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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: greenraven on August 18, 2012, 08:39:55 PM

Title: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: greenraven on August 18, 2012, 08:39:55 PM
So why are your usernames what they are? Do they mean something special to you? Or did you just throw your cat on the keyboard and got a random arrangement of letters?

Me? Green is my favorite color. And when I was creating my internet persona Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven was stuck on my mind, so I became greenraven.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Cerebus on August 18, 2012, 08:45:20 PM
In my case, I've seen "Cerebus" used in various games and stuff.
I decided to use it because it fits my character, as I see it more like a combination of "Cerebral" and Cerberus" rather than a simple mispelling or something.
That's pretty much it, yeah.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Natako on August 18, 2012, 08:50:10 PM
Once upon a time on a forum far, far away, I stumbled across a game that involved creating a band name for yourself and the title of your first album. The band name was determined by a random wikipedia search which just so happened to come up with "Natako". Natako is actually some village in Togo, as deceptively Asian as it sounds. I liked it, so I used it when I was trying to come up with a username for these forums.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Bluhman on August 18, 2012, 11:01:38 PM
Completely Improvised.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: fruckert on August 18, 2012, 11:08:52 PM
I started typing and didn't notice the tragedy until about 20 minutes later.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Cerebus on August 19, 2012, 02:13:53 AM
I think it was a misspelled anagram of "Casual Urine" or something, where you accidentally switched the second A for a second I.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on August 19, 2012, 02:26:29 AM
I leik ed, edd, n eddyz.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: ZedOv3rKill on August 19, 2012, 03:21:16 AM
I started typing and didn't notice the tragedy until about 20 minutes later.

 :Plight: thats awesome

I'm a zombie fanatic so mine is my tribute to Sean of the Dead.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: HackersTotalMassLaser on August 19, 2012, 04:26:44 AM
Let me play you the song of my people.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Meiscool on August 19, 2012, 04:46:25 AM
Mine is obvious.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Prpl_Mage on August 19, 2012, 07:02:28 PM
Mine is obvious.

It's always good to have a saviour around.

Mine is also pretty obvious. A final fantasy geek so PRPL is short for purple, just like BLK is short for black and RED is short for  - wait.
Basic idea was that a purple mage utilized status problems. Square later invented green magic for that though.
Became a title for a group of people later in my games and stories. Good stuff.
Also purple is one royal colour.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Cerebus on August 19, 2012, 07:12:34 PM
Oh, and there I thought it was a combination of Red and Blue.

Also, thanks to that Prpl_Mage avatar bi-week thing, Prpl_Troops is part of my will-never-exist story, though they're way different than your thing.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Prpl_Mage on August 19, 2012, 09:03:51 PM
Oh, and there I thought it was a combination of Red and Blue.

Yeah that's also a reason. Red magic is a little of both so they had a little of both as well as status problems. And by the time I created them I thought that blue magic was just about random buffs and status problems. as well as water, earth and wind damage.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Meiscool on August 19, 2012, 09:41:28 PM
Purple mage = time mage me thinks, since in tactics games they were more purple than any mage class.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: daoman89 on August 19, 2012, 10:00:13 PM
DAO are my initials and "man" was added becuz DAO89 was taken.  1989 was the year I was born and there ya have it.  Simple.

I'd like to change it to Ragnell_Lee tho.  Ragnell being Ike's sword and Lee being my representation of me and one of my best friends who is Carter from Rush Hour movies.  Sadly I am not chinese or Asian at all lol.  And you get Ragnell_Lee
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Zerlina on August 20, 2012, 01:42:40 AM
Zerlina is a character in Don Giovanni. I had just seen it when I registered for Charas.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Archem on August 20, 2012, 03:01:45 AM
I made the name up for a game a million years ago, and it wasn't taken at most places that needed a sign-up. It stuck with me.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Cerebus on August 20, 2012, 03:19:10 AM
Oh hey, I also noticed that you removed the 2 from your name. Was there any reason for that? Was the name already taken by someone who had his/her account recently deleted/changed so you could have it your own?
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Archem on August 20, 2012, 03:45:37 AM
Nah, it was an error from way back when I first joined. I recently had Lucas fix it.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: fruckert on August 20, 2012, 05:41:53 AM
I made the name up for a game a million years ago, and it wasn't taken at most places that needed a sign-up. It stuck with me.
Basically the deal here.
I was just typing, though, and didn't notice that I typed "fucker" with a few letters added until later.
Dead serious.
Nobody believes me, though :(
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Meiscool on August 20, 2012, 05:44:36 AM
Lucas should unban my old account.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Archem on August 20, 2012, 06:19:43 AM
Yeah, that would be cool. I'm pretty sure nobody holds your past against you anymore.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Prpl_Mage on August 20, 2012, 07:24:49 AM
My username isn't very original though I must admit. Mage and a colour. But I'm used to being called purple so it's cool. But there gotta be some hundred thousands out there that also had the idea of a mage wearing purple.
Still beats lucas' name.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: zuhane on August 20, 2012, 02:05:54 PM
Zuhane was the name of a bad guy I created when I was a little kid, but I kind of liked the named because it sounded quirky, so I stuck with it.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Meiscool on August 20, 2012, 05:41:14 PM
Hmmm... it does sound like a cool badguy name, I will admit.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: daoman89 on August 20, 2012, 07:29:23 PM
Your old account Jesus?
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Meiscool on August 20, 2012, 07:48:57 PM
Yeah. I had an old account, but then everyone denied me and hung me on a bancross. 3 days later I arose with a new account, and now I'm just waiting for them to remove the nails that pinned down my old one.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: fruckert on August 20, 2012, 07:51:09 PM
That's the reason why I call him Mic.
His old account was called MeIsCool.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: greenraven on August 20, 2012, 08:02:18 PM
My username isn't very original though I must admit. Mage and a colour. But I'm used to being called purple so it's cool.

People usually just call me green, us colors gotta stick together! :D
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Prpl_Mage on August 20, 2012, 08:15:43 PM
That's the reason why I call him Mic.

Used to be called Mic, now we call him Jim. It's an enigma
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Cerebus on August 20, 2012, 08:31:48 PM
I prefer Meiscool. I guess because I got used to it or something. Lucas, un-ban it now!
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Meiscool on August 20, 2012, 08:50:07 PM
I only prefer Meiscool because I am known throughout the game making community by that name. I don't think anyone outside of Charas knows jim.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: drenrin2120 on August 20, 2012, 10:30:59 PM
Idk, I was like 12 when I came up with this name for the last name of one of my characters. I just started using it for everything. Dren for short when it wouldn't fit. Now, it just feels wrong to use any other screen name online.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Cerebus on August 20, 2012, 11:44:47 PM
But... the post count!
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: SaiKar on August 21, 2012, 12:42:57 AM
Yeah. I had an old account, but then everyone denied me and hung me on a bancross. 3 days later I arose with a new account, and now I'm just waiting for them to remove the nails that pinned down my old one.
You essentially challenged the mods to ban you, and said they wouldn't dare for this or that reason. That's never a particularly wise move.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: drenrin2120 on August 21, 2012, 01:23:09 AM
You essentially challenged the governor of a roman province to come at you, and said they would because you were destined to die. That's never a particularly wise move.

Huh
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Cerebus on August 21, 2012, 01:28:03 AM
Or he could, you know, not care about that

Yeah I know, I wasn't totally serious. I guess the re-naming might work. After all, few people got a name change.
Title: Re: What's the deal with your name?
Post by: Meiscool on August 21, 2012, 01:37:38 AM
Huh

lol

I see that quoting quotes doesn't work anymore or something.