What does your username mean?

[Karhukonna]

My username means one of the Beagle Boys [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Boys] in Finnish.

The Disney comics and cartoons function as one of the most important pillars in every kids cultural learning. When a Donald Duck comic is released in Finland, it is nor merely translated. The language and the references to popular culture are enhanced and enriched by the company, essentially improving on the original. Among Finnish celebrities, it is considered a great honor to have a twist on your name used for a Disney celebrity.

Hell, the Finnish equivalent to SWAT has a nickname [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karhu_Team] taken from the Disney comics. And the various artists and writers are widely recognized and often hold seminars and fan meetings right here. Finnish children know all sorts of fancy words they learned from reading the comics, thanks to the enriching of the language I mentioned earlier. It is not unusual to hear little children talking like fancy royalty on occasion. Though I could still swear that kids these days... Well, you know. Fuck this and shit that, they're so rude nowadays. Anyways...

When I joined the Escapist, my usual username, Storm, was taken, so I figured I might as well renew myself a little. I decided to start using a username that would immediately reveal me as a Finn to others of my kind, and perhaps hold a bit of mystique to those of you not fluent in Finnish. I've been using it far and wide now, so feel free to catch me on PSN or whatever it's called, I'm using the same username there as well. And if you catch someone with this username somewhere, let's say less respectable, it could be anyone. (-_-

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

Sangreal means royal blood or holy grail. Gothcraft is a combo of Goth...and craft...two of my favorite things... Goth stuff and Lovecraft...

 

[Wyld Fyre]

Many moons ago, in a time of myth and legend there was a place called USENET and other distant lands called BBS. On this harsh digital frontier there blazed strong a WILD FIRE of sharing knowledge.

Now in the new age of IRC and forums there blazes a reborn FYRE.

 

[Frozen Fox]

I am a furry my persona is a fox in such things, in winter I often sit in freezing weather in far less warm cloths than all my friends that ***** about the cold.

 

[Patathatapon]

Mines a masturbation joke mixed into the game Patapon, back when I jacked off to it read the bible while the music played.

 

[theswordsmn]

I chose mine because I've always had a passion for swords and I was learning how to sword fight officially for the first time. Theswordsman was taken so I figured, "even if you don't emphasize the "a" it still sounds the same". I fell in love with it and have been using it for anything and everything I sign up for. I had originally considered using my last name in the form of something (Gore), but never got around to thinking of anything that I liked better than theswordsmn.

 

[tobi the good boy]

A reference to a naruto character, which in turn became my nickname by a lot of people.

 

[esperandote]

It means waiting for you, its also the ending theme song for silent hill 1

 

[Redneck Gamer]

I'm an unashamed, proudly backwoods American redneck. And I'm a diehard gamer. Hence a redneck gamer.

 

[Snotnarok]

I used to go by Ragnarok back in the day in shooters, I got really sick so my friends played a bit without me and renamed my character Snotnarok. And apparently there's an unwritten rule that you can't make your own nickname so I guess that wins out then.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I wasn't in the mood to think of something good and I just wanted a new identity. I pretend the old me never existed on this site.

 

[Roxor]

Mine is an invented word I made up way back in 1995 when I was still in high school.

 

[TheLizardKing]

The Lizard King is another name for Jim Morrison, Frontman of The Doors.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

A "cool" name I made waaaaaaaaay back for Warcraft 3 for battlenet. After that I started getting into gaming more and it stuck.

The other handle I use is Ax1007. Which I made up for Unreal Tournament3 since I was using a robot model. That one also stuck, I use it when websites/games dont let me have the "-" in DOom-Slayer.

 

[mysecondlife]

The internet seems to be my second life.

So there.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Reference to the Psychonaut ZP. And I've always been a great believer in the concept, so it worked.

 

[Xaio30]

It's my name. With a number after it.

I am so original.

 

[Cobbs]

My choices on Xbox Live were PandoraThrust, something about toast and MissionYeti. I chose MissionYeti.
My escapist name however I cant remember why I chose Cobbs.

 

[ubersyanyde]

When I was about 12 or 13 a few friends and I thought about starting a band. Someone thought of the name 'SyAnYdE'. Naturally, being the unoriginal person I am, I took this name and tried to use it for everything online but for some reason 'SyAnYdE' was taken so I changed it to 'UbEr SyAnYdE' (Probably 'uber' because of the game SSX). A few years later I realised that alternating caps are obnoxious and difficult to read so it finally transformed in to 'ubersyanyde'.

Also my YouTube username is 'EvilBunnyOfDarkness' which I chose only because I thought it sounded cool. No idea why.

 

[Nyaliva]

My name is the name of an evil crow with white tipped wings whom, if you said his name, he would hear you wherever he was and send you into a world of nightmares. However, to this day, I still don't know exactly how to pronounce it. It was from a book I bought from my primary school fete called "The Thunder Egg".