General / Off-Topic User Name? Whats your story behind It.
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Breakpoint is the start point of cracking software, which for me originates back on the Amiga. I have used the nickname (breakpointUK) since about 2003 for every online game or system name.
Those of you who met up in the bar after Lavecon, when we got chatting about Veet For Men (don't ask why), will know I am a post-op transexual (this isn't a secret).
So here is how I came about the name "Alien", which like all good nicknames is chosen for you (it's actually unlucky to choose your own nickname).
In 2007 I was at a re-enactment event in Tintagel, Cornwall because friends of mine are re-enactors and they took me along. I was with my friend who was on gate duty, and another re-enactor's daughter came along. She looked at me, "Are you a man or a woman?" I am not known for a quick wit, but I replied "Guess." The girl didn't give up, "You're an alien, I'm telling NASA." To which my reply was "Go on then."
When I told what happened to the other re-enactors, the name "Alien" stuck, which is just as well, because I love it. I soon found the image that I use as my logo. It is an ambigram, it can be read upside down and still look the same, it is the word "alien".
So that's how I got the name "Alien"
So here is how I came about the name "Alien", which like all good nicknames is chosen for you (it's actually unlucky to choose your own nickname).
In 2007 I was at a re-enactment event in Tintagel, Cornwall because friends of mine are re-enactors and they took me along. I was with my friend who was on gate duty, and another re-enactor's daughter came along. She looked at me, "Are you a man or a woman?" I am not known for a quick wit, but I replied "Guess." The girl didn't give up, "You're an alien, I'm telling NASA." To which my reply was "Go on then."
When I told what happened to the other re-enactors, the name "Alien" stuck, which is just as well, because I love it. I soon found the image that I use as my logo. It is an ambigram, it can be read upside down and still look the same, it is the word "alien".
So that's how I got the name "Alien"
in Tintagel? got to be Authurian surly
King Arthur's last battle, the battle of Camlann, where Arthur's son, Mordred, kills him.
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The Veet for men reviews on Amazon (if that's what you were talking about) are probably the funniest things ever posted on the internet.
Mine is boringly my 1st and middle initials
Mine is ripped from Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne (a weird comic novel from the mid 18th century). Hafen Slawkenbergius is a German scholar, best known for his lengthy treatise on noses, and what they tell you about a person's character. For some reason I liked the name, and found that the parody of pseudoscience and misdirected, but very in-depth research tickled my fancy. The name is kind of a pretentious reference, but also a self-reflexive satire on pretentious references.
My avatar is a detail from a painting by William Blake, showing Urizen, who is both the creator figure in Blake's mythology, and also the equivalent of Satan. He's the embodiment of science and reason, and is often portrayed with the tools of an architect. He works in opposition to emotion - the laws he creates acting as chains on the soul of mankind.
The two don't exactly mesh in conceptual terms, but they both represent the kind of art and literature I enjoy. I could just as easily have taken something from Tolkien, but that seemed a bit unimaginative...
My avatar is a detail from a painting by William Blake, showing Urizen, who is both the creator figure in Blake's mythology, and also the equivalent of Satan. He's the embodiment of science and reason, and is often portrayed with the tools of an architect. He works in opposition to emotion - the laws he creates acting as chains on the soul of mankind.
The two don't exactly mesh in conceptual terms, but they both represent the kind of art and literature I enjoy. I could just as easily have taken something from Tolkien, but that seemed a bit unimaginative...
So that's how I got the name "Alien"
Though I knew that Story already, easly found if you go digging, I was wondering if you would actually tell it. Respect for saying it as it is.
and a good story as to why you kept the name.
come on give up more info, not asking where the name came from, why did you choose that name. what was the thinking at the time. and why the spelling of it?
