Your Alias' Birth

[Z0MBiE FM]

It sounds like my name and looks ever so slightly more interesting! And has 'win' in it.

There we go.

 

[Maexxna1]

I have a few alias' including Maexxna, Covenent666 and nyxas..
Maexxna - a boss in Naxx (World of warcraft reference)
Nyxas - "Nyx" being the greek god of darkness... "as" being added for effect.
Covenent666 - randomly flicking through the halo manual and adding 666 on the end.
Yes, they are all very nerdy

 

[KeithA45]

My old one is Varon and my new one is Aegis ("Holy Aegis" where "Aegis" is taken)


"Varon" came from me starting with an obscure letter and trying to come up with a cool name out of it. Seriously, that's it.


I tried "Phoenix" for a while (bird of flame, burns itself to ash and rises anew from it's own ashes blah blah blah) but it's too popular and mainstream to use anymore (link here [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)])


I found "Aegis" just because I remembered the Aegis Cruisers from Red Alert 2 and looked them up one day. It turns out Aegis is an Protection; Guidance; direction; Control; sponsorship; patronage: Under someone's aegis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_combat_system]" Considering I love to teach people new things, guide them, and come to their rescue (and show off my skill a little, I admit) I think the name fits. Now if I could only get someone to pronounce it right! (pronounced "ages")

 

[Cid Silverwing]

"Cid" came from Final Fantasy A+, a Flash movie on Newgrounds and I was known as "White Mage Cid" for some time.
"SilverWing" grew on me after having seen it used in World of Warcraft (there's a PvP faction named "The Silverwing Sentinels" and a cartoon show based on the novel series by the same name about Silverwing bats). Me, I adopted it under angelic terms, as I lend a wing for my comrades. (And no, I'm an atheist)

 

[theSovietConnection]

Mine initially was just "The Soviet" due to most of my heritage being from Russia and former Soviet bloc countries. Only upon the release of the GTA4 Soundtrack did my friend see the title of the opening theme and decided thats what I should be called from that point on.

 

[Brotherofwill]

My brother (whose name you can probably guess) once made me an e-mail address cause I was to stupid to make one myself. He didn't know what to call it so he just called it brotherofwill@... A lot of people thought it was funny cause they knew him, and I just stuck with it.

It's also pretty funny if we go to galleries or events and sign into guestbooks which usually ends up being his name over my name and both of our email addresses from which you can see that we are siblings.

 

[Raven's Nest]

Well my alias is Jester. I adopted this name after i did a history project on them. As i did more and more research on Jesters, i began to appreciated them more and more. Ye olde jesters were the ones to stand up the kings, they were intelligent as they had to be to avoid a removal of their head. Also the stereotype of a jester, annoying to some and funny to most, a performer, It just seemed to fit. Since then it been my alias and im very proud of it.

So how did you get your alias?

Mine's just two random words put together.

My Gamertag Tiger Zaishi comes from the name I used when making a player for Jade Empire.

On the subject of jesters...

This was a story I remember from an old 'Ripley's believe it or not' book

A jester once insulted the King's mistress at a dinner party once. Furious, the King sentenced the jester to death. Since the jester was so popular around the court, the King offered him one favour. He asked the jester "how would you like to die". The jester replies..."Of old age". Needless to say, the King kept to his word and the jester was spared.

Jester's rule...

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

...I've shared this story too much.

Anyway, it came from YTMND (You're The Man Now Dog!). Apparently if you pour Gayfuel on a taco, it becomes a SecretTacoNazi.
I was SecretTacoNazi for a while on Youtube before I changed it to SecretTacoNinja.

Less offensive and I get to keep the initials. Woo!

http://ytmndgameboy.ytmnd.com/

 

[plastic_window]

I ususally go by Lobster Crunk. It was made when I came up with my Live account, because I wanted something totally original and clever. So I got the original part, at least, because no-one else on the internet seems to have some up with it. I'm quite pleased with that.

The name doesn't mean anything whatsoever. It might be one of those things that are so deep and mysterious that even I have not discovered the true meaning behind, but it's probably just a dumb name that has a bit of a ring to it.

 

[Nostalgia]

It comes from a username I've been using since about middle school. The other half, Hybrid, was unfortunately taken, which is what I was going to use at first.
So, I took Nostalgic and made it into Nostalgia. It might as well be a reference to the overused "rose-colored" glasses argument.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

From the PS2 game "The bouncer" Sion Barzahd was a character who i used to play as the most, and fought well with when me and my friends would play Vs. matches.
A friend one day made the comment i look a little like him too, and began calling me it.
Thats how it began.

