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Hey people, post here to tell us what made you choose your name. For me, I choose my name cause what of the girls in my school called me a cute little boy. Well, I decided to get rid of cute and replace it with lost and turn it the other way round. ~D
What about you guys?
Don't ask me, ask somebody else. I'm just nobody important.
I preceded my Christian name with King
It is by mere co-incidence that the Scottish King at the beginning of the MTW time period has the same name.
I used to play with ColdFusion on most games, then when I got MTW I changed it to ColdKnight to sound more MTW. So just took my name from multi and used it here when I signed up.
Personally it's my nickname at school from my last-name.
It is my name with "-us" on the end and the "y" changed to an "i".
It is a Roman name.
Dîn-Heru Elvish for Silent Ruler/Lord. Because I am a silent person, and Heru because it fits with the types of games I play, and because I like to think that I am in control of things..
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Back when I first decided to come online to give Shogun MP a try, I found myself here in short order. The first task I faced was creating an account. Ever a RPG enthusiast, I wanted to create a name that fit my character and interests. At the time, I was reading a lot about real-world ninja, and I really liked the ninja videos in the game, so I settled upon a ninja character for my alter-ego in S:TW-land.
Togakure Ryu is a well-known and respected Ninja school in Japan. According to several books that I've read, ninja hierarchy was divided into three levels: chunin ("grunt" ninja that carried out orders; the ninja shown in the game are most likely chunin), genin (tactical "captains," that were in charge of groups of chunin), and jonin (strategic commanders or ninja "generals," who made the major decisions for a ninja clan).
The prefix 'O' means "Great" in Japanese (or at least something to that effect). An example of its use would be O'Sensei, which means "Great Teacher," and is used to refer to Ueshiba Morihei, the founder of Aikido and arguably the most profound Japanese martial artist of the twentieth century.
I chose the surname Togakure from the ninja school, and O'Jonin as my personal name, though the latter is really a title (one which likely doesn't make any sense in the Japanese language).
All in good fun. I've been thinking for a while now about shortening my name here to just "Toga." The original name is too long, and most of my friends in the community call me Toga now anyway.
No Way!Quote:
Originally Posted by TogakureOjonin
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First posted using "Shinano" and played under "Mimesaka", both provinces from Shogun. Eventually decided I didn't like Shinano and changed the name to Sasaki Kojiro, which looks cool.
I didn't have a say in it. My parents chose before I could get a word in edgeways.
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Originally Posted by Craterus
Well, everyone is tired of hearing how I got my name.
I haven't heard it. Tell me the story ~;) ~;pQuote:
Originally Posted by Zorba
Do you have a bad acne problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
j/k, j/k, j/k, j/k ... J/K!!! So sorry, but I just couldn't resist! ~;p
Basically, I was tired of my old name- Meatwad- it had a connotation to it that I did not intend when I chose it. Then, about a month or so ago, I saw "Zorba The Greek" for the first time. Seeing it completed a major personality shift I had been having for some time (ever since I started college). It was also a momentous occasion for me; I felt more alive than I ever had in my life (with a few exceptions, but those are other stories, and not for you to hear.) And so Zorba seemed like a much more suitable name for me than Meatwad ever was.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSilverKnight
Well Kenshin was a Sengoku Jidai era warlord, and I love STW (though I didn't join until after RTW came out I was playing Total War from the start), I liked playing as the Uesugi and so he was my favorite general in-game, out of game he is also extremely interesting and I'd say he's my "favorite" in reality as well.
unable to register to play online Shogun with all the standard nick names, I was frustrated and angry...
then I've seen a comic on the desk next to me with Paolino Paperino as main character..
so I've thought.. stupid it's stupid, maybe it works......and I could log in!!!!
from that moment I was Pao
Papewaio... name of a dishonoured samurai like character in the Lady of the Empire series of books.
A rather fine series of books IMDHO.. In My Dis-Honourable Opinion. :bow:
i inherited this name when i was promoted to moderator (from the previous user) when he took on the Tosa Inu name to run the site.
my original name is something i can't remember right now.
Chose it as my online name cuz it sounded cool:S Kanamori Yoshishige,the lord of Takayama, the family is of minor consequence too:shrug: Boy was Magy in for a surprise when he thought I was the DemonKanamori back in my total noob days.~:joker:
God.
God Save The South:knight:
Left Eye is private to me.. #9 always sounded cool , it's on the edge but the greates of all and was special to Turkish Khans..
People say it sounds good, whateve, it's totally unique and been absolutely my virtual identity.. everywhere you see this nick or LEN it's me ~:)
P.S. I wonder who the other freak may be to choose such a nick..
There was a thread about this a while back, lots of replies
member name thread link
ichi:bow:
Well I used to be called Taurus not so long ago and still am called this on RTW mp. But I changed my username to Hero quite recently but because Hero was already registered I had to replace the o with a 0. Thus...Her0
As mentioned in the the thread ichi linked, Ironside was one of the better generals I had once in MTW.
Well, when I started to use this pseudonym, I was listening to a lot of the Kovenant. The reference, though, is to a track on the album I like least.
My other pseudonym is, well, because I look and act like a troll.
I forgot. Oh wait, no I didn’t. Dariush is my actual name. ~;)
Mine is from the Jerry Cornelius books by Michael Moorcock. He is the English Assassin, (in fact that's the title of book 2) amongst a lot of other things.