Ok I am into music, and at some points in quite a big way. I was blown away when I first heard the Pixies and have been a life long fan:
"Caribou"
I live cement
I hate this street
Give dirt to me
I bite lament
This human form
Where I was born
I now repent
Why? because I am social and yet anti social - I grew up in London and lived there (approximately the same place) for 43 years. I hate the city now even though It provided me a living for so long. Too many people, not enough green space - so the lyrics and general whiney angst have long resonated in me
I have another Online persona that I use which is much better established however (TF2, WoT, WoWp), I am Monkey(man) (you can imagine how difficult that is to get online however if you aren't early in the process so it is often including some 133t #4x0r substitutions)
EDIT forgot this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmeIabKcgg
In WoW and GW2 i used more role playing type made up names that mean nothing at the beginning, but built up through play (I understand exactly what you were saying Selezen) but now belong to my son so shall remain anonymous
"Caribou"
I live cement
I hate this street
Give dirt to me
I bite lament
This human form
Where I was born
I now repent
Why? because I am social and yet anti social - I grew up in London and lived there (approximately the same place) for 43 years. I hate the city now even though It provided me a living for so long. Too many people, not enough green space - so the lyrics and general whiney angst have long resonated in me
I have another Online persona that I use which is much better established however (TF2, WoT, WoWp), I am Monkey(man) (you can imagine how difficult that is to get online however if you aren't early in the process so it is often including some 133t #4x0r substitutions)
EDIT forgot this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewmeIabKcgg
In WoW and GW2 i used more role playing type made up names that mean nothing at the beginning, but built up through play (I understand exactly what you were saying Selezen) but now belong to my son so shall remain anonymous
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Fangrim comes from the first MMORPG I played - Dark Age of Camelot.
The name itself is a mix between two Danish words: "Fandme" and "Grim", which can be loosely translated into "Damn" and "Ugly".
He wasn't really ugly though - I just didn't like the player models available in that game
I've been using the "Fangrim" nick ever since on every forum and game I've played, and also as my PSN ID.
The name itself is a mix between two Danish words: "Fandme" and "Grim", which can be loosely translated into "Damn" and "Ugly".
He wasn't really ugly though - I just didn't like the player models available in that game
I've been using the "Fangrim" nick ever since on every forum and game I've played, and also as my PSN ID.
Fangrim comes from the first MMORPG I played - Dark Age of Camelot.
The name itself is a mix between two Danish words: "Fandme" and "Grim", which can be loosely translated into "Damn" and "Ugly".
He wasn't really ugly though - I just didn't like the player models available in that game
I've been using the "Fangrim" nick ever since on every forum and game I've played, and also as my PSN ID.
lol Dam ugly, i can live with that, ill have to send you a FQ on PSN im MOBIUS-PC
What were you though ? Albion, Hibernia or Midgard ?
It was 1993 and IRCII was text based chat over unix at Uni..
I thought how do I make an impression on these people... so I became
Gertrude the Talking Cow, and I moo'd... for days..
moo mooo
moo moomoo moo moo...
It worked...though i had been banned from many rooms...
I met some nutters in scotland chat and we all had a laugh for a while, until one dark day my australian vampire friend Striker created bots.. and mounted them in unsavioury channels leaving me unable to be myself...
So spodsheep was made, and Paddy from Skye was Mint Sauce ,,, and we created evil arch enemies... and Gertrudes was Psykokow.
And I'd loved it eversince. spelling is purely a 'cool' thing... coz I ees dun wif da kids n sheet.
I thought how do I make an impression on these people... so I became
Gertrude the Talking Cow, and I moo'd... for days..
moo mooo
moo moomoo moo moo...
It worked...though i had been banned from many rooms...
I met some nutters in scotland chat and we all had a laugh for a while, until one dark day my australian vampire friend Striker created bots.. and mounted them in unsavioury channels leaving me unable to be myself...
So spodsheep was made, and Paddy from Skye was Mint Sauce ,,, and we created evil arch enemies... and Gertrudes was Psykokow.
And I'd loved it eversince. spelling is purely a 'cool' thing... coz I ees dun wif da kids n sheet.
what i'm wondering is: Gertrude = magic roundabout?