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The shoutbox is a great place for thread ideas... most of which never make it here. Today we were talking about Foxhound... but which one?

So let see some of the names people have used as their gamer tags and why do you have your current tag.

Primary Gamer Tag
Deacon
No... this is not from the Blade series. Shortly after that movie came out I had a million people named Deacon Frost join my servers. Each claimed that they were the original Deacon. Having downloads older than most of them I assured them that they couldn't possibly be the "original" Deacon.

Graycypher
I wasn't black hat and I wasn't white hat... I was gray. Perhaps a tribute to Gray wizards or hackers... who knows.

A.K.A.
Bishop, Pope-on-a-Rope, Itzbenreel, Dalamar, Padfoot (before my brother snagged it), RailGun Fooder, and a few others that I can't post on this site :D
 
Primary Gamer Tag
Bas.B
My first name is Bas and my last name is van Beijsterveldt (B). When I first joined an American America's Army clan, they had a rule that a nickname should be "Doe.J". But how many Americans can pronounce my last name? So they let me use my first name and have my last name as an initial.

Neobas/neobas
Used this one before I was asked to use Bas.B. Neo means new, and Bas is my first name, so it's kinda like the new me, when I first started online gaming.

A.K.A
The Sheriff (not commonly used), Vicious Dutchman (by Tangerine and A-team), can't really think of any others atm.

Btw, Deacon, that's a heap of A.K.A's, lol
 
Primary Gamer Tag
Foxhound
Been my moniker for FPS' for a while. Yes, I took the name from Metal Gear. Been an MGS fan since the old school days of it being on Nintendo. Wish I had more of a backstory than this, but the name's just stuck with me for years.

Zurthis
My old WoW name. This was supposed to be a "test" character that I was going to delete so I thought of two random syllables and put it together. Ended up sticking with it for 2 years.

A.K.A.
Drater, Mr. Green, GhostwolfXII, LoneWolfMeihino, Dr. Clayton Forrester (from MST3K) and Dyslexia.
 
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I actually had never used Crank Cantankerous before I got in to TF2 - now it's almost always what I play as, especially when on the eGO servers.

I'll also switch it to something silly at random... last weekend I was playing as Blender Defender (because of this), and sometimes I play as An Exploding Spleen, or something that makes 'killed by' seem funny or absurd.

I used to (and probably will eventually go back to) playing as TwistedRaisin, which is also my 360 gamertag and something I've used as a call sign for years now.
 
Primary Gamer Tag:
Iceman: I used to use Death about 5 years ago on any game... until my dad told me one of his old war stories... Wont tell the full version of the story to many details and so on. But he was part of the special forces as a sniper, His team was on a hill getting hit with mortors well my dad was carring a .50cal Sniper riffle. When his team spotted the enemies spotter he started firing rounds at him with his assult riffle. But He was about 800 yards away. So the idiot enemy spotter jumped up out of his trench and started dancing around because he knew that the assult riffle couldnt reach him. until... *Boom* Sounded off the .50cal and the spotter was dropped dead and the mortors stopped falling....

That was one of about 10 sniper stories I have heard from my dad, The name Iceman was given to him because his team said he could look someone straight in the eye (through a scope) and still have no reluctency to pull the trigger!

So my name became Iceman.

*thinks if anyone would be interested if I posted a new forum with a couple more of his sniper stories...*
 
Primary Gamer Tag
StalkDude343
Very long story... yes, i took it from Stalker ^^

Once a pun a time my friend told me about the new upcoming game called Stalker Clear Sky, and he was a big fan of Stalker. I knew that Stalker was made by Ukrainians and I'm like half Ukrainian... so i kind of became a Stalker fan also. But not to show my friend that he influenced me into Stalker, i just used the first five letters of the name: Stalk. I Googled it and found out that it had a different meaning then from Stalker, so i used that. From that time my gamertag was Stalk.

Then i felt like changing my tag again. I had a friend who's name was CubeDude89 (Yup, the guys who's working on Strider Mountain and that did HyperCube Source). Most people call him Cube, and most people call me Stalk, so i talked to him and said... "Do you mind if I call my self StalkDude?" and he's like "Ok." (He had a sister who's name was CubeSister xD so he was like "Everyone steals my name!"). And since Cube had number at the end, i decided to get my own number also. I had another friend who had a pretty cool number at the end of his name, and just that day he changed to a new name. Yes, the number was 343, so i just took it without asking him, and now he's all angry at me because i used his number xD... but guess what i say? "Dude, i already told you, I took if from that robot from Halo" :D

A.K.A.
Gt-Stalk, Stalkie, Stalkie78, Aslan, Driftking_99, Hitman :O,
 
Primary Gamer Tag
RedFlag
Named after a song by the same name :P It was a good fight song and I listened to it a lot while gaming so eventually I just started using it.

A.K.A.
FrostFire (sounded cool), Punisher (created after the movie), and some other random ones before that I don't remember
 
Red flag - Billy Talent?

Primary:
BioHazard.
I really don't have a story behind this, it sounded cool at the time, and I've just sort of stuck with it. Everyone knows changing your handle doesn't prove much, cause everyone will still call you by your orig. name that they knew you (in my case, it'd be bio).

A.K.A;
Vicious, Thud Jr. (back when dad played, and I was getting started, he was Thud, I wasn't very creative), Xtreme Killer (again, not very creative ;)), and I'm sure theres more that I seem to be drawing a blank on. :)
 
Primary:

Giantcat. It was part of my first screen name in fifth grade, and I've come to be recognized by it.

AKA:
I'll sometimes switch it out of boredom to wierd stuff that I never remember, or something that people say during the game that I find funny. When I play games I've never tried before or I'm new at, I go by the name "WarringNoobs". I mostly use that for INS
 
Primary Gamer Tag
Tc
Ohhh way back when, about 6 years ago ;p, I loved tigers, and still do. So I came up with the name tigerclaw with some numbers in it. I and other people got way lazy to type out the whole thing so everyone just called me tc and it stuck.
but shhh, dont tell anyone, I usually keep what tc means a secret ;p
AKA
Tc Dece, TcVinsky, Tc Foo. :D
 
Primary Gamer Tag
FPS: MELK0R - Melkor is a Tolkien-lore badass, basically Sauron's boss.
MMO: Thelik - derivation of a WoW randomly generated name that I liked, has stuck and is now my main.

AKA
|DEATH|INCARNATE| - used to use this one in DoD and CS back in the day. Also used |MELK0R| before dropping the vertical bars.
Wotie,Woties - Got it from the SWG name generator for a Zabrak male and it stuck for SWG, WoW and most MMOs I've played.
 
Mystery Penguin (dawn710 for MMORPG's)

I love penguins, and I was allways thinking of this spray idea if a secret-ajent-looking penguin back in the CS 1.6 days

Dawn710 originated from when I played runescape, my original account was hacked and my cousin gave me his (hes 17 now doesnt play - neither do I) but I dont play MMORPG's any more so....
 
Booster37
Was part of a music group with two friends and my given nickname was "Booster." 37 is my favorite two digit number. That's it, really. I've used this name in numerous sites since 2004.

The Nefarious H.I.T.
Just a spinoff of the Notorious B.I.G. The H.I.T. is short for hitman (not related to the game series) Nothing special about it :p

A.K.A. - 740, Sega_Nemesis89
 
Welp...this brings some memories, ive got a few.
Ole Reliable
Chase - Its my real name, its simple, easy to remember, and honestly I like it. I usually divert to this whenever another one is taken. which leads to the slew of other names i use.

Rustd-
This is my console game name. Any online console game you see me play, ill be labeled as Rustd. I absolutely love it for a name, IDK why, just works for me. Simple, easy to remember, original.

Tagz-
I like this name alot, but don't use it often (its usually taken). I just think its pretty sweet sounding.

Back in the day
De Muffin Man - When I use to play CS:S, not for eGO, im talking years back when i first got into CS:S, when i was actually, you know, good.

My first time
ShadowVector - Oh the memories, back when i first got into online games i was trying to be "kool" by putting stuff like "shadow" and "dark" in my name, and it just so happened at the time i remembered an old favorite video game "vector man", smash'm together you get ShadowVector. Nobody understood. lol.
 
FrazarMan
Random WoW search for character name was Frazer... it was taken so i made Frazar about 2 years ago... stuck on since.
 
I would reply but this starts the racism issue again...anyways I want to know this, whats DGX? is it like merged with ego?
 
Current Tag
PutterMayhem: I got this from a band I like called Five Iron Frenzy. It was from a story the band told about how they got their name.

AKA
! : I was just !. I even have a spray for it. I sometimes think I should go back to using this but since I've got admin I can't really change it unless I want to lose my admin.

BreakneckSpeed: This is a song from my favorite band Project 86. I just liked the name.

LittleGreenMen: I'm not sure if I actually used this for a game or not. I probably did with CS 1.6 at one point. Again this is a song from my favorite band.
 
Five Iron Frenzy rocked.

Current Tag

AutoDMC:

Short story long; back when I was younger and wanted to make a Pokemon website, well I wanted an email address that fit. Naturally, with all other crazes, all the screennames for Pokemon characters on Yahoo! were taken. I refused to accept a screenname with a number attached as I felt this implied lack of creativity on my part. In frustration, I thought of the longest proper name I could in the Pokemon World (ImposterProfessorOak) and used it.

