TheRedSnifit
Member
Mine was, for the longest time, TheRedSnifit (same as here), which was a reference to this article. I've since switched to Serial Peacemaker, which is a Schlock Mercenary reference.
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Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
First name Stuart, last name starts with a G.
So I used to put Stu G. as a quick signature at work, and then it migrated to STUG, and even became official naming for reports I generated at work (It's funny to hear the company VP ask someone else for the monthly "STUG Report" lol).
I am a big guy, my buddy used to call me Stulk, and then one say someone said I was more Juggernaut than Hulk, and Stuggernaut was born.
I still kinda like Stulk though
So I used to put Stu G. as a quick signature at work, and then it migrated to STUG, and even became official naming for reports I generated at work (It's funny to hear the company VP ask someone else for the monthly "STUG Report" lol).
I am a big guy, my buddy used to call me Stulk, and then one say someone said I was more Juggernaut than Hulk, and Stuggernaut was born.
I still kinda like Stulk though
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Various parts of my real name rearranged. Also a homage to Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear.
EventHorizon
Member
- Loved the movie
- Black holes are cool
- It wasn't taken
- Why not
The Praiseworthy
Member
It's the literately translation meaning of my real name in Arabic to English.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Pandas are lazy shits.
That movie gets a lot of hate, but I remember it creeping me out a lot back in like...junior high so I always liked it.
The Yo Tornado
Member
Persona 4 Arena has a title generator where you can create your own from hundreds of phrases and words. I'm not a creative person, so I hit the random button and it gave me "The Yo Tornado," which I loved and ended up stealing to use for all of my other handles.
TriangleMasher
Member
gee idk
Newtype-001
Member
E12_Stealth:
i was a young teen when i made a psn account and all my friends had the beginning of their postcodes. It was kind of cool going into lobbys seeing people from my area but i didnt actually know.
Kuro-Law:
Kuro = Black which is cool right?... right?!
Law comes from when i was super into one piece and Trafalgar Law cause hes like the coolest mofo. Now its just stuck and ive used this name for the past few years
Newtype_01:
i got into gundam and Newtype itself just sounds cool.
Newtype Abel:
straight from Gundam again. Abel was randomly generated,it sounded cool so i left it.
i was a young teen when i made a psn account and all my friends had the beginning of their postcodes. It was kind of cool going into lobbys seeing people from my area but i didnt actually know.
Kuro-Law:
Kuro = Black which is cool right?... right?!
Law comes from when i was super into one piece and Trafalgar Law cause hes like the coolest mofo. Now its just stuck and ive used this name for the past few years
Newtype_01:
i got into gundam and Newtype itself just sounds cool.
Newtype Abel:
straight from Gundam again. Abel was randomly generated,it sounded cool so i left it.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Let me tell you about a dope-ass game called Metroid Prime
Let me tell you about a dope-ass food called Prime Rib
Let me tell you about a dope-ass food called Prime Rib
Gnome Scat
Member
Wanted a name for runescape when I was like 10, so I made this. It was fun for a while, but now I'm sick of it since it literally means Gnome Shit. Can't think of a better one, so I'm stuck with it for now. My gamertag is Sordid Plebeian though; but I'm not in love with it. I'll probably change my Gaf name to it if possible.
Rephin
Member
So years back, when emulation was still kind of in its infancy, I had... "acquired" a copy of Secret of Mana for SNES to use on an emulator. Since emulation wasn't perfect at the time, when it came down to entering your character's name, I had a problem: the graphics layer that showed the letters was missing, but I could still see the cursor. So, being a young, easily influenced by cool things lad at the time, I wanted to enter in as much of Sephiroth into the name entry as I could. So I counted each letter out manually, and Secret of Mana had 5 characters for name entry, so I intended to have SEPHI in there. Well, I miscounted the first letter. I entered in REPHI instead, and then I thought that was also cool, so I rolled with it. Later, when creating various other online handles, I added the N to have Rephin.
Later I found out that Rephin is a real name for some people.
