WHAT'S IN A NAME....

[Anonymous]

What's in a name....hmm good question.

I have been a person who could shift from one character to another and create complete identities at the tick of a clock (drop of a dime, new york minute, insert your cliché here,...).

I have made heavy use of Babel Fish to translate English words into other languages to have a unique name but still have a meaning to my persona.  

However these things don't always work out (and depending on timing you chosen name may not be available) so you try to come up with something similar to your chosen name.

The first fiasco of my character attempt ended up being daGuin (short for the characters name of David Guin).  The first part of the name has no relevance other than being my middle name.  The second half of Guin was shortened from penguin since I am a Linux and Unix sysadmin.  My original plan was to become something like iceguin or something similar but those variations were taken so I found that daGuin was available and took it.

What I found out was that no one could pronounce it or spell it, so I needed to find something better.  

I took some time and some searching (too bad MxO doesn't have a way to check if names are all ready taken, but then again most games don't and it would be pointless).  I thought of keeping along the lines of technology, etc and the word Octal popped into my head.

Octal: : of, relating to, or being a number system with a base of eight

Octal: Refers to the base-8 number system, which uses just eight unique symbols (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7). Programs often display data in octal format because it is relatively easy for humans to read and can easily be translated into binary format, which is the most important format for computer. By contrast, decimal format is the easiest format for humans to read because it is the one we use in everyday life, but translating between decimal and binary formats is relatively difficult.

But alas Octal was taken and though the idea behind Octal sounds good, I am not quite Octal in nature.  But...., semiOctal??? Yes.  Once I figure out how the whole system functions (by getting beat down until I can handle myself physically) I plan to return to my roots and go hacker/coder so I can manipulate the Matrix to my desires.  

I don't think the developers will be ready for what I would want to try but it will be interesting to see if someone out there is as twisted as I am.  

As for the meaning, I tend to think more like a computer but it is my humanistic nature that allows me to bend the rules when a computer can not, to adapt when the variables are not changeable to a computer.

I might be considered a bit of a rogue since I tend to feel more computer in nature than human, but I am human after all and there isn't a computer in existence that can match the human brain for raw processing power if harnessed correctly.

I don't know if that makes any sense to you (or even to me sometimes), but that is me for this process routine.

[Anonymous]

'Subtek' sums myself in one word.  It started out as my DJ name and later became the name I use online.  It has several meanings.  First of all, I spin bass heavy music (SUBwoofers), usually with a futuristic edge (TECHnology) from hiphop  to jungle/dnb to dub, dancehall and  uk garage/grime.  It also has to do with my graphic design style, in which the simplest way to describe it would be retro (sub)  and futuristic (tech) at the same time.

[Anonymous]

My real name is Adam Service. I love my last name, it's a very rare name and I researched it just a bit. I guess Service was actually Servis (supposedly) many centuries ago in England. But only a few centuries ago a poet by the name of Sir Robert Service had the name and his kin went to Canada. From Canada some of the families split up, moved to Massachusetts and other stayed there. Then my dad moved to where my mom lives and now here I am, in Van Wert, Ohio.

As for ServiceMaster, I saw  "ServiceMaster's Carpet Cleaning" on the side of a big yellow van one day. I thought that was a cool name so I kept it.

[Anonymous]

I honestly have no idea why I chose Ajax, at the time i was going through a phase of calling myself Perge(my char's name), from something I was writing, and almst immediatly afterwards, i have been using Faust, and so Ajax must have just been a blip in my wimsical personality, and that is the story of my Name.

[Anonymous]

This is very deep.  So i hope you can handle it.

First, Middle
Brandon Lee
B.Lee
BLee
BLee+v (Hey it makes a word)
BLeev  (Hmmm...still not good enough though)
Beleev (Wow...I'm a genius (savant))

[Anonymous]

dude .... one of my best friend's name is brandon lee (except you prolly can't pronounce his last name--i barely can--so we'll save you the embarassment ).... are you him mysteriously in disguise? do you play trumpet and are you an ass? no? didn't think so ... eh name association, it's a fun game to play ....

i'd like to see more of the newer members post here as well; i know some of us brought it up in TS but most of our members weren't there so pretty pretty please get it down in writing so i can .... err .... no, i like you .... i'll kill you last ..... i mean .... yeah ....

[Anonymous]

Alright guys, time to give an etymology of my name. I didn't know that Nartak meant anything until I did some research (on Google, took me the better part of 5 minutes).

Nartak comes from the Hindi word... uhh... Nartak and means bard, dancer, and also is a reference to Shiva (the Hindu god). Bard of course being the wandering story teller, dancer being, well, a dancer, and Shiva being the Hindu god of destruction. This basically means, I like to talk, kill lots of stuff, and party! Here's an excerpt from Encyclopedia Mythica:

The third deity of the Hindu triad of great gods, the Trimurti. Shiva is called the Destroyer, but has also the aspect of regeneration. As destroyer he is dark and terrible, appearing as a naked ascetic accompanied by a train of hideous demons, encircled with serpents and necklaces of skulls. As auspicious and reproductive power, he is worshipped in the form of the Linga, or phallus.

Shiva is depicted as white, with a dark-blue throat, with several arms and three eyes. He carries a trident and rides a white bull. His consort is Parvati (Devi).

[Anonymous]

so we have a dancing fruit of destruction...hurah!

[Anonymous]

I just put Perge into google and it turns out to be a city from the bible! Yay for random Matrix Bible connections!

[Anonymous]

Tizona was the sword of El Cid, the greatest Spanish hero to ever live. He used Tizona to take back Spain during the reclamation from the Moors. I'm not going to go into full detail about what he did, it would just be to long.

Well, being spanish my self, I was naturally attracted to this name, and I have used it from then on.

[Anonymous]

So Tizona, we're supposed to use you to take back the construct from The Collective?

[Anonymous]

You could see it that way I will be much more help one I hit 50, half way through 44 now.

[Fuse]

fuse
n 1: electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded [syn: electrical fuse] 2: any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant

I had a list of about 12 possible names before I was even accepted into beta. Some of the runners up:
Agamemnon - Leader of greek forces durring battle of troy. He wasn't that great a guy, and was kind of a pussy-so I passed.
Eos - If I created a woman character this is Latin for "Goddess of Dawn"
Kanoa - I believe this is a form of "The Free One" in Hawaiian
Ras - Reffering to RAS to CAS delay in memory
Bios or Bosi, Ohm

When I came up with Fuse it just clicked.

[Anonymous]

FIRE!!!!! *dances with glee* .....

i'm not a pyro I SWEAR .... *shifty eyes* .... *pulls out lighter* hehe fire hehe ...

[Broin]

Sometimes Grim I truly worry about you....     Then again sometimes I don't  :p