Etrigan
Posts: 385 |
Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2008, 11:18AM ESTTell us how your nickname came about.
I'll start off with my nickname.
Nickname: Etrigan
My brother was trying to think of a gaming name for me and Etrigan popped into his mind. The nickname originates from a character from the original Batman cartoon series. Etrigan is half human and half demon so he will summon the demon when need be if there is danger looming. The other aliases I go by over the years with having this nickname are: ET, Estrogen (inside joke) and Etri.
The famous line for Etrigan is:
"Gone, gone, form of man, arise the demon, Etrigan!"
More information: Etrigan |
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vrap
Posts: 17 |
Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2008, 11:22AM EST| Years ago back in the day when I needed a internet nick I was obsessed with dinosaurs, so it made perfect sense to pick Vraptor7. Since then I use it only out of habit, and have shortened it to vrap for convenience. |
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J0E
Posts: 15 |
Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2008, 11:35AM EST| Way back in the day, like 2000, i went to Florida for a few weeks where my cousin was obsessed with quake 2. After spending most of the time there watching him play Paintball 2 I asked for a turn. So i sit down and he's like 'ok whats a name you want?' My first choice was Herron, but that was already taken, then i chose Goose, but that again was taken. Finally I was like how about JoE because it sounds like a hullbilly redneck name, being 10 years old at the time i didnt know any better. When i left he burnt be a copy of q2 and paintball, after i installed the name JoE just stuck, and sooner rather than later developed into J0E |
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ButtaKnife
Posts: 1138 |
Posted on Thursday, March 6, 2008, 1:27PM EST| When I first got into Action Quake 2, I really hadn't settled on a nickname. I was doing so poorly in AQ2 that one day I decided that I was about as dangerous as a butter knife. So, I switched my name in game to "A Butter Knife". That name was a lot of fun with the Action Quake 2 kill messages. ("____ was killed by A Butter Knife!") I ended up joining a clan, and due to the limitation on the number of characters in a Quake 2 name and needing to wear the clan tag, I shortened my name to ButtaKnife. It has stuck since. |
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Rainbowstar
Posts: 11 |
Posted on Friday, March 7, 2008, 8:14AM ESTWow, you guys all have names originating from gaming...mine is just from playing around on MSN. After a couple of display names (flip the frodo, better than gandalf saruman even sauron, wanna be hippie,...) I discovered that you could put emoticons in your display name as well. So I played around and made (l)child's (f)power and (r)(*) (translating to lovechild's flowerpower and rainbowstar) I was really into hippies back then...later on it got shortened to rainbowstar. Since I've since discovered that rainbowstar was actually really a kind of 'codename' for drugs in the 70's (my brother told me) and that numerically speaking it fits me just right, I kept it as nickname, but also as my "wiccan" name (yeah...i was in a coven for a while)
Before rainbowstar, my nicknames were Isis_Minerva (fav godesses of those ancient cultures) and Belgian_Witch. Because of the latter, you'll sometimes find me as Rainbowstar_belgianwitch or RainbowstarBW in case Rainbowstar itsself is already taken. As I've come to learn, it's quite a popular nickname, actually |
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XanJunior
Posts: 6 |
Posted on Friday, March 7, 2008, 8:30AM ESTgee, I don't know where to start.
My first gaming alias was soul_digger. It originates from song by U2 named Elevation. Somewhere along the lyrics, it says "diggin' on my soul now going down, excavation." So, change it up a bit and you have a soul digger. That was about in '98. A year later, I got into a mod in Unreal Tournament called TallyHo!. It was addictive for me. Anywho, there was a character in the mod named Xan Jr. He always raped me. So, what did I do? I basically took the name for my own. Absolutely no one else on this here internetz uses it. So I will. I've made it a, well, useful name I guess.
Anyways, a few other of my aliases are witness (cause a jehovah witness visited my house when I was thinking of a name to use in CSS) and also Dimiku (made one day from charmap to use in UT, later turned out to be my MMORPG nick, everywhere).
Ta-dah! |
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ghostknight
Posts: 1 |
Posted on Friday, March 7, 2008, 9:45AM ESTWell... Most know me by BigDaddyD - So that will be the nickname that i use here... I was sitting around one day... and after much pwnij on NetBlitz Q2DM server, I decided to go by bigdaddy. after joining Team Karn, I discovered that my name wasn't unique... so i decided to add the initial of my first name, D, thereby rendering BigDaddyD- I rose from the ashes, and have hence forth been known as BigD, BDD, BigDaddyDave. Now the nickname i currently use, SgtDavidY - was born from my position on the force. I am a patrol sergeant, and damned proud!
