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metroixer 01-16-2006 04:57 PM

Why did you choose the forum name you have now?
 
I chose mine to show my likelihood for metroid. That and I use it in every forum, chatroom, MMO really.

oddveteran93 01-16-2006 05:04 PM

Well I call myself oddveteran because I've played more than half of the games ever created by OW and that I'm really good at them. I used to have a username on this forum with 81 posts and people knew me but then I moved and didn't have the internet for a while so I forgot my username. But now I'm back.

Cullen Heath 01-16-2006 05:07 PM

Cullen Dean Heath is my real name so that pretty much sums it up.

mitsur 01-16-2006 05:16 PM

Dunno, just picked it out from a dartboard after one of my friends wrote it down as a joke.

AquaticAmbi 01-16-2006 05:46 PM

Um... are you asking why OWF is called OWF? Because otherwise, wrong forum, buddy. This forum is for questions related to these specific forums.

oddveteran93 01-16-2006 05:51 PM

He's asking why you chose you name. Why you chose "AquaticAmbi" as your name.

AquaticAmbi 01-16-2006 06:03 PM

Ah, well even more reason that it doesn't belong here.

CheeseOfGlory 01-16-2006 08:37 PM

Hell, I've been using the same sn for practically everything online since I was in 6th grade. I can't remember why or how I chose it, though I do recall some strange obsession with cheese I had at the time.

Now I shall sleep, in erotic anticipation of my calculus midterm exam in the morning.

Cullen Heath 01-16-2006 09:02 PM

Ouch, Calculus. Good luck with that;).

Nate 01-16-2006 09:19 PM

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Well I call myself oddveteran because I've played more than half of the games ever created by OW

Now that's true commitment!

My one's a bit of a long story. One of my friends (whom I led with at a youth group) started calling me "nate_dog' out of the blue (My name is Nathan, in case you didn't realise). Then everyone started chanting it and barking at me.

Anyway, not long afterwards I needed to subscribe to Yahoo Groups for my youth group and I couldn't come up with anything to use as my logon name. nate_dog was taken so I added the _woof at the end.

And soon after that I was signing up to OWF and I still couldn't come up with anything better so I used it again.

There have been a few times since that I have thought of better names I could have used but I figure it's too late now.

Cullen Heath 01-16-2006 10:12 PM

How old were you, Nate?

T-nex 01-16-2006 10:17 PM

Dunno why i chose it... I made another account that didnt work, and then i just couldnt come up with something and typed something in that i had just thought of.... I don't really like my username :( But im stuck with it forever XD

Cullen Heath 01-16-2006 10:22 PM

I'm sure that you would be able to change it once.
But.......aren't you a Moderator:fuzconf:?

Xavier 01-16-2006 10:30 PM

Simply because my name realy is Xavier...
And I wanted people to see I was working on an other site where I was called Xavier too (it was Oddworld Maniac)

Dipstikk 01-16-2006 10:46 PM

I thought the word "dipstick" was the funniest damn thing in the world when I was 15. Now it's just used for continuinity.

Havoc 01-16-2006 10:53 PM

Before I took the name Havoc I never realy had a steady username. When I was young in my early chatroom days I called myself MI6, after the British inteligence agency, cuz I'm a big James Bond fan :P. But it soon showed that people would confuse it to much with Mission Impossible 6 (wtf).
Then in 2000 (I think) C&C Renegade came out. The storyline evolved around a GDI commando with the nickname Havoc, which I found a pretty cool nickname so I started using that instead.
Next to that, right now I also use the name TigerXtrm, mostly ingame though.

Nate 01-17-2006 12:09 AM

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How old were you, Nate?

I think I was 20.

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Now it's just used for continuinity.

Good way of putting it. That's exactly how I feel about my one and it's why I have used it in a few other places. One, specifically.

T-nex 01-17-2006 12:10 AM

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I'm sure that you would be able to change it once.
But.......aren't you a Moderator:fuzconf:?

Just because im a mod, doesn't mean i can do what the hell i want.. Besides, it would confuse people if i suddenly changed my name :(

Rex Tirano 01-17-2006 12:36 AM

I like your name T-Nex. :) [But yes, don't let him know about your all powerfulness. ;) We don't want an uprising.]

I got my name because I'm crap at coming up with names and such so I stole it from my friend. Ah well, she got over it. :p

- Rexy

T-nex 01-17-2006 01:43 AM

I like your name ^_^ It's so cute lol....

Dark Elite_H2 01-17-2006 02:22 AM

It's obvious how I got my name.
I've created a character that was nicknamed the Dark Elite, and, well, you can figure easily how the _H2 came in...

Abeguy 01-17-2006 04:53 AM

no, no I can't
I don't remember why I made my name...uhh...no, I don't

OANST 01-17-2006 05:03 AM

Mine is a slightly different version of the slogan from AO.

Mojo 01-17-2006 09:42 AM

Well, since I think Scrabs are the uberest creatures in Oddworld, and because I'm a megalomaniac, AlphaScrab was born.

