Larian Studios Forums General Chat Chat (Anything) My Name's Name

Ok. I've noticed alot of different names in this forum, and I'm interested in hearing where they came from, how you got the idea to give yourself such an ALIAS, the origin of it. Of course, if the name of your name is too personal, than don't bother.

This is just so we can all get to know eachother better. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I don't have time to do it now, myself, but I will tonight. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

My name sound german <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />. I acually got it from school once (back when I was 14 or 15 and had friends in school). When I got MSN, I picked it as my nick, and it has stayed there. Nowadays it's allmost as my second name (even though my second name is Erik, really. Erik is what I rewferr to asa my first name btw, even though it really IS my second (my first is Nils...)).

Übereil

Ubereil..bit like ubergeil <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

well, guess where my name's from <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> ?

and ubereil, my first name jozef, second ananda third rafael, and I dont want any1 to call me by 1 of my first two names, its not so strange you use your second name as first...or we are both strange <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasJump.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kitty.gif" alt="" />

On the original Nintendo, some of the games allowed you to enter your own names, up to 5 characters in length. I used Blade, Edge, Flame, Deth, etc but was never completely satisfied with any of them.
Then one day, a depressing long time ago, I was listening to the song 'Ram It Down' from the same titled Judas Priest tape ( <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> ... but at least I'm not talking about an 8 track). One of the lines in the chorus is "Razing the place to the ground". From the context I could figure out what 'razing' was, but looked it up in the dictionary anyway. The definition was something like 'to completely and utterly obliterate, to destroy down to the foundation'. I thought that was so cool I started using that as my primary nick for games, and have ever since.

see also: ***Best Name for Character*** (name origins are not necessarily mentioned)

I still have a few Judas Priest tapes (no CDs), but don't really listen to them anymore (I posted some of what I do listen to in the My Fav Lyrics topic).

There was another thread as well on this topic in which I poured my heart out, came clean, divulged my secrets and exposed my innermost feelings about my forum name.

Cleg, are u talking about Luc's thread [color:"yellow"] What Is The Story? [/color]

or ... [color:"orange"] Strange/Funny/Interesting Member Names [/color]

This one. Thanks for finding it.

Well well... seems another of my new ideas are old to the world...

Oh well, I guess this one can be for the new people who want to take part in this, or those who missed it the other time(s). <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I've already talked about most of my name's name in one of my little miscellaneous ideas Massive Duplication , but I thought I would elaborate a little more here.

I fist started with my ALIAS in the Battlenet of the first Diablo. Now, I wanted an intimidating name, you know. So I chose Killer; "Rar! Roar! I'm gunna kill you! Grrar!" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> . This was really early on, near Diablo's beginning.

But then I thought "Killer is too plain. I mean, anyone can think of the name 'Killer'. Most unorignal. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> " I was a fan of the TV show Dragon Ball Z back then (I'm still quite knowledgeable of it, but I don't watch it anymore), and I thought "ADD A 'Z'! ADD A 'Z'!!! Henceforth, I am KillerZ!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Watch as my impressive 'Z' strikes fear into the hearts of my enemies!" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Of course, old Bnet being what it was back then, my account was somehow deleted the next day and I could not recreate it. But I kept my cool <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> ( on the inside: <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> ), and decided I'd get something better.

So, also being a Zelda fan (especially A Link To The Past), I thought on the Trinity. "Three... Z.... Oooo! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" /> KillerZZZ! But now the ZZZ look cheesy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> I know! Mix them with the name! 'Killerzzz' Now that flows better!"

Another reason for putting the three 'z's was causing a plural sound. My siblings and I all used this ALIAS on Bnet and so, why not be the 'Kilers' --> Killerzzz!!!

Another reason for putting the three 'z's is the triangular strength (yes, I mentionned this in the other thread too). The triangle is supposed to be the strongest shape (bridges and other constructions are build with triangluar supports, shelves are too; plus I dare you to try and punch a box of a different shape, then a pyrimidical one, and see what happens <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />; also the Magic School Bus told me so).

I thought of doing, Killerzz, but two 'z's just plain looked crappy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

And so, I've been using this nickname on darn-near everthing. My siblings tend to waver it (Killerzzz-[eg] ; Killer-Z ; Killerzzzzzzzzzzz; etc) but I stick to the original!

And thats how I named myself Killerzzz. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

P.S.: Hey Ube, if your name is translated from German, would I get something like 'Super Hurry' or 'Big Hurry' or 'Much Hurry'? Because I know 'Uber' means 'Super' or 'Very' or something of the sort, and 'Eil' means 'Hurry', I believe. Just wondering. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

My whole life's story is somewhere on here, wel at least that of my nicknames. Long story short, it used to be CarPd13m wich meant Carpe Diem (P = pe, 1 = i, 3 = e)... but something happenend and I couldn't retrieve my password :s so I had to figure out a new nick, used the one I use playing RPGs Draghermosran. no meaning something I made up.

Not bad. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Actually, "Über" means "over" or "super" in the sense that "super" originally also means something being "over" something else. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

In the Forum of Relic, makers of "Homeworld" one moderator actually has the name "Überjumper". Without the two dots, of course, since English keyboards are not designed to use them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

And Eile means "hurry", indeed. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Thank you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />

Yaaay! I can almost speak German! I've got a vocabulary of six words now! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

And actually, most english keyboards can do the two dots ( Ü ) on letters, as well as the other accents. You just have to go in your computer settings and make it so that you can change your keyboard languages. After that, its just a matter of remembering what buttons do what accents. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> But I think you need to have Windows XP to do this.

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/freak.gif" alt="" /> ç ë ê è é <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/freak.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

spater, ubergeil, kartoffelsalad, heil, und????? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Ok.. the origin of Lady_Rain....

