Back when I was in my sophomore year of high school my friends and I were hanging around in front of our school before class started. 3 of them were talking about a band they liked called Five Iron Frenzy. They were discussing one of the songs that dealt with growing older, and one of the lines in the song was something like "we'll hit the boardwalk just like Matlock".
About a second after he said it, my friend just slowly turns to me with his eyes wide open and a goofy grin on his face, points to me and says "you're Matlock now". I had no idea who Matlock was at the time, so I asked them who the hell he was. They explained that it was the name of a TV show that old people in retirement homes liked. So the next thing out of my mouth was an irate "not Matlock".
From then on they kept calling me Matlock, to which I would always respond with "NOT MATLOCK!" Eventually in my senior year, one of our friends came to school with an old disk with America's Army 2 on it. Over the next few days we traded it off to each other so we could install it on our computers, bring it back to school, and give it to someone else to install.
Eventually when we all had it installed we would join up and play together and so we could communicate we would set up a conference call and talk to each other that way. My original name in the game was Bone (a nickname I picked up in elementary school). Unfortunately, everyone kept calling me Matlock, so out of frustration I changed my name to Not_Matlock.
The name stuck ever since then. When the Xbox 360 came out and I bought one, I set up my name as Not Matlock (Microsoft doesn't like underscores apparently) because everything else that I could think of was already taken and I didn't want to add a bunch of useless numbers or letters to my name When I bought HL2 a few months later I used the same name out of consistency's sake. I've stuck with it ever since because it's the one name that I can use across multiple services that no one has already taken.
tomroadrunnerBack when I was 13 years old, there was a class on "How to Use the Internet" at our middle school. One of our assignments was to sign up for an email account. My favorite car at the time was the Plymouth Roadrunner.
Awesome car, but I prefer them with "Superbird" at the end of the name.
http://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/07/28/19/32/plymouth_superbird-pic-43208.jpeg
Back when I was in my sophomore year of high school my friends and I were hanging around in front of our school before class started. 3 of them were talking about a band they liked called Five Iron Frenzy. They were discussing one of the songs that dealt with growing older, and one of the lines in the song was something like "we'll hit the boardwalk just like Matlock".
About a second after he said it, my friend just slowly turns to me with his eyes wide open and a goofy grin on his face, points to me and says "you're Matlock now". I had no idea who Matlock was at the time, so I asked them who the hell he was. They explained that it was the name of a TV show that old people in retirement homes liked. So the next thing out of my mouth was an irate "not Matlock".
From then on they kept calling me Matlock, to which I would always respond with "NOT MATLOCK!" Eventually in my senior year, one of our friends came to school with an old disk with America's Army 2 on it. Over the next few days we traded it off to each other so we could install it on our computers, bring it back to school, and give it to someone else to install.
Eventually when we all had it installed we would join up and play together and so we could communicate we would set up a conference call and talk to each other that way. My original name in the game was Bone (a nickname I picked up in elementary school). Unfortunately, everyone kept calling me Matlock, so out of frustration I changed my name to Not_Matlock.
The name stuck ever since then. When the Xbox 360 came out and I bought one, I set up my name as Not Matlock (Microsoft doesn't like underscores apparently) because everything else that I could think of was already taken and I didn't want to add a bunch of useless numbers or letters to my name When I bought HL2 a few months later I used the same name out of consistency's sake. I've stuck with it ever since because it's the one name that I can use across multiple services that no one has already taken.
[quote=tomroadrunner]Back when I was 13 years old, there was a class on "How to Use the Internet" at our middle school. One of our assignments was to sign up for an email account. My favorite car at the time was the Plymouth Roadrunner.[/quote]
Awesome car, but I prefer them with "Superbird" at the end of the name.
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Big fan of GTA3 when i was younger, and on the shitty tv i played it on the RC Toyz vans looked like they said RC Cruz. Dropped the RC later on though.
Big fan of GTA3 when i was younger, and on the shitty tv i played it on the RC Toyz vans looked like they said RC Cruz. Dropped the RC later on though.
