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Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: R1885 on October 01, 2008, 10:22:38 PM: I got the idea from a PM. It asked why did I pick R1885 as my user name. My reson was that its part of my first user name, 1885, for a OTA online game. The reason I added the "R" was due to the game Dawn of War. I was trying to use 1885, but I needed at least one leter in the name. At the time I was thinking of the PS2, the I thoght of the sholder buttons. Theres R1, L1, R2, and L2. So what the hell, why not use R1885? The name then, just stuck. Its my GameTrailers user name. So you know my tail, now I want to hear yours.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: H@zm47 on October 01, 2008, 11:04:57 PM: Ohh boy here we go...
Ever since I was about 13, Hazmat was my online alias for anything (MSN etc.) I don't know why I chose Hazmat (cool word? IDK (https://gametechmods.com/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif)) but the name stuck. I've only recently changed it to H@zm47 because it looked cooler. I use the same alias for my online play NDS and Wii games. My youtube account is hazmat51 cos someone else stole my name (https://gametechmods.com/forums/images/smilies/icon_mad.gif) the 51 means nothing just had to make it different to hazmat...
That's about it I think.
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Post by: man manu on October 02, 2008, 12:10:44 PM: i used to play runescape (yes i know a crappy game) but anyway, i was introduced to runescape by a friend who suppports chelsea. his name was chelsearule1995 or somethinkg like that and i support man u so i went on runescape and registered an account. when it got to the choose a username i put in man u man but it didnt work so then i put manu man but it didnt work. so i just changed the words around and put man manu. ingenious huh? i used to hate it when my friend called me man manu at school and insisted he called me man man u. but then i kinda got used to the name and use it on a few online accounts. so thats my story. thanks for reading
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Post by: Flying_Chao on October 02, 2008, 02:42:27 PM: I chose Flying_Chao on Runescape because I wanted a name nobody else had so I wouldn't need to put any numbers at the end. The name just stuck after that.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Dragonfire on October 02, 2008, 03:39:59 PM: my name's origin came from again, runescape. My username was actually DragonBurn - cos i like dragons. Until one day, my friend and me was chatting and they couldn't remember my username, they had a few guesses, one of them being DragonFire. I then clung onto that name til now.
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Post by: Sorrow on October 02, 2008, 04:00:37 PM: I freaking love MGS3. The Sorrow was in MGS3.
''Nuff said.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: somestrangeguy on October 02, 2008, 06:01:23 PM: I didnt actually think about my name too long, because when I joined I tought that I would just get a few building tricks and tips and then disappear, but here I am. If I had used my now normalized nick, it would be 1nsane.
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Post by: Sage on October 02, 2008, 06:51:15 PM: ooooooh boy. i cant even remember when i made my name. musta been ever since i got into video games. i think i used it for super smash bros 64 because you need a 4 letter name.
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Post by: Somebody on October 02, 2008, 06:52:34 PM: Mine is Somebody because I was asking about the downed exchange in the Chatbox before I got a username and decided to have Somebody as my name because I would pick another name later. Then I just decided (because I am horribleat making names and I couldn't think of a good one) to use it.

Also, I was going to start a thread like this soon, but I guess R1885 got to it first. Oh well.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: andrewm0304 on October 02, 2008, 07:50:22 PM: Mines simple: Andrew is my name, M is my last initial, 0304 is my birthday.
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Post by: Gigafrost on October 03, 2008, 10:19:46 AM: Mine is the name of one of the characters in the game im working on...
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: DuckRA2 on October 06, 2008, 08:27:08 PM: mine was the first thing that came to my mind really.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Urjak on October 06, 2008, 08:47:25 PM: Urjak is just... Urjak. I have No idea how I came up with the name.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: goose on October 06, 2008, 09:08:03 PM: I was eating one when I registered.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: R1885 on October 06, 2008, 09:13:09 PM: Quote from: goose;16548
I was eating one when I registered.

LOL
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Post by: Urjak on October 06, 2008, 10:04:30 PM: Quote from: goose;16548
I was eating one when I registered.

Explains a lot.
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Post by: Naryar on October 16, 2008, 03:22:28 PM: I had numerous other names (Nagzash on Youtube, but i'd like to change it), but Naryar went in when I wanted to play my famous red half-dragon on a Roleplay forum.

I don't remember exactly the circumstances, but i think that came from Narya, the Fire Ring (one of the Three) in the Lord of the Rings.

