Your nickname?

[DaBrain]

How did you get your nick? What is it based on?

I think we might hear some intersting stories. ;)

[Primus]

From Transformers. Not that interesting, sorry. :p

[Grug]

Well I've got another friend who's name is Greg also.
I love my Grog (aka piss / beer), thus Grug was born. :)
"Grug Want Beer!" :p

What about you DaBrain? :D

[Duelron1001]

well my nickname came from the hours of CS that I used to play. The problem was that i would end up on 1 health and win the round, so my current nickname came about as a result. Although it's my past nickname that has a more intresting backstory to it.

[DaBrain]

Well I've got another friend who's name is Greg also.
I love my Grog (aka piss / beer), thus Grug was born. :)
"Grug Want Beer!" :p

What about you DaBrain? :D


Ok. ;)

I played StarCraft in a clan many years ago. A good friend of mine was also in this clan. Well, I can't remember why, but we decided to use the names "Pinky and Brain" ;). There was no connection between us and the series (apart from the 'take over the world stuff' ;) ).

But there's more to it. The 'Da' is not the 'in da house' 'Da', but the russian word for 'yes'. Another friend of mine is from russia. We alway's had a lot fun with him. He was 'the russian'. ;) We heard im phone one time. He said 'da' very often. Since then he was the 'da russian'. Hehe. (We used to pick on each other, using this stupid kind of things...)
It was just cool, so I used it for my name.

Man, I really have to met those guys again. :)

[Primus]

That was a pretty interestign story. :) And I was sure that the 'da' was 'in da house'. :p

[Rane]

Reign + Rain = Rane.

Obeisity + Tony = Fattony

Anonymity + Proxies + Fattony being banned = an0n

[DaBrain]

Fattony... sounds like a bit like a mafia name. :biggrin1: :nervous:

[Taristin]

Fattony... sounds like a bit like a mafia name. :biggrin1: :nervous:

That's because Fattony was the mob leader on the Simpson's...

[DaBrain]

Oh, yeah, now I remember. ;)

Shame on me! I forgot a character from the Simpson's. :nod:

I think it international well-known. ;) (For a reason.)

[Grug]

lol.

I guess 'Yes Brain' is kind of a Pinky thing to say too. :p

I loved that cartoon... :nervous:

[DaBrain]

*Narf*

Damn I did it again... ;)

[Singh]

I got my nick.............Because I am a Singh......?

[The Trivial Psychic]

Well, mine traces back to Saturday Night Live. Christopher Walken was on once and in a skit, made fun of a character he'd played in a movie some time before. His character in the movie was a psychic who could sense important (and usually trajic) events in people's futures when he shook their hand. In the SNL skit, his character "the Trivial Psychic" would do the same (the handshake part), but instead see insignificant events in people's near future, though he always reacted like it was something major. Things like, "you're gonna forget you coffee on top of your cab" or "you're gonna eat ice cream too fast and get an ice cream headache". That's where the nickname came from. As to how I got it, that's for the next paragraph.

I used to watch alot of the Simpsons. I watched it enough so that I'd pretty much seen every episode and could remember every line and sequence and identify what episode it came from... not by number or season though. I can still do this, though not with the episodes from the last few years. Anyway, occasionally I'd be walking down the street or in class or pretty much doing anything, and I'd remember a particular sequence from an episode, I'd laugh at it, run it though my mind a few times, and then move on and temporarily forget that I'd thought about it. Within a 48h period, I'd be watching a Simpsons rerun and that episode would air. It always happens when I least expect it. If I try to make it happen, (as in try to remember that I've thought about that sequence and look to see if its going to be on), it doesn't. Once in fact, I was thinking about an episode while in the shower. As I was drying off, I remembered that a Simpsons episode was just starting and thought to myself sarcastically, "watch, it'll be on". When I got back to my room, I turned on the TV and WHAM, it was on... that episode in fact.

It still happens on occasion but not as often. The fact that I watch the Simpsons much less frequently could be a factor. It used to happen also with songs on the radio, movies on TV, etc. Anyway, some years ago, I was mentioning this to my older brother and he said that it was the most useless psychic ability ever, so he assigned me the nickname of the SNL character. I took it on as my internet handle as soon as I started going online, and I've used it ever since.

