Where did you get your name from [Archive]

ZombieFriedNuts

05-30-2006, 19:43

Where did you get your name from in these forums did you make it up or get it from somewhere, I ask because some names are pretty good.
For me I just thought it was funny.

Duke Malcolm

05-30-2006, 19:49

I added "King" as a title to my real given name, it is an happy coincidence that in the starting period of MTW, the King of Scots is King Malcolm III...

I later requested it be changed to "Duke", since "King" would rank above Her Majesty the Queen... And I got a little bored...

The_Doctor

05-30-2006, 20:22

Guess.

Masy

05-30-2006, 20:29

Er, my last name is Mason, so i figured what would be a snappy nickname...ended up with Masy...

Dutch_guy

05-30-2006, 20:47

Guess.

What he said.

:balloon2:

Templar Knight

05-30-2006, 21:17

I like the Knights Templar, however Knight Templar was taken so I called myself Templar Knight.

Evil_Maniac From Mars

05-30-2006, 21:21

I got it from my usernames at the SCC and Totalrome.com (or whatever the .___ is).

Where it came from before that? Guess.

Keba

05-30-2006, 21:38

Nickname, but not one given to me by me peers, rather, given to me by my teacher in Primary school. People took it up, mainly because it rhymed with some ... not-very-polite (for Primary schoolers) adjectives. Well, my being a stubborn up-yours kind-of-guy, I decided to take it on as a mark of pride ... and am still called that.

drone

05-30-2006, 22:07

Got together with some friends for a Descent LAN party back in '96(?). I wasn't much of a FPS-type player back then, while a couple of the guys I was playing with were assassins. I was such a n00b I could barely stay alive for a few seconds. After a while, I changed my player name to represent what I felt like, just a pilot-less target to be shot down during training, and have used it online for gaming ever since.

BHCWarman88

05-30-2006, 22:09

I added something About War or something when I first sign up for Gamespy in March 2004,and one name they picked out for me,because my first name was un-avabile, I pick AntiWarmanCake.. and I used it ever since,even though my Warman name went thoguh serve varitons of it, it still has the Warman in it,because without the Name Warman,there is no Warman :-) :-)

GeneralHankerchief

05-30-2006, 22:20

I'm not sure exactly where I got mine. I think I might have had a huge cold when I first used Hankerchief somewhere. But that still doesn't explain the missing D and the fact that I now intentionally spell hankerchief this way. :dizzy2:

As for "General":

Guess.

Guess.What he said.

:balloon2:

Guess.

Ianofsmeg16

05-30-2006, 22:25

Red. Dwarf.

yesdachi

05-30-2006, 22:35

Everyone says no I thought I would say yes.

Reverend Joe

05-30-2006, 22:40

Everyone says no I thought I would say yes.

HA HA! :laugh4: That's clever- I never got that until now!

Craterus

05-30-2006, 22:41

I stole it from some Diadochi.

Justiciar

05-30-2006, 22:42

I came across the title once, thought it sounded hella cool, and used it in almost every forum since. Thrilling stuff! Stay tuned for more.. Tales of Interest!

Alexander the Pretty Good

05-30-2006, 23:25

Mine is from an excellent kid's cartoon - Histeria, which made fun of history while teaching it (albeit in a cursory manner). It had a skit about Alexander the Great and his father. Alexander would keep on doing impressive things that his father would dismiss as "pretty good."

Alexander (while surfing on a chariot pulled by lions): Hey dad! Check this out!
Dad: Pretty good, son. Not great; but pretty good.

I found it funny, and I'm certainly not great...

Bar Kochba

05-30-2006, 23:31

well my orignal name was deathtoallhumans but apparently people on this website got offened by it so i changed it to

Bar Kochba - was leader of the great jewish rebbelion against the romans so i thought it would be a good name and i admire the guy

Avicenna

05-30-2006, 23:41

A Roman Emperor whose name doesn't sound bad, or is incredibly deranged. At least, not compared to most of the Julio-Augustan dynasty.

Crazed Rabbit

05-31-2006, 00:40

I was inspired after a couple people in my town got attacked and rather seriously injured by feral rabbits.

And it reminds me of Monty Python.

Crazed Rabbit

Gregoshi

05-31-2006, 02:14

solypsist

05-31-2006, 02:28

seemed like a good name at the time. i'm over it now, and would change it but for losing the length of time i've had it here.

John86

05-31-2006, 02:28

Typed in random letters, got Hiji.

Zalmoxis

05-31-2006, 02:31

I used to play Monster Hunter with this name, taken from (surprisingly) Dacian religion, and decided to use that name here too because it was relevant.

