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[mdsfx]

I've been stuck with my terribly lazy tag of "mdsfx" ever since I first joined Xbox Live 10 years ago. The meaning? It's basically just my initials with a stupid X at the end. Why the X? "MDSF" was taken. Ugh... i know it's terrible and completely lacks creativity. Even worse is that I just kept using it (on GAF and Steam). It bugs the hell out of me every time I see it, but I will get around to changing it one day.

But what I want to know is, how did you come up with yours? Random generator? Favorite game? Most-used profanity?

I've seen some pretty interesting member names on GAF. I'm sure there are at least a few with a story behind them...

 

[Astarte]

Darknightly: I knew a girl who had a name Sunnybrightly so I wanted to be edgy and steal her thunder with my Unlimited Angst Works
Astarte: Named after best girl in Tokyo Akazukin. I always liked how it rolled off the tongue, but everyone just calls me Asstart :[
Zamien: I don't know, I think I was watching something and something had the name Damien but I misheard it
Shiki: Dungeon Fighter nickname, full name was ShikiNoUta.

I use these names interchangably

 

[lem0n]

VirtualxRacer: Because I like racing games and VirtualRacer was taken. It's meh. It's also not my original gamertag.

Amputechture is my favorite Mars Volta album.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Just an anagram of my real name.

 

[FaintColt388301]

Well about that . . .

 

[Bane]

Bane is my real first name.

 

[mdsfx]

Well about that . . .

Oh god lol. I think I came across that thread way too late. I don't know if I should congratulate you or offer condolences...

 

[HF2014]

Well about that . . .

Miss your butt already?

 

[Dr. Buni]

It's the name of a song.

 

[WrenchNinja]

From Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

I thought it sounded cool

 

[cheststrongwell]

Chestrockwell wasn't available.

 

[phierce]

Well about that . . .

Perfect.

hahahaha

Mine is just my first initial and last name with a few letters swapped around.

 

[SugarDave]

My friends would call me Sugar Dave when we used to have boxing fights in the living room of one of them. I'd also get called it when playing Fight Night.

 

[kenta]

I went through the last 500 threads we've had on this topic and put the 5 most used letters into a username

 

[FrankHowley]

I've been using my real name for everything for over a decade. Originally I think it's because I couldn't come up with anything cool to use online, but now I'm glad I don't have anything embarrassing for all my old accounts.

 

[krioto]

i took the first 3 letters from first name, and added the first 3 letters from my last name

 

[AmethystEnd]

Just an extremely esoteric way of referencing a 90s anime character I love.

 

[Shauni]

My GAF name is from Beyond Good & Evil. My GamerTag is from The Invisibles.

 

[3AM]

Because i used to stay up late as shit. And something about 3 am seemed.... to be the time i get most paranoid. I didnt get it from a song. so now everytime i find out about a song about 3am i assume they stole the idea from me. fuckers.

I made so dumb its good names in WoW. I used to name characters after things i could immediately see or find in the room i was in. Surprisingly, or not surprisingly i wasnt the only person with this idea so i had to find even more random things. Lamp was taken always, so i did ceilingfan or chaircushion or .. you get the point. It was so bad it was good in my eyes.

 

[RedRum]

JamUmLam. Um JammerLammy. Game of the yesteryears.

And we all know where redrum came from.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Rho+Omega

 

[t1gerjaw]

I like tigers.

 

[MultiJhonny]

first name is john. Idk where I got Multi from though. I really can't remember lol and putting the h before the o was a spelling mistake originally but then I just kinda ran with it

 

[zychi]

I liked smashingbutts, so i came up with buttsmasher.

Then MS made me change it twice, so i added an r each time.

So i was buttsmasherrr for awhile there...

 

[Servbot24]

Servbot24. Mega Man Legends is my favorite series. At the time i was 24, and 24 was one of my favorite shows. Servbot #24 has the trait of "Optimistic", which a song by my favorite band, Radiohead. It all comes together :')

 

[Trago]

Was a name I came up with in World of Warcraft on my cousin's account. I wanted it to be Tragic something something cool name, but all that shit was taken. Trago wasn't, so there it is.

 

[StrangeTaco]

Well about that . . .

Hahaha I still crack up everytime I see your name now. That fucking thread man.

On Topic: Came from an old WC3 Dota clan, mixed my old SN with taco. Ended up keeping it because it's also a corruption of my First and Last name which I like.

 

[RedAssedApe]

been my screen name since AOL in the 90s. initially shared the username with my brother so its a combo of our first names and last name. it also phonetically sounds like something in chinese. that last part was coincidental but just stuck.

 

[Lucky Seven]

GAF name from Halo. Usually i'll use Lucky if Lucky Seven is taken.

 

[ShinjiPSX01]

i like Evangelion and Playstation so thats make my nickname

 

[Disgraced]

213374UD00D

111K380085

 

[Theanine3D]

First five letters of my last name.

After over a decade of going by variants of videogame and/or cartoon character names, I decided to go with something much more boring for a change.

