Weekend Open Forum: What's the story behind your username?

[trgz]

Dave Gilmour's getting old isn't he?

 

[cldmstrsn]

Back in the day I was obsessed with FF VII and Cloud hence the cld being cloud and mstrsn being my last name of Masterson. I still use it for everything cause no one ever has it.

 

[Aderf]

Someone I like but in reverse, but if in other games/forums it was usually Mir or AtherosXD, used Mir when Canonical introduce there compositor Mir and AtherosXD came from the Qualcomm Atheros, it was only Atheros back then and now owned by qualcomm.

 

[Linoleum77]

My favorite song from NOFX back in 1995 when I chose it... :/

 

[stewi0001]

Lemme guess, your name is Stuart or Stewart. A nice old Scottish name.

The Grey told you didn't he.

 

[OutlawCecil]

Wow people are eating up this topic!

I'm usually OutlawCecil everywhere. "Outlaw" I got from "Outlaw Star" the anime because I liked his morals. Outside of the law but he has his own morals which are better than the law. And "Cecil" I got from one of the early Final Fantasy games, one of my favorite characters. Side note, I also role-played a character named OutlawCecil in AOL chat rooms in my early days.

 

[Reachable]

This name goes back to the early 2000s. I wanted something positive. Since I saw myself as someone who was hard to get a hold of, I decided on Reachable.

 

[Feng Lengshun]

"Timur Leng" was what my father was going to name me, but my mother veto'd it for being too, ah, "unique." Ridiculous, more like. I've always been into Japanese stuffs but I saw how typical Japanese usernames were at the time, so I went Chinese instead. "Feng" came as a meld of Leng and Fang (yet another common username at the time) - a Chinese-ish name. But "Feng Leng" is just too short and repetitive, so I added something at the end. I was playing Ar Tonelico 2 at the time and the talking wolf Shun is one of my favorite characters from the game.

Combine everything and you got it - Feng Lengshun. It's really made of the 'cool name' of Fang turned into Chinese-ish "Feng" to be 'different', slightly different repetition taken from what was to be my name "Leng", and one of my favorite characters 'Shun'.

 

[Potato Judge]

Because Upgrade my PC Please - Passing judgement upon worthy potatoes. More seasons to come hopefully (y)

 

[MannerMauler]

My username is a random nickname my brother gave me ages ago. It has no relation to my real name, where I'm from, or what I'm like. He just called me that to be goofy, and it kinda stuck. I am yet to find it used anywhere I go.

 

[DeGeth]

I love the Mass Effect series (especially ME1). Legion who is a Geth was one of my favourite companions alongside Garrus, Wrex and Liara. My nickname simply means "Of Geth" as in one of them, I kind of share a lot of similar characteristics with the Geth, expect that I'm an organic life form, I like women and a few other things lol.

 

[DelJo63]

Blame daddy. Living the life of "Grapes of wrath", he was in the CCC's Woodward, OK, came to Calif with $25 in 1939 to work in the shipyards in Long Beach, CA. MY HERO

 

[Phr3d]

Gone all week (end), late as usual.
Phred was actual nickname, Doonesbury fan, day1.
1st wave internet, my 'obvious' usenet nick (real name in the wild wild west? surely u jest).
pissed off someone(s) and they started registering it everywhere and using it wickedly (this was considered bad behaviour back in the stone age) so I changed it to Phr3d, been ever since, like a 'real name', internet-style.
Gotta be from the stone age to recognize the avatar (You-u r-Rang?).

 

[Alpha Gamer]

Rather long story, sorry. Back in 2010, here in Brazil, when I built my first pc, the price of games was so prohibitive it was inconceivable to buy them legally. Steam wasn't a thing here yet, there were no regional prices and they only accepted international credit cards, which I didn't have. The road to Brazilian gaming culture was paved on piracy and I was no different. The consoles weren't released here, let alone the games. If you wanted to game legally , you had to import both the console and the games. Which no one did. Thus, I had pirated every single game I ever played until then, but I was never comfortable and felt very ashamed of it. One day, my room mate saw me playing an unreleased game, the following conversation ensued:
- "this game is not supposed to be out for the next 7 days, how the hell are you playing it?"
- "I'm a beta tester"
-"beta tester my ***... you're an alpha gamer!"

*just so you know, playstation 2 was released here in 2009

Guys, sorry for replying to my own stuff, but if you got minimally interested in the story I described, I'm sure you will enjoy the following video.

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https://www.redbull.com/int-en/the-history-of-video-games-in-brazil