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Dwarf Fortress => DF General Discussion => Topic started by: Bullion on June 19, 2008, 05:33:50 am

Title: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Bullion on June 19, 2008, 05:33:50 am

Toady, why did you come up with that name?

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Deon on June 19, 2008, 05:37:49 am

And while Toady tries to answer here, tell me, how can a bullion type? I didn't know about any kind of mineral life before.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Bullion on June 19, 2008, 05:49:16 am

Simple, i'm not a mineral, i'm a cross between a bull and a lion, i just dropped the extra L because people always told me i spelled it wrong.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Toady One on June 19, 2008, 07:17:59 am

Toady One?  We had lots of toads around when we were growing up in California, and we often put "A Toady One the Great Production" in the intros to our little BASIC games.  After we poured the concrete for the pond in the backyard, we wrote "A Toady One the Great Production" in it with our fingers (the pond later got hundreds of tadpoles then toads to augment the two or three koi [aka carp] we had out there).  I wasn't personally Toady One until we decided on our names when we put up the site in December 2000.  ThreeToe had a guinea pig, Faustus, at the time.  Faustus is his avatar.  Mine is a photo of a small toad statue that I have.

Unless you were asking about "Dwarf Fortress", as this is the DF General Discussion forum, in which case, I was hoping it was self-explanatory.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Bullion on June 19, 2008, 07:47:00 am

Ah, i've always been wondering where the name came from, Thanks.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: sneakey pete on June 19, 2008, 08:10:38 am

Holy heck, i guess i'm dyslexic. for the last year i've thought it was "today one". Not a good sign :o

edit: oh god, this means i've been spelling it wrong for a year... people must think i'm a nut!

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Savok on June 19, 2008, 08:50:43 am

Quote from: Toady One on June 19, 2008, 07:17:59 am

...to augment the two or three koi [aka carp] we had out there...

You have carp in a pond in your backyard?! How are you still alive?

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Baneslave on June 19, 2008, 08:57:01 am

Quote from: Savok on June 19, 2008, 08:50:43 am

You have carp in a pond in your backyard?! How are you still alive?

Toady One doesn't have fishing enabled and there is water source allocated inside the house.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: McDoomhammer on June 19, 2008, 10:09:22 am

It's simpler than that... He tamed them.  Didn't even need a cage.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: PTTG?? on June 19, 2008, 11:35:36 am

I've allways wondered. I guess that the next natural question would be where ThreeToe comes from- but I almost prefer the mystery.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Will on June 19, 2008, 11:42:24 am

Its explained in Toady's reply, guinea pigs have three toes or at least that one did. That's what I got from it anyway.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Deon on June 19, 2008, 11:48:04 am

That pig had 3 toes after the worldgen events.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Kagus on June 19, 2008, 03:04:27 pm

Not that anyone would care, but since this thread would fizzle without some sort of tangent I would like to provide the background for my own name.

I normally go by the pseudonym "CrazyGoblin" (long story) in other games and forums, but when I joined here I wanted to be a little bit "incognito".  I tried to spell out "CrazyGoblin" in one of the ingame languages, but found that none of the races have words for themselves (or anyone else, for that matter).  I settled on "Kagus", which is the goblin word for "crazy".


Naturally, "CrazyGoblin" doesn't always fit the game I'm playing.  So, for certain medieval-period games I go by the names "Gavinrad the Pure" (untainted by experience or skill) or "Sir Pippin the Slightly Daft".  I also go by "The Nevada Kid" in one Wild West-themed game.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: MaxVance on June 19, 2008, 03:10:36 pm

This is my real name. No, I'm not scared of stalkers or kidnappers or anything. Just for an "interesting" story, I'll tell you why I removed the space.

It started with the release of Mario Kart DS. When I was setting it up for online play, the game told me my name would be displayed as "Max Vanc" due to character display length. I removed the space to fit in the last letter, then a month later joined a forum using that name. I've used it pretty much everywhere since then.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Dame de la Licorne on June 19, 2008, 03:21:14 pm

Mine, well, I have the whole mythical race thing going.  My email has to do with dragons.  'Nuff said.
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Why do you think I like DF so much?   ;D

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Skizelo on June 19, 2008, 03:26:06 pm

For some reason, I think life would be easier for a man named Max Vance.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: dreiche2 on June 19, 2008, 05:10:05 pm

Or  Commander Flex Plexico... (http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html)

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: umiman on June 19, 2008, 05:29:33 pm

Whoa man. You don't want to piss off Mr. Magnus ver Magnusson.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Kagus on June 19, 2008, 05:49:12 pm

There is not a single "Bruce" on that list.  Something is wrong.

