How did you think up your Apolyton username? - Page 4

Ogie Oglethorpe · November 12, 2002, 10:59

Obscure thug from Slapshot. As the Chiefs represent the way Hockey is truly meant to play and Ogie Oglethorpe represented the meanest and cruelest villain in the league, I felt compelled to use it.

By the by everyone knows hockey thugs are nice guys off the ice.

Zero-Tau · November 12, 2002, 13:08

Mine's not really interesting. It's just a term I dragged out of the Night's Dawn trilogy, which I was reading by the time I signed up.

Kassiopeia · November 12, 2002, 13:15

IIRC "Tau Zero" is a scifi book written by Poul Andersen who is Danish...

Zero-Tau · November 12, 2002, 13:24

That's right, but I didn't learn that until after I signed up. I'm planning to read it some day.

Urban Ranger · November 12, 2002, 13:36

I am annoyed that somebody stole my idea of Urban Ranger to write a kit for AD&D. Where can I sue for trademark if not copyright?

Lorizael · November 12, 2002, 15:40

Eh, AD&D is dead and gone. Make way for third edition!

Datajack Franit · November 12, 2002, 17:20

I used to be called Fran by my friends but when I came online I soon realized that it sounded like a girlie name

A stupid friend of mine renamed me Frami (Fran from Milan, yes it's SO stupid

)

That sounded SO gay!

It soon became Fran.it then just Franit.. in SMAC Alien Crossfire I always played Datajack Roze and Foreman Domai.. well, no thanks

Giovanni Wine · November 12, 2002, 17:44

Quote:

Originally posted by Tuberski
From the book " Naked came the Sasquatch" by John Boston.

He captures the sasquatch and teaches him how to cook hot dogs and also gives him heart medication.

Very funny read.

ACK!

Mine:

Well, Giovanni is my first name, but when I tried to register as it i saw it was taken (by a 1970 German guy with 0 posts BTW)

therefore I added to it my favourite drink, Wine (Red Wine to say the truth).

I'm using this nickname in every international forums, although when I'm on an Italian Forum, I use the nickname "Sognatore" which is the Italian for Dreamer.

Saluti

Datajack Franit · November 12, 2002, 17:56

Can I switch to Franit Gulash then?

MattyBoy · November 12, 2002, 19:06

Same as Orange (about Capitan)

Quote:

It's not "just a hamburger." It's a bloody good hamburger!

Err, OK then.

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Maniac · November 12, 2002, 19:10

My first nick was SMAniaC on the alpha.owo and ACOL forums, a more original nick for SMAC Maniac of course. A few weeks later I registered on the Apolyton forums to post in the Civ3 - The List section. Of course in a civ3 atmosphere SMAC had no part. Also some people thought my nick meant sex maniac, which wasn't exactly what I intended...

Therefore I switched to M@ni@c. The @'s to keep it at least a little original. But it's just such a pain in the ass both for me and other people to write that name every time, so just two months ago or so I changed it into Maniac. So from a nick which I haven't encountered anywhere else I now have a nick which you encounter almost everywhere. Oh well, at least it writes easier.

Ishtar · November 14, 2002, 08:23

Amazingly, I put a little thought into the one I use here. I did a search for goddesses and read up on them til I found one I liked.

On other forums/email I mostly use a version of my initials and name or a nick-name I've had since I was a child.

Clear Skies · November 14, 2002, 10:10

Ishtar's a cool name

I used to be Horus on a couple of other forums, and briefly went by Osiris elsewhere, but there aren't any really good male gods...

Ishtar · November 14, 2002, 20:07

Why thank you!

I kinna liked Ishtar....she sounds like it be fun to be a little like her

Dis · November 14, 2002, 20:17

I've had several user names and DL's.

Krushala was my first user name. I've always liked the world Krusher with a K. We used to have an old radio station that called themselves Krusher. KRSR were their call letters. I just added the other part when I was playing SMAC as the morganites. It sounded more african

I also had an Indian (Southern Paiute) name I used briefly. It was their word for the Las Vegas valley.

I also had Black Bart. He was a polite stage coach robber (or trains) If I remember correctly- which I probably don't. Also there is an obscure Iron Maiden song called Black Bart Blues. Plus bart had the Simpsons connection which I love. And I like the colour black, so that was an obvious name.

I had a DL called Fistful of Steel. Basically ripped off from a Rage Against the Machine song. I mainley used this DL to clash with EVC. He was a muslim militant.

I also had a DL called Barfasm. Barf as in the name of the John Candy character in the great movie Spaceballs. And I thought the asm part was a funny touch. I eventually made him french to clash with Blacktide: the french hating DL.

I also had a DL called Ass Monkey. Do I really need to explain that name?

I also had a DL called maryjane. Self explanatory.

I may have had a few more DL's I can't remember right now.

NOTE to moderators. I already confessed to these DL's and was already punished 1500 post counts.

And then my current name Dissident. It was originally Dissident Aggressor which was ripped off from a great Judas Priest song that was also covered by Slayer. I dropped the aggressor part as that sounded too militant. But I like the dissident part. It doesn't necessarily have to be a violent opposition. The dictionary just describes it as one who's opinions differ from others- or something like that. Since I am unique and not like the general american population, I figure that fits me.

Pandemoniak · November 14, 2002, 20:39

This is just a mix between Pandemonium, the capitol of hell in John Milton Lost Paradise, and demoniak. I use it everywhere since ages.

The evil look of the name must be understand by the poem of Baudelaire, les litanies de Satan.

Dis · December 23, 2002, 05:06

bump

Mad Bomber · December 23, 2002, 05:56

Some of you folks out there may not believe this but Mad Bomber is in reference to the late Sir Aurthur Harris who was refered to as Mad Bomber on occasion. Like Harris, I am a big proponet of airpower.

GeneralTacticus · December 23, 2002, 06:57

And like him, you also favour the indiscriminate bombing of enemy cities to acheive very little towards winning the war?

As for my username - General Tacticus was a character from the Discworld series. He conquered lots of places for Ankh-Morpork, and did it so well that he get sent off to govern an obscure city a few thousand miles away to keep him out of the king's hair. Upon arriving, he looked the situation over and then immmediately declared war on Ankh-Morpork. Anyway, I first used this name on StarCraft Battle.net, for what reason I have no idea, and kept it.

aaglo · December 23, 2002, 07:01

I wanted myself to be seen in the beginning of the alphabet...

H Tower · December 23, 2002, 13:57

but you aren't even on the first page of members in alphabetical order

MrFun · December 23, 2002, 15:03

I created my Apolyton name, because believe it or not, my friends enjoy hanging out with me.

But, now my Apolyton name has come to mean something ironic among Apolytoners.

Zkribbler · December 23, 2002, 15:35

Zkribbler is a derivative of Scribble, the narrator-main character of Jeff Noon's very weird science fiction novel Vert.

Traianvs · December 23, 2002, 16:41

Quote:

This is just a mix between Pandemonium, the capitol of hell in John Milton Lost Paradise, and demoniak. I use it everywhere since ages.

Pandemoniak is actually a really cool evil name!!!

When i subscribed here I played a lot of AoE and AoK, and there I used the nickname Traianus, as he was the most famous (well maybe not but in any case the best) emperor the Romans ever had.
When i subscribed i changed it to Trajanus, because Traianus might have seemed strange in English.

I usually use EvilBork though...

Bork being the name of an orc, and orcs are evil...

JimmyCracksCorn · December 23, 2002, 16:46

When I was making mine I was thinking "oh, I don't care..."

hence... JimmyCracksCorn

jdd2007 · December 23, 2002, 17:01

well, i put two and two together:

initials (JDD) plus graduation year (2007) equals name (jdd2007)

yah, not very creative, but the name has spawned a life of its own

Nubclear · December 23, 2002, 17:10

Game. Itar-Tass.

MORON · December 23, 2002, 17:15

because I am one

Provost Harrison · December 23, 2002, 17:54

Cut-and-paste from SMAC

Mad Bomber · December 23, 2002, 18:00

Quote:

Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
And like him, you also favour the indiscriminate bombing of enemy cities to acheive very little towards winning the war?

Before condeming a practice, you should read a few memoirs of German soldiers during the latter half of WW2. They suffered from acute supply shortages, ammunition, gas, food, you name it they lacked it. The Germans had produced hundreds of Me-262's but they sat still in a Bavarian forest due to a lack of fuel to fly them. This was accomplished by airpower. Yes the killing was indiscriminate, yes it was horrible, but that is the face of modern war. As for effectiveness, Airpower was far more effective in WW2 than most give credit. Airpower alone will not win a war, but in WW2 it was often the deciding factor between the victor and the beaten.