A new name is in order. Help me choose.

[hunterx280]

All right, that's it. I'm tired of my handle, I've had it for years and haven't changed it because I literally could not think of anything better. Now that Left 4 Dead is out an people are constantly screaming "HUNTER!" around me I'm done. I'm tired of the confusion and I need something new. I am begging the community to help me think of a new handle. Ask me whatever questions you would like about my personality, interests or whatever. I need something new, cool, and unique.

Now some things about me.

Interests: Books, movies, martial arts, gadgets, computers, art, games (duh), comics
Favorite Super Hero: Batman (which is funny because in general, I prefer Marvel)
Favorite book: The Hobbit
Favorite movie: Ehhh, that's tough, probably Fight Club
Favorite TV shows: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who (new series), Torchwood, Firefly
Favorite games: Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Chrono Trigger and Cross, Final Fantasy 6 & 7

And last but not least here is a pick from about 2 or 3 years ago. I don't really look much different except my hair is now buzzed short all over. in stead of spikey in the front and MAYBE a little thinner but I doubt it. The lovely lady is my wonderful wife.

http://b7.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00368/74/91/368931947_l.jpg

[Dorkandproudofit]

Fitbabits?... no. BIG trouble there.

Riley?... well, who'd want to be named for him?

Maggy?... nope, too awesome for anyone but our own gnome.

...How about DreamSpider?

Seriously, I once haloed against a dude named Dreamspider. He owned everyone without even trying, and that was just on account of his badass name alone.

[Squidbot]

RugHugger.

[Ancalagon]

Holbyta?

The above suggestion comes from a memory that I'm sure has no connection to the real world. Anyway... in my memory, someone or something, referring to a Hobbit (or maybe The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins himself) says something Master Holbyta. Theres definitely an L in there, although the "yta" part is not pronounced like biter, more like picture (but without the C sound of course).

Sorry, its just a completely random memory, I have no idea where it comes from or if it has any connection to JRR Tolkiens actual work, but seeing your favourite book jogged that particular piece of memory.

[tombofsoldier]

Crashman the gay Marmoset

[spcialk]

Go back to Blackfox?

[violent]

Change it to Undecided.

[torrefaction]

It should be YourMom.

[civil]

Sleepy LaBeef
Admiral Cheesinski
Albert Camoo

[hunterx280]

Crashman the gay Marmoset

Not entirely sure why but this made me laugh out loud. Why a GAY marmoset?

[Bone]

Bilbo Durden.

/thread

[hunterx280]

Bilbo Durden.

/thread

LOL! the ultimate in bad ass alternate personalities for little people.

[torrefaction]

Hrm, L4D?

How about...

OMGITSTHEWITCH

[hunterx280]

Hrm, L4D?

How about...

OMGITSTHEWITCH

Yeah, like there needs to be more confusion thrown into L4D.

[rinichanraar]

Bilbo Durden.

/thread

This is both hilarious and awesome.

[Thanasimos]

Gilius Thunderhead is a good name. I'm not using it any more, and since I'm presently trolling a small forum to hell with it, it would be handy if somebody that definitely isn't me turns up when it's googled.

[Bad Buddha]

>9000

Smokerx280

[torrefaction]

How about...HesASpy?

[Bad Buddha]

Voxel

Archaic 3d graphics system

[Ancalagon]

FireInTheHole

[biosc1]

Voxel

Archaic 3d graphics system

Speaking of archaic graphic systems:

Hoops?

Then you can go "You have to jump through me to get anything done!"

[hunterx280]

Voxel

Archaic 3d graphics system

I remember talk of Voxels back when they were talking C&C2. Volume pixels if I remember right.

[iHap]

BillsBeard

[Stoke]

Bilbo Durden.

/thread

I read this as Dildo Burden so I'm suggesting that.

[hunterx280]

I read this as Dildo Burden so I'm suggesting that.

That sounds painful...

[Shrinn]

hunterx281.

I'd say stick with Blackfox if it works for you.

