The story of ingame-names

[KamikOzzy]

chomped by I <3 whales's dragoon" -> |AoD|Ozzyshka: sup whales -> everyone calls me whales -> "UnnamedPlayer was rifled by whales".

True story.

I never was a careful reader.
<3

[Teapot]

My name is related to an argument supporting atheism - namely Russell's Teapot. Essentially it states that the 'burden of proof' falls on the theist to prove a deity exists, rather than on the atheist to prove it doesn't exist. It's a variant of Occam's Razor.

I mentioned Russell's Teapot in high school once and suddenly I became "the teapot guy" or "the teapot philosopher". It spread around the school for a long time. Years afterwards, I was asked, completely seriously, if I really did believe teapots would take over the world. Gotta love Chinese whispers.

Coincidently, the Utah Teapot is often one of the first things people create when they learn to use 3D modelling programs.

My other names are "tcatipax" (which roughly translates to Teapot from Lojban) and "Tepoto" (Esperanto for Teapot). I mostly use these when "Teapot" is unavailable.

Wikipedia is the world's greatest nerd snipe. I couldn't stop reading it hence all the links.

[vcxzet]

easy to type on qwerty

[zybork]

Teapot, interesting, I always thought the famous rendered teapot was the origin of your name. Interesting to learn the true origin.

Btw, I had another nickname around the time when I was “a loser” or “something special”, that was: “nobody”, referring to that ancient trick Odysseus played on Polyphem, but this was obviously a li'l too hard for too many people to deal with, also … a real darling is much more subtle.

[toastisgood]

Because it is. Plus, I was 11 and had to come up with a name in the next 10 seconds.

[|GBA|QweefZilLa]

The first online game i played with a gamer tag was socom. I started with the name walter (my first name) and I thought that was lame so then my gamer name became qweefbag. After a friend at school told me what a qweef was xD.

 Then I was playing socom one day and a kid had the name godzilla kill and I use my mic and told him his name was awesome and that im gunna name my self qweefzilla from that day forward I will always play any game under the name qweefzilla. most people spell queef but i spell it qweef.

 ps qweefs are really funny to hear so I like qweef in my name. Then I started playing tremulous and for so reason I chose qweef_bag (I was a noob when I played with that name) as a name but I never liked it and I went back to qweefzilla on tremulous as I started to play the game more seriously.

Many people may not like my name but Ive used the word qweef in my name for so long. Im not 12 even though the name might suggest ... im 21.

[toast]

first name was ROFLMYMAYO it was a take on ROFLMAO

then it was ROFLMYWAFFLE cause if you say it "roffle" it rhymes...

then one day i was pretty baked and eating some toast while playing trem
and thought "mmm...toasty." the rest is history. Also i like single syllable names.
idk why.

[Ingar]

Random letters, I needed a nickname for this game.

[toast]

Random letters, I needed a nickname for this game.

I always thought it may have been Nordic lol

[ThisIsBS]

Tyrant Masta was my first name. I always thought I was extremely good back in the KoR days, nooby old me.

Then Reptile, I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I NAMED MYSELF THIS, again on KoR days

iBrandon when I started playing uBP, thanks to iAndy, and my name is Brandon

Dragant - named myself this during !s ages ago, wanted 2 powerful things together, Dragoon and Tyrant

tibs - I was looking for a name, but I wanted to make my own unique one, I guess Iabz inspired me somehow. I first went by BS in red, then the next day tibs (ThisIsBS) which includes my first and last initials.

Gg my stories beat all of you. Cake now please.

[SleepsAnywhere]

Sleeps was always a alias for me, SleepsAnywhere reflects my personality. So there you go pretty simple and fits the character limit nicely with light blue and white.

SleepsAnywhere

Personally I really like it, and there is a lot you can do with Sleeps.

Edit:

Honestly, I have no idea.

I can't get Gooseberry outa my head

[Nux]

When I've been asked, the first thing I point out is it's not a reference to linux. I only noticed later that my nick appeared in the name of that OS (which I don't use).

I also once made a fake history for the name that went:

Icecream Cone  Yum!
<0  Pure Art!
<1  Add 1.
<2  Add another 1.
<3 <10  Add another Convert to binary.
Numbers Under Ten  Inequality interpretation.
N. U. X  Acronym with roman numeral.
N. U. T.  Reconsidered using the roman numeral.
Nut  You eat it.
Nux  Latin for 'nut'.

But honestly, I just put some cool looking letters together a while ago and I've had this awesome name ever since.

[RAKninja-Decepticon]

back when i was 10 or 11, a game called NBA jam was all the rage.  this game had many secret characters, and even more hoaxes about characters that were not in the game but everyone saw "a friend" unlock.  a gaming magazine of the day published a list of these hoax characters, and listed "rim rack:  the red ninja"  but admitted to coming up with that one out of whole cloth.

now NBA jam just happened to be a game that i played soon after asking for three letter initials.  despite knowing the fakery, i decided to "try" for ole rim rack, and input my initials as RAK.  the next game that asked for initials (rock and roll racing for snes by rare i think it was) also prompted in me the response of RAK.  from that day forward, some twenty years ago or so now, i was RAK, to the point of most of my friends in the real world referring to me by that name.

usually RAK is too short.  i usually add a descriptor.  most times this is "ninja" as i've always been a big ninja nerd.  i blame snake eyes and stormshadow from GI joe in my formative years. 

here in trem, i like to make use of all the characters i can in the space for names.  i added "-decepticon" to my name when i saw a player called "bumblebee-autobots".  i am a big transformers nerd, and i couldent let the 'cons go unrepresented when someone was tossing the word autobot around. 

i added the basilisk image thingie because i love the basi.

for the other two aliases that are not some variation on the above information, Miner D-16 is a reference to megatron.  see, in one of the better modern "reboots" to generation 1 (aka, the transformers that we watched on tv in the 80's) places megatron as a simple mining bot before joining the gladatorial games and actually becoming megatron.  he was known as D-16, which is a nice reference.   the japanese numbered their transformers, but changed the method, so that if you use the "latest" numbering scheme, D-16 refers to megatron.

i'm postmaster p because i bring positivity.  watch leprechaun in the hood, it's worth it.

[toastisgood]

first name was ROFLMYMAYO it was a take on ROFLMAO

then it was ROFLMYWAFFLE cause if you say it "roffle" it rhymes...

then one day i was pretty baked and eating some toast while playing trem
and thought "mmm...toasty." the rest is history. Also i like single syllable names.
idk why.

I don't like this.

[-[abaddon]-]

Ah! a perfect topic to clear the doubts of most players, who irritate me by asking s*** related to World of Warcraft (I hate that game)! NO! i did not get the name from there! Neither from unreal tournament!
Open an old dictionary's first page! See the meaning of Abaddon.

[Qrntz]

World of Warcraft (I hate that game)

Solidarity ensues.

[Celestial_Rage]

World of Warcraft (I hate that game)

Solidarity ensues.

That's how I got my other alias.

[toast]

first name was ROFLMYMAYO it was a take on ROFLMAO

then it was ROFLMYWAFFLE cause if you say it "roffle" it rhymes...

then one day i was pretty baked and eating some toast while playing trem
and thought "mmm...toasty." the rest is history. Also i like single syllable names.
idk why.

I don't like this.

lol whatever man, i never even see you. do you play 1.1?

[ziplocpeople]

Tbh, I got my name "The Medistation" back when I was a noob playing at D*S. A player named Conrad renamed to "The Armory" when he was hiding under an armorcade with a psaw on ATCS, I decided to be "The Medistation," and rather than becoming just an alias, it became my main name. As for the rest of my names, I alias too much, that is all.