So. How did you get/come up with your username?
Mine is just my initials with a few random numbers that stuck
made it up with some other friends in 6th grade during lunch time. we all decided we needed cool internet names for our geocities websites
my first nickname was FlashFirer.
i wanted to make flash cartoons and be just as cool as LegendaryFrog! I liked casting Fire in Final Fantasy! this was fourth grade.
now i shortened it to 'flash' because it's a neat little normal-sounding username. still not a wise pick, considering i'm using it on a community of flash animators (although these days it's not so specific) and i'm pretty much the only one here who doesn't animate or even draw.
Long story:
Since elementary school I had been developing a sheep character which evolved a lot until now. For the most part she was a he and pretty much transitioned the same way I did, acting as a sort of a persona. "Sheepy" wasn't even her first name either. The very conception happened around maybe 3rd or 4th grade and I wanted to doodle a new character to fight stick figures with (yeah I know) and the first draft was "Super Sheep", a sheep-based super hero which was coincidentally just the Worms weapon of the same name except looked like a puffy elephant with a rectangular head. I didn't really know what a sheep looked like back then and I didn't bother to google things. Funny thing is, I thought that was a dumb character and didn't draw it that much. Middle School bound, the design looked more like a retarded cat with a puffy body, and the whole super hero gimmick was dropped. Middle school was really hard on me emotionally and socially for some rather obvious reasons and I kind of revolved the character around the general idea of being a public menace and arsonist psychopath. By this time I was abusing the deadly mixture of mspaint and the internet, finally crowning the title of "Captain Sheep" as my official username of choice. At this time I was using the whole thing as a scheme to troll people in an overtly offensive manner, rubbing off my inner demons brought upon by what was unknowingly dysphoria. Near end of 8th grade was when I was starting to question sexuality and gender as a whole and I stopped doing that silly internet trolling stuff, instead starting coming up with a personality, better design that looks like an actual sheep, and even supporting characters. By around this time I was sort of coming out to myself, and reflected upon that on Sheepy. Kind of sappy I know, but it's kind of true on how much of a pseudo-masculine little ass I pretended to be for the sake of other people and how I've spent the last few years trying to be the real me.
Oh yeah this thread was about usernames wasn't it
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Well before all of that, the very first username I ever used was in like 1st grade on old PC FPS games being the addition of my male name and "killer", because not only was it "cool", but I could easily spell it. three years later I would come up with "cool" names in the playground to use for when playing CS 1.6. They were all one word usernames like: 'GHOST', or 'DRAGON', or 'PHANTOM', or 'DOMINATOR' (lol I know). I would come up with a new one from up to a few weeks to perhaps only three days. Kids, am I right?
Generally, if I can't use "Sheepy" in some place or another, with my disdain of adding numbers or X's, I usually deviate by using names like "Sheepy-Apples", "Sheepiez", "Captain Sheep", "Princess Sheepy", etc.
Fun. c:
Quote from: Flash on November 20, 2012 03:00 AM
my first nickname was FlashFirer.
oh!! i remember you now!
I had plenty of refinement to my name throughout my years.
harrison007
splintercell007
chickenbreak7
BluEagle6
BluPhoeniX7
BluPhoenix
I came up with my name when I was 13 by looking in a Japanese dictionary and picking the word whose meaning matched my real name
Old character I used to draw (and still want to do a cartoon/comic of one day) who looked sort of like a big bipedal crocodile/gorilla reptile monster.
Lived in outter space.
Named zeke.
I regret picking that name every day.
Quote from: Jow279 on November 20, 2012 01:27 PM
Jow is my real life nick, though its suposed to be spelled Jo in english. and 279 is just the formation of an triangle in a cellphone or whatever
Thats cool man, how about you make an introduction topic?
Quote from: Jow279 on November 20, 2012 02:56 PM
Quote from: Greenkitten on November 20, 2012 02:26 PM
Quote from: Jow279 on November 20, 2012 01:27 PM
Jow is my real life nick, though its suposed to be spelled Jo in english. and 279 is just the formation of an triangle in a cellphone or whatever
Thats cool man, how about you make an introduction topic?
I don't think it's really necessary. I'm not really an active user in forums, i'll probally come here often, but not so often.
Thats cool man, how about you make an introduction topic?
