What your gaming name reveals about your personality...

UrQuan · March 2016

wldkarde wrote: »

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.

I preferred the name of one of his other ships... It was the Uwana Buyer

starkerealm · March 2016

It's a Magic: The Gathering reference. Which, in light of that, probably says a lot about my state of mind seventeen years ago. Now, not so much. But, the name stuck.

nimander99 · March 2016

TL;DR If you play a game with someone named xxxMemberSniffer6969 you probably won't get an intellectual conversation.

starkerealm · March 2016

nimander99 wrote: »

TL;DR If you play a game with someone named xxxMemberSniffer6969 you probably won't get an intellectual conversation.

Jokes on you, it seems. xxxMemberSniffer6969 has a doctorate in Media Analysis, and is a very well read gentleman... with some extremely peculiar proclivities.

Samsayia · March 2016

Hm, the article is an interesting start.

I wonder if they could do a survey of what people base their usernames off of? Think the results of that would be more telling than just comparing those two data bases.

Curtdogg47 · March 2016

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Cadbury · March 2016

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

FriedEggSandwich · March 2016

I had to think of a gamertag for counterstrike when I was in school. I lack imagination so just considered what I liked and came up with FriedEggSandwich. Changed it to kingskin in my early 20's cos I thought it was cool to make weed references. Changed it back to FriedEggSandwich a few years ago to get back to my roots lol.

FriedEggSandwich · March 2016

starkerealm wrote: »

nimander99 wrote: »

TL;DR If you play a game with someone named xxxMemberSniffer6969 you probably won't get an intellectual conversation.

Jokes on you, it seems. xxxMemberSniffer6969 has a doctorate in Media Analysis, and is a very well read gentleman... with some extremely peculiar proclivities.

I thought you were gonna say xxxMemberSniffer6969 had a doctorate in anatomy and physiology xD

starkerealm · March 2016

FriedEggSandwich wrote: »

starkerealm wrote: »

nimander99 wrote: »

TL;DR If you play a game with someone named xxxMemberSniffer6969 you probably won't get an intellectual conversation.

Jokes on you, it seems. xxxMemberSniffer6969 has a doctorate in Media Analysis, and is a very well read gentleman... with some extremely peculiar proclivities.

I thought you were gonna say xxxMemberSniffer6969 had a doctorate in anatomy and physiology xD

No, that's xxMemberSniffer69xx. Best not to confuse the two... and, don't make eye contact with xxMemberSniffer69xx. It's, just, you know, really for the best.

Volkodav · March 2016

Cadbury wrote: »

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

I remember that certain snooty British Butler.I liked him though. XD

Cadbury · March 2016

Volkodav wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

I remember that certain snooty British Butler.I liked him though. XD

Best butler ever.

UrQuan · March 2016

Cadbury wrote: »

Volkodav wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

I remember that certain snooty British Butler.I liked him though. XD

Best butler ever.

Kids today don't know 'bout Jeeves!
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Cadbury · March 2016

UrQuan wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Volkodav wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

I remember that certain snooty British Butler.I liked him though. XD

Best butler ever.

Kids today don't know 'bout Jeeves!

Herbert Cadbury on a jetpack, baby.

Also, Jonathan Hyde. Cadbury wins hands down

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waterfairy · March 2016

Uriel_Nocturne wrote: »

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

I can tell by the properly spelled, case sensitive name without numbers or X's that you're grown and/or mature minded.

I don't know what my character/gamertag says about me but I can spot the young dumb ones easily.

Feisty_Khajiit128 · March 2016

I like pie.

Azzuria · March 2016

*** players have *** names.

ZOMG, you mean water is WET??!?!?!

Volkodav · March 2016

Cadbury wrote: »

Volkodav wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

I remember that certain snooty British Butler.I liked him though. XD

Best butler ever.

He was awesome!

Volkodav · March 2016

Cadbury wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Volkodav wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

I remember that certain snooty British Butler.I liked him though. XD

Best butler ever.

Kids today don't know 'bout Jeeves!

Herbert Cadbury on a jetpack, baby.

Also, Jonathan Hyde. Cadbury wins hands down

Jonathan Hyde is the Cadbury I love the best!

FriedEggSandwich · March 2016

Volkodav wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Volkodav wrote: »

Cadbury wrote: »

Curtdogg47 wrote: »

This is what the world is concerned about? The meaning of GT's!
Some have a meaning I'm sure. Most just tell the world you like to smoke a lot of tweed!!!

Mine tells the world of my love for delicious Easter candy. And names of snooty British butlers.

I remember that certain snooty British Butler.I liked him though. XD

Best butler ever.

Kids today don't know 'bout Jeeves!

Herbert Cadbury on a jetpack, baby.

Also, Jonathan Hyde. Cadbury wins hands down

Jonathan Hyde is the Cadbury I love the best!

Cadbury's I love the best, mmm *homer simpson drool*

Edit: made in the US now apparently.

Elder_III · March 2016

My User_ID is a tribute to Morrowind and has been my internet identity for over a decade now. My character names are almost completely made up from my own imagination, with tributes here and there to various books, games etc that I enjoyed aspects of. In the case of ESO I tried to be lore appropriate with all of my characters and I think I succeeded for the most part. I have somewhere close to 2 dozen different names that I have used over the years and I recycle them when a new game comes out that seems appropriate for that particular character and their general persona.

Basically my names don't mean anything to anyone except myself in most cases.

Elsir · March 2016

Vote Elsir.

Pchela · March 2016

i just really like bees ._.

Krist · March 2016

I started off gaming on hardcore RP UO shards, and picking a normal (ish) name just seemed natural. Krist is simply because I was trying to name this character...WAAAAAAY back in the early 90s, liked Chris for him but wanted something different. Obviously Christ would not work so Krist *Kris with a t sound at end*.

I came to be known as Krist among my gaming friends. It was uncommon enough that few people have the name...think I saw one other in all my years. Not sure what that would tell anyone about me, but as Hughe *my mage* would tell you, forget everything I just told you about me, because tomorrow none of it may be true.

starkerealm · March 2016

Elder_III wrote: »

My User_ID is a tribute to Morrowind...

Mind blown.

I never put that together.

Vangy · March 2016

Purrs while _____ ( be creative and fill in the blank).

FloppyTouch · March 2016

Sums up article with "duh"

ArchMikem · March 2016

I come across a lot of people that insist on making the most ridiculous names like hAxorl33t or megakilla or whatever, and then usually put in some random numbers at the end as well. What's the point? I've never gone down that road in all my gaming. Really my "worst" username I've used was 'simplecarefree' back in Battlefield2142 and Counter Strike. Other than that I started my Xbox gaming career as 'Goofymike' and then evolved to what I am now, 'ArchMikem', which is a combo of Archaic and my name Michael. Yes, I feel old. And I'm only 24.

Eiagra · March 2016

Interesting article.

However, I wonder if perhaps it has a bias towards a specific game type (MOBA style games) rather than gaming as a whole, since they specifically teamed up with RIOT Games to do their research.

It wouldn't surprise me if their findings could apply to other genres, or even other social interaction nodes in general (provided they aren't environments that encourage or force the user to use their real name).

Truth be told, my only takeaway from the article as a whole is how it highlights the sorry state of humanity...

Nova Sky · March 2016

Xeven wrote: »

35 here, and I will still teabag your ass.

Indeed, and then you'll go and change your baby's diaper and, once that's finished, come back and finish the act.