Give the origin of your nick (even if it's obvious) [Archive]

Redleg

08-20-2005, 07:56

It is the Civil War term for the United States (Union Troops) Army Field Artillery soldiers. It came about because the Army used colors to designate the different branches of the Army - and a stripe was sewn along the outseam of the pants leg. Red is the color for Artillery - hence Redlegs came about as the Nickname.

Albino Gorilla

08-20-2005, 08:39

I was twelve, and since my regulard name was already taken, the game service, suggested this one.

Meneldil

08-20-2005, 08:49

Some character from LotR

Soulforged

08-20-2005, 09:02

Mine? Let's just say it was a little gamed called Dungeons and Dragons.

I hope you're not as annoying as those ***** things... ~;)

Papewaio

08-20-2005, 09:03

Daughter of the Empire Series of books.

Sjakihata

08-20-2005, 11:40

I have that book ~:cheers: My nickname comes from complete boredom... oh and the little Japanese Sword I used to have.

I think you mean a Wakizashi then ~;)

My name derives from a Taiwanese pencil company spelled (I think) Schachihata or something - which I then re-spelled Sjakihata

King Henry V

08-20-2005, 11:46

From my hero King Henry V of England, victor of Agincourt.

Beirut

08-20-2005, 11:51

My love, my life, my dog.

Dutch_guy

08-20-2005, 11:51

Well I 'm really bad at picking a nick.. so I just chose something easy...

:balloon2:

Ianofsmeg16

08-20-2005, 11:55

Mine came from an Episode of Red Dwarf where Dave lister using an AR machine to go into a Medievil Game...he then proceeds to announce himself "I, am Lister of Smeg"
the 16 part comes from my lucky number, 16. Which i got because of some sporting issues....

Duke Malcolm

08-20-2005, 12:20

Firstly, after Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scots. He annexed some of Northumbria and Strathclyde, and made the language of his court Saxon. His wife was Queen, now Saint, Margaret. He replaced the Celtic Church with the Catholic Church as the established church of the realm. he also abolished the tradition of Tanistry, by which the King was eleced by a council of nobles, and replaced it with Primogeniture so that it was the kingship was hereditary (I prefer both the Celtic Church, which is much older than the Catholic; and Tanistry of Pictish origins I believe)

Secondly, it is after my Christian name, Malcolm, and I want to be King, so King Malcolm seemed sensible.

Craterus

08-20-2005, 12:29

Chose a historical name and I've always been interested in Alexander the Great, and Craterus was one of his best friends (and commanders).

Info on Craterus (www.pothos.org)

Taurus

08-20-2005, 12:42

You may think that my name is Taurus because I was born on the 20th of April - 20th of May but you'd be wrong becasue I was actually born on the 15th of March. ~:cheers:

To be honest I saw the name when I went into the local computer store and I saw one of the staff wearing a T-Shirt with the word Taurus on it, it was some kind of software company or something but I think it sounded cool plus I think that bulls are cool anyway so there we go. :bow:

IliaDN

08-20-2005, 12:50

I don't know if anybody has done it before but here i put mine:
Soulforged is a song for the german epic power metal band "Blind Guardian", wich tells the story of Raistlin of the Dragonlance series.
BG is cool, though the last album is not so cool, as previous.

Geoffrey S

08-20-2005, 13:10

I only ever really liked the last two tracks off Opera.
As to my nick, guess...

Ironside

08-20-2005, 14:57

A strong Danish general from one of my MTW campaigns.

Evil_Maniac From Mars

08-20-2005, 15:59

My name was the most accurate thing I could come up with at the time...

xemitg

08-20-2005, 16:18

I had just looked at my new timex watch and i spelled "timex" backwards and put a G on the end because my last name starts with a 'G'.

Viking

08-20-2005, 16:27

Well, when one register one need a username, so I just picked the first thing that came to mind.

TheSilverKnight

08-20-2005, 16:54

knight's armour is silver. thus...TheSilverKnight

Moros

08-20-2005, 17:07

GertGregoor<=>Gert (Jan) Gregoor

I just hadn't any inspiration... :-|

JimBob

08-20-2005, 17:46

James Robert=JimBob, and I've always had a problem with Jimbo

Paul Peru

08-20-2005, 17:53

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=47742

15 years ago I was in London with a friend. We went off in search of an Ethiopian restaurant we had found in a directory.
We didn't fint it, and for some reason we ended up at an "all you can eat" pizza buffet. We were very ironic, I guess.
We found the house red to be modestly priced, and gave it more attention than the pizza, which was probably of little merit.
I eventually had to "go", and proudly announced that this would indeed be the largest leak since the Titanic.
My friend then said

Quote:
"Ya'll take a listen, you'll hear the deep sound comin' down from Paul Peru."
which is a line from "Wild at heart", only it's said by Bobby Pery about Bobby Peru.
My friend later explained that
a) I think I'm very deep, but all that comes out of me is piss
b) He thought I resembled Willem Dafoe (I don't)

The name stuck, and I've been using it as an alias and "evil alter ego" since.

Crazed Rabbit

08-20-2005, 19:19

Taurus is also a gun maker, and they make a revolver called the raging bull.

Me? Well, I had some pet rabbits, and had watched the Holy Grail, and it just fell into place.

Crazed Rabbit

Taurus

08-20-2005, 19:51

Taurus is also a gun maker, and they make a revolver called the raging bull.

