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Offline Bilbin

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« on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 14:17:16 »
I was called Bilbin by a person with the same first name as I in 2006 on Call of Duty 2 before I had a screen name for myself and just chose to use it from that day on.

What about the rest of you?
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Offline Bilbin

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« Reply #1 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 14:20:50 »
Where did the nickname Rip come from? :D
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Offline Lanx

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« Reply #2 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 14:26:04 »
everquest character name, it had to be the min (4 chars), ppl just think i'm either a cat lover (lynx) or i'm a Linux geek that really can't spell. I seem to have a knack of creating nice cute girl fantasy names that my fiance' really likes and takes, since you know, i don't play girl characters.
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Offline Zamorph

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« Reply #3 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 14:49:45 »
Quote from: ripster;441282
I think it was short for Dip****.  I got called LOTS of names back then.  Hey, just like at Geekhack!

But some of us love you here!!! <3

Mine was I just was trying to think of some name.  Back when I played wow I just remembered some mage spell polymorph and just was like zamorph lol
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Offline Aseral

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« Reply #4 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 15:30:02 »
6 years ago I had to find a name for my night elf character in World of Warcraft
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Offline hashbaz

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« Reply #5 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 16:27:04 »
Hashbaz is my battle.net (Starcraft) ID.  It comes from Isaiah 8:3:

"And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz."

The whole compound name means something like "hurry to the plunder", in reference to an impending attack by Assyria. I had a roommate who used to joke that he was going to have four sons one day, and name them Maher, Shalal, Hash, and Baz.  The word sounds nice and zergy, and the meaning seemed appropriate for Starcraft.  It's kind of become my default username, though I don't feel particularly attached to it.

Also I like its cross-compatibility with computer science: hash as in hash table, baz as in the standard sequence of dummy names "foo, bar, baz".
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« Reply #6 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 16:33:34 »
Mine is pretty self explanatory...
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Offline Playtrumpet

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« Reply #7 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 17:18:58 »
There's no telling which game or message board I first devised this name for, but needless to say, I play trumpet. My other favorite SN is "Luckytrumpet" - neither names have ever been taken on any website for which I've registered. I like having unique (by that I mean one-of-a-kind or less used, not necessarily "creative") handles. If "Playtrumpet" was more common, I have backups.
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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 17:24:39 »
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #9 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 20:38:28 »
I posted this in a similar thread some time ago.  It's a long story.

And when I say "story" I really mean "cock."
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« Reply #10 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 20:57:36 »
Abbreviation of a song title "Fohat Digs Holes in Space"

I started off using my actual name, and decided that was too mundane, as well as dangerous
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Offline Lethal Squirrel

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« Reply #11 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 21:02:47 »
Mine is from my very first Xbox live gamer tag from way back in the halo 2 days probably back in 2004-2005. It kinda stuck with my and I've been using it as my internet alias ever since.
It doesn't have any particular meaning behind it. I actually think it was one of the suggestions they give you. I really don't remember though.
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Offline whiskerBox

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« Reply #12 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 23:39:52 »
This is creepy, but when I find cat whiskers around the house I save them and put them in a box. I started doing this to creep out my GF but she got into it and now we have like 50 whiskers.
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« Reply #13 on: Fri, 28 October 2011, 23:44:10 »
Whoa.  The image in your sig is suddenly really creepy.
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Offline thebilgerat

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« Reply #14 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 02:58:52 »
Quote from: whiskerbox;441615
this is creepy, but when i find cat whiskers around the house i save them and put them in a box. I started doing this to creep out my gf but she got into it and now we have like 50 whiskers.
ftmfw!
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Offline Bilbin

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« Reply #15 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 04:11:28 »
Quote from: ripster;441552
I'm still trying to figure out what a Bilbin is and why TWO COD players would have it.

Whoa whoa, please add the 2 after CoD otherwise people think I'm some MW2 sprint prone spamming noob. I don't get what you mean by two cod players having it, the person that dubbed me it had the same FIRST name as I (which is Alex), I might have misread what you wrote.