I think I'm going to stick with Naryar now. I like it.
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Post by: Reier on October 16, 2008, 03:54:03 PM: I'm in the US, but my ancestors were from Sweden & Reier is a Swedish name. =)
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Post by: System32 on October 16, 2008, 03:56:49 PM: Because I wanted the people here not to find me in other places online. I'm scattered all over Teh internets...
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Serge on October 16, 2008, 04:47:56 PM: Because my first name is Sergiusz.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Barbie on October 18, 2008, 12:37:08 PM: well, most people reffered to me and my brother as simply "Phlox" (our surname) in primary school (we went to different ones for some reason) but we went to the same grammar school, so his friends always called me "The Barbie Phlox" and it stuck
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: goose on October 18, 2008, 02:44:10 PM: Im trying to figure out to pronounce Phlox. scratching my head.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Reier on October 18, 2008, 02:49:52 PM: Is it Flocks?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 18, 2008, 05:25:45 PM: Same with Urjak.

Is it "ErJack", or "YourJack"
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Sage on October 18, 2008, 06:41:20 PM: how do you know Sayge isn't Sahge?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: ACAMS on October 18, 2008, 06:45:46 PM: Wrong, it is Saige!
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Sage on October 18, 2008, 06:48:28 PM: Quote from: ACAMS;17800
Wrong, it is Saige!

how did you come up with your name ACAMS?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 18, 2008, 06:58:43 PM: I was wondering that about him. Same with Scrap Daddy. Does it have to do with the robots from Battlebots?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: ACAMS on October 18, 2008, 07:02:46 PM: Anderson County Automotive Machine Shop

I own, and used to operate an engine rebuilding machine shop before I got this job in the oilfield. My accountant told me to have it back open by the end of the year so I can use it for a tax write-off this year. (I still owe the IRS $9,000 from last year) I plan to build racing engines in my spare time and buy a few more machines for an extra tax write-off. (plus I have been spending $550.00 a month for a building to keep all the machines in, and I bought one back in Feb so I may as well use it)
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Post by: Sage on October 18, 2008, 07:04:41 PM: Quote from: Somebody;17802
I was wondering that about him. Same with Scrap Daddy. Does it have to do with the robots from Battlebots?

if i remember right his grandpa has a real robotics team called scrap daddy robotics. (or maybe it has his dad? his uncle?)

i could be completely wrong though.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Scrap Daddy on October 18, 2008, 07:15:47 PM: And my bots Aw flail twack(retired) and a bw Wedge(work in progress). Names from making robots out of metal and parts from junkyards/reclying plants aka "scrap".
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Reier on October 18, 2008, 07:16:49 PM: My name is pronouced "Rie-er" not "Ryre". Weird, I know.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 18, 2008, 07:31:17 PM: The Rie is pronounced like "Rye", the type of bread, right?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Urjak on October 18, 2008, 07:39:00 PM: My name is Er-jack
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Reier on October 18, 2008, 08:19:06 PM: Quote from: Somebody;17809
The Rie is pronounced like "Rye", the type of bread, right?

Yeah.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 19, 2008, 06:10:44 AM: Yay!, I had Reier and Urjak's names right in the way I thought they were pronounced.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Urjak on October 19, 2008, 10:57:25 AM: Somebody is clearly the name pronounciation expert. :D
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 19, 2008, 11:24:03 AM: If you can't pronounce my name (and if you are in America) you are a retard.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Naryar on October 19, 2008, 11:33:37 AM: Quote from: Somebody;17905
If you can't pronounce my name (and if you are in America) you are a retard.

Potential flame war starter post?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 19, 2008, 12:21:15 PM: No, I am just saying.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Barbie on October 19, 2008, 01:50:33 PM: Quote from: goose;17760
Im trying to figure out to pronounce Phlox. scratching my head.

Quote from: Reier;17761
Is it Flocks?

indeed Flocks.

Quote from: Somebody;17905
If you can't pronounce my name (and if you are in America) you are a retard.

Don't you mean the english speaking world? its not called american :)
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 19, 2008, 06:14:04 PM: I guess, but I wasn't sure if they have some other word for it in UK or Australia.
Example: Tinny=Beer in Australia
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Post by: goose on October 19, 2008, 06:37:24 PM: Barbie stop being so blond. The whole world knows that America invented the English language.

also, phlox of geese.
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Post by: Somebody on October 19, 2008, 06:49:54 PM: Quote from: goose;17956

also, phlox of geese.