[DaBrain]

What is an 'ice cream headache'? :nervous:


I like South Park even more than Simpson.

[Hammer]

mine is Admrial Daala'a SSD in one of the Star Wars books, dunno why i picked it, just always liked it:p

[The Trivial Psychic]

What is an 'ice cream headache'? :nervous:
If you eat something realy cold, the temperature drop causes a brief but strong headache in the front section of your head... not always though.

[Nuclear]

Ummm...

I like nukes. Period.

[Cobra]

:lol:

got mine from my love of the callsign "Cobra". I've watched movies like Top Gun and there were guys who had the callsign Cobra, and whenever I play games that ask you for a callsign I put Cobra. That love of the callsign eventually brought me to the forums and when I first signed up at HLP forums, Cobra was the first thing that came to mind.

[DaBrain]

Ummm...

I like nukes. Period.

Homer Simpson: "It's pronounced 'nucular'." ;)

[Cobra]

mine is Admrial Daala'a SSD in one of the Star Wars books, dunno why i picked it, just always liked it:p

NH, Daala didn't have an SSD. just a regular SD that was dubbed Gorgon. She used to have 4, but 2 of them were vaporized by a supernova, the 3rd triedto jump out but didn't get out in time, and Daala's was damaged, then damaged to the point of disrepair (for the soldiers, anyway) at Maw Installation, crept back to Imperial Space and there you go.

[Gai Daigoji]

Gai Daigoji is my all time favorite anime character from Martian Successor Nadesico, ence why I use his name in forums.

[Star Dragon]

Well Star Dragon is the American name for Getter Robo G (1976) released in america in 1977 as Star Vengers. The first Getter (1974) was fugly, and thankfully not released .;) I fell in love with the mecha (and that show was the originator of "transforming robots").. The Legendary Go Nagai was the artist (who incidently also pioneered the first robots to be human operated - Mazinger Z 1971) as well as the first anime where the heroes talked like normal people, ie, the occasional swear...

ANIME 4 LIFE!

[Grug]

lol @ TTP story.

Would seem there are some interesting stories behind nick names eh DaBrain?

[Taristin]

I got tired of Snipes. :nervous:

[Hammer]

NH, Daala didn't have an SSD. just a regular SD that was dubbed Gorgon. She used to have 4, but 2 of them were vaporized by a supernova, the 3rd triedto jump out but didn't get out in time, and Daala's was damaged, then damaged to the point of disrepair (for the soldiers, anyway) at Maw Installation, crept back to Imperial Space and there you go.

did you read the book? she got the SSD Night Hammer which she renamed Knight Hammer, cuz of the jedi's

See Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Hammer)

[Axem]

Long long ago (I was like 12?), I played Super Mario RPG like mad. It was so fun, I decided I'd make Super Mario RPG 2. So I set out and began to draw the characters and the bosses and so on. Yeah, that got boring fast.

So about a year later, my friend introduces me to the MSN Gaming Zone, but I needed a username. I was going to choose Leever, from those annoying Green enemies in Zelda: OOT, but that was taken. So, I choose a name from my SMRPG2, a boss known as Axem Power (because he's so powerful duh). No space allowed? Fine delete the space. AxemPower. So lots of time passes and I realize that most people just called me Axem anyway, so I just dropped the Power part and, voila, Axem.

[Taristin]

I stole 'Taro' from a fur strip... :nervous:

[Grug]

lol wtf Raa.

Taro is a location in Australia. Kinda a backwash place in a highly warm environment. (No offense to anyone who lives there :P)

[phreak]

it was my starcraft name back in 1998. at the time i didn't know phreaking was a way to get free long distance.

[Windrunner]

What is an 'ice cream headache'? :nervous:




otherwise known as brainfreeze

[DaBrain]

I see a disturbing connection to my nick in there.... ;) :nervous:

[<<Swamp_Thing>>]

I took my nick from the movie "Con Air", with Nick Cage. I always thought the guy that flies the plane to be a barrel of laughs. I´m also a big fan of "The creature of the black lagoon-3D".
:p

[kode]

from final fantasy 7.

yes, really. cloud became kode, somehow. but I never got anywhere after that in ff7. might give it another shot when I have the time, tho. and apparently there's some town here in sweden called "Kode", as well. who knew? not me. I suspect they named it after me, though.