I thought this was pretty interesting on IRC this morning:
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[06:10] Bilbo Baggins - shorten both names to 3 letters each.
[06:11] Bil(bo) B(agg)in(s) is one of those options. :P
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Offline Findecanor

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« Reply #16 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 04:40:28 »
Some LotR elven name generator that I found on the web. It stems from my real name somehow, but I don't remember how.
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Offline Ekaros

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« Reply #17 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 05:28:49 »
From Ikaros and first letter of my real name, which is suprise suprise E, something to do with some latin in my schooling...
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« Reply #18 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 06:06:20 »
I saw the word once before and had no idea what a Hydroid was but it sounded cool so I googled it and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroid
And I liked the whole idea of a small predator that looks harmless but packs a sting. I started off using it as "teh_HyDr0iD" but then as I matured a little the "teh" eventually dropped off and I just used "HyDr0iD", but then I decided that I didn't like the alternating caps either so I've just begun to use "Hydroid". It's something that I initially just chose, but I've become quite attached to it now.

I really don't like when people shorten it to Hydro though, I have no idea why, but it just seems like it's butchering the name to me. ^^
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« Reply #19 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 07:05:23 »
Explanation below but I want to get you intrigued with the video first. This 10 minute long video is 64kB and you can download it here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221

[video=youtube;N5AGmv_WEd4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5AGmv_WEd4&feature=related[/video]

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Farbrausch, or Farb-rausch, is a German group of demomakers who made themselves particularly famous in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64k intro called "fr-08: .the .product". "Farbrausch" literally translates to "rave of color", "color rush" or "color frenzy" in English. Making use of techniques like procedural textures, an efficient MIDI sequencer called Logic Audio (currently owned by Apple under the name Logic Pro) and a modified version of UPX executable compressor [1], ".the .product" is an 11-minute 3-D show featuring complex scenes of computer generated imagery.

Their work has won numerous awards. In 2004, a subdivision of farbrausch called ".theprodukkt" released a 96kB first-person shooter game named ".kkrieger", and an earlier version of the tool they currently use to produce some of their demos, named ".werkkzeug", or "Tool".

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Here's "The Popular Demo"

[video=youtube;YBpo5GHcmsE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpo5GHcmsE[/video]

You can download their 96kB first-person shooter game here: http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger
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« Reply #20 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 07:33:02 »
7bit as in 7 bit ASCII.

I like to keep things simple;-)
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Some LotR elven name generator that I found on the web. It stems from my real name somehow, but I don't remember how.


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Offline Lanx

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« Reply #21 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 08:25:58 »
Quote from: Hydroid;441706

I really don't like when people shorten it to Hydro though, I have no idea why, but it just seems like it's butchering the name to me. ^^


which is why i made mine with the min chars available, nothing worse than putting time into a handle (avatar now?) only to have ppl shorten it and call you water.
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« Reply #22 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 10:21:09 »
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Offline Quarzac

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« Reply #23 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 18:27:01 »
In the 4th grade my teacher gave us an assignment where we had to make our own vanity license plates. I wanted to use letters that other people weren't going to use, which I narrowed down to Q and Z. I figured at the time that I needed a U after the Q, and the rest just kind of came together for the project. Originally it was Quarzack, but I had to nix the K because vanity license plates were  only 7 characters. I started using it online years later when I needed a semi-constant handle, and it popped back into my head. I don't remember where I started using it. I used Enyu for a while before that though, but switched to Quarzac when Enyu was taken at a bunch of sites- probably due to its origins in an online name generator.
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« Reply #24 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 19:07:27 »
A friend started calling me Ricky J ~8 years ago, and it caught on among friends in our car club (hint for Harrison: Deaner).  I suck at making up names, so I haven't come up with anything better to use online.
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Offline Pretendo

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« Reply #25 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 20:32:58 »
The name of the Nintendo parody video game system in an episode of Doug.  Picked just because it popped into my head that day.  Haven't seen the show in years.
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Offline DaemonRaccoon

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« Reply #26 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 22:50:38 »
I don't remember where my screen name came from. I seem to recall staying up too late one night on the computer just typing in random thoughts.