Cool, you learn something new everyday. ~:cheers:

But I wouldn't name myself after a gun :bow:

Divinus Arma

08-20-2005, 20:08

I joined for my love of TW, and at the time RTW was it. So I wanted something Latin and military.

And well, Divinus Arma is pretty easily translated:

Arms of the Divine.

:duel: :wings:

Soulforged

08-20-2005, 21:44

BG is cool, though the last album is not so cool, as previous.

What are you kidding me man!!! ~:eek:
With that last album i made my home shake and i threw it down to rocks, and then the voice of Hansi opened the skies and God told me to shut down the music because i was molesting the angels... ~;) . Especially "And Then There Was Silence" was brilliant, one of the best songs ever, i would recomend that everybody hear that song, it's about the Iliad and is brillianty written, tough some "soft guys" will not like the powerful voice of Hansi. ~:cheers:

Strike For The South

08-20-2005, 22:29

The south will rise again ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge:

Sjakihata

08-20-2005, 23:02

when you say south, you mean Antarctica?

KukriKhan

08-20-2005, 23:06

Started life here at the Org as "Taiko", after the Japenese drum-players
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:E_C4J1Uvt3AJ:www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/taiko.gif

but abandoned it because it was similar to a few other names here then, and folks got confused.

When Mongol Invasion demo was released, many usernames here had to do with swords, blades, etc; so I picked an unusual weapon (the kukri) and added Khan to make it more relate to the game.

Strike For The South

08-20-2005, 23:06

nm images

Mongoose

08-20-2005, 23:18

My love, my life, my dog.

~:cheers:

i always thought that my dog looked like a giant mongoose and acted like a pig*. I nicknamed it piggy, but i decided that "Mongoose" would be a better username. ~:cool:

*By "Acted like a pig" I mean rolled around in the mud, snorted loudly and ate large amounts of dog feces ~:eek:

*edit*

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/customavatars/avatar4589_1.gif

https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5630/mongoose24hq.jpg

Uesugi Kenshin

08-21-2005, 03:29

Well Uesugi Kenshin (1530-1578 iirc) was a great warlord in Sengoku Jidai era Japan and I'm horrible at pciking names so I just picked that one as it had a TW theme and Kenshin is my favorite warlord of the time period.

JAG

08-21-2005, 03:34

I don't know if anybody has done it before but here i put mine:
Soulforged is a song for the german epic power metal band "Blind Guardian", wich tells the story of Raistlin of the Dragonlance series.

And it is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant song off one of the best albums ever made.

My nick is my initials. How boring.

Soulforged

08-21-2005, 04:21

And it is a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant song off one of the best albums ever made.

My nick is my initials. How boring.

~:cheers:
And Uesugi Kenshin: Why not Kenshin Himura? (Kenshin alone is a great name "Heart of Sword")

Reverend Joe

08-21-2005, 04:49

After seeing everyone else's nicknames, I am embarrased to cite mine.
:disappointed:

AntiochusIII

08-21-2005, 04:58

~:cheers:
And Uesugi Kenshin: Why not Kenshin Himura? (Kenshin alone is a great name "Heart of Sword")I thought they are two different persons...

No offence to Uesugi Kenshin but, Kenshin Himura is waaaaay cooler! ~D (Please forgive the obvious bias of a Rurouni Kenshin fan...) :-x

Anyway, I guess I was looking for a R:TW style nickname. So a Seleucid monarch has to do!

Samurai Waki

08-21-2005, 05:42

After seeing everyone else's nicknames, I am embarrased to cite mine.
:disappointed:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force... number one in the hood G.

AntiochusIII

08-21-2005, 05:49

Aqua Teen Hunger Force... number one in the hood G.I have a feeling you are a regular watcher of Adult Swim, are you not? :-l

(watching the clock and waiting anxiously for 11.00 p.m. himself to turn the channel to Cartoon Network...)

Anyway, Frylock is cooler than Meatwad. :) That thing can blow things up with his eyes :devil:

Samurai Waki

08-21-2005, 05:57

yeah. about an hour and 5 minutes until its on (grrr... Atlantic Time).

Although I like Master Shake better than both... he's just such a maniacal *******

Soulforged

08-21-2005, 06:05

I thought they are two different persons...

Oh they are...Himura Kenshin is just a legend. The OAV Tsuioku Hen in 4 parts is just amazing, it's not like the series with all that DB like fighting, it's way more realistic and dramatic, and best drew and animated too.

Kagemusha

08-21-2005, 08:17

Kagemusha was a "shadow general" a doppelganger of Sengoku Jidai Warlord.They were used to decept enemy and sometimes even own troops. :bow:

Byzantine Prince

08-21-2005, 09:15

Oh they are...Himura Kenshin is just a legend. The OAV Tsuioku Hen in 4 parts is just amazing, it's not like the series with all that DB like fighting, it's way more realistic and dramatic, and best drew and animated too.
Omg I love that OAV too! I watched it when I was 15, it's the best anime ever made. So detailed and powerful!

TosaInu

08-21-2005, 10:43

I needed a nick to register on Westwood to play Red Alert. I was pretty late and about any name was taken. I finally picked TosaInu to avoid a large amount of random numbers in my nick. A tosainu is a large dogbreed from Japan and I used that name ever since.

I often run around as Mr.Nubluck in some FPS now, because.. well.

