What is in a name?

[CyricMoonblade]

We all choose nick name's to represent us in the gaming community..... Some of us have grown quite attached to our names.... I even once considered chaning my name to my game nick since i like it so much, coures i would never do something stupid like that :roll . But anyway here is the back story between my Name.... Please after you are done reading tell me the story behind yours.

Cyric comes from the D&D Forgotten realms. He is an evil god to put it bluntly, the god of murder and assasination i think. Cyric was not born a god however, he was a mortal, an assasin i believe. He became a god by murdering a god whom had been made mortal as a punishment by a greater god. Cyric then became the youngest of the gods, and is also the most treacherous. There was more to it than that, and some site will hve diffrent stories, and some better ones but here is a link that is closest to the story i know.


http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/2596/powers/Cyric.html

Cyric is also know as the Prince of lies


The Moonblade Surname came from Baldur Gate PPC game, ironicaly in wich Cyric also appears.

So now tell me your story....

[Derfud]

Mine isn't all that legendary, ok here it goes:

One day iwas playing perfect dark on my gmaeboy, and i decided to start a new account, so i just pressed on the pad and hit random buttons, the name that came out was Derfu, i liked it and thought it was original, so i used it for a while, then i decided to make a hotmail account, but the name [email protected] was already taken, so then i added the d to make it Derfud. It was not until later that i started using it as a nickname, i used the alias of 'Macdaddy' For CS, but it never really stuck, then i pulled out the Derfud for some action. I started registering for forums with the nickname Derfud, and as i got more and more involved in my online and Gaming affair i used it all the time, and now it will never go away. It is the perfect nickname, original, easy to type and remember!

[Incompetent]

When I started playing T2, I had never played an online FPS with other people, so I did what most people would do, I assumed I would suck. So I said to myself, i'll just take a placeholder name and think of something decent when I can fight worth a damn. Then I just, I dunno, didn't want to let it go and decided to keep it.

[Fire_Monkey]

Well, I love monkeys. In class, I draw comics of monkeys killing each other with Rockets/Guns etc... and in math I say monkey randomly so that the teacher gives me a detention whenever I say it. So then I thought of the coolest descriptive word that I could without being like Death/Ream/Rape/Own or any other such crap. And there was the creation of a Fire_Monkey.:D

[Ludio]

When I first started multiplayer gaming (HL FFA and TFC) I used the nick GreenDevil because I couldn't think of anything better. After a few years I started to get bored with it an I wanted a name which was easier to say (everyone called me Green, or Devil). There is a cool book by Iain M Banks called "Player of Games", I thought that it would be cool to have a generic name like that, but PlayerofGames is way too long and sounds like crap. About the same time I found a site about the study of games (http://www.ludology.org/), which is called ludology. I liked the idea of using latin and I wanted to be a PlayerofGames. After a bit of research I chose Ludio, which means Player in latin.

Ludius means the same thing and when I can't use Ludio I use that.

[afex]

aphex twin
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[Fire_Monkey]

I always thought Ludio's name was based off those lude drugs.

[Ludio]

:confused:

[Ezcactus]

just put two words together and boom, instant nick.

muhahaha!

[Yuyi]

My name YUYI (usually confused with Yuri or Yugi) comes from my college days. My dormmates were very bored and we decided to come up with a drinking game. There were 5 of us, who ever was it pointed at some and said YOU! and that person would have to drink. (very lame i know ;)) We eventualy got so drunk that when my friend got picked he would say eek. The next day after we all vomited, We came up the name for YOU! and the eek! Ofcourse we made Yuyi. I actually didn't start using this name till i played old MMOs like Darkages (not DAoC)

[Flameseeker]

I mostly started using forums when Warcraft 3 came out. I liked Night Elves and played as them a lot. I also liked the Demon Hunter and his names. I chose "Flameseeker" because that's a Demonhunter name. Later I realized it is rather fitting for a forum. :p

[Tobias]

The Sheep
Tobias
Tobias De'Ville

[Squeeky]

I started gaming when i was 11, I got on roger wilco for the first time then, and was in a clan with the youngest person (besides me) being 24. I was really out of place, and i had a REALLY squeeky voice. So they nicknamed me squeek, and ive had it since

[Bighoss]

I chose my name because one time my cars radio started picking up on the truck drivers radio and this guy that had the biggest red neck accent started talking and then somone said Bighoss so I figured it was him and I laughed thought it was a funny name. Good FOR EVERYTHING:thumbsup:

[Pilgrim]

When I was a youth I read comics... and one called Grendel had a Kewl Character name Hunter Rose.

