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My name is the name I use when I play aok Online. Though, it is TOnto_Isbla on there, since I am in a clan. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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It's a nickname I picked up over a decade ago. In fact, the first use of it Online as a handle was in... 1983 or so.

I used to be a very large Star Trek fan (in the 80s)... In the best voice of Ricardo Montalban: "Admiral?"

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Space Empires IV Play by Web

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You guys who mentioned nicknames, lucky you, I have had the luck of getting stuck with crappy nicknames, Gryo, Jizmo, Gilligan, dipstick etc..

My nick comes from writing. I have a tendancy to write stories, in one Zero Adunn is young warrior who must do battle with a powerfull avatar who has come to destroy the universe.

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Captain, I found your pants.

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mine is from a RPG called fallout 1, a friend of mine thought i looked like Lemmy, a character from the game, it kinda stuck with me when i started plaiyng multiplayer games, and the M is just the first character of my real name, since lemmy is not an unusual name on the internet

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I never have more than one handle at a time.

For many years I was The Lobster, because I thought no-one else would ever come up with that name. It came from me mis-hearing a friend saying "carpet- lobbers" as "Corporate Lobsters". (Before you ask, I have no idea why he was talking about carpet lobbers.)

Then one day I met two or three other Lobsters chatting on IRC. I want my handle to be unique so I changed it. I went through loads of names before coming up with Dogscoff, which I use on dozens of Boards / services / communities. When a first name is required I call myself Delegate Dogscoff. I hope this time that I *am* unique.

I came up with the name just by messing around with words, but I immdiately knew it was good. I like the way it sounds like it could mean something or could just be nonsense. Rolls nicely off the tongue as well.

When I get round to it I don't anticipate any trouble registering www.dogscoff.net, .com, .uk or anything else (They're all still available=-)


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"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
"Uh, I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... oooh, it's all too much for me. "

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You are (a) creation of God, too.

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Well I just liked the character of Q in Star Trek and the evolution of his character from a nasty devil to almost a friendly beeing. And he was in two of the few interesting episodes of Voyager. And finally it's pretty much what I do frequently in SE IV: watch the primitive beeings (AI) and sometimes interfering for my pleasure http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif.

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Liga is from Ligabue ... really simple but
everyone call me Liga so I really have no
choice ...

bye bye

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Happy_Dau is just the re-translation of my name. My First Name is Felix, which is Latin and means "The Lucky One". I was thinking about Lucky Dau but that sounded more like some advertising for cigarrets, so I chose Happy Dau. The _ remained from old Quake I times when there was no space, and I finally got used to it.

Dau is my Last name and is an old joke in computers. A Dau is the "Most Stupid User You Can Imagine" (Duemmster Anzunehmender User) and I liked it alot (I knew how to boot our old 286 and start the game "Digger" when I was six). So I kept it. The term DAU refers to the german GAU (Groesster anzunehmender Unfall). I don't know if an english equivalent exists, a GAU is just the term when a nuclear power plant explodes.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Suicide_Junkie???(is this how you play??Damn the odds and full speed ahead??)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Lol. Not quite. In fact, my strategy is just the opposite. I like to build ships that will never die. Often I have to force myself to cut out some defense for an extra gun mount http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif. See my DN design.
I also find it fun to see how close I can cut it, yet still win a battle without losing a ship (severe damage is good, blowing up is bad)

I first started using "Heavyweapons" for games, such as my Scorched Earth type game (in VB), which was very popular at highschool. (With only four computers facing away from the teacher/supervisor's desk, competition was fierce http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif)
I chose my new name when I had to register for forums and stuff on the net, and everything seemed to already be taken.
After struggling for a few days, trying to come up with something original, I landed on Suicide Junkie.
It was interesting, and not too serious (addicted to suicide?!?) and I couldn't come up with anything else, so there it is.


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