Lol. That reminds me of my favorite comedian, Brian Regan.
His best work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxenUzZPFiQ
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Post by: Resetti's Replicas on October 19, 2008, 07:22:04 PM: Mine is self-explanatory, it comes from Animal Crossing. Mr Resetti's first name is Sonny, and not many people know that/care.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Hydro on October 20, 2008, 10:40:32 AM: i like gasoline. hydro is short for hydrocarbon.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on October 20, 2008, 01:06:06 PM: Quote from: Sonny_Resetti;17960
Mine is self-explanatory, it comes from Animal Crossing. Mr Resetti's first name is Sonny, and not many people know that/care.

I have Animal Crossing Wild World (the DS one), and I am gonna get the Wii one when it comes out.
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Post by: SpyGuy on October 21, 2008, 04:16:15 PM: Old video game from the '80's, SPY HUNTER. (Geez, am I dating myself .....?) Whenever I managed a place in the top ten, I would always put in "SPY" as my initials. "SPY" became "SpyGuy", and the rest, as they say, is history .....
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: System32 on October 21, 2008, 06:23:02 PM: Quote from: goose;17956
Barbie stop being so blond. The whole world knows that America invented the English language.

also, phlox of geese.

Then what did the english Invent? Englease?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: goose on October 21, 2008, 06:46:13 PM: they copied us
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Post by: System32 on October 21, 2008, 06:49:38 PM: So, A country that is older than the Roman empire copied a country that is 2000 years old. Hmm...
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Post by: pyscolone on October 21, 2008, 06:50:01 PM: Quote from: goose;18182
they copied us

qft
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Post by: ACAMS on October 21, 2008, 07:13:05 PM: Quote from: System32;18183
So, A country that is older than the Roman empire copied a country that is 2000 years old. Hmm...

1492 to 2008 = 2000 years

The declaration of independence was signed in 1776. so actually so actually it is only 232 years.

The continent is just as old as the others.
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Post by: Hydro on October 22, 2008, 10:10:24 AM: good point. i dont know why, but that is slightly funny.
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Post by: System32 on October 22, 2008, 10:32:43 AM: Whoops, sorry about the time thing.

We still created you.
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Post by: Flying_Chao on October 22, 2008, 02:45:48 PM: England is older than the Roman Empire?!
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Weirdo on June 21, 2009, 10:45:37 AM: Bump - thanks to the link Nar put in DKs thread.

If anybody still has storys about how they got their names, I think they should be put here from now on.

Anyway, I called myself Weirdo because:- I've been called one; the name suits; and its its contradictory, because everyone calls me 'the normal one'. But there's no such thing as 'normal'.

@ Flying_Chao: Um, jah. If you're STILL wondering. Everybody in fact came from Africa, english people, americans, everyone. So yeah, I hope I cleared that up, and ended nearly a year or so of panicing over who created who.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: System32 on June 21, 2009, 11:32:16 AM: Quote from: Flying_Chao;18273
England is older than the Roman Empire?!

Ugh, No damn way.

Britain is older than the roman empire.
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Post by: cephalopod on June 21, 2009, 01:02:08 PM: Quote from: System32;45646
Britain is older than the roman empire.

S32 is more right.

My name came from my name. My name is Craig. People tend to stretch it out. And I was bored of my boring name so I wanted to change it so I chucked the 'a' in that everybody was saying.
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Post by: Natef on June 21, 2009, 01:33:36 PM: Mine's named after myself- Nate F.
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: life robot arena2 on June 21, 2009, 01:36:10 PM: Mine came from this:
im up for life and love robot arena 2 so i chose life robot arena2
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Post by: frezal on June 21, 2009, 05:09:45 PM: Where did that other thread go?

Anyways, Jeffery is my actual factual name. Contrary to popular belief, my name is not "Jeffrey". Unlike that spelling, my spelling has three syllables instead of two.

Frezal comes from an ogre I drew in MS Paint at least 100 years ago. I don't know why I named him that. It was only after the fact that I realized that Frezal is an actual name. The handle "frezal" was first used for my hotmail account. I had just drawn the thing when signing up for the hotmail account, so I used its name for the handle. Sort of. Frezal was taken, so I had to go with Frezal2. When signing up for the official Robot Arena forums, I went with Frezal2 as well. After the update to the forum software with the 30x30 avatars, I changed my name to "frezal" without the 2 and with a lower "f".