Dick Pound?  Sounds more like a gay pornstar.  I suppose if you're into that kind of "manly" thing, then it's certainly "manly".

But Bruce...  That's something else.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Duke 2.0 on June 19, 2008, 08:09:06 pm

 Duke came from a long line of Duke-like names, originating from a SNES Zelda game where I wanted to have a nice short name. My real name... well, it's one of the few names both humans and dogs share. Yea, I didn't want that in my game profile. Thus I came up with a four-letter name that I thought was cool at the time.

 The 2.0 was after some random banter with my internet friends, saying "I have been rebuilt, stronger, faster, more annoying." I was now known as a cyborg, a magic cowboy wizard cyborg. Yes, I was known as that. It was not intentional.

 If you see a Duke, Duke 2.0 or Dukemileg(An odd force of habit when I was 13) anywhere, send me a message with something DF-only context.

 Staff Sargent. Max Fightmaster...

 Chest hair!

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Karlito on June 19, 2008, 08:18:03 pm

I have my real first name, but with "ito" added.  Because its at least 42x more awesome that way.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Surma on June 19, 2008, 08:24:22 pm

@Duke 2.0: Butch? Tex? Indiana? :P

@Karlito: aawww little Karl... cute :P

Mine's simple, a previous alias of mine was already in use so I had to find another.

Since I didn't want Cerberus (or a bastardization of it) but wanted something on the same line of thought, I started looking at other mythos. I found Surma in Finnish mythos. The fact that Surma "...embodies sudden, violent death " was the vanilla icing on the cake for me.

That being said I love mythologies in general, and have several books on folklore. I just wish I could read Finnish so I could read the stories of the Kalevala as they should be read. Though I wouldn't mind being able to find the English translated Kalevala either.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Aqizzar on June 19, 2008, 08:31:17 pm

'Aqizzar' doesn't stand for anything.  This is the first forum I joined in a couple years, and needed a new screenname.  Way back in the nineties I used QZR as a tag for reasons I can't remember, and a minute of pondering bought me some vowels.  Aqizzar it is then.

And for those who don't know, the avatar is from the classic Lucasarts game Full Throttle.  Not an internet toughguy thing.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Kagus on June 19, 2008, 08:31:44 pm

I know a dog named Capone.  Is your name Capone?

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Fishersalwaysdie on June 19, 2008, 08:32:09 pm

This is my name in real life, I just added 'e' because it makes it easier to pronounce.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: AMRIV on June 19, 2008, 08:51:12 pm

AMRIV is just an acronym for my full name, Andrew Michael Rodriguez IV. This is also why it's in caps. I think it works out pretty well.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Gorjo MacGrymm on June 19, 2008, 09:04:46 pm

Gorjo MacGrymm of the Clan MacGrymm started off innocently enough around 1980 just after reading The Hobbit and LOTR when i was 10 and needing a new D&D character.  I wanted something appropriately dwarfy and I thought "...Thorin, Turin, Gimli, Gloin...uhh Gorjo!  yeah, perfect." and that was that.  About 5 minutes later he was exalted to the Gorjo the Grim status.  Funny side note, in the early 90's I joined on with a new phone company just after goverment deregulation in the US and they didnt ask for any ID as part of thier promotion, so, Gorjo the Grim (spelled just like that) had a telephone number listed in the phone book!  :)  I always laugh when i think of the data entry intern reading over that application and then entering it into the database.  The whole MacGrymm clan thing just evolved outta time, prolly from watching to much highlander (my grandfather was a highlander - not the immortal kind, that woulda been cool!- but the kind that came to the US back in the 19## teens).  Anyway, way more Info than necessary.


PS besides my forum name, I usually respond to f***er, A**hole, S***head, bastard, f***ing bastard and "you complete f***ing bastard." as well as many others :)

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Faces of Mu on June 19, 2008, 09:22:39 pm

I'm loving reading about the origins of user's forums names here.

Mine, Faces of Mu, was born from the SNES games Illusion of Time and Terranigma, and a bad memory. In IoT there was a sunken place called Mu that I think stuck in my mind because it had eerie music. It also made me think of the myth of Atlantis, but I don't know if that's really what Mu was about. Terranigma also had a similar place, and I think it had some imagry of the large Moai heads seen on Easter Island. So, to instill some mystery and perhaps be a little creepy, I chose Faces (Moai heads) of Mu. If anyone remembers either of these games and cares to enlighten me about how these images might interact, I'd appreciate it!