 

[Jyrz]

I used to have some pretty terrible names back when I first got into MMOs way back in middle school, but I had a theme of keeping the J from my name.
Then one day in high school, I was watching one of my boxed sets of Futurama and they had a little extra bit about how the alien language on some of the signs was written. It was some code where you basically assign every letter in the alphabet it's corresponding position number. So A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. And then it was something about starting with the first letter of the word, then for the next letter, you'd take the number for the next letter and add it to the number of the first letter (looping around if it goes over 26, of course), then whatever number you get becomes the next letter.
For fun, I put my name in and got Jyrz. I liked it and I've been using it as my handle ever since. Occasionally, I add on things to the end since some things require a minimum letter count more than 6 or so. I've gone by JyrzRox while I was still in high school, but currently going with JyrzRM by just tacking on my girlfriend's initials.
Not super exciting, but I think it's a fun story for my handle.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

it's my real name

 

[themagicalkitsune]

it's my real name

 

[Puck Beaverton]

From books I enjoy.

 

[foxdvd]

I was a massive laser-disc fanatic for years. In the late 90's there was information starting to come out about DVD. In 1997 fox had still not decided to support DVD...and eventually it came out they were going to back a rival format called DIVX (not the current video player) being pushed by Circuit City. It was a DVD that once opened would burn out after 48 hours, making it a rental system. I loved the movies from fox, so back on early dvd forums before you even had to register I started to go by foxdvd. It has stuck with me since then.

 

[ComputerBlue]

My real name and a number of the day on which I was born.

 

[Nosgotham]

before online console gaming i made my gamer tag by looking at the two closest gam cases nearby when creating a gfaqs account... resident evil zero and 007 nightfire. thus was born XeroFyre007


i joined xbox live in halo 2 the day the nintendo revolution was announced, my name? nintendo rev.
i changed my name to Nintendo Wii the day nintendo announced the name.
i changed my name to Wii Amputee after cutting off half my thumb and index finger.
tnats my name on psn and xbox. my friends call me Wii


on Wiiu my name is DownRightSam, mainly because i used to run a blog at down-rightfierce.com

thats it. nothing fancy


oh yeah, my user name...well shit i love Blood Omen and like batman and i was drunk

 

[ChoklitCow]

Well about that . . .

My name is an old Marilyn Manson term. Been my net handle for most things since I got dial up in the late 90's. Used throughout my times working with bands as well.

 

[OmegaDL50]

I've always been known as OmegaDL50 as long as I can remember, in fact every reference of OmegaDL50 on the Google you will find is in fact me. (No one else reused this name as far as I am aware)

I had this alias as far back as 1999 when I had my first internet account when I used dial up.

The origin of my name is simple. DL is the initials to my real first and last name but it's also has an alternative meaning.

Omega itself represents Final Fantasy V's Omega monster, and DL was short for Dragon Lord which is a reference to the big bad antagonist of the original Dragon Quest game.

Also interestingly enough Shinryu means Dragon God in English which could also be translated as Dragon Lord

So my alias represents the super bosses of FF5 as well as the original big bad of Dragon Quest as well cleverly alluding to the initials of my real name.

As for the 50 itself. That is the max level one could achieve in Final Fantasy 1 on the NES.

I was a big Square and Enix fan growing up, little did I know the companies would eventually merge so my username has even more meaning then ever before.

Omega Dragon Lord 50 in short OmegaDL50

It may not be interesting, but this is the truth and I'm glad to share.

EDIT: In fact my Steam account is ShinryuOmega, so that's another apt comparison.

My friends would call me Sugar Dave when we used to have boxing fights in the living room of one of them. I'd also get called it when playing Fight Night.

Another David here too, Cool!

 

[RexNovis]

My PSN name is the same name I used for JUNO email. Yes I am THAT old.

As for my GAF name... I'll never tell.

 

[Comfort Jones]

Was in need of a new tag and was like eh let's go with the silliest thing I can come up with, and so here it is~

 

[DISSESHOWEDO]

The Al Capone of my country, sort of.

 

[Pocky4Th3Win]

<- I like Pocky.

I also use EGBTMagus and |MaguS|

EGBT (Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow) was the Counter-Strike Clan I was a part of and Magus is the character from Chrono Trigger.

 

[Savinowned]

My last name is Savino so...

Shut up I know it is lame.

 

[LiQuid!]

I've been calling myself LiQuid! on the internet since the late 90's, since I got my first America Online account. I remember I stole the dumb capitalization and exclamation point off the logo of the art studio LiQuid! that was inking and/or coloring a lot of the old Joe Mad PSM covers at the time:

et al.

 

[Doorman]

It actually came about from a particular round of Monopoly being played online with some friends. Online I occasionally have to go "DoormanAtLarge" if just Doorman happens to be taken.

 

[Nanashrew]

Kinda boring but Nanashrew comes from two parts. Nanashi, which was my favorite character in Märchen Awakens Romance, and my own UTAUloid Nanashi Zokune. Shrew comes from Sandshrew my favorite Pokemon. Nanashrew has been my current name for games and online for awhile now, since 2010.

The name I had for the longest time online was Shinta125 and for Ragnarok Online it was just Kai. Both named after anime characters I liked, Kenshin Himura's real name Shinta, and Kai Hiwatari from Beyblade.

I was young then but yeah.

 

[Numb]

Ever hear of the legendary band Linkin Park?