TESTies, how did you think up your current handles?
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Metal-Muffin
Space Marshal
It was the name I gave to my M113 when I was a squad leader.
Pretty uneventful, I was typing gibberish into a name placeholder for a mmo and this came out. people started calling me thug for short and the name stuck. Friar Thugg was then born to ruin the day for everyone.
MikeNificent
Space Marshal
I got tired of people calling me made up names that would change game to game if they got snatched up before I could get them. The current system (just adding a sufficiently narcisistic suffix to my name "Mike") has been going strong for a few years now.
Beerjerker
Grand Admiral
The Legend of the Beerjerker
In that one movie, Jimmy Jump gave me 2 pills and told me I was the chosen one. So I put on my shiny vinyl trench coat went on a quest and found the magic sword in the stone. Threw my back out jerking the mighty Excalibeer free and then, with an ice pack taped to my lower lumbar, I went on to save the world.
You're welcome.
That, or maybe I am preoccupied with drinking beer and... keeping myself occupied...
In that one movie, Jimmy Jump gave me 2 pills and told me I was the chosen one. So I put on my shiny vinyl trench coat went on a quest and found the magic sword in the stone. Threw my back out jerking the mighty Excalibeer free and then, with an ice pack taped to my lower lumbar, I went on to save the world.
You're welcome.
That, or maybe I am preoccupied with drinking beer and... keeping myself occupied...
Han Burgundy
Space Marshal
Love me some wordplay. And it made for a better name for a person than Swoop360 did.
I'm sure mine is pretty self-explanatory. Been using it for years and thru many games. Just a side note, i ALMOST used my alternate gaming persona... ToTaLoSeR
First there was what human historians would call Pre-Butuz. Then there was Butuz.
You dare to leave a devastator so close to your base? :oA play on words of ....
ElFlacoverde
Grand Admiral
None of your business Mr. Quagmire :P
My name is Joe, and I like Hockey. Turns out if I had made my handle later in life it probably would have been JoesDrunk
Started using Standard Deviation way back before there was internet, well at least before anybody had heard of the internet. I used the name because I was just out of college (majored in Psych.. mucho statistics) and I needed a handle for BBS (Bulliten Board Systems) and I appreciated the connotative meaning, but Standard Deviation was too long.. so StdDev came into being.
Amash-Akura
Admiral
Chose a name base from EVE Online Lore, figured I'd bring the founder of the Amarr Empire to yet another space game. Not sure it'll remain my name, just had to choose one at the time.
- Usually I go by the_milkman for most games.
- Usually I go by the_milkman for most games.
Pretty sure I explained something completely different earlier in this thread. Too lazy to look though, so:
I love owl's and wolves. Since 'wolf' names are a dime a dozen on the interwebs, I went with an owl.
Since internet geeks like names that involve fancy internet coolness like "void, dark, black, etc etc" I went with a different modifier (although I was almost a perfectly geeky, 'Void owl').
Since blind was a state of drunkenness, I applied that to said creature of awesomeness, the Owl. The Owl also happens to epitomize wisdom, so it created a beautiful conundrum, which I love.
So the wise old blind drunk Owl was born.
Cheers.
I love owl's and wolves. Since 'wolf' names are a dime a dozen on the interwebs, I went with an owl.
Since internet geeks like names that involve fancy internet coolness like "void, dark, black, etc etc" I went with a different modifier (although I was almost a perfectly geeky, 'Void owl').
Since blind was a state of drunkenness, I applied that to said creature of awesomeness, the Owl. The Owl also happens to epitomize wisdom, so it created a beautiful conundrum, which I love.
So the wise old blind drunk Owl was born.
Cheers.
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Xian-Luc Picard
Space Marshal
Funny, I chose mine for the love of 1960s Star Trek characters portrayed with the lens of the 21st Century and making fun of William Shatner's acting.
I'm a military aviation geek(for almost half a century). When I was 12, I had read and memorized the pilot's manual for the B-17 bomber, the P-51 Mustang and any other aircraft I could get my hands on. Then I moved up to the jet era and Vietnam/cold war stuff. I read a book back in the late '80s called "Sweetwater Gunslinger 201". It was about an F-14 squadron called the Gunslingers(they're real, even though this is a novel) Sweetwater was the pilot's call sign, while Gunslinger 201 was the Tomcat assigned to him. "Gunslinger" stuck with me, always thought it was cool, so I knew it would be somewhere in my handle. So I'm putting together my SC account, and I'm stuck on this silly name for about 45 minutes and my mind starts to wander. I start thinking about this astronomy article I had read recently and connecting the themes to the word "Gunslinger". It came down to "Black Hole" and "Dark Matter" so I flipped a coin and Captain Dark Matter Gunslinger was born, a drunk space janitor who can fly any ship in the universe(as long as it has an autopilot)
I've been using my handle since....umm...well, for the past 28 years. First D&D, then UO, EQ, WoW, DAOC, EVE, STO, SWTOR, etc. Been known as and been called my handle so long my wife sometimes even uses it by accident...but then, she's a gamer too. (yes, girl gamers DO exist...you just need to be lucky enough to find one)
I've been NapalmX since BF Vietnam