Naturally, nobody could remember the name. And it never fit on forms. And it was embarrassing to explain to people, as each word separately meant something, but put together it was inside information.

About my Junior year in high school, I decided I needed a new email address, and this coincided with my finding the Delorean Motor Company website (http://delorean.com/). A fan of Deloreans, I decided to get an email address there. I wracked my brains for a fun address, and did Google searches on all the ones I thought up until I found one with no matches. AutoDMC was the first... Auto standing for "Automobile" and "DMC" standing for Delorean Motor Company.

As far as I can tell, my name is still unique despite my using it everywhere... except that some French guy uses it, and I think I have a Doppelganger in Singapore.

I've used AutoDMC since, but now I don't break it up. If people ask what it stands for, I say it's a word unto itself; it stands for me. And then I tell them the above story.

=[Ga]=:

A tag offered to editors on my game review site, Gamium.org. Ga is the "Periodic Table Name" for Gamium, the elemental form of Fun. At least that's what our marketing brainstorm session came up with. Any other Ga's you see around here are also editors. Chris and Duke1701 are founding partners.

I started adding this for one reason... people ask "What does Ga stand for?" and I get to make a free pitch for my website. It's reverse psycho-ology, you see. Since they asked the question, the answer sticks :D

AKA

Cygwyn: Requisite WoW character. Female WoW priest set up to test my theory that in-game people are nicer to female avatars, on average. Name is a pun on the CygWin UNIX system for Windows.

Cyrana Jones: Eve Online character. Extension of the Nice To Female Avatars experiment above. Name is a pun on Cyrano Jones from the Star Trek The Trouble With Tribbles episode.

The Uhaul Guy: In marching band, I was the poor sap who kept volunteering to load and unload the band uhaul before and after events. My senior year I was given the band office of "Sargent At Arms," whatever the heck that means. I just started calling myself "The Uhaul Guy" and eventually that became my official name. Announcers loved reading our band officer charts at events. I used this for a year until I locked down upon AutoDMC.

Time Traveling Uhaul Truck: Older than "The Uhaul Guy" (you might think I'm obsessed with uhaul trucks...). Writing a comic parody of Back to the Future, my artist friend and I decided to make a time machine out of a Uhaul truck, better to bring back ancient artifiacts. Used this as a handle until I shortened it to "The Uhaul Guy" above.

Wildcat: My callsign from Wing Commander (the original PC one with the Tandy and EGA graphics options) and X-Wing (the original PC one, not these newfangled Rogue Squadron products)

SMB: You remember arcade machines? This was my "screenname" back then. In fact, I still hold the hangtime record at the local arcade due to a glitch in the game that lodged me in the "jumping" state right after a checkpoint, making for a 79 second snowboard hangtime. I got angry at the glitch and walked away, only to be alerted to the "high score." In my haste, I glitched two letters: SNA. That's where it stands, and I swear I'm not making that up.



NOTE ON THE NAME AUTODMC.

The way to say "AutoDMC" is to say "Auto. D. M. C." While it's a "word" now, it still retains the essence of the acronym of yore.

However, I'll also respond to "Auto" or "D. M. C."

Don't attempt to say the name as one word. Not only will I not recognize "Autodemk," but you will need to gargle with salt water to soothe your aching voicebox.

The most creative way to say my name belongs to djsatanswife: "Automatic D. M. C."
 
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Current Tag:

Chris:

My name. However lately I've added 狼 in the middle. Its kenji for "Wolf". I've decided once I become eG I'd add somthing to my name. Thus when I turn eGO I'll add Claw after it to form, "Wolf Claw". And whenever I become a Admin Recruiter, since I don't plan to go 70% as a member of eGO, I will add White to the beginning, forming "White Wolf Claw". In the end it should say, Chris the White Wolf Claw of eGO. Cept with a few details gone to make it simple.


A.K.A.:

Falco Fogarty:

5 years ago I joined a Star Trek simulator and created this name, is has also been used in games such as Star Wars Galaxies, and I think Runescape.

Damond Cunningham:

Used in EVE online. Damond is Diamond without the I, I also used this name is Pokemon Pearl. Cunningham is the last name of a anime character from IGPX. I also have Brittany Cunningham on EVE, Damonds sister. Brittany is the name of a friend of mine.

Berlin Wall:

I'm kinda fat and husky, and one of my older friends calls me this from time to time because of my half German blood. Guess I was asking for it, lol.

Frostbite:

Used for a short time by a friend because I can stand very low tempertures without any problems. Guess jumping into that pool during winter helped with it.

Fluffy:

A friend of mine that happens to be a girl calls me this because well, I'm fat and fluffy. Again I asked for that one.

Topher:

Very unoriginal, but it was my nickname for a few years because of my name, Christopher. Pronounced: Toe-Fur

Tubble-O:

Take a wild guess. :\
 
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