Whence Your Moniker?
 

So, where does your screen name come from? I'd especially like to know about Suicide Junkie! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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My name comes from FFVIII for PSOne. The ship was named that, and I've used the name Ragnarok ever since.

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Actually, I think "Ragnarok" was the Norse term for "doomsday" or "apocalypse" - it goes back much farther than Final Fantasy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I wanted something unique, but also something that could not be taken seriously/literally.

I thought about it for quite a while, before coming up with SJ.

[ July 27, 2002, 21:05: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes you are correct. It does go back farther then FF. But I got the name from FF, and not the Norse term. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif But thanks for pointing that out to me again. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/blush.gif

Got it while in the Army....
something about lieutenants and map-reading being incompatible http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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I usually go by Phoenixdawn but when I looked around the board I saw that we already had Phoenix-D and didn't want to cause any confusion. So I fell back on an older nym that I use to use. A nodachi is a japanese great sword. I started using it for a character in an rpg and it followed me to the web. The sad part is that in my head Phoenixdawn and Nodachi are two separate people! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Name of ADD&D char I've played forever including on Ultima Online. Also main char in novel I have under construction.

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It's my name, silly...

I wasn't feeling creative at the time.

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I started using the name Atrocities back in the days of Diablo. Then it sounded cool for a MP game called Tribes. All in all, I have been using the Name Atrocities, PCP Atrocities, and MS Atrocities for about 8 years now perhaps more.

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I got my first 28.8 internet connection in 1988 and had to come up with an Online persona. JRR Tolkien's Gandalf immediately came to mind. It was already taken in all forms except Gandalph, and so it was born.

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It's the only way I ever win!

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Taz used to be my handle on the CB when I used to drive a lot. Added the -In-Space since this was a space game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I always related to the nature of the beast. It was the only spelling I could use when I signed up at Yahoo.

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does anyone remember the old threadwith the information on everyone's nick ??

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I remember it, but haven't been able to coax the search engine into finding it.

Mine is from an offline nickname from a friend who shortened a mispronounced Version of my real Last name to "Q"; I added the "Cap'n" part myself, because at the time I was a starship captain in a play-by-(snail-)mail space exploration game.

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Mine comes from the series by Simon R. Green (main character was Owen Deathstalker). Absolutely amazing series. I came onto the shrap Boards and saw all these neat names and realized I had to put some thought into it (mainly I saw the name 'God Emperor' and said 'neato!'. Use this name for here and the Geoff Johns comic Boards. Unfortunately it is already taken for the MTG:Online game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif )

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Trajan = Dead Roman Emperor

I am a Roman History buff, and find that I enjoy reading about Trajan more than most any other Roman leader.

Any how...

Cheers!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As opposed to all those live ones...

I love the names on this forum. We got some real characters here, and the names really reflect them. Kind of like in the Ian M Banks Culture novels, where the super-AI ship Minds choose their own names, memorable examples being the "Fate Amenable to Change", the "Grey Area" and the warship "A Frank Exchange of Views". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Dogscoff is just something that had a nice sound to it and (more importantly) was pretty much guaranteed to be unique. I do regular google searches to make sure no one else is using the name. Is that sad? Probably...

BTW, Ragnarok, if you ever want to talk about Norse mythology, you'll find at least two interested parties on this forum. Have you used the Space Viking shipset?

[ July 28, 2002, 23:11: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh yeah? Who's those parties? But no I haven't used the Space Viking shipset in a game yet. Why do you ask?

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'Growltigress' is the name of one of my cats, my wife calls me 'Big Tigs' amongst other things (the cat is nicknamed 'Little Tigs' or 'Geroff' yew bastard') because I am bouncy, pouncy, flouncy, trouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun (I think). Hence 'Growltigga' and like Dogscoff, no-one else is sad enough to use it.

"Growltigga" was also in TS Eliots' 'Book of Practical Cats' as the swashbuckling pirate bravo cat who was eventually made to walk the plank by some siamese.

Kind of fits with my roguish, piratical but fun-loving persona http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And you call me sad for knowing Ren & Stimpy's Log song...

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, Ragnarok=Norse=Viking...

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And you call me sad for knowing Ren & Stimpy's Log song...

Yes, I do call you sad, Winnie the Pooh is a timeless classic

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As is Ren and Stimpy. The early ones, anyway...

