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Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:21:00 -
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What inspired you to name your character or characters the way that you did. Is your character set up just for playing the game as it is or do you role play with your character as well? It would be neat to get a good cross section of the EVE community out there and see how people like to experience the game through their characters...
Koensayr Drive Yards [KOEN] Website
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Alexia Te'Len
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:26:00 -
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Alexia Te'Len is the name of my Elven Wild Mage in DnD, I use that name here because, with a few alterations (There's no "magic" in EVE, for example) the character's mindset, attitude and general ability seems to suit the EVE universe.
Hard to explain really.
That and the name suggests "Hey, lookit me! I'll Roleplay! Roleplay with me dammit! ROLEPLAY! >.<".
I have nothing against "FPS names", but it does feel weird Roleplaying with someone called "Uber1337Killah747".
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Bogusheadbox
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:36:00 -
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well because it is unique and i use it for most online games. Well that and Wombatguts.
But the latter i have seen several times.
Guess where i am from
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Dip me in chocolate and throw me to the *******s.
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Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:42:00 -
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Edited by: Rinekar on 27/08/2003 16:43:39
I totally agree. When I joined the EVE universe back in beta I was intrigued with the rich story and background. My character names (Rinekar, Renkar and Fenklar) all have a significance in their own right. After release when it became evident (well it was true even in beta) that most of the players were not out to role play and have fun with the story I was a little disappointed. However there is the little part of the demographic that does,  which helps. One of the things I keep seeing repeated on the boards is that CCP needs to give us content. I think that many have failed to realize that they have done an incredible job in doing so. Take for example the story line. If you look at it in depth or even casually skim it you can see there are endless opportunities for us to develop our own content for the game. EVE is in fact a player driven game.
As for my characters Rinekar and Renkar, I play them as brothers of and Intaki miner and an ex-Amarr Ni-Kunni Slave. They have prospered and done well for themselves and now own their own manufacturing corp. that builds equipment for ships. As for Fenklar he is an ex-Amarr slave to that has escaped his old master and now is a freedom fighter on the border of Minmatar and Amarr space. I decided to do this so that I could have more fun with the game and it has made it possible. It is interesting how even them most mundane task of mining can become a dynamic adventure when role played. I would love to hear what you the EVE community has to say on this matter and get your positive feedback... 
Koensayr Drive Yards [KOEN] Website
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Molly
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:43:00 -
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I wonder what's worse,
an Elven Wild Mage wearing pink cloth and jumping from tree to tree called Alexia Te'Len
or
someone with an Aug and a CMAG called "Uber1337Killah747" destroying the entire elven population with one full auto spray and pray and crying "r0x0r3d".
Wait, even worse are those ASCII special character dudes, you simply can't spell their names.
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Sleban
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:46:00 -
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I'm disappointed in you, Rinekar. Until that last post, I'd imagined you'd named your character as a tribute to the time when Gary Lineker played in Japan..... |
Molly
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:49:00 -
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Lol.
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Tibor Ferenc
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Posted - 2003.08.27 16:56:00 -
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Read Brian Lumleys Necroscope Books and then you will know what Im about.
TF
The LBC
http://mmogcenter.com/tiborsig.jpg
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:04:00 -
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My character comes from one of the main characters in the "Night's Dawn Trilogy" by Peter F. Hamilton.
If you've read the books you'll find a LOT of similarities with the world of Eve.
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The source of Molly's character name can be found here
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Alexia Te'Len
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:11:00 -
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The source of Molly's character name can be found here
Owned. Heheh.
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Generic Player
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:12:00 -
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I love the rich storyline and picked my name accordingly. I've been searching for roleplayers in this game since day 1 but have failed to find any with my caliber of play.  |
PussyCat
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:24:00 -
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MaiLina KaTar
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:29:00 -
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You can read all about my character on the ingame website. You can find the link under my sig.
Mai's Idealog |
Tank CEO
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:30:00 -
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I named myself Tank because im a damn Tank, it matches me perfectly.
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RAIDAKAOZ
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:35:00 -
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yea that waz my boys tag name back in the dayz when hangin on the streets
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I named myself Tank because im a damn Tank, it matches me perfectly.
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If it looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, it is probably a chicken that CCP ****ed up. |
Saladin
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:36:00 -
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My char name (as well as those of my alts) comes from my heritage.
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SISQO
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:46:00 -
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If people listened carefully, they could hear me singing the thong song ever now and then in YZ-LQL.
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Joshua Calvert
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:47:00 -
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Thong, th-th-th-thong, thong!
Minmatar slave chant?
LEEEEERRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! |
Eurydike
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Posted - 2003.08.27 17:52:00 -
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I thought Molly named herself after that character in the Vectrex game "Spike".
But then again, I doubt she knows what a Vectrex is.
Where my callsign comes from is quite clear: Greek mythology, to fit with the Hadean theme. My character name is simply thought up.
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Sarela "Eurydike" Taris
Vote Stavros for Kojak's brother. |
Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.08.27 18:52:00 -
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Thanks for the replies so far everyone...
Koensayr Drive Yards [KOEN] Website
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Discorporation
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Posted - 2003.08.27 18:55:00 -
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Discorporation. Rawr. been my online nick for around four to five years now, if not more. (It's a shamanistic process of detaching the spirit from the body, and a way to keep heads alive seperate from the body. Neat, huh?).
