I'm curious ;D I promise I won't laugh if it's a stupid reason!

I came up with Yatterman after playing Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom way too much and using him as my main character and the name just stuck with me.

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Pokemon usernames in every game and forum since forever. Jirachi was in the newest movie at the time. Everywhere I can I stick to Meowth, Steam is the only exception where I use Macho Man since I can play OH YEAH! sound clips on TF2.

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Speaking of playing sound clips ingame.
I have been interested in using some on a server of mine however I have no idea how to play them other then swapping around a bunch of windows sound settings (essentially playing my sounds through my mic instead) which is annoying to do every time.
Now I'm guessing you're not going through all that trouble, and if my hunch was right then, may I ask which program or what technique you're using to play sound clips ingame?
Much obliged, in advance.

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HLDJ, and there is one more (posted on hldj forums somewhere). Valve 'upgraded' the in game voice to something that cannot handle playing sound files so you have to change a server variable to use the old one. Should be relatively easy to search for.

12 years ago
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Shardok was pulled out of thin air when I was looking for an Elven-ish sounding name in a roleplay that would also not be too clearly Elven.

My last name which I use in place of Shardok on the rare occasion it is taken, GraBug, comes from stealing the Orc naming pattern from The Elder Scrolls and adding Bug for the second part. Although that should really be GroBug apparently as I found out later Gra and Gro show female and male...

12 years ago
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Remember when Sun Micro made ugly, huge CRT monitors? Remember the day the original Everquest came out? The name I had been staring at for months had already been taken, so I settled. Somebody else clearly shared my lack of creativity.

12 years ago
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A friend of mine is called SyncMaster (after his Samsung monitor) don't worry

12 years ago
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Haha I'm using SyncMaster 940Ts right now. Probably would have been my next try if Relysis were taken. I also like how you mentioned that your name came from two things, but not the one I would have guessed after seeing your avatar.

12 years ago
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a mix between Invader Zim and Space Invaders

12 years ago
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Because of these guys. Played MechWarrior relentlessly when I was younger and just utterly adored the Jade Falcons. Years later, when I was choosing a new e-mail address/worldwide username (my old one had been compromised), I thought of Clan Jade Falcon and knew what I had to choose. Problem was, I figured they were the good guys, but about a year ago, I found out they were the antagonists. I'm okay with this.

12 years ago
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I knew it! You freebirth scum! XD

12 years ago
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<3 Love you too, man!

12 years ago
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Hmm thoose guys are familiar :D
Mine came from the same source :) I just use 0-3 because most of the time its already taken so i replaced them with numbers .
Do you consider playing mechwarrior online?

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I'll definitely give it a go, but I was a LOT more interested in the simple reboot. It looked gorgeous and I'm more into single-player mech stomping than multiplayer. I'll still give it a chance, but I really hope what was revealed in 2009 makes a return.

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If I know what you're talking about, I think I saw a trailer for it a while back. I haven't heard anything since, but it's going to be (is?) a must-have. I really liked the improvements they made going from MW2 to MW3, but they fixed it where you had to have a lock to fire your LRM's. Before that, even if they were too close, I could just eyeball it and still tear them apart, which is probably why they corrected it, but oh well. It's still awesome beyond words.

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Sorry to break it to you, but MechWarrior Online replaced the one you saw the trailer for. :( They couldn't find a publisher willing to do it multiplatform and it was too big of a risk to be an exclusive. So the only hope is that MWO is a success so the reboot can be started up again.

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Is MWO out yet? I pretty much have to get every single game they put out regardless, and I'll be more than happy to give it a go.

Edit: This is the trailer I saw, btw.

Second edit: I decided not to be lazy and ran a search to answer my own question.

12 years ago
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Still in development.
http://mwomercs.com/

12 years ago
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Yep. I already registered for it, though. Now I have another game to look forward to some time soon. :D

12 years ago
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Yeah, that's the game that got cancelled. :(

12 years ago
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I prefer to think of it as "postponed."</denial>

12 years ago
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Sadly the big publishers threw back the game so the developers forced to make a f4p mmo. I hope it will be succsesfull that they can make a single player oriented mechwarrior too in the near future.

12 years ago
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Every time someone says MW3 or whatnot online, my brain matches it to MechWarrior 3 first.

Must be getting old. ;)

12 years ago
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I remember using MaDCaT , because of the jaguar madcat :) ahhh I am member of the luckiest generation in the world

12 years ago
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ETD is short for Elect The Dead, one of my favourite albums of all time, by Serj Tankian, the singer of System Of A Down who i met personally after a show. really cool guy to talk to.

12 years ago
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Interesting, I've always liked his voice but hated System of a Down. I'll have a look into it.

12 years ago
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Elect the Dead was pretty good. Empty Walls and Sky is Over omg. Also to the above comment I personally like SOAD better than Serj's solo album, the solo album is more serious and I liked the playfulness of SOAD's music. Glad they got back together and hope they start releasing albums again, SOAD and RATM are like the only two rock bands I like and listen to still to this day.

12 years ago
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I actually like both, but simply because of it being more serious i prefer his solo stuff.

12 years ago
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<3

12 years ago
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Macea is the village where I live.

12 years ago
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creativity =)

12 years ago
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Yes i know :))

12 years ago
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Salut :)

12 years ago
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Salut :)

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-Back in 2007.

-Watching Spongebob while babysitting my cousin.

-New PS3 arrives.

-Go upstairs to set it up. Cousin keeps watching show.

-Start it up, get to the whole profile creation process.

-I hear shrieking from the T.V. downstairs, with one of the characters on the show yelling "MY LEG!"

-It flowed right onto my username.

-I now use it with every other gaming system/forums to this day.

12 years ago
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This is not how you form a sentence.

12 years ago
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I laughed. This is an accomplishment. Be proud.

12 years ago
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My username originates from italian horror comic book Dylan Dog. Dylan Dog is a private investigator specialising in paranormal activities (or "nightmare investigator" as he usually calls himself), former alcoholic and ex cop. Dr Xabaras is his greatest nemesis and father, something along the lines of Sherlock Holmes/Dr Moriarty relationship. Its one of the greatest graphics novels ever created that raises deep philosophical questions about nature of man and absurdity of life. Sadly there's maybe one edition of Dylan Dog published in USA (by Dark Comics editorial) and whatever you do - avoid this movie. Its one of those Hollywood "let's make a movie based on comic or videogame that has nothing in common with original work" crap

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I actually own a copy of this.

12 years ago
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of what?

12 years ago
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Because my name is Jack and i love astronomy

12 years ago
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+1 for being an astronomy nerd :)

12 years ago
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+2 for being Jack

12 years ago
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nuttertools :3 (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, yeah :p)

12 years ago
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Xenomorph (I'm an alien fan)
Lair (i like caves, lairs)
XenoLair

12 years ago
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I smashed my keyboard with the power of a thousand baby gorillas. And thus a legend was born.

12 years ago
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lol'd

12 years ago
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There's this brand of T-shirt that I used to wear back in high school a lot: "Big Dogs". The school's annual Mr. Universe-eqsue competition for the senior guys was coming up, and some of my lady friends coerced me into signing up. I couldn't think of a name, so one suggested "Mr. Big Dog" because of the T-shirts I always wore, another suggested changing the O to an AW. So everyone started referring to me as "The Big Dawg" and the name just stuck. Wherever some form of "TheBigDawg" is already taken (the bastards) I add J to the end because of my name, Josh. And that's the story of my screen name.

TL;DR: Username based off of t-shirt brand I wore a lot.

12 years ago
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lolol

12 years ago
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Mine was based off what was written on my T-Shirt.

It literally said "Live Your Life". And yes, I like the song from T.I. as well.

12 years ago
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I have no idea, yet I like it.
This is the first time I`ve realised I have no idea of how this name came out, and I have been using it for quiet a few years already.

12 years ago
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I was really bad at naming my characters in RPGs, and could never come up with good names. While I was playing Warcraft III, I noticed the sword named Frostmourne, and thought that maybe I could change it to fit as a character's name. I got a character name, took the surname as my username, and I've been using it ever since.
Unlike most people think, The Bourne Supremacy was not an inspiration source.

(As a side story, my previous username - MANY years ago - was Megatron, which was inspired from the main rival in the game Electronic Popple. Only later I've learned that it was actually the name of the main antagonist in Transformers.)

12 years ago
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12 years ago
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Trolled omegle.

12 years ago
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daaaaaaaaaaamn.

12 years ago
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Fuck, nice.

12 years ago
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A few years back I wanted to create a rogue-like fox character.

Since I'm not too good at naming characters, I called him shadow.

Then later I thought that shadow is a dumb name for a character.

I renamed him Tzell, which means 'shadow' in hebrew, to make it sounds better and mysterious..ish :P

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I got mine from a table top RPG called Shadowrun Technomancer - someone who can access the Matrix hack and control electronics/robots/cars using only there mind.

12 years ago
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Fucking love Shadowrun.

12 years ago
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Because of pure things and the fact that I like dogs and the movie Bolt :-)

12 years ago
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mine is a variation of the latin word cadere(edit: caedere), which means to kill, my name, caedo, means "I kill" as I mostly play shooters

I wanted a name which needs education to understand and be different from others

the leetspeak is because I want people to understand the name only with a second view

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FYI "cadere", same as in Italian, means "to fall", or "to die". "Caedere" (or cædere?) is the word you're looking for, and seems to be the origin of the contemporary Italian word "uccidere".

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I just wrote cadere instead of caedere once, sry^^

and I don't know any Italian, I am german learning latin in school

12 years ago
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it's my name

12 years ago
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The movie "The Warriors" lol

12 years ago
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Unfortunately, my username is too long for most systems to accept, but I use variations of it wherever I go. It is: Incognito Mosquito. Was BSing with my friends and we were saying strange things and I came up with Incognito Mosquito because it sounded funny. Fast forward 5-7 years, and I finally got sick of using "Scorpion" as my username and spend a day trying to think of something interesting. For whatever reason Incognito Mosquito came back to me, probably because the previous discussion took place in a gaming store while watching people play Unreal Tournament. It is now my username of choice. I found out 4 years later that it is also the name of a childrens book series, as well as a band name. Which unfortunately means I can't get the gmail address i want :-\

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