When I joined here, I don't remember why I chose my real name instead of frezal. Maybe I was just tired of it.
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Post by: RedSawn on June 21, 2009, 05:13:45 PM: Before Redline, I used to be RAMPAGE. But it was taken on a certain browser based game. So I had to come up with something new, and original. Fast.

Redline was probably subconciously taken from the fact I used to love cars. (Now it's just like.)

M203 was another decision based on not being able to get Redline. It came from the grenade launcher, which I found out about on a UT mod called Tactical Ops. M4A2M203. (Or was it M4A1M203? Who cares, it's just a number difference.)
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Post by: Doomkiller on June 22, 2009, 05:18:11 AM: Quote from: Jeffery;45712
Where did that other thread go?
.

yeah. where did it go? i wouldve just copied and pasted what i said into here.
Where did my thread go?
Title: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: doomaster543 on August 02, 2009, 07:17:33 PM: bump

my name is a contraction of doom and master. that was my username in arcanists except i added the 543 cause there already was a doomaster
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Post by: GoldenFox93 on October 23, 2009, 03:56:13 PM: Well, I created mine shortly after I'd created my YouTube account (RobotwarsKing), and I hadn't learned that it might be a good Idea to have the same nickname for related stuff, so I created this nickname I've got for my account here.

Anyway, I named my account after one of my favourite racers on F-Zero GX, Golden Fox. I also thought the name sounded cool by itself. I then took the last two digits of my birthyear (1993), and there we have it! One crap nickname, fresh off the counter!
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Post by: Condor33 on October 23, 2009, 08:10:20 PM: Quote from: GoldenFox93;74542
one of my favourite racers on F-Zero GX, Golden Fox.

Thought so. That's a great game, isn't it?

Anyway, my name comes from the fact that I was reading a comic book when I signed up, and when I couldn't think of a name I looked down at the book and the first thing to catch my eye was a condor. Besides, condors are awesome.
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Post by: TriTon on October 23, 2009, 08:24:11 PM: My name came from a certain baseball bat i wanted reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyy badky(my sig says it all).

But, on the other forums i go on, the names are completely different. I have Youtube acc called Bodabem.
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Post by: nicsan2009 on October 23, 2009, 08:25:10 PM: the gay preident that should die in 2009
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Post by: TriTon on October 23, 2009, 08:42:57 PM: Quote from: nicsan2009;74572
the gay preident that should die in 2009

????????????????
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Post by: Condor33 on October 23, 2009, 09:22:33 PM: Nixon
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Post by: Resetti's Replicas on October 23, 2009, 10:48:54 PM: Quote from: nicsan2009;74572
the gay preident that should die in 2009

Nixon's been dead for 15 years...
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Post by: Meganerdbomb on October 23, 2009, 10:54:47 PM: Do guys even want to know where I got this name from?
Basically, a friend of mine used it to describe somebody, and i thought it was funny.
Then, when I signed up for X-fire, all the names I was trying were taken, so i used this. Now, I pretty much use it for anything on the internet that I need a user-name for. It might be weird, but who cares?
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Post by: Resetti's Replicas on October 24, 2009, 12:16:35 AM: Didn't you use to be Megaterdbomb?
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Post by: JoeBlo on October 24, 2009, 12:28:12 AM: JoeBlo is a slang word for "Some Guy" J & B are my initials so I respond straight away if people call me JB,
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Post by: TriTon on October 24, 2009, 04:25:01 PM: Quote from: ACAMS;17803
Anderson County Automotive Machine Shop

I own, and used to operate an engine rebuilding machine shop before I got this job in the oilfield. My accountant told me to have it back open by the end of the year so I can use it for a tax write-off this year. (I still owe the IRS $9,000 from last year) I plan to build racing engines in my spare time and buy a few more machines for an extra tax write-off. (plus I have been spending $550.00 a month for a building to keep all the machines in, and I bought one back in Feb so I may as well use it)

Oilfields? So i'm guessing that you live somewhere is West Texas, correct?
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Post by: GoldenFox93 on October 24, 2009, 04:30:42 PM: Quote from: Condor33;74569
Thought so. That's a great game, isn't it?