Besides, isn't the "bouncy fun" song from the abominable Uber-twee-Disney-remake-token-fake-English-accent-marketing-bonanza-cartoon series, rather than from the timelessly classic A. A. Milne books?

[ July 29, 2002, 14:23: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

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isn't the "bouncy fun" song from the abominable Uber-twee-Disney-remake-token-fake-English-accent-marketing-bonanza-cartoon series, rather than from the timelessly classic A. A. Milne books?

Yes, the "bouncy fun" song is indeed from the Disney movie, although I am not sure it is called the 'Bouncy fun" song and strongly suspect you havew this confused with something else in your video collection..

and I would disagree that it is an uber-twee remake.. how can it be a re-make of a book? and the A A Milne books did not really give Tigger his true panache, style, elegance and bouncy personality..

You will be saying that Mary Poppins is rubbish next

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I hear that A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.

And I thought that the Tigger Song was from the original animated Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day movie which was adapted from the A.A. Milne series.

Cheers!
Trajan

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And I thought that the Tigger Song was from the original animated Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day movie which was adapted from the A.A. Milne series.

Trajan, despite being a deceased Roman emperor, you are obviously a scholar and a gentlemen...

Trajan, I salute you...

and does anyone remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks?

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Tigga -- It's always a pleasure to help.

As for Bedknobs and Broomsticks -- I remember a movie of it. Didn't Angela Landsbury and Roddy McDowell star in this?

Cheers!
Trajan

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Trajan

Yes, Angela Landsbury and Roddy McDowell did star in that movie, there was dancing under the sea, and a great bit when an attempted German invasion of southern Englan was foiled by a bunch of 'mobilised' empty suits of armour..

damn, that bed could go anywhere... I am so jealous of that.. I would love it if my bed could do that, I could lie there and say "bed, take me to wherever a bunch of supermodels are skinnydipping"

I am going to have a lie down

[ July 29, 2002, 17:16: Message edited by: Growltigga ]

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Hmm, a duplicate of my post crept in, bizarro.

[ August 01, 2002, 16:51: Message edited by: Marvin Kosh ]

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Ah, mine is the wholly unfortunate cross between Marvin the Martian (Duck Dodgers in the 25th-and-a half century ring a bell?) and Ambassador Kosh, from B5.

I've stuck with it for a while now.... must be a couple of years or so http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I guess I just like the notion of using it for everything, from my e-mail address to all my screen names, to my actual writing pseudonym. It's not quite as funky as Calvin Klein, but it'll do http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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Originally posted by dogscoff: I love the names on this forum. We got some real characters here, and the names really reflect them. Kind of like in the Ian M Banks Culture novels, where the super-AI ship Minds choose their own names, memorable examples being the "Fate Amenable to Change", the "Grey Area" and the warship "A Frank Exchange of Views".

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">A friend of mine plays the "Culture" in one of my PBEM games. As I oppose him I have just constructed the first "Bora Horza Gobuchul" class ship. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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[K126] is a clan tag from "Team Fortress" and "Counter Strike". In real life it is the first character of a street were some friends and I used to meet to play RPGs. Second is the actual building number.
Mephisto is from the classic German book "Faust" written by Goethe. Mephisto is kind of a devil, however not really evil. He is the "wag" (my dictionary give these words for "Schalk": rogue, wag, fool). This stuck to me from my high school time. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Check this one out: http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...3;t=002871;p=4

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This line reminded me of a show I used to watch. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago. (Spelling is off probably) But that show was awesome. I can't remember the chicks name though. She was funny. Well back in the day she was. But now she's annoying. haha... Anyone else remember this show?

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Tribes was the best MP game of all time. It kicked CS/TF all to hell. Still does. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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I enjoyed tribes multi-player. I think I missed out on the best parts because I never joined a team there.

My best experience in multi-player gaming was MechCommander, playing through the Starlance league.

I still count myself as a member of a former team from that league (Black Thorns). We communicate frequently, all patiently waiting for a new experience that mirrors that which we enjoyed while Starlance and Mechcommander were in full swing.

Cheers!
Trajan

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I know the feeling. It is like being the Last man standing when the battle is finsihed. When PCP finally went under, I felt lost and alone in Tribes. I was lucky though, my skill and such was well known and I was asked to join many of the top clans. I opted to go with MS because one of the founders of that clan was an ex PCP member who I knew to be a major Tribes junkie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

I have a lot of respect for SL, as it was from what I have heard, a damned fine game on any scale. I wish you and your friends the best in finding a new game to be a team in.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think Ragnarok was also used as the name of a sword in FF VII (and possibly in FF IX and/or FF X).