Also, years later, I bought a SNES copy of Secret of Mana for my collection and a copy on Wii Virtual Console. Don't judge me...!
Later I found out that Rephin is a real name for some people.
Also, years later, I bought a SNES copy of Secret of Mana for my collection and a copy on Wii Virtual Console. Don't judge me...!
Rolanderson
Member
Rolanderson is the name of a character me and a friend of mine created to make fun of people in Brazil who create names by taking a name that already exists and adding -erson to the end of it.
Profile name: it's my real name.
Gamertag: Started out with DR1 back in 2001 on DDRFreak.com, because I loved "Dyanmite Rave" the song, and DR was already taken, so I added the 1. Then I went to "Lvl87Lugia", because I was a huge Pokemon fan, and I was born in 1987. Then it went to iidx-Nick, because I became a Beatmania IIDX fan while playing DDR in the arcades and got bored with it. Now my gamertag is "Scooterology", because Scooter is my nickname, and I thought it sounded boss.
Gamertag: Started out with DR1 back in 2001 on DDRFreak.com, because I loved "Dyanmite Rave" the song, and DR was already taken, so I added the 1. Then I went to "Lvl87Lugia", because I was a huge Pokemon fan, and I was born in 1987. Then it went to iidx-Nick, because I became a Beatmania IIDX fan while playing DDR in the arcades and got bored with it. Now my gamertag is "Scooterology", because Scooter is my nickname, and I thought it sounded boss.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
Banned
I read some books.
MegamanPoweredUP
Member
Nintendo's official magazine (aka "Nintendo Rivista Ufficiale") choose mine.
I was really into Darkstalkers games back then so I used Darkstalkers related names everywere. Meanwhile my old hotmail account was like Megaman89@something.com.
One day, Ninendo's magazine was having a Tetris DS contest. The high scorers would have their names on the magazine.
I played tha game for a week straight, got high score and sended a photo to the magazine.
When I bought the magazine with the scores I see mine on 5th rank, but my nickname was wrong. They ignored any of my nicknames and just called me "Megaman89".
From that day I have Megaman related nicknames and such.
I was really into Darkstalkers games back then so I used Darkstalkers related names everywere. Meanwhile my old hotmail account was like Megaman89@something.com.
One day, Ninendo's magazine was having a Tetris DS contest. The high scorers would have their names on the magazine.
I played tha game for a week straight, got high score and sended a photo to the magazine.
When I bought the magazine with the scores I see mine on 5th rank, but my nickname was wrong. They ignored any of my nicknames and just called me "Megaman89".
From that day I have Megaman related nicknames and such.
Seductivpancakes
Member
Because pancakes are gross.
interfreak
Member
My XBL gamertag is 'Raindammit' - I was (and still am) a moderator on a weather forum, so I just used that name. I live in an area that gets bugger all rainfall for 6 months of the year lol.
My PSN name is AussiePSFour - I don't particularly like it - but I am an Australian that has a PS4 lol. I have an Australian account as well (which is Raindammit) but I set up a new US PSN account when our dollar was at parity with the US$ (games were much cheaper compared to AU) and it's still my main account.
I wish Sony would let us change our username....
My PSN name is AussiePSFour - I don't particularly like it - but I am an Australian that has a PS4 lol. I have an Australian account as well (which is Raindammit) but I set up a new US PSN account when our dollar was at parity with the US$ (games were much cheaper compared to AU) and it's still my main account.
I wish Sony would let us change our username....
I don't use my original first internet name, which I made as a kid on Starcraft Battlenet many years ago stupidly.
The Contramundus thing comes from an Anime I saw also and thought I was cool and as a kid I really dug Contra so I keep the name around for somethings. This Ex Vicis thing though came out of my eventually love of Latin phrases that the former name I had gave me.
The Contramundus thing comes from an Anime I saw also and thought I was cool and as a kid I really dug Contra so I keep the name around for somethings. This Ex Vicis thing though came out of my eventually love of Latin phrases that the former name I had gave me.