Mount Suribachi

08-21-2005, 15:47

Mount Suribachi is the name of the summit on Iwo Jima where the US Marines raised that flag. I always thought it was the coolest name. Plus, when I joined, it was pre-MTW and everyone had Japanese sounding names and this was the nearest I got to that

edyzmedieval

08-21-2005, 16:01

My name + my favourite time of history.

Simple as that.

ichi

08-21-2005, 19:01

ichi is one of the great characters in Samurai Cinema, short for Zatoichi (http://www.imagesjournal.com/2002/reviews/zatoichi/text.htm) Zatoichi, a blind yakuza masseur who slices and dices.

http://nikkeiview.com/images/zatoichi-katsu.jpg

ichi also means one in Japanese, and ichi the killer (http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/ichithekiller.htm) is an odd, horribly violent film

ichi :bow:

Uesugi Kenshin

08-21-2005, 22:11

All those commenting on my nick: I have never heard of Kenshin Himura before now, never saw that OAV, and I just needed a nick at the time... Interesting to learn the meaning of Kenshin.

Bartix

08-22-2005, 11:06

IS it obvious, maybe? ~D

I find it in thread about EB and Bartix faction before I register. :bow:

Jimmytwohand

08-22-2005, 11:34

Well i presently work at a particularly tedious security job. To pass the time i try to devise little ways to entertain myself like "visitor bingo". In this you have to select various phrases people may say to you during the course of the day and make a bingo card of them. When they are said you tick it off. You also choose several evil/unlikely things for your colleague who you play against. The first to get all their phrases wins....but i digress.

My nickname came about because before the evolution of visitor bingo, madman top trumps and clothing cricket i underwent a phase of trying to become ambidextrous. I tried to learn to play darts in our mess room left handed, write left handed and do various pen tricks left handed. One night a few of the lads and i were working late and goodfellas was on the TV, we saw the bit about "johnnytwotimes" who says everything twice, "I gotta go get the papers, get the papers". Somebody suggested i would be a good JimmyTwoHand.....and there we go.

If any one else works a particularly tedious job, full rules for all of the above games can be provided. ~D ~:handball:

King Ragnar

08-22-2005, 12:20

King Ragnar was one of my greatest king in my old VI Campaign, so i just used that.

Ludens

08-22-2005, 12:21

My nick is derived from "Homo Ludens", which means "playing man" in Latin. I am bad at making up names, so when I had to think of an interesting nick for the umpteenth time I just tried to translate player in Latin. Since my Latin is not good, I ended up with Ludens: playing. And since it pretty much summed up what I was doing at the time, so I stuck with it.

Ja'chyra

08-22-2005, 14:55

A monster from Terry Brooks books fought by Garet Jax and Allanon, I added the apostrophe.

I also use Aeil on other forums, which is from the Wheel of Time books but I think he spells it Aiel, thought I'd at least try and be different.

I did used to use Raptor after I was dubbedit in my last job for reasons we don't need to go into, but everyone and his dog uses that one.

Adrian II

08-22-2005, 15:55

Adrian II was a transitional pope who devoted most of his time in office to the promotion of a hopeless case: literacy.

Sigurd

08-22-2005, 16:07

Daughter of the Empire Series of books.
Is that the Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurst co-authored books? Great story BTW…
My nick comes from one of the greater medieval heroes: Sigurd the Dragon slayer. The dragon is Fafne and Sigurd gave it the mortal wound, hence Sigurd the bane of Fafne (Fafnesbane/Fafnirsbane).

Ser Clegane

08-22-2005, 16:09

From GRRM's "Song of Ice and Fire" series

GoreBag

08-22-2005, 16:15

A reference to the Kovenant.

Reverend Joe

08-22-2005, 16:26

yeah. about an hour and 5 minutes until its on (grrr... Atlantic Time).

Although I like Master Shake better than both... he's just such a maniacal *******

Master Shake is actually my favorite, too. I just see myself as more of a Meatwad... albeit an angry Meatwad... and certainly not immature... actually, it's mainly just my stature that makes us similar.

Hurin_Rules

08-22-2005, 16:32

I was just on a Tolkien kick. Hurin was my favorite character in The Silmarillion, and the greatest of the warriors of mortal men in Tolkien's corpus. If you're interested, I also recommend the work called the 'Narn-i-hin-Hurin', which never made it into the Silmarillion but was published in one of the 'Making of Middle Earth' volumes--you can read it here:

http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~grobar/koliovenkov/Tolkin/narn-i-hin-hurin2.html

Martok

08-22-2005, 17:02

I got my nickname from Martok, the Klingon general (and later Chancellor) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I liked his character so much that I adopted it as my online name in most forums--starting with this one. ~:cool:

Pindar

08-22-2005, 17:33

Fifth Century Greek Lyric poet:

http://www.malaspina.org/home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=74

Επάμεροι · τί δέ τις; τί δ’ ού τις; σκιάς όναρ άνθρωπος

( Creatures of a day. What is he? What is he not? A shadow in a dream is man )

Wishazu

08-22-2005, 17:52

Aenlic

08-22-2005, 22:09

Aenlic is Saxon/Old English for solo/alone. It transformed into "anly" in Middle English and then "only" in modern English. It should be Ænlic; but I'm usually too lazy to use the alt-keypad combos and some places don't support them.

Louis VI the Fat

08-22-2005, 23:59

The origin of my membername?

Well, mine was named the Fat by my ex...~:smoking:

Soulforged

08-23-2005, 05:37

I dont know if any of you like Akira Kurosawa films at all, but thats where my name comes from. In "Throne of Blood" the master`s version of Shakespeares Hamlet, the main character is General Washizu, I liked the character so much i stole his name, however i swapped the a and the i around.

Oh how i liked all the drama and the music on that film...is just unberable. ~:cheers:

Divinus Arma

08-23-2005, 07:14

I dont know if any of you like Akira Kurosawa films at all, but thats where my name comes from. In "Throne of Blood" the master`s version of Shakespeares Hamlet, the main character is General Washizu, I liked the character so much i stole his name, however i swapped the a and the i around.

I just figure your nick was ebonics slang... as in:

White guy: "I just won a million bucks!"

Black guy: "I wishazu nukka."

The Stranger

08-23-2005, 18:57

a story i wrote..........

Csargo

08-23-2005, 22:08

I love Russian history as my name shows.
Most people know Csar means caesar in Russia.
Csar is also spelled with tsar or czar either way.

:charge: :charge: :charge: :charge: :duel: :duel:

Big_John

08-23-2005, 22:15

it's a long, boring story. i posted it somewhere here a while back, i think.

Somebody Else

08-23-2005, 23:18

Don't ask me, ask somebody else...

Devastatin Dave

08-23-2005, 23:57

LOL!!!
My first nick was Daveinkorea. I had joined the Org while I was serving in Korea in the Air Force...

A few years ago, there was a thread of the worst album covers ever. Well, the funniest one was "Devastatin Dave, the Turn Table Slave". The guy on the cover looked like a cracked-out Jermaine Jackson look alike, with the jerry curls, sun glasses, everything. I can't remember who suggested it (I'm thinking it was either Idaho, Gawain, Jag, or possibly Redleg) but they suggested that I'd ask Tosa to change my name from daveinkorea to Devastatin' Dave. Tosa graciously changed it for me. It was messed up at first because of the " ' " at the end of the word "devastatin". So we chopped off the " ' ". Now its working like a champ, unless I'm banned for whatever stupid thing I say next!!!

~:cheers:

Gregoshi

08-24-2005, 01:55

Back in the STW days I was looking for a Japanese sounding forum name. I had a tradition of sort of using my first name and modifying it for D&D (Gregolas), online Starcraft (Gregus), etc. For STW, I looked at Japanese names and their endings. After some deep thinking, I decided that "oshi" was the best. I've been Gregoshi every since.

Quietus

08-24-2005, 03:59

Got it from a book I was reading before the release of RTW.

PanzerJaeger

08-24-2005, 06:30

Its my online name in all applications, forums, and games - ive even had packages sent to me under that name.

When I first started online games I wanted to call myself Panzer in honor of my grandfather who was a panzer commander in world war two. However, Panzer is an all too common name and I often couldnt use it.

I remembered that my grandfather briefly commanded a panzerjäger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerjager) before being chosen for an actual tank, so that had to do.

VAE VICTUS

08-24-2005, 07:23

i was given this nickname by my troops this after i took a city and massacredeveryone inside.except for the hot girls,which are now mine.

VAE VICTUS

08-24-2005, 07:24

WHATEVER vae.your name sucks.

Malrubius

08-24-2005, 07:28

Master of Apprentices for the Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence, and teacher of the young Severian in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312890176/103-2872403-1730256?v=glance).

Mouzafphaerre

08-24-2005, 08:18

.

I don't know if anybody has done it before
Are you joking? This is the most popular thread here at the org and comes back again about every two months. ~;)

My searches were unsuccessful so here we go thrugh the epic again:

Years and years ago, I was playing a Windows strategy game called World Empire, in which you were supposed to conquer the modern world country by country, in a TotalWar fashion, leading your faction as a general. I decided to name my general Muzaffer Postal, which means "The Glorious Boots". Then I bastardized the Muzaffer (glorious, originally مظفر) part and thus became Mouzafphaerre. ~:)
.

Dâriûsh

08-24-2005, 18:08

My nickname is my actual name. I’m not the great innovator. ~;)

NagaoKagetora

08-24-2005, 18:24

Nagao Kagetora = Uesugi Kenshin my fav of all the Daiymo's.

Far to humble to call myself Kenshin :p

Copperhaired Berserker!

08-24-2005, 18:52

My nickname was from the fact that berserkers were in RTW, and that I'm extremely hyper. I'm thinking of changing my nickname to Copperhair because I have lovely red hair~;) Maybe i should have the two names Combined.

Randarkmaan

08-24-2005, 19:39

My name came from me starting to play the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942, I was planning on playing the opposition(The Iraquis), since I expected nearly everyone else to always want to play as the americans, and I wanted to make a nickname that souned a little middle-eastern. I thought and tried to make a name for something like 15 minutes I think, and for some reason it came up as this, don't remember exactly how but I think it was a sort of mix of some names and some words, but I am the only one in the world(as far as I know atleast) using this nickname, it is completely unique.

Wishazu

08-24-2005, 20:18

Oh how i liked all the drama and the music on that film...is just unberable. ~:cheers:

unbearable? you mean you hated it?

Wishazu

08-24-2005, 20:19

I just figure your nick was ebonics slang... as in:

White guy: "I just won a million bucks!"

Black guy: "I wishazu nukka."

lmao!!!!

