Where does your username come from?

[Slam_Jones]

Made up this name for one of my DC Universe characters. Ended up loving it, and adopted it as my permanent nickname

[Kinglet]

No, they porbably don't.

[Hobbes Novakoff]

I was joining some f2p website game and clicked "generate random name", liked the name Hobbes Novakoff and thus used that or some variation of it "Hobbes", "KingHobbes", or whatever in a bunch of games.

[megatiger78]

I thought about massive tigers, and added 78 just from no reason. that is my design process on everything. it is called dynamic risk assessment.

[Janos1986]

A guy I knew gave it to me and I liked so OH GOD THE INNUENDOS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD WHY DID I WRITE THIS.

I hope I don't have to explain "1986".

Edited December 30, 2014 by Janos1986

[Tech Support]

Mine comes from the cliche that Indians are always IT guys.

[NFUN]

New [explicit] User Name. The names I wanted a few years ago were all taken, so I got frustrated and tried that.

[Ikaneko]

Mine comes from my Minecraft username, which came from this crappy story I wrote when I was about 6 that I rediscovered years later.

[Sesni]

My name evolved from many years ago (around 2011) when I thought the MMORPG 'Maplestory' was actually cool. I orignally wanted my username to be Sensei (totally spelled that wrong), but from a spelling mistake it became 'sesni345'. It's stuck and I use it for most everything (minus steam.). Before this I was actually using 'cloner2d2' because I liked star wars a bunch. That's it.

[benzman]

My username came from me owning a 1975 220SE Mercedes-Benz. I sold it and bought a 1963 MkII Jaguar but I can't be bothered to change my name to 'jagman'.

[Xacktar]

I write a lot... I mean... A LOT. I have over 200 unfinished novels or short stories and a good 20-30 that are complete, if a bit unpolished. (I even was published once.)

I probably have upwards of a thousand characters in one form or another (Seriously, if you ever need a name, PM me. I have plenty)... but Xacktar... he was special. In the very first novel I actually finished he showed up as the psychotic sidekick to the main villain. He was mentally deranged, easily distracted and completely incompetent at most tasks.

Diablo 2 came out as I was working on that story and I ended up snagging Xacktar as my username, which spread to other things as I realized a name beginning with X was easy to find on lists and was NEVER taken anywhere else. In 10 years I've never had the 'That name is already taken!' message.

Which became a hilarious incident when a friend of mine was playing some MMO and saw a Xacktar, ran up to him and peppered the guy with messages and stuff... then realized that it wasn't me. It never occurred to him that someone named Xacktar wasn't me.

Edited January 1, 2015 by Xacktar

[Rolanvorxariat]

Chiken came from the name of a concept planet, named similarly to kerbal/kerbin, and 1880 is the password to my old bike lock.

Wait a moment.

DONT STEAL MY BIKE

[PakledHostage]

I, along with several others, told our own fascinating stories in this thread.

[Neal]

Well, I like to say that people started to call me cactus for the short spiny green hair I used to have, but to be honest I stole it from a character in the Bourne books. The prefix comes from my love of high-power LED flashlights. One of the first places where I registered with that nickname was a flashlight enthusiast forum, and the prefix stuck.

It's about time I found this post!

[Moss]

It's my surname.