Where does your screename come from?

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snatcher1988
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Where does your screename come from?

Post by snatcher1988 »

My screename comes from, of course, the name of the Hideo Kojima game Snatcher, and the year it was first released in (1988).
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Post by shidoni »

From Vagrant Story semi-antagonist, Sydney Losstarot...
http://www.venusgospel.net/sydney/gallery/syd_40.jpg
Also, I've noticed that Asmodai, one of King Solomon's familliars (generally speaking), shares a similar name...
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Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PAL)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Platinum (PAL)(SEALED)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PAL)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PAL)(SEALED)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (NTSC)(BOOTLEG)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (PAL)(SEALED)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Collector's Edition (NTSC-U)
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Re: Where does your screename come from?

Post by Sevket »

Hehe mine is my name. Simple as that
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I thought it sounded funny at the time. Also, I'm relatively new here :)
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Post by Solidé »

Solidé is just "Solid" but in French. The little é after Solid looks really cool doesn't it? :D
Oh and Solid comes from "Solid Snake" of course. ;)
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Mine is my nickname. It's what everyone is calling me.
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MetalGear: Ghost Babel (Gameboy Color) [European]
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MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance + The Document of MGS2 (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (Xbox) [European]
MetalGear Solid 2: Substance (PC) [European]
MetalGear AC!D (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Premium Pack (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear AC!D2 (PSP) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - 1st Edition (PlayStation 2) [Japanese]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - Promo copy (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid 3: Subsistence - 1st Edition (PlayStation 2) [European]
MetalGear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel (PSP) [European]
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BOKTAI SERIES
boktai: The Sun Is In Your Hand! (Gameboy Advance) [European]
boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (Gameboy Advance) [European]

OTHER SERIES
Penguin Adventure (MSX) [European]
Kabushiki Baibai Trainer Kabutore (DS) [Japanese]

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Re: Where does your screename come from?

Post by 87th »

To cut a long story short, I was born in 1987 and it's the year MetalGear was released. "87th" sounds better than attaching "87" to the end of some worn-out username.
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Mine comes from the manga character Shinichi Kudo, who was named Jimmy Kudo for the english version. It just sorta popped into my head one day, when I couldn't figure out what the heck I should name a character on a game. Jimmy Kudo is already taken everywhere, obviously. So I went ahead and just used JimboKudo. That was a long time ago, and I guess it just stuck with me.
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Post by dethklokdev »

Mine comes from a show called Metalocalypse and the main characters band name is dethklok
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Four and a half years ago I started my online gaming career on SOCOM Fireteam Bravo on the PSP. My screen name was ak47.net.usa. I know catchy right? I was in a clan called RED-7. Long story short, that clan broke up and I became a leader of my own clan, the same clan I lead today, three years later. When I became a clan leader I needed a name with more authority. I created this name, Commander_AK-47. I'm a bit famous in the online community if I do say so myself, which is why I haven't changed my name to kadizzle, which is my overall forum name.
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Post by Henry Spencer »

Got it from David Lynch's Eraserhead; main character's name. I decided to use it for my username, as I am a big film buff. I use this username practically everywhere now.
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Xenomorph was the word they used for the aliens in AvP games. I like the sound of that word.
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I wanted a name similar to John Doe and.... well, there you go.
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Welp a couple of years ago me and some of my former friends were obsessed with retarded internet memes and the gross stuff you can find on the internet. We found Motherman.com, and it kind of became a huge inside joke with all of us. Anyways, one day I had detention with the art teacher and my buddies actually stayed in the room with me, so I started to draw one of them, my friend Chris but I gave him a flag that was going to say 'motherman' on it, but I forgot the 'h' so it said motorman. The picture ended up looking nothing like him so we named the guy Dick Motorman, he was supposed to be this badass manly man, we had this whole back story for him, and i would always draw him doing ridiculous things, like delivering a baby with one hand, and solving a rubiks cube with the other. Basically one inside joke became another. I needed a good screen name that I have never heard before, so I just started using Dick Motorman.
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Re: Where does your screename come from?

Post by Commander_AK-47 »

Ha! I like that.
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yeah some of the pictures are pretty funny, I'll see if I can find some, and post them here.
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My name "Ash" comes from the Evil Dead Films (had the nick since 1993 on old BBS's).
And the "el" part came from my freshman year of highschool....spanish class.

When I set up my first e-mail account..."Ash" was taken, so I made "el_ash". :mrgreen:
Been that for about 10 years now! (also use Ash12 about everywhere they let me).
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Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake (MSX2 original :D)
Metal Gear Solid (PS1)
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
Metal Gear Solid (Gameboy Color, that's Ghost Babel;) )
Metal Gear Acid

Boktai (European)
Boktai (Japanese)
Boktai 2 (European)
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Boktai 2 (Japanese)
Boktai 3
Lunar Knights

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Re: Where does your screename come from?

Post by Ghost »

Not really any funny or interesting background stories about my user name I'm afraid :(

I needed a callsign when I installed Wing Commander Prophecy for the first time, well Ghost sounded neat so I went with that.
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Re: Where does your screename come from?

Post by skwatter »

Years ago, I always took so long to think of a User-name for anything. One time in 2005 I believe, Me and my friend were playing an online game of some sort and I was sitting there at the computer for 52 minutes trying to think of a name I liked. Finally he got pissed at me and said "Just think of a God-damned name, Asshole!" so I typed in the first name I could think of. it was "Squatter", a name I gave my Friend's little brother after he bent over so my friend could give him a tattoo of a tear drop on his ass. Instead of a tattoo, my friend stuck the permanent marker he was going to use cap-first straight up his hala-halaaa. He then had to "SQUAT" over the toilet to crap it out. No, seriously. For reals. :mrgreen:

I changed it to "skwatter", because it sounded more phonetically logical in my mind, and I have used this User-name for all my online accounts ever since.

Have a good one!

[Appologies if I have scarred you with the above paragraph. :wink: ]
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-Metal Gear Solid II - Substance
-Metal Gear Solid III - Subsistence
-Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
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Post by Randam Hajile »

Snatcher. This character hit me as soon as he appeared in the story. He's one of my favourite characters up to this day.
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Post by midori_fox »

Midori is green in Japanese my favorite color. Fox for foxhound code name Fox which is the highest code name there is.

I pretty much copied Grey Fox but replaced Grey with Green and turned Green to Japanese cause it just sounds cooler and I love Japanese. Its what I like to image my codename if I were in Foxhound... lol :P
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Solfieri is a character from Uma noite na taverna (A night in the Tavern) by brazilian neo-romantic author Alvarez de Azevedo.
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Post by Project_Noah »

It comes from Xenogears, which is by far one of my favorite rpgs of all time. "Project Noah" was the originally intended name of Xenogears, before they changed it later in production for unknown reasons. It was also the name of Krelian's plan to revive Merkava.
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Post by nemesiswontdie »

the name nemesiswontdie comes from the RE3 OST well the original track name is "nemesis doesnt give up" and for some reason i though it was "wont die" so i decided to make that my username in almost every forum site i go to.
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Metal Gear II
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid 4
Snatcher
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Post by Iron Flamingo »

About 4-5 years ago I put my name into a Metal Gear Solid name generator. "Iron Flamingo" was the result. Shame the thing went offline. :(
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