I got mine from a television show, I had it on my Xbox for the longest time. It's just stuck I guess...
my last name is dailey, in which most people spell it without the e. when going on a long tangent in middle school about that, i went on to say something like "It's not that hard, it's D-I-L- shit" and thus the name dilly stuck. I added the dillybar for a little added flair, but then realized there were more dillybars on the internet than i thought.
as far as the current username i use everywhere else now, when returning to tba in like, 2009/10ish, everyone kept rhyming my name. so of course, willy was one of those options. I can't remember who it was exactly, but they said "dilly is a willy" and i thought, "welp, why not use that instead"
so yeah ok
I made Ixintro in a random word generator when I was 14. Pixmintro is from Lenko who used to make fake proper names out of ix like "Casey Pixmintro", "Brian Fixintro", I can't really remember anymore. But yeah I liked Pixmintro cuz also for some reason shit tons of people thought Ixintro was Lxintro cuz fonts
It's my real life name. I've always liked the way it sounded. And whenever i can make my user name my real life name, I do.
I dunno.
I think it was from Salad Fingers a while back.
He was pretty CREEPY.
Creepy, Salad.
CreepySalad.
Sheepy was brave enough to post something personal, so I might as well. Mine's pretty embarrassing, but only because of how terribly dumb it is (and long holy shit I didn't mean for it to get this way sorry)
I grew up in the town of Sunrise, FL on a street named Sunset Strip. Since dusk was often when I would have the most time to play, I grew to love that time of day. Eventually I moved from Florida to New Jersey, completely unprepared for the cold and the lack of friends and being cooped up inside all day on shitty MMOs like Conquer Online. I started developing a sort of bi-polar/manic depressive disorder and began taking medication for it. I alternated from having happy delusions of grandeur, to incredible bouts of self-loathing, to complete indifference to the world.
It was around this time I came up with my first original character...basically me, only with disgustingly mary-sue levels of power. He embodied everything I thought was SUPER COOL AWESOME at the time: Trench Coat, AA-12 Full-auto Shotguns, Half Angel Half Demon/Dragon, a bajillion swords and knives, and mastery over light and dark magic. He was constantly at war within himself, not because of mental illness but because of his heritage. Rather than come up with a name for him I just decided to call him the Twilight Prince and adopted that as my screen name, Twi or TP for short.
Then Twilight, Twilight Princess, and Twilight Town from Kingdom Hearts all came into the picture. Suddenly Twilight was a stupid buzzword and everyone gave me shit for being unoriginal, and thought calling me Twilight Princess would be funny because of how "gay" my screen name sounded.
The only thing I did steal was Kingdom Heart's system for naming a "Nobody", a person's empty shell left after their heart has been consumed by darkness. You re-arrange the letters in their name and stick an x in it somewhere. I gave Twi a Nobody, Gilthwixt. I thought it sounded dark and edgy, like Gilgamesh or some shit. His origin is that Twi somehow separates his dark half from his light half, DBZ Kami & Piccolo style. When I got sick of people poking fun at my screen name I adopted Gilthwixt as the permanent replacement, Gil for short.
Despite having outgrown the origins (that I only recently stopped cringing at the thought of), I still use it because it's guaranteed to never be taken, and because I'm too lazy to adopt/come up with a new one.
at least it has some meaning
and it's a bit of a tongue twister
also
Quote from: Sheepy on November 20, 2012 04:12 AM
Super Sheep
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FsXqfg.jpg&hash=62e05843ec679a1ba3876db99bcdddf288752380)
I already made that reference, but yeah. XuX
Totally a coincidence, I swear~
i know i just wanted to find a pic of it
Quote from: rtil on November 20, 2012 02:57 AM
made it up with some other friends in 6th grade during lunch time. we all decided we needed cool internet names for our geocities websites
That is more information about your name than you ever told me, dick.
Time to send PMs to your old school mates on Facebook.
good luck finding them
Probably posted this before but I was 13 and jumbled the two words: Bowser - Lord - Blord - ow - Blordow
ghey
i started using variants of "sinister" around 2004
2006-2007 i ripped off "megatron" which is a portmanteau of megaton and electron
in this case it's "sinister electronics" which i've used several variants of
another transformers-related moniker is "spinister" (a lesser-known targetmaster from late G1)
more recently i've taken to using some other names elsewhere to avoid certain associations
an example being my steam display name "DDOS IN DOS" which is along the same lines as of some of my alternates
just words and phrases put together that have double meanings or rhyme
one of my favorite names that never caught on though were ZeroCologne
and Damper Spoon Whippen will always hold a place in my heart as well
Back when I still fancied the idea of acting, I decided to come up with some sort of stage name. I really liked Cher's name, so I decided on 'Lovette Cher', which was twice as French, twice as 'love', and many times worse.
