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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby Wolf Bird » Wed Aug 26, '09, 4:36 pm

I got mine from the song "The Cage" by Sonata Arctica, my favorite band. Here's the lyrics and you can probably figure out how I extrapolated the username from them.

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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby GoodOmens » Wed Aug 26, '09, 9:18 pm

My username is the name of my favorite book by Neil Gaiman.

I'll let you guess the book's title :mrgreen:
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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby ThugsRook » Sun Aug 30, '09, 6:24 pm

i didnt choose it, it was given to me.

>THUGS< was a Descent/Descent2 (PC Game) clan. (started back in 96 i think)

ROOK was my given name cause i was a flying n00b. (wasnt too good at diaginals)

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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby PathfinderCS » Sat Oct 10, '09, 3:59 am

Mine's not too hard to figure out. Well...at least 50% of it, anyway.

My name has two general influences.

1. The "Captain" basically comes from my liking of the captains of Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises. I grew up with Captain Picard, so...I guess you could say HE'S the first 50 percent. :lol:

2. Do I really have to say where Spyro came from? :wink:

Anymore, this name is much more than a fan's username. I've developed it into an independent character, and developed a large fic-verse from it as well.
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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby Atlinsmere » Sat Oct 10, '09, 8:44 am

That reminds me. I never said how I got Atlinsmere, just my old Trenzer one.

How I got Atlinsmere was the fact that I got sick of Trenzer was being used by many other so I was talking to Snorb on AIM. I told him to pick like 3 or 4 random consonants, and 2 vowels, I already had the other vowel and consonants or somethings like that. In the end, it was Atlinsmer, but then I added another E to the end and got my second original name, which hopefully this one won't be stolen, Atlinsmere.
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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby Silver_Surfer1 » Sat Oct 10, '09, 6:18 pm

Captain Spyro wrote:
My name has two general influences.

1. The "Captain" basically comes from my liking of the captains of Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises. I grew up with Captain Picard, so...I guess you could say HE'S the first 50 percent. :lol:



Interesting, Captain Spryo! Always great to see another Star Trek fan. :clap: Picard was a wonderful Captain. :yes:
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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby PathfinderCS » Sun Oct 11, '09, 12:45 am

Silver_Surfer1 wrote:
Captain Spyro wrote:
My name has two general influences.

1. The "Captain" basically comes from my liking of the captains of Star Trek and other sci-fi franchises. I grew up with Captain Picard, so...I guess you could say HE'S the first 50 percent. :lol:



Interesting, Captain Spryo! Always great to see another Star Trek fan. :clap: Picard was a wonderful Captain. :yes:


Awesome! Trek fan! :up: What can I say? Picard was THE MAN! 8)

Nothing against Kirk, Sisko, etc. I just grew up with the "The Next Generation" crew. :yes:
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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby Rune_Walsh » Thu Jan 28, '10, 4:47 am

It is a huge, huge enigma as to why I chose mine...

Although here is a clue:

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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby Lucas » Thu Jan 28, '10, 6:50 am

This is the only board I go by my real name for my username. On Gamefaqs I go by Numan_lord (inspired by Lord Rutsu from the Phantasy Star Universe games) and on the Anime Australia Madman boards I go by the name MeltingIce (Something unique I made up :wink:). I like a bit of variety.
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Re: How did you choose your username?

Postby Darkil » Thu Jan 28, '10, 1:42 pm

You know RW...I'm going to take a guess and say that you got your name based on Lyle from PSIII :D

Another user name that I use from time to time is Dais, which I blatantly stole from Dais in the Ronin Warriors anime. I love that show!
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