It certainly is! I also kind of like racing as the Red Gazelle, Rolling Turtle, and Dark Schneider at times.
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Post by: Jonzu95 on October 25, 2009, 04:15:00 AM: My name is Jonzu95 and it was my Habbo hotel nickname too but the reason is that My favourite name is Jonzu and I am Born in 1995...
Edit: 400 posts! Wohoo!
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Post by: Badnik96 on October 25, 2009, 08:37:06 AM: Quote from: GoldenFox93;74542

Anyway, I named my account after one of my favourite racers on F-Zero GX, Golden Fox.

yay im nnot the only fan of F-Zero here!

so you'll probably recognize the battle music im going to use for Replica Wars.
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Post by: Meganerdbomb on October 25, 2009, 04:45:08 PM: Quote from: Sonny_Resetti;74634
Didn't you use to be Megaterdbomb?

Yes, that was merely a variation of the same name.
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Post by: GoldenFox93 on October 25, 2009, 07:05:24 PM: Quote from: Badnik96;74923
yay im nnot the only fan of F-Zero here!

so you'll probably recognize the battle music im going to use for Replica Wars.

Ah, brilliant! Which stage will it be? Big Blue? Mute City? Port Town?
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Post by: G.K. on January 13, 2010, 02:13:08 PM: Bump.

My name comes from the initials of my favourite football (soccer) player, Gary Kelly. He played for Leeds United, the club I support, from 1992 to 2007.

The name I often use on the interweb, Helloher, came from trying to register on a friend's site and failing. That reminds me, I need to tell him again to register here.
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Post by: Sparkey98 on January 13, 2010, 03:30:57 PM: my name comes from my utube channel, wich is named after a show on my channel, the Sparkey show
made by me and my friend (spaceship studios) wich I named the character sparkey 'cause he is a total idiot
and when i think of a stupid dog, for some reason it's name being sparkey comes to mind
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Post by: Badnik96 on January 13, 2010, 04:52:03 PM: My name cones from Sonic the Hedgehog (which I used to play on Virtual Console) and the 96 is just a random number.
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Post by: S.T.C. on January 13, 2010, 05:04:55 PM: My name,well I was a member at a forum about chao (the little blue creatures on few sonic game,they're most noticeable in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle). At first I was "shadow_1" and eventually I learned how to make a chao to look like Shadow and I thought it was cool looking so I thought of making my username about shadow chao (which are dark run/run chao if anyone cares) so I changed my username to...

Shadow
The
Chao
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Post by: System32 on January 13, 2010, 05:23:23 PM: Quote from: Sparkey98 on January 13, 2010, 03:30:57 PM
wich I named the character sparkey 'cause he is a total idiot

Surprize!
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Post by: Naryar on January 14, 2010, 06:10:11 AM: Quote from: System32 on January 13, 2010, 05:23:23 PM
Quote from: Sparkey98 on January 13, 2010, 03:30:57 PM
wich I named the character sparkey 'cause he is a total idiot

Surprise!

So you are naming yourself from an idiot... *cough*
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Post by: Jonzu95 on January 14, 2010, 06:13:02 AM: xD
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Post by: lloopp D lloopp on January 14, 2010, 09:32:24 AM: I was looking at GTM since Mongrel was the BOTM and when I decided to register I was all
'OMGZLOL I NEED A NAME' and I just thought of something.
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Post by: Stagfish on January 14, 2010, 10:52:15 AM: It came from a creature i made in spore
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Post by: Sparkey98 on January 14, 2010, 02:06:38 PM: Quote from: Naryar on January 14, 2010, 06:10:11 AM
Quote from: System32 on January 13, 2010, 05:23:23 PM
Quote from: Sparkey98 on January 13, 2010, 03:30:57 PM
wich I named the character sparkey 'cause he is a total idiot

Surprise!

So you are naming yourself from an idiot... *cough*
ya and sparkey is my school nickname so it just stuck
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Post by: JoeBlo on January 15, 2010, 07:14:11 AM: JoeBlo was just something a whacked together quickly one time for soemthing else and it stuck

it basically means some guy or somebody (think alike with some people dont I :P) also when you abbreviate it to JB those are my initials IRL :P
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Post by: Zog on January 15, 2010, 03:21:34 PM: Zog is the name of my robot team in real life, so.... Yeah. If you want to know where that came from, just ask any nursery school teacher (hence the planet 'Zog')

SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC: Is there any way you can change your forum name (want to get rid of the 'team' bit)
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Post by: frezal on January 15, 2010, 03:26:00 PM: Quote from: TeamZog on January 15, 2010, 03:21:34 PM
Zog is the name of my robot team in real life, so.... Yeah. If you want to know where that came from, just ask any nursery school teacher (hence the planet 'Zog')

SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC: Is there any way you can change your forum name (want to get rid of the 'team' bit)
Yeah, PM ACAMS.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: RFS on January 16, 2010, 03:36:22 AM: My worthless retarded username (Radio F Software / RFS) is quite literally simply the name of the development group I belonged to at the time. I adopted "Radio F Software" in 2003 after a personal emergency required me to abandon my old name from 2001-2002. I had no username, but I needed one, so I adopted RFS with the intent to choose a new username "later". Radio F Software just so happened to be the media production group I ran at the time, formerly "**** Radio" (1995 - 1997), then "F Radio" (1997 - 1999), then "Radio F" (1999 - 2003), then "Radio F Software" (2003 - 2006), and finally "RFS Media Productions" (2007 - 2008), the name the group had when it eventually tanked and closed.

"Later" became "five years later" when in September 2008 I officially adopted "Dracophile" as my new username, a name that's creative and has some relevant meaning to me. "Dracophile" directly translates to "dragon lover". You can apply a sexual connotation to it if you wish and still be mostly correct in your assumptions, although the sexual side of it was not intended when I chose the nickname. My friends called me "dracophile" off and on for a while as a playful insult until I finally adopted it.

Words cannot really describe how much I hate the username RFS and everything that is tied to it. The entire duration of my life that I used that stupid name is an entire chunk of time that I am deeply ashamed of because I was being someone I wasn't. Adopting "Dracophile" was my way to break those chains once and for all and go back to the things I once enjoyed before I became RFS. I retained my username here mostly so that people would know who I am because I don't post very often.

So yeah. Nothing special about the story behind my name, just the fact that I loathe it.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Serge on January 16, 2010, 04:32:39 AM: Quote from: RadioFSoftware on January 16, 2010, 03:36:22 AM
abandon my old name from 2001-2002.

Care to share in detail what happened, or is it THAT personal?
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: System32 on January 16, 2010, 08:06:59 AM: /b/ wins.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: RFS on January 16, 2010, 02:07:23 PM: Quote from: Serge on January 16, 2010, 04:32:39 AM
Quote from: RadioFSoftware on January 16, 2010, 03:36:22 AM
abandon my old name from 2001-2002.

Care to share in detail what happened, or is it THAT personal?

I prefer not to disclose. It's personal for a reason.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: System32 on January 16, 2010, 02:13:44 PM: Quote from: System32 on January 16, 2010, 08:06:59 AM
/b/ wins.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Naryar on January 16, 2010, 02:48:31 PM: Quote from: System32 on January 16, 2010, 02:13:44 PM
Quote from: System32 on January 16, 2010, 08:06:59 AM
/b/ wins.

How ironic considering there's so much fail in it...
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: System32 on January 16, 2010, 03:07:49 PM: The man with the fsjal avatar fails at irony.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Naryar on January 16, 2010, 03:51:12 PM: I never said there was ONLY fail in /b/.

Your avatar however...
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: ACAMS on January 16, 2010, 04:19:03 PM: Quote from: Naryar on January 16, 2010, 03:51:12 PM
I never said there was ONLY fail in /b/.

Your avatar however...

Leave him alone about the avatar.......he had to google for hours to find a pic that goofy looking!
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: ashman12 on January 16, 2010, 04:51:38 PM: my name came from my initials Alex Stanley Hume and i just added man to the end of it and my age 12.

i use that for most things other than my xbox name WoundedEntree and my google name chessfreak99.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Naryar on January 16, 2010, 05:37:38 PM: And what are you going to do when you'll hit 13 ?
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Sparkey98 on January 16, 2010, 05:42:40 PM: Pm ACAMS?
leave it be?
never turn 13?
get 12 respect points for ignoring you're post?
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Serge on January 16, 2010, 05:49:20 PM: Quote from: Sparkey98 on January 16, 2010, 05:42:40 PM
get 12 respect points for ignoring you're post?
He's post? THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Please lrn2grammar.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: frezal on January 16, 2010, 06:37:07 PM: Quote from: Serge on January 16, 2010, 05:49:20 PM
Quote from: Sparkey98 on January 16, 2010, 05:42:40 PM
get 12 respect points for ignoring you're post?
He's post? THEN WHO WAS PHONE?
Please lrn2grammar.
Serge gets an additional 12 marks for this post.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Madiaba on April 17, 2010, 09:04:35 AM: Quote from: Reier on April 16, 2010, 11:58:56 PM
LOL I looked up Madiaba. XD
It's pretty much disco for the Congo. :P
Well, Reier, that's not the primary meaning of 'madiaba', but secondary.
Here's a few hints (for those bilinguists out there):

