What's In A Name? (CMDR Name Thread)
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Ok, I’ll play.
If anyone remembers the Space Empires series of games, I played them quite a lot. They were the first games that I played “online” with anyone, when Space Empires IV came out. I say “online” in the crudest of terms because game turns had to be saved and emailed to a single player, the game “owner”, who processed each turn then Emailed the turn file to each player. This had to happen for each game turn and could cause games to take weeks to finish. Then someone home-made a small server which processed game turns and emailed the turn files to all the players. This speeded things up significantly. For that, I needed a nickname. I had been using “Slick“ on the forums, stolen from Han Solo’s nickname in the ‘80’s book series, and I added PBW (Play By Web) for use on the SE IV PBW server. Been using it ever since.
If anyone remembers the Space Empires series of games, I played them quite a lot. They were the first games that I played “online” with anyone, when Space Empires IV came out. I say “online” in the crudest of terms because game turns had to be saved and emailed to a single player, the game “owner”, who processed each turn then Emailed the turn file to each player. This had to happen for each game turn and could cause games to take weeks to finish. Then someone home-made a small server which processed game turns and emailed the turn files to all the players. This speeded things up significantly. For that, I needed a nickname. I had been using “Slick“ on the forums, stolen from Han Solo’s nickname in the ‘80’s book series, and I added PBW (Play By Web) for use on the SE IV PBW server. Been using it ever since.
Great clip.
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It does bring up something interesting about people who have lived their entire lives in space though, which is that if they were to come to a planet like earth, the gravity would cause them tremendous difficulty and pain.
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The Martians on "The Expanse" suffer less than Belters, because although Mars has weak gravity, it does have some. Still, when they travel to earth, the gravity puts a tremendous strain on them, even causing some of them to vomit and collapse. Look at what happens to astronauts that go up to the ISS for a month. When they come back, they always need time to climatize.
None of this matters though assuming we're dealing with science fiction that involves "artificial gravity" of some kind, but in those cases, whether someone is in space with gravity equal to earth's or on earth itself, it makes no difference - they always feel the same.
Late to the party as usual.
Originally I carried over my (current) Xbox gamertag to PC, which is I Yugo I, named after the main character of the Wakfu animated series because I quite liked him. And some random guy had already picked the name but spelled it in all lower caps(grammar police intensifies).
Then I started being a bit more conscious about RP and tried to think of a more appropriate name for my character. Kira was the name for one of my own creation(the only one to date), so I picked it, but that was obviously already taken by itself. Since she didn’t have a great relation to her family, I made it part of her background in Elite that she chose to drop it entirely, and instead I took some inspiration from a certain Japanese thief of the Mass Effect universe. Who I definitely don’t like way too much over any other.
Given that it is somewhat of an odd combination of names, I was also reasonably confident that it wasn’t yet taken when I asked Frontier politely and shyly for a name change. So here we are.
I eventually made that part of her own ‘canon’ too, instead of her only going by ‘Kira’. No one looks at her as though she’s always about to steal something(which she isn’t, by the way), so it’s all worked out fine. Not that she’s told anyone about the origin of the family name. Or why no one can find the family she actually originates from.
Originally I carried over my (current) Xbox gamertag to PC, which is I Yugo I, named after the main character of the Wakfu animated series because I quite liked him. And some random guy had already picked the name but spelled it in all lower caps(grammar police intensifies).
Then I started being a bit more conscious about RP and tried to think of a more appropriate name for my character. Kira was the name for one of my own creation(the only one to date), so I picked it, but that was obviously already taken by itself. Since she didn’t have a great relation to her family, I made it part of her background in Elite that she chose to drop it entirely, and instead I took some inspiration from a certain Japanese thief of the Mass Effect universe. Who I definitely don’t like way too much over any other.
Given that it is somewhat of an odd combination of names, I was also reasonably confident that it wasn’t yet taken when I asked Frontier politely and shyly for a name change. So here we are.
I eventually made that part of her own ‘canon’ too, instead of her only going by ‘Kira’. No one looks at her as though she’s always about to steal something(which she isn’t, by the way), so it’s all worked out fine. Not that she’s told anyone about the origin of the family name. Or why no one can find the family she actually originates from.
just a nickname I received from the days of service. first part was a call sign and the rest’s a "wolf" from Gaelic because of nativity
Goto was also a Droid in KotOR II, which is sideways related to Mass Effect.
Curious, but not what the name is referencing. I never played that game anyway, so I wasn’t aware.
I got really hung up on trying to pick a name, and anything I wanted was taken. So ended up as WayTooMuchGravitas as a spin on the long running Iain M Banks "gravitas" ship name jokes. To prove I have gravitas, I'm fighting the Thargoid war in a bright pink Krait called "flopsy bunny"
My alt account is Johnny Monolith, which was the email address of Mr Six in Grant Morrison's "Invisibles"
My alt account is Johnny Monolith, which was the email address of Mr Six in Grant Morrison's "Invisibles"
When I was a kid, I watched a show called "Sue Thomas F.B.Eye", a tv drama based off of a true story of a deaf woman who worked for the FBI as a lip reader. In that show, there was a character who was clearly supposed to be the annoying guy who served as the butt of all the jokes on the team, but I quite liked him. There was one point in an episode where someone mocked his job as an FBI agent, and he went off on them, citing his various qualifications and skills, all of which concluded the the statement:
"I am Einstein with a gun!"
Well, that right there sounded great to me, so when I went to make my very first online profile (xbox live) I put that in...and came up with "Einsteinwithagu". I was one character too long for the allowable name. So I changed it to EinsteinAndAGun, and it has been my profile name for basically everything for ages now.
"I am Einstein with a gun!"
Well, that right there sounded great to me, so when I went to make my very first online profile (xbox live) I put that in...and came up with "Einsteinwithagu". I was one character too long for the allowable name. So I changed it to EinsteinAndAGun, and it has been my profile name for basically everything for ages now.
Also the family name of one (family of) protagonists in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. I get the feeling that it's a rather common name in Japan...
Sitting drunk with band mates trying to figure out a name. Came up with Cloud Breaker. Decided it was too powermetal. Come Cmdr time it just felt right.
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earthtone99 = earthtone9 one of the UKs greatest alternative metal bands, I generated the name on my PS3 and it has stuck with me ever since.
I just added the extra 9, which has no relation to my age, birth year etc, it just fit nicely in my eyes.
e99 o7 (maybe I should build a droid).
I just added the extra 9, which has no relation to my age, birth year etc, it just fit nicely in my eyes.
e99 o7 (maybe I should build a droid).