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[MechWarrior5152251]

My name was "911 Inside Job" but apparently the truth is offensive...

[DaZur]

It's simply an abreviated composite of my first and last name.

[FanTheManButSecretlyAwoman]

I chose this name because i like to clack fanny's.

If i would to change my name it would just be Fanny because nowadays i dont clack them as often.

[Johny Rocket]

MechWarrior5152251, on 24 December 2015 - 09:46 AM, said:

My name was "911 Inside Job" but apparently the truth is offensive...

Indeed, indeed. Being offended is for ********

[Tarogato]

My name comes from the Hungarian instrument, the tárogató. The modern version of it is basically a wooden soprano saxophone, so it looks like a clarinet, but sounds half-oboe. It is the one in the middle here:




Also, there are larger versions that exist:





It sounds like this:

- traditional gypsy tárogató

- some JAZZ tárogató (I think it's a great jazz instrument)

- more jazz tárogató compared to soprano sax

- some latin jazz tárogató

- some classical tárogató

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I don't actually own a tárogató, but I do play almost every wind instrument that exists because I'm an extreme music nerd and classical musician.

[Bishop Steiner]

Wrathful Scythe, on 24 December 2015 - 09:41 AM, said:

I like Scythe's. I think they are pretty cool. Sadly, "Scythe" was already taken so I got pissed.

On a sidenot: I love how many people can't pronounce Scythe. That wrathful just makes it worse for those people.

wait...it ain't pronounciated "SKyTH"?!?!?!?!?!

Tarogato, on 24 December 2015 - 10:07 AM, said:

My name comes from the Hungarian instrument, the tárogató. The modern version of it is basically a wooden soprano saxophone, so it looks like a clarinet, but sounds half-oboe. It is the one in the middle here:




Also, there are larger versions that exist:





It sounds like this:

- traditional gypsy tárogató

- some JAZZ tárogató (I think it's a great jazz instrument)

- more jazz tárogató compared to soprano sax

- some latin jazz tárogató

- some classical tárogató

---

I don't actually own a tárogató, but I do play almost every wind instrument that exists because I'm an extreme music nerd and classical musician.

with some bongos and a big bag of weed, it would be some very smooooooth jazz.....

find a tarogato rendition of this...... and I'll be much impressed

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 24 December 2015 - 10:13 AM.

[Kjudoon]

Kjudoon is a name that fell out of the brain for AD&D 4th ed many years ago. It was for a Minotaur Seeker (magical archer) who was redeemed and spent his life being the monster who slew monsters using a great bow. When I came here I couldn't think of a name again, so I just repurposed it because it just fit. Then learned how much it fit my playstyle.

Where did Kjudoon come from? I had just watched Dr. Who, and saw the episode with the Judoon, and it felt like the best name for a reformed monster fighting for good, but had to change it a little. So, Kjudoon.... which utilizes the nordic pronunciation of the Kj letter combination making the name pronounced "CHA-doon".

Almost nobody gets it right even to this day. There was even a discussion about it in a recorded match late one night you can hear it here (6:00 but it's a fun match to watch):



I did up the whole backstory for the game, which I then inserted into my unit's lore along with a motto which has become very multi-layered:

Dyabolum qui victimat malus, pro Deo.
I am the fiend who slays evil for God.

[Champion of Khorne Lord of Blood]

I just used my first name and threw in 3 0s and a 1 because there are too many Dakotas in the world.

[Tarogato]

Bishop Steiner, on 24 December 2015 - 10:10 AM, said:

with some bongos and a big bag of weed, it would be some very smooooooth jazz.....

Fun fact, the leader of the Isengrim is heavy into norse nerdology and he writes verses/songs about each of our senior unit members. So I set them to music with bongos going in the background and have them set up on a soundboard for Teamspeak for when we go on viking raids in CW.

[TercieI]

https://en.m.wikiped...om_(book_series)

The character known as "Abhorsen" at the beginning of the series's given name is Terciel. He's essentially a "good" necromancer, tasked with putting the dead down. There's more to it, but...spoilers.