Comandr
Member
Couple of years ago I had a job at a place where the employees had to generate a alpha-only username and password for the POS. The limit for the username was 5 characters. My name is Andrew, so.. ANDRE seemed like an obvious choice. But that was already taken by a guy actually named Andre. So.. ANDR. When I got promoted to management the GM started calling me COMANDR. So it just kinda stuck.
Speedwagon
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Yabuki turned off voice chat in Mario Kart races. True artists of their time.
I watched 3 episodes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Icyflamez96
Member
I was in fifth grade and I liked oxymorons and elements.
In college now
"Ryuhza", my usual handle, was just something I put together some 7 years ago, without actually considering how Japanese it sounded. Kind of silly now, but whatever.
"Creaking" comes from the first boss of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, "Creaking Skull". You'd never guess what it looks like.
"Creaking" comes from the first boss of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, "Creaking Skull". You'd never guess what it looks like.
TheHolyTurnip
Member
The Holy Turnip is joke religious icon for Turnipism, a "comical" take on Christianity that I made up with some friends during my years in Catholic school. Using the power of the mighty dial up internet I was able to amass a following counting into the teens and spanning the globe. Thank you chat rooms!
I came up with a fake French name for some Resident Evil fan-fiction I wrote when I was in high school.
The stories were trash, but I kept the name. For reference's sake, it's pronounced MEN-OH-MEE, like you're slurring saying "Mon ami".
Later found out a "menome" (MEE-NOME) is a damaged or defective genome. I'm not that.
The stories were trash, but I kept the name. For reference's sake, it's pronounced MEN-OH-MEE, like you're slurring saying "Mon ami".
Later found out a "menome" (MEE-NOME) is a damaged or defective genome. I'm not that.
Bright-Light
Member
Psn tag is Bright -Light, it's the name of the first song I ever wrote.
Xbox tag is Smokin Louis, it's because my name is Louis, and I smoked.
Xbox tag is Smokin Louis, it's because my name is Louis, and I smoked.
JakkuFurosu
Member
Got drunk, woke up with it...kinda like the clap
My name has a very dull origin and people that ask are usually a bit disappointed afterwards. Basically I'd been playing around with a mandelbrot image generator. Later, I went to a friend's house and he had Mother 3 so I had to come up with character names. I wanted to call Lucas "Mandelboy", but there wasn't enough space, so the "y" got cut off. I quite liked the name and have used it ever since.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
AbandonedTrolley - Gomez Album called Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline, sadly that was too long.
Slipperygoop - RL nickname of Pogo, goop was anagram of Pogo and goop is slippery. Slipperygoop.
Slipperygoop - RL nickname of Pogo, goop was anagram of Pogo and goop is slippery. Slipperygoop.
RandomExpletive
Member
Ref asked our soccer team what our name was, nobody could remember, so two brothers came up with random expletive on the spot. Stole that shit for my steam account almost 7 years ago
LightningXCE
Member
My last name is 'Bolt'.
The XCE part is used whenever Lightning is taken; it was a small group of us that did map creation for Halo Custom Edition about..12(?) years ago.
The XCE part is used whenever Lightning is taken; it was a small group of us that did map creation for Halo Custom Edition about..12(?) years ago.
Astral Dog
Member
I choose a boring name because i wanted people to remember me by my personality!
It didnt work
My GAF username is from Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Cask Of Amontillado. Montresor is the main character.
My gamertag is OdadjianActual - Odadjian is a musician from the band System Of A Down, while "Actual" is a reference to Battlestar Galactica. Whenever the leader of the ship would talk via radio, he'd introduce himself as "Galactica Actual". So <name of the ship> + Actual. I thought that was cool so I put it at the end of my tag.
My gamertag is OdadjianActual - Odadjian is a musician from the band System Of A Down, while "Actual" is a reference to Battlestar Galactica. Whenever the leader of the ship would talk via radio, he'd introduce himself as "Galactica Actual". So <name of the ship> + Actual. I thought that was cool so I put it at the end of my tag.
