So where does your username come from?

[BaileyTW]

Comes from myself

[Doomkid]

I was a kid and I loved Doom

 

also, just for the sake of continuity, here's the old threads:

 

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/121257-how-did-you-get-your-username/

 

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/94864-why-you-chose-the-username-you-did/

 

[Final Verdict]

 

I had the same idea, throw in a link to the story while also dropping a friendly hint that a massive thread already exists for this.

 

But Frank Zappa beat me to it with his expertise in subtlety.

 

Edit: It would really help if I checked when the thread was made. I mistook this for another new thread by someone else and didn't realise it was the same one I had already posted in a week or so ago. Don't mind me, I'm just suffering from an acute case of stupidity. 

 

I won't change the original comment above the edit though, maybe someone will get a laugh from it.

 

Edited April 24, 2021 by Final Verdict

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

Setting up my phone, it asked for my name, I wrote :[Lol 6]:, I liked it so it became my "online name"

 

Here's a more detailed answer

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/post/2294649

[DOEL]

nickname an ex girlfriend gave me. is that lame? absolutely

 

pronounced like the political Bob Dole or the fruit brand

[MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai]

I love Mobile suit Gundam universe and decided to name myself after one of the mobile suit (humaniod tanks) of the enemy faction known as Zeon.
Zaku II kai was an advanced upgrade of an already aging mobile suit line, the legendary Zaku II, that carried Zeon throughout the One year war and was deployed as a last ditch effort in order to reinforce Zeon´s forces.

If you want to know more about the legendary Zaku II or Gundam universe, let me reffer you to these two helpfull videos:

 

 

and another video about Gundam (UC) as a whole:

 

 

[Linuxmaster1992]

I chose this name because I like Linux, and I am good at using it. I chose 1992 because it's when the Commodore Amiga 1200, a great computer, came out. Nothing too crazy for my name.

[openxt]

Working on some doom remake thing, probably gonna be a wad or a pk3, maybe a full on mod, voxel graphics and such.

[Pakman2600]

i just put "Pacman" and put the "K"

Ando for the name i have here well, the 2600 from the console made by atari

[Piper Maru]

PSX is apparently a codename for the Sony PlayStation. And I am lifelong Doom fan, but especially of Doom on the PlayStation 1.

[SynthScoutWave]

I love synthwave, but I needed an extra word to have a proper name

 

Also I love discovering constantly - new things to be precise, but still like a scout

[CacoCyberImpEsquire]

I just came up with a random thing I thought sounded kind of funny and decided I needed to make a sprite that reflects it.

[Gokuma]

Above me is the second best first post ever.

[Proxmin]

I found Proximity Mine on Wiki Weapon list (searching for guns for spriting reasons), then put it in a Blender, add 2 tablespoons of coolness and a pinch of salt and then mix it well and there, a Proxmin is born!

Edited May 10, 2021 by Proxmin

[ALPINED]

Mine is from company that makes... Car radios.

Always liked their logo, thats why i named myself after them.

Also D in AlpineD means Doom. Short for AlpineDoom

[ReX]

On 5/1/2021 at 3:57 PM, Gokuma said:

second best first post ever.

What's the best first post ever? Enquiring minds want to know.

[Gokuma]

29 minutes ago, ReX said:

What's the best first post ever? Enquiring minds want to know.

@thestarrover's post on https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/121253

[ReX]

@Gokuma: Yes, you're correct. That was the best first post ever. Incredibly informative/helpful, and the poster is just so unassuming. Very cool.

[thestarrover]

15 hours ago, Gokuma said:

@thestarrover's post on https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/121253

 

15 hours ago, ReX said:

@Gokuma: Yes, you're correct. That was the best first post ever. Incredibly informative/helpful, and the poster is just so unassuming. Very cool.

Thank you very much! 

 

My username comes from The Star Rover , an amazing and wonderful book by Jack London.

[wallabra]

When I was a kid, I tried to sign up an account with the name "Gustavo", but it was obviously already taken. YouTube prepped for me a number of suggestions, each peppered with a few numbers on the end, and in light with the slight bias toward rounded numbers that I used to have, I picked this one.

[Teo Slayer]

Teo is the shorten version of Theodore which is my actual name
Slayer from Doom Slayer because I'm a big fan of the Doom Series

 

Put together => Teo Slayer :D

[LateNightPerson]

I like to stay up late at night 

[Mr. Kong]

I've always been interested in the ancient mythologies of the world, though I'm not a man of faith myself. I also wanted a username that represented where I'm from, without being too lame.

This username comes from a character on our greatest epic poem, Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads) by Luís Vaz de Camões.

[The BMFG]

my username came from not wanting to name my doomworld account the same name as my youtube channel (hunting the gaming huntsinger   P.S i have renamed my YouTube to the bmfg) so i was thinking of some doom related stuff then KABOOM it came into my head. how about instead of big fucking gun maybe big motherfucking gun would sound cooler. so then i made my doomworld account then

[MemeMind]

When I made my DW account Theperson was a shortened "NerdManPerson" which was my OG username for twitter/reddit/discord/blah blah.
Last year I rebranded my usernames as Mememind and I dont know how to change my DW name.

Mememind was a temporary shitpost of the gravemind from Halo 2 but it stuck.

[battlescroll]

i came up with mine when i was making a wow acount as a kid so i wanted something middle ages like so i thought of batllescroll.

[Chip]

In second grade my class was writing plays. I chose to be in a group with 2 girls in my class. One day while we were writing (it was a really cute play, actually. It was in March so we had a play on a lion and a lamb and how the 2 seasons of winter and spring were different but could still get along) and one of the girls in my group started to call themselves potato. I don't know why we found it hysterical, but we did. She then called the other person in the group Doughnut and she was having difficulty coming up with a food-related nickname for me, so instead of creating a new food-related nickname, she just took her name, potato, and added chip at the end. I went by Potato Chip for the rest of the year. 

Fast forward to 3rd grade. I'm now playing my first and only year of baseball. I was at practice one day and the coach asked me if I had a nickname. I told him it was potato chip and he told me it was the worst nickname ever. He referred to me as Chip for the rest of practice, and I started using it as a username on websites. 

[DisgruntledPorcupine]

When I was about 14/15 years old there was a music-related forum I used to be active on where I had the name DT-PT, which was just the abbreviation for my two favourite bands at the time. After a little while (like a few months or so) I decided it was a really lame thing to have as a username and was desperate to change it, so I just came up with the name DisgruntledPorcupine on the spot and requested the moderators change my moniker to that. I still don't think it's the best name but I've been using it for over 10 years now, so I guess it's just my identity at this point haha.

[Worriedidiot]

My username comes from me being a worried idiot.

[Book Lord]

I played Scythe just a few weeks before finally joining Doomworld and I liked MAP17 name, aesthetics and gameplay, so I choose Book Lord. I think it reflects my background as a Heretic/Hexen fan, in some mysterious way.