Unfortunately, on first glance my nic probably looks more like Faeces of Mu tho.  ;D

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: mutant mell on June 19, 2008, 09:26:45 pm

My old forum name was malaguy (I still use it for some things), but I got tired of it.  I really wanted a new name, but I couldn't think of anything I like.  One day I was playing around with a word scrambler, and I found that my Mutant Mell was an anagram of my name.  I liked it enough, and I've been using it even since.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: grelphy on June 19, 2008, 10:45:14 pm

'grelphy' is a random pronouncable string of letters. No greater significance. =P

I've also gone by 'nonsensicality' from time to time, but that's a pain to type, so I don't usually bother.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: subject name here on June 19, 2008, 11:56:26 pm

Since we're asking questions here what is the scene from the logo on the homepage from? It looks like something from Fallout 1-2 but I think the vault doors in those games were round.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Duke 2.0 on June 19, 2008, 11:58:36 pm

 @ Faces of Mu: I remember those places! Great games.

 @Everybody guessing my name: It seems every time I release that factoid, people have a jolly time trying to guess it. For all your replies, I have either not heard a person with a name like that/haven't heard a dog with a name like that/Thats not my name.

 Think a Happy dog name. Nothing tough, adventurous or noble. Think of a dog with a Face of God.

 But yes, it's always fascinating to hear the stories of usernames. Mine first translated to the internet on Neopets. Messed that sucker up, so I made another one with a 1 at the end of it. Mileg was an interesting addition. My leg hurt from a recent injury, and I had stumbled across a link to a site that directs to a website I used in my youth.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Wooty on June 20, 2008, 12:39:20 am

My name...I was signing up for some game a long time a go, runescape? I think it was. I decided on "Woot" ....already taken.So "Woot45". A year or so later puzzlepirates wouldn't let me have numbers in my name, so "Wooty". I liked that one better.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: PTTG?? on June 20, 2008, 01:33:23 am

It all started with
"Petie"
then
"Peter the great"
then, for the internets:
"PTTG"
Then I forgot my password, so I became
"PTTG?"
because I needed an interesting character so my name would be different.
Then, I forgot my password again.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: DJ on June 20, 2008, 01:51:48 am

It's just my initials. My real name is Darko Jelica.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Aqizzar on June 20, 2008, 03:23:05 am

Quote from: Duke 2.0 on June 19, 2008, 11:58:36 pm

Think a Happy dog name. Nothing tough, adventurous or noble. Think of a dog with a Face of God.

Ceasar?

Unless of course that's not an obtuse Eddie Izzard reference...

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Kagus on June 20, 2008, 03:26:03 am

Hank?

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Spelguru on June 20, 2008, 03:32:51 am

Many a many years ago, I was pondering what to name my main guy in one of them old n ancient fantasy games for a console, and my big sister suggested "spelguru"...

That's about it?

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Jetman123 on June 20, 2008, 03:44:07 am

I had an early fascination with flight, space travel and the like. I always worked jetpacks into my imagination sometime. So when it came time to register my first identity on the internets, I remembered back to my old childhood days of pretending to fly around the house... and became Jetman! After an old game I used to play, as well as the other old game Jetpac.

It turns out that was taken on the site I tried to register on, so I added numbers. 123 was the easiest sequence. And I've been using it ever since. ^_^

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Zsinj on June 20, 2008, 04:59:27 am

Quote from: DJ on June 20, 2008, 01:51:48 am

It's just my initials. My real name is Darko Jelica.

That's an unbelieveably awesome real name.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Dae on June 20, 2008, 05:00:38 am

Dae, just cause I like this syllable. I used it as a nicknamed for a thief in a game, and later learned it means "shadow" in elfic.
I was quite lucky.

For a time, I would've used my real first name, because no one could notice it wasn't a nickname. No one ever guessed what it is.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Rooster on June 20, 2008, 05:15:18 am

People call me Jezus in school (Althought i scare them that I'll sacrifice them to myself). I don't know why, it just happened (or maybe its because of my very long hair?). I named myself Rooster for this forum 'cause its my chineese sign.  ::)

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Dareon Clearwater on June 20, 2008, 06:39:57 am

"Dareon" is the mutation of my first online name, "neored13".  Yes, I was a horrible horrible fanboy.  I simply flipped the name around and shuffled the letters a little, dropping the numbers altogether.  It's served me fine in that respect on 9 out of 10 online services I sign up to.

At the times it doesn't, I add "Clearwater" which is an antonym translation of my actual middle name (Douglass, or "dark water").

