I'm a writer and my forum name comes from one of the characters in the comic book I've been working on (for years now...). It's also the name for my web journal thing... 64 is just a number I've been using for years, so I throw it into all my online names, sometimes spealt out, sometimes not. Samael in most traditions is the Angel of Death, he is considered by some to be the snake in the garden of eden, the one who wrestled with Jacob, and his name is often used intermixedly with in texts with that of satan. In most accounts, the angel samael is neither good nor evil, but in the later writings he is often counted amoung the fallen angels. I was looking for a dark name and history for a dark character.
Someone told me I was a casual gamer, since I don't like every single genre of game, or something, and I thought I was a casual gamer. I put my name in as Mr. Casual, and later realized, "You know what? I think I'm hardcore!" Now I think of my name as being Ironic. Its funny sometimes, IMO. "Mr. Casual has a great game collection and good taste!" :-D
Mine was taken from the now defunct Montreal Expos baseball team as I used to be a big fan of the team and used the name on the baseball as well as the F1 and hockey forums I visit. I guess the name just carried over to gaming forums I post at after I joined them. The + has no significance or meaning at all if your wondering, a guy at another forum already was named underexposed so I added the + to diffrentiate between us.
My last name is St.Louis, and a little under a decade ago, when I was in junior high school, I had a gym teacher who would call me "The Great Saint" as sortof a goofy nickname. Later that year as I was trying to register for an e-mail account, I was looking for a rather unique name that hadn't been taken and didn't force me to use numbers or underscores. After fifteen minutes of searching, I tried 'greatsaint' out of desperation, but it was taken. I then tried 'greatsaintlouis' and lo and behold, it was available. I registered the address, and it's been with me since (although it has become a bit of a spam receptacle in recent years, although I retained the 'greatsaintlouis' name when I started my new Gmail account. Damn, that WAS really 8 years ago. I feel so old...
I've had lots of nicknames on the net now i only use 2 one of which is SilverBolt..leader of the airealbots in the origininal transformers cartoon and later the noble knight in shining armour in beastwars and beatsmachines..i just like the sound of it so it kinda stuck.
As with most of my nicknames online - it's a music reference. 'Le Spank' is taken from the following tune (I'm willing to bet nobody has ever head of it): Georgie Porgie - Life Goes On (Richard F's Le Spank Remix) I am really in to house music and have heard a few of my favourite DJs play it and once particularly that stands out - Erick Morillo played it at Leeds love parade which was an outdoor event attended by thousands of people a few years back.
Ok, now here's mine. Back in high school (doesn't every story start like that? ;-)) a few weirdos in my class who were somehow obsessed with using as many German words as possible (God knows why) started calling me 'Anti' (which is just as well a Dutch word but they pronounced it as if it was German). This stuck for a while until we went on a school trip to Rome, we visited a cheap pizzeria, and behold, one of the menu pages had "Antipasta" written on it in large friendly letters, which quite simply means "hors d'oeuvre" (what you eat before the "real" supper). Thank god they didn't decide to call me "hors d'oeuvre", but from there on my classmates started calling me Antipasta. Lords knows why I capitalized the P, but shortly after I joined the assembler board so I decided to use it
"VIRTUAL ALAN" Doesn`t take to much First name Alan When I first got access at home to the world wide interweb I was big into the Virtual Boy. I was checking around and came across Ferry G`s site www.virtual-boy.org Then started using ICQ I think and was being really original and used VIRTUAL ALAN Seemed to have stuck................here and most other places. I do however have a different one for PLAYSTATION ON-LINE ,which I really should keep and use is HELMUT CHEEZ :smt042 :smt043 :smt042 :smt043 :smt042 :smt043 :smt042
Mine is based on an English author who lived close to the Hiroshima area in Japan in the Edo period. He called himself Yakumo to be recognized. I just thought it would be a good name to use since I'm an English guy who lives within a few hours of Hiroshima. Yakumo
Anthaemia. "Anthaemia." is the name of my artistic alter-ego, and I've been using this title (with full stop the at end) for years. I seem to recall that the word came to me in a dream, though later I found out that it is also very similar to the Greek word for 'unity.' As someone who creates with the intention of inspiring and bringing people together, this moniker is quite apt, yet I should point out that I have never come up with an exact way to pronounce it - your guess is probably as good as mine...
"Taemos" is something I just made up. It was a character for a short story I wrote... it's now my name on all three forums I visit.
Some of you may know how Zilog is a certain corporation who makes a certain BEST 8-BIT PROCESSOR EVAR. I wanted to use it as a name on the internet because it has a 'z' in it, and z's are cool ^_^, and I wanted to try and find something that was totally original and wasn't already used by someone on Hotmail or Usenet or wherever else, so I stuck 'Jones' at the end of it to make it sound like a real - albeit stupid - name. Er, that's about it. No interesting story -_- I previously used "Spectrum Kid" from about 1999-2000 (whenever I got the interweb), but other people started using it... and I traded my Speccy for a BBC Micro :smt023. Unfortunately, that died... According to my Google groups (I used to be a Usenet freak, and never touched a forum until late 2003!), I first used this name on the 20th July 2003.
One of the first anime series I ever realy got into was called Slayers, and in its second season near the end the main characters fight a super-demon called 'Hellmaster Phibrizo'. I thought the villan was neat and decided to use the second part of his name as my online one. However, I didn't actualy know how to spell it, and so Phibrizo turned into Fabrizo. Aside from some people claiming it sounds like the name of a fabric softener, i've got no complaints
That's why Hiroshima has a population of nearly 2.5 million and Nagasaki has a steady ~400,000 or so. Due in part to the fact that the bombs exploded hundreds of meters above ground as well as the instantaneous nature of the explosion, most of the fallout was propelled high into the atmosphere and actually dropped on other parts of Japan, although due to both time and the area over which it was dispersed, the material today is almost less radioactive than trace elements found in the soils. I just wish it were this happy for the people who had been around at the time. Now something like Chernobyl, on the other hand... that area won't be safely habitable for possibly decades to come.