My RP name Dote mal Payne was ruthlessly pilfered from the Dark Sun AD&D (welcome to the dork side) world. He was a necromancer, ate humanoid flesh and rode a giant undead beetle into battle.
[Heterocephalus glaber]
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Tibor Ferenc
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Posted - 2003.08.27 18:56:00 -
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What about the "CEO" bit eh tanky.
TF.
The LBC.
http://mmogcenter.com/tiborsig.jpg
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Molly
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Posted - 2003.08.27 19:05:00 -
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"I thought Molly named herself after that character in the Vectrex game "Spike".
But then again, I doubt she knows what a Vectrex is."
Lol.
I don't know when William Gibson has written Johnny Mnemonic exactly, but I am pretty sure, that it was before 1982 and Neuromancer was 1984.
Sorry, I don't remember playing on the Vectrex, I might be. Didn't want to disappoint you. I am not such an old fart as you are  , but at least I have read some good books.
And btw not everybody had the access to state of the art gaming technology in the 80's, just think of east europe...
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Entity
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Posted - 2003.08.27 19:16:00 -
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Edited by: Entity on 27/08/2003 19:18:31
"Entity", well. I adopted this name for numerous reasons.
In no particular order:
- Star Trek (Crystalline Entity)
- The only consonants are N, T and T, which when pronounced by themselves sound like Entity again. It's the shorthand spelling of my nick people often use on IRC and in other chat channels.
- With certain fonts, if you write eNTiTy, the NTT bit sticks together using the dot on the i. I used this spelling on IRC for some time until I realised it could be seen as an attempt to be "l33t" (the random caps stuff, which wasn't really random), which kind of sucks :-)
- Versatility. You can mangle the name in many ways on IRC depending on the situation (ent-city, aunt-ity, etc)
- Primary meaning; a being, a lifeform. But it doesn't tell you much about gender or origin, which I like.
- Alternate meanings; It's used in various fields of science I relate with (most notably computer related: HTML entities, 3D entities, etc).
- Aesthetically pleasing character balance (subjective as it may be :). It's a graphically balanced word, it just looks ok. It can be written with one unbroken string of line segments too, except for the I, which gives ample possibilities for creating a logo or so.
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Kalroth
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Posted - 2003.08.27 19:16:00 -
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Thank god for google, eh Molly?
I made my name up back when I started playing UO and I've been using it through various online games now.
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Baldour Ngarr
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Posted - 2003.08.28 10:11:00 -
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I made up a weird-sounding name for no particular reason.
I have my own, utterly unique, net-name but I didn't want to use it here. (And no, it isn't vrneuigprh43p652379854gqn5uig542qh5t4f. My utterly unique net-name is only 7 characters long, all letters, 3 of them are vowels, and it's entirely pronounceable )
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SlightlyMad
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Posted - 2003.08.28 10:30:00 -
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In beta, I made a gallente char that was named "Looks***". And he did indeed, look ***.
I figured I didn't want to get stuck with a char like that for the rest of the retail. And, a possible namechange and/or deletion because of the offencive nature was suspected too.
So... I made a char that looked SlightlyMad instead.
The name actually fits my IRL personality. It just looks more evil :) Sometimes I do roleplay a bit, pushing myself to do quite some stupid stunts just for the hell of it.
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-"You know, we play the "good guys" right? We kill pirates, griefers, retards and general subversive elements in the EVE-Community. To the rest, we are friendly and always prepared to help out. Peo |
Lao Tzu
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Posted - 2003.08.28 10:43:00 -
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I'm named after a type of cheese.
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Bulk Paint
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Posted - 2003.08.28 10:58:00 -
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Mine's an old Paintball nick from back when I couldn't hit a barn door without expending a large amount of ammunition.
Since the eye op, I've gotten a lot better... 
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Bulk Paint
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cowpsisgod
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Posted - 2003.08.28 10:59:00 -
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COWPS IS GOD
this comes from football, by the way yanks and rugby freaks the game is called football we have football clubs, football associations eg the f.a. u.e.f.a. and not forgetting f.i.f.a.
if it wasnt for football you wouldnt have your games. football-rugby-gridiron, also other off shoots like gaelic and aussy rules.
as for cowps
colin cowperthwaite played for barrow assocition football club, fromm the late 70's to the early 90's for over 20yrs was a faithful servant playing for his home town, even tho he lives in grange 25 miles away, he played over 575 games and scored over 250 goals. he turned down numerous approaches from the professional clubs such as carlisle, preston rochdale etc. in the northwest of england to stay with barrow afc, he won northern premier league medals, presidents cup and chairman cup winners medals.
the highlight of his carrear with barrow was on the 14th of may 1990 when he helped barrow to win the f.a.trophy (thats the football association trophy) beating leek town at wembley 3-0, he scored the second goal of the three with a diving header.
the cowps is god is a trtibute to him by the fans when a fanzine was created, he was still playing at the time, the first issue of "give 'em beans" had the title spash and a pic of colin on the front stating "cowps is god or what!!"
now it is just cowps is god.
feel free to donate to the church of colin cowperthwaite, he will undoubtedly bless you and his face will shine on you, with the toothless grin he has
IS COWPS GOD OR WHAT?
yes he is 575 app = 250+ goals
praise