I now officiallly HATE gamertags.

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Heeman89

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ya the overuse of the letter x and anything sex, weed, alcohol or MLG related really pisses me off

my gamertag was the nickname given to me in elementary school which combined my last name, a decent show from the 80s and the last two digits in my birth year... I've been using the same thing since the days of LAN play Red Alert 1 and haven't felt the need to change: Heeman89
 

MazzaTheFirst

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Most names I can let slide, except when they start replacing words like 'the' with 'da' or just generally misspell words. I have a friend with DA in it and I always say, "Hey there D, A."

Also adding numbers on the end is bad. Not only are you unoriginal, you are so unoriginal someone else has already taken that name. (Though I admit I am sad to see many sites with "Mazza" taken.)
 

Deadpewl

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Mine is "TheoryOfStrings". I was going to use it for my username here but I accidently sent it to the wrong email address:p So now im stuck with what I have to say is the most unoriginal username Ive ever come up with.
I usually dont care much about the usernames(gamertags,steam IDs etc) though, It just urks me when people pot like five numbers after their names as I just find it to be lazy. Especially when its something common as dirt like "Halofan35265" or "Gamer6784". Also anything with any variation of "snipe" or "sniper".
Also as a rule of thumb, I never use numbers at the end of my names. Though I am guilty of sticking one or two in the middle if the name I want is taken.
 

SecondmateFlint

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zHellas said:
SecondmateFlint said:
I also hate any reference to "McLovin."
Wanna get this out of the way: My username is pronounced zee-hell-ahss.

And that has been my nickname since 8th grade because people think I look like the character but I CAN EASILY POINT OUT TWO OTHER MOTHERFUCKERS THAT LOOK 87% MORE LIKE HIM THAN ME! (Sorry, but it pisses me off...Though the naming has worn off quite a bit.)
You mean you hate being called "McLovin" or something else? I'm sorry if I offended you. I just get annoyed when it's MCLOVIN25672839938384 as an XBL gamertag because it's not very original.
 

electricsoup_erman

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on XBL mine is sabus crunch time but without the spaces.
When i play online games and someone has a really bad name i usually just aim to beat him like in MW2 when i see "XX_Pwner_XX or something along those lines i don't care how bad i go as long as I focus on killing him, I know that it does nothing but i get a feeling of accomplishment from beating unoriginal people like them.
 

mechanixis

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trueluigi7 said:
I just hate people who try to make their name look cool rather than sound good.
Bingo. Surrounding it in accent marks and equal-signs just bugs me to no end. Another thing is PC gamers who use half their name to say theyre in a clan or something.

OT, though, it is Modern Warfare 2, a game which does not sport the most highbrow of multiplayer communities.
 

Icehearted

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I tried using Icehearted, because I've always used that name, for years, so I guess as handles go it's pretty much just what I pick by default. Now I go by Thornheart (Icehearted was invalidated before the fix to re-validate gamertags, f*****g Microsoft), which may sound like a name for a malicious Care Bear, but is actually the name of a character in a book.


Some of the names I have seen seem like inside jokes that were likely not very funny to begin with. Others are just nonsensical. I actually do regard them with a certain level of "srs business" attitude, though. So if your gamertag is incomprehensible gibberish or asinine immaturity I can't exactly go into a game with you and take you seriously. In fact, names like queef187 or xXurm0mXx only justify my 'mic out' policy.
 

ace_of_something

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Only so many people can be MarioFan that's how we get all these weird names like MonkeyBalloon and ones with numbers like MarioFan1991. They're just as good of names as any.

The ones that annoy me are like "Chronic Man" or "Initfordabluntz" or "BigKok".
 

Lord of Maggots

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LordCuthberton said:
I get annoyed by the ones advertising mods for MW2.

On a related note, my gamertag, which is my username with a space is often missread.

I'm often labeled as:

"CuthBORTON"
"COUTHberton"
"COUTHBORTON"
"CRUMBLEBERRY"
"CUMBUCKET"

I have had all those slung at me by people called things like "X_X-EPICZSNIPEZ-X_X"
Mine is also my username, and I get "Lord of Faggots" duper original right?


I think I would pee if I heard "Lord Crumbleberry" done witha a shoddy brittish accent! xD
 

Tdc2182

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Awesome7thgrader. Thats mine. I use it because Im not in 7th grade and have a friend whos is awesome8thgrader. You would be surprised how many people seem to have no sense of humor.
 

asinann

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Vault boy Eddie said:
It's xbox, didn't that give you a clue to the intellect of the people on it? For all the people about to say im a fanboy and stupid shit like that, I have all 3 consoles and a decent PC.
That doesn't prevent fanboyism. That's like when someone says or does something racists and then says "I can't be racist, I have black friends."
 

StrangerQ

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Da Q of Vianane
i really really didnt think when i made this was too excited from finally getting my box.
vianane dialect version of my last name while Q ... well look my forum name

currently thinking whether i should sacrifice few euros for name change...
OT who thinks my tag is bad? just getting courage to spend money to change is StrangerQ
 

SextusMaximus

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In general, you mean? because anyone could post anything as their username / steam name / etc... So as a way of identifying people (even arrogant arseholes) they are pretty damn useful. Also, NO; I don't have an xxXUB3R_371T3_5N1P3RXxx account, mine uses words from the english language.
 

S.R.S.

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There is a particullary offensive PSN username I've seen a couple times. It involves a certain company performing a sexual act. I don't want to say it out of fear of you know... the hamxenomorphsmer
 

JihadJunk

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Mine's the same as my Escapist name.

Before I start getting any hate over it (and I have before) It comes from my nickname in the army.

No, it's not racist, it's just terribly ignorant and atleast it's a name that someone can pronounce easily.

On a related note, I never plug in my XBox headset unless I'm playing with friends, for the most part XBL players have nothing significant to say.
 

Murdering Monk

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Mine is Murdering Monk, I just hate people who have XXXX and numbers infront of thier name. like xX1TheBeast1Xx or something.
 

Hondor64

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I agree with the XxXblooomboxXxX names and such. My gamertag/username/character/ext has been Hondor for years now. Unfortunately more people seem to be using it so i'm forced to use Hondor64 (aka here :p)