Though i have 2 other alias' i go by often enough, on top of Sion.

 

[Hyper-space]

uhhh.......its liek, in outer spaze and stuff

 

[Datalord]

I have said this in like 3 threads now, but ok:
Originally i used "DataLore" as a proxy, its a Star Trek TNG pun based on the Names of the two Androids Data and his "Brother" Lore.
Then i went to Galaxy Lan to create an account but the guy who entered the info misheard me and entered "Datalord" and it just seemed to fit my number cruching geeky style of thinking

 

[Sewblon]

My user name is the name of a race of imaginary creatures from a short story I wrote. I picked it because I new it wouldn't already be taken.

 

[Umwerfer]

ah, a pretext for me to assume everyone here cares about my nickname, how profoundly touching^^ Well, werfer is what you get if you faceroll over the keyboard with either most of the keys broken or with a very strange shape on either face or keyboard(latter for me!). The 'Um' was added because some exceptionally smart fellow (me again, but lost the password for that account) actually called himself "thrower" in a game before me. So, Umwerfer stuck. Oh, and it means "overthrower" in german, but I'm not german, which frequently causes me to converse strangers on the interweb in my n00b-german.

 

[PumpItUp]

Ignore my username, I blanked at the time.

My overarching alias, marcpatt14, is the username I've used since I created my first hotmail account and is simply, the first four letters of my first and last names and my age at the time. Lame, yes, but it gets the job done.

Less lame is Aero, the script I have been working on for a couple of years now. Main character can control the air and VOILA! His name is immensly predictable but memorable.

More awesome is Kiefziel. Dammit, I should have used that nme for my username! Dammit!

 

[patronscorn_v1legacy]

Desperatly needing an alias I sat with a Coke,Sprite and a Burn. I mixed the letters a bit.
Sprie
COke
buRN
So I ended with Scorn. And later realizing it being a real English word and quite well known I found the word "Patron" in a french book.

Patron meaning "guardian angel" in french and Scorn meaning "contempt" I found it suitable to my currenct situation being down with a broken arm. My guardian angel doesn't care realy much. So my feelings for him is Contempt.

 

[shadow_pirate22]

I always loved the shadow pirates, since that used to be my fighting style in games, stealth and melee weapons. MY avatar, zeratul, is basically a starcraft shadow pirate. 22 is my favorite number.

 

[Erana]

Daevus was a typeo name for a character in a Korean MMORPG. I stuck with it, and she has become the manifestation of my inner girly-ness.
Dae, on the other hand, is my contemplative, cryptic side.
Erana was... well, I just felt like using her name here on the spur of the moment, and it stuck.
Syrlith was my imaginary dragon from childhood. I had a fight with her a decade ago and I haven't seen her since, but I still use her name.

 

[Daimes2000]

I got my current alias on the forum for the webcomic Sheldon [http://sheldoncomics.com] and it was the first time I actually had one I liked more than a few minutes. Very fickle I am, hmm. It's from The Road Warrior, because I figure myself to be the kind of person who would not only have a working flying machine after the holocaust, but operate it with a pet snake on hand and wearing goggles, helmet, and longjohns. Gyro as a sandwich can be pronounced "hero", so there's another good reason.

Hunde Des Krieg, Dogs Of War. Thought it was Dog of War but whatever...
Heard it on The Postman, and translated it to German, cuz it sounds cool and Dog of war was taken on Live.

The genitive form tends to be really formal and awkward in modern German, and that's actually closer to "dogs of THE war", not to mention I have the niggling feeling Hunde should become Hunden in the genitive, but I won't tell. Wait, crap, I did. *makes obeisance and pleads forgiveness*

*Hund von Krieg, cough, cough

You know I've heard so many ways it "should" be translated that I just don't care anymore.

Then maybe a german can help: Dog of War would (word by word) translate to "Hund des Kriegs" or "Hund des Krieges" (Krieg has two forms of genitive), but while it's grammatically correct it sounds a bit strange to a native german speaker. "Kriegshund" however sounds a lot better. I think it's the same way "lord of war" compares to "warlord" in english, if i remember Nicholas Cage's comment correctly.

"Hund von Krieg" is just plain wrong, and "Hunden" is not genitive, but dative plural. Hope i could help a bit, and i know, german is a bit complicated when it comes to cases


Edit: Oh, and my own screenname, which i use literally for every account (XBL, PSN, eMail, Charakter in WoW) has evolved from my former real life nickname "Demi", which is based on my last name.