What is the origin story of your Username/Gamertag?

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  1. Yumudas Beegbut

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    Not the end. You found a soulmate in xboxer 'a Sloth' and gamed happily ever after.

    You're a Pokemon! I'd prove it, but I can't remember the Pokerap at the moment.

    I caught a Psychoduck, Professor Oak! Muy bien!


    I joined XBL with the tag Yusgoda Beegbut to play Halo 2, I think. It says 9 years, which seems about right. I spelled it so that it looked like some unpronounceable Norwegian-Japanese name. But sometimes people sounded it out and had a laugh. Best mispronunciation: Yoda CockKnocker. My nephew started playing online a while back, so I got this second Yumudas Beegbut account set up, which I use more since I play a good bit less. It's easier to figure out. I got the inspiration from Yumudas Beegbut. mmmm mmmm!
     
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  2. Ringtext

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    This picture explains it all. :cool:
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  3. Chesus Khrist

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    My last name is Chesus [Che-ss-us] and everyone says [Chee-sus]. So i made my gamertag Chesus Khrist :D
     
  4. Chesus Khrist

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    Mine is litarly my last name, and get jesus freaks talking **** to me everyday on XBL :'D
     
  5. Zombievillan

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    When I was a young Skater, I also went around tagging stuff all the time. I always signed my tagging with the name "Villan" (misspelled on purpose). So when my friends got me into H2 online play they all had gamertags that started with zombie_______. There was ZombieSnorlax, ZombieSteveErwn, ZombieDro, ZombieSloth, ZombieBenCheifn, Zombie420, Jobforazombie, ZombieLoki, LurkinZombie, ZombieBeLurkin... anywho, I just followed suit & put zombie with my graffiti name. Pretty boring story, lol.
     
  6. Merder Smerf

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    I've had a lot of tags. My most recently retired tag is CPT SPRKL FARTS which has no story other than its a ****ing epic gt. Now I'm Seems Dangerous- first it was Dangerr Pig, which is my pitfall's name, but it felt wrong because thats not my name its my dog's name. so i went for a change and i had wanted to do a gt that started with "seems" or "kinda" and since everyone i play with just calls me danger i went with Seems Dangerous.
     
  7. Max Extra

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    Well back in 2004 I was signing up for a runescape account. I had just watch a goofy movie and thought that Max was a great name. sadly runescape said my name had to be more than 6 characters so i added 'extra' letters. thus Max Extra was born.
     
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  8. SimmonsZore

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    Back in the Halo 3 era,

    A young Zore, not yet a SimmonsZore, roamed the customs. That young Zore was an elite, for he thought it was the coolest thing in the world to be a crime fighting Dinosaur. Soon that young Zore met a few friends who called him "Simmons", earning the name for he sounded like the red man from the Red vs Blue. That young Zore attempted to reason with said friends claiming, "I can not be a Simmons, for I am... an Alien." From that moment on, they decided to instead call me "DinoZore Simmons". (or SimmonsZore for short.)
     
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  9. Jehuty

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    For my username, I am named after Orbital Frame Jehuty from Zone of the Enders. Jehuty and Anubis are the two most powerful Orbital Frames in the series.
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    For my gamertag, after my old account got hacked I became N7Striker, then GundamDynames07, then Impulse Melan, then I ZOE Jehuty I, then switched back to Impulse. I was originally going to have Gundam Impulse as my GT but decided not to, and then I added Melan. Melan derives from the Greek word Melas, which means "black" or "dark."
     
  10. REMkings

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    I'd always thought you were just a huge Infection fan until a few years ago :p
     
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  11. REMkings

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    My gamertag is REMkings.

    People usually think I'm just a huge R.E.M. fan. Whilst I do appreciate that band a lot, this is not the true origin of my gamertag.

    My brothers and I got an Xbox 360 as a Sinterklaas present (the Dutch equivalent of Christmas) back in 2007 or 2008, I think. The number one game included was Halo 3. We used to play the campaign for hours and hours, but at some point we decided it would be cool to try and play online matches for once.

    When we had to come up with a gamertag I figured REMkingz was a cool pick. My real first name is Remco and the names of my two younger brothers start with an E and an M, so I just lined those up and added -kingz because we were cool like that (lol). Thus, the REMkingz were born.

    Eventually we made a second gamertag for free and found out that REMkings was actually still availabe. Obviously, that one stuck.