Edited by TercieI, 25 December 2015 - 07:04 AM.

[Sandpit]

Tractor Joe, on 24 December 2015 - 08:09 AM, said:

I like to hear how people choose screen names. You have a chance to rename yourself, to create a whole new identity, whats behind your choice.

I often get asked what kind of Tractor I drive. I do operate heavy equipment but that is not where I got the name. Funny though, redneck as I am, I refer to any big equipment with tires as tractors.

Im a hardware geek, I live for nuts and bolts and give my creations silly names because life should be fun.
I worked with some friends to build a server we used as a torrent tracker for educational material. Low budget and jokingly got dubbed Project J.O.E. (Just Ordinary + Extras) So after we closed down I used it for mining and my boy popped off one day with this thing farms coin like a tractor. New purpose new name, Tractor Joe.

Hands down my favorite piece of equipment I ever built, right up their with my '78 Ford F350 swamp logger Ol' Iron Sides, she really did float.

So my name here is a Tribute. I played a lot on my boys account before I made my own and when trying to pick a name we came up with this because Im a Just Ordinary pilot + Extras in my bag of dirty tricks and I farm cbills like a Tractor.

So there you have it.

Mine is my actual callsign from the Marine Corps

I was born and raised in the desert so I got Sandpit. I almost wound up with Shepherd, because I laid waste to about 400 sheep in the Mid East on accident once, but Sandpit stuck lol

That's been my Btech callsign ever since, going all the way back to MW2 I wear it with pride and carry a lot of memories with it.

[Chados]

"Chados" is a corruption of the word "Shadow."

I had a cat named Shadowdancer, who we lost some years back. We used to call her "Chados," and I adopted it for a gamer tag.

[jss78]

I like all these stories behind the player names.

Wish I had one. I basically decided to try MWO, this one evening, and for the life of me couldn't think of anything creative. So I tried putting in my initials. That was taken, so I simply added my year of birth --> jss78

[DAYLEET]

Way back in the days of me starting playing multiplayer fps, i thought it was clever to call myself Delete but i never could because it was always taken(great imagination eh). Then the so called l33t speak got popular and i created DAYLEET. I shall forever be dismissed as a 12 yearold with an all caps l33t name lol. Still proud that i have never once seen that name anywhere else.

[Kraftwerkedup]

Or some variation there of for my alts.

Edited by Kraftwerkedup, 24 December 2015 - 10:39 AM.

[Rakesch]

I wanted something unique. So i used google to help me to find a new name. There was no hit with Rakesch (long time ago...).

[Robin Wolf]

In the late 80's/early 90's I used to run a BBS (Bulletin Board System) named "Sherwood Forest", hence my name as SysOp, Robin Hood.

When I started playing Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries in 1997, I found silly the idea of Robin Hood piloting a Battlemech, so I changed my name in Robin Wolf, not because of the Wolf clan or the Wolf Dragoon's but because the wolf is my spirit animal.

It must be noted, Robin was originally a diminutive given name of Robert (which is my real life first name). So, Robin Wolf. Since 1997 this has been my screen name/handle in each and every game.

[Johny Rocket]

DAYLEET, on 24 December 2015 - 10:37 AM, said:

Way back in the days of me starting playing multiplayer fps, i thought it was clever to call myself Delete but i never could because it was always taken(great imagination eh). Then the so called l33t speak got popular and i created DAYLEET. I shall forever be dismissed as a 12 yearold with an all caps l33t name lol. Still proud that i have never once seen that name anywhere else.

Thought it was a Dr Who reference, the way the Daleks say delete.

[Maxwell Albritten]

I thought about it and I discovered the best name possible. I was surprised that no one else had picked it sooner. You would think that someone else would have wanted the best name.

[AEgg]

... In the distant past I went by Timberwolf (only in non-MW games of course).

Eventually some game allowed non-standard characters, so I wanted to come up with something using an ash, and got Ægg.

Of course, lots of games STILL don't allow that...