Oddish 01-17-2006 10:12 AM

I knew I was at an oddworld forums, so I wanted to have an oddworldish name. I didn't want to call myself Slig something or Abe something, I wanted a name that wasn't a specific character, just plain odd and uniqu. Odd seemed to simple, I wanted something groovey, stlyish, oddish... that's the one! I though is was genuis, but it just turned out to be a piss take. And it reminded people of Poke'mon.

AquaticAmbi 01-17-2006 12:45 PM

Hah, I completely forgot to explain mine last night... Instead I went to bed. =/

Back when I had AOL, I used several screen names; my favorite was AquaAmbi. But after switching to Juno, I discovered I could no longer use that name, so I created AquaticAmbi. The "Aqua"/"Aquatic" part is for my everlasting love for everything ocean-y. Sea life, scuba diving, the beach, marine biology, etc. :)

Cullen Heath 01-17-2006 03:10 PM

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Mine is a slightly different version of the slogan from AO.

Wait a sec... what slogan?



Nate: When you WERE 20!

Dipstikk: When you WERE 15!

How old are you now?
No offense but, you guys are OLD!

Havoc 01-17-2006 03:29 PM

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Wait a sec... what slogan?


*Grabs fake Cullen and smashes him into a wall then hits him*

What did you do with the real Cullen! The real Cullen is an Oddworld freak and should know something like that!

*Hits again*

WHERE IS HE!*

*Hits and kills*

Where... oops.


Seriously, please tell me you're joking...

Slig outlaw 01-17-2006 04:09 PM

I thought of the name Slig outlaw because the hole game stranger's wrath is about outlaw's so i just thought add slig on it.

Cullen Heath 01-17-2006 04:20 PM

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*Grabs fake Cullen and smashes him into a wall then hits him*

What did you do with the real Cullen! The real Cullen is an Oddworld freak and should know something like that!

*Hits again*

WHERE IS HE!*

*Hits and kills*

Where... oops.


Seriously, please tell me you're joking...

Man, that was hilarious!

It is most likely something really obvious, that I REALLY SHOULD KNOW (I probably do, I just don't know what you're talking about)!
And when I realize what it is, I will fell like such an idiot that I will have to do that^ to myself.
But for now, I have not the slightest idea of what slogan you guys mean.






EDIT:
Ohhh, FUDGE SICKLE!
I'm an IDIOT!
I feel so dumb, I can't believe that his username's meaning went straight through my THICK HEAD!

NEW AND TASTY!
I'm sorry, I'm dissapointed in myself.

Daxter King 01-17-2006 04:23 PM

Meh. I was obsessed with the Jak and Daxter series at the time. I thought Daxter was such a loveable character so I added king to the back of it. Is there anyway of changing your forum name?

metroixer 01-17-2006 04:45 PM

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Man, that was hilarious!

It is most likely something really obvious, that I REALLY SHOULD KNOW (I probably do, I just don't know what you're talking about)!
And when I realize what it is, I will fell like such an idiot that I will have to do that^ to myself.
But for now, I have not the slightest idea of what slogan you guys mean.






EDIT:
Ohhh, FUDGE SICKLE!
I'm an IDIOT!
I feel so dumb, I can't believe that his username's meaning went straight through my THICK HEAD!

NEW AND TASTY!
I'm sorry, I'm dissapointed in myself.

tsk tsk. Shame on you cullen health! No lollipop or cookies for you tonight! *Takes lollipops and cookies away from cullen*.

Nate 01-17-2006 05:41 PM

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How old are you now?
No offense but, you guys are OLD!

*Grabs real Cullen and smashes him into a wall then hits him*

That's what we do to upstart youngsters who don't show respect to us geriatric 23-year olds.

Gretin 01-17-2006 05:51 PM

I made a thread like this once... And my one only had less than a page. :(

Ok, moving on, :D I came up with my user name because at the time I joined, I had been playing through Rayman (the first one) and I didn't know what the little blue guys were named, so I just called them gretins for some reason. Then I randomly decided to use Gretin as my user name, and... that's about it. :p

Just like how I randomly decided to post in the thread...



(By the way, I eventually learned that the name was antitoon)

Dark Elite_H2 01-18-2006 01:23 PM

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Meh. I was obsessed with the Jak and Daxter series at the time. I thought Daxter was such a loveable character so I added king to the back of it. Is there anyway of changing your forum name?

I wish there was a way to change yer name...I really am gettin' old of this name.
And I'm only 15...

Cullen Heath 01-18-2006 05:54 PM

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*Grabs real Cullen and smashes him into a wall then hits him*

That's what we do to upstart youngsters who don't show respect to us geriatric 23-year olds.

You are 23!
Old And Not So Tasty (Now that I know what your username means, we should call you "Decayed And Disgusting":)) how old are you?

And why does everyone keep smashing my head into walls?

used:) 01-18-2006 08:15 PM

I would rather not reveal the meaning behinfd my name. That would take away the fun.

Nate 01-18-2006 10:37 PM

Cullen: click on people's user names, select View Public Profile and take a look at their birthday (if they have inserted one).

metroixer 01-19-2006 06:22 AM

Actually there is a way to change your forum name. You gotta (I think) have been a registered member for one whole year then you pm one of the mods or admins for a name change.

Havoc 01-19-2006 07:37 AM

And have a good reason! <--- Most important...