[Johan]

NewName
MyName
UsernameHere

[Bad Buddha]

BillsBeard
I read this as BallsBeard so I'm suggesting that.

[iHap]

I read this as BallsBeard so I'm suggesting that.
This is the best name ever.

I would totally go with "BallsBeard", hunter.

[torrefaction]

hunterx281.

I'd say stick with Blackfox if it works for you.

I read this as Blackcox, so I'm suggesting that.

[pronounconnoun]

I read this as BallsBeard so I'm suggesting that.

I read this as Blackcox, so I'm suggesting that.

I read these as DickAttachedtoFace, so I'm suggesting that.

[hunterx280]

I read these as DickAttachedtoFace, so I'm suggesting that.

Oy, why don't I just change my name to Lord Ballchinian? Seriously, some of these are helpful but those aren't :P

[pronounconnoun]

Oy, why don't I just change my name to Lord Ballchinian? Seriously, some of these are helpful but those aren't :P

Yeah...sorry about that.

But honestly, Bone had the best one in my opinion.

[hunterx280]

Yeah...sorry about that.

But honestly, Bone had the best one in my opinion.

No worries, that was more to get back the thread. They were actually making me laugh, they are pretty funny. I expected this sort of thing when I made the thread. You can't put yourself out on the internet without a bit of good humor. :D

[Nura]

Well if it's for left4dead, why not go with classics such as "Bill", "Louis", "Francis" or "Zoey"?

[Dorkandproudofit]

What about Max Fightmaster?

[hunterx280]

Well if it's for left4dead, why not go with classics such as "Bill", "Louis", "Francis" or "Zoey"?

Nah, it's in general. I've been using Hunter for something like 15 years now and I've been wanting to change it for a while. L4D confusion was just the catalyst.

[Ten19]

Clearly, rearrangement is in order!

Rethun
Therun
Nureth

etc etc

[Arphahat]

"Mr. Hunter"
"Hunter, not affiliated with L4D"
"OMG! Look out! It's a hunter!"

I'm sorry, but at least I amuse me. :)

[Voodoo]

Muffin Muncha

[hunterx280]

This is harder than I thought it would be. You guys have some interesting ideas. I will have to mull this over tonight. While I'm thinking about it, is there a way to change my CoG name or would that just require a new account?

[Stoke]

This is harder than I thought it would be. You guys have some interesting ideas. I will have to mull this over tonight. While I'm thinking about it, is there a way to change my CoG name or would that just require a new account?

I believe you just need to let an admin know.

[Voodoo]

I can change it to Muffin Muncha, just give me the A-OK.

[Arphahat]

OK, for my real suggestion, it is easy enough to temporarily change your Steam ID to whatever alias you want. Try out a couple that sound good and see what you think.

I was once in a similar situation, since everyone's default assumption is that I am named after some guy in the Middle East. I couldn't think of anything better, and now I can use it to filter out who I know and who I haven't really talked to much. :)

[Purple Santa]

Albert Camoo

I laughed hard at that then due to this cold almost coughed up a lung. Thanks. Nice to see you are well read :)

[Rock Bandit]

We shall consult the video game name generator: (http://norefuge.net/vgng/vgng.html)

Exciting Sailor in the Magic Kingdom
Morbid Nazi of Might and Magic
Subatomic Matador Warrior
Quiet Nuclear Gaiden
Legendary Turtle Horror

[fitbabits]

How about one of the following:

hunter/280
hunter-280
hunter+280

Pabst Blue Ribbon
Inspect Ur Gadget

[Purple Santa]

Everyone vs Dinosaurs. The original owner of this name had a fishtank accident. Rumor has it the fish ate him :p

[President Fred]

Subatomic Matador Warrior
Quiet Nuclear Gaiden
Why haven't these two games been made? They sound amazing.

[fitbabits]

Purple Nurple

[Krispy]

Lickitung.

