Online Handles

[Sano]

How did you come about using the handle you use now? How many handles have you been through?


For me, my original handle was CrashOverride; yes from the movie Hackers. Back when I was young and loved Hackers to death (Still do, its my fav movie). After that I moved on to using Cynex for a bit but it didnt stick. On EQEmu I was known as Akira. I got the name Sano from a private WoW server known as WoWScape. I was a big fan of the anime series Rurouni Kenshin and I liked the character Sanosuke. I made my character on WoWScape with the name Sanosake, yep, a dumb little typo.... made the u an a. Anywho, the name eventually just got down to Sano and I've been using that ever since. So over 10 years I've been going by Sano. Variations of Sano.... generally using 3 letters such as NTX, GTR, or GTX if plan old Sano is unavailable.

Thats how I got my name! How did you get yours?

[casterofdreams]

I used "Stryker" in a lot of my handles regarding online multiplayer games. I played a game years ago where an unlock was the striker shotgun and loved it. I think it was Resident Evil 4. Replacing the I with a Y to spin it a tiny bit and that's how I got that.

As for my RB handle: I found this site years ago when I was looking for Dreamcast information. Then I lurked. Then I joined and switched the Dreamcast name of around.

[SamuraiMegas]

I had just watched all of Samurai Jack and Megas XLR. Then I got on a dreamcast forum, then on here. Used the same name for both.

[ElkinFencer10]

I went to Elkin High School, was on the fencing team all four years, and graduated in 2010. I sometimes used just "Church" with PC games that didn't require a unique handle, but I've pretty much consistently used ElkinFencer10 since I started online gaming.

[Ack]

"Ack" is a common interjection showing surprise and/or pain.

So sometimes when you suddenly get hurt, you say my name.

[racketboy]

I'm pretty sure we had one of these threads a long time ago, but the population has changed so much, so maybe worth a reboot

"Racket" is what my freshman roommates called me in college because they couldn't pronounce my last name. It ended up sticking and they routinely introduced me to new people as "Racket".

I simply added the "boy" to give me a screen name that wasn't reserved in as many places. I got known under that name at the SegaXtreme forums and some other places. I created my own blog/site with the name simply because that's how people knew me. I didn't think it would grow to be this large

[PartridgeSenpai]

I really liked the character Shuu in Hatoful Boyfriend, who was a partridge. Then I thought it'd be funny if people called me "senpai" since it was shorter than "Partridge," to spell, but I have yet to be called that once. Everyone just calls me PS or Partridge, which I'm okay with.

Before this I was/am "Pommag" on a lot of things. It's "Gammop" backwards. Gammop was the name of a Maplestory character I made like 3 or 4 years ago, as "Gammo" was taken as well as "Gammot." (I like names without numbers). Gammo was the name I gave my partner in the first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game I played. A twist on "Gamma," as I'd just been watching something on TV about gamma rays.

And even before THAT, it was "xarboy" on a lot of stuff. My older brother had named a lot of his profiles "starboy" while we were growing up. I thought that'd be a good name for a Maplestory character when I was like 9, so I tried it but it was taken. Ztarboy was also taken, so I changed it to Zarboy. Then I went to a different, more populated server, but wanted a same or similar name, so it was then xarboy.

And then way way back when I made my first Neopets account, I was mol107, which was another username I used a lot for things when I was much younger. I had just been watching The Mole, and wanted "Mole," but it was taken, so I took off the 'e,' and then Neopets did its thing where it adds a few numbers on the end so you can have the letters you want on it.

Gosh, this has been quite an unintentional nastolgia wave for me

I used "Stryker" in a lot of my handles regarding online multiplayer games. I played a game years ago where an unlock was the striker shotgun and loved it. I think it was Resident Evil 4. Replacing the I with a Y to spin it a tiny bit and that's how I got that.

YES. The striker is the fuckin' crazy auto-shotty in ResE 4 and that thing is a BEAST. Definitely my favorite gun in the game.

[isiolia]

I picked up Neverwinter Nights when it came out in 2002 as my first D&D based game - I'd liked the demo for Baldur's Gate II but opted to wait for NWN to release. I used an an auto-generated name for my first character/playthrough, which was Isiolia Marner. She was a half-elf, tri-classed...and sucked. Had to cheat to beat the final boss since I couldn't keep warping back to the home base mid-fight and she was otherwise too weak. Expansion and NWN2 characters were more focused

I think I rehashed it somewhat for NWN expansions (reused the last name or used Eshiolia or something), but the key thing was a couple years later signing up for FFXI. My old roommates had picked it up at launch and convinced me to try it out about a week later. I tried a number of cooler names - a lot of Norse mythology ones (I'd played through Valkyrie Profile relatively recently) and the like. All taken. Here I was, updates -finally- finished, World Pass obtained, friends waiting, but my plan for a name was shot (seriously, I was even thumbing through Mythology by Edith Hamilton).
So I used my NWN character name, which next to nobody ever seems to use. Boom, Vana'diel gains another clueless RDM.

In turn, FFXI was also something that expanded a lot of my forum use, and with the exception of the IGN FFXI boards (where I used sephiroth1394 as a joke), I simply defaulted to my character name.
Over the course of tens of thousands of both in-game hours and forum posts, "isiolia" became my go-to username for gaming services and a lot of in-game names (though not the only one, offhand, I use Claire and Rhynne a bit...yet another guy that plays girl most of the time).
While not relevant to forums, if I need a last name in a game, it's usually Mitra - a reference to my FFXI character being mithra - but since that's also a god, the root mitra seem to work better. Also, it's an actual last name.

[Gunstar Green]

I like Gunstar Green.

And Sega.

And Treasure.

[alienjesus]

I used to doodle stupid things in the margin of my books at school. One time I drew an Alien Jesus, and I just went with that when I made my first online handle when I was like 14.

My PSN name is PiranhaGoldfish because Alienjesus was taken. A Piranha Goldfish was also another one of those stupid doodles. I also did an art GCSE (the exams UK students take at 16) and managed to put the Piranha Goldfish hidden in some way into every single bit of artwork I did for the course.