[Bradach]

My forum name is the same as my online name. It's the Irish language version of my mothers maiden name Brady. Also I just like the sound of it

[NinjaBoiX]

I like ninjas, I wanted a bit of "street" in there, so transposed boy with boi, and everything sounds cooler with an x at the end.

The only.problem, is sometimes people online miss the I in boi and call me NinjaBox which is quite amusing.

[weird]

Well, "weird".... There is no story behind that.

but sometimes i use the my older tag "NeoRausch" and that is a twist on the german painter neo rauch. If you are into painting you should google some work of him.

[Hypertrooper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Twnmhe948A

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my nickname.

Explain it well, right? Easy and fast.

[WonkersTHEWatilla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cE45...e_gdata_player

Warning: Dreamfall spoilers in the last 30 seconds, btw.

[Seth Balmore]

Name of the main character of a story I never even bothered writing.

Same here for my most commonly used online handle.

As for my GAF username, I stole it from a(n awesome) Lost Odyssey character.

[JustAnotherOtaku]

PSN/360? My name and year of birth

GAF? Started using this on another forum years ago and can't really remember why. I suppose really I'm a small fish in a big otaku pond :p

[Franklinator]

GAF name is just my last name plus ator.

Gamertag is IroncladBread, which is a Microsoft suggested name since I tried making a gamertag for about an hour, everything I wanted was taken, so I just stopped caring and went with the first suggested name.

I think I'm going to change my gamertag to Franklinaut but I'm not sure yet

Update: making this post made me finally decide to change my gamertag. Feels good

[JasonUresti]

My real name is Theodosius Berkenator, but my friends nick named me Jason Uresti, after obscure late 19th century hoaxer and con man, Jason "Three Lies" Uresti.

[Labadal]

My gaf usernam was from a character in the LOTR universe.

[Klyka]

When I was a kid, my mom gave me a book by a Swedish author.
In that book, a group of kids want to start a rock/heavy metal band. So they all come up with their "rock names". They all choose some "cool" English names like "Trucker Johnson" and such, except for one kid who calls himself "Fritz Klyka".
I thought that was funny and so my nickname became "Fritz Klyka" which I eventually shortened to "Klyka".

[mrklaw]

Song from They Might be Giants.

[mocoworm]

My band was called 'moco'

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/r3VaWxvzyR8

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3634...o/Product.html

http://www.myspace.com/moco

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.../out-to-go.htm

My nickname was 'worm' as I used to worm out of band practise all the time.

[toythatkills]

Just a band I love

[Pikma]

I invite you to guess my inspiration, but I warn you: it will not be easy.

[MonkeyKnuckle]

Mine's inspired by this 'My Wife and Kids' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSY7t6UYNk0

[Valygar]

Valygar is one of the characters in Baldur's Gate II, no surprise there.

My other username, Duerkos, is more unique since it is a name that I made up for a dwarf in some story. I'm trying to use it more, since Valygar is "quite common", and I've not found another Duerkos.

[Pikma]

Valygar is one of the characters in Baldur's Gate II, no surprise there. My other username, Duerkos, is more unique since it is a name that I made up for a dwarf in some story. I'm trying to use it more, since Valygar is "quite common", and I've not found another Duerkos.

How do you pronounce Duerkos? :o

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

The one I use on NeoGAF is taken from System Shock 2 and it refers to the plot of System Shock 1.

[drugstore_cowboy]

shit, I didn't see it was gaming.

[Mechazawa]

It's a character from Cromartie High School.

Which is hilarious and you should all watch.

[Clear]

Scientology (lol)

[7threst]

Mine is the same as here, and is based on a Christoph de Babalon track called 'Seventh Rest'. I also used the same name when I produced some music.

[BibiMaghoo]

In my previous job, I worked with a huge number of peoples names. My tag is one of them that made me laugh, but some of them were FAR worse lol. It's slightly immature of me (I know) but really, some of these names you simply would not believe existed.

One of my all time favorites, was Anairy Dick. I could give you a list that would make you howl with laughter, but perhaps this is not the place for it.

[glaurung]

Tolkien. I've used glaurung in most places.

It's a nice symmetrical alias, it has two g-s in it.

