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Heh, a fun little topic. Why did you choose the name that you chose?
Some of the names are quite obvious, but how about the not so obvious ones?
I'll go first :D
Has anyone watched the movie Windtalkers? The main character in that movie was Sergeant Joe Enders. He pwned so many guys in that movie. He ends up dying, but I shall carry on his name!
Also it sounds cool. :P
i'm a night person that's why the night and i like wolfs together it became nightwolf.
I'm totally opposite from you Nightwolf :P
i picked my old nickname (centaur) because i have a tattoo of a centaur on the back of my leg
Wildfire
19-01-07, 03:43 AM
I never chose Pyros rather it was chosen for me... when I was 6yrs of age I nearly burnt down my parents first house or rather set fire to my bedroom. After that I became fascinated with the element but not to be compared to an arsonist... there just psychopathic.
This fire burns within :mad: which brings me to second half.
The wildfire part was added later due to my impatient, determined, quick temper, highly vengeful, spiteful and deceitful personality :o
Erm... yeah.
I never chose Pyros rather it was chosen for me... when I was 6yrs of age I nearly burnt down my parents first house or rather set fire to my bedroom. After that I became fascinated with the element but not to be compared to an arsonist... there just psychopathic.
This fire burns within :mad: which brings me to second half.
The wildfire part was added later due to my impatient, determined, quick temper, highly vengeful, spiteful and deceitful personality :o
Erm... yeah.
Well, I'm lucky I live all the way here in Canada. Set fire to your bedroom how did you do that lol
hmm i will choose Soldior..... well nothing really but i do use this nick name in some other games :)
well maybe after hours of this name has been taken and so on i just changed a letter.
I chose Matt as its my real name. ;) Simple and easy to remember. Im a little boring like that lol :p
Nice thread btw, and good to see what all these nicknames were chosen for
Well Orion is that because i love stars and space and everithing about it.
And when i was a kid i wanted to be an astronomer :o
Spec_Operator
19-01-07, 01:24 PM
Okay, why is my name spec_operator?
Um....
um....
well....
Because i play SWAT4 xD
Kaatt86?
Uh cuz my nickname in my clan years ago was Kaattari and 86 is a random number I use in my nicknames....amung others...
You all have very interesting names.
PaB comes from my first name and my name. It's the nickname my university gave me as a login name to get access to their network at school. It is build up with Pa from Pascal (my first name) and B from my name. That's all lol.
PaB
p.s.: nice topic, we had that one too but almost nobody replied lol
Well first it was zlatan and that was because of my favourite football player zlatan ibrahimovic who was at juventus who i support now at inter milan so thats why
C0RV3TT3
20-01-07, 02:09 PM
ok, my name is the same as SOG, but in portuguese:
Grupo de Opera??es Especiais........it's the portuguese swat :D
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Ghost MacRoth
20-01-07, 07:36 PM
I'm Ghost from back in the day of Falcon 4.0 on the PC. I died so damn often that I had to be some sort of undead to keep climbing back into the cockpit! The MacRoth was added when I went online and discovered how popular the name ghost is. It is a referance to the comic strip Slaine from 2000ad, his second name was MacRoth, and I thought 'who the hell else in this world would call themselves that!'
Detonic
16-02-07, 01:14 PM
Detonic was the first thing that I see when I suscribe to the WON on swat 3. Detonic is a brand of cheap airsoft gun :)
Ziggy72
17-02-07, 04:29 AM
My name comes from being a long time Bowie fan - Ziggy from the album Ziggy Stardust, and the 72 because Ziggy is a very popular name to use, so, of course I had to add a number. The album was released in 1972 :)
Love all these tales of how people got their names - Pyros Wildfire is a somewhat disturbing tale, dont you think? And respect to GOE - "Grupo de Opera??es Especiais" - sounds so much cooler to say SOG like that! So what is "Special Operations Group" in other languages? Over to you, troops...
Asakura
17-02-07, 12:30 PM
Asakura is taken from japanese names. "Asakura" was chosen because of the character "Ryoko Asakura" from the anime "Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya":
http://www.geocities.com/novobe/asakura02.jpg
Asakura is a nice and pretty girl, rated AA+ by the boys at her school, but later in the series she turns into the big bloody contrary... ^^;
Would have other nicknames to choose right now, but I don't want to change my nickname every two months. XD
oh there's the beast from then.
http://ugly.plzdiekthxbye.net/medium/m102.gif
Asakura
17-02-07, 01:52 PM
oh there's the beast from then.
http://ugly.plzdiekthxbye.net/medium/m102.gif
http://ugly.plzdiekthxbye.net/small/s244.gif XD
Gazza -> Well its "short" for Gary, which is my name.