[Duelron1001]

I suspect they named it after me, though.

keep dreamming :)

although my clan did own the town of Dunbar; any guesses on my last name now?

[FusionStorm]

Weather: Me being a weather freak, OP: don't know, it just poped in my head.

Fusion: Me liking Nukes,Stars and everything else that creates massive heat, Storm: same as the Weather part above.

[Ransom Arceihn]

Ransom comes from a great game called Hostile Waters, there was some fellow in that who said 'My name... is Ransom' and he was just too cool for school, naturally being too school for cool myself I stole the name and claimed it as my own

Arceihn was just some thing I slapped on the end of it while creating a new pilot for Escape Velocity Nova because it seemed like a good idea to have a last name, and a terribly mispelled version of 'arcane' seemed like a smashing (idea).

On a totally unrelated note I had a kinda similar experience to Trivial Psychic just recently. A couple years ago I saw a single episode of Everybody Loves Raymond (I forget why) - one where that woman starts cooking stuff and one of the things she cooks is some thing with a weird name that the old dude likes but his wife doesn't cook it for him anymore because he likes babies a bit too much with his dinner (or something to that effect). Anyway that was the first and only episode I ever saw of it. Just a month or so ago I was bored so flicked on the TV and here it is, the exact same episode I saw about two years ago.

[Duelron1001]

Arceihn was just some thing I slapped on the end of it while creating a new pilot for Escape Velocity Nova because it seemed like a good idea to have a last name, and a terribly mispelled version of 'arcane' seemed like a smashing (idea).

Wow, someone else who has played EV:Nova. You finsh all of the story lines? Did you play the win port or the mac version? you played EV amd EVO?

[Ransom Arceihn]

Yeah, I've been a fan of the series since the first one was released. Only played the Mac version though. I finished the Polaris, Auroran, Rebel and Vell-os storylines. Got some way through the Pirate storyline before getting bored.

[Cobra]

He lives!

i always thought Ransom Arceihn was some anime character i didn't know about. :nervous:

[Hammer]

cobra did you pick your name from the guy from GI JOE, cuz i always picture you with that whiny highpitched type of voice

[Cobra]

uhhhh.... no. actually, read my post about my callsign/nickname. :p

[Nuclear]

cobra did you pick your name from the guy from GI JOE, cuz i always picture you with that whiny highpitched type of voice
Buh-dum-*cymbal*

[Hammer]

ah cobra just saw your name post.....watch top gun again bud, theres no one named Cobra, Viper, but no Cobra

[Cobra]

ahhh, maybe it was another video...

[DaBrain]

Lol, great. ;)

:lol:

[Star Dragon]

It's safe to assume there's a Cobra mentioned somewhere... I've seen probably 20+ jet movies and it's a generic enough callsign... (no offense)

[Hammer]

if thats at me none taken, just pointing out top gun, its one of my fav's

[Cobra]

no, he was talking to me. ;)

[kode]

no, he wasn't. he was talking to me!

[Nuclear]

No, you idiots. He was obviously referring to me.

[Ransom Arceihn]

What? Are you stupid? He's not talking to any of you, he must be talking to himself.

[Nuclear]

So he is insane...

[Ransom Arceihn]

Well you know what they say, in a sane world a crazy man must appear off his rocker

or something to that effect anyway

[Star Dragon]

Mad they called me. Madness is merely self delusion that yor goals can be achieved when you obviously are going to fail. Insane they geered. Insanity is the inability to functionally distinguish reality from fantasy... - From the mind of Dr Hell"13 The Beast is rising, the Fechman did surmise..." - Iron Maiden

"The Madman shouts, 'Let the creatures out... We'll show the unbelievers!'" - Iron Maidern

"Dont wanna know why, come on get ready get it on!" - Mazinkaizer



[Oops! This was posted on my Inner Forum right?] ;)

[KappaWing]

Kappa: 10th letter of Greek Alphabet. I killed 10 Shivan capships in my fist run-through the main Freespace campaign.

Wing: Something I slapped on the end so I could be considered 'MIA' (Mystery of the Trinity).

I used to be known as NuclearFartz when I was 8-10 years old. I figured a name change was in order in favor of something a bit more mature.

[Cobra]

I used to be known as NuclearFartz when I was 8-10 years old. I figured a name change was in order in favor of something a bit more mature.

:lol:

[Star Dragon]

Don't laugh Cobra, I bet now he does better with the ladies.

[TopAce]

Originally, I only chose the nickname of 'Ace', because I loved space simulations and I considered myself a good pilot. The two best simulations I have ever played are X-wing vs. TIE Fighter and FreeSpace.

When I discovered HLP, I decided to register, but the nick 'Ace' was already used. (Anyone knows this guy? :D). I had to choose an other name, so I simply added the 'Top' prefix to it. And to have something special(at least to my level of creativity), I omitted the space between Top and Ace, and used capital letters instead of this space.

So the nick TopAce was born.

And if you still ask me why I call myself TopAce, then here is another version:

I read it in a magazine it was impossible in X-wing vs. TIE Fighter to reach the 'Top Ace 4th Order' rank in single player mode. After months of being 'Ace 1st Level', I eventually got promoted to 'Top Ace 4th Order' by playing dogfights on Hard difficulty. After I was promoted, I was proud of myself to have achieved what the others said was impossible.

----

Alternatively, I use the 'Combattivo' nickname, which means 'Warrior' in Italian. I played one or two JKII multigames and a few more Quake 3 online games with this nick, but if I stumble in a new forum, I will surely register as 'TopAce'. Not only in FS-related forums so the others could recognise me, but generally everywhere.

[TopAce]

I got my nick.............Because I am a Singh......?


Singh means Lion, right?

[KappaWing]

Don't laugh Cobra, I bet now he does better with the ladies.

Indeed. Do not underestimate the incomprehensibly immense sex appeal of "KappaWing" :p

[TopAce]

:)

[Deepblue]

I slapped two random words together and bam!

Only after I created this nick did I find out that the IBM computer that won the chess match against the world champion was called Deep Blue.

[Taristin]

Or that HHGTTG has a hyper intelligent shade of blue.

[Deepblue]

Actually, I knew that before hand...

[Star Dragon]

No you misunderstood. I mean they dont bolt to the door like they might have when you introduced yourself as "Nuclear Fartz"... If George Clooney suffered from that I bet it would negate his sex appeal, real fast. ;)

[Cobra]

:wtf:

[Taristin]

.^
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Spam

As a side note... this picture is the funniest thing I've seen in ages.
http://www.honda-tech.com/zeroavatar/98395

[Hippo]

http://www.honda-tech.com/zeroavatar/98395


*rofl*

:lol:

[TopAce]

What's this picture about? I don't understand the joke.

Probably because I don't recognise or know that woman

[Hammer]

britney spears

[Star Dragon]

I knew it, she's an alien! (I'd still do her though)...

[Taristin]

It's making fun of her laugh. I think it's brilliant... BRILLIANT! < /Guiness Commercial >

[Hammer]

Its good to know that some parts of the world havent been corrupted by that whore(topace is in hungary right?)




sorry to insult your favorite singer cobra

[Taristin]

I wish she never left the christian country scene...

Although it was fun to hear them make fun of 'hit me baby one more time' (or whatever teh title of that drivvle was) with the breast implant version.

[Cobra]

I knew it, she's an alien! (I'd still do her though)...

oh. my. GOD.

[TopAce]

Its good to know that some parts of the world havent been corrupted by that whore(topace is in hungary right?)




sorry to insult your favorite singer cobra

I am absolutely not interested in music, which is the exact reason why I don't recognise her face.

Anyway, I hear her name at least once every week, so our little country is 'corrupted', too.

[DaBrain]

She is well known for her 'shapeshifting' boobies. :biggrin1:

[willy_principal]

My nickname's origins:
My name is Guillermo, which equivalent in english is Williams
Willy = Short form of williams
Principal means Main in english.
I signed up in Geocities with the purpose of making several webpages, a main one, a secondary one, and so on...

