Nickname Origins
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Colourless aka Colourless Dragon, my UDIC name...
Colourless is intended to be defined using the scientific definition. As such, Colourless Dragon is comlpetely and entirely transparent.
Colourless is intended to be defined using the scientific definition. As such, Colourless Dragon is comlpetely and entirely transparent.
Nah..Humus said:worm[Futuremark said:]One of my ex-girlfirends came up with my nick.. Don't ask! (Actually it was anaconda, but... )
... but it was too small?
My ex-girlfriend thought worm was cuter & more appropriate as "Anaconda" would have been a tad brutal and odd. You know, "HEY, ANACONDA! Come for some tea!". Just doesn't sound right, if you know what I mean.Captain Chickenpants
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Mine is the name I use to play quake.
I got the idea from an episode of the simpsons. Bart puts on a chicken and shouts 'Look at me Lisa, I am Baron von Chickenpants', however it wouldn't fit in the name field for Quake, so I shortened it to Captain Chickenpants.
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I got the idea from an episode of the simpsons. Bart puts on a chicken and shouts 'Look at me Lisa, I am Baron von Chickenpants', however it wouldn't fit in the name field for Quake, so I shortened it to Captain Chickenpants.
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Deepak is my real name...means "pot lamps" in hindi....these lamps are lit on Diwali (biggest hindu festivel) night by hindus all over the world...! So I am here to spread light and enlighten you people
Actually I was also thinking about Solid Snake as MGS is the "game" for me....!
Actually I was also thinking about Solid Snake as MGS is the "game" for me....!
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I thought my name was just funny and would probably disturb some folks without a sense of humor.
Humus said:worm[Futuremark said:]One of my ex-girlfirends came up with my nick.. Don't ask! (Actually it was anaconda, but... )
... but it was too small?
LOL... that is a classic
My nickname is simply "T" and some people try to guess what it stands for. Most people settle for "T the Terrorist" and once "T the Terrible", when I was younger I was really skinny and loved the A Team so my dad used to call me "Mr T" tryin to be kinda ironic and I guess this is where the T'ness has come from plus the fact that most people do not pronounce "Tahir" correctly.
It is "Dhaa-heer" in case anyone is interested
Then why not spell it Dahir? Or is the pronunciation closer to "tah-here" than "dah-here"
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Dahir is Da-here and my name does not sound anything like that.
I guess that is the reason
Thaa is probably closer than Dhaa I guess Tdhaa is closer still.... damn linguistics!!!
The letter in Arabic to Roman English is Tha-oh-e said really fast er.. so me wrong, Thaa-heer it is.
If I can't get it right then people that don't use Arabic/Urdu/Farsi in their daily lives must have a bit of a nightmare.
Conversely I am really, really bad at some Russian/Ukranian surnames (embarassingly so on numerous occassions). In fact sometimes I have problems with Anglo-English words.. try saying 'phenomenon' a few times with a mouth full.. it's not pretty!
Pascal I was playing Homeworld Cataclysm at a lan and all the regular colours where chosen, so I went with brown. Which ended up in me having a wonderful flow of, well, a poo looking substance trailing behind all my ships, I was then on know as Mr Sh*t. I censored the name a bit for the sake of the little kiddies ( more like the mommies who get pissed though )
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Hmm...when I was very young, and first started playing computer role playing games, I created a set of names that I felt exemplified the characteristics of how I pictured different classes.
Two of them I identified with myself at the time: one with my physical nature (always been an athletic type nerd), one with my intellectual nature (typically, the wizard...my clearest memory association with this is Bard's Tale).
Later, in my early favorite activity of conceptual game design (always looked at games wondering how I could do things better, and still do), one of those names lent itself to be the foundation of the naming convention unique to a particular game concept. As a result, that name has always been more of a "Role Play" name for me ever since.
The other name was "demalion", and I've used that for about everything "online" ever since the beginning.
No, it doesn't have anything directly to do with "tatterdemalion" in actuality, but as a big reader (who even read the dictionary for fun when younger still
<-my badge of geekiness), the meaning of that word does have some direct bearing on the thoughts that were going through my head when choosing the name (though I have no clear recollection of actually sitting down and reading it as I do for some other words). A favorite practice of mine was trying to figure out the meaning of words, and what I came up with then for "demalion" seems to have suited my thinking.
tatterdemalion : A person wearing ragged or tattered clothing: ragamuffin, scarecrow.
One explanation (from the distance of many years from the actual choosing): a person wearing tattered clothing is sticking to "it", persisting in adversity. A "demalion" is someone who succeeds in overcoming that adversity...and can therefore go without the "tatter". Alternately, the person that was always there... when you ignored the tatters they were wearing.
No, it was never meant to be "Dema-Lion" or "Demi-Lion", but the "Lion" part is usually associated with positive attributes that are somewhat related, which is why I don't really mind that mangling too much. A Dema-Lion would also be much easier for avatar conception, as well.
"Proper" pronunciation for anyone wondering is like "dee-MAL-yun" or "dee-MAL-eey-en".
Hmm...when I was very young, and first started playing computer role playing games, I created a set of names that I felt exemplified the characteristics of how I pictured different classes.
Two of them I identified with myself at the time: one with my physical nature (always been an athletic type nerd), one with my intellectual nature (typically, the wizard...my clearest memory association with this is Bard's Tale).
Later, in my early favorite activity of conceptual game design (always looked at games wondering how I could do things better, and still do), one of those names lent itself to be the foundation of the naming convention unique to a particular game concept. As a result, that name has always been more of a "Role Play" name for me ever since.
The other name was "demalion", and I've used that for about everything "online" ever since the beginning.
No, it doesn't have anything directly to do with "tatterdemalion" in actuality, but as a big reader (who even read the dictionary for fun when younger still
<-my badge of geekiness), the meaning of that word does have some direct bearing on the thoughts that were going through my head when choosing the name (though I have no clear recollection of actually sitting down and reading it as I do for some other words). A favorite practice of mine was trying to figure out the meaning of words, and what I came up with then for "demalion" seems to have suited my thinking.tatterdemalion : A person wearing ragged or tattered clothing: ragamuffin, scarecrow.
One explanation (from the distance of many years from the actual choosing): a person wearing tattered clothing is sticking to "it", persisting in adversity. A "demalion" is someone who succeeds in overcoming that adversity...and can therefore go without the "tatter". Alternately, the person that was always there... when you ignored the tatters they were wearing.
No, it was never meant to be "Dema-Lion" or "Demi-Lion", but the "Lion" part is usually associated with positive attributes that are somewhat related, which is why I don't really mind that mangling too much. A Dema-Lion would also be much easier for avatar conception, as well.
"Proper" pronunciation for anyone wondering is like "dee-MAL-yun" or "dee-MAL-eey-en".
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