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How did you decide what your username/gamertag would be?
- Thread starter Krombopulos_MK
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Back in 2001, I made my first e-mail account. I was 15 and pretty into FF8 at the time, so I wanted it to be "Griever". it was taken. Holy was the strongest elemental magic in the game, so, "Holygriever".
I kinda regret the "holy" part nowadays, but I've been using it for *so long* that it has stuck.
I kinda regret the "holy" part nowadays, but I've been using it for *so long* that it has stuck.
Comedian Hard Gay from Japan (in my defense, it was like 2007 when I watched his skits and I was a stupid kid back then) and the Rojo (red in Spanish) comes from a nickname my friends gave to me in university because they didn't know my real name (it was the first week) and I was wearing a red sweatshirt I believe.
Stuck with the "Hard" part because I feel like it sounds cool and it doesn't need to be tied to anything in particular in the end.
Stuck with the "Hard" part because I feel like it sounds cool and it doesn't need to be tied to anything in particular in the end.
I've had a few online names, but wanted a new one with Xbox.
I thought it looked and sounded cool. Fit my personality at the time. I felt like nothing but silence.
I thought it looked and sounded cool. Fit my personality at the time. I felt like nothing but silence.
I just combined the names of a bunch of characters I like for my PSN name. Those were Cloud Strife, Riku (Kingdom Hearts), and Mello (Death Note). Smash them together, and voila. I was in, like, middle school or early high school at the time and I kinda consider changing it, but it's what I'm used to so I leave it alone. At least I still like all those characters, too.
For everything since then, I pretty much use the same name as I have on here. It was combining Final Fantasy with Skies of Arcadia. I guess I just really like combining names.
For everything since then, I pretty much use the same name as I have on here. It was combining Final Fantasy with Skies of Arcadia. I guess I just really like combining names.
My online handle was just Mallas when I first started out on message boards over 2 decades ago. Then I found the gamers.com EGM boards and that shitbird Mielke banned me for some bullshit and I just made a new account UraMallas. I've had it ever since. I can't actually remember what the Ura was about but I remember coming back immediately as NeoMallas and talking shit to him and he banned me in like... 2 seconds. So UraMallas was my third account there after I cooled off.
Xbox Live came out later that year and I was gaming with some people from the site so I decided to stick with what they knew me by UraMallas. The rest is history.
Xbox Live came out later that year and I was gaming with some people from the site so I decided to stick with what they knew me by UraMallas. The rest is history.
Chocobo_Aqua
Chocobos are cute and Aqua is my favourite KH character.
As for Era, it's my name and the word chaser in an old Kingdom Hearts secret ending.
Chocobos are cute and Aqua is my favourite KH character.
As for Era, it's my name and the word chaser in an old Kingdom Hearts secret ending.
My name literally means Ruler of all Time & Space. As I have immense deep doting passions of astronomy, astrophysics, ancient history, and archaeology. I also love Chrono Trigger as my GOAT game.
It was like 2010 or so for me and I was 10, I chose CerealBro1 because when I finally got a 360 that had wireless capabilities and could get Xbox Live, the neighbor kids I was friends with all had a similar format in their names (There was a WaffleBro1, a BreakfastBro1, a BaconBro1 and something else, all with different spellings and formats iirc) and so I was like "cool" and chose just CerealBro1. Within like 6 months all the kids changed their names to something else but a name change cost like $15 at the time and since I was a broke kid I just stuck with it for all these years. I would later use the name on other forums (namely Activision COD forums and the CODZombies forum) and like 6 years ago a friend of mine made my profile picture when she was trying to get into Photoshop and so that's pretty much just solidified why I use that name here and everywhere except PSN honestly, despite being a stupid and childish name lol
When I was registering for the SRK forum to get games in 3S looked over at my Sega Genesis. The top saying "High Definition Graphics 16-Bit" was funny. So I named myself 16 Bit and put High Definition Graphics as the tag under the name. I've now used it for like 20 years. It's okay.
Used to play an online game called 'Star Kingdoms', hence the SK at the end of my name.
In that game you had planet types that worked like a character class. Back when I started I normally went 'Mountainous' type, and around that time Final Fantasy X had just released. Naturally I chose 'Mt Gagazet' with it being the prominent mountain in a game I loved, and over time that's what everyone came to know me by ingame.
The name sorta just stuck to me afterwards as the community dispersed away from Star Kingdoms to other games as a way for friends to find me and stay in touch.
In that game you had planet types that worked like a character class. Back when I started I normally went 'Mountainous' type, and around that time Final Fantasy X had just released. Naturally I chose 'Mt Gagazet' with it being the prominent mountain in a game I loved, and over time that's what everyone came to know me by ingame.
The name sorta just stuck to me afterwards as the community dispersed away from Star Kingdoms to other games as a way for friends to find me and stay in touch.
Cyrus is my favorite character from Chrono Trigger and Saren is my favorite villains in the Mass Effect series. Stuck them both together.