Other nicknames:
- Dr. Guillote (unused)
- Revomode (unused)
- Gachuva (unused)
- WTFman

[Cobra]

sorry to insult your favorite singer cobra

oh yes, she's my fav singer, thanks a lot. :p

actually, she's not, I have several. although i'm not going to disclose their names at this point. :nervous:

[DaBrain]

*Bump*

Maybe some new members would also like to tell us about their little nickname story. ;)

[Taristin]

Ok, fine. :p

Taro + Ristin + Taranis -Raa -Snipes = Taristin

[Cobra]

*cough* Taranis came from that Cain that went kablooey at Tombaugh. :p

[Axem]

A = A
X = eXcellent
E = I forget
M = Ultra super aMazing.

[Cobra]

should have replaced 'M' with 'modest'. :p

j/k. :)

[Axem]

I protest! I am THE modest person in the universe! I DARE you to find anyone else more modest!

[Nuclear]

:blah:

Modesty still doesn't earn you food.

:biggrin1:

[DaBrain]

A = A
X = eXcellent
E = I forget
M = Ultra super aMazing.


:lol:

I love your sense of humor. :yes:

[Roanoke]

My name is one of the ships in the B5 epsiode Sereved Dreams (IIRC). I just thought it sounded pretty good. No idea what it means or where it came from.

[Taristin]

Virginia.

[Hammer]

:lol:

[DaBrain]

Virginia.


Hey guys... why exactly is this funny? Did I miss something?

Local joke?

[Taristin]

http://www.visitroanokeva.com/

[Roanoke]

:cool1:

[Nix]

Nix kinda means Nothing in German, which is/was my favorite record label (till it went defunct and all the crap with John Malm went down...) but everywhere I went to sign in for a handle of sorts, nix was taken. I tacked on 1999 cause it was fitting at the time back in 1996.... Another reason why I chose it was because i thought it was a cool name of a character in a movie with Scott Bakula in it. I cant remember what it was but it was a Clive Anderson book I think... (woah this takes me back)
Since then I've used other handles but if i'm online and gaming, I'll go by NIX most of the time. Other times i've been known to use shadenfreude and mesosparkle. (the simpsons.....)

[Taristin]

I always thought Nichts was nothing in german >..>

[DaBrain]

That's correct. "nix" is a short from for "nichts". ;)

[Hammer]

I loved germany, i lived in stuttgart for 3 years, such a beautiful place

[Singh]

Singh means Lion, right?

In hindi, yes. All sikhs have the second name as Singh, with family name being the third name. Hence my name is technically unique enough to identify me from others on the board, yet if I so choose, not unique enough for a complete identification.

I go by a second nickname these days, if you have seen it: Alternate22.

Alternative meaning/form for the 22nd Alternate.

What is an alternate? It can be a different choice; a different solution to the current scenario...a different way of going about things...a different way to beat the current system. An alternative option for the word 'alternative'. A different creation...

in other words.....Y.N.K.

(cookie for those who figure out what that means)

[Nuke]

lets see i got my name when i started playing elite on my grandpa's 386 back when i was 13 or so. pilot names were limited to 8 letters and around that time i wrote a paper on neclear weapons for my english class. so the neme was nukebomb. this lasted me through descent 2 and quake and finallky quake2. then i started playing freespace and finally i could use a longer name. so it was now nukebomb overkill. this was fine till i got older and realized it was abit childish. i remember for years i was the only nukebomb_overkill on icq. after awile everyone started using my name and it became generic, and i grew weary of typing it to login to things. after the vbb closed down i dropped 12 characters and the space/underscore and became nuke. i remain nuke in the freespace community bui ive gone by e-vil on irc and the_venom_of_hatred_for_man on yahoo, napalm enima on aim. but only because of the limit of 1 person per name, and because i dont like to put numbers/dates, whatever in my names. but il keep nuke as long as i stay with the fs community.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

I had a half Shepherd half Wolf...his name was Shadow. The IH was added in mechwarrior 3 when i founded the Iron Horde, one of the more successful teams there.

