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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 13 April 2012
BasilZero said:

My name was inspired by a few sources.

 

For one, my name is "Basil" and I've watched and enjoyed anime/games.

 

The "Zero" I got from Zoids New Century from Ligar "Zero" and Zero from Megaman X series *_*!

 

I think I've had this name since early 2001 when I started going social in the internet o.o.

 

http://zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Liger_Zero

 

(Always thought "Zero" sounded cool too xD)

IM A FRAKING BIG FAN OF ZOIDS!!!!!!!!!! COMG!!!!!!

 

I have toys of it!!! I assemble them from parts!!!



Yay!!!

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lestatdark on 13 April 2012

Well, mine's pretty simple.

Lestat is based on the character with the same name, from Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles books, he's my favourite fictional character, and dark was mostly because I was in a very dark place back then.



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Porcupine_I on 13 April 2012

Porcupine is a character from my favourite movie "Stalker"

he is not actually in the movie, but the protagonists talk about him and what happened to him on the same journey they undergo.



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Barozi on 13 April 2012

BAstian RObin ZImmer



Erisian on 13 April 2012

veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners - it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia": "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati.



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Kantor on 13 April 2012
voty2000 said:
My brother and I used to play all our games together since we had one TV and one console. We got Final Fantasy 7 and I started the game when he wasn't in the room. He hated changing the characters names so I named Cloud Voty to piss him off. I think Voty was just nonsense to make the name change even worse.

It's pronounced voe tea.

Hmm, I always thought that was meant to be "videogame of the year".

OT: I was trying to think of a username that I would use for gaming. I'm not sure what I used it for at first, but I think it was Steam. I started testing out sounds in my head, and wanted something that sounded powerful and lordly.

Kantor was the first thing that sprung to mind. There is seriously nothing more to it than that. Reading through this thread, I feel shallow



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Kantor on 13 April 2012

I've always assumed Smeags had something to do with Smeagol (Gollum), and RolStoppable's name is Roland and he wanted something to go with the Kim Possible avatar (and of course, Kim's best friend is Ron Stoppable, aka Twesterm)



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2000cc on 13 April 2012

haha, well i'd have to know you all a lot better before I told you that



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IIIIITHE1IIIII on 13 April 2012

Played a shitload of Halo 2 LAN's back in the day (2005-2008, to be precise) and all of a sudden came up with the username THE 1.


Not much story behind, but I've kept that name for pretty much everything where you need a username (and some even call me "the one" irl =).


Dr.Grass on 13 April 2012

studying physics + I did a 'cover' for Dr.Greenthumb (Cypress Hill) = Dr

Smoke/smoked a lot of pot = Grass