I was watching Action Jackson while setting up my Xbox live account. I thought Applesauce Jackson sounded funny. It has followed me everywhere since.
Not the online handle I've always gone by, but there was a phase about 8 years ago when I was playing an MMO and everything I named in it (characters, guild names, etc) was Judas Priest song themed. Caviar & Meths was a short instrumental outro on their first album. It was the one that kind of just stuck after I quit that game.
The game I play now (FF14), my characters are generally somewhat lore-friendly variations of Caviar. For example, I had a Dunesfolk Lalafell named Vivica Vica, which is just the syllables of Caviar arranged in a way that fits their naming convention.
The game I play now (FF14), my characters are generally somewhat lore-friendly variations of Caviar. For example, I had a Dunesfolk Lalafell named Vivica Vica, which is just the syllables of Caviar arranged in a way that fits their naming convention.
Couldn't come up with anything. Started going through song titles by band. Ended up on the Grateful Dead. Ended up going with the first song on their first studio album, since all the easy ones (St Stephen, Tennessee Jed, what have you) were all taken.
In 2007 I was staying in Tokyo and did the Yamanote Line Roulette where you sleep on the train at night and the station you wake up in is the place you spend for the day. I ended up in Takadanobaba and wandered around the entire day seeing the sights, eating lunch and dinner and then eventually ending up in a Funk/Karaoke bar. I got completely and utterly drunk off my mind and ended up crawling under the stage to sleep. When I woke up in the morning, the doors were locked and I could not get out. I stayed in there twiddling my thumbs wondering if I'd be in trouble for break and enter or something. Luckily at mid day a cleaner came through and let me out after I explained what happened. I was late for lunch with a friend and showed up in Ikebukuro way later than I wanted to. When he asked why I was not answering my phone and so late, I said "Sorry, I got drunk and locked up in a Tokyo Funk bar"
So. That's reason enough.
So. That's reason enough.
My dad called me Scarecrow when i was younger cause im tall and lanky like one. I couldn't think of anything at the time that wasn't edgy, so i went with that.
It's what my Korean grandmother called me because she couldn't pronounce "Christopher."
But people think my name is something like CW is tofu lol
But people think my name is something like CW is tofu lol
When I was a teen I built my online identify around a painting by Diego Velazquez, and still use that.
It was once my initials... followed by my surname, which is quite uncommon. Not very smart. I changed wherever possible to my current one.
It is because psilocybin has some great potential in psychiatry. I'm a researcher myself (preclinal studies, which means rodents in my case) and I would love to study psychedelics. Unfortunately bureaucracy prevents me from doing it. And I would have to trust my students, lol.
It is because psilocybin has some great potential in psychiatry. I'm a researcher myself (preclinal studies, which means rodents in my case) and I would love to study psychedelics. Unfortunately bureaucracy prevents me from doing it. And I would have to trust my students, lol.
Just one of the first games I used to play a lot. Been using this name since 96, I use it on everything pretty much unless they don't allow numbers in the name.
Well, my old gamertag and some of my accounts are Ricard Julianti....a purely made up name that I created the first time I played Oblivion when it came out. Somehow it stuck and is my usual "go-to" character name if I have the character space.
Suedemaker is a play on my last name and how people mess it up all the time when it's really not that hard.
Suedemaker is a play on my last name and how people mess it up all the time when it's really not that hard.
I was sick of the Star Wars names I kept choosing being taken and having to append numbers, so I invented a new name from whole cloth that I thought sounded cool when I was fourteen years old and have stubbornly stuck with it for twenty years. Although I've kind of given up on the apostrophe: so few websites still use them it's just annoying to keep track of them.
On the one hand I'm not quite as fond of the name as high school me was, but on the other, it has served its purpose well: I've never encountered someone else trying to use it.
On the one hand I'm not quite as fond of the name as high school me was, but on the other, it has served its purpose well: I've never encountered someone else trying to use it.
44 is my lucky number for various reasons
I may be biased, but I have to agree on "virtua" making things cooler
The song Black Republican came out by Jay Z. I loved it but it was taken so I named myself Blackdemocrat. I hate it now for obvious reasons. Get extra shit from the fringe groups on XBL.
All of a sudden, I feel like watching this movie and Princess Mononoke again...
My gamertag is just my old nickname and my last name, so my friends could find/remember it easily.
My username is... just a copy of my old IGN username when I started posting on those boards back before the Gamecube came out.
Shit though... I could've been a "Virtua Justin." I messed up, man.
The year was... uh, early 2010s. My previous online gaming username "wookkiller" had become a tad too violent for my tastes, so I decided to change it.
I looked all around my room, eyes scouring every nook and cranny in search of inspiration.
They eventually landed on a fold-out cross section of the Enterprise-E hanging upon my wall, and, well... there you have it.
I looked all around my room, eyes scouring every nook and cranny in search of inspiration.
They eventually landed on a fold-out cross section of the Enterprise-E hanging upon my wall, and, well... there you have it.