Dareon was not previously taken here, but I stuck Clearwater into my display name.  No real problem when the board change dropped us to single names.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: SirPenguin on June 20, 2008, 06:53:04 am

I've honestly forgotten the origins of my name. I made it about 8 years ago, for GameFAQs. Later, I used it for AIM, then just about every forum I was part of.

I barely use it now.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Metal Chao on June 20, 2008, 06:57:52 am

I was into sonic at the time when I invented my screen name and never bothered thinking up a new one.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: martinuzz on June 20, 2008, 07:25:30 am

Name's Martin. I zzz a lot.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Spud on June 20, 2008, 07:31:08 am

Ussually i use  "The KGB" for games, however for one flight sim i used to play i was known as the "Red Potato" cuz it was WW1, that was shortened to Spud and i use that for non-modern games

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Cthulhu on June 20, 2008, 08:32:53 am

The story of my name is long and stupid.  My habit of giving myself a bizarre, adorable name started when I was playing Morrowind.  I made a wizard, and couldn't think of a name.  I finally decided I'd name myself Mezzidrell, a boss from an old PS2 game.  That was too long, so I shortened it to Mezzy.  My brother and I found this name hilarious, so I used it everywhere.  Then I saw the name Muffles on Warcraft 3, and it replaced Mezzy.  Muffles was my original bay12 games screen name.  On April Fools Day, however, I changed it to Cthulhu since everyone was changing their names to Toady One.  In a bit of FORUM MADNESS, I found the next day that I could no longer change my name.  Hence, Cthulhu.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Duke 2.0 on June 20, 2008, 09:18:01 am

Quote from: Aqizzar on June 20, 2008, 03:23:05 am

Ceasar?

Unless of course that's not an obtuse Eddie Izzard reference...

 Nope, and I WISH I had made an Eddie Izzard reference in there. There IS a major clue in there, though. You just need to look Behind the Name.

 

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: LSTAR on June 20, 2008, 09:18:37 am

LSTAR...
Well, my real name is Alasdair. Can you guess the connection? I was originally L*, but quite a lot of sites don't accept symbols in usernames. And people kept calling me Lasterix when they did.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Jamuk on June 20, 2008, 09:24:04 am

My nick is just my initials J.M.K. with vowels in it.   J_aM_uK

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: DJ on June 20, 2008, 09:53:41 am

Quote from: Zsinj on June 20, 2008, 04:59:27 am

Quote from: DJ on June 20, 2008, 01:51:48 am

It's just my initials. My real name is Darko Jelica.

That's an unbelieveably awesome real name.

It becomes even more awesome when you factor in my thick Eastern European accent. It's like I'm destined to be killed by James Bond in some spectacular way.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: McDoomhammer on June 20, 2008, 10:40:06 am

This name started as McDoom, which is simply a conflation of two things I happen to like, namely the frivolous addition of Mc- to a random word, and the word 'doom'.  I first used it on Puzzle Pirates, because let's face it, "The dread pirate McDoom" just sounds cool.  At least, it always does in my head.

When I signed up here, I decided the PP name didn't fit on a forum so I looked for something dwarfier.  "Doomhammer" has a nice dwarven ring to it, a little WHFB but none the worse for that, and so McDoomhammer I became.

I can only wish 'McDoomhammer' was anything to do with my real name.  I won't be posting that here (or anywhere public), because it's long, double-barrelled and extremely distinctive.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Deon on June 20, 2008, 10:44:27 am

Quote from: Aqizzar on June 20, 2008, 03:23:05 am

And for those who don't know, the avatar is from the classic Lucasarts game Full Throttle.  Not an internet toughguy thing.

I loved this game... This is like a sweet syrup for my heart.
Biker Ben...

Quote from: Duke 2.0 on June 19, 2008, 11:58:36 pm

Think a Happy dog name. Nothing tough, adventurous or noble. Think of a dog with a Face of God.

Scooby Doo?

Mine is from the ancient greek "Deov" [deon] which means "godly" or "related to god". I picked it when I studied ancient latin and greek so it was just a gesture of my love to ancient greek language. Also I liked how is sounds, since I'm Dennis/Den it's someway related too.

Later I knew that there's D'eon -> Deon surname which comes from french D'eon (which comes from Eon place).

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Bullion on June 20, 2008, 11:02:41 am

Quote from: Deon link=topic=19539.msg204228#msg204228  I'm Dennis/Den it's someway related too.

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I thought i was the only one..

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: loser on June 20, 2008, 12:03:29 pm

In Civ you could name your Civilizations.

I kicked ass at that whole series of games due to my "spread like cancer 'cause the world doesn't have an oncologist" strategy.  (Of course they made that approach more difficult in Civ III & IV, but it's still doable and powerful.)

At some point when I should have been studying for college courses but was instead staying up way too late playing Civ II on a Pentium 100 (or it might have been high school courses I should have been studying for while instead playing Civ on a 386), I named a Civilization The Losers, their leader Moron, and all their cities different words for stupid.  (I ran out of synonyms for stupid and moved on to crazy at some point in each game that didn't kill me off early.)

I had a handle I had, way back, picked out for myself as a teenager on the BBS scene, but I needed another for a sock-puppet on some board or another.  (I think it was Penny-Arcade c. 1999.)  So I went with 'loser' because 'moron' was taken.

I eventually saw the angst-chosen handle of my teenage years as pretentious.  (It doesn't sound angsty, it's just pretentious.)  So now I'm just plain 'loser' almost everywhere.

Duke, your name is Spike?  Your given name?

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Fishersalwaysdie on June 20, 2008, 12:52:00 pm

Quote from: DJ on June 20, 2008, 09:53:41 am

Quote from: Zsinj on June 20, 2008, 04:59:27 am

Quote from: DJ on June 20, 2008, 01:51:48 am

It's just my initials. My real name is Darko Jelica.

That's an unbelieveably awesome real name.

It becomes even more awesome when you factor in my thick Eastern European accent. It's like I'm destined to be killed by James Bond in some spectacular way.

Croat? Serb?

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Mephansteras on June 20, 2008, 01:39:15 pm

Mine's pretty simple. Mephansteras was a type of creature I came up with for a D&D game back in high school. Back when I first needed to get an e-mail address, I got tired of trying to find something I liked that wasn't already taken, since I refuse to add numbers to my name. So, after being frustrated for a bit, I used Mephansteras. Which, no surprise, wasn't taken. It never is, so it's become my default handle everywhere.

Oh, and for reference it's kind of like the Aliens from the Alien series, but and ant head and no strange back protrusions.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: KrunkSplein on June 20, 2008, 04:25:01 pm

Well my name was borne from two separate and distinct UO characters from... 98 I think.  Maybe 97.

I was rolling a guy who I intended to be the big dumb warrior, so I basically picked a batman sound - Krunk.  Unfortunately, around the same time the guys who made Dexter's Lab (Genddy Tartakovsky if memory serves) had a little superhero cartoon which also featured a big dumb warrior named Krunk.  The name has since taken another downturn as it has become a shortening of the term "crazy drunk" and is now featured prominently in music I don't listen to.  But I still like it.

Around the same time I was rolling a guy named Doctor Spleen, who was a mage/alchemist.  The Doctor thing seemed appropriate, and I think Spleen is one of nature's funniest words.

A year or two later, EverQuest came out.  My first character was Krunk, a Dwarf Paladin.  Once I got higher in level, I was able to add a surname.  Spleen didn't seem to fit the Fantasy setting as well as I'd have liked, so I changed a vowel.  And thus Krunk Splein was born.

I have since removed the space, since lots of places don't let you have one.

I also go by variations of the word "Bear" or "Ursa", because my three-year-old niece calls me Uncle Bear.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: DJ on June 20, 2008, 05:47:23 pm

Quote from: Fishersalwaysdie on June 20, 2008, 12:52:00 pm

Quote from: DJ on June 20, 2008, 09:53:41 am

Quote from: Zsinj on June 20, 2008, 04:59:27 am

Quote from: DJ on June 20, 2008, 01:51:48 am

It's just my initials. My real name is Darko Jelica.

That's an unbelieveably awesome real name.

It becomes even more awesome when you factor in my thick Eastern European accent. It's like I'm destined to be killed by James Bond in some spectacular way.

Croat? Serb?

Bosnian Croat.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Danaru on June 20, 2008, 06:07:37 pm

I added "aru" to my first name because I'm borderline weeaboo.

don't worry, I'm seeing a support group.

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Aqizzar on June 20, 2008, 06:31:22 pm

Quote from: KrunkSplein on June 20, 2008, 04:25:01 pm

I was rolling a guy who I intended to be the big dumb warrior, so I basically picked a batman sound - Krunk.  Unfortunately, around the same time the guys who made Dexter's Lab (Genddy Tartakovsky if memory serves) had a little superhero cartoon which also featured a big dumb warrior named Krunk. 

"Krunk never been in Val Hallen's room!  Teddy and Krunk scared!"
"You are a Justice Friend, Krunk!  And Teddy doesn't pay a third of the rent. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUqbj8m4FMs)

Title: Re: Huge question, unimaginably important.
Post by: Nesoo on June 20, 2008, 09:03:43 pm

Quote from: Faces of Mu on June 19, 2008, 09:22:39 pm

Mine, Faces of Mu, was born from the SNES games Illusion of Time and Terranigma, and a bad memory. In IoT there was a sunken place called Mu that I think stuck in my mind because it had eerie music. It also made me think of the myth of Atlantis, but I don't know if that's really what Mu was about. Terranigma also had a similar place, and I think it had some imagry of the large Moai heads seen on Easter Island. So, to instill some mystery and perhaps be a little creepy, I chose Faces (Moai heads) of Mu. If anyone remembers either of these games and cares to enlighten me about how these images might interact, I'd appreciate it!

I'm curious where you played IoT, as it was called Illusion of Gaia here in the States when I played it as a wee child, and AFAIK Terranigma was never released here (but thanks to the magic of emulators, I've been able to try that one too; didn't get far in it though). But yeah, Mu and the underwater palace are definitely amongst my favorite areas in the game.

I'm not overly familiar with Mu, only that it was allegedly another "lost continent" like Atlantis. I think I had heard about it from some show that was "investigating" the latter (yeah, I was big into that kind of stuff as a kid; still am, in a "people thing up the weirdest things" kind of way). Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(lost_continent)) helps with the connection to the stone heads from Easter Island:

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In his attempt to create a vivid description of an ancient yet lost civilization capable of explaining the greatness of the “white” race, Churchward connects several civilizations. He includes Egypt, Greece, Central America, India, Burma and others, as well as Easter Island. These are all cultures that are known for their megalithic art and architecture and have been a topic of interest for scholars for centuries.

I can't really say anything about any connection that Terranigma might have with any of this, as I didn't play much of it and am not familiar with all the locations.

Now, that fun sidetrack out of the way, my name:

Back when I played MMORPGs, I almost always used the random name generator. One of the names I got for a character was Oosen; you can probably guess how I got Nesoo (for another character) out of that. I've used Nesoo, or its shorter form, Nes, pretty much ever since (though you have to be careful; I only use "Nes" in a handful of places, and there's a lot of "imitators" out there... I'm sure the fact that it happens to be an acronym for an old video game system doesn't help...).

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Post by: Surma on June 21, 2008, 12:36:02 am

That and Ness was a protagonist in the SNES game EarthBound (called Mother in Japan)

Maybe this should be split off from the original topic, which was really only asking about Toady One's name, and given a topic all it's own, kind of like the "Introduce yourself" topic many other forums have.

Not saying that this is bad or anything... just 'less official' or something :P

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Post by: MaxVance on June 21, 2008, 12:39:46 am

All it really needs is to be moved. The origin of your name is still an unimaginably important question.

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Post by: creodor on June 21, 2008, 01:56:26 am

The random name generator for familiars in the first NWN spewed out Creodor one time. I liked the sound of it, and next time I had to sign up for something, my normal name, Alannon, was taken, so I just used Creodor. I've begun using it more and more, because it's almost never taken, whereas Alannon usually is. In fact, if I try to sign up somewhere and Creodor is taken, I know I have an account already. It's proven handy a few times.

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Post by: ShunterAlhena on June 21, 2008, 10:53:29 am

"Shunter" is abbreviation for Silent Hunter, a submarine game (shunter.zip). My eyes just fell on that file while I was thinking about a nickname.

Then after I got online, I found out that a) Shunter means a kind of train engine that goes backwards, b) there are dozens of other Shunters out there (think Susan Hunter, Sarah Hunter etc).

So Alhena was tacked on, named about a Sims family I had.

A truly manly story for a great name, eh? ;)

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Post by: Okenido on June 21, 2008, 11:10:54 am

My name is the bastard child from a threesome between the Viking Religion, the Japanese Language, and backlisting.

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Post by: Rictus on June 21, 2008, 12:16:53 pm

Mine was just the result of wracking my brain for a half-decent username that wasn't already taken, for some random forum . I cannot stand having numbers or symbols after names, and so eventually I settled on "Rictus" (meaning a big ol' toothy grimace or smile) and to this day that word has never been taken on any forum I've joined except, randomly, the Nintendo Wii one.

