[FrOst]

It sounded cool (no pun intended) at the time.

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	TAXanT:	That pun was intended :)
	Neblime:	Right in the humour

[Slayar]

I never had an IGN and just made a new one every day whether they were random smiley faces, song/band names or an angry comment at the weather. Eventually someone tried to recruit me into a clan and my tag was SSSSLLLAAAYYYYAAARRRRR at the time so I shortened it and put the clan tag behind it.

[TABottles]

Originally Posted by FrOst

It sounded cool (no pun intended) at the time.

http://youtu.be/SRH-Ywpz1_I

My last name is Harbottle

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Demosthenes:

That's an awesome last name...

[Gnemest]

My name is Tse Meng. Was trying to go with something unique which was not already a word. Flipped my name around and here I am now!

[sREnigma]

How I got my name is an enigma.

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	mGGAequitas:	lol
	sRDante:	lol

[FSPYRo]

I don't actually remember how I got the name Zypher, and it's not particularly my favourite handle I play under, so I'm thinking of changing my name to something that has more meaning to me, maybe something catchy? I dunno.

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Dragmah:

maybe InTents....

[DrunkPanda]

I was at a friends lan party trying out Starcraft and he said I played like a drunk panda

[matthras]

Back when I was young and playing MapleStory (derpfreeMMOsderp), I had my main character 'Vamimathras' (a misspelling of the dreadlord Varimathras from the Wc3 Campaign).
One day I was complaining to my guild that I needed a way to distinguish myself from the 3-4 other Matts in the guild, and someone suggested 'matthras' derived from the second half of my character's name. And I've stuck with it since.

(Yes, my name's Matthew, naturally)

[AvPoker]

I am shocked and appalled at the amount of people I meet both in ladder and real life that asks me if I got my name from Lady Gaga. This disgusts me because I don't like her hairstyle and yet people call me the 'lady gaga' of starcraft II (and im not even a woman). I think her song has ruined my reputation of being an obnoxious fanboy of some old woman singing in such an irritating voice. I assure you that I am a kind, polite gentleman that goes to church every Sundays, help the elderly and am never exposed to negative and abusive television shows or forums. In fact I hardly use the internet at all. For that, I am going to tell you guys how I really got my name:

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My friends told me that I had a good Poker face after I lost $20 bluffing. Also 4chan told me to.

[DrunkPanda]

4chan isn't a negative forum then? lol

[AvPoker]

Originally Posted by DrunkPanda

4chan isn't a negative forum then? lol

Are you also saying that I am not a gentleman?

[ToRskrawL]

I've been through many usernames. The first username I used was Blade those were back in the days when I played 1.6 and I was around...6-7? I loved being called a hacker then and I'd rage at people that had the same name as me and say they copied it. Then when I played WoW my mage's name was Porscha then I name changed it to Serell, I quit WoW and played Left 4 Dead my name their was Surreal and I liked to be original back then, so when I saw a pro counterstrike player with the same name as me, I was like NUP HAVE TO CHANGE NOW. Then it went to Strife I thought it was a cool name but every few games I'd see a guy with the same name as me and I always got pissed off when that happened and tempted me to name change. So my name right now is Skrawl...for a short amount of time.

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UncleTom:

stole it from scrawl.

[Makra]

Chopped my first and last name in half, combined the first halves, changed a letter. Otherwise it would have looked too much like macro, which would be lame.

[Zombie.]

Mine is a simpler version i started playing online with the name ZombieJebus, because of the sayn' "sweet zombiejesus" Futrama, and "praise jebus" homer (Simpsons) and because of joining a clan in cod:uo i couldn't fit Jebus in so i stuck with Zombie.

[FvRelimzkE]

I was 12 when I started using fragg (played lots of online DooM, which displayed kills in frags)
I thought i was super cool in CS:S at 13 changing it to FraggX
When I started comp I changed to Elimin8oR because I was the only person on the team who didn't lose their cool in clutch situations
when i started playing quakeworld i shortened it to eLim because people had shorter names in it
I still use that name today in Quake Live

eLim was taken on b.net at my time registering (somehow :S), and my alternate nick when miLe (a known guy in quakeworld accused me of name stealing) was online was elimzkE, so i used elimzkE

EDIT: Corrected some absolutely ridiculous typos ROFL

[FvRScrewby]

One of my favorite shows (Generation Kill) has a character that always says screwby to say that's cool or that sucks. I decided to switch from my PSN username ChaoticBlack because it was pretty cheesy. It was pretty random since Screwby was the first thing that came to my head and no one seemed to use it after a quick google search

[UncleTom]

When I got SC2 all my names I used for previous games were too long for sc2 so I couldn't think of anything for about an hour and I really wanted to play so I just hit random article on Wikipedia in till I got a name that I liked.

[inFeZa]

Edit : PoisoN = Pokemon type. (old name)

[FvRsolis]

I go through a few aliases, but it all depends on the game.
But for the purpose of this topic, Solis comes from the latin word for 'Sun'.. it was also a cute little name that an ex girlfriend use to say to me before bed. So, I shortened it and weaponised it. Now I use my title to wreck nubs on the ladder.

[Xenomorph]

I got my name from the Alien movies (Xenomorph is latin for alien form) and I play zerg so i thought it'd be cool have some kind of connection between my name and my race.