Alexanderofmacedon

05-31-2006, 05:03

I'll give you one guess.

Samurai Waki

05-31-2006, 08:36

I couldn't really think of a name...so I just took a random look around my room and saw the little sword I bought in Nago, Okinawa.

naut

05-31-2006, 08:38

Got my name from a type of contraceptive, the Rhythmic Method. I decided to spell it wrong in my name just to be post-modern.

But, my real nickname is "Black Magic" ... I play bass so my friends thought that was appropriate.

Lorenzo_H

05-31-2006, 10:08

My name is Spanish, paying homage to the year I used to live there, and it means "devil of the seas" which is a cool name.

English assassin

05-31-2006, 10:57

My only fear was that "gregoshi" might actually mean something in Japanese. If it does, nobody has told me in 6 years.

Reminds me of that Gary Larson cartoon where the Lone Ranger finally gets his hands on an Apache-English dictionary....

Mine is the title of (and the lead character in) a book by Michael Moorcock. Well, the character is actually Jerry Cornelius, he just is the English Assassin. Jerry's life involves a lot of drugs, orgies, bass playing, transvestism, wilfully obscure and frequently halucinogenic weaponry and an increasingly fractured narrative in which he may be in 1917 on one page and 1973 the next.

So obviously I felt we had a lot in common.

Kralizec

05-31-2006, 11:21

My name comes from the Dune universe, "Kralizec", in the Fremen language it means more or less 'apocalypse'. I think it's mentioned the first time in book 3, Children of Dune. I thought it sounded cool, and I needed a new name...

My old name, Germaanse Strijder, I picked for the purpose of playing Call of Duty and BF1942. I usually played Axis and it means 'germanic warrior' (not in the national sense)
However due to the nature of the name, I figured people mightl associate me with things I absoletly don't have anything to do with :oops:

Quid

05-31-2006, 11:47

Back in the Shogun Total War days, I was looking for a way to turn my real name into a Japanese sounding name. I tried appending several common endings of Japanese names I knew and "oshi" seemed to fit best with "Greg". My only fear was that "gregoshi" might actually mean something in Japanese. If it does, nobody has told me in 6 years. :laugh4:

And we will continue not telling you :laugh4:!

I couldn't really think of a name...so I just took a random look around my room and saw the little sword I bought in Nago, Okinawa.

Beautiful place, that. All of Okinawa, actually.

As to my name, I won't tell. It's a secret.

Quid

Ironside

05-31-2006, 13:08

Ironside was the name of one of my better generals in one MTW campaign.

matteus the inbred

05-31-2006, 13:49

Semi-ironic take-off from my real forename. Keeps me from getting arrogant. Based on the most common V&V my otherwise decent governors and heirs suffer from...

Lemur

05-31-2006, 14:00

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

BHCWarman88

05-31-2006, 16:13

I Like Wars,so.... That Mostly How I got it.. I put in something like "war" and Man" but that name was taken,so, I took AntiWarmancake (haha) and change it a bit over the years,but still use Warman today..

Scurvy

05-31-2006, 16:18

not enough oranges :no:

matteus the inbred

05-31-2006, 16:29

not enough oranges :no:

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

The Stranger

05-31-2006, 21:35

not again...how many of these have there been...thousands millions??? :inquisitive: i smell conspiricy

Kralizec

05-31-2006, 21:38

You should know Stranger, you probably made the bulk of them ~;p

ZombieFriedNuts

05-31-2006, 21:41

Er well I haven’t seen one of them it’s why I started it.

The Stranger

05-31-2006, 21:56

just scroll around in the library...and yes i might 2 or more maybe 3 of them :P

Strike For The South

06-01-2006, 01:22

God Save The South

John86

06-01-2006, 01:24

God Save The South
I would have never guessed.

yesdachi

06-01-2006, 05:03

HA HA! :laugh4: That's clever- I never got that until now!
Thanks, I thought it was kind of clever but it doesn’t really have any meaning behind it. I dig the way some people (like you) have a name that means something to them. :bow:

mercian billman

06-01-2006, 05:27

My favorite unit in MTW were billmen and they recieve a valour bonus if their produced in Mercia, thus mercian billman seemed appropriate.

Tachikaze

06-01-2006, 18:14

You know another year has passed when the "How Did You Choose your Name?" thread pops up. It's an old favorite.

When there was only Shogun: TW, many of us chose Japanese nicknames. Mine means "the wind caused by a sword swing". I found it as the name of a WWII Japanese destroyer.

In other instances, I use Bachikaze, which would mean "the wind caused by swinging a drumstick" (not a chicken leg).

The Stranger

06-01-2006, 19:15

im just strange as you must have noticed...so i thought why no torture your brain with this mindbreaking riddle

Craterus

06-01-2006, 23:05

im just strange as you must have noticed...so i thought why no torture your brain with this mindbreaking riddle

What's really strange is that I got deja vu reading this post.

ajaxfetish

06-02-2006, 03:14

It's a long story involving a toaster and a Chinese priest. I don't think anyone here really wants to hear it.

Ajax

BHCWarman88

06-02-2006, 05:06

can I hear it?? I like Stories :-) :-)

Dutch_guy

06-02-2006, 16:10

He was joking, just so you know ~;).

:balloon2:

BHCWarman88

06-02-2006, 16:24

I know he was :-) :-)

The Stranger

06-02-2006, 21:29

What's really strange is that I got deja vu reading this post.

explain that please

BHCWarman88

06-03-2006, 03:35

Cuz it might have been a Spam Post??

Divine Wind

06-03-2006, 03:44

On the Shogun Total War expansion Mongol Invasion, there was a nice little intro video at the start of the campaign, which talked of the Divine Wind that sunk the invasion fleet and scuppered those Mongols from invading Japan.

Reverend Joe

06-03-2006, 03:49

Thanks, I thought it was kind of clever but it doesn?t really have any meaning behind it. I dig the way some people (like you) have a name that means something to them. :bow:

Far out. :pimp2:

BHCWarman88

06-03-2006, 05:11

I like War,so,Warboy won't sound good,so lets go with Warman,Add Anti and Cake for humor,and you get AntiWarmancake,add your favortie number 8,and you get good stuff :-) :-)

Craterus

06-03-2006, 21:33

Yeah, I got the message the first time.

Reverend Joe

06-04-2006, 01:02

Yeah, I got the message the first time.

:thinking: I thought I had a wierd feeling of Deja Vu reading that post...

lars573

06-04-2006, 03:58

It's my intitals (sort of). La.R.S. the numbers are just some random ones I choose while setting up my second yahoo email.

BHCWarman88

06-04-2006, 04:32

Gamespy picked it for me,Well,Kinda did anyhow..

Monk

06-04-2006, 15:38

My brother and I shared the alias "Killermonk" in UT.

I was "Killermonk627", and "^Killermonk^" in tribes 2 before known as R{a}ge.

I would use warrior monks to supplement my armies in stw and learned to respect them more than any other unit. I'm not ashamed to say i liked to monk rush should the terrain allow.

Is it really any surprise I chose "Monk" as my name? :no:

Mithrandir

06-04-2006, 15:47

KukriKhan

06-04-2006, 15:57

When I first came here, I lurked a few weeks. One day someone asked a question in the Tech Dojo that I actually knew the answer to, so I had to pick a name in order to post.

Looking around, I saw other guys with names related to weapons (Sword-this, Blade-that, katana-so-and-so). To 'fit-in' here, I picked a weapon that no one had chosen yet - a kukri. And later added "khan", to relate to the rumored Mongol Invasion expansion pack.

I played S:TW MP as 'Taiko', then 'kukri'.

Monk

06-04-2006, 16:16

Same story for my name..only different.

by chance, you wouldn't happen to be a certain "Mithrandir" from a few years back in Freelancer MP.. would yah? :inquisitive:

I seem to recall one such Mithrandir; escorting a Monk (me) into Britonian space to get a much better ship than the one i had. I was never sure if you and he were one in the same...

time to fess up! :laugh4:

Mithrandir

06-04-2006, 16:36

by chance, you wouldn't happen to be a certain "Mithrandir" from a few years back in Freelancer MP.. would yah? :inquisitive:

I seem to recall one such Mithrandir; escorting a Monk (me) into Britonian space to get a much better ship than the one i had. I was never sure if you and he were one in the same...

time to fess up! :laugh4:

..hehe ....

.... ~D

Monk

06-04-2006, 16:52

..hehe ....

.... ~D

:ahh: !!

i knew it! well maybe not... but still!

Thanks for the help. :2thumbsup: and... about those credits i owe you.. err.. raincheck? :sweatdrop:

BHCWarman88

06-04-2006, 17:41

I downloaded GS for 1 hour (got 56K then,still do) in March 2004.. I went on to play Medieveal Total War,Flame in GS Chat Lobby and Play Medal of Honor Allied Assault.. as I picked I name,some like War and/or Man it wasn't avabile,so,one of the selected names was AntiWarmanCake,so I picked that,and that how the Lengedary Warman88 name became about..My
WHOOOOOOOO
8
Chant came from MTW too,but without the 8..

Mithrandir

06-04-2006, 19:23

AntiochusIII

06-04-2006, 19:43

You're posting behaviour is getting annoying.Nah. He's just a noobish spammer. The best spammers spam meaningful posts.

No, honestly, a massive continuous spam of meaningful posts is unchallengable even by the mods. ~;)

As for my name...

If you guess right one of the legendary gah members will give you a cookie.

The Stranger

06-04-2006, 19:56

hmmm. i wonder what the punishment will be

BHCWarman88

06-05-2006, 00:13

You're posting behaviour is getting annoying.

"Nah. He's just a noobish spammer. The best spammers spam meaningful posts."

am I,don't think so.:no:

:medievalcheers: and Mith, it is?? ok, it getting boring to me too. I'll stop

and Stranger,
how much you wanna bet since I'm going to stop, it going to be Nothing?:2thumbsup: :idea2:

Divine Wind

06-05-2006, 00:46

Nah. He's just a noobish spammer. The best spammers spam meaningful posts.

No, honestly, a massive continuous spam of meaningful posts is unchallengable even by the mods. ~;)

As for my name...

If you guess right one of the legendary gah members will give you a cookie.

Vanya?

BHCWarman88

06-05-2006, 04:34

What does Vanya mean??

AntiochusIII

06-05-2006, 08:44

Vanya?Shh. I just (ab)used their names so I don't have to give out the cookie myself. It's mine! Pry it from my cold, dead hands, if you dare! :balloon2:

Vanya, BHCWarman, is one of the legendary co-creators of gah. He used gah! in front of and after every one of his posts, or so I presume. And methinks he's the one who wrote that funny story about headsoup and the arquebus guys, if memory serves, which it often fails. Of course, he was here and gone from here long before I even know of the org. So I can't claim to personally know him, either.

And by not even hearing of him you prove your noobness again. :laugh4:

(all in good nature!)

The Stranger

06-05-2006, 11:13

whhhahhahhaha :P VANYA and KRAST if i remember. the legendary duo. sad i was never around :no:

BHCWarman88

06-05-2006, 16:26

I'm not a Noob. I use Meh,not Gah..MEH!!

Shadows

06-06-2006, 01:51

My username alludes to my preferred choice of engagement. Sniping is preferrable to any other type of warfare IMO. I like the whole idea of hiding out somewhere stalking a target and finally eliminating the target and getting away undetected, or atleast without being captured or shot.

Incongruous

06-06-2006, 08:21

I'm just coooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllleeeeeeehhhhhhhhahahauuuuhhhhhhooohhhhyyyyeeeaaahhhhhhh.

Peasant Phill

06-06-2006, 08:48

I'm no great general so I picked the worst possible unit to be general => peasants. Phill isn't my real name, I was just looking for a name that also starts with a P.

In real life I have other nicknames, given to me not chosen, and I use them with pride but they aren't really useable on the org as they are inside jokes.

Kralizec

06-06-2006, 22:34

It's my intitals (sort of). La.R.S. the numbers are just some random ones I choose while setting up my second yahoo email.

The first time I saw your screen name I thought you were Dutch, Lars is a normal name here.

IrishArmenian

06-12-2006, 01:51

I added "King" as a title to my real given name, it is an happy coincidence that in the starting period of MTW, the King of Scots is King Malcolm III...
Is that Malcolm Cenmore? The King at the end of Shakespeare's MacBeth? (Probably the most acclaimed 'innacurate' historical fiction mind, MacBeth's army killed Duncan, not MacBeth himself, the Thane of Fife's family was killed in a raid, unintentionally, Malcolm's army [consisting of loyal Scots to Ross, Fife, Malcolm, Lennox [formerly MacBeths's ally and English reinforcements killed MacBeth, and his follwers but I digress. I got mine from my odd heritage, I was nicknamed from a young age, roughly translated to english, halfbreed 15, from being the fifteenth in my family and not being compltelly "Hye". So I did not want to subject everyone thinking what does his name mean? So I have IrishArmenian.

The Spartan (Returns)

06-12-2006, 02:58

Well I choose The Spartan cause I just like Spartans. (And I am the last Spartan in the world) Read The Second To Last Post (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=65157&page=9)

Philippus Flavius Homovallumus

06-12-2006, 11:21

I was playing a VI Saxon campaign when I registered, as many of you know the first Saxon hero is Wigferth, he rocketh, so I took his name and added "Ironwall" because his impoverished Saxon army was all spears and a few horsemen.

Hence me sig as well, that was what I used to shout at the screen.