If I had to come up with a story, I often have dark circles under my eyes giving the appearance of a mask and like to stay out of the way in the background, like Unix daemons. Plus I like to use Linux.
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Offline SmallFry

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« Reply #27 on: Sat, 29 October 2011, 23:05:40 »
In about fourth grade a big bad sixth grader called me Small Fry. I promptly called him Medium Shake. His friend, quite built for a sixth grader, was coined Big Mac. Their names were lost shortly thereafter, but I liked being called SmallFry, hence the name stuck. I also used SmallFry284 on occasion when A different handle is required, just because Runescape told me 284:tongue:
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« Reply #28 on: Sun, 30 October 2011, 00:05:02 »
Quote from: oneproduct;441718
Explanation below but I want to get you intrigued with the video first. This 10 minute long video is 64kB and you can download it here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1221

[video=youtube;N5AGmv_WEd4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5AGmv_WEd4&feature=related[/video]

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Farbrausch, or Farb-rausch, is a German group of demomakers who made themselves particularly famous in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64k intro called "fr-08: .the .product". "Farbrausch" literally translates to "rave of color", "color rush" or "color frenzy" in English. Making use of techniques like procedural textures, an efficient MIDI sequencer called Logic Audio (currently owned by Apple under the name Logic Pro) and a modified version of UPX executable compressor [1], ".the .product" is an 11-minute 3-D show featuring complex scenes of computer generated imagery.

Their work has won numerous awards. In 2004, a subdivision of farbrausch called ".theprodukkt" released a 96kB first-person shooter game named ".kkrieger", and an earlier version of the tool they currently use to produce some of their demos, named ".werkkzeug", or "Tool".

---

Here's "The Popular Demo"

[video=youtube;YBpo5GHcmsE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpo5GHcmsE[/video]

You can download their 96kB first-person shooter game here: http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger


Wow. That's pretty impressive, I'd heard about demomakers before but never really looked more into them.
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Offline 500_pts

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« Reply #29 on: Sun, 30 October 2011, 01:11:51 »
playing i forget what game....maybe q2ctf....it displayed names above the other players.....anyways i named myself 500_pts because i was so arrogant i believed myself worth far more than one, and so players should know killing me was worth about 500.....lol.
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« Reply #30 on: Sun, 30 October 2011, 03:45:49 »
I love telling this story lol. Back in like 2003 my brother and I played a game called tales of symphonia. In the game there was an earth element spirit that you had to fight. His name was gnome and he was a giant mole, with a big bow on his head lol. I thought he was cute and kinda cool, so when i got my xbox 360, i needed to come up with a name and I didnt want numbers in my name. I tried king of gnomes but that didnt work, then Son of Gnome came into my head some how. I tried it, it wasnt taken and the rest is history.
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Offline Lanx

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« Reply #31 on: Sun, 30 October 2011, 07:09:38 »
looks like a slug to me
[video=youtube;J9geCQqFpSg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9geCQqFpSg[/video]
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Offline Bilbin

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« Reply #32 on: Sun, 30 October 2011, 09:28:12 »
I must say, that is some badass music.
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Offline NamelessPFG

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« Reply #33 on: Tue, 01 November 2011, 22:40:54 »
I was (and still am) very bad at coming up with names. Years ago, the thought hit me: "Why not go nameless?" And it stuck.

Only problem is, I wouldn't be the first or the last nameless guy on the Internet, so I started tacking things after it to separate me from the rest. Unfortunately, one revision matched up with a rather...unsavory person, so I kept changing it a few more times. The psuedonym you see here is the latest one, and the latter part was turned into three random letters so that the emphasis would be shifted to the former word.
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Offline AvenZerg

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« Reply #34 on: Wed, 02 November 2011, 09:56:23 »
There is this one guy in every friend "circle" that tries to be funny by slightly being a ****head, you know that partial ****head right? every friend circle has one.. (great guy tho)
anyways the said person always takes revenge on every joke you make so i they called me avenger.. but avenger is used by the whole planet and their moms. and since i play starcraft i decided to go with this one.
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Offline Semaj

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« Reply #35 on: Thu, 03 November 2011, 01:11:36 »
Semaj is my first name backwards "James"
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Offline Feferi

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« Reply #36 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 13:19:15 »
Homestuck.
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Offline Internetlad

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« Reply #37 on: Fri, 04 November 2011, 17:42:09 »
Well, i'm male and i'm on the internet, I trust you to work it out.
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Offline weenis

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« Reply #38 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 11:45:01 »
My friends and I wanted to make up a funny word that didn't exist to call each other, but that sounded funny, and slightly offensive.

I needed a username when I was 16.

I've been "weenis" ever since.
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Offline awardsnight

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« Reply #39 on: Sun, 11 December 2011, 05:39:03 »
I was watching an awards show when I created an account here. Since I can't pick what name to use, I used 'awardsnight'. Haha!
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