French: fesse/crosse (may be better slang words I don't know)
German: hinternbacke/pobacke
Latin: clunis, natis
Greek: γλουτoς (gluts), πυγη (puga)
P.I.E: klounis(s), pouga(pl) (Note: the concept of a P.I.E. is highly conjectural)
Hebrew: תַחַת -under(parts), אָחוֹר -back(side), שֵׁת -'shat' (hehe- yea, just what you think)
Akkadian: puku
Sumerian: dur

I'm not black, but my wife is Kenyan and she grew up speaking English and ki-Swahili.
The dance craze thing in the Congo, I'd never heard of; but it's not unlike the dance/descriptive term used here 'booty' (slangese for buttocks).
A friend (biologist) and I were discussing inter- and intra-departmental dynamics of the Chairs (heads) of each department at ******* University, and how they often persue a self-centered, self-promotional protocol, (playing political games), than totally academic, factual scholarship. We called them 'duffers' because that's what they did (nothing) when certain academic facts called for paradigm shifts, but they would not upset the 'status quo'. When I learned the word 'madiaba' we began using it as a 'code word' for people who did not responsibly report facts, but sat on their 'madiaba' doing nothing to make sure they would keep their position through politically correct pseudo-congeniality.

So when I was exposed to RA2 (I like mechanical stuff), and began hacking into py coding, I found the RA2 official website and GTM and used Madiaba as my user name.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Thyrus on April 17, 2010, 09:08:37 AM: Quote
German: hinternbacke/pobacke

that`s what your name means? Oo
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Badnik96 on April 17, 2010, 09:21:12 AM: what? Translation please Thy
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Thyrus on April 17, 2010, 09:38:49 AM: hehe :evilsmile: :P
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: JoeBlo on April 17, 2010, 10:52:20 AM: Quote from: Madiaba on April 17, 2010, 09:04:35 AM
When I learned the word 'madiaba' we began using it as a 'code word' for people who did not responsibly report facts, but sat on their 'madiaba' doing nothing

@Badnik *point point*
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Somebody on April 17, 2010, 11:01:08 AM: So Mad's name translates to butt.

How sophisticated...
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: lloopp D lloopp on April 17, 2010, 12:54:24 PM: Im'a call him Buttsy from now on.

:3
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Viper89 on April 17, 2010, 01:42:15 PM: My Sensei gave me my name. He gave me a list of people to kill and told me to bring their heads back on a silver platter. Viper for being as quick and lethal as a Gaboon Viper and 89 for the number of heads I brought back to him :evilsmile: .
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: lloopp D lloopp on April 17, 2010, 01:43:55 PM: COOL STORY BRO
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Gazea2 on April 17, 2010, 01:48:27 PM: My name is Gareth. My mates and brother/sisters sometimes call me Gaz. When I signed up for windows live I used Gazea. Then that kinda stuck and I use it everywhere. I think it sounds kinda cool...

But people also know me as "the geek" because I'm smart and have glasses... Maybe I should change my name. :P
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Larrain on April 17, 2010, 02:58:22 PM: EDIT: This was supposed to be an edit... But I'm more like making this post! What happened to all the text inside it?
Nevermind, it's gone... o.O
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: SKBT on April 17, 2010, 04:55:53 PM: I wanted to be known for my bot Shish-Kabot. My team name (Cookin With Gas) doesnt really work well for a user name so I used Shish-Kabot.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Naryar on April 17, 2010, 05:34:05 PM: Quote from: Viper89 on April 17, 2010, 01:42:15 PM
My Sensai gave me my name. He gave me a list of people to kill and told me to bring their heads back on a silver platter. Viper for being as quick and lethal as a Gaboon Viper and 89 for the number of heads I brought back to him :evilsmile: .

It's "Sensei" not "Sensai"

Quote from: Larrain on April 17, 2010, 02:58:22 PM
I used to register some forums as Corpse Razer. Corpse for the band Cannibal Corpse, and Razer for... I think you should know why. :P

For you being emo ?
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Larrain on April 17, 2010, 07:36:58 PM: Quote from: Naryar on April 17, 2010, 05:34:05 PM
For you being emo ?
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/622523383397914_e81e0f0f76.jpg)

I meant this robot (with the claw) and I'm not emo.

