnet back in early 1996. I was too lazy to capitalize the s, and soon realized it looked a lot better without that.

Scarecrows in general are cool to me, as seen in various bits of culture, such as the children's book Goosebumps - The Scarecrow Stalks at Midnight, but also the pseudonym of a member of then horror oriented rap group Triple 6 Mafia, who had early work that actually kind of worked as a soundtrack for Quake playing.

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:50 am

lol 3-6 was going to do work for quake?

Post by **scar3crow** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:27 am

Not for, the existing music of that time in their career went well with, as it had a very dark aesthetic.

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:40 am

sorta like my juggalo music?

Wazat · Post by **Wazat** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:03 am

I came up with Wazat back when I was in my early teens, a fuzzy time period in my memory even on a good day. For whatever reason, Wazat stuck. I tried changing to static_void, static, wot, Cap'n Bellows, and some other names, but people seemed to prefer Wazat (even though no one seems to pronounce it correctly

), so I went back. I'm used to it now.

How I came up with the name and why is a mystery to me. The best I can come up with is maybe it's an amalgam of the words "What's that?", but I have no idea.

negke · Post by **negke** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:38 am

goldenboy wrote:My nick here comes from a manga postcard that was hanging in my father's room in their old house...

Aww, and I was so sure it was inspired by the Sin With Sebastian hit single...

goldenboy · Post by **goldenboy** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:36 pm

I don't have to know that one, hopefully

I'm over 30, I'm excused.

goblinoid · Post by **goblinoid** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:09 pm

I use to like goblin decks in Magic, so I think that's the reason. But I can't stick with a nickname for long, so I'm known by lots of different names through the web.

SamUK · Post by **SamUK** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:13 pm

Hmm. Since my name is Sami, and I'm from the UK and hate the name Sami.

I decided to change it to Sam, with a UK.

Not really complicated, but it does it's job. It's the only nick that I've ever stuck with.