I don't like Cher, but I love French, so it seemed even to me.
LovetteCher was way too fucking much to type more than three or four times (also, middle-of-the-word caps!), so I shortened it to lovey and use this whenever possible.
I also use 'zad' a lot, a shortening of Zadorae Maeron, something the Tibia Name Generator spewed out many years ago.
is chemistry still cool or
peroxides are cool and relatively easy to name!
Used to be my first initial, underscore then my last name.
Then Lasse asked me to join the Kitty Krew and a bunch of them had kitten names, then I was trying to think of one for ages and looked outside and saw all the plants were green so I chose Green.
Then when NG had username changes the guy who had Magyar changed so I took it to replace my old old name and had Greenkitten as an alt.
I used Magyar on a few other sites as well (such as this) but I got annoyed at people pronouncing it wrong and Hungarians going "Oh my god another Hungarian" So I've been trying to change them over to Greenkitten
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebackalleys.com%2Fdump%2Ffiles%2F2093%2F375T8s_stusader.jpg&hash=f19aca7d5f9796f2c0ed45f912799661e47b3304)
Wow, I'm surprised so many people here had their usernames originate from their initials as well. o_O I originally came up with my username for a Sonic sprite comic I made in 2003 that never went publicly online. The character was a modified version of the Tails sprites from Sonic Advance and it looked generic as fuck. The character was blue, wore a red shirt, wore black pants, and for some fucking reason, I had the character wear green shoes. Two years later, I made a different version in 2005 that looked less shitty.
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropbox.com%2Fu%2F34087310%2FForum%2520Images%2FFanCharacter%28TwoVersions%29.gif&hash=3d687d44d12ae2a2f40de9a1265c337f7498525d)
Then later that year, I discovered furries and ditched my character once I found out it some people thought I was a furry because I hated furries at the time. (Ironically, many years later, one of my best friends is a furry.) While my fan character was scrapped long ago, I'll never ditch my username. I use it on any site that allows me to use periods. My alternative variations are W-A-C, WAC, wac, WAC89, and wac89. Hmm... WAC89 is my initials and the year I was born. >_> I'm so unoriginal with usernames.
Edit-
Worth mentioning I use FriedCrickets for PSN and YouTube, and I hate that username nowadays.
Quote from: rtil on November 20, 2012 11:48 PM
at least it has some meaning
and it's a bit of a tongue twister
also
Quote from: Sheepy on November 20, 2012 04:12 AM
Super Sheep
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Quote from: ΨNicole on December 8, 2012 11:43 PM
Quote from: rtil on November 20, 2012 11:48 PM
at least it has some meaning
and it's a bit of a tongue twister
also
Quote from: Sheepy on November 20, 2012 04:12 AM
Super Sheep
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FsXqfg.jpg&hash=62e05843ec679a1ba3876db99bcdddf288752380)
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BANANA
I miss playing worms armageddon :(
my name is Sean and my middle name starts with J
it's retarded and unoriginal
just like me
mine started as Glitch, as in, Metal Arms, Glitch in the System
then i changed it to HackBenjamin, a character from Big Money Hustlas
someone named DeadBilly called me slack all the time as a joke and the name stuck
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http://art1.server01.sheezyart.com/swf/115/1154403.swf
one i use is 'Sphinoyd', from the sphenoid bone. the human skeleton, skulls and shit, its fascinating to me.
My name derives from the currency of a lot of Rockman games, which is zenny. The PLUS was added simply because it sound nifty and was easy to remember.
It's also the name of the currency in the Dragon Ball universe~
c:
Quote from: Sheepy on December 11, 2012 05:29 AM
It's also the name of the currency in the Dragon Ball universe~
c:
I'm pretty sure Capcom uses it in a lot of their games actually
edit: found a list actually http://www.giantbomb.com/zenny/92-2353/ (http://www.giantbomb.com/zenny/92-2353/)
i joined newgrounds when all the 'something-something-animal' names were popular (bigarmybug, zekeyspaceylizard, shirtturtle etc etc) so i made up weirdwalkingchicken (or worldwidechicken, i forgot) which soon after i thought was stupid and way too long, and it didnt fit in the irc chat so i changed it to wwchicken
my username on dA and tumblr is dubyachicken now. ill stick with that for a while
I mashed my keyboard trying to write my real name, "Mattias".
Came out as "Amatev", I added a h, and I got Amathev.