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Had to dig up this old thread because I was inspired by the old AOL message board talk.

Stragolves was a friend of mine on the Gamewiz AOL message boards back in the day. Well, as much of a "friend" as anyone can be over the internet, having never met them IRL. I always thought his name was short for "Stragoloves" until he told me it was short for "Stragolives," a variant of his original screen name, "Kefkalives." I always thought that name was awesome.

When I signed up for Caves of Narshe, I really intended to only make one post, talking about how I'd beaten Vargas and Ultros without using pummel or sketch (then Djibriel totally pwned me on the Vargas claim, but it's all good). Anyway, "Kefkalives" immediately came to mind, and I used it as sort of a silent tribue to Stragolves, whom I lost touch with when I stopped frequenting the Gamewiz boards, which AOL eventually shut down.

I really only thought I'd make one, two posts tops, before leaving this place. But I found CoN interesting enough that I decided to stick around. Had I known I would stick around longer, I probably would have thought of something more original (like "ShadowLives", lol). But, well, too late to turn back now.

I can only hope Stragolves/Kefkalives makes his way here one day, and, after recognizing the SN I'll be able to talk to him again.

This post has been edited by KefkaLives on 14th May 2005 01:38

*steals answer he gave on the xRO forums*

Perigryn

Started out as the name for a little comic made in Grade 8. I then went to join Hotmail around that time and wanted to my name to be 'Peregrine' in reference to the falcon, but that was taken. So, I opted for the differed spelling of Perigryn. And since then, I've used it for everything I need a username for on the net.

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Games on the Go
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Baldur's Gate

Too much to play, so little time!

Greg

I just kinda came up with this name one day, thought it was funny, and I now use it for most of the online stuff I do (with the exceptions of Warcraft 3 and Heros of Ivalice)

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~ Aurora, exhale bloody air! Dark Holy! ~

When I first was opening an e-mail account with Yahoo (bout seven or eight years ago, I think), I needed a name. My nickname at school was Bobcat (a combination of Bob, a nickname for Robert, and the fact I once ate a can of catfood on a dare), so I tried that, but taken. Next, I tried adding my day of birth, but bobcat13 was taken also, so the two zeros were added to make "bobcat0013".
A year or so later, I managed to sully my name on a few different gaming forums (and a helluva lot of spam mail in the days before filters), so I needed a new e-mail account. I was having a fascination with dragons at that time, but wanted to be somewhat recognizable to my friends, so I went with "bahamut0013", often shortened to bahamut or baha. NOTE: no capitol on the b is necessary.
I'm occasionally seen as "the sniper bobcat" on some shooter games, or with an [AMF] tag for my clan (Amphibious Forces). I also sometimes game under aliases like "Dark Snake" or "Metal Snake".
I also sometimes use my ne real life nickname, "Ski" (since everyone butchers Lemiszki pretty bad), as is common for people with names of Polish or Russian (I'm the latter) descent. Traditionally, my surname was spelled Lemiszky, but my dad said that his grandfather's papers were misspelled when he became an American citizen (just before WWI). Every once in a while, I will go with my mother's maiden name, Bradford (more for annonymity in real life than on the net).

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M777: lightweight 155mm howitzer
3/11 rules over all artillery!

I'm usually EverydayAngel- derived from Jewel's song "Sensitive;"
"Anyone can start a conflict, it's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle, we are everyday angels. Be careful with me, 'cause I'd like to stay that way."

And this one? I think Relm's the most like me.
I used to use SchalaZeal a lot, the princess on Chrono Trigger, but not anymore. ^.^

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You're telling me that there's no hope.

I'm telling you you're wrong.

Divineknight, Think FFT. Now think Meliadoul. My favorite character of the game. (Too bad shes so incredibly useless) I would have prefered her with Agries style attacks or something. There was no Meliadoul Avatar:( so I stuck with a the regular knight on this one.

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Peace sells... but Whos buyin? -Megadeth


You wont be saying that when you get a
lead pipe across the head -James (Darkness Illusions II)

Monroe is my middle name. I don't go by it yet, but when I get out of high school I plan to start going by it.

Shadow is my favorite Final Fantasy character. It is also a reflection of my personality. I'm like Shadow, I'm a loner.

BASSsic is the name I make music under. I like low frequencies, I guess my nick is just a pun on that. Plus it sounds cool.

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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

http://slightly-bitter.blog.co.uk

names madmangunner i got it from all of the gun games i play where after i while i totally did not care and would throw my character into his own game verision of the underworld and would laugh when i survive. to this day i have not died on halo 2 multiplayer the madmangunner will live for ever. go ahead doubt me

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Why is it that rpg's are now a dying breed?

I think I may have posted here alredy, but I am too lazy to look through all the pages.

Anyways, Kilakandra_DiMenia is a character in a book I am currently writing. The underscore is just there because I didn't think that the forums let you have spaces in your screen name. I'm used to the scary message box that says "Sorry, your name can only contain letters, numbers, or underscore. Please try again." Grrrr....

On other forums, I'm either LeoGirl90 or MagessCourtney. LeoGirl90 is simple. I'm a Leo, I'm a girl, and my birthdate was in 1990. As for MagessCourtney, well, I just like mages, and my first name is Amber-Courtney (though they don't hyphenate it on my birth certificate... idiots).

There are also two other forums I'm on. On those I'm either Joey Fanatic or Joey's Girlfriend. As you may guess, Joey Wheeler from Yu-Gi-Oh is my favorite character, so... there ya go.

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"No matter what happens, I will always be with you... forever." ---- Pocahontas, Pocahontas

"Only those who are already at the top are rewarded without trying."----- Delita Hyral, Final Fantasy Tactics

http://www.ffshrine.org/fft/fft-midi/1-42-back_fire01.mid ---- My favorite FFT battle song

seeing as some some ppl have revived this topic, ill put in my explanation as well!

baralai888! not all that difficult. i think baralai is a freakin badass despite the way he acts. i also think he looks really cool, oh and, the hair is SWEET! cmon, who has hair like that huh?! the 8s are because thats my fave #. ive always wore number 8 in every sport ive particated in (that requires #d jerseys). the 3 sports are basketball, soccer, and football. i take sports quite serious! and the 8 appearing 3 times represents the 3 sports ive played.

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"The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

My name is derived from my all-time favorite pro wrestling groups who were amidst retirement while growing up as a fan who followed professional wrestling religiously, the Fabulous Freebirds. Original members: Michael "P.S." Hayes, Buddy Jack Roberts, and Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy. While watching wrestling before they retired: Micheal Hayes and Jimmy "Jam" Garvin. Hayes is my personal favorite wrestler of all time!

Also Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" is my all-time favorite song (second to Bob Segar's "Turn The Page" and anything from John Lennon) and the lyrics of "Freebird" remind me so much of myself and my life, I can't help but sing and dance EVERYTIME I hear it. If I have a say-so, that will be my wedding song.

This post has been edited by FabulousFreebird on 22nd May 2005 11:52

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"Thought I was dead, eh? Not until I fulfill my dream!"
Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

I like to make up odd, fantasy-style names, largely for characters in games that I play, but also for other fantasy-related ideas that I have come up with as diversions. Gots a whole list of original names now, that I do, some of which I recycle here and there. "Galsic" is probably one of me favorites.

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Console RPG Cliches

When I first registered, I liked two characters from FFVI alot: Locke, and Celes...
So I called myself "Lockewithceles" because I wanted to register only as "Locke_Cole" but it has been taken already. After a while, I didn't like the name much anymore and decided to change it eversince I beat Final Fantasy V for the second time. I can't help it, "NeoEx-Death" is incredibly cool.

Moderator Edit

Yeah, and I believe you got warned for it because we don't allow users to have multiple accounts. -R51

This post has been edited by Rangers51 on 3rd November 2005 15:57

I chose Jenny just because my name is Jenn, but everywhere i go Jenn is taken. So usually I do this, or add another word to the beginning, like OrcaJenn [love killer whales] or KillerJenn, but that's rare. I've taken a liking to Jenny because sometimes my friends call me that, mostly to be cute. Yep, I'm really that boring.

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The first duty in life is to assume a pose,
and the second duty is...well, no one's found out yet.

Locke is my probably my all time FF character, and I thougt that Barry went along with it. That's not my 1st name BTW, but if you see Barrylocke or some variation of that on the Web, its probably me.

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Dead Winter. A nice comic.

I chose my name cause Im kinda built like sabin not AS much muscle, but some and I want to learn the Blitzs' from him! So basically, I want to train to be like him.

Rap name = L. Cully, yo.

This post has been edited by L. Cully on 25th February 2007 07:44

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Some ghost of me might greet my son
the day he is delivered.


Eternal Sleep, Track 1-1: The Blue Planet

Mine comes from the best dragoonin history. I also use Katze and Kotsur, which mean cat in other languages. Kotsur is definitely my favorite.

This post has been edited by Kimahri on 3rd November 2005 21:34

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eh?

Strikerbolt

That goes back quite a ways. When I first got Internet access, I was into electrical stuff and lightning. So, its stuck ever since then. At least, for forum stuff.

Nowadays, I'm using Jagaza, Jagazua, and Jagazen for D&D and character names. In my mind, Jagaza represents the warrior/paladin/etc. and of good alignment, Jagazen represents the Thief/Assassin/Ninja/etc. of the Evil alignment, and Jagazua represents Sorcerer/Mage/etc. of Neutral Alignments. Also, Jagaza and Jagazen are of Law, and Jagazua are of chaos.

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Neneko is Neneko because Neneko couldn't be Neneko if Neneko wasn't Neneko!
--as quoted from Neneko, Mahoraba {Heartful Days}

I can stab a man with a thick paperback book thru the ribcage.

Couldn't find any topics like this, or I'm too dumb to use the search feature correctly. Either way, if there is one, I apologize to the mods in advance for having to merge it.

I was wonderin what some of you guys based your Screen names on.

As for me, Nytecrawla is too easy, I kinda just used my old name from my rhymin days. Back then Nightcrawler was an x-men god, and it was a natural choice.

As far as other names go, I have used
Dragmek~ a dragon mecha obviously.
Goldskinnedpoet~ Self explanatory, a poet with gold skin
Wolfen13~based on one of my favorite books witha random number added on to it
Kirzah~ a character I created for an RPG Maker game years ago
Kaiza~a variation on the german Kaiser or King

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This is a webcomic and gaming blog where I rant about nonsense. Enjoy.

I was a soldier, now I just play one in video games.

Wow. Ok, I just spent like 15 minutes looking through all the old threads in this forum (to avoid my "Yea, there was a thread like that awhile ago but I'm too lazy to look for it" answer); I finally found one with like 4 posts that was closed by R51 who said something along the lines of "Lilly posted a similar thread earlier". So I did a search for her and searched through EVERY ONE OF HER POSTS to try and find the thread, but I couldn't. So if there was a thread like before, I don't blame you for not finding it.

Anyways, as for my name, I chose it for a variety of reasons. Firstly, my last name literally means "of Caesar" and most everybody in my family possesses the traits indicative of Caesar's family (blue/grey eyes, hairy, etc). Secondly, I have a natural affinity and talent for Latin, and, like most Latin scholars, appreciate everything Caesar did for Rome. Thirdly, Caesar is a title of greatness and majesty (like King, and Czar, among others), so I thought it'd be cool. There are a few other reasons, but that should be enough to answer the question.

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Is PJ

A Rose by Any Other Name
I remember a few topics like this, but none any time recently

Anyways, Kane comes from the video game Shining Force 1. Kane was my favorite villain for the longest time. I use it for just about everything. It's a long story of how I continue to use it, but we won't go into that

This post has been edited by Kane on 27th June 2006 05:25

Zeromus is the last boss of FFIV and looks really cool. And if you put an 'X' at the end of something, it sounds cooler.

Please don't post throughout the thread trying that.

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OSonic Rave
/ \Last Arcanum
[ ]Strike Raid
XRagnarok

alphasmart is the brand name of a kind of little laptop thing, basically a keyboard with a 4x40 character screen, which I use due to having dyspraxia and thus poor handwriting. Typically it's my screenname throughout the internet (sometimes it's alphasmart3000, the specific model of laptop, on the off chance alphasmart is somehow taken) so if you see someone called alphasmart, it's probably me.

Also, further to Caesar's post, Caesar actually has more greatness and majesty than you think as names like Czar and Kaiser are actually derived from it

Edit

oh, apparently I have posted earlier, oh well.

This post has been edited by alphasmart on 27th June 2006 16:34

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"Fire and steel
follow me through the lands
you will burn hordes of hell
in the deadly raging flames of revenge"

Rhapsody - Flames of Revenge

I never use my real name when i fill stuff out online, like for an e-mail account, I always give folse names and addresses. anyone who nows me personally gets confused when we chat online so one guy was like "Skrew it you don't hav
e a name". So now i'm No-Name.

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"You know that feeling you get when you're on a merry go 'round, and you want to jump off to make the spinning stop, but you know it'll suck when you land? I feel like that all the time"- Keno

"I stab my girl until I fall down"
-Yukari
Do you like Horny Bunnies?

In 1999, I joined an ff7 pbem rpg as Elena. So, I picked Elena99 before going into the chatroom.

I also use Amethyst/Amethyst99 on some boards, because I like the word amethyst.

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

Merged with the thread that Kane first correctly found. I'm in there somewhere, I think.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Okey doke...sorry that I couldn't find it myself.

Just noticed the significance of Caesar posting after me, with my post ending in a derivative of the word Kaiser, which of course, is a derivative of Caesar.

Just random occurances that make sense upon analysis.

This post has been edited by Nytecrawla on 27th June 2006 11:13

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This is a webcomic and gaming blog where I rant about nonsense. Enjoy.

I was a soldier, now I just play one in video games.

My favourite female character in FFVI is Celes. When I registered here, I'd just beaten Fable and the final boss is Jack of Blades. So I just merged the two names.

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Come with me so I can show you how to live
Burning the candle at both ends
I’m gripping at the walls around me
Don’t complicate it
I’m addicted to this life
I’ll be your token of attention
All my lies come down to this
-Orgy, "Beautiful Disgrace"