Your Username

[Athel]

Im just curious to know what your usernames mean\where you got it\what prompted you to pick it.

My name came from my first Gmail account, which I now totally forgot the password to. I had a previous "internet alter ego" on Skulltag as "Barney Calhoun". I kinda figured that nobody would take me very serious with a name like that.

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you immature brats ;-p

Little did I know the puns I registered with my name afterwards...

Anyway, your turn! I want to hear from a couple of users especially. ..

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Wildweasel, Xaser

[wildweasel]

Every single time this comes up, I link to this Wikipedia article. Read it.

[Hellser]

It used to be simply "Hellraiser" (as Ryan still calls me). I used to hang out on Doom Connector back in the day, and a guy by the name of Zero was making a re-sub of an anime (Gundam Seed) with the events that was going on in Doom Connector at the time. He replaced Shinn with Hellser - representing me. It sort of stuck.

[Caligari87]

Well, many people see my name and assume I'm from California, or that I'm female. Someone on CoD once said "Hey Cali girl, how you doin'?"

Others assume it's a reference to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, which I am remiss in not watching yet.

However, it's actually from early 2002-2003 when I started really going on the internet regularly, in high school computer labs. Before that, my experience with the internet pretty much consisted of StarCraft on Battle.net, and the occasional dial-up excursion. I usually used a variation on my real name. In addition to StarCraft, I had gotten a few programs via parent-approved, all-night download sessions, including DoomCAD, a doom wad utility I can't remember the name of (started with a 'W' I think, not WadAuthor...), and TrueSpace, a free 3D graphics suite from the... wait for it... Caligari Corporation.

Yep, I picked my handle from a company I thought had a cool-sounding name, because I couldn't think of anything else. Yahoo.com recommended the timeless advice of tacking on a number, like a birth year, in the case my chosen name was taken (which it was). And thus, Caligari_87 was born.

Unfortunately, I tried to keep the underscore for a while, but turns out a lot of sites don't accept that character. So I have various other legacy variants like caligari.87 and caligari-87 hanging around, but I've been using simply Caligari87 for a few years now. And that's the epic tale of me.

EDIT: Wayback Machine archive of caligari.com, before it disappeared. Oh the nostalgia!

[YukiHerz]

It started as YukiHaze because some dudes called me Yuki and i liked Haze, then it started morphing into SnowHaze, Haze, Ace and when i created this account i had played a lot of Crash Bandicoot, other names include ZeroHaze, AceHaze, AzureHaze and such.

Caligari's story is really interesting.

[mallo]

I thought it up in few minutes when I was 8 and wanted to register on some forum about games. I've been using it for 7 years! (Perhaps it's time to think of something better... nah.)

[XCVG]

Official Story: Look at a QWERTY keyboard. It's really fast to type.

Real Story: It's a semi-acronym, but I don't remember what it's for.

My other handle, XTChrisTX, was originally (XT*Chris*TX), but a lot of websites really didn't like that for reasons that should be immediately obvious.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

Maelstrom is a name i've used for a very long time on another character. after a certain forum went to hell, and i couldn't care less about my character that used the name, i simply put it onto my new character, Viscra. the actual name Viscra comes from Vinyl Scratch, hence why i have it pronounced differently than it should be (it's more like Vye-scra, instead of Viss-cra like it should be. think of pronouncing the first part as if you said the "vi" part of "vinyl")

i used other usernames on here as well that some people might remember (i HAVE been here for over 6 years, after all), but they aren't of importance anymore and didn't refer to anything significant.

the Princess part is actually added by the forum software. one one of the "talk like a pirate" days on the Zdoom forums, randi made everyone get Captain in front of their name, including me. i jokingly mentioned that i'd want to have Princess in my name instead, and randi actually did that. after the day was over, i somehow convinced randi to keep having it in my name.

[Athel]

Wow. These are some interesting stories here. They make mine seem normal... for the most part.

[Discordance]

The state of being discordant
Amusingly, that first definition matches the custom title rather well.

[DoomRater]

I originally wanted to review Doom clones on the TI Calculators. I kept the name even though I didn't really get many reviews posted.

Propagator on the other hand used the name very differently, rating actual apocalyptic possibilities. I lol'd when I realized someone else finally used it.

[Jeimuzu73]

Most boring origin, but why not.

The MJ stands for MegaJim, a common username I use in forums and the name of my OC (alternate-version self-insert). I actually used commandoholic as my first username after the Commando flash games, but I switched later on. Why the 79? It's my favorite number. So there.

[TheMightyHeracross]

I was thinking of a new username, however that is hard when you're not a creative person. I decided I would use the name of one of my favorite Pokemon, and I happened to choose Heracross. "Heracross" alone was pretty bland, so I added "The Mighty" at the end to make it sound cooler.

[Gothic]

I got mine not because of dressing style, but for Gothic DM and other projects that use their textures or similar style (Eternal Doom, Crucified Dreams, Scythe 2, etc). I always loved that kind of architecture.

[Carbine Dioxide]

What do you get when a carbine is mixed with carbon dioxide?