TheMightyEthan Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 My name is Ian, but a surprising amount of the time people think it's "Ethan". As a result my friends in highschool started just calling me Ethan. Then when I was making my XBL tag I combined Ethan with that song, "The Mighty Quinn" to get TheMightyEthan. Prior to that I was often Enchilada! because that's what a cheat-code for Cel Damage renamed my old Xbox's network name to. WTF... This whole time I thought your RL name was Ethan. lol, close enough. I answer to the name Ethan IRL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForgetfulBrain Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) My name is Ian, but a surprising amount of the time people think it's "Ethan". As a result my friends in highschool started just calling me Ethan. Then when I was making my XBL tag I combined Ethan with that song, "The Mighty Quinn" to get TheMightyEthan. Prior to that I was often Enchilada! because that's what a cheat-code for Cel Damage renamed my old Xbox's network name to. WTF... This whole time I thought your RL name was Ethan. Ohh, me too. Haa. When I see a realistic sounding name on the internet, I just assume it's real. Not sure why... Shoot. What was I watching recently where they call the guy "E'tan" = Ethan, but with an accent. Edited January 3, 2011 by TheForgetfulBrain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slithy toves Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 wow ethan, way to kill everyone's dreams of yr irl name being ethan. geez. consider slithy disillusioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 It means failure of the senses or something similar. Actually, it means "Weakness of the senses" Failure of the senses would be "Échec des sens" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 wow ethan, way to kill everyone's dreams of yr irl name being ethan. geez. consider slithy disillusioned. Like I said, plenty of people call me Ethan IRL, so whatevs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showmeyomoves! Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Shoot. What was I watching recently where they call the guy "E'tan" = Ethan, but with an accent. Aaargh, I know what you mean but I can't think of it! Is it that chick in the Fifth Element? Dammit... Now I need to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKnuckle Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 (edited) I've used two nicknames. The current one is the name of one of the bad dudes from Legend of Zelda, one of the only non-boss characters who people generally know by name. I also use MegaZeroX. I signed up for this Star Trek Game online, back when I was like 16 or something, and I wanted to use "MegaMan" or "Zero" or whatever MegaMan character, but they were all taken. MegaZeroX was not taken, I used that one on IRC and at websites until like '03. I've been using IronKnuckle since about '03. Oh, the game was Star Trek: Birth of the Federation. It was great; it was an online game and it would take hours and hours and hours to play through. It hit single- and multi-player; the multi-player was online back when online games were mostly unheard of. I needed "MegaZeroX" to have a username on the web version. Edited January 4, 2011 by IronKnuckle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Finally remembered the whole story behind my user/screen name When I created my gamertag for xbxo live I tried different combinations involving my name but all of them were taken so I went with Metal for the genre of music I like, and Caveman thanks to the song "Caveman Rejoice" by The Bags (I think it was in the first Guitar Hero?), and then, MetalCaveman was born! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 It's "Mr." because all well-groomed gentleman are taught to lead with their sex and station, so as to avoid any social class confusion on the thoroughfare. "Mr." also indicates an expectation of civil distance, as opposed to the rough discourse between people who do not use honorifics. "Goh" because it is short, simple and easy to remember. It also is homophonous with the well-known word "go," itself the quintessential action verb. It bespeaks movement, activity, and vigor. It is a powerful syllable. It's capitalized because it is pronounced loudly, a bold declaration of a name! The exclamation point is both to emphasize the suggested volume, but also to turn the quotidian "Goh" into the imperative "GOH!" It becomes a life-affirming command: "Go forth and be!" Which is darn good advice. In the alternative, I was maybe just a little bit drunk out of my mind one night in 2004 and I needed a new name for Ramza in FFT and picked Mr. GOH! because it was "weird, man." 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baconrath Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 (edited) I once saw a person's name on a plaque with the last name of "Falkenrath" or something. I then realized I could switch out Falken for something else so I replaced it with bacon for some reason. It wasn't till later that I learned that there was a company known as Rath which I'm pretty sure made bacon. om nom nom nom Edited November 12, 2011 by Baconrath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 I used to be called elmo16 during my runescape and internet cafe days, but decided it wasn't cool. So I wanted to think of another name. Lexus car make became Nexus, and thus is was born. Cinnanexus comes from the FF9 minor character. I don't even like him, but when I first started on the internet and on FF forums everyone was "Zidane" or "Steiner" or "Vivi", and I wanted to be different. So it stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotChops Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 my screen name is also my gaming name. "Chops" in this case means sideburns. I have very wild, Wolverine-esqe sideburns. To be honest, I immediately regretted the name once I started using it. I thought it sounded really gay; not just lame, but actually gay. But to my surprise, most people like it. Apparently it rolls off the tongue well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 I once saw a person's name on a plague with the last name of "Falkenrath" or something. I then realized I could switch out Falken for something else so I replaced it with bacon for some reason. I probably would have changed it to Falconwrath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceedee Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Growing up I had a few different names. Chauncemyster was my earliest, I moved on to Zacken, then I was Gogeba for awhile. Eventually I hit Jalaman and it stuck. I think people find it fairly memorable, it's unique, and people tend to have fun with it (Jalalalalalalalaaaa) It has a pretty random origin. I was making a new WoW character and couldn't think of a name. I had recently been playing a lot of Battlefield 2, on the map Jalalabad. I simply took the Jalala and replaced "bad" with the suffix "man". Eventually I shortened it from Jalalaman to just Jalaman and I've become pretty attached to the name, so I don't see it changing anytime soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueKara Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 My screen name is QueKara, which comes from the alias I used in a Star Wars role playing game board I used to be a part of. They knew me there as Mike Que-Kara. As for the origins of Mike Que-Kara, it actually came from Knights of the Old Republic. The name generator gave me "Michael Que-Sala", which I edited a bit more to my liking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirandello Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Luigi Pirandello Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 It's the name of a character in a series of books by my current fave author. My PSN id is another character from those books. I hate having ID's / User names with random characters in the middle or numbers at the end, the majority of fictional characters that have appeared in games or on TV have already been taken, so I went with something that the majority of gaming plebians would not even have heard of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Hey, we're not all plebians! ...what are 'books'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 You're a minority. All TAYers are automatically in the clear. Books are the things you put in a pile so that your Kinect sensor is the correct height off the ground to work properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 You mean 'magazines'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showmeyomoves! Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 But without the pictures, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 They describe the pictures, using those things you normally find in speech bubbles called "words". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Man, you guys have lost me... Why would anyone read a 'book' without pictures?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr W Phallus Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 I'd often use dickless a lot for usernames and such, including on steam, but an admin on one of the UKCS TF2 servers asked me to change it since they have a no swearing policy. I changed it to the synonymous withoutphallus simply because it amused me at the time and I liked the way it sounded, then it just kinda stuck. Why dickless? Well my real name is Richard Les. Seriously. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SixTwoSixFour Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 I almost hate to break the suspense- I've had quite a few people ask me what my name meant, and I kind of enjoy the mystery. Alas, like most mysteries, once explained it's really kind of lame. In some work of fiction (honest to god, it was so long ago I don't even remember what, some webcomic or something), there is a man who is texting on his cell. In the middle of his texting, a vending machine falls on top of him. As he is crushed, his fingers accidentally mash and send the message "6264." My friends and I thought it was hilarious, and it came a sort of inside joke with us, taking on a whole other meaning. "6264" meant being so confused that you couldn't even communicate properly. A sort of "what is this I don't even". Now, I just have so many good memories associated with the name that I've stuck with it. It's interesting and distinctive without being blatantly stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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