The Stranger

08-24-2005, 20:27

Got it from a book I was reading before the release of RTW.

you said that before mate......but wich book...i know Quietus was a spell in harry potter but you said it wasnt that book....wich one is it

Dutch_guy

08-24-2005, 21:11

i know Quietus was a spell in harry potter but you said it wasnt that book....wich one is it

really ? You sure about that , never heard / read about a spell like that..

:balloon2:

Uesugi Kenshin

08-24-2005, 21:29

Nagao Kagetora = Uesugi Kenshin my fav of all the Daiymo's.

Far to humble to call myself Kenshin :p

Eh, I learned more about him and was able to remember his earlier names after I joined the org. Anyway how is it more humble to call yourself by his original name?

Anyway they are both great nicks. ~D

Spino

08-24-2005, 23:00

I got the nickname Spino from a close friend back in college. He said he got it from a book he had to read in literature class ("Bread & Wine") which features a protagonist named Pietro Spina. I believe the character was initially quite the atheist and anti-religion type. I was a unapologetic atheist back then but I certainly wasn't anti-religion. Anyway my friend must have deliberately or accidentally dropped the 'a' in Spina and replaced it with an 'o'. Good thing too because on its own Spino sounds much more masculine than Spina. Spino is a very real name though and is found commonly in Italy and other latin based cultures (i.e. Espinosa). Here's the origin of the name: spino-, spin-, spini- (Latin: thorn, prickle; by extension, "backbone", the spinal cord)

I try to use the name Spino in virtually every single forum and game I play. Chances are if you play games online and see the nickname Spino it's probably me. If you see a Spino playing BF2 that's definitely me because Gamespy only allows one person to have the same nickname.

really ? You sure about that , never heard / read about a spell like that..

:balloon2:

I don't know about any Harry Potter spells but I do know that Quietus was an uber-powerful sword for the warrior class in "Hexen: Beyond Heretic", the sequel to "Heretic." Heretic and Hexen were two outstanding first person shooters by Raven that appeared during the Doom revolution of the 90s.

ah_dut

08-25-2005, 00:42

My name is a corruption of the cantonese for little brother, a very large corruption

Soulforged

08-25-2005, 05:26

unbearable? you mean you hated it?

No, the contrary. Maybe i can't express myself in english with that freedom, let's say it was incredible.

Roark

08-25-2005, 05:46

Roark is the name of a character in a recurring dream I used to have. He was kind of a superhero guy...

Papewaio

08-25-2005, 08:22

Roark is the name of a character in a recurring dream I used to have. He was kind of a superhero guy...

Roark is the name of a dwarf barbarian DnD character of mine.

"Roark by name, Roooarrrkk by nature."

Wishazu

08-25-2005, 08:36

No, the contrary. Maybe i can't express myself in english with that freedom, let's say it was incredible.

cool, cool, it is a stunning film. its to hard to find an akira kurosawa film that isnt lol

Puzz3D

08-26-2005, 20:36

I wanted to the name of Sanada Yukimura (http://www.answers.com/topic/sanada-yukimura) for Shogun online play back in Oct 2000, but it was already taken. I settled on Yuuki as a nickname for Yukimura after learning from Idaho that Yuki was a female name. About a month later I added Mizu (water) as a prefix when Clan Takiyama (waterfall mountain) was formed. Interestingly, Yuuki means courage in Japanese, but I didn't know that at the time. Sanada Yukimura was killed in 1615 leading 55,000 men against Tokugawa Ieyasu's 155,000 man army, which was sieging Osaka castle, in a desperate attempt to break the siege. A smaller flanking force which was supposed to take part advanced too late. This ended the last rebellion against Tokugawa rule which lasted for the next 250 years.

makkyo

08-27-2005, 15:54

Makkyo came from the STW days. It's a minor Japaneese demon that plagues people in their dreams. But don't quote me on it :book:

ArcticSonata

08-27-2005, 16:53

ArcticSonata is just another indication that my mind is to consumed listening to power ( just the Band Sonata Arctica backwards) that and I really could'nt think of anything else to put.

Wishazu

08-29-2005, 10:48

Puzz3D

08-29-2005, 14:33

so why the change to Puzz3D?
My posting name was always Puzz3D. I joined the org in June 2000 when STW was released not Oct 2000 as it says under my name. I chose Yuuki as a player nickname when I started playing STW online in Oct 2000 so that I would have a name that went better with the Japanese setting of the game. Once these two names became established I decided not to change them.

Megas Methuselah

10-07-2009, 23:10

According to the bible/torah, Methuselah is the oldest man ever recorded to live. Although that normally wouldn't serve as an allure for a username, a distinct childhood memory of mine was having an old east-Indian (that is, an Indian from India) man give me a hand-reading and stating in his quiet and wise voice that I would live to be an old man. :laugh4:

So I chose Methuselah as my username. Later on, having made a bit of repuation as a spammer (and necromancer) in the EB Forums, a fellow called ||Lz3|| suggested I pick up the epithet Magnus, the great, much to the acclamation of the EB Tavern members. Aemilius Paulus later suggested Megas, the greek form of the latin Magnus, which sounded better to the ears. I chose that one and switched my username before the whole pevergreen incident which limited username-changing.