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Post by: SoylentNinja on June 21, 2008, 02:42:36 pm

My name came from the days that I used to play counter strike:source.  after awhile my two favourite methods of screwing around was running up to people with a primed and cooking grenade and having them kill me.  The nade would then go off instantly thus bagging me a couple of kills and laughs.

The other method was finding places up high with popular pathways below.  I would wait until people would go running by and then I would jump on them sinking my knife into the back of their head.  Since I always either blew myself up or used 'surprise' tactics the name SoylentNinja came about. 

I have always visualized myself as this frankenstein sort of creation but with multiple ninja parts....  and oh yeah my name is never taken too which is cool.

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Post by: Kagus on June 21, 2008, 05:01:00 pm

I used to play Battlefield 2 as "TheOneFreeNickname", because that's what it was.  Everything else I tried had been taken already (note that this was before CrazyGoblin entered the scene).

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Post by: McDoomhammer on June 21, 2008, 07:17:52 pm

"Soylent ninja is pirates!  Piraaaaaates!"

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Post by: Faces of Mu on June 23, 2008, 12:21:43 am

Quote from: Nesoo on June 20, 2008, 09:03:43 pm

I'm curious where you played IoT, as it was called Illusion of Gaia here in the States when I played it as a wee child, and AFAIK Terranigma was never released here (but thanks to the magic of emulators, I've been able to try that one too; didn't get far in it though).

I played them in Australia. I think Terranigma was a sequel to Illusion. I'm wondering if I'm thinking of Terranigma because in the early stages of the game you have to "release" the earth's continents from some form of stasis, so I picture the earth just covered in sea before then, and hence Mu/Atlantis. I can't remember if it really depicted Moai heads or not, but the thought of them is just evokes some kind of joint-subconscious eery-feeling mixed with centredness.

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Post by: Keiseth on June 23, 2008, 12:47:17 am

When did this become a name topic, anyway? I was thinking of making this in Various Nonsense. No need to now!

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4866/frontja5.jpg (http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4866/frontja5.jpg)
Ahh, Terranigma was such a fantastic game...

Very minor spoiler, involving the Moai heads.

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I don't actually remember seeing any Moai heads, but maybe you were thinking of the faces that appeared on the doors of the (five?) towers in the underworld? There were floating, ghostly faces used in a few parts, too. The two "secret" optional areas to restore in the underworld were Mu and Polynesia/Polynesse I believe.

Either way, Faces of Mu is an awesome name.

Back on topic(?)! My common username "Keiseth" may have been from a generator. I picked it because I liked the sound of "Kei" and have always liked the name "Seth" (and it has a link to the Egyptian god, Set, too). It's fun because Google never really heard of it before, and now most of Google's results for Keiseth show my (meager) presence in other places. Maybe I picked it because it also has the same number of letters as my actual first name, "Patrick".

The subtext/title "The Mimic" is more creative. I wanted another name to go by, and I was feeling cynical. I learned a lot of things by imitating other people, or their work. I started programming C++ like scripts in a game by imitating other peoples scripts, adjusting them slightly, and playing around with them until they were totally different. Altogether, I like the sound of "Keiseth The Mimic".

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Post by: LASD on June 23, 2008, 02:55:22 pm

@Surma:
Thank you for revealing your name's origin, I had been wondering if you were a Finn. Turns out you aren't, which is a lot cooler somehow.

My nick is based on my real name, which is Lassi (It resembles the words Lass and Lassie very much, but is in fact a guy's name in Finnish.). My friend once told me that I should change my nick in Instant Messager from Lassi to lasd. I soon transfomed it to LASD-ARGH and since then I have written it in all caps. I thought LASD was kind of cool after using a lame-ass nick "Laputius" for too long and so I took it up in number of places.

Few months ago I asked how this friend of mine came up with LASD. Turned out that because we were chatting with 5 participants, he constantly had to type my name to say things to me, so he suggested the change to lasd, because it was faster and easier to write.

Oh, well...

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Post by: Kagus on June 23, 2008, 05:32:07 pm

There's a Norwegian weirdo by the name of Lasse.  He did some exceptionally popular editing work a while back, including one video on YouTube which now has more views than the population of Norway.

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Post by: LASD on June 24, 2008, 04:32:04 am

Quote from: Kagus on June 23, 2008, 05:32:07 pm

There's a Norwegian weirdo by the name of Lasse.  He did some exceptionally popular editing work a while back, including one video on YouTube which now has more views than the population of Norway.

