General / Off-Topic User Name? Whats your story behind It.

insanephoton

insanephoton
Back when I first started online gaming, the general view was that it was better to avoid using your real name. So soon after starting to play Halo I switched from Mark to Photon. I'd studied a bit of physics and liked the ambiguity of photons (wave or particle) and it seem to fit with the sci fi setting.

Sometime later my next big adventure into online gaming was Battlefield: Vietnam and that came with a 3rd party lobby program, I think it was Digital Spy... to be honest it's a long time ago. Photon was already taken as was photon. One of the suggestions was crazy photon. I liked the idea but wanted my own take on it and so insanephoton was created and I've used it in game forums and games since then.

I find it gives me that bit more licence to mess around and do things just for the sheer fun of it.
 

Frobac

Frobac
A pun on "throwback". In real life I like to joke that I belong to a time when humans resembled simians. I often refer to myself having "head to toe carpeting" and if I can reach that someone else can't, I shake my head sorrowfully and say, "You're too evolved. You need long hairy arms like mine."
 

Selezen

Selezen
Frobac said:
A pun on "throwback". In real life I like to joke that I belong to a time when humans resembled simians. I often refer to myself having "head to toe carpeting" and if I can reach that someone else can't, I shake my head sorrowfully and say, "You're too evolved. You need long hairy arms like mine."
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That's the best one yet. :)
 

Alien

Alien
Frobac said:
A pun on "throwback". In real life I like to joke that I belong to a time when humans resembled simians. I often refer to myself having "head to toe carpeting" and if I can reach that someone else can't, I shake my head sorrowfully and say, "You're too evolved. You need long hairy arms like mine."
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Selezen said:
That's the best one yet. :)
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Booo ... Eye finks mine iz butter :D
 

Stavros Bodini

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My user name will also be my commander name. It was a nickname given to me at my job on a mine site. At one time there were up to 9-10 "Steve's" working at site and as a supervisor I was being called up on the UHF radio many times a day. So to avoid confusion one of the other workers started calling me Stavros on the radio and after a few weeks it just stuck. Working nightshift I started to have a little fun with it, so if someone called out for Steve I wouldn't answer for a while and when I eventually did, I would reply that there was no Steve....only Stavros, in an awful greek accent. Eventually someone else tacked on Bodini, I think because she just liked the sound of it.(sidenote...she was really chuffed when I played back the LaveRadio podcast):cool:
I didnt jump on the kickstarter until Xmas time and it was kind of a Xmas present to myself. Since your commander is meant to be some sort of alter-ego I signed up as Stavros, got onto the forum and here we are.
 

Frobac

Frobac
Selezen said:
Well, to be honest, Frobac's is better in terms of comedy value and self-deprecating humour, whilst yours is better in terms of interestingness (if that's a word).

:)
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And I managed to miss out a word in my post. It should have read "...and if I can reach something that someone else can't..." So, on balance I'd say Alien's post was better.

Sadly, I don't think "interestingness" is an accepted word, but it should be.:)
Edit: I'm delighted to say that I'm wrong. Interestingness is an actual word.
 
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Majere

Majere
Darren Grey said:
My forum handle may seem rather dull but there is a story behind it... I was actually born "Darren Purdy" but never liked the surname, even as a child (unrelated to the fact that my father and I are now estranged). When I turned 18 I decided to change it by deed poll, and after some thought decided on "Grey". Partly because it sounds good, partly because it's recognisable without being common, but also heavily influenced by Tolkien, Babylon 5 and other fictional representations of grey being a colour of mystery and intelligence. Back then I used to dye my hair silver-grey and wear only grey clothing, only buy grey items, etc. I still stick to mostly grey clothing and items, but I've switched to more sensible hair...

On a few forums I go by just "Grey", but I usually prefer to use my full name. It's a name I chose and one I'm proud of, so I'm happy to flaunt it :) So glad I managed to get Commander Grey in the game...
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S'funny. I always imagine you as Dorian Gray.

As for me, no explanation required for the origin. Why did I choose it? It crossed genres and I thought it went well as a Commander name. Read the books as a kid and actually have a signed print from Larry Elmore.

I have many other pseudonyms. One of the most common is BanthaFodder. I was using that in one of the first forums I was actively involved in back, in what 2001?, SWGB Heaven. Taken most of the time now so I don't use it much any more.
I figured I would avoid Star Wars though, failed with Horza so tried to go off-piste a little.
 

Selezen

Selezen
loststargirl said:
Mine has nothing to do with space actually.

The first vampire movie I saw was The Lost Boys http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093437/.

One of them was a girl they called Star. She didn't like to be a vampire and I had sympathy for her.

Hence lost+star+girl
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Awesome. I remember that film well. It was the first film I took a girl on a date to see.

Given that I am currently married to the same girl, it must have been a good choice of film. ;)
 

loststargirl

loststargirl
Selezen said:
Awesome. I remember that film well. It was the first film I took a girl on a date to see.

Given that I am currently married to the same girl, it must have been a good choice of film. ;)
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Oh I envy you :) I saw it on VHS years after release :)

Yes I suppose it's a perfect date movie for sure :cool:
 

Perseus

Perseus
My surname is Purcell and nice nicknames from youth are Percy, Percival and Perseus. Obviously, one suited better than the others.
 

Kerrash

Kerrash
At age three, I had more fun riding my bike into things instead of around them; hence my Auntie started calling me 'Crash'.

I just spelt it the way to sounded to a three year old :p

It stuck with me as over the years, it represented the effect I had when tinkering with computers :D
 

Captain Slick

Captain Slick
Hi, fun topic.

"Elden Slick" is the alias i use to preserve my privacy, and is my primary online identity for Facebook, Hotmail, etc. All personal information provided to those places is completely bogus.

"Elden" comes from the name of a friend's Corgi dog (nice name for the breed), and "Slick" partially derives from the fact i play the energy pit for investment purposes.

If, in an MMORPG you ever run across a character named "Doodus" (or some variation), that's probably me, too. i used to work with a group of Chinese engineers, and they were always adding "us" to the end of things. A fig became "figus", etc.

Doodus was a natural extention of that phenomenon.
 
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