What's the meaning of your username?

[Little Woodsman]

Mine is the literal translation of my name.
One of the most common names in the English language "Paul" simply means "little".
When my father's parents came to America, their name was changed to sound more American, dropping
a letter from the end of it. With the letter added back in, in the language of the country they
are from the name means "woodsman" or "woodcutter" or "of the woods" or something like that.

I found all this out for an elementary school project in which we were supposed to find out what
our names meant if we could. When I first found out--I hated it. Made worse by the fact that my
best friend at the time, who was kind of a wush, and I was always looking out for/protecting him,
his name meant "Dragon of the Castle on the Moor". And I was the little woodsman. I thought that
sucked. Until I got in to fairy tales again. Now I realize that the Little Woodsman is awesome,
and will take that foolish dragon down every time.

 

[Epic Bear Man]

Shortly after I made a Steam account, the "Epic Beard Man" meme started coming out. I've always been a big fan of bears (the animals, not the hairy gay guys. Seriously, I'm always asked that. xD), I decided to change my Steam name to "Epic Bear Man" as a sort of parody of Epic Beard Man. The name ended up sticking, I haven't really changed it (I have a couple of times, but to other joke names).

I also typically use the usernames Letanas or Volundarkvioa for accounts I make. Letanas is an anagram of Satan'el I made, and is the name of a devil-like character I made up years ago for a story I tried writing.

Volundarkvioa is a Romanized version of a Norse tale (although it'd be closer to Volundarkvida in English, but I preferred just writing it as Volundarkvioa), which basically is about a drunk blacksmith, and Valkyries and other crazy shit. If you wish to read it, here's the link:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe17.htm

 

[Dangit2019]

Modern entertainment has not been kind to that word, has it?

Not in the slightest.
I'd say it borderlines on hate-crime, but can one really commit a hate crime against a language?

I don't know, but if so, YOLO would be accused of multiple assault charges.

 

[Dangit2019]

Doctor Who, niyce. and MLP. I think I've seen some RLM and Brian's been in some youtube things I watch.

Its the cringinly awkward thread you started. Some of them are hilarious to laugh at, but for obvious reasons, I can't make it through many of them before I need to stop for the day. And Boom Goes the Dynamite.

Ah, yes, My Little Spaghetti.

That channel doesn't exist anymore (don't know why), but an unofficial successor has already appeared to retake the throne of embarrassment and humiliating brony videos. Oh joy.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Lagmorph comes from "Lagomorpha" which is the taxonomic order that hares and rabbits belong to. I love rabbits.
Troublesome because I'm always getting in the way and causing trouble for people.

My old name, Hail Fire 998 was just something I thought sounded really cool when I was 12. I first used it on Bungie.net.

 

[Voulan]

When I first joined here I wanted to have a unique username without any numbers. I chose "Volan" at first, which was a random name I came up with (though I can't remember how). Then when I joined PSN I tried to have the same thing to have a single 'gamer identity', but "Volan" was taken. I managed to choose "Voulan", and liked it better. I then changed my username here to add the 'u' so they match. My Steam is also the same.

It's pronounced Vou (rhymes with bow) lan (like land without the 'd'). A lot of American gamers pronounce it Voo (rhymes with you) laan (rhymes with darn).

I really like it - it looks miles better floating above my head in games than x_XEliteSniper_1285X_x23 does, at any rate. I also had a bit of a scare when playing Skyrim - Paarthurnax tends to use random dragon words when talking to you, and at one point he said a word that sounded exactly like "Voulan". It was a real break-the-fourth-wall moment, since it seemed he was talking to me directly. Apparently he said "volaan" which means 'quickly', and he uses it saying "Why do you come here, volaan?" which was what made me jump, since it sounded like he was calling me by name. Draugr occasionally shout it out as well, saying "Dir volaan!" which means 'die quickly', or even 'Die, Voulan!". So we can pretend that's what my name means.

Some cool trivia, if anyone cares to read it.

 

[Zombie Sodomy]

It's my name in Left For Dead and I decided to reuse it. I'm not sure why I chose that name before, or which party was doing the sodomizing, but I like it.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I'm not a very creative guy, so I just went with my last name.
And you know what, I like it.

 

[Spacefrog]

FROGS IN SPAAACE

Because why should pigs be the only ones.

Spacefrog itself, really comes from the fact that I play Warhammer Fantasy, and my Lizardmen army is lead by a Slann, giant frogs from beyond the stars (and I loved the 40k Slann too)
Combine that with certain parts of my childhood (Battletoads, Bucky O'hare and Starfox specifically) and you have a username that I could use without putting numbers at the end.

I basicly got tired of my old user name Fnar (For No Apparent Reason) because
1)It's too short for some places
2)Nobody got the reference

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Name of an old sixth form band that never really got off the ground - we kind of just ended jamming every now and again, but I did like the name, so I nabbed it. Then I found out it was also the name of a comic, but that's just a coincidence.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

"Mycroft was the inspiration for the name of a character in Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress: "Mycroft" a.k.a. Mike, a H.O.L.M.E.S. ("High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor") Mark 4, a sentient computer. At one point in the story, Mike indicates Sherlock is indeed his brother."

He names the computer Mike because all it did with it's time was 'sit and think.' The character Mycroft was more brilliant than his brother Sherlock but he just lacked the desire to do any legwork to actually prove himself correct - "He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right."

So I felt it was quite apropos. Plus it just plain sounds cool.

 

[aswm]

A - My first name
S - My name in Iceland
W - My middle name
M - My last name

Simple as that.

 

[The Night Angel]

Not much to mine, it's the name of the eponymous hero in one of my favourite trilogies of books....

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

Mine's googlable

 

[Lucid_Camel]

mine sounds funny

 

[Longstreet]

Gaming nickname really, friend of mine made it up when i was changing from my last one (which was my IRL nickname) after Gen. Longstreet from the Virginian army (or SOMETHING in that direction. I just rolled with it.

I later found out that Bruce Lee was in a tv series called Longstreet. So from now on it is referring to that! Because Bruce Lee.

 

[Panorama]

What i actually tried for i couldn't have it, and i was watching the show Panorama on the BBC so i borrowed it.

 

[Arctodus_Simus]

I'm a gentleman of the larger (and somewhat portly these days) frame, and in possession of a beard and shaggy locks, so I get nicknamed "Bear" a lot*.

As I wear glasses too, I figured a Spectacled Bear would be most fitting and Arctodus Simus was the coolest Spectacled Bear I could find

EDIT: I have just been informed by the missus, I'm apparently more akin to a St.Bernard. So there's that...

 

[JemothSkarii]

*BLAM*