what's with your nickname?

Twenty years ago, when I started at High School, a mate and me created a crappy comic strip for the school newspaper. The main character was Dux Corvan, a late Roman military leader that attended classes and made innocent unintended puns about teaching, learning and human nature. We took Dux because he was a kind of general, and Corvan... well, because it sounded cool.

Many years after I took it as nick for every PC game I played -from X-Wing to Diablo and air sims- and now I use it for everything, including forums and online games. Thus, I avoid damaging my brain cells by inventing new cool names constantly.

the -us ending is to make it more Latin-ish, according to the spirit of the site.

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Originally Posted by Sarcasm

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no surprise here..

*double post* edited..

I was reading about Lt. Shrapnel (later Colonel) and how he gave his name to the spherical case shot in the Napoleonic Wars in the Peninsular, I like the name so now my online name is Shrapnel or Shrap for short. :)

I just invented mine randomly, dont know why no incentive too just came

From the Dune novels by Frank Herbert.

It was my nickname for awhile, now I am known as phenom in real life, but I decided to keep Fabolous as my online alias.

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Originally Posted by Stranger

mhuaahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha hhahahahahahaha not funny....SARCASM i'm the master of sarcasm the official sarcasm thread started the head of the underground sarcasm thread and the real ruler of the .org

where you missing my sarcasm when i was missing the sarcasm in you sarcastic post

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Haha.........What? :dizzy2:

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Originally Posted by Jerby

no surprise here...

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Heh...I really am a lot more sarcastic in real life, where I don't have to worry about my reputation (that's already ruined ~;) ). It basicaly started as an IRC nickname (for which I have no patience nowadays), then it stuck through all the games I went through, Warcraft2, Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft, Starcraft: Brood War, Warcraft3 , WC3: Frozen Throne ("Im starting to see a pattern here..." ~D ) Counterstrike, and a huge number of other RTS's, FPS's and RPG's...

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Originally Posted by Shigawire

From the Dune novels by Frank Herbert.

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I thought it looked familiar ~;)

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Originally Posted by Frank Herbert, in Dune

"Muad'Dib," the man said. "I failed you in . . . "
"The failure was mine, Korba," Paul said. "I should've warned you what to seek. In the future, when searching Sardaukar, remember this. Remember, too, that each has a false toenail or two that can be combined with other items secreted about their bodies to make an effective transmitter. They'll have more than one false tooth. They carry coils of shigawire in their hair -- so fine you can barely detect it... With Sardaukar, you must scan them, scope them -- both reflex and hard ray -- cut off every scrap of body hair. And when you're through, be certain you haven't discovered everything."

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Originally Posted by Sarcasm

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dito

favourite ancient military unit. Haven't gotten over the awe-inspiring sight of a long line of sharp point sticks yet.

"Pse" is short for my real name. "Ramesses" stands for my passion of Ramesses the Great and ancient Egypt. I´ve been using this nick since CIVII came out so I´ve used it for some 11-12 years, if I remeber correctly.

What's probably being said when lined up in a shield wall with enemy approaching with malignious intend

Quite a few years ago, after having had numerous nicknames in games and on the web I decided to make one up to keep it a little organised; as I was reading unfinished tales (C. Tolkien) I played a little with the elvish vocabulaire at the back and came up with Ellesthyan. I don't really remember what it supposed to translate to other than something with stars. Though some people tend to think it's a female name (Ellen... shit like that) I'm keeping it just 'cause it's mine, and I'll be certain no one will have my nick already... :dizzy2: ~D

I think it means " a bend in the river" in Latin. It was in a book I read referring to the position of a roman fort and later the town around it took the name. Ive never actually looked it up so its possible its totally wrong. I took it 'cause it seemed obscure (but memorable). I hate having to try 50 different names to sign onto a site.

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Originally Posted by Malrubius

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Nice one. Great set of books. A masterpiece of hard sci-fi with plausible fantasy influences.

Now guess mine...

dude, with a nick like that..we'll be guessing forever..

because your yellow ferret is called like that?

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Originally Posted by Gertgregoor

because your yellow ferret is called like that?

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~;) maybe his "wise lynx"?

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Originally Posted by jerby

~;) maybe his "wise lynx"?

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LOL ~D
got me there!

I'm guessing it has something to do with a comic that stars the knight Aymar de Boys-Maury. ~:handball:

I wanted a Carthaginian name when I started playing Age of Empires 1 on the MSN Gaming Zone. Hannibal, Hasdrubal, etc were all taken, but Adherbal wasn't (I had that name from a novel about hannibal and wasn't even sure he existed). Been using that nick ever since.

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Originally Posted by [cF]Adherbal

I wanted a Carthaginian name when I started playing Age of Empires 1 on the MSN Gaming Zone. Hannibal, Hasdrubal, etc were all taken, but Adherbal wasn't (I had that name from a novel about hannibal and wasn't even sure he existed). Been using that nick ever since.

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Carthaginian? Well, the name itself is Punic, but AFAIK, Adherbal was a Numidian king, son of Micipsa, whom succeded, and cousin of Jugurtha, who deprived him of the throne.

BTW, what's that [cF] about? ~:confused:

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Originally Posted by 1pain1Duck

I'm guessing it has something to do with a comic that stars the knight Aymar de Boys-Maury. ~:handball:

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Well, an informed reader. You get the prize. ~:)

The actual name is: Aymar de Bois Maury but I got it wroong when registering.

kayapó is an indian name. :indian_brave:

I was going to base my graduation thesis around them. But I gave that up. Too complex. This is my way of apologizing I guess. ~:) I could go on for a while about their culture but I'll refrain from that. As I'd be the only interested ~;)

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Originally Posted by abortretryfail

I think it means " a bend in the river" in Latin. It was in a book I read referring to the position of a roman fort and later the town around it took the name. Ive never actually looked it up so its possible its totally wrong. I took it 'cause it seemed obscure (but memorable). I hate having to try 50 different names to sign onto a site.

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Well, ACTUALLY, it's an error message from the MS-DOS days xP 'Not ready reading drive C: [Abort/Retry/Fail?]

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 liked the Seven samurai and Dersu Uzala, but found Ran (Kurosawa's vision of Shakespeare's King Lear), to be too long and tedious.

I got my nickname in PE class, actually. It would make more sense if I showed you a pic of what I look like in real life. ~:)

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Carthaginian? Well, the name itself is Punic, but AFAIK, Adherbal was a Numidian king, son of Micipsa, whom succeded, and cousin of Jugurtha, who deprived him of the throne.

BTW, what's that [cF] about?

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there was also a Carthaginian admiral named Adherbal who defeated a roman fleet at Drepana.

And cF stands for "Carthaginian Forces", my old Age of Empires clan. We lasted for over 4 years, but then we started to get bored of Age of Mythology and I tried to move the clan to RTW. But there was hardly any interest in the game and the clan died completly soon after.