Cylinder on 2/3/2001 at 23:18
I've used this name on other BBs that I joined before this one, and only wanted to have one name to remember. My other hobby (besides playing Thief) is keeping aquariums, so I thought up this name for the aquarium BBs. I built a small cylindrical aquarium and the name refers to that.
JA aka Cylinder
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When are they going to bring me my dinner, that's what I want to know.....
Spitter on 14/3/2001 at 11:49
Up and bump you go...
My nick, Spitter, comes from Jurassic Park. Yes, that movie about 5 years ago or so. I was a blue-eyed kid back then, and I simply loved that movie. I had all kinds of stuff which had more-or-less something to do with the movie, one of them being a calendar. It had still pictures from the movie and little descriptions about the dinosaurs. One of them, which name I've forgotten (!), had a nickname,
spitter. So there you go. Nothing macho-wannabe.
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A malfunction! -- A brother of Karras. -- Dangerous conditions!
(
http://www.ttlg.com/keep/upcom/gelle/ssgelle.htm) Geller's Pride screenshots. For Thief 1, ETA - When It's Done (tm)
Morte on 14/3/2001 at 16:47
Well, I registered a while back using the horrendous DancingLeper[Psychobunny]. Then I sobered up and realised it was no good at all. When I decided I´d start participating more actively, I decided that I needed a new username.
Morte´s the name of the constanly horny disembodied skull in Planescape: Torment (magnificent game, go buy it now), which I had just recieved. My imagination was running low at the time, so I figured: "what the hell, one out of two´s good enough!"
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Faintly, beautiful nubile virgins are heard singing Morte´s praise: "...Superhero, you´re my Superhero..."
birdbrain on 15/3/2001 at 01:21
I have two main names I use online: Pandora (games) and birdbrain (everything else, cause I have 45+ birds). Pandora was taken so I had to use birdbrain, even though it doesn't quite fit the forum. On battle.net I've also been known as Goulish_One (necromancer), Pandora~|GS|~ and ']['he|3itch.
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birdbrain
Some day I'm not gonna be a guard anymore. I'm gonna be a manor lord. And I'm gonna hire lots of guards to make them go on patrols at nightwatch. And I'm gonna sneak up on them and say, "Didn't you hear something?" and watch 'em jump.
Norman Druart on 15/3/2001 at 01:45
I guess my alias is obvious (maybe it isn't, let me know) but it symbolizes for me the attention to detail that went into creating the Thief world.
I greatly appreciate the background information that's there not to advance the main plot but just to create an immersive environment and spark the imagination.
If I had to re-register, though, I'd probably go with Manfool.
Constantine's Butler on 15/3/2001 at 02:56
Ooooh, another chance to respond to a "gone but not forgotten" thread unceremoniously unearthed.
Well, I wanted something basic and Thief-centric. Usernames go through me like a sieve so I had no other to really fall back on. There was "Neurasthenia" but it was getting rather archaic for its own good (as if it wasn't already).
"The Sword" is my favorite TDP mission so this moniker fit the bill. Constatine's Butler has to be one of the most amazing, death-defying posts in Thief-land. All that evasion and resetting of traps, repositioning of chests, and clipping of hazardous vines in the cellar surrounding the sir's brandy. Mortality rate has to be high in a place like that; notice the lack of a serving staff? It was just my night out when all you guys were taffing about in there. Had my work cut out in the morning. (-:
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Each desire provokes in me a counterdesire, so that whatever I do, all that matters is what I have not done. --E. M. Cioran
Turtle1776 on 22/4/2001 at 07:31
OK, I'm in!
The Turtle comes from a mediocre surfing movie called 'north shore' that i saw when I was younger. It had a character named Turtle in it, and I remember being amazed that a person could have a name like that, so I kind of adopted it.
The 1776 is my birthday, 1/7/76.
And yes, it's all because aol sucks. :p
Seymour_Gibbs on 22/4/2001 at 11:14
The name comes from playing the original quake on gamespy... I noticed there were a lot of sad taffers with names like-=DaRkJedI= and crap like that, so I went for a "real" name to piss them off. It stems from me taking the piss out of the media for targeting violence in games, and becaues i like puns :)
If anybody online asks "d00d, y j00 u53 y3R CraPp1 r3@l n@m3 ?!?!?!?!"
I reply "Its a joke name, like Biggus Dickus"
If they dont get it its a lost cause.
h-son on 22/4/2001 at 16:11
(Ok, it's an old thread, but what the heck, I'll bite...)
I'm h-son on TTLG. In real life, I'm H-son. It's my name. It's just as boring as that. My full name is Jonas Henriksson, which I've shortened to Jonas H-son ever since 4th grade, since nobody could spell my last name (IT'S VERY VERY SIMPLE!) for some reason. People usually call me either "Jonas" or "H-son". I rarely respond to anything else (except possibly "hey, you!").
When I joined the computer club at the univ I figured I might as well be known as H-son there too (as there was already a Jonas), but usernames on that system were lowercase only, hence h-son. That was in '91. Since then I even sign emails with a lowercase h-son, just by habit.
When I registered on TTLG I figured I'd pick some cool sounding nickname, but in a total brainlock I just couldn't come up with anything sarcastically funny enough, so I just went the old h-son. I guess it's still not too late to register another nick in case I'd come up with something funny, though. (On IrrGames I'm known as kold, which was just a bad joke nobody ever got).
Pronounciation? I guess it'd be something like "haw-son" or something (the letter "h" is probably pronounced something like "haw" in my language), which I came up with in some other thread. Since Daxim read that thread, he now calls me haw-son-oab whenever I do something he doesn't like :p
(Hey, where does the name Daxim come from, Lars?)
So who am I then? In short, a 29-yo sysadmin in the norhternmost part of Sweden, playing SS2 & Thief. Details available upon request. (Yeah, that should interest the ladies
:rolleyes: )
And unless anybody already noticed, I might as well add that I can be quite longwinded when elaborating dull details :p
[Edit: Daxim highlight]
[ April 22, 2001: Message edited by: h-son ]
Morte on 22/4/2001 at 16:16
*blinks*
Really, you must´ve went to school with some very stupid people...