[DaBrain]

lets see i got my name when i started playing elite on my grandpa's 386 back when i was 13 or so. pilot names were limited to 8 letters and around that time i wrote a paper on neclear weapons for my english class. so the neme was nukebomb. this lasted me through descent 2 and quake and finallky quake2. then i started playing freespace and finally i could use a longer name. so it was now nukebomb overkill. this was fine till i got older and realized it was abit childish. i remember for years i was the only nukebomb_overkill on icq. after awile everyone started using my name and it became generic, and i grew weary of typing it to login to things. after the vbb closed down i dropped 12 characters and the space/underscore and became nuke. i remain nuke in the freespace community bui ive gone by e-vil on irc and the_venom_of_hatred_for_man on yahoo, napalm enima on aim. but only because of the limit of 1 person per name, and because i dont like to put numbers/dates, whatever in my names. but il keep nuke as long as i stay with the fs community.


:lol: "nukebomb_overkill"

Wow, a pretty destructive name. ;)

[Unknown Target]

...I met the real Iceman, the guy they stole the callsign from for the TopGun movie (he was on-base during the filming and they liked his callsign).

But I got my name, well...I just made it up. Originally I was Fighter_Captain on the Volition forums, but I made a stupid post and got bashed for it, so I changed my name to this...except I misspelled it. So for that entire time and my first year on HLP I was "Unkown_Target" until an admin kindly changed it for me, and here I am :D

[Hippo]

Erm... The ice man was a serial killer :nervous:

[Falcon]

My name comes from my pilot name in Freespace 2.

The End.

[TopAce]

AND where does your FS2 pilot name come from?

[Ephili]

Ephili: First day on FS2 Mulit back in PXO days i was like "whats a cool name?" and "Ephili" poped in my head.
Charismatic: Im Christian and my 'denomination' (reglious group with similar beleifs, about specific things) is called the 'charismatic' denom.
Spike: I look great with spikey hair, and i occasionally get arsed to do it and yeah. Was havin a hard time with my GF so i went flying under a diff name, a cooler name to make me feel better:P

My best friends nick name is "Tw". His ID was "Twistedlance.." ect. And i tried to abbreviate it when very tired, like at 4 in the morning. Came out to bt Tw instead of like TL or something like that. Either i was very off or it sounded cooler.

[Black Wolf]

NFI how I ended up with this - I've just been using it for yonks.

[Falcon]

AND where does your FS2 pilot name come from?

Dunno, ask me agian later...

[northtwilight]

I thought of my nick when trying to find something easier to remember and pronounce than my name proper, as well as serve as my online ID. Originally I got a Hotmail address about a year after the service started and had to think of a username. At the time I had heard about creating passwords where the user or admin slaps two unrelated terms together with an ASCII character, like "carrot%paper"; you know, sort of like what AOL does (did?).

So for this Hotmail address I called myself "Perfectly Vegetable" -- no cracks about how accurate that is! :) -- and to this day my GF tells me I still get business mail addressed to "Mr Perfectly Vegetable".

I also had an additional problem in that I used to have a lot of different aliases on the net; it wasn't consistent. So a lot of the time I'd remember an old site I'd like to access and get fucked up for the stupidest of reasons, that I couldn't remember the damn username. How dumb is that?

Anyway, upon coming back to Canada I thought I had to standardise. I soon fell upon North Twilight as a simple pair of terms I could use, and that was that... the terms themselves don't really mean anything. Unlike PVeggie, northtwilight is anodyne or neutral enough that no one thinks I'm being frivolous or too obscure, which is relevant as I use it pretty much uniformly across the net, as well for business communications and the like when I can't use work addresses for whatever reason. In fact, my boss, who's an old friend of mine from uni, just asked me about the nick just last week for similar reasons.

I think north was just a silly reference to being Canadian. Sorry if this is a little long!

[FragManFlyin!]

My nick's a spinoff of my marine call sign. Back when I flew Wart Hogs I was known as "Fragger", I was a lil reckless back then and completed every mission assigned, mainly blowing up stuff like sam radar sites and suppoting marine forces on the ground. My record is 19 hours continuously flying sorties, I wish I could tell you that's the record but it aint even close. Never ditched tho, just the same I went thru 3 aircraft that day. Ole Uncle Sam has deep pockets bet I cost him millions repairing my "Warts". LOL