[BGBW]

My current steam name of Marshmallow DJ is inspired by this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2TESVxHWlY

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Half OT and Half Gaming

XD

[IvanI]

forum name is my name and the first letter of surname.

online: john385 - Ivan translates to John in English, 385 being the calling code for Croatia (my country). Nothing special. :)

[Arjen]

It's my name, and if i'm playing with others i always ask their real name. I'm not going to shout "Het Sniperrrl33txxx, watch your back" Nicknames for online games always seem dumb to me.

[MoonsaultSlayer]

It's a name of one of Yoshimitsu's (of Tekken and SC) moves that he has had since T3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJV84...e_gdata_player

Started using it back in 01 on the tekkenzaibatsu forums.

[Bru]

My gaming tag is the same as my GAF tag and a result of the three character arcade score tables I grew up with in the 80's (my first name is Bruce).

When the above isn't available I use the name of my favourite AD&D/LARP character from waaaay back - Larc

[MoonsaultSlayer]

It's my name, and if i'm playing with others i always ask their real name. I'm not going to shout "Het Sniperrrl33txxx, watch your back" Nicknames for online games always seem dumb to me.

You could call them sniper. I get called Moon all the time.

[Roronoa95]

[jimi_dini]

My nick is from the movie "Nirvana" (1997) that stars Christopher Lambert in the role of "Jimi Dini", which I also used as my avatar here on GAF. Trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g68AEanc61c It's one of the best movies ever made.

And for PSN, I just combined "Old Snake" (MGS4, the reason I bought a PS3 originally) and my nick into OldJimiDini.

[Larsen B]

Although it was brought to my attention by this song about the titular ice shelf.

[Hunter-Zero]

this

I love Predators, i really do

[Typhoon_Ex]

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[Rocky_Balboa]

Rocky Balboa. I like the movies and the character.

[jigglywiggly]

When I was 11, I had to create a password for the school computer system, and we were warned during the process that it should be hard to guess. I took this to mean that it should be a silly word that nobody would think to associate with you, and this was the first thing to come to mind. A couple of years later, KaZaA was asking me to create a name for my account and I wanted the same kind of disassociation to remain anonymous, so I chose this for that, too. From then on, this was my username for everything online.

My Xbox Live and PSN tags are from the shortened form of the name that people eventually started calling me as a nickname to save time.

[beril]

Not really a fan of nicks/handles in general and usually just use real my name but it's obviously hard to register as a username sometimes, especially as I have special swedish characters in my last name, should I try to include that to make a unique login. beril is an old real life nickname that was born from someone missing a letter when inputting my name in a bowling machine or something like that.

[7threst]

You could call them sniper. I get called Moon all the time.

I do agree with Arjen though, somehow, calling someone by his nickname always feels awkward.

[InfiniteNine]

I lifted it from an event and song from Umineko no Naku Koro ni with one word changed:



Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qs9EiK_JJE
Story Event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9MEgpjMnfc#t=01m51s

[gerudoman]

I added the "man" for not being confused XD

[Valygar]

How do you pronounce Duerkos? :o

That's probably the reason why there is no other one :P

Du (Duration) er (ergonomy) kos (cosplay)

I'm spanish so I don't see the problem, but I guess it is weird pronunciation (the Duer) for english speakers

[Musha_Soturi]

I picked mine back when I started playing City of Heroes. I needed a cool superhero name, and my favourite languages are Japanese and Finnish, so I just picked the word for 'warrior' from both, thought it sounded pretty cool and went together well. Stuck with it ever since, and it's now my alias for pretty much everything, from forums to gamer tags to geocaching.

[Madao]

but now i see red thanks to the google search i did O_o

though in actual games i use this one instead:



more fun that way.

[Furianshi]

A facebook app told me that this is my Japanese-ified name.

I'm useless at picking usernames, my last main one was inspired by a sandwich spread.

[Ivan A Nguyen]

If I didn't post so much I'd change my GAF name to my gamertag.

Ivan A Nguyen took me a while to dream up because I wanted something that wouldn't look too silly, but still was gamer related.

IvanANguyen
I van a nguyen
I wan a nguyen
I wan a win.

[Taco_Human]

It's a very subtle reference to Invader Zim, the best and my favorite show that has ever come out oj
not nick. It died too young and I will forever appreciate it.

[Yes Boss!]

From a hindi movie from the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Boss

Not even a great movie. But I love it.

Some songs from Jatin Lalit:

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc....0.8_0usFgsPPg