Aemilius Paulus

10-07-2009, 23:15

So I chose Methuselah as my username. Later on, having made a bit of repuation as a spammer in the EB Forums, a fellow called ||Lz3|| suggested I pick up the epithet Magnus, the great, much to the acclamation of the EB Tavern members. Aemilius Paulus later suggested Megas, the greek form of the latin Magnus, which sounded better to the ears. I chose that one and switched my username before the whole pevergreen incident which limited username-changing.
Bah, that is not true, and you know it. I called you Magnus, granting you that epithet, and Lz3 had nothing to do with this. That happened in your personal SG, "Methuselah's Palace". The Taverners were not involved. But then you did not like it much due to the way it sounded, so you chose Megas. I forgot who suggested that though...

Megas Methuselah

10-07-2009, 23:26

Beskar

10-07-2009, 23:30

I did an Indiana Jones.

A Very Super Market

10-07-2009, 23:49

I saw some guy on TF2 with this name. That is all.

Hax

10-08-2009, 00:10

It all started a long time ago..some three years at most. Anyways, I was playing FIFA Football 2002 on the PS2 with my friend and I kept winning, so he said I used "hax". I then took over that name.

- Hax

Azathoth

10-08-2009, 00:16

Azathoth is the Daemon-Sultan, the blind idiot-god that reigns in the center of Chaos.

Ask AP for more details.

Centurio Nixalsverdrus

10-08-2009, 01:08

Centurio Nixalsverdrus is Centurio Hotelterminus' buddy in German Asterix As A Legionnaire. Its meaning is roughly "Centurion Nothing-But-Annoyance-us".

||Lz3||

10-08-2009, 01:13

Well, maybe Lz3 chose Megas. I know it in my bones that kid had something to do with it.

Whatever the case may be, the EB Tavern supported me. If you want to go through the thousands of posts of conversation in there... Go ahead. :evilgrin:

Actually I suggested Attometh. ;)

Now, as far as mine goes, it's an acronym for "Latinoz 3lite" (Elite latins). That was my COD4 clan when I used to play videogames (before uni :tongue:), and it's not bragging or anything, but we had some of the best players out there (1 top 10 and several top 100).

Now, when I joined the org, every other name I tried was already taken (I think), and since I knew no one from my "clan" was interested in playing RTS games, I chose it.

:beam:

(*Also, whatever I say is a double absolute truth, hence the ||_||. **Actually I don't know why I added those)

Aemilius Paulus

10-08-2009, 01:21

You blokes will nevar guess mine :snobby:.

Azathoth

10-08-2009, 01:53

Yeah, huge mystery. :clown:

Hooahguy

10-08-2009, 04:09

"hooah" is US army slang.
and im a guy. so......

Megas Methuselah

10-08-2009, 04:10

(*Also, whatever I say is a double absolute truth, hence the ||_||. **Actually I don't know why I added those)

Haha, I thought those were little lightning bolts to make your username look cooler.

Tratorix

10-08-2009, 04:13

"hooah" is US army slang.
and im a guy. so......

I thought you were just a big Al Pacino fan.

My name is either in honour of a Gallic warlord who fought bravely against the Romans, or something I just made up. Pick your poison.

Martok

10-08-2009, 05:21

"hooah" is US army slang.
and im a guy. so......
I thought "hooah" was generally considered a Marine thing? I'd thought you were a Leatherneck for that reason.... :idea2:

Veho Nex

10-08-2009, 05:35

Wow epic thread necromancy. Is 4 years a record?

Anyways.... Back in 08 my friends thought it would be awesome to be the best/biggest/what ever clan in Age of Conan. We had 350 members from day one. Well 3 weeks before the game came out I was desperately looking for a latin name that would go with our sassy name of Dies Irae. My original gaming nick was CowTipp which derived from CowTipper which came from CowTippingHick Which was given to me in BF2 for the PS2. For some reason the clan I was in when I played that game back in the day called all armor Cow's or for multiples, cattle. I used to talk like a hick and soooo they started calling me the CowTippingHick after I got extremely good at killing tanks. We called heli's chickens, still dont know why.

And back to Veho Nex. Roughly translates into Rider of Death or Sailor of Death... I meant it to be the fourth rider of the Apoc, the one who controlled the first 3 and even had Hades following him around

Fragony

10-08-2009, 07:17

It's from my rainbow six days, a frag is a kill and being killed hurts. It kinda sticked it looks and sounds great imho.

miotas

10-08-2009, 07:45

I've been reading your name wrong this whole time, for some reason I never noticed that "r" in your name. :laugh4:

Ice

10-08-2009, 14:58

When this thread was created:

Ghost908- I used the nick ghost in a lot of old FPS i used to play and added 908 as my birthday

Then...

Ice- Shortened Version of my aol screen name which I've been using for many years

Then...

Kush- Named after a particular item which originated in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and/or Iran.

Then...

Back to Ice :clown:

Fragony

10-08-2009, 15:18

I've been reading your name wrong this whole time, for some reason I never noticed that "r" in your name. :laugh4:

damn you for having a name that is hard to turn into something funny.

with a litlle bit of accent it does sound like 'my old ass' though :p

Vladimir

10-08-2009, 15:24

Give me $20.

Hooahguy

10-08-2009, 16:13

I thought "hooah" was generally considered a Marine thing? I'd thought you were a Leatherneck for that reason.... :idea2:
no im pretty sure its an army thing as well. we should just ask GC.

Furunculus

10-08-2009, 16:22

Furunculus is the name of a venereal disease......................... or the latin for sneak thief.

Furunculus

10-08-2009, 16:24

It's from my rainbow six days, a frag is a kill and being killed hurts. It kinda sticked it looks and sounds great imho.
did you ever play Ravenshield?

if you did, did you ever play a map called UWA_REMF, cos i made it?

Lemur

10-08-2009, 18:05

"Lemur" has been my nom de guerre for a long, long time. When I worked in an office, the people who I managed even bought me a stuffed lemur toy for my desk. (It quickly made its way into my little lemur's crib.)

I also maintain a secondary identity as "Jethro Q. Lungfish," another animal-themed name which is just silly enough to make people think twice but not quite so absurd that they challenge me. I have signed many, many forms that I didn't want to fill out under Mr. Lungfish's name. I've even published under it.

But if you asked anyone in my family where the lemur was, they'd know who you meant.

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Lemurmania/lemur.jpg

Fragony

10-09-2009, 10:30

did you ever play Ravenshield?

if you did, did you ever play a map called UWA_REMF, cos i made it?

Been a while, made a few short trip to Raven Shield but kept getting back at Rogue Spear, better paced, better maps.

Andres

10-09-2009, 10:42

My mother calls me Andres.

In a previous life, when I still played FPS's online, I roamed the interwebz under the name "The Perforator", which is also the Dutch word for an office tool.

pevergreen

10-09-2009, 13:15

I found someone with this name, killed them, took their identity.

Then I found another one, so I killed him, took his name as my password.

Sarmatian

10-09-2009, 13:26

Pretty obvious for all RTW players... Anything cooler than Horse Archers from the steppes? No? I didn't think so...

Zain

10-09-2009, 14:54

When I was younger I started writing a book and the main character was named "Zain Anduin"

I liked the character as he was modeled after a favorite video game character of mine named "Squall Leonheart"

So I chose Zain :smile:

Subotan

10-09-2009, 15:38

I was originally trying to register the name of "Subotei" as a charcter on a WoW server. Since I had forgotten how it was spelt, out came "Subotan", which I'm actually happier with, since it's more unique.

naut

10-09-2009, 15:42

Kush- Named after a particular item which originated in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and/or Iran.
Hehe. Hehe. He. He. :beam:

Originally Rythmic, misspelt for annoyance, chosen as I played bass. Hence kept the rhythm.

Now Psychonaut, because I like it. :balloon2:

Fragony

10-09-2009, 16:31

My mother calls me Andres.

In a previous life, when I still played FPS's online, I roamed the interwebz under the name "The Perforator", which is also the Dutch word for an office tool.

uberlol for office humor, truly hilarious nick

Rhyfelwyr

10-09-2009, 18:15

Caledonian Rhyfelwyr came from a unit of a very similar name in Europa Barbarorum. It has since changed to Balrooae (sp?), and it's the skirmisher unit you get in Scotland. Since then I renamed to just Rhyfelwyr since that's a neater size for a username, although this has had the unfortunate side-effect of leading to accusations of Welshness, propagated mainly by a certain member of the EB Tavern. :tongue2:

Rob The Bastard

10-09-2009, 20:14

Back in LAN party days, we would play deathmatch with Deltaforce etc.

I would sneak off into the distance with a sniper rifle, and kill my friends...

you know how it is... you are stealthily creeping towards your objective, every thing is good in the world, you are at the top of your game, you are about to acheive your objective...

SPLAT
"You were killed by ROB! (Headshot!)"

and my friends would look over at me and say

"Rob! you bastard!"

:laugh4:

Ibrahim

10-10-2009, 01:50

well, I have no nickname-my username is my given name. its arabic for Abraham (so you can call me Abe):clown:

I'm the 2000's kid, and "wut yew see iez wut yew git" *slaps himself for lampooning 90's kid*

naut

10-10-2009, 02:24

"The Perforator", which is also the Dutch word for an office tool.
Hehe. The hole-punch. :beam:

Ice

10-10-2009, 04:01

Hehe. Hehe. He. He. :beam:

:idea2:

:balloon2:

Prussian to the Iron

10-10-2009, 13:45

Prussian Iron: My favorite E:TW faction is Prussia, and Iron sounds better than Steel.

Hax

10-10-2009, 15:37

Wow epic thread necromancy. Is 4 years a record?

Nah, over at the TTLG forums we've a thread that's run for ten eleven years.

Veho Nex

10-13-2009, 15:47

Nah, over at the TTLG forums we've a thread that's run for ten eleven years.

But has it been consistent? This thread was made long before I joined and stayed dormant till the present.

Prussian to the Iron

10-13-2009, 16:57

no im pretty sure its an army thing as well. we should just ask GC.

let me clear it up:

"Hooah" is more of an army thing, specifically Army Rangers. Martok is thinking of "Oorah", which is the more Marine thing.

Not that there is no mixing and matching, but it's more "Hooah"-Army "Oorah"-Marines

easy to confuse audibly though.

Centurio Nixalsverdrus

10-13-2009, 20:32

let me clear it up:

"Hooah" is more of an army thing, specifically Army Rangers. Martok is thinking of "Oorah", which is the more Marine thing.

Not that there is no mixing and matching, but it's more "Hooah"-Army "Oorah"-Marines

easy to confuse audibly though.
Are you serious?

Prussian to the Iron

10-13-2009, 20:47

I am........

Zain

10-13-2009, 20:50

I'm thinking about changing mine after I host my game. Any suggestions?