Thankfully we have moved on from the time when people questioned why i was called gazza when my name isn't "Paul" or "Gascoigne" - a famous england player who had the nickname gazza because of his surname- but he was FRAUD!! You can only be a Gazza if your name is Gary :)
My xfire name is mrgazza purely becuase someone I know always calls me Mr Gaz for some reason.
Freeezer
07-04-08, 04:10 PM
I'm Freeezer, and it has nothing to do with the fridge :p. My nickname is from Dragon Ball Z series. I really liked character called "Freeza", even though he was bad, he was cool drawed and had cool energy disc, which he could manipulate. I wanted to have a polish name of this character, "Freezer", but when I was doing my first e-mail account, nickname "freezer" was already in use, so I made a "mistake" in it, adding one more 'e', and here it is...Freeezer. It stayed till today :)
Tread merged ;)
Well my new name is short from my real name.
Ghost MacRoth
07-04-08, 04:23 PM
Guess we'd best open the thread so everyone can partake!! :p
Silly Wes!! ;)
Lol forgot i locked the last onehttp://forum.onzin.com/img/em/37.gif, forgot to reopen thx ghost.
Nicoleise
07-04-08, 04:54 PM
Well, would be sad to open it, if no one added anything
Nicoleise. Nico is short for my first name Nicolai, and leise has two meanings. When I was little, my family would call me laise, being the last part of my first name, with an se ending on it. :p It's pronounced the same way as leise. And also, in 2004 I decided to open a photography/webdesign company. When it came down to choosing a name, I went for leise, because it looked prettier than laise. :p
So Leise is from my nick name and the name of my company, LEISE Foto, and the Nico is the short version of my first name.
And it's pronouced Nicolajse, not Nicolise :D
Now you know :p
Well i Got my Name "Viper" From my Friends (at Paintballing) Because im Quickon my feet, Hardly ever pinpointed, Extremely Quick on the trigger and Most of all the Best is my accuracy and timing. (All the Things that Viper's Are =D
Ghost MacRoth
07-04-08, 06:34 PM
All the Things that Viper's Are =D
Well, all except fast on their feet. ;)
And it's pronouced Nicolajse, not Nicolise #
but its much easier to say it the other way. :lol:
Well, all except fast on their feet. ;)
:D
LMFAO. really a Ghost comment!
Oh and for me: borring!!
The M is from my first name, (Mark), and the Z from my last name (Zwagemakers) and guess what?? 1981 is my year of birth :-)
Well, all except fast on their feet. ;)
I think you will find there one of the fastest movers =D on there belly's lol:p
(i don't crawl around on my belly all the time, haha.):D
Ghost MacRoth
07-04-08, 07:18 PM
I think you will find there one of the fastest movers =D on there belly's lol:p
(i don't crawl around on my belly all the time, haha.):D
Yes, but most certainly NOT on their feet, that was my point!! Bahh, some people take things so literally!! :rolleyes:
TBH I bet you do a fair bit of crawlin', as I know I do if it gets me close enough to be sure I'm gonna score a kill or two. ;)
yea i spend a fair bit in the dirt, but not as much as i am on my feet =] lol
i know u was been:msnsarcastic: lol
Freeezer
08-04-08, 01:54 AM
Uhm.. guys... sorry to interrupt you but WE'RE GETTING LITTLE :offtopic: So please newcomers, share with us what was your story with your nickname ? :)
I'm not new, and I guess everyone can tell where I got my name from, but I'll just be a good girl and post it anyways.
My "Trinity" name is fetched from the movie trilogy "The Matrix". Carrie Ann Moss does a great job with that character. I have tried getting rid of it through the years, but that just didn't happen. Everyone called me Trinity anyways (not that I mind anymore, I do really feel like it suits me).
I've had a few names through the years, most of them action-heroines of some sort.
My main name:
"Trinity" (The Matrix)
Old and forgotten names:
"DKS" (X-Files, can anyone guess who?)
"Witchblade" (the comic)
Temporary names still in use:
Seldom:
"SniperWolf" (Metal Gear Solid)
"April" (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Frequent:
"Natsuki" (Mai-HiME)
"Shizuru" (Mai-HiME)
"MissPhoenix" (original)
I also do tend to pick names derived from ancient Norse, Greek and Roman mythology from time to time, depending on my mood. I do research on names before choosing them as there is always a thought, an idea or a feeling behind the ones I pick.
Very nice Trinity :) (I was going to use Morpheus but Law came before I saw The Matrix :p)
Well im hopefully getting into law enforcement soon so Law became my online nickname as I've wanted to become a police officer since I was like 14 ;) and the min. age is pretty much 21 in ME and most of the US
Well, tc is my first and last initials, and the transporter is what I started using in Sept of 06 when I started in the first clan I was in.
Why? Well I was using tcloser, because I thought when I started playing that I was a loser because I was always getting killed :p but then I started using tcTransporter because I like to help achieve the mission, like in VIP, where you have to transport or guard the VIP as you go to the exit.
BlizZaRD^
08-04-08, 02:57 PM
BlizZaRD^. Dont remeber, it was about 4 years i started to use it :P BUT ITS NOT FROM "Blizzard Entertainment ( WoW ) "
IcepickFIA
08-04-08, 03:39 PM
My nickname, Icepick, is from an alias generator :o
I've used it since I started playing games online. But too many people call themselves Icepick.
Too make sure my nick stayed unique, I added the FIA. It is from the game Operation Flashpoint, and it stands for Freedom In Arms. Operation Flashpoint is a MilSim set in the cold war, and the FIA were a resistance group of islanders, mostly farmers and the likes who banded together to protect their homes from the invading Russians.
O'Neill
08-04-08, 04:06 PM
Well, my name. Just look at my avatar.:p I am a Stargate fan and it's one of the first science-fiction series I watched and I've been watching it ever since I was about ten. :D I'm not exactly new here either; I've been around. :)
Trin: DKS? Hmm, doesn't ring a bell... I've seen the X-Files but that was a long time ago.
Ghost MacRoth
08-04-08, 04:31 PM
You a family guy fan?? That episode when Peter keeps going on about Mark Harmon is hilarious!!
O'Neill
08-04-08, 04:40 PM
You a family guy fan?? That episode when Peter keeps going on about Mark Harmon is hilarious!!
Eh, I'm not much of a Family Guy fan, though it is funny when Peter goes ranting continuously about something. :p I haven't see the episode. Oh, this is :offtopic:. :p
Ghost MacRoth
08-04-08, 04:43 PM
True, but check it out, it's sooooooooo funny.
DKS, which later adapted to my clan name (as I had no imagination, but of course changed the meaning of it) is short for Dana Katherine Scully. I am an X-Files fan, and I believe I've only missed a handful of episodes from the 9 seasons.
Both characters have middle names, and so her partner is Fox William Mulder. *grins* Yes, I used to be a total nerd about that show.
Ghost MacRoth
08-04-08, 10:00 PM
Really??? :p
................
i posted here very soon didn't i? like, back when i joined?
oh well, my name in the real life is russian for "Silver cross" wich you don't hear back if you'd read it.
my nickname, on the other hand. is competly randomness trowed together.. it's even so random, that i forgot how i came up with it ;)
most ppl pronounce my name well, but for everybody that's still wondering, you pronounce it like "I'm tying this rope" only without the "I'm -ing" and "this"
I`m not sure if you guys know but my name is Alexander --> my nickname is Alex.
I have been thinking a lot of another nickname so I chosed to make something real :p
Biodome
09-12-10, 05:09 PM
Sorry for renewing a 2 year old thread, but I noticed that only ~1% nicknames are explained here... And It would be good to know how did you all come up with your nicknames.
Well, so I start with mine's... The first time I became aware of the word "Biodome" was a lot of years ago (maybe 3 or 4 - don't remember exactly) when I was playing a Multiplayer Space-Combat-Colonization game called "Starport: Galactic Empires (http://www.starportgame.com/)". In that game you colonized a planet by building a Biodome on it...And I loved to colonize planets :P - That's reason 1
Reason 2... From all the stuff I learn at school, I mostly like Biology. That's because I love nature, science, and, of course, love looking trough a microscope at those small cute creatures :D.
Reason 3... The word "Biodome" just sounds very nice...Biodome, Biodome - you never get bored of saying that :P.
Okay, as this Thread has only 5 Pages, i think its okay, also we have many new Members in here, so may we get some more few interesting Storys to read.