    Nowadays I'm the only one still using the account as my brothers barely play Xbox anymore. Conveniently, rem is also the first part of my own name so I suppose I was always destined to keep the tag. :p

    Oh, I once saw somebody with the gamertag 'Brodo Swaggins'. Ever since then, I wished that tag was mine.
     
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  12. darkprince909

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    I've had this handle since middle school, when I made an account on some long-dead forum right after playing all of the Prince of Persia games. In retrospect, I should have changed it to something a little less cringe-inducing, but it's too late now. I've used it for nearly everything since then.
     
  13. The Omicron

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    Over the years I've had a few gamertags, but the past 6 or 7 years I've stuck with The 0micron. My first gamertag that I played a bunch of Halo 2 with was "Legend", I'm not sure why I chose to pick it but I'm a big fan of The Legend of Zelda so I guess they had a small correlation (also back in the days of my younger self, I thought it sounded super cool). After a while, I got tired of Legendio and I really liked my older brothers' gamertag "Mr Headshotalot" but I sucked at gaming so I couldn't persuade myself to use something similar because my brother destroyed me in every game of Halo 2 (and Halo 3 for that matter) I've ever played with him. My oldest brother never really got into console gaming so he stuck to trusty ol' WoW and he had a blood elf by the name of "Ryokusi". I believe he just made the name up, he said it sounded asian and his blood elf has an asian-like hairstyle with a big ponytail. Regardless, I stole his characters name and used it as my first official Xbox membership name. I used this name all through Halo 3 and all of my previously made maps and crappy aesthetic things were under this name. On to my current name finally, The name "The 0micron" came from my character's name in one of my favorite games of all time, Guild Wars (the original not GW2). My brother and I were part of a guild at the time called "The Obscure Monks" and one of the requirements to be an officer in the guild was to have a name starting with "The ___" My brother was really interested in Greek at the time so he had multiple characters named after letters of the greek alphabet, including "The Theta" , "The Sigma" , "The Upsilon" and his main character "The Sporadic" (which isn't greek). So like a little brother would do, I copied his idea, and I landed with "The Omicron". Well sadly "The Omicron" is taken by some person already so I made it "The 0micron" with a 0 instead of a O. At least the letter Omicron's numerical value is equal to 0 so it somewhat still makes sense. Thats it. Apologies for the large block of text. Oh and most people tend to call me 0mi for short.
     
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  14. SammichEaterPro

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    I just like sammiches.
     
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  15. purely fat

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    I challenge you in the future in a sammich eating contest. No back smacking allowed.
     
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  16. SammichEaterPro

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    Why would I smack your back? If you are choking that's good for me. More time to eat!
     
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  17. IrontMesdents

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    GT: Iront Mesdent

    The name comes from the exact pronounciation of "Iron Maiden" in french by using existing fresh words. Iront is the future tense "aller" which means to go or get depending of the context. Mesdent can be split in two parts: Mes Dent which translates to My teeths (I had the S at the end of Mesdents for the plural at first but then I couldn't figure out how to transfer my account on xbox live).

    So my gamertag, if rearranged into this order: Mesdent Iront, basically says "my teeth will get/go" and you can add something stupid at the end like: My teeth will get better/Mes dents iront mieux.

    That's why when somebody tries to say my name correctly it's always butchered :p French words
     
  18. Goat

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    I just wanted something that was funny to see in the killfeed and I had been around Goats at the time and thought they were ****ing hilarious.

    I also have a really big
     
  19. a Chunk

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    Imagination.
     
  20. Preacher001

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    A quarter century ago I was Preacher. I liked it, not for any religious reason, but because for some reason I had associated it with the image of a noble lone wolf type character, that wandered the vast world doing good in their own way. Flawed but with an honest heart.

    Back when Skype first hit the scene and it got picked up by Luddites attempting their first steps into the technological world of instant messaging, I used to get alot of random IM's from other real life Preachers and or religious folk. Fortunately that died down. I was getting tired of trying to explain what a gamertag was to old people.

    Preacher001 came around because I got older and didn't feel the need to be the first person on every bloody game related thing that had a message board. Preacher,no? Preacher1, no? Preacher2, no? screw it, Preacher001 FTW!

    PS. the 001 is silent. Fkuk do I hate hearing people say "Hey it's Preacher 0 0 1" It almost grinds on me as bad as hearing people call my Revenent Rampage Arena map, R R Revenent Rampage Arena, or say it like a growl, Rrrr Revenent Rampage Arena. The RR stands for the gametype Revenant Rampage numbnuts. You know, like in DM_Morbias.
     
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