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Originally when I was signing up for an MMO I used the name Awesomegy, because there weren't enough character slots for the u to make it "Awesomeguy". After a while people just started to refer to me as Awes and it stuck.
Originally when I was signing up for an MMO I used the name Awesomegy, because there weren't enough character slots for the u to make it "Awesomeguy". After a while people just started to refer to me as Awes and it stuck.
http://regularshow.wikia.com/wiki/Leon
Nigga said utopia, i was p high thought he said euphoria, euph sounded cool but was taken euphhy wasnt
fuck code geass
http://regularshow.wikia.com/wiki/Leon
Nigga said utopia, i was p high thought he said euphoria, euph sounded cool but was taken euphhy wasnt
fuck code geass
i just like kitty cats :3
i just like kitty cats :3
was trying to think of a name for my very first quake live account. heard something on the news about bernie madoff and decided to roll with it.
was trying to think of a name for my very first quake live account. heard something on the news about bernie madoff and decided to roll with it.
In order from oldest to newest:
Raziel
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/LoK-Raziel.png[/img]
Kakihara
[img]http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/47635/2690204-ct___ichi_the_killer_profilelarge.jpg[/img]
Khaki
[img]http://originalsoegear.com/assets/color-khaki.jpg[/img]
When I was a kid I loved Ed, Edd, n' Eddy, and also loved Ed's fascination with toast. Being the unoriginal name toast is however, I decided to change it to the creator of toast; a toaster. That was boring to me, so I changed that to toasters, then to toasterz, then finally to toastrz.
The 97 comes from second grade when I somehow made up a way to make 2+2=97.
watthttp://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/8/87790/2108508-box_pm.png
fosterhttp://i.imgur.com/A2fLD4z.jpg
Yes, yes I love both of you. <3
When I was a kid I loved Ed, Edd, n' Eddy, and also loved Ed's fascination with toast. Being the unoriginal name toast is however, I decided to change it to the creator of toast; a toaster. That was boring to me, so I changed that to toasters, then to toasterz, then finally to toastrz.
The 97 comes from second grade when I somehow made up a way to make 2+2=97.
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[quote=foster][img]http://i.imgur.com/A2fLD4z.jpg[/img][/quote]
Yes, yes I love both of you. <3
I needed an alias to make a profile on my recently acquired xbox360, I looked over at a wall and saw an old clock with wooden mushrooms on it. This is the only alias I've ever used.
I needed an alias to make a profile on my recently acquired xbox360, I looked over at a wall and saw an old clock with wooden mushrooms on it. This is the only alias I've ever used.
i took bleakx's name and changed it to bleaky
i took bleakx's name and changed it to bleaky
All of these are creative but my name isn't creative at all
All of these are creative but my name isn't creative at all
Somewhere between the ages of 10 and 12 I came up with the name Jaguar because big cats are super kewl. People online called me Jag which I didn't foresee but it sounded badass. Well you obviously can't register anywhere with a word like "Jaguar" so for a short bit I had JaguarKing. King is a character in the Tekken series of fighting games (who incidentally wears a jaguar mask, though I've always been an Armor King player since Tekken 2). For whatever reason I didn't stick with that and changed to JaguarFiend. A fiend is a monster from Quake 1.
http://i.imgur.com/3tcccMX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/eDMqgOG.jpg
Back before that when the MSN Gaming Zone was around I remember registering and for whatever reason none of the names I wanted were available. Eventually out of frustration I thought "Well what if I type something really fucking stupid, will that work?!" so I typed PuKeCaNNon and.. uhh.. it worked D: Props to anyone who remembers MSN Gaming Zone. I played Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear through that.
Somewhere between the ages of 10 and 12 I came up with the name Jaguar because big cats are super kewl. People online called me Jag which I didn't foresee but it sounded badass. Well you obviously can't register anywhere with a word like "Jaguar" so for a short bit I had JaguarKing. King is a character in the Tekken series of fighting games (who incidentally wears a jaguar mask, though I've always been an Armor King player since Tekken 2). For whatever reason I didn't stick with that and changed to JaguarFiend. A fiend is a monster from Quake 1.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/3tcccMX.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/eDMqgOG.jpg[/img]
Back before that when the MSN Gaming Zone was around I remember registering and for whatever reason none of the names I wanted were available. Eventually out of frustration I thought "Well what if I type something really fucking stupid, will that work?!" so I typed PuKeCaNNon and.. uhh.. it worked D: Props to anyone who remembers MSN Gaming Zone. I played Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear through that.