As i have joined SOG Server first, i have played a long Time with Pepperball Gun only,
.... so my first Choise was Sgt|Pepper, i have an Weapon with my Name on it in Swat4 :P
Well ive always been the original type with no inspiration so therefore ever since I joined SWAT4 servers in 2006 and other game servers for that fact Ive always gone by my real first name; Matt :D
So there you go.... :)
Biodome
09-12-10, 05:43 PM
:whs:
I chose Matt as its my real name. ;) Simple and easy to remember. Im a little boring like that lol :p
Nice thread btw, and good to see what all these nicknames were chosen for
Heheh, you've already posted an explanation in this thread :)
Hidroncs
09-12-10, 05:44 PM
Sorry for renewing a 2 year old thread, but I noticed that only ~1% nicknames are explained here... And It would be good to know how did you all come up with your nicknames.
Nice found, so no worries :) The origin of my name is already explained at my introduction thread (http://www.sog-team.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12799), but as it is also almost 2 years old, i bet not all read that.. So here it is:
Hidroncs is a real, but non-used hungarian word. It' means: piece of a wrecked bridge. ( Híd = bridge, wreck = roncs ). I only heard this word 1 time in my life, when we watch TV at the office, and there was a report about the war at the Balkan. The report was about a bombed famous bridge, and last sentence of this report was: now divermen picking up "hidroncs(es)" from the bottom of the river. One of my friend just came in the room at this last sentence, and as he never heard this word before, he stops for a second, think about it and ask us: "Hidroncs??? What kind of animal is that???". I laught until cry. In the same afternoon, i must register somewhere on the internet. My other nick, what i used before, was ready used there, by somebody else. So then comes the idea, and Hidroncs is born ... Now u all know: Hidroncs is a piece of a wrecked bridge, or a strange animal :)
Right... hehe nice thread indeed, totaly forgot about it
Come on peeps explain us your nick choise
i'm a night person that's why the night and i like wolfs together it became nightwolf.
Tread merged ;)
Well my new name is short from my real name.
heheh reactivate ....
This tread is over 2 years but you do contirbute on it so it's allowed ...
last time i played with 'Nightwolf' was vip research center map :)
Dunno but that like a splinter in mind that i cant get out
Well, When I was in the military college in Uruguay, some guys started to call my Eico ,a short form of my real name Federico. So when I started playing combat games on internet and I had to choose a nick I used Lt. Eico, and some time later I changed it for the nickname that actually I use allmost everywhere, Commander Eico (or Com.Eico sometimes). That's the name I was using the first time I've played in a SOG server, and when I wanted to join, I've decided it was really too long if tags where added so I've registered here only with Eico...
In the last games I've played I've changed it again, because I'm a sergeant in the army so in Battlefield Bad Company 2 you can find me by Sgt.Eico...
last time i played with 'Nightwolf' was vip research center map :)
Dunno but that like a splinter in mind that i cant get out
There are alot using nightwolf after i changd mine so i do not know if it was me or not ...
XmarksTheScot
09-12-10, 07:51 PM
Well when i started to play swat the default name ofc was "PLAYER". after being kick several times i finally realised that it was the name. so for easy i went with PlayerX coz i only had to type 1 more letter, i also felt it was a generation X, subject X type mystery to it. After a wee while i personalised it with PlayerX_Scotland. Then after getting annoyed with all the other "players" out there i held a poll here (http://www.sog-team.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14776) on SOG for a new name. XmarksTheScot being suggested by Aaron and being my favourite of the bunch as it still has my "X" in it and Scotland. So there ya go :D
There are alot using nightwolf after i changd mine so i do not know if it was me or not ...
Nope, that was you
The day when you joined SOG or day before
RyanCooper
09-12-10, 08:51 PM
Well when i started to play swat the default name ofc was "PLAYER". after being kick several times i finally realised that it was the name. so for easy i went with PlayerX coz i only had to type 1 more letter, i also felt it was a generation X, subject X type mystery to it.
I remember |SOG|PlayerX on the VIP server, he told me his xfire and told me to go at sog-team.co.uk ;)
Hes the one who brought me to the SOG community :p So to the ppl who dont like me, its his fault :D
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My name comes from Need For Speed: Pro Street. Its the guy we are and hes a real beast. So im like him, a beast. :p You can also find that name in Undercover, the cops say something like they are looking for a certain Ryan Cooper.
blockade
09-12-10, 09:18 PM
well, i choose my name more based to the fact that no suspect will get passed me lol.. and it is a nice term, i would say so and it is not to assertive but im not a camper as my title may lead you to believe XD..
