What does your username mean/refer to? (if it's not obvious)

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 3:50 pm

I could have sworn there was a thread like this... was it in the exploded forum(s)?

Anyway! A refresher:

Minzoku Bokumetsu is the Japanese equivalent of Jen Aside, another name I use. If you don't get it, say it aloud

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:04 am

In the Virtua Fighter 4 world, as most know, when you pop in your card, your ringname & stats show up in the top right hand of the screen. Being a resident of Japan, and a whitie, I thought long and hard for something befitting of both being a white bastard, and a fighting name. Thus, my name was born. Pretty clever I thought. I used to go to places, pop in the card, and the other side would burst into laughter.

I got sick of thinking up other names for the assload of forums I participated on, so stuck with this one.

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:20 pm

My name is that of composer Henryk Górecki, who wrote Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. It's also the name of a brilliant Lamb song, that was inspired by the symphony.

OneEyedJack · Post by **OneEyedJack** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:16 pm

Kaiser wrote:Mine refers to german word meaning caesar lol

And Caesar is a Roman bastardization of the Russian "Czar", Which means King/Emperor. So Well done:D

OneEyedJack is from about 1995, when I needed an alias to for the local BBSs. I was at a party, and I had a Joker (I still do), I was going to call myself The Joker, which would not have been original seeing how the Batman movies had come out, so I changed to a different card terminology. What is interesting is that I am pretty much the only OneEyedJack on the internet. I never have any issues in getting the name:D

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:38 pm

What is interesting is that I am pretty much the only OneEyedJack on the internet.

So are you this guy, this guy, this guy, and this guy? That was just the first page of Google.

I should really get back to work...

dolph · Post by **dolph** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:02 am

I have taken my nickname from Simpsons. Dolph is one of the rowdies who hardly says a word. It's about 6 years ago I found that name in one Simpsons comicbook and I still like it.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:15 am

dolph wrote:I have taken my nickname from Simpsons. Dolph is one of the rowdies who hardly says a word. It's about 6 years ago I found that name in one Simpsons comicbook and I still like it.

not to forget its also the name of this hunk-a-man-luuv..

hehe..

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:30 am

I had a parrot that said arznei whenever it sneezed.

MovingTarget · Post by **MovingTarget** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:51 pm

When spray painting, trains are moving targets to me

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:51 pm

PFG 9000 wrote:At another messageboard, I created the the painfully generic username "Pfloydguy." Yeah, I'm a Pink Floyd fan. Some of the members shortened that to PFG. I happened to be using the Doom guy's face as my avatar, and so the natural progression was to rename myself PFG 9000 in pseudo-reference to Doom's most powerful gun.

In other news, I detest David Lynch and his films with every fiber of my Floydian being.

Alright, time to trot out this ol' chestnut:

I cause people to be unable to finish games.

...sigh

Stormowl · Post by **Stormowl** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:37 am

one of the bosses from mega man x4.

originally i started out wanting to pick one of the cooler boss names from the other mega man x games, but they were all taken when i tried to get a hotmail account way back in the mid 90's. so stormowl was what i got, and it's been my internet handle ever since.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:12 am

Minzoku wrote:Minzoku Bokumetsu is the Japanese equivalent of Jen Aside, another name I use. If you don't get it, say it aloud

I
DON'T
GET
IT!

Like that?

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:08 am

The J is for my name, which is John. And the manic is for my love for manic shmups. Nothing fancy.

CHI · Post by **CHI** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:54 pm

Minzoku wrote:I could have sworn there was a thread like this.....

thats exactly what i thought.....

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... ht=#189868

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:02 am

A) Because my name is Dylan. B) Because I 1CC'ed Batsugun a few years ago. And C)It's also the title of a comic/story I am working on. And now that I think about it, CC just may be short for everybody's favorite taxi drivin' superhero Captain Cab. Revenger of the downtrodden and diligent annoyer of B.A. Baracus.

VNAF Ace · Post by **VNAF Ace** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:11 am

VNAF: South Vietnamese Air Force. My father was a VNAF aircraft mechanic during the Vietnam War.

Ace: A pilot who has scored at least 5 confirmed air-to-air kills.

Aquas · Post by **Aquas** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:43 pm

Aquas is known as the level in StarFox 64, which I did indeed play before I gave myself this handle many years ago. However, I did not create the handle with the StarFox 64 level in mind... in fact, I had a unique fondness of water at the time. I am thoroughly pleased with my handle. Thank you, thread.

P.S. I upgraded from "zaptoise" to Aquas... pokemon fans know what zaptoise means.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:39 pm

It's not the band.

For the curious: http://unsane1.livejournal.com/466669.html

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:04 pm

FIL, the 3 letter equivalent of my first name. It was originally just a placeholder until I could actually think of a good internets name to replace my previous string of really bad handles, but its been 5 years since I started using it and I still haven't thought of a replacement, so it sorta stuck.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:34 pm

You know my name is Adam stop callin' me Phyllis.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:37 pm

it's what i put up on the scoreboard

palindromes are cool

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:37 am

I'm the apathetic and useless boss character from Bangaioh.
I got a real kick out of his first encounter (Lvl. 7) when he says to Riki and Mami: "So, I am here.", and his complete indifference to their attacks.
Kind of the way I felt when first posting on game forums.

Koa-zo:
So, I am here.
You caught me by surprise while I was talking! You just took a
shot!
It doesn't matter, it's OK.
But, Takeshi is... His body is his world.
If you send him away from home, he'll have many problems.
I mean, if it's possible... Wouldn't we do better to stick
together?
You're killing me again? And that's not gonna help you reach your
target!

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:23 am

Mine's a combination of my last name and The Terminator. One of my roommates in college came up with it while we were watching T2 and started using it a lot, and it's been with me ever since.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:57 am

Not only am I paying homage to the old school shooter, but I am also a ROBOT in real life.

neist · Post by **neist** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:02 am

Mine means absolutely nothing.

In fact, I made it up completely.

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:43 am

name, David Payne, nickname david paynful = dpful

ARCADIA · Post by **ARCADIA** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:05 am

ARCADIA I'm an arcade junkie, I've worked at Namco's arcade when I was in Japan, it was alot of fun

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:59 am

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:49 am

Years ago, in high school, I was trying to come up with a name for a website that sounded intelligent and esoteric, and this is what I ended up with. It's completely asinine, but it stuck, and serves as a reminder of how clever I once thought that I was.

It's got "necro" in it. Dark! I'm so fuckin' deep!

Motorherp · Post by **Motorherp** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:47 am

I like to keep exotic pets such as snakes and lizards and herp is a grouping term for reptiles and amphibians. Therefore my name can translated to 'mechanical reptile' or something like that I suppose. The motor bit came into it because I was listening to Motorhead at the time I came up with it and it wasn't a far stretch of the imagination to replace to last two letters to something more fitting.