[President Fred]

Chester
Carter
Good manly names, but you may need to grow a proper beard to pull them off. Or grow full muttonchops and go for the manly double
Chester T. Cartwright

[Disgustipated]

Bilbo Durden.

/thread

I almost fucking lost it. That's so awesome.

[Everyone vs Dinosaurs]

Peniswaggler

[Bone]

I almost fucking lost it. That's so awesome.

If I didn't have 13 years invested in my stupid handle, I'd be Bilbo Durden in a heartbeat. It keeps growing on me, and the idea of Bilbo being the evil alter ego that starts a fight club just makes me happy.

[Dorkandproudofit]

Peniswaggler

Sorry, already taken. That's my porno name.

[hunterx280]

We shall consult the video game name generator: (http://norefuge.net/vgng/vgng.html)

Exciting Sailor in the Magic Kingdom
Morbid Nazi of Might and Magic
Subatomic Matador Warrior
Quiet Nuclear Gaiden
Legendary Turtle Horror

Genius!

So far my favorites are...
Zombie Sumo from Mars
Naughty Hammer Championship
Mystical Underwear Rocket
Mechanized Blimp Boxing
Rise of the Ghost Rocket
Soviet Go-Kart Pimps

[Sazime]

Ultima Thulian? No, I gave that to someone already... where is that guy?

Kung-Fu Jimmy?
Sci-Fi Shogun?
Tai Chi Tanker?

[LongStepMantis]

Colonial Goblin Party
Mythical Hockey Tactics
Big Bird's Quantum Zombies
The Muppets Terrorist Story
Drunken Barbarian Uncensored

and finally...

Radioactive Batman from Hell
Everybody Loves the Bong Legends
&
It's a Mad, Mad Hillbilly Hoedown

[AbeLincoln]

Have we seriously gone this far without this?

It's L4D?
Your name should be:
"RELOADING!!!"

[hunterx280]

Have we seriously gone this far without this?

It's L4D?
Your name should be:
"RELOADING!!!"

It's not so much that I'm looking for a new name specifically for Left 4 Dead, more a new handle in general. The problems seem to arise in Left 4 Dead the most though.

[total]

Little Baby Jesus.

[KamaItachi]

Lord Remmington Braithewaite
ScarPants
Crimes against submarines
awesome cock
jazz villager
haunts the dead
carbon dated firestick
carpal tunnel spider

[Chris_D]

How about your real name? :p

But yeah, you can add something to it. Like "Bob the Rod", "Joe the Schmo", "Will Hung", or something equally clever.

[fitbabits]

Master Bates
Seamen Stains
Captain Pugwash
Amanda Hugandkiss
Mike Rotch
Joe the Plumber

[Khrymsyn]

PBRmeASAP
Biggus Dikus
The Great Wanger
Laxative Log
Three Yaks and a Dog
Susan

[NSFW]

jazz executive
wobbly wombly
soi soi soi

[Shadowstorm]

Whatever you do, pick something that's unique. I am of the opinion that numbers in usernames are lame, but sometimes it can lend itself to general awesomeness.

[Mr. Murphy]

Porpoise Patrol

[hunterx280]

Whatever you do, pick something that's unique. I am of the opinion that numbers in usernames are lame, but sometimes it can lend itself to general awesomeness.

I totally agree, sadly I still haven't found a name that really suits me. I've been racking my brains for a while now only to come up empty every time. Hopefully I will see something here that I think is perfect or inspires me. We shall see. Either way this is fun seeing the silly stuff people come up with.

[Bad Buddha]

Whatever you do, pick something that's unique.
Eweneek
Yoonique
Euukneak

My daughter worked in a shop in NYC and there were three employees, all named "Unique", all spelled differently.

[Bone]

They're all special individual flowers, just like everyone else.

[hunterx280]

Maybe I should be asking people HOW they came up with their names? Anyone have an interesting story?

[Bad Buddha]

Maybe I should be asking people HOW they came up with their names? Anyone have an interesting story?
I wanted something that reflected my enlightened Zen aspect, but I didn't want people to think that it meant I was an easy target in the prison showers.

