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Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 14th, 2007, 11:47 pm
by voor
Hi, I just thought it would be interesting to describe the origins of ya'lls names. I've always wondered about that... (Especially "The Video Game Critic"...where does that come from? 
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BTW, mine is a syllable from my name.
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 14th, 2007, 11:51 pm
by m0zart1
[QUOTE=voor]
Hi, I just thought it would be interesting to describe the origins of ya'lls names. I've always wondered about that... (Especially "The Video Game Critic"...where does that come from? )
BTW, mine is a syllable from my name.
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Mozart is a huge obsession of mine. I learned to play piano because of a childhood obsession with him that has lasted until adulthood. "Mozart" was my nickname in college, and has been my most consistent internet username.
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 12:03 am
by Minzo
I got mine because I went to this website where it said I had to use a fake name. Minzo popped into my mine and stuck.
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 12:17 am
by Conn
'Conn' is a nickname comes from my name, Connor. I actually haven't been called 'Conn' in real life for two years now, but for some reason I keep using it on the internet.
Another name I use, 'Kawnhr', came from two nicknames I got on the internet- 'khan' and 'kawn'. 'Khan' came from William Shatner's "KHAAAAAAAAAN" yell, and 'kawn' was a bastardisation of Conn. I ended up fusing them together for some reason, and it stuck.
I also go by 'KHAAAN' in a few places.
Lastly, everytime I have to imput my fullname, I always write 'Connor X. Zumas'. 'X. Zumas' is a backronm of my email, and 'Zumas' itself was a reference to the author of the Three Muskateers.
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 12:53 am
by feilong801
Feilong is a Street Fighter II character (one of the four additional characters that came a little later in the series). I like Bruce Lee, and Fei Long is a pretty obvious homage. He is my character of choice when playing SF:II Anniversary Edition, despite his difficult (but effective) moveset.
80 is the year I was born, 1980.
-Rob
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 4:18 am
by Alienblue
I wrote a thread describing this once.... but to repeat, ALIEN is how I sign my artwork. My real last name is ALLEN, But all my life I've been a loner and ALIENated. But online there are a zillion "aliens" because of sci-fi in general and the Motion pix of the same name, so I added my favorite color to the name- voila, alienblue! My home address name is Blufox, BTW, because " blue fox and Blue_fox" were taken....again, I like blue and my first girlfreind used to call me FOX from the x-files.
But it's obvious my life will always be blue!
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 5:28 am
by Atarifever1
I linked to Atariage from somewhere one day and that started my whole retro gaming obsesion three years ago or so now. I thought Atarifever described that pretty well, so I used that name on Atariage. I use it on all gaming boards now just to be consistent for people who use multiple boards.
When I play games online I usuaully go by "Zieborn", which is the name of a character who is introduced, fights, and dies all in three pages of a sci-fi novel I like. I thought the name was way too cool to go to waste on a character like that.
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 6:28 am
by a1
"a" wasn't taken, and I'm lazy. Fascinating huh?
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 11:00 am
by VideoGameCritic
[QUOTE=voor]
Hi, I just thought it would be interesting to describe the origins of ya'lls names. I've always wondered about that... (Especially "The Video Game Critic"...where does that come from? )
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That's a very good question about how I became "The Video Game Critic". I should really ask my friends because it's a bit hazy to me. If I recall right, I think the main reason was the fact that there wasn't anybody else on the Internet calling themselves that, and the domain name was available at the time.
To be honest, I never really cared for the name, but it's worked out okay and it's way too late to change it now.
Forum Name Explanations
Posted: January 15th, 2007, 11:10 am
by sega saturn x
A couple years back I was a major sega collector. And the saturn was my favorite console they had made. Also when creating my name I had gotten an X box the same week. I don't really use the name that often any more, generally going with "The Doctor" or "Doctor Who", haven't ditched on here yet though.