WARNING!!! this is not what you expect... it has NOTHING to do with rain.....

Lady_Rain started out in 1999 In CapeTown South Africa. Andrew (Fiance) and i just moved from Johannesburg to cape town, and started our own business there..... (and internet café). I was a whole of 19 years old....

For the first time in my life i was far away from friends and family... (and when people tell you how important your family's support is.... believe it... you may not like them, but you do rely on them)

To make a long story short.... we had to work long hours to make the business work.... there was a fair amount of stress involved.... and the stress also had its effect on our relationship. To make things worse, the only other business partner that we had, started cheating us our of money... "borrowing" money from the business to go away for weekends... opening loans on the business name (btw, we didnt know about this until WAY afterwards, when companies wanted to sue us for payment....).

Now the only part where rain has anything to do with the story, is that by now, its mid-winter in CapeTown, which is always a dull rainy affair... Weeks (if not months) of drizzling, grey skies and cold winds. If i mean grey skies, i refer to the grey skies where you cant even see different shades of grey in the clouds....

Now this added to my growing depression.... S.A.D. (seasonal adjustment disorder) along with the state of our business and then still the constant fighting between andrew and I....

Now just because Murphy had to smile on our lives.... my car gets totalled in the parkind lot... (some drunk guy smashed into the back of it at about 200 km/h - irrepairable and no insurance). So now we running a complete losing battle.

So murphy smiles at us again....
I get violently ill... fevers, rashes, and nothing helps (not even the mountain of anti-biotics the doctors threw at me... Eventually i end up in hospital... where an old nurse (the type you would stereotype as old-clan-medicine-women, complete with the leather skinn and abundant wrinckles), gave me one look and booked me for a sonar....

The short version is that i lost a pregnancy and it went ceptic.. i never even knew until that moment that i was pregnant.... (turned out that i was about 12 weeks).

The depression went from Bad to ABSOLUTELY MANIC in the next week (i still blame it on stress, hormonal fluctuations and more stress, plus the fact that i had no family close by, and i couldnt tell my mom what happened, since i was not married....)

The following weeks were hazes of sleeping tablets, anti-depressants (which made me more depressed), more sleeping tablets, and eventually a few attempts at cutting my wrists, overdosing, trying to drown myself, jumping in front of busses etc....

This drove Andrew over the edge... he couldnt handle this... so our relationship ended (thank heavens only briefly).
But this resulted on us closing the busines down and coming back to Johannesburg, where things started getting better for me.... I had my family again... my mom found out about the whole ordeal (i still HATE the person who told her - who discovered this thsi by going through my private files, and then misquoted it all to my mom, telling her that i had an abortion.... ) but even though my mom was past MAD, she was still my mom, and came to my resque... mentally at least.

in the weeks i spent after that trying to puzzle my life back together, the grey sky became a symbol of what i have been through, of the things i will never do again, of the mental instability that i will always avoid.... it also became a symbol of stupid desisions....

Lady Rain is everything that i will NEVER do again.... its the totem of "been there, done that, not going close to those waters again"

Aha, you were born in 1980! You are now 25 (maybe 26), and you're seven years older than me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" />!



Know what it's like. It's like here sometimes. Really depressing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />. With the other things happening it's no wonder you got depressed.

Quite a story. Maybe I'm well off. Unfortunantelly I'm a true pessimist, so I know I'm not <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

By the way, starting abuissnes at the age of 19 seems a bit too early imo (I'm not likelly to be out of school until earliest 21). Allso a mother who thinks of her unmarried daughter's lost pregnancy as "whore odeal" seems a bit out of this world to me.

Stability is allmost like a chore for me. I allways strive for it, I allways avoid instabile situations, I kind of hate getting into 'new' situations (at least I dislike it).

Übereil

By the age of 19 i have already been out of school for 2 years, had my first diploma and was "ready" for the world.... or so i though...

My mom wouldnt have thought of a lost pregnancy as a whore ordeal.... but since the gossip she heard.... was that i got an abortion (which at the time was illegal, and considered very immoral)... as soon as that got cleared out, she was fine with it... still didnt like the fact that i wasnt married... but i wasnt in "trouble" anymore with her...



Lol its no secret, i am 21!!!!! (with 5 years experince)



I love stability... BUT the more i try to reach it... the less i seem to get it... but one day.... i am sure...

Like Leia Organa said to Tarkin :

"The more tight your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers" ...

Please take this as a good advice. I mean it.

The more strength you put into this, the more it will escape you - I'd rather say try to embrace it as a friend, or like it was an animal - but never put the pressure on it.

I wish I could say "the more you let the pressure go, the more it will come to you", but I cannot foresee your future. I'm no person which can do that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

You were 19 in 1999 and are now 21? And you thought you were schooled enought for the world. Well, I don't want to be mean or something, but... ever thought about going back to school? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Übereil

There are lots of things you don't learn at school. I don't want to be mean or something, but... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

Back on topic; I chose that nickname for several reasons. La fille = the girl in French. I often talk about myself using the 3rd person, refering to "the girl" (especially when refering to silly/dumb/distracted-Me). Also, I found that it does an original, anonymous nickname.

[color:"pink"] (especially when refering to silly/XXXX/distracted-Me) [/color]

That you are distracted I dont doubt and silly sure we all are but that middle word NEVER that, I have read to many of your stories to even begin to think along that line of thought, my little Savage <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

@ Ubs



Did you miss the part where i said WITH 5 YEARS EXPERIENCE????

lol in SA thats a normal way of saing a lady's age.... making herself sound younger... yet still telling the truth...

last time i checked 21 + 5 = 26 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

and now i do know that i was not ready for the world... but tell that to a 19 year old. teenagers know EVERYTHING... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />