What does your username mean?

[caffeine]

Some of you guys's, I'm really curious about (jp01309, colour_thief). So just why did you choose what you chose?


I picked caffeine because I used to drink a lot of caffeinated beverages. Caffeine and speed Tetris turned out to be a really good mix. Anyway, as of about half a year ago, I stopped drinking caffeine altogether. It just was getting unhealthy, and now I find I sleep better, too. (I know a lot caffeine freaks who swear it doesn't effect their sleep, but I don't think they really give it's absence a shot.) So yeah, I kind of realize that now my username is a little funny since I don't actually drink caffeine anymore. http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif

[kotetsu213]

New username "Kotetsu" (from Robotrek, I thought it sounded cool at the time) + GameFAQs user named "dosetsu213" + joke that went too far = kotetsu213

[tepples]

(I know a lot caffeine freaks who swear it doesn't effect their sleep, but I don't think they really give it's absence a shot.)

I'm a (Vanilla) Coke addict, but I do without caffeine for the last seven hours before bedtime so that my liver can clear it.


My nick was generated by shuffling phonemes with a Scheme program. It didn't happen exactly as explained here (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/User_3ATepples), but that's at least as accurate as the typical fairy-tale-to-Disney-movie translation.

[M.Bison]

Now this is an interesting topic.


jp01309 = Jonathan Pearson + numerical key mash.

Jono for short.


I actually really hate being called jp01309 - it reminds me of a robot.

I have been tempted many a time to re-make an account with M.Bison as a user name.


- Jono

[sihumchai]

sihumchai - Chinese translation - Cockel(sihum) Guy(chai) (or in pure chinese translation, 'shit boy' http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif) ..


An assumptional people make here is that I love eating 'sihums', but that fact is that I do not http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif .. Name taken from the counter-striker days, finding a 'lucky' nick to get my kill streak back.. Plus, it was funny at that time.. And people still find it funny today(the chinese).

[Poochy]

Mine is pretty simple. It came from the dog in Yoshi's Island, the same dog that I use for my avatar.


As for my full nickname, Poochy.EXE, the .EXE came from Rockman.EXE (a.k.a. Megaman Battle Network).

[caffeine]

i could change it if you want, jp01309. i think.

[M.Bison]

i could change it if you want, jp01309. i think.

That would be great, I did not want to clog the system with multiple accounts.

M.Bison would be great. (including the two capitals letters) Only if possible that is.

Thanks alot.


- Jono

[jujube]

So yeah, I kind of realize that now my username is a little funny since I don't actually drink caffeine anymore. http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif

you could call yourself Waterboy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waterboy) http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

i don't know what i was thinking when i came up with my name http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif i had the idea that if it was unintimidating people would play better against me in TDS and i would have to work harder to beat them. then i would change my name to something cool.

[timc]

aias, the achaean warrior from the illiad (aka ajax) and more recently hector from the same poem.


http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

[sihumchai]

So yeah, I kind of realize that now my username is a little funny since I don't actually drink caffeine anymore. http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif
you could call yourself Waterboy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waterboy) http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

i don't know what i was thinking when i came up with my name http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif i had the idea that if it was unintimidating people would play better against me in TDS and i would have to work harder to beat them. then i would change my name to something cool.


I thought yours came from a candy called jujubees or something.. Recall that from Seinfeld http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

[jujube]

I thought yours came from a candy called jujubees or something.. Recall that from Seinfeld http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

yeah i saw that episode too http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif i also found this:

http://www.jujuberestaurant.com/ (http://www.jujuberestaurant.com/default.htm)

and lots of other stuff. i still think my name is about nothing though http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif

[tepples]

i don't know what i was thinking when i came up with my name http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif i had the idea that if it was unintimidating people would play better against me in TDS and i would have to work harder to beat them. then i would change my name to something cool.
I thought yours came from a candy called jujubees or something.. Recall that from Seinfeld http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

A fat free candy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube_%28confectionery%29).


But does having a DS nickname written in kana really make you more intimidating in Tetris DS standard 2-player worldwide?

[sihumchai]

i don't know what i was thinking when i came up with my name http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif i had the idea that if it was unintimidating people would play better against me in TDS and i would have to work harder to beat them. then i would change my name to something cool.
I thought yours came from a candy called jujubees or something.. Recall that from Seinfeld http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif
A fat free candy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jujube_%28confectionery%29).

But does having a DS nickname written in kana really make you more intimidating in Tetris DS standard 2-player worldwide?


Well.. actually it does. I guess it's just the gamers psychological/stereotypical effect that Japanese people make games, and they are *VERY* good at it. But imagine this in TDS, 1 Japan gamer vs. 3 english named gamers.. I'd think he'd be intimidated too.

[Air Gear]

Eh, I needed a new nick, didn't have a "reserve of good names", and was watching this one anime, so figured...hey, may as well extract this nick. It was better than anything else at the moment. Luckily, my present "reserve of good names" is now nonempty...

[lee n]

Long story short.. one of my names is Alf and if you remember that 80s show, A.L.F stands for "Alien Life Form" - so I started calling myself A_Lee_N (pronounced "Alien") in the early 90s.


It has since then been shortened down to Lee N and most people simply call me Lee.

[colour_thief]

Way back when hotmail was something people used, I needed a new address. Now, just about everything imaginable was taken, so I had to think of something unique. At that time I wasn't really into tetris at all... This was years before I knew TGM existed. But I still did like puzzle games, and thought it would be neat to have something subtly related. I think my favourites back then were Tetris Attack and Wario's Woods, which are fairly colourful as far as puzzle games go.


Obviously, colour_thief is what I came up with, and to my great surprise it wasn't taken. Didn't really get any google results either... convenient. I've been using it ever since, and it's served me well. Though, for AIM registration I had to settle for ColourBorrower for some reason.


Interestingly, long after I had picked my name, I sort of retroactively earned it. This thread (http://www.tetrisattack.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=185) will explain it in detail, but in summary I started out designing a chain reaction in Tetris Attack that used the entire screen. Originally I only needed 5 of the game's 6 colours. As anyone who knows the Four colour theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem) knows, all maps can be reduced to at most 4 colours. Curiosity got the better of me, and I wanted to see just how few colours I needed to still design a maximal chain. I was able to reduce ("steal" I guess http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif) the colours from 5 to 4 to 3, and then proved that 2 was impossible but went as far as it could go anyways.


http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5230/x195qs.png

If that picture gives you a nerdgasm you should probably check out the thread I linked... It's full of similar awesomeness.

[gila]

mine is pretty simple - gilevsky andrew. that was the nickname i got from my friends at school in probably 1989 or 1990. so i've had it for what, 17 years now? wow.

[sihumchai]

GILA - In the national language of my country means "Crazy". And also in other language(Indonesia). Glad your name didn't make reference to it http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

[K]

jagorochi is the addition of jago + orochi.


jago is a character from the fighting game killer instinct

orochi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orochi) came from the new face team (http://amazing1.netfirms.com/galerias/97_TEAM_OROCHI.JPG) from king of fighter 97


but i just prefer jago. i used "jagorochi" because of registration problem i always encounter. As i'm know with this nick for years i continue to use it but i don't like it much.


on arcade game, you can only insert 3 char for your nick. i used for years "XXX", unfortunately when i started to play SEGA virtual cop 1, the game turned "XXX" to the default game nick (SEG if i remember well) as "AAA" turn to "ARK" in TGM. So KIL nickname came from virtua cop "KILling machine" and not Killer instinct fighting game.


last month again, somebody reconized me and called me "KIL" on the street... it was around ten years ago, but i used to be a freaking geek boy on game center http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_cry.gif

[Webby]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamata_no_Orochiorochi is also a 8-headed snake wich you battle in okami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/_25C5_258Ckami)


Webby originates somewhere from around 1994, when i had internet as one of the first in holland. I soon found out irc and chose the nickname "Cyberweb", a combination of Cyber(space) and (word wide) web. Soon people on irc called me Webby since that was easier and i adopted that as a given nickname. Nowadays it's unfortunatly a very common chosen nickname and people tend to think i'm a girl since it looks like Wendy ... but i still like it. At school we had 3 similar named people in class, so they all called me Webby irl. I even have it engraved in my zippo.

[Amnesia]

That would be great, I did not want to clog the system with multiple accounts.
M.Bison would be great. (including the two capitals letters) Only if possible that is.
Thanks alot.



I will continue to call you jono.. http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif That sounds better for my scenario..

But don't worry You will appear like M. Bison..In several occasions.. http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif

Amnesia is the name of one of the biggest nightclub in the world of progressive-house-trance in the north of Spain. (basque country?)


And it is also the name of a sheet movie..I discovered that the last week..2€..

[Rich Nagel]

Mine should be pretty much self-explainatory <LOL>... short for Richard F. (Franz) Nagel.


Now, the "¥Weeds¥" part...


Unlike what many may think, this came about from my country music band days, sort of a stage nickname of "TumbleWeeds" <BG>.


I also used to do a LOT of camping out in Big Cypress Swamp out in the Everglades of South Florida (Weeds LOVES the swamp!), and over the course of time "TumbleWeeds" was shotened to simply "Weeds".


I first got into computers back in '78, and (a few years later) was looking for a suitable sig to use in some of the various local BBSs that I used to frequent. After searching through some ASCII tables, the "¥" character (ASCII 157 in DOS) looked pretty close to me to the "official" Weeds logo - see the original painted logo on the old ¥Weeds¥ camping-gear box here -> http://tang.cmoo.com/~snor/weeds/Weeds_ ... _Large.jpg (http://tang.cmoo.com/~snor/weeds/Weeds_Backwoods_Homestead/Weeds_Homestead_115_Large.jpg) .


Many years later, I discovered that the "¥" character was the symbol for Japanese currency <LOL>!


Anyhow, all of the above finally developed into "Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel", which I still currently use today (and even hold a few copyrights with).



There ya go... the official history of ¥Weeds¥ <LOL>! -:)

[Rosti LFC]

Means nothing. It's just a nickname I've picked up, that sort of stemmed from my surname.


It's certainly got nothing to do with the foodstuff.


Of course, the LFC bit is for Liverpool Football Club, as most people here will probably know already.

[M.Bison]

I will continue to call you jono.. That sounds better for my scenario..

Thats cool, after all it is the name I am most used to being called.

I like using M.Bison as a user name, mainly for intimidation purposes, but being addressed as Jono is the way to go for me http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

- Jono

[Tenebrosity]

Tenebrosity means Dark.


I was trying to think of a new name and I typed dark in an online thesaurus, Tenebrosity came up. So I thought what the heck...http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif

[jujube]

?? [ju-bee] : giving fire http://www.tetrisconcept.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif

[Caithness]

I was reading Macbeth in 11th grade English Literature class, and came across a minor character named Caithness. I thought the name looked so awesome I just had to have it. To this day I think it's the best username ever.

[Sully]

When I first started to have a username, I went with csullivan, which is my first initial/last name (Craig Sullivan). I believe the first time I registered a username for anything was for Diablo 1 on battle.net in 1996/1997 (although bnet didn't require you to log in initially, so maybe that wasn't the first). My ebay username is also csullivan, and I've been registered there since June 1998 (http://myworld.ebay.com/csullivan). As I registered for more internet stuff, csullivan would often be taken so I'd use alternate names- Intolerance (one of my favorite Tool songs), Aneurysm (a favorite Nirvana song), Nevinyrral ('Larry Niven (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_niven)' backwards, which I got from a card from Magic: The Gathering), and/or CraigSS (my first name and middle/last initial). Back in 2000, I worked at a call center with a guy straight out of Boston who started calling me "Sully" and it sorta stuck (this was before Monster's Inc, by the way). So now, whenever I register for anything, I start with Sully and then go down my list until I find something available.


My xbox live gamertag is "Smothermunch," which was part of a multiple choice answer to the question "What was the name of Sonny Crockett's pet crocodile in Miami Vice" in Maxim magazine many years ago. When I'm feeling particularly goofy, I'll use that- it's also my band name in Guitar Hero. (The choice was actually "Dickface Smothermunch Fuckfella III." The real answer was Elvis).

[Kitaru]

Kitaru is a name I made up when I was 10. I just threw together a couple of syllables so I could make an account for AOL. I never really bothered to come up with anything better, and all my friends are already accustomed to this name. Apparently, it is also a Japanese verb that means coming or returning.

[fnord]

What is fnord? (http://www.fnord.org/occult/discordia/text/what.is.fnord)

Or take Wikipedia's attempt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord) at explaing it.

[TheBigL1]

TheBigL1? Well, let's start with how L1 came about. With my real name being Leon, I've had plenty of nicknames thrown to me from time to time, either by family, or some of my brother Max's friends (Lee, Leo, what have you). One particular alias, L1, kinda stuck. I'm not sure where it became Big L1, but you should know that at no point during this process did I even know of the existence of a legendary New York rapper named Big L, who was murdered in 1999. In fact, it just so happened one time when somebody thought I WAS Big L, even though he had died years ago. I couldn't convince them I wasn't, and I couldn't tell if they were just joking or seriously thought Big L had reincarnated or something. Short story? The rapper Big L's career and my development of the nickname Big L1 are entirely unrelated. Well, there you have it; that's how I became The Big L1.

[nicofromtokyo]

Ow, a pretty old threat, but I like the idea :).

nicofromtokyo : I picked up the idea from Dimitri from Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_from_Paris), a famous French house DJ I even had the opportunity to meet few years ago here in Tokyo.

Ten years ago, I needed an ID to register to Yahoo auctions, so no space, no capitals, and my username was born.

Unfortunatly, I am using it for 10 years in a bunch of forums, and Google juste gave me 329,000 results in 0.32 seconds with it :o.

[Uli]

It means it was hard times in the 70ies, so my parents could not afford a name with more letters.

[nahucirujano]

nahucirujano = nahu (from Nahuel, my name) + cirujano (is the spanish for the english word surgeon, cirujano is a part of one of my favourite rock and roll band's lyrics)

[Caithness]

Uh-oh, Zircean, you've got a contender now for the title of Surgeon.

[muf]

Uh-oh, Zircean, you've got a contender now for the title of Surgeon.
Haha, that was my immediate thought as well.

Muf is the phonetic pronunciation of "mf", which is an abbreviation of "Mindflyer", which is derived from the title of the book Mindflight by Steven Goldin. I first used Mindflyer in 1995, shortened it to mf in 1999, and my friends de-facto turned it into Muf in 2000.

[myl35t0n3]

Myl35t0n3 = Milestone in hackerspeak.

[Linepiece777]

Linepiece should be pretty obvious.

Random Dumb Guy 1: Hey, what's a linepiece?
Random Dumb Guy 2: I dunno. I heard it's been involved in some game... oh what's it called, something like Tetro, or Tetrad, or something...

Anyway, the 777 part has a lot of connections:
1. An awesome TGM player called 777.
2. Getting a 777 on a slot machine results in a huge payout.
3. 7 means good luck.
4. My brain told me to put some numbers in this stupid username, so I did.
5. My brain also told me to type a Number Five, so I did.
6. One of my favorite songs in DDR Universe 3 is called 777, with a star over each of the 7's. I honestly have no idea what language the song is supposed to be. I think someone just took Google Translator to get English lyrics.

[DarthDuck]

Myl35t0n3 = Milestone in hackerspeak.

Wow, I feel really dumb for not seeing that until you mentioned it. :oops:

I assumed you just mashed your inputs when making your username but it makes so much sense now.

[Caithness]

I keep reading it as "My Les Tone"

[Kasumi]

I thought it was My Left One. Not sure how the 5 became an f, but that's how I kept reading it. I just thought you were left handed.

Also, my name means mist, and is boring.

[Shuey]

Last name is Schuepbach. Shuey was something my friends started calling me in junior high and particularly in high school. I love the nickname :). Pronounced like "Shoo-ee"

[PetitPrince]

Mine's obviously comes from St-Exupery famous short novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince). I took it when one of my friend called me like that when he first heard what my name more or less meant (from Vietnamese).

[Rosti LFC]

Haha, that was my immediate thought as well.

Muf is the phonetic pronunciation of "mf", which is an abbreviation of "Mindflyer", which is derived from the title of the book Mindflight by Steven Goldin. I first used Mindflyer in 1995, shortened it to mf in 1999, and my friends de-facto turned it into Muf in 2000.

Then where the hell did the "unyo" come from? :confused:

[Ai]

Mine simply means love in Japanese. The kanji for it is currently in my avatar. I started using the username for no particular reason. I needed something new and simple. ^^

[muf]

Then where the hell did the "unyo" come from? :confused:

It didn't really come from anything. It was just a random weeabooish "nyo" ending thing to make it unique enough for a domain name that wasn't taken yet.

[Caithness]

It came from taking the -u off the end of Mufu and combining it with the Nyo from Di Gi Charat.

[muf]

It came from taking the -u off the end of Mufu and combining it with the Nyo from Di Gi Charat.

Yes, exactly.

[Linepiece777]

Mine simply means love in Japanese.

So AiAi from Super Monkey Ball means "love love"...?

[[-Steve-]]

So AiAi from Super Monkey Ball means "love love"...?

I swore I was the only one that played that game... B)

[Zircean]

Don't you dare. I fucking love Super Monkey Ball.

[an ass]

mine's pretty dumb in retrospect, got it for an equally dumb reason and i use it everywhere

"an ass" sounds pretty funny when you're 16. it's really not as funny when you're 28

i really want to get it changed but i really don't know what to change it to

maybe "that tetris guy" but that wouldn't really work here

[muf]

"an ass" sounds pretty funny when you're 16. it's really not as funny when you're 28

I'm 25 and I like it :P It was fun using the name "an ass" in casual conversation at the Eindhoven meeting. :D

[Uli]

Hi,
I'm bored of my name ... I want to change it to AAK (accidental first highscore input in TGM)...how can I do it.
AAK

[Qlex]

Typing Alex on a QWERTY keyboard, while playing Quake... It just makes you think that it was meant to happen.

I thought at first that nobody would have the same idea, but I think there's at least three French people called Qlex. One of them is actually called Qlexqndre, and... not the same result, in my opinion :p

[Caithness]

Yeah, that would have to be Qlexqndre to make sense, wouldn't it.

[Qlex]

In order to fully make sense, mine would have to be Qlexis, which is cryptic as well. However people can pronounce my nickname so I don't complain :awe:

I cannot imagine people saying Qlexqndre in a local meeting, really

[muf]

Kyoolexkyoondruh.

[steadshot]

"stead" because I'm always calm and steady, "shot" because I'm such a hotshot.

I'll show myself out. :rolleyes:

[Aaron]

Mine should be pretty damn obvious.