Yes, I think he is Lasse Gjertsen. The videos are hilarious. The one where he compares Scandinavian swearwords got me laughing, especially because of the way he said the Finnish word "Perkele". Normally it's like the manliest word in the Finnish language, but he made it sound all flowery and girlish.  ;D

Lasse is more the swedish/norwegian name (but used in Finland as well), but because Lassi is a bit more rare, I get very often mistaken as Lasse and I have to pronounce very clearly "LassI" again and again. I think it also has something to do with the weird Finnish language and lazy pronounciation.

In other news, I've heard that the Norwegians tell same kind of dumb jokes about the Finns that the Finns tell about the Swedish. I assume you, Kagus, are Norwegian, so is this true?

Few examples: (apologies to all Swedes. They really aren't this stupid.)

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How do you sink a Swedish submarine?
  -Dive and knock on the hatch, someone will definitely open.

What does Sweden have that Finland doesn't?
  -Neighbouring country with intelligent beings.

Have you heard about the Swede whose library burnt down? His both books were destroyed and the other one wasn't even colored yet.

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Post by: Ixoran on June 25, 2008, 04:35:54 am

Mine comes from the days of playing phantasy star online for the DC.
I was making a force, and I wanted to get a pinkall section ID (they tend to get better force related drops) and I knew I wanted an X in it, and thus Ixoran was born.
Yet sometimes, this completely made up name is taken, and I use Ixoran X, or Ixoran.X or IxoranX.
I find it far superior to the genki_monkey I created in my early teens...
I use it for pretty much every account I have now, though, for characters, I always have to save it for the mage types.

DUKE 2.0

You name isn't Spot is it? XD
is it:
duke
mike
buck
Fred
Finn?

I work with dogs, so i've seen some weird names like buttmonkey, or fucker, or captain wiggles.

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Post by: Dae on June 25, 2008, 04:43:49 am

Quote from: Keiseth on June 23, 2008, 12:47:17 am

Either way, Faces of Mu is an awesome name.

Way better than "Feces of Mu" for instance. Indeed, you chose wisely.

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Post by: A_Fey_Dwarf on June 25, 2008, 04:47:40 am

My initials are in both my first name and my last name, Beat that...

T   M  S                  SM T
ThoMaS Montgomery SMiTh

They are in order for my first name and in reverse order for my last name.

My account name on the other hand is not as exciting, just a DF reference that fits my personality.

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Post by: Maggarg - Eater of chicke on June 25, 2008, 05:04:42 am

My name comes from my old WoW account, where I played a dwarf warrior.
Magnus was taken, so I made up a sufficiently dwarfy name up.
The Eater of Chickens bit is because I like eating chicken.

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Post by: Kagus on June 25, 2008, 01:44:48 pm

Quote from: LASD on June 24, 2008, 04:32:04 am

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Yes, I'm Norwegian.  Well, somewhat.  I was born in Norway to a Norwegian father and an American mother with Norwegian ancestry, and I was raised in the states.  Because of this interesting background, I get to have dual citizenry, which allows me to go to lovely places like Cuba (American passport?  Hell no.  Norwegian passport?  Yeah, okay, whatever).

As for joking, the Norwegians prefer making fun of the Swedes.  The Swedes spend some time switching the jokes around to have "Norwegian" instead of "Swede", but most of the time they're busy making fun of the Danes. 

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Post by: Will on June 25, 2008, 02:37:20 pm

My name is Will, but take my word for it I'm pretty creative... just not with names....

And that's my story, not quite as inspired as the rest of yours.

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Post by: sir diesalot on June 25, 2008, 03:25:09 pm

I got my name from playing Dark Messiah Multi player, strange thing is that after i changed my name to this i got a hell of a lot better. The name has now stuck through everything i play except my pre-dark messiah games where i am called Scintoth (you can spell my name from some of the letters) or ninpirate (my friend wanted a runescape buddy so i made up a random name, this being a cross between a ninja and a pirate).

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Post by: McDoomhammer on June 25, 2008, 04:46:56 pm

Should we call you Scott?  Shot in the dark.

Maybe the improvement was unintentional propaganda working for you... people saw the name and discounted you as a threat because of it?

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Post by: Qmarx on June 25, 2008, 05:01:34 pm

"? (http://www.miraigamer.net/cavestory/)

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Post by: Ghost of a Flea on June 25, 2008, 07:12:25 pm

I stole the name of an airship from Philip Reeve's Hungry Cities Chronicles. I think it's mentioned once in the entirety of all four books.

Wait, it might have been a limpet. I'll check.

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Post by: Eater of Vermin on June 27, 2008, 04:32:58 am

Dunno.  [Shrug]


(BTW, have you finished with that rat?)