The meaning of you're account name..

[Spectere]

When I was young (around 1994/1995) I opted to pick a name that reflected my love of computing and Doom—most notably the blursphere/specter effect—so I picked "Digital Specter."

 

I soon dropped the "Digital" part because it was kind of unwieldy. Some time later I tried to register an account for some online service (AIM, maybe? I don't remember for sure) and the name was already taken, so I opted for an amalgamation of the US and British spellings.

 

I know that I've done all of my Quake deathmatching under this alias, so I've been using it since at least mid-1997.

[wumbo]

that one episode in spongebob where they had the belt and patrick turned the 'm' on it upside-down and said "w is for wumbo" always stuck with me, i guess.

[Mr. Freeze]

[JeffAri]

it's just a funny way of saying my middle name (Jeffery)

[Chookum]

Back in the 90s and 00s there used to be a charcoal chicken place with the name - never ate there but the name amused me. It got replaced with a real estate agency when I wasn't looking, so heck upon them.

[Frozen]

49 minutes ago, Mr. Freeze said:

 

You're not sending me to the cooler.

[RHhe82]

Back in the late 00s I went for a Russian language course for one semester, which was around the same time I was thinking of needing to come up with a new alias for Xbox live and/or PSN. So, I took my first name and transformed it into cyrillic alphabet and then converted it back to latin alphabet.. The numbers are my birth year.

 

Simple as that. A shame that I've long regretted this alias, it's difficult to pronounce (unless you know the idea) and the origin story has been tarnished by subsequent events in the world. Not a week goes by that I'm thinking of changing it.

 

(And the capital H is just an accident when I first created my DW account, but at first didn't change it because you couldn't do it in a year, and now I'm afraid to change it because of the same one year freezing period in case I come up with a better alias :D)

[Amaruq Wulfe]

It's my name.

[NenapoMinayuChtchiyasya]

My nickname was inspired by the famous chess player Ian Nepomniachtchi, mostly the ending. It's ironic that Ian's last name "Nepomniachtchi" is russian for "unremembering". I found it quite amusing.
I have something similar, initially it was like it was "not memorable" - "nezapominayuchtchiyasya".  But I wanted something more harmonious and they helped me choose "nenapominayuchtchiyasya". 
It is quite difficult to translate into any language, and means a person whom you kind of remember, but you remember poorly, and this person with his/her presence does not seem to try to remind you of himself/herself, although he/she could unconsciously remind you that he/she is kind of the person you knew, but this does not happen. Although I may be wrong, in general, if there are Russians in the forum, they can tell you more accurately, I believe.

Edited September 9 by NenapoMinayuChtchiyasya

[NenapoMinayuChtchiyasya]

I really love the Lord of the Rings, especially the first two parts. Once, for some unknown reason, I came across a book by Suorun Omollon (Siberian Yakut writer), I liked his name so much, as if he were another unknown magician from the universe of the Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately, at that time I didn’t know Russian well, and even less the Yakut language, so I didn’t dare to take his name or somehow get inspired, since I don’t understand what it means. But this name simply stuck in my head as if carved in stone, and more than ten years later I still remember it.

[famicommander]

It's a portmanteau of Famicom (the Japanese name for the NES) and commander. 

[Eviternatus098]

Needed to think of a username and had just finished eviternity II.

[Osmosis Bones]

You ever seen that animated film starring Chris Rock?

 

(no not Madagascar)

[ducon]

It means jerk or sucker in French, and it sounds a bit like Duke N…

[GreenAnime]

2 hours ago, vanilla_d00m said:

Random..  DOOM has a lot of anime fans.

Not in that sense, I mean I jumbled some words then combine it that don't make any sense.

[Sonikkumania]

I like Sonikku za Hejjihoggu.

[Klemc]

That's ME

 

Clément C.

[Melodic Spaceship]

The name "Melodic Spaceship" was originally created when I started my YouTube channel. The alias I was using in the Commander Keen community beforehand (TheBigV) was already taken on YouTube so this name was chosen to reflect my interest in music and space-themed video games and because it wasn't used by anyone else. Since then, I've taken to using this alias everywhere outside the Commander Keen community (including here, of course).

[tewgytaylor]

So whenever I play a Zelda game I just smash random syllables together until I get something that sounds funny, and one time I came up with Tewgy. I thought it'd be funny if I put Tewgy next to a normal name like Taylor. That's basically it.

[UserPlayer89]

needed a name online somewhere very long ago and I just stuck with it elsewhere 

[Plerb]

"Plerb" doesn't mean anything, I wanted to use a fun-sounding nonsense word for a username and it's what I came up with. I was inches away from using "Plerp". Before, I would use variations of the name "pandaling" which my mom came up for me when I was like 3, notably "Pandakeen" for commander keen related websites, but I got kinda tired of that name and I like Plerb a lot more.

[AdministrationCenter21]

"AdministrationCenter21" Is my name because Map: 21 Administration Center from TNT: Evilution is my favourite doom map, simple as that.

[PurplDanial]

My Favorite Color Is Purple, I really love that color

And i am also named danial (NO NOT DANIEL)

 

So i shaved off the E in purple for originality and i bashed my name next to it and voila, PurplDanial

[Chainie]

Diminutive form of Chaingunner.

[vanilla_d00m]

Thanks for the replies guys.  I’m not good at making names.. but since I’m against brutal doom (animated monster kills etc) I made this and sorry if it doesn’t sound original.

[RataUnderground]

For the non spanish speakers, it means "Underground Rat".

[SirPootis]

 

This word was very prevalent in me and my friends' humor and lingo throughout most of my late childhood.

 

In a different note, it's funny to see who knew TF2 and who didn't when meeting people in Discord or other voice chats by the way they pronounced 'Pootis' in my username. A majority of people opted for 'Poo-tiss' or 'Poo-tus' but the few who knew TF2 immediately pronounced it the same way Heavy did :P

[Mr795]

it's my name on almost everything else

[HeatedChocolate]

My accounts have been called "HeatedChocolate" for as long as I can remember, in no rush to change it either. Suppose "Dean" or some derivative would be a good choice considering that be the name of the dingus rattlesnake I like to portray myself as, but that's probably not gonna happen anytime soon.

[aRottenKomquat]

In a high school physics class, the teacher walked us through a thought experiment that illustrated the concept of conservation of momentum by imagining exploding a firecracker inside a rotten kumquat. That just happened to be the day I finally signed up for XBox Live, and every name I tried was taken until I used aRottenKomquat with the word "kumquat" slightly mispelled. It's been my "gamer" name ever since.