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brian
Posts: 170 |
Posted on Saturday, March 8, 2008, 4:58PM EST
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mrTn
Posts: 890 |
Posted on Sunday, March 9, 2008, 1:44PM ESTTo be honoust, I wouldn't know :x
I think it was because we were having a laugh about making nicknames at some point, and one guy thought of a nick and said I should use that too, so I said "I'm not you!" which pretty much became my nick then =P |
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Rainbowstar
Posts: 11 |
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008, 3:55AM EST| oooh, so i've always been putting the emphasis wrong...i've been thinking it's me, not you, when it's actually not me, you |
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mrTn
Posts: 890 |
Posted on Monday, March 10, 2008, 10:12AM EST| I guess it's both nowadays =P |
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atmays
Posts: 13 |
Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 11:53PM ESTWell
atmays was originally a.t.mays Anthony Terelle Mays
But people jus call me at-mays |
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ViCiOUZ
Posts: 23 |
Posted on Sunday, March 30, 2008, 5:45AM EST| When I started playing paintball2, I was 11. So, I obviously wanted a name that sounded UbErKeWl in that 11-year old kind of way. So, I chose ViCiOUS. Then when I found someone on ETG already used that nick (the ircop, duh >.<) I changed it to ViCiOUZ and eventually to ViciouZ. Still lots of people seem to use it. Sometimes you see me as blimey on IRC, or blimey, tosser, fatty lump or bawls on DP. |
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LoreOfSerpents
Posts: 864 |
Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2008, 3:00PM ESTI made up a nonsensical name that started with "Lore" when I was first learning about the Internet. I know a lot of random information, and over time people started calling me "Lore" for short.
When I came to IRC, it was clear that "Lore" by itself was too generic. Since I specialize in knowing things about snakes, I added "OfSerpents." |
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Rainbowstar
Posts: 11 |
Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2008, 5:30PM EST| I know i said this before, but Lore is actually my third name. Of my three first names I actually like it best |
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bg
Posts: 59 |
Posted on Saturday, April 5, 2008, 8:34AM EST| i chose goddess initially, don't remember why, i think i was in a hurry that day. but when i started playing first person shooters, it just didn't seem a formidable enough nick for such violence, so i added the prefix. now, i don't really like it at all, (lol) so i abbreviated it. does any of this make sense? haha. <3 |
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Etrigan
Posts: 385 |
Posted on Saturday, April 5, 2008, 11:59AM ESTlol bg
You're such a character. |
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sueco
Posts: 4 |
Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008, 12:51PM EST| My nick means Swedish in Spanish :D Took it when I had a G/F from Chile couple of years ago. |
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Justinph5
Posts: 2 |
Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008, 3:52PM ESTJustinph5 is old- with my first ever email address, basically initials, with 5 at the end :P
The one I use all the time now: Jusu - was me and my roommates playing NES! only 4 characters fit in the name column, so Justin didn't work, so the letter I picked was u, creating Jusu. |
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Jigsy
Posts: 4 |
Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 3:18PM ESTMy first ever nick was Zidane. (From Final Fantasy IX.)
After a year or two I plagiarized DancesWithSnoopy's nick and used JigsWithoutWoodstock.
I then started using Jigsy (People were calling me Jigs and Jigsy anyway.) since around the end of 2005. (Pre-Sept ... according to an old log I found.) |
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millennium
Posts: 4 |
Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 6:38PM EST| I got mine a really odd way... I used to be a diehard Wrestling fan and back in 96 there was a internet rumor that a wrestler was going to show up called "Millennium" so i decided to use it been that nick since. |
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Ross_Co
Posts: 11 |
Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 9:31AM EST| at least once a month some noob has to ask me "wtf does the co mean" i just sit there and do dots ... i dont know what the co means i was just called rossco at school when i played rugby could be because my last name is ross and one of the players on the other team was called ross :/ but yeah rossco didn't look good on a ut99 killing spree so i changed it to Ross_Co and i have had it for about 5 to 6 years and will never give it up <3 |
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Se7eN
Posts: 154 |
Posted on Monday, January 12, 2009, 11:54AM ESTContrary to what most people believe, I didn't get my name from the movie Se7en. I've spent a few times regretting my choice because of some comments, (I didn't know of the movie, and yeah, try to tell that to the people who are saying "Hey you took your nick from that movie!")- but but since to me; there was never any association to the movie to begin with, I kept it.
It was back when I first started IRC, I was about 13 and it was on UnderNet.
This was back when script kiddies were really booming and #hacker channels all over IRC consisted mostly of people who didn't know what TCP meant. All these people had numbers in their names cause it looked "1337" So my teenage reaction was to think of a name that suited me, but still had the "1337" (lol..) look to it. I was always fond of the number 7 and to me, seven and 7 just seemed like the perfect word/number to mix. So from some point on in IRC, I changed from alekx to Se7eN, and I've kept it ever since. |
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Ross_Co
Posts: 11 |
Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 7:26AM EST|
Quote from Se7eN |
Contrary to what most people believe, I didn't get my name from the movie Se7en. I've spent a few times regretting my choice because of some comments, (I didn't know of the movie, and yeah, try to tell that to the people who are saying "Hey you took your nick from that movie!")- but but since to me; there was never any association to the movie to begin with, I kept it.
It was back when I first started IRC, I was about 13 and it was on UnderNet.
This was back when script kiddies were really booming and #hacker channels all over IRC consisted mostly of people who didn't know what TCP meant. All these people had numbers in their names cause it looked "1337" So my teenage reaction was to think of a name that suited me, but still had the "1337" (lol..) look to it. I was always fond of the number 7 and to me, seven and 7 just seemed like the perfect word/number to mix. So from some point on in IRC, I changed from alekx to Se7eN, and I've kept it ever since.
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hey didnt you get your name from that movie? |
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Navyseal
Posts: 3 |
Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 5:53PM EST| My name comes from my brother who is serving in the Navy and he is a Navyseal so i like the name and registered it till this day i love it, and one day hope to be a navyseal |
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