What's in a name?

Ender[CotC] · Post by **Ender[CotC]** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 2:59 pm

People always have reasons for names, whether it's meaningful and symbolic of how they want to be seen on the net, or just randomly slapped on there as a frantic ditch effort to get a name.

My name , Ender, is taken from the book Ender's game which is about the boy Ender who is more intelligent than the rest of the boys his age.

But what am i saying?! pick up a copy of the book at your local Barn's and Noble (or Borders depending on where you are). Read it. Enjoy.

What i would like to know is why you guys chose the names you did. and what they mean to you.

Peace out.

On a completely different note:
Pick me up Dark!!! help! my brother's friends are here!

Post by **Rico** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:41 pm

Rico comes from a nickname given me long ago by a family member. Just about everywhere I go, someone ends up calling me that, never having heard anyone call me that before.

Boring, but what the heck.

I think you shoulda named yourself "Bean."

Post by **Dataspel** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:16 pm

Datapel : Swedish for "Computer Game". People who actually speak it
says that it sounds a little hokey or corny in that language.

Recently I have also been playing as Spatlese, which is German for
"Late Harvest".

Post by **Buzzed** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 4:53 pm

Well, Buzzed could come from various facets such as in airplanes you “Buzz” someone, or “What’s the buzz?” or I got a buzz cut, or other similar idiom.

But the truth here is the first time I ever played a game on line, my son (Killerbee) showed me how to play but refused for me to use his name and ruin his stats. As it was a Friday night, had a couple of people over earlier for a few “adult” drinks, and I was a little tipsy, I told him to set me up as Buzzed. It stuck.
:drinking:

Ender[CotC] · Post by **Ender[CotC]** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:10 pm

Bean was an ok character. I didn't follow his stories (ender's shadow, shadow of the giant, etc.) until recently, but i had already made my name here.

Bean is also a very non-thretening name. "you've been killed by Bean!!!"

That's not exactly the image i want...

Post by BD » Sat Apr 15, 2006 7:22 pm

Don't let Rico BS you... Get him drunk and he'll tell you it's from Johnny Rico (Starship troopers) but he really named himself after Rico Suave from the '80's.

Mine game name came from one of the redneck rampage (or the like) games where they have moon pies and they say "I'm gonna open up a can o whoopass on ya now." I thought it would be more unique as AssWoop... wrong. It's about as unique as "Player"

My board name came from my initials. (easy to remember... usually)

So for clan games it's asswoop... for the rest of the games it's "3 Finger Sammy" because that one is pretty unique, or whatever hasn't already been taken.

Ender[CotC] · Post by **Ender[CotC]** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:24 pm

I was traveling across the U.S. on a road trip, and in a gas station convenience store i saw the coolest thing ever.

I saw a drink called "whoopass". And it was packaged in a can.

I was tempted to buy as the drink was carbinated and i could shake it up and "open a can of whoopass" on someone.

It was pretty cool... i guess you had to be there.

Post by **Buzzed** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:48 pm

Ender[CotC] wrote:
I was tempted to buy as the drink was carbinated and i could shake it up and "open a can of whoopass" on someone.

It was pretty cool... i guess you had to be there.

You must have been "Buzzed". LOL

Post by **KrAzYdAvE** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:38 am

Ender[CotC] wrote:I was traveling across the U.S. on a road trip, and in a gas station convenience store i saw the coolest thing ever.

I saw a drink called "whoopass". And it was packaged in a can.

I was tempted to buy as the drink was carbinated and i could shake it up and "open a can of whoopass" on someone.

It was pretty cool... i guess you had to be there.

I have a couple of those... don't even remember where I got them!
I've been trying to find Crunk Juice, saw it once about a year ago and it's dissapeared since then!

Anyways, my name came up about 3 months after I started playing with computers and the internet. IIRC I was in a chatroom with a bunch of people (this was when chatrooms weren't so lame!). I, for some stupid reason was using "KnuckleDragger" as a nickname because the avatar that I picked for my chats looked like an old caveman. I had just finished building my first webpage using notepad and a trusty HTML book and cheesily enough it had a title of "Dave's homepage". I posted the link for everyone in the chatroom to check out my latest work of lameness and a few of them suggested that I change it to "crazydave's homepage"... I thought about it, but didn't actually do it until someone in the chat room suggested "KrAzYdAvE's homepage" instead.
It worked and stuck that way forever, and since everyone called me "KD" before, switching to KrAzYdAvE worked well for them too!

TooLBlue · Post by **TooLBlue** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:08 am

My alias means very little. "Blue" simply means it's my favorite color. Nothing more

Whereas "Scion" is likely the title (or maybe even name? Odd name...) of a character from a book. Or it could simply be intended to confuse and befuddle... Well, befuddle those that actually care, I mean.

Post by **Scion** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:00 am

Phhht. Scion isn't from a book or anything...but thanks for the assumption. =P Scion's simply from an old roleplaying chatroom from '95-ish. My freshman or sophmore year in highschool. It was one of my many characters at the time. Like KD said...this was back when chatrooms where cool.

There where lots of names though...Firewraith was my main one, Karrah, Dark Scion, LeAnndra, Shakaar,...it was fun. There was a good sized group of us making huge fantasy based RP's and turning them into stories and such.

When it came time to join up with CotC I needed a handle...Scion was the one that got picked. Of course...it was before the darn car came out. Now I cant stand it.

Ah well.

I dont know why Scion would confuse anyone...if you look it up, Scion means child. Or in plant terms...little baby plants. I remember that from my science book back in...school somewhere. I learned something! WooHoo!

Post by **Serpent** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:03 am

I took french in high school - three years of it.

This is kinda odd, but we went over the chinese horoscope in this class.. and I was born in 1977, which is (as I was told / as i learned) the year of the 'serpent'.. and I thought it sounded cool...so I have used it most everywhere since... The only other name I really use anywhere for gaming is Timtowtdi...which is an acronym..It's the maxim for my most used scripting language - Perl - that can be applied to a number of things... it means <t>here <i>s <m>ore <t>han <o>ne <w>ay <t>o <d>o <i>t.

Post by **D.A.R.K.[CotC]** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:47 pm

Isn't Scion a car?

Post by **Neophyte** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:12 pm

When I first started on the Internet in '94, I used to go to 3d chat rooms. They had a fish avatar, and I just so happened to have huge Comet Goldfish as a pet. I picked his name, "Odin" for that. Which had some tie-in's related to the color of the fish and the high school (Valhalla) that I went to.

Well, when I was going to play Quake to check out my new Voodoo card that I got for x-mas in '95, a powerful persona such as Odin - a Viking/Norse God of War, seemed too ambitious. I decided to pick a word that I learned in that chat room. Something less ambitious but still sounding kind of cool. "Neophyte" would become my name. Which basically means that I was calling myself a newbie.

Ender[CotC] · Post by **Ender[CotC]** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:52 pm

Umm, yeah Dark... don't you read?

Scion was the one that got picked. Of course...it was before the darn car came out. Now I cant stand it. Very Happy Ah well.

it is a car. A toyota to be exact.

Back in Cali, when i lived there, people rubbed letters off the backs of thier toyota pick-up's so that they said things like "yoda" and "yo".