I use Jerry Cornelius on other sites. If I was reregistering here I'd probably go with Jerry here too, but I'm used to being EA and its not worth the bother.
I am, in fact, AdrianII. AdrianI was shot on his way to work. There is an AdrianIII in the works, we are honing his taste, aim, language and lethal delivery skills as we speak.
My life, my love, my dog.
It is one of the strange nicknames my mother used to call me (one of the others was "Iwan the Terrible"...go figure). Also, I like the sound and meaning of the word and it seemed quite appropriate for this forum anyway. I was actually surprised to find no-one registered as 'Brutus' before.
Hey All;
Dagobert was one of the last Merovingian (Visigothic)
kings who was murdered to allow the succession of the
Franks. Ol'boy took a spear in his eye. Then again, if he did
not, perhaps Poitiers would have never happened...
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Originally Posted by Beirut
anyways my nickname is the more greek version of my real name. ~:)
Master of the puppets pulling the strings of the world, also it was a name of a very good metallica album. so it sounded cool.
I thought Dagobert and the Merovingian line were Franks... that is what I read in a biography of Charlemagne.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dagobert II
I am, in fact, surprisingly fresh-faced. ~;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TogakureOjonin
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My ancesters.
I totally like the units in STW so I made a play on the word. ~:)
If I remember correctly, Lemur was taken at the time I signed up. So I decided to take a page from Beatlemania.
Youuuuuuu............. haveaproblemwithmydog?Quote:
Originally Posted by Drisos
Merovingians were franks. Mérové was the king of the Franks, and he was in no way a Visigoth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zorba
Meneldil is a character from LotR
My last names translates to 'beans', so naturally I chose to call myself Mr Bean when I first entered usenet, there was however, another Mr bean in a NG I posted in, so i changed it to Doc_Bean, a sign of youthful arrogance I suppose.
Since I didn't take the opportunity to start a doctorate (don't get me started on those...) I'm starting to find the name a bit inappropriate.
Hell, you don't need a doctorate to be a doctor. Just look at Hunter Thompson- he was a "doctor of journalism". You don't need **** to be a doctor of journalism (except a degree in journalism- preferably a master's... get it... MD in journalism?)Quote:
Originally Posted by doc_bean
I think it's a bit different with engineering though ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Zorba
Thing is, most people who hang around to complete their Phd are the ones who don't want the pressure of a full time engineering job or the ones that want to boost their ego's. Often both. It's become an empty title.
Jachyra is a monster from the Terry Brooks, Shannara series I just added the ' (Can't spell apostrophe)
The other name I go by is Aeil, another bastardisation but this time from Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time.
I used to go by the nick Raptor, I was dubbed this in a previous job for reasons we don't need to explore, but it was so popular I stopped using it.
I have been using this name since the first Rainbow six game. Grenades are called 'frags' in that game, and I was pretty good at tossing them in impossible angles(which got me more then a few 'cheater' accusations). Well me + frag = agony and thus it became 'Fragony'.
Well in this forum at least I named myself after the MTW trait I always ended up getting.
Although it's not my usual nom de plume on t'internet..
You may thank Red Dwarf, in Particular Lister, for my name :)
In feodal Japan Kagemusha was a doppelganger of for example a famous general who was used to trick the enemy that a certain lord was somewhere, when he was infact somewhere else.~D
It's my name, sort of. I'll probably see if it can be changed once I pass the 1000 posts, if I think it's worth it.
There was a thread on this awhile back.
What's big and gray, floats on water (until Feb 17, 1944), belches smoke, and has four white katakana letters down the side of it?
Give up?
Loch Ness Monster? Japanese Dragon? Give up. Is that what inspire YOUR name????? ~:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tachikaze
well these sort of threads keep the frontroom alive, you should know that ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zalmoxis
Every 3 weeks or so, another one of these comes along.
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There was a post on this a while back ~;pQuote:
Originally Posted by Zalmoxis
Kablam The Name Of The Biggest Spammer With A 5 Minute Floodcontrol
I chose my name from Marcus Claudius Marcellus (268-208BC), a Roman general sometimes known as the 'Sword of Rome'. I had just finished reading a bit about him and he sounded like a pretty good general.
First Part - Clan name from Shogun days
Second part - Favourite football club
Let's see: kamikaze is divine wind, kami means spirit, which is closest to divine, so kaze is wind. Tachi I don't know (yes, fast, but that's a different language).Quote:
Originally Posted by Tachikaze
My guess is Japanese warship from WWII, possibly an aircraft carrier (hence: wind).
Or am I making a fool of myself with my cut & paste Japanese?
I think it is a heavy cruiser, or a battlecruiser. They are fast ships, and with a good commander at the helm, they are absolutely brutal on the high seas- that is, until their luck runs out, and they can't escape a bigger fish (i.e. an aircraft carrier or battleship, or a flotilla. Could have been a submarine, too, but heavy/battle-cruisers are less vulnerable to subs.)
Edit: found it- it's a destroyer. Why the hell would you name yourself after a destroyer? Why not the Scharnhorst, or the Hood?
Sanctaphrax is the name of a floating city from a book I was reading back when I registered. The Big King part I added to make it sound more fancy.
It seems like a rather juvenile handle to me now, and I'd probably change it if I reregistered. Everyone just calls me BKS though, so it doesn't bother me that much.
Was that from the Edge Chronicles? I vaguely seem to remember those books.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax