Screen names and Avatars

[werepossum]

Never had an avatar, probably never will. My screen name comes from a D&D game I DM'd back around '82 or '84. I was attempting to describe a wererat, and one of the players blurted out "It's a werepossum!" Tea and beer were blown out noses, and the image of a man transforming into not a wolf, but a devious, scavenging, ambling, upright man-possum has struck me as funny ever since. I also use possumtrot sometimes - if you've spent much time around possums, you know that even when very startled they generally move relatively slowly, but occassionally they will actually raise up off the ground and run very quickly. In that state they can't really maneuver, just run straight ahead (albeit quickly), and it looks hilarious.

That player was about three sheets to the wind, and also came out with "nobgoblin" trying to say "hobgoblin". That was pretty funny at the time too.

 

[CodeChrono]

Code because I was obsessed with Code Lyoko for a long time, then Chrono because Chrono Trigger was is and will forever be one of my favorite video games. Avatar is Phoenix Wright because that game is amazingly awesome and I feel it really represents my persona.

 

[Awkward Turtle]

Ever had one of those moments in life where there's this really big awkward silence?
...
Yeah. I have those a lot. I've been using this name online for a while now, can't remember exactly when I started.

Your puny forums are no match for my awesome non-existent avatar!

 

[Pzest]

My friend tried to play pzest in Scrabble as an alternate spelling of possessed. He didn't get far with that one.

 

[Gamergyrl]

I've got two other names I use off and on, but when it comes to game sites, I'm always Gamergyrl. I misspell it since there is a greater likelihood that the misspelled version won't have been taken already. It's a simple name really; I like to play games and I'm a girl.

 

[Piratetiemz]

Long story about giving each other angry pirates but a lesser version just a poke in the eye and a kick in the leg... and we all know pirates wash there cloths with sambrinooooo

 

[RPJesus]

I just liked the way my name flowed together.
As for the pic, Sturm was my favorite CO in Advance Wars 1 (and technically 2, but they bastardized his appearance into "Radiator-face") so I've just generally liked Black Hole, aside from the fact that they're complete assholes most of the time.

 

[Karisse]

Karisse (pronounced Care-iss, like the priest in the exorcist) is the name of a character I made for a 10th grade English assignment and the name just sort of stuck. As for my avatar, I've loved Fallout since I took it out of the box and can't wait for Fallout 3 to (hopefully) reward my faithful love.

 

[Death916]

i used to use death1992 on battle.net. but that was taken on xbl. so i took that and added wat i liked to do..sniping. and there ya go..

my avatar..my bad ass halo armor

 

[Totallyfolked]

Totallyfolked comes from a T-shirt I bought at broadstairs folk festival and I thought it summed up my life pretty well. As for the DK avatar, it was the first game I really got into as a kid, apart from random games on my mums old atari, and quite frankly its still one of my favourite games, bad graphics and all

 

[deadly.by.design]

Because it combines gaming with my vocation. End of line.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Well, my name is Ben, and I'm a man. Hence the screen-name.

And the avatar is a random one I found on a website with a bunch of avatars (cuz I'm a total tool and I google'd "avatars"). I might make my own in paint sometime.

 

[00exmachina]

Came up with the name may years ago, chopped off the first bit, just because i thought having a nick that translated to god of the machine, or god from the machine was a little to egotistical. The 00 was added when I got bugged about missing the first bit.

As for the picture, it's a screen capture form Akira. I picked it because I like the movie and the idea of laser bazookas.

 

[Sammich]

i had a pet turtle called tuin after the star turtle a'tuin from the discworld novels however tuin also means garden in danish (i think it was danish anyway, might have been dutch, i really can't remeber)

Tuin is definitely Dutch for garden, but maybe Danish too.. At any rate that's the best name for a turtle EVER.

My name's simple really... My name's Samantha though nobody has called me that in the past 2 years, they all call me Sam. A name with Sam in it seemed logical, sandwiches are nice and not a lot of people use this nickname. Thus Sammich was born.

My avatar is Kotomi from Clannad because I have a thing for intelligent but socially awkward girls.

 

[fyrh56]

Fyrh was the name of my character in a UO RP server some years back. Half giant, 56 years young. In OOC discussions people would call me fyrh56 to avoid confusion, since apparently there was an human whose shortened name was also "fyrh". I actually never met the guy, so it was an enormous coincidence.

 

[rosiethorn]

My name is my roller derby pseudonym.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

My avatar and username are related. My avi is Scud The Disposible Assassin and the title of one of the "graphic novels" (ok, collection of comics) he's in is called "Programmed For Damage". If you look at disaster area that has been my life for the past 20 years, you'd see that the title is very apt.

 

[Piemaster]

I just really like pies. Thats pretty much it. It's not that original, but I thought of it before I'd played Fable.

 

[iamnotincompliance]

The name comes from an incredibly stupid conversation years back about Google being akin to the Borg, eventually hitting a low at compliance and how resistance is futile, and well, not being in compliance is what I'm all about. If I am, it's because I truly the best way to do things.

Hell, it's getting stupider as I type it up.

Anyway, Knuckles. The only explanation I feel necessary about that is that it comes from Sonic 2 with Sonic and Knuckles, Chemical Plant Zone 1, captured from an actual Genesis long before a ROM dump became available and anyone could possess such an icon far easier than the way I made mine. And I feel that's the only explanation necessary because the extent to which Knuckles rules should, by this point, be a universal constant, known far and wide.