My name is Adam, so naturally I would use Zimmy. No, but I honestly don't really remember how I got it, but I remember my friends calling me Zimmy when I was younger and it stuck.
My name is Adam, so naturally I would use Zimmy. No, but I honestly don't really remember how I got it, but I remember my friends calling me Zimmy when I was younger and it stuck.
I was eating mac n cheese with a fork
I was eating mac n cheese with a fork
I decided to use my last name because I am not very creative.
I decided to use my last name because I am not very creative.
When I was younger, I had friend named elliott. He died in a car crash and I just sorta used this one night when I was drunk, and it stuck.
When I was younger, I had friend named elliott. He died in a car crash and I just sorta used this one night when I was drunk, and it stuck.
a lot of really simple origin stories on this thread lol
my full alias is obeliskos. I think I saw it on a scoreboard for a game on nickelodeon's website, then I used it when I made my first gamefaqs account in 2007 or some wack shit. I've gone by tons of different aliases (especially in my time playing tf2) but obeliskos has always stuck.
I shortened it to obe because everybody took to calling me that. then I added an underscore to be cool.
a lot of really simple origin stories on this thread lol
my full alias is obeliskos. I think I saw it on a scoreboard for a game on nickelodeon's website, then I used it when I made my first gamefaqs account in 2007 or some wack shit. I've gone by tons of different aliases (especially in my time playing tf2) but obeliskos has always stuck.
I shortened it to obe because everybody took to calling me that. then I added an underscore to be cool.
Alias for 6 years
http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/5310/1717184-b_mr_grimm_2.jpg
Stable Alias: Unique WarLordDa
First time using this alias was in in early middle-school for Runescape, I wanted to be a "master of all weapons" I.E. warlord (Middle-School Logic)
While explaining the warlordda is as simple as the da is the first two letters from my first name as an identifier for me.
Alias for 6 years
[img]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/5310/1717184-b_mr_grimm_2.jpg[/img]
Stable Alias: Unique WarLordDa
First time using this alias was in in early middle-school for Runescape, I wanted to be a "master of all weapons" I.E. warlord (Middle-School Logic)
While explaining the warlord[b]da[/b] is as simple as the [b]da[/b] is the first two letters from my first name as an identifier for me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws[/youtube]
My name is Matthew.
It's in all caps because before, it was MAGGOTS!, which was a shortening of my previous alias, Friendship is MAGGOTS!, because I don't believe in mutually beneficial relationships I used to care about ponies and the soldier was always talking about maggots, and the soldier is a cool guy.
My name is Matthew.
It's in all caps because before, it was MAGGOTS!, which was a shortening of my previous alias, Friendship is MAGGOTS!, because [s]I don't believe in mutually beneficial relationships[/s] I used to care about ponies and the soldier was always talking about maggots, and the soldier is a cool guy.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
I'm really really uncreative, took me 15 minutes to come up with the name goat
I went by the German words for potato (Kartoffel) before that in other games.
I'm really really uncreative, took me 15 minutes to come up with the name goat
I went by the German words for potato (Kartoffel) before that in other games.
it's a description of my personality.
just kidding. i was using vileplume as an alias. vile looked cool and is actually a word. i like single-word names.
it's a description of my personality.
just kidding. i was using vileplume as an alias. vile looked cool and is actually a word. i like single-word names.
I wanted a name that was cool.
(please don't hurt me that's probably my best joke)
Apparently though, its a pokemon move
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Icy_Wind_(move)
I wanted a name that was [i]cool.[/i]
(please don't hurt me that's probably my best joke)
Apparently though, its a pokemon move
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Icy_Wind_(move)
The Venture Bros.
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