Phinn Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 My inability to walk into a store and buy a hat like a normal person has long been a subject of humor amongst my friends. ... I had to do quite an extensive research to understand that Noggin Monster entry on My Singing Monsters Wikipedia showed up as a dead end. A boat made out of wood. Probably not. A small quantity of liquor, typically a quarter of a pint. Nope. A person's head. Finally 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valhallan42nd Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I have a lot of Imperial Guard (that I really don't play anymore), and the Valhallan 42nd were my regiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Math Mathonwy Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Real name contraction.And here I always thought it was the sound that Cojo is making in your avatar......(not really) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zFiend Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 And here I always thought it was the sound that Cojo is making in your avatar... . . . (not really) Now all I hear is a parrot going "dgraaaz" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampers&nd Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 I'm usually Greeny (a childhood nickname) on most forums, but some awkward misanthrope had already got that here (me being late to the party) the story that sold the game to me was about Lazarus in Ampersand, and I had just read China Mieville's 'Railsea' which uses the ampersand a lot as part of the story convention, so after building my first crew with an Ampersand theme I decided I'd play with that and put an ampersand in my Ampers&nd. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonahmaul Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Secondly, Spindle is a character from The Malazan Book of the Fallen, a series by Steven Erikson, who rates highly among my favourite authors. Must try reading these again! My friends rave about them but I got about 200 pages into the first one and realised that I just didn't have the time to do my PhD and read such a lengthy series of books! No reason a person can't do both gamer conventions and tough mudders. Yeah, I got this when I used to do Thai Boxing/Kickboxing too! But I've just learnt to embrace my geekdom (mainly because I don't give a f**k what other people think of me!) Mine is a combination of a childhood nickname of Jonah (because I used to be pretty clumsy (I still am, but not to the same extent) and when playing a game of 40k in my local GW managed to break the stores Carnifex, Lictor and Hive Tyrant in one game and somebody said you're such a Jonah because of the character in the Beano/Dandy (still not sure which one) and it just stuck. I like it though, it's cooler than my given name of Michael and even my wife still calls me Jonah! The maul bit got added when I couldn't use just jonah for an e-mail address and was because of Darth Maul from Episode 1 (I was young, what can I say!). Now I just pretend it's about rugby! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Requirement Posted February 20, 2015 Report Share Posted February 20, 2015 Obviously, it's a Requirement to have a nickname. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drool_bucket Posted March 2, 2015 Report Share Posted March 2, 2015 My name sounds funny to me and I prefer self deprecating humor.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypoking Posted March 2, 2015 Report Share Posted March 2, 2015 Wanted Hypocrite. It was taken. Wasn't feeling particularly clever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxypoo Posted March 2, 2015 Report Share Posted March 2, 2015 Yeah, I got this when I used to do Thai Boxing/Kickboxing too! But I've just learnt to embrace my geekdom (mainly because I don't give a f**k what other people think of me!) Well said! I got the same reactions, but for me it was Judo/Brazilian jiu Jitsu/weightlifting. My name comes from my high school basketball coach constantly yelling, "You guys play like Molly-poos, cause you ain't got no moxy!" We had no idea what it meant at the time so we just shortened it to moxypoo and referred to each other like that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Rackham Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Always thought I was a Pirate in another life, and my real name turns into Pirate Rackham (found that our during international Pirate Day a few years back) and a couple of sea games I play I play the Pirates..Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrr... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uruk Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Urùc was a sort of nickname of my family tree/ancestors, meaning "owl" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtarius Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 Ashtarius was tha name of a joke character i put together on WoW years ago, turned out i rather liked the guy and he became my main, and from there i just adopted it as my username Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otylia Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 Mine means "Fortunate heroine"... and in general I can use all the luck I can get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idura Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Mine is from the old SNES RPG Lufia II: Rise of the sinistrals which i bought sometime in the 90's. The character Idura is a pink armored snob with an epée. He's a quite stupid henchmen to the main villains and his problem is that he just won't die. Luckily the name is never taken on any forums or games so i've used it for at least 15 years now. In wow someone shortened it to Ida which is a common swedish girlsname. So yeah, i was called by a girls name for the last 10 years. Used to it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DayWalker Posted May 10, 2015 Report Share Posted May 10, 2015 In my first week of Officer training my platoon was shown the South Park video about ginger kids and how like vampires they burn in sunlight because they have no soul. However you do get some gingers who can go outside and they are called daywalkers. There was only one other person in my platoon who was ginger and he left after 4 days. Turns out in Iraq and Afgahnistan I do burn in sunlight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryder Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 I'm naturally a very fast mover. People often complain I walk too fast for them to keep up, even when I slow down. Some Tolkien fan compared me to Strider, and the nickname stuck. The spelling difference is because Strider is usually already taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phinn Posted August 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 I must say that it makes me quite sad that this thread is no longer active. That's why I decided to resu... scitate it. You thought I'm gonna say resurrect, didn't you? Never! So, would anybody else like to share what does their nickname mean and how did they get it or come up with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteape1 Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 White ape, my own creation. One cause there's only ever been one known albino gorilla, called snowflake. And also to show my love for the film George of the Jungle. Where George was known as the white ape. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticPangolin Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 Went through a few usernames previously, but after seeing a David Attenborough documentary on Pangolins I was quite taken with them. I think they're in other games though as Pangolin is usually taken as a username. When I started playing Battlefield 2142, I wanted Pangolin in there, and figured it takes place during the onset of an ice age in the northern hemisphere, so ArcticPangolin it was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibbler Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 (edited) Actually I was given that nickname in School... 'cause there were too many Michaels and my last name is Niebler. Maybe there is a link to my very eating habits, which were a bit, let's say unrestrained, at that time - so they made me the little guy from futurama Edited August 24, 2015 by Nibbler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phototoxin Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 I was looking for something scientific and to do with photography for DevArt and I came up with this, essentially they are substances that become toxic/irritant on exposure to light/ light makes it worse. Considering photography , I like plants (where they are found) and I don't like bright lights it all made sense! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 Mine is my first name! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorlucky Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 from the board game Kill Doctor Lucky, as it is very hard to kill the good doctor without being foiled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tallghost Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 I chose Tallghost because I'm 6'8" and I tend to haunt the forums I belong to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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