[Bone]

Maybe I should be asking people HOW they came up with their names? Anyone have an interesting story?

Sort of. My first "career" job was in 1995, when the World Wide Web was still brand new and full-page splash pages were THE WAY to make a website attractive. We had no idea what we were doing, but we were some of the first ones doing it.

I worked under a very dynamic individual, who, only eight years before, had been released from prison after auto-theft (joyride) charges. He had been a gang member and had the finger-crown tattoos to show for it. After prison, he decided to reinvent himself and use his charisma and street smarts to create a legitimate living for himself and the daughter he discovered he had from a previous girlfriend, who was now a crackhead (the mom, not the kid).

Anyway... he and I clicked, as I had my own dark days behind me (although nowhere near as bad as his), and on February 1996, Quake Test (qtest) came out and our whole office started playing multiplayer Quake. I needed a handle, and my buddy said I reminded him both physically and personality-wise of his old gang buddy, whose name also happened to be Eric. His street name was Bone.

And that's how I came to be named after a gang member who I never met.

[Arphahat]

In college back in the 90's, I had a brilliant computer professor who had a thick Korean accent. Most of the time it was easy enough to interpret... except when he started talking about the "arfa-hat". After several classes and references, someone finally raised his hand and asked, "what is 'arfa-hat'?" He drew the symbol (sans heart) that I use as my avatar. He was trying to say "alpha hat" meaning, "the alpha vector". Our inability to interpret what he said amused us all for quite awhile.

After I graduated, I had been using other handles, until I remembered about that incident. I figured it would be a subtle way of seeing if I'd bump into old classmates, who would recognize the name and say hi and such.

Well, I've never bumped into anyone who recognizes the name, and almost everyone assumes my name is "Araphat", but at least it still amuses me. :)

[Badger]

Back in school, we used to walk past this blue van every morning that had a painting of a badger holding a shotgun in one hand and a plate with a burger in the other. I started drawing cartoons in my school books based on this peculiar premise and eventually I took the moniker for gaming.

My handle is usually EvilTheBadger since Badger is taken more often than not, which is just an homage to Evil the Cat from Earthworm Jim.

[hunterx280]

Hmmm, I'm starting to think this may need it's own post. These are really interesting!

[Bad Buddha]

And that's how I came to be named after a gang member who I never met.

We finally met at PAX!

[TrackZero]

SassyHobbit

[Sazime]

Sam is my name. When thinking of an alias for a bowling team I thought, "What can I add to my name to come up with a handle?"

Sa-zi-m-e

There ya go.

[Stoke]

My story's pretty lame. Back in high school I was trying to come up with a name for a Necromancer I was making in EQ. My favorite author at the time was Dennis L. McKiernan who, in his books, occasionally had a Necromancer named Ydral or his son, Stoke, as the villain. Well, in my history class we had been talking about a culture who tradition was to take the father's first name and make it the son's surname. And thus the story of Stoke Ydral. I only add the Ydral when Stoke is already taken though.

[KamaItachi]

When I first moved to Japan years back, I worked on a semi tropical island in the middle of the Pacific ocean. The weather there was crazy and seasonal shifts would simply happen one day BAM! cold-hot and vice-versa. naturally these dramatic changes weren't too great for people's health and one of the weirdest side-affects was casing abrasions and cuts on the skin.

Back in the day, in their infinite wisdom, the folks on the island decided that the cause of these little wounds was small, invisible weasels, carrying sugar cane cutting scythes. They stuck the two words together, Kama: Scythe and Itachi: Weasel to describe them.

When I heard this, I had a very vivid and comedic image in my head, somewhat reminiscent of the evil weasels in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

And that's how I saved Christmas.