Paint.NETshopping both pictures was fun. xD
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: G.K. on April 18, 2010, 02:13:16 AM: Send me/link me to the original pic of razer please.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Naryar on April 18, 2010, 03:31:07 AM: Quote from: Larrain on April 17, 2010, 07:36:58 PM
Quote from: Naryar on April 17, 2010, 05:34:05 PM
For you being emo ?
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/622523383397914_e81e0f0f76.jpg)

I meant this robot (with the claw) and I'm not emo.

Paint.NETshopping both pictures was fun. xD

Hah, just kidding :P

And is that bot called Ragezer ?
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: powerrave on April 18, 2010, 06:10:10 AM: ontopic: first i just used a different name only somewhat only played runescape. everything kept going wrong on my account so i wanted to make a new one with a new name. i heard a song played from my CD, looked on the box for how it was called. and that is how i got to use the name Powerrave.

when i saw it i just thought it would work well as username, and i was right. been using that name for over 6 years now =P
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: yoda9726 on April 18, 2010, 06:25:19 AM: Probably obvious that mine spawned from that little green imp from Star Wars, but a lot of people are thrown for a loop when they find out i'm not actually a Star Wars geek. Granted, i've watched them all (grew up in the 80s, didn't have a choice), and I enjoyed them, but Yoda is the one and only character that i geek out about.

The 9726 spawned from a band i was in. We were at practice, and the song we were about to play starts with a count..1, 2, 3, 4. Our drummer was being a loon that day and refused to count. Our guitarist, ever the wiseass, said "Fine, i'll count...9, 7, 2, 6" For some reason, it stuck in my head.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Larrain on April 18, 2010, 02:04:23 PM: Quote from: Naryar on April 18, 2010, 03:31:07 AM
Hah, just kidding :P

And is that bot called Ragezer ?
XD Yes.

Quote from: G.K. on April 18, 2010, 02:13:16 AM
Send me/link me to the original pic of razer please.
Click on it. :P

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3383397914_e81e0f0f76.jpg) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3383397914_e81e0f0f76.jpg)
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Sparkey98 on April 18, 2010, 02:08:45 PM: i see whats his faces old shell in the backround...........I think
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: JoeBlo on April 19, 2010, 08:40:23 AM: ????

I see ceramic pots sitting on a crate ?
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Zog on April 19, 2010, 09:26:01 AM: Quote from: JoeBlo on April 19, 2010, 08:40:23 AM
????

I see ceramic pots sitting on a crate ?

I see Razer. O.o
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: JoeBlo on April 19, 2010, 09:28:54 AM: Quote from: Sparkey98 on April 18, 2010, 02:08:45 PM
i see whats his faces old shell in the backround...........I think

Quote from: JoeBlo on April 19, 2010, 08:40:23 AM
I see ceramic pots sitting on a crate ?
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: inplabth on April 25, 2010, 10:08:36 PM: The really interesting thing is that I frankly have no idea where my username came from. It originated back in my earlier days (probably 10-11 years old), when Runescape was the popular thing to do at school. Nothing I could think of for a username would work without tacking numbers on the end, I somehow came up with Inplabth and it stuck. Nothing I have ever signed up for has has the username Inplabth used.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Sparkey98 on April 25, 2010, 11:42:12 PM: Quote from: JoeBlo on April 19, 2010, 09:28:54 AM
Quote from: Sparkey98 on April 18, 2010, 02:08:45 PM
i see whats his faces old shell in the backround...........I think

Quote from: JoeBlo on April 19, 2010, 08:40:23 AM
I see ceramic pots sitting on a crate ?

LOL if you look closly, they kind of have the shape of Envys body all together. Well, I thought it was another bot LIKE him at first.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Resetti's Replicas on April 26, 2010, 12:04:42 AM: My name is from Mr. Resetti, the Animal Crossing character that comes in every time you reset the game, and chews you out for it. If you reset enough times, you get to find out his first name, which is Sonny.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Thyrus on April 26, 2010, 12:55:43 AM: I once builded a bot in RA2 (a robot combat video game) and needed a name for that super extreme overpowered great robot.
I named it Thyrus.
then I played against Lil Dog and I lost.
Title: Re: How did YOU come up with your name?
Post by: Naryar on April 26, 2010, 03:13:13 AM: Quote from: Thyrus on April 26, 2010, 12:55:43 AM
then I played against Lil Dog and I lost.

HAHAHAHA