When I first started playing LAN FSP (Before some of you where probably born) :D It was Doom 2 and DukeNukem3d and the like but they had an 8 character limit on names and no spaces.

Thus Hunter-R

In MMORP I use Pilgrim because it just sounds kewl and I'm always wondering around! But for PS, and DoD and CS, and T2 and BF1942 and whetever else I'm playing I go back to he ole Hunter-R

:)

(And yes I get asked what the R means all the time!)

[Derfud]

I still say my story pwns everyone elses

[Pilgrim]

If that's what you need to feel good about yourself...
:D :D

[CDaws]

I'm a history buff. I especially like any kind of military history from early Greek and Roman all the way up to present day. I had to do a report in my 6th grade history class back when Desert Shield and Desert Storm was going on and I pick that current event and of course I picked the 101st Ranger outfit for my topic. Then it got me hooked on the whole Ranger group and what things they do and the whole history of the LRRP's and the commando school all the way up to the present day Rangers. The Rangers are made up of the best of each branch of the military and I'm some what of a perfectionist and try to be the best that I can in everything I do so it goes good with me as name.

[diluted]

Originally posted by Derfud
I still say my story pwns everyone elses

lol yep.

i originally used FED3RAL in starcraft back at very least 4-5 years ago. i got into slipknot maybe 2 years ago and read an interview of the lead singer/writer and the song 'diluted' was so powerful to him it made him cry after singing it. i started listening to the song more and it was just so kickass so tada diluted.

btw the story behind fed3ral is sooooo sososo lame. i was at the time about 10-11 and got one of those tech-deck bikes and looked on the back and saw the name of a company named fed3ral so im like "yippy skippy thats me weeeee"

[Lonehunter]

My name doesn't have to do much with gaming but it was an idea. I hunt allot, with my dad, relatives, but friends mostly. One time me and my good friend decided to try some place new. We were in the woods and decided to head different directions and meet at the truck in a couple hours. I eventually saw an eight point buck. As I slowly went to a prone and waited for a clear shot, I heard another distance shot that scared off the dear. I was pissed. I later found out we were close to a farm and my friend shot at another deer and hit an old man in the arm. He ran off and the cops got me. Since he lost so much blood they thought it was murder, and on the way to the police station they used the code 187. Since I always went off on my own, plus the code I thought I'd try it.

[Arshune]

My name comes from a D&D campaign (yeah I KNOW that's nerdy, shup) I played with my friends. It's basically just sounds mashed together, but it sounds pretty cool. Arshune Medagard, the world's FIRST and ONLY chaotic evil paladin. He started out lawful good, but after numerous crowbar beatings in a local bar they went and changed my alignment. :mad: I still say there were at least SOME righteous smitings in there!

[Unregistered]

This isn't my name. I refuse to register for this forum.

[Confectrix]

Confectrix.

Latin in origin.
Literal meaning: "[The] Destroyer"

Destoyer of what? Hmm.

[BaD]

Well, i started using BaD a long long time ago, probably when i realized what my own initials were. B.a.D. people think i named myself BaD cause i have some complex or something, but in actuality, its just my name and my mom got tired of me using my initials as an excuse to be a trouble maker after like the 5th time i said it.

AuTo is my tribes clan, one of the oldest, and i am the last of a diein breed..

AuTo|BaD

[BLuE_ZeRO]

hmm... the 1337ness of this name just sort of dawned upon me one day while I was playing Armored Core. Needed a name for my newly created core which happened to be colored blue. Sort of went from there. :D

[KeviN]

Err... It's my name! Yay.

[Subliminal]

Im just pretty intrigued by the workings of the brain and one kinda thing i like is the whole subliminal messaging theory where with enough flash images of different things that you dont know youve seen make you believe in something. If you ever watch those static channels that dont come in on your tv i swear it makes you want to buy coke products and vote republican :D there is subliminal messaging in there.

yvan eht nioj. yvan eht nioj.