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

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Seeing as I'm a filmmaker:

lynch=David Lynch, one of my favorite film directors

esque=in film jargon it refers to a particular director's style, or as the french like to say: "mis en sen" (felliniesque, bergmanesque, etc)
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Mine is a pun on the acronym UFO (Unidentified Flying Object.) I hope anyone noticed.
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Part of a name (pen-name) I made up long long ago. Since it was when I was pretty young I can't say what inspired me but it's unique and I've liked it ever since.
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Pirates!!! :shock: :P

I like tha tag because it's been said that I have the mentality of a pirate. The number on the back is easy. It's my birthday. 10/19. October 19th. Even if I don't use the tag 'pirate' I always put '1019' at the end of any online alias.


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It's from an RPG Project I'm working on.
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Starzinger (Spaceketeers/Galactico/Sci-Bots)
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I like cartoon porn.
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Re: What does your username mean/refer to? (if it's not obvi

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lynchesque wrote:lynch=David Lynch, one of my favorite film directors
Ooohhh I'm a big David Lynch fan myself. :D

Anyway, mine is, obviously, taken from the Metal Gear Solid series of games. I don't necessarily like Revolver Ocelot all that much but I liked how the name Shalashaska sounded and I'm not a very creative person on my own so.... :wink:
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Ooohhh I'm a big David Lynch fan myself. :D
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It means "Mr. Shade" in German. I was playing Baldur's Gate at the time I needed to pick a username. In the game there's a very funny NPC with the same name.
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Mine comes from a Far Side cartoon about the names that dogs give themselves (Greetings, I am known as Vexorg, destroyer of cats and devourer of chickens.)
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Mine refers to german word meaning cesar lol :D
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Mine's the name of the eponymous city in REH's "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth", and is also the name of my favourite band.

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mines my first name
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Just from some old game. The game isn't even good but the name just popped in my mind. No great stories behind it.
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Herr Schatten wrote:It means "Mr. Shade" in German. I was playing Baldur's Gate at the time I needed to pick a username. In the game there's a very funny NPC with the same name.
There's a person (I think it's a troll) in one of the Terry Prattchet books that has the name Mr. Schatten.

RotateMe is a demand to rotate the nickname. Then you eMetatoR. Which means nothing but with a bit of imagination it refers to imitator. Which has nothing to do with who I am or what I do. It pretty much sucks...
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Speed Freak fan

It's nostalgic for me, since I used to play the arcade machine back in '79 or '80. I wish mame would get the sound samples someday.
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Mine refers to my somewhat less than stellar skills at borderliners and shmups.
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Character from a really cheesy Fantasy novel I completely love called 'The war of Powers' -it has everything, swords, sorcery, and women having sex with lizard men!. The protagonist - Fost Longstrider, slays every enemy and beds every woman!
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From the coolest robot in the Virtual On Oratorio Tangram game. Specineff, the cyber-reaper.
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It's an abbreviation of a previous username that hopefully no longer exists anywhere on the internet.
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The n00b wrote:Mine refers to my somewhat less than stellar skills at borderliners and shmups.
That times 1000 for me.
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My username is a personal homage to the awesome japanese comic/ performance art group, "Tokyo Shock Boys" (Dengeki Network). They were the jackass before Jackass. Too bad their original homepage is gone, it had killer engrish and stuff something like "teenage girls often wet themselves during our shows" ^___^

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http://web.archive.org/web/199902211906 ... .htm#shock[/i]
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I constantly unintentionally make references to games I don't play or like anymore in my usernames.

This one's from Tyrian, what the numerous pointless special moves were called. See if you can figure out exactly where that came from!
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The Darius Gaiden composition.
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Axon wrote:The Darius Gaiden composition.
Coolness. :)
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Hmm mine is Pixel because i love to do old school limited color pixel art and outlaw cause it sounds cool. :shock:
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ShmupsFanaticKhoa.
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Mine's simple. I have a fondness for the NEC SuperGrafx.
And yes, I own the entire library for the console, as limited as it may be. :)
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