Vuk

10-13-2009, 20:55

I always liked girls, so I picked Vuk.

pevergreen

10-13-2009, 23:18

Prussian to the Iron

10-14-2009, 01:14

from my experience around my dad whos a captain in the Marine Corps and after being around army guys when he left? yeah. I know from personal experience around everybody. and I asked him :D

AlexanderSextus

10-14-2009, 01:50

Mistranslation of my name into latin.

PBI

10-14-2009, 02:50

Mine was an informal term used by British infantrymen during the World Wars to refer to themselves.

I picked it though because it also seemed a rather apt description of the infantry in Medieval II (the installment I was playing when I signed up here). They all seemed to be either unable to attack at all, reliant on a formation which collapses at the first sign of trouble or simply not very good in the first place.

Strike For The South

10-15-2009, 03:35

The south will rise again ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge: ~:cheers: :charge:

15 year old SFTS was full of win.

pevergreen

10-15-2009, 04:18

15 SFTS was a hot little *****. :eyebrows:

Strike For The South

10-15-2009, 04:24

15 SFTS was a hot little *****. :eyebrows:

Knoife Knoife Knoife

Caius

10-16-2009, 22:20

I started, like I've told more than once, as Decius Curtius. Being an epic failure to remember the password, I created another one called Caius Flaminius... 'cause the diplomat of RTW was called in that way.

Weebeast

10-17-2009, 04:54

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Vibius_Pansa_Caetronianus
He's my ancestor and name sake (the gens). W is just a bastardization of V. You know what a beast is. Rawr.

Fisherking

10-17-2009, 10:55

In a search for enlightenment one my aspire to become like the fisherking.

Also a reference to Brán the Blessed.

It suited me at the time...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_King

Prussian to the Iron

02-01-2011, 03:00

wow, i need a name change so i can post something relevant here.

Motep

02-01-2011, 03:04

Well, we can kill time for you. But such a post from the past....geez.

Two points:
1: motep = new name when my sprahawk account was banned from the flashplayer froums. Think I unconsciously stole it from Ihmotep.
2: So many old threads revived lately...

Reenk Roink

02-01-2011, 03:05

My given name from the cult I joined.

a completely inoffensive name

02-01-2011, 03:36

Mods kept changing my "inappropriate" name (Mike Hunt) so I finally changed my name to what you see now.

Prussian to the Iron

02-01-2011, 03:37

Mods kept changing my "inappropriate" name (Mike Hunt) so I finally changed my name to what you see now.

:laugh4:

pevergreen

02-01-2011, 03:44

I found someone with this name, killed them, took their identity.

Then I found another one, so I killed him, took his name as my password.

True story.

Though I like Reenks story.

Csargo

02-01-2011, 05:08

Mods kept changing my "inappropriate" name (Mike Hunt) so I finally changed my name to what you see now.

I remember this. WARNING LEMUR BEEP BEEP DANGER

My nick is just my last two nicks mushed together. Not very clever I know, but I'm not a clever man you see.

pevergreen

02-01-2011, 05:14

I really wish you'd go back.

I miss Ichigo. :cry:

Moros

02-01-2011, 20:27

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moros

Vuk

02-01-2011, 20:37

I dropped my bottle of water on my keyboard by accident and it spelled out Vuk...so I figured that the Cosmic forces wanted me to stay with it. :P

Fragony

02-02-2011, 04:51

Rainbow Six days, a kill is a frag and I made lots of them, dying hurts so voila Fragony. Gawd I miss that game you are all noobs

Yoyoma1910

02-02-2011, 05:10

Viva la Revolution!!!!! ...of Cello playing.

I used to have this cool image of Yoyoma as a Mexican revolutionary... but I can't find it anymore. :cry:

thefluffyone93

02-02-2011, 06:02

Gabriel Iglesias, his "5 Levels of Fatness" skit.
1) Big
2) Healthy
3) Husky
4) FLUFFY
and....
5) DAAAAAMN!

Prussian to the Iron

02-02-2011, 19:12

As Psychonaut so elegantly put it:

He and Hooah guy got stuck in an electrical storm and it transferred their persons into the other.

Of course no amount of personality transfer can make me switch to Army slang over Marine slang, so Oorahguy it was.

Hax

02-02-2011, 23:28

Abdul Alhazred. Google it.

Subotan

02-03-2011, 00:17

Ok sure let me just google that, hmm Necronomicon.org that looks interesting wait I- OH GOD I CAN SEE FOREVERPH'NGLUIMGLW'NAFHCTHULUR'LYEHWGAH'NAGLFHTAGNNNNNNN

Hax

02-03-2011, 00:31

My master, it has been done.

*cackles*.

gaelic cowboy

02-03-2011, 03:55

My handle has three meanings

Gaelic cos I'm Irish I am from farming stock

and

Gaelic cos I like Gaelic Football and Cowboy cos I wear a cowboy hat at the games.

And

I am also a Gaelic Cowboy because all Irish men are secretly Texan in there hearts.

:cowboy:

phonicsmonkey

02-03-2011, 04:12

It's from a South Park episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGl1EKe1OQ). Needless to say, the monkey eventually goes berserk and kills Kenny...

I also found out recently that it's a freestyle kayaking move (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_XTnMmg2Ok).

The world is a weird place...

Ibrahim

02-07-2011, 02:47

I don't know if anybody has done it before but here i put mine:
Soulforged is a song for the german epic power metal band "Blind Guardian", wich tells the story of Raistlin of the Dragonlance series.

meh....I will say it again:

my profile name is my real first name. I have no imagination.