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This line reminded me of a show I used to watch. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago. (Spelling is off probably) But that show was awesome. I can't remember the chicks name though. She was funny. Well back in the day she was. But now she's annoying. haha... Anyone else remember this show?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, I remember that show (Carmen Sandiego is the correct spelling, I think). A kid's game show on PBS, based on the computer game intended to teach both history and geography. And that group "Rockapella" or something like that singing the theme song (name was a takeoff on the term "a capella", which means singing without instrumental backup). I always felt bad when the "winner" had to identify 10 different African countries within 30 seconds for the grand prize; the lucky ones just had to identify European countries...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmmm... I never played FF VII or FF IX... I have FF X but I don't remember Ragnarok being in it. I'll have to go check it out.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ahh yes, Rockapella, I couldn't think of the name of them for nothing. I would watch that show EVERY day.. haha.. But I agree, the unlucky winners had to pick the hard countries to figure out. I never did come close to figuring any of those out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif I've never been good at geography. I'm ok at history but geography no way.

[ July 29, 2002, 22:25: Message edited by: Ragnarok ]

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Google tells me that the actual title of the song is "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers".

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Wow You guys really spent a lot of time thinking about this. Am I the only one who had a question I desperately needed answered and registered really quick and just used my real name? (although I do use the name Kazarp a lot in Online games. A character from a Larry Niven novel that I though sounded cool)

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When I joined to the SE madness, was in SE3 times, and everybody had Empires to rule, and of course a title. Then, first I needed a title, and because I was an old MOO and MOO2 player/fan, decided that my title should be "Master". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

And Belisarius, well, for the Great Byzantine General who reconquered half of the old Roman Empire for Justinian... and the legend says that he finished their days sightless and dependent on charity (due the jealousy Emperor). Interesting, but he died the same year that died Justinian, 565 AD.(Russell Crowe should be happy!)

Can remember that Asimov based the General Belriose in Belisarius, in "Foundation and Empire".

[ July 30, 2002, 02:47: Message edited by: Master Belisarius ]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In FF IX, Ragnarok was some stone thingy that you found and could either turn it into an Esper that taught you Ultima, or waste it by having it turned into a sword. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Like MB, my title comes from SE3 days when everyone had a title and an empire. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif Imperator is just a cool title (I am 99% certain it is Emperor in Latin http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ). Fyron is just some name I made up.

[ July 30, 2002, 09:02: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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Mine came from a drunken mis-pronounciation durring a D&D game I was DMing my junior year. One of the players meant to say atrocious (as in 'what an atrocious character') when refering to the main villian, but it came out atraikius (ah-TRAY-ki-us). After that, I used that villian as the perpetual opponent whenever I DMed; eventually using him as the main character for all of the games I played, and as a handle on the net.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think that was FF 6... but thanks for the reminder!

I just realized I hadn't made an on-topic post in this thread: my screen name is also related to the SE3 days. I liked the title "Director" because it made me think of an empire being run by a corporation (overtly or covertly), which were always my Favorites in sci-fi movies & books (i.e., the Alien series; the Gap series by Donaldson; a couple novels by Poul Anderson; etc.). And (again, like some others here) "Tsaarx" was the name is used for various AD&D characters I played during college.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think my first exposure to the idea of a corporate state was the original _Rollerball_ movie (which was also my first encounter with Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", one of my favortie classical pieces).

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think my first exposure to the idea of a corporate state was the original _Rollerball_ movie (which was also my first encounter with Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", one of my favortie classical pieces).</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I love this movie!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think my first exposure to the idea of a corporate state was the original _Rollerball_ movie (which was also my first encounter with Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", one of my favortie classical pieces).</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I love this movie!</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, it is a classic, a classic they should not have messed with. I refuse to even rent the remake.

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Greetings...

I used to be Captain Spoogy which was named after my cat.

I became Captain Kwok after plans to make a race based on an "Adventures of Captain Kwok" story I made in elementary school.

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Carmen Sandiego... Yes I remember that show... based on a computer game and it was actually halfway decent! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif There was a Where in Time show, too... I still remember the episode of World where Kneemoi (no relation to Leonard) hid the Sun in Arizona!!! ROFL!!! The SUN in ARIZONA!!! Um, let's see, the SUN is 800,000 miles across... and Arizona is...