Lady Rowena on 13/1/2009 at 22:11
I had read the novel Ivanhoe by Walter Scott when I was a little girl. Lady Rowena was the woman loved by Ivanhoe. When I subscribed the TTLG forums and I had to chose a nickname I remembered the name, which I liked, and I though that it was just fitting. That's all. :)
DrK on 13/1/2009 at 22:12
Cool thread which I never saw :)
Quote Posted by kamyk
Or initials like JTR7, or DrK, to name a few.
Well mine is simple, and isn't that interesting.
DrK is simply "dark" from dark project, without the "a", nothing more. And also I wanted a name I could write in arcade games scores, they always ask you 3 letters...
Funny to see some people think it's something like Doctor K or whatever :p
Emerald Wolf on 13/1/2009 at 22:18
I chose my name for the interplay of symbolism it invokes in me. The wolf imagery is obviously one of a feral sort of independance / freedom and the emerald bit augments it with the gem's supposed mythical proberties of being a calming agent (as well as a revealer of truth), which tones back the potential agression inherent in wolf-imagery.
(although sometimes I wonder if using fox instead of wolf would have been a better choice).
jtr7 on 13/1/2009 at 22:37
My name's Jason Travis Reimche. I work at a university, and back in 1997, I signed up for my free university employee webmail, and I was assigned that username. At the time, the "7" denoted that I was the seventh person to have signed up for web-service with the initials "jtr". A primitive system, then.
IndieInIndy on 13/1/2009 at 22:58
I like alliteration.
demagogue on 13/1/2009 at 23:25
My name goes back to a class on 'Computer Mediated Communication' in 1997, when I was studying in Haifa. Once I learned HTML, I started making all sorts of web pages for class and just for fun. One of them was a recruitment site for minions, with me being the benevolent demagogue. I got a laugh out of the Big Brother allusions (reminded me of my old h.s. German class, where we'd always use big brother allusions in all our projects as a running joke). But I also just like the look of the word itself.
I recall we also went on IRC and got email addresses and other stuff like that for the class, and I took the name demagogue for all of that. Fast-forward to 2003, and the name just came back to me as good for getting on TTLG.
In retrospect, it's not the most original name since there are other demagogues out there and nothing distinguishes me. But for one forum I think it's still pretty cool. I still like the way its spelling looks, and the way you can affectionately shorten it to dema.
BrokenArts on 13/1/2009 at 23:29
Its my business name. Simple as that.
Thief13x on 14/1/2009 at 05:00
Stole it from my older brother when we first started playing Thief cause I thought it sounded badass! (at 11? why not!) Of course he stopped playing after a few months
Gentleman on 14/1/2009 at 05:30
My username used to be Darkmaster. I believe the forums underwent some sort of change a few years ago which allowed me to get a new username. So I changed it to "Gentleman".:cheeky:
It was originally going to be "Gentleman-Thief" but I decided that "Gentleman" was shorter, and not yet taken.:idea:
(I was thinking of Arsene Lupin, of course, the so-called original gentleman-thief.:grr: )
Zillameth on 14/1/2009 at 07:07
Ah, so this is the place to go when one needs to whine about their errors of youth. And such an appropriate topic.
Well, we used to play AD&D in highschool, and this nick was meant to be a name for one of my characters. Never really used it in a session. In 1998, my parents bought a modem, and so I discovered the Usenet (because, frankly, the connection was too slow for anything else). So I started using this name as my Usenet nick, because I was still young enough to think signing your posts with a nickname instead of full name is cool (never really cared about the whole anonymity thing). I used to send about 10-15 posts a day back then, hence people quickly started to recognize me. Then I found my first real job, and I actually found it over the Usenet, because half of the staff of a certain games magazine posted to the same newsgroup as me. And guess what, they didn't care what my real name was, even when we met in real life. They just kept calling me "Zill", which was probably their polite way to tell me the full version sucked.
I actually use the abbreviation to this day, even at work. The thing seems to have stuck with me for good. Can't say I mind.
As for that magazine, I was a kind of their resident Thief spiecialist. I set this account up, because I was doing reasearch for an article about Thief: Deadly Shadows (which was still under development back then). I ended up asking only a few lame questions about DromEd, because I was toying with it a bit at the time, but that's another story. Anyway, this nick seemed like a natural choice.
I should have known better. :weird:
