What your gaming name reveals about your personality...

Miszou

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-your-gaming-name-reveals-about-your-personality

Interesting, although perhaps slightly obvious.

I can't say I'm surprised at the research when being tea-bagged by 'xxNoobKillah04xx'...

babylon

Well, as expected -

Generally speaking, younger people tend to have weaker impulse control, poorer social skills and take offence more easily. We found that players who were young or who had antisocial user names would tend to receive and send more negative feedback. Meanwhile, older, more mature players, or those with inoffensive user names, would have relatively positive interactions with their teammates.

DaveMoeDee

I suppose part of the wonder of MMOs is how it can simultaneously appeal to the most social and the most anti-social individuals.

babylon

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

I suppose part of the wonder of MMOs is how it can simultaneously appeal to the most social and the most anti-social individuals.

Antisocial destructive people like having targets to inflict themselves upon.

yodased

my handle has nothing to do with being 900 years old, green and reclusive nor being a jedi master.

I mean what did you expect when you have XxXNoobSlayer420XxX or some such garbage. I like the facebook 1 identity thing.

Also, Riot is big data monitoring their players based on social algorithms, that is next level

Uriel_Nocturne

Makes me wonder what they'd think about my Gamer Tag. Vampire Nox.

Do we think they'd pick me out as almost 40 and have been Gaming for over 30 years? lol

Nestor

Interesting article. Although I already knew that some people are antisocial and wear the label proudly. Which kind of defeats the purpose of being antisocial, by bringing attention to yourself.

UrQuan

My gaming name reveals that my personality revolves around ensuring that all other sentient life in the galaxy is enslaved so that nothing can threaten me.

Or something.

Abeille

I'm scared of bees.

rotaugen454

I like cake!

Danikat

I was a bit disappointed that they didn't go into more depth or look at more of a range of names. "People who choose antisocial screen names exhibit more antisocial behaviour" is hardly a revelation. It's a good start and I can appreciate the value in an experiment to confirm what "everyone knows" (because so often everyone knows the world is flat), but I'd like to have seen them go further.

Xeven

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Uriel_Nocturne

Danikat wrote: »

I was a bit disappointed that they didn't go into more depth or look at more of a range of names. "People who choose antisocial screen names exhibit more antisocial behaviour" is hardly a revelation. It's a good start and I can appreciate the value in an experiment to confirm what "everyone knows" (because so often everyone knows the world is flat), but I'd like to have seen them go further.

IKR? lol

I really want to know how this Gamer Tag would fit into their mix.

A couple years back I was playing SWAT in Halo Reach and got killed by a guy whose GT was "A Dirty Jew", so the in-game text told me that: "You were headshot by 'A Dirty Jew' ".

It was hilarious. But still brings the curiosity of what these guys would say to that. lmao

THEDKEXPERIENCE

I'm THEDKEXPERIENCE because my intials are DK, I always thought The Jimi Hendrix Experience sounded cool, and mildly obnoxious from time to time, hence the ALL CAPS.

bedlom

That I care too much.

Selstad

I'm inclined on using names in-game that reflects the character I'm playing, but then again, I'm quit aware of my madness and the different voices in my head say that it doesn't matter and that they like me the way I am.

My forum name however is a different story; It's my last name. Yeah, I created this forum avatar during a period of newly released forum, and for some strange reason, Zenimax decided to skip the the choosing of a nick and rather just congratulated me on creating a forum user. And since I couldn't be bothered to change it, it stuck

ContraTempo

Depends on the personality I suppose. I've always made very deliberate name choices. For example, ContraTempo is a sword fighting term that involves attacking at an unexpected time to gain the advantage (oversimplification but that's the important part). And yes, I do actual swordfighting as a hobby, and I like to approach situations in unexpected ways. Not very mysterious.

Being new to MMOs, one of the hardest parts for me was learning to use typical, expected techniques when working with others. I'm a quick study but most PUGS have little patience for someone who does not already know the typical group tactics. This forum was very helpful in figuring those out, as was some advice from a few patient individuals.

My character names are all taken from ES lore so there is not much to be learned about me there.

UrQuan

ContraTempo wrote: »

Depends on the personality I suppose. I've always made very deliberate name choices. For example, ContraTempo is a sword fighting term that involves attacking at an unexpected time to gain the advantage (oversimplification but that's the important part). And yes, I do actual swordfighting as a hobby, and I like to approach situations in unexpected ways. Not very mysterious.

Ha! I had actually wondered if that was where your name came from! I don't do any swordfighting myself, but when I used to fence a bit when I was a kid, and one of my friends is a swordfighting instructor so that was what came to mind the first time I saw your name.

Recremen

My gamer tag is from one of my favorite characters I made for tabletop gaming, which tells you that I am hopeless roleplayer trash to be avoided at all costs.

wayfarerx

My gaming name is actually my repurposed hacker handle from when I was twelve and leaning how to code, and that was originally taken from a character in a set of short stories I wrote shortly before then.

I have no idea how that relates to the fact that I was never the t-bagging / trash-talking type, but oh well.

Cadbury

Back when I played WoW, I knew a couple of guildmates IRL who were very altruistic and religious. In fact, they even used their religious affiliation in their game names both of WoW and on their Xbox Live accounts. Yet in game, they were some of the most foul-mouthed and belligerent players I've ever played with. Tea-bagging and sending hate mail was pretty much par for the course for these guys. I couldn't help but both laugh and cringe at their antics.

Moral of the story is; just because someone has a "nice" or "normal" gamename doesn't mean they're not hiding something.

Judas Helviaryn

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phairdon

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

Danikat wrote: »

I was a bit disappointed that they didn't go into more depth or look at more of a range of names. "People who choose antisocial screen names exhibit more antisocial behaviour" is hardly a revelation. It's a good start and I can appreciate the value in an experiment to confirm what "everyone knows" (because so often everyone knows the world is flat), but I'd like to have seen them go further.

IKR? lol

I really want to know how this Gamer Tag would fit into their mix.

A couple years back I was playing SWAT in Halo Reach and got killed by a guy whose GT was "A Dirty Jew", so the in-game text told me that: "You were headshot by 'A Dirty Jew' ".

It was hilarious. But still brings the curiosity of what these guys would say to that. lmao

Reminds me of being killed by players with names like 'Your Mom' or 'Your Sister' in fps games.

WldKarde

Years ago when I needed to come up with a new used ID I reached back into my memory of some old Star Wars books. A character named Talon Karrde's ship was called the "Wild Karrde".

Just shortened it down a bit and been WldKarde ever since.

As for the "true" meaning??? Well for anyone who has played with me on ESO, I think most would say that "Knucklehead" would have been a better choice.

Samadhi

Samadhi - a term regarding deep meditative absorption
Tantrika - a practitioner of tantric meditation
Mukti - liberation from the cycle of birth and death, and associated earthly concerns.

However, am a Fool rather than a Sage.

I_killed_Vivec

Hmmm...

"In their user names, players also often include two or four digit numbers – which are commonly thought to refer to their year of birth. We checked this assumption (by comparing these dates to the ones provided in the registration information) and found that the two were highly, although not perfectly, correlated."

Which unfortunately means nothing because I bet most people lie about their true DoB.

I'd have thought a professor of psychology would know that.

Astrids_fire

Crap. I'm old.

Volkodav

Most of my ingame names are German words for different warriors,etc.My favorite vet is named after a character in a movie.When I was making him,I noticed that he was looking just like that guy in Stakeland. So,I named him after him.His name is Mister.

Nestor

I have one character in game who is named Occam Razzor from the principle by the same name

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

In a nutshell, if there are two possible explanations for something the simpler one is usually right.

He has an adopted sister, Sarein Razzor. She is adopted as Occam is a Breton, and Sarein is an Altmer.

He has a real sister, but for some stupid reason, her name is Occam Craftalt. I need to get that changed.

I also have Kees vaan Loo-Macklin based on a character from a Alan Dean Foster book, The Man Who Used the Universe. In the story, he goes from the top of the criminal underworld to the top of legitimate society and pulled the biggest con ever to stop a war.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Man_Who_Used_the_Universe.html?id=12BVVtqrSq8C

He has a cousin named Kees Loo-Macklin who has not earned the right to use the vaan prefix yet.

I have a crafting mule named Crafter Collector

I have another character named Lars Leefmulcher, just for grins. He holds my gear sets for me while he hangs out in a tavern. He is a Nord after all.

I have two other mules, but there names are not important. So, if anyone can suss out something about me from these character names, I would like to hear it.

nine9six

nine9six (996) is my motorcycle. Timeless design, and I've used this name from when I used to be in racing leagues on XBL on the Orignal Xbox, many moons ago.

My in-game names are Lore Related.

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO

Xeven wrote: »

35 here, and I will still teabag your ass.

Twenty bucks says you wear tennis visors and still get excited about Spring Break.



I'm kidding, I'm kidding!