[Rock Bandit]

Well, one day me and North Dakota senator Byron Dorgan we're doing lines of coke off a young Filipino boy named Raul. We were talking about how he used his mob ties to hush one of his mistresses when I suggested after we asphyxiate Raul and take his ears for the senator's trophy wall we should go play Rock Band. Senator Dorgan was all like "Dude, you always want to play Rock Band. You're like some kind of....rock bandit!"

True story.

[diablopath]

wanna be a wombat

[Dorkandproudofit]

I made mine while at a site called "Cryptozoology.com". It was a pretty cool site, and everyone, without exception, used only scientific procedure and reliable research to support their arguments. One guy even did field research and has written several good books (He's got a PhD in Biology and a lesser degree in Zoology).

Anyway, up until then, I had been using "CaseyKen" as my handle everywhere, usually since all the good names were take, so I just used the first name plus the first three letters of my last (a formula I use for my gamertag for the same reasons). This time, however, I wanted to be unique, but I just couldn't come up with anything good and said, "to hell with it, I'll make something up at random" and this is what I came up with.

[Libuke]

One good way I find is to find a game that generates a lot of random names, I often use ogre battle when I need names for characters and such as you starting army gives a bunch of names to use, not always that unique of course. I found better source recently, dwarf fortress. Start up a world and then look at legends where you would start up a game go to the character list and you get a list with thousand if not 10's of thousands of names. Many of them awesome. Maybe that will give you some inspiration or you find one you really like.

[muddi900]

My name is Mudassir. Shorten it muddi ,some friends call me that on the sole reason of it rhyming with the Punjabi word for pussy, though they never try. 900 is just a number.

Also, why not Wife's Cute?

[hunterx280]

Also, why not Wife's Cute?

Not sure I catch your meaning. Are you saying my wife is cute (if so thank you, I think so too:D)? Or should I use that as a name?

[rinichanraar]

There isn't much of a story behind my name, really. I've just had it since the beginning of high school and never really changed it. Just for clarification though, it's pronounced "reenee-chahn-rawr." I know a lot of people have trouble with it. (I'm lookin' at you, Psykoboy2!)

Not sure I catch your meaning. Are you saying my wife is cute (if so thank you, I think so too:D)? Or should I use that as a name?

I think he meant both. :)

[muddi900]

Not sure I catch your meaning. Are you saying my wife is cute (if so thank you, I think so too:D)? Or should I use that as a name?

You should use that as a name because your wife's cute!

EDIT: Beaten again by rini again. You're the reason I'm not posting in the name the movie thread!

[hunterx280]

You should use that as a name because your wife's cute!

EDIT: Beaten again by rini again. You're the reason I'm not posting in the name the movie thread!

I guess that was a stupid question. That's what I get for staying up passed my bed time.

[Bad Buddha]

I'll-Shank-You-For-Looking-At-My-Wife!

It's unique, it shows you're a serious contender and it gets the message across! :D

[hunterx280]

I'll-Shank-You-For-Looking-At-My-Wife!

It's unique, it shows you're a serious contender and it gets the message across! :D

I can just imagine the L4D games now "Look out I'll-Shank-You-For-Looking-At-My-Wife! There's a Boomer!"

[Bad Buddha]

I can just imagine the L4D games now "Look out I'll-Shank-You-For-Looking-At-My-Wife! There's a Boomer!"
By the time they're done typing, you're already covered with barf! :(

Just use I'll-Shank-You! for short.

[Bone]

Shank-you-kindly

[TheFlyingOrc]

Have you considered TheFlyingOrc? I've had great success with it.

[Arphahat]

When you originally picked "hunter," what did you have in mind? What were you "hunting?" Maybe you could use that. For example, if you were hunting rogues, you could choose "Rogue_Hunter". Stuff like that.

[hunterx280]

When you originally picked "hunter," what did you have in mind? What were you "hunting?" Maybe you could use that. For example, if you were hunting rogues, you could choose "Rogue_Hunter". Stuff like that.

It's really dumb actually, I was playing FF6 and I was looking for a name for Locke and it just seemed like a good name and I sort of stuck with it over the years due to my lack of any sort of creativity.