A blockade is an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally. A blockade should not be confused with an embargo or sanctions, which are legal barriers to trade, and is distinct from a siege in that a blockade is usually directed at an entire country or region, rather than a fortress or city. Also, a blockade historically took place at sea, with the blockading power seeking to cut off all maritime transport from and to the blockaded country; although stopping all land transport to and from an area may also be considered a blockade.
Kirjakukka
09-12-10, 09:35 PM
Kirjakukka... Kirjakukka, Kirjakukka, Kirjakukka.... Why did I come up with this name LOL.
This all began on long, long time ago... Probably when I was 9 years old.... So 8 years ago.......
Back then, I and my friend were making a e-mail for me (I don't remember for what, maybe for Skype. Dunno if Skype was already made in 2002-2003, but anywayz). There my old friend came up with a name. I don't remember the whole name, but it had "Kirja" on it - Kirja is Finnish and it means just simply "Book" in English. I just remember that part cos it was so... random, lol.
So, first it was only in my first e-mail. And then that "Kirja" kind of died... I never used it in anywhere else. I used many different names and so forth - but didn't use Kirja anymore.
After many years it became alive again. On January 2007, I got Battlefield 2. And, don't know why, but I wrote my account's name as "Kirjatoukka" (Kirjatoukka = Bookworm).
So, I used that Kirjatoukka name and some other names for some time, but then, about in year 2009 I wanted to be kind if "individual" with the name. There's many "Kirjatoukkas aka bookworms" in the internet - but I wanted my name to be special, unique, which no other human would use. Then, I have no idea where the hell I came up with it, I just added "Kukka" in the end of the name. As "Kirjakukka". Meaning "Book flower" (Kirja = flower).
I think I invented that name earlier than in 2009, but I never used it in the pass. But yeah, I'm using it now as an unique name, and I hope it will stay like it. :)
RyanCooper
09-12-10, 10:32 PM
Back then, I and my friend were making a e-mail for me (I don't remember for what, maybe for Skype. Dunno if Skype was already made in 2002-2003, but anywayz). There my old friend came up with a name. I don't remember the whole name, but it had "Kirja" on it - Kirja is Finnish and it means just simply "Book" in English. I just remember that part cos it was so... random, lol.
[...]
(Kirja = flower).
I think its more like, (Kukka = flower) :)
MucsiZoltán
09-12-10, 10:38 PM
or kukka=in hungarian bin xD
Mine has no meaning :D thats the best way i think :p
Check few pages back Viper :rasta:
Franciswat
10-12-10, 12:10 AM
My nickname comes partially from my real italian name (Francesco)
and partially from the game I play with It, SWAT. :D
It can be intented like
Franci (italian abbreviation of my name) + SWAT
Francis (english abbreviation of my name) + (S)WAT
I let people call me Francis or Franci or Frankie but really noone calls me
with my real name. :D
PS I use this nick only when I pay SWAT and R6V2.
ooooh yeah lol i totaly missed and forgot about that reason :O
Saphoric
10-12-10, 02:01 PM
I still dont know where i got this nickname - Saphoric. i made it up somehow - check it with google and be sure it doesnt mean Nothing.
sometimes- when i drink some boose, then i been use Saph-o-Holic.
Saphoric is just fully my imagine product.
earlier i been use PhoeniX.. i just loved that nickname.. and i like that burning yellow bird image. my nickname always just "come somewhere"
Kirjakukka
10-12-10, 03:15 PM
I think its more like, (Kukka = flower) :)
oh lol, right...
My nickname comes partially from my real italian name (Francesco)
and partially from the game I play with It, SWAT. :D
It can be intented like
Franci (italian abbreviation of my name) + SWAT
Francis (english abbreviation of my name) + (S)WAT
I let people call me Francis or Franci or Frankie but really noone calls me
with my real name. :D
PS I use this nick only when I pay SWAT and R6V2.
I always thought it meant francis wat :p ...
I still dont know where i got this nickname - Saphoric. i made it up somehow - check it with google and be sure it doesnt mean Nothing.
sometimes- when i drink some boose, then i been use Saph-o-Holic.
Saphoric is just fully my imagine product.
earlier i been use PhoeniX.. i just loved that nickname.. and i like that burning yellow bird image. my nickname always just "come somewhere"
Yep remember that bird image ...
Franciswat
11-12-10, 02:37 AM
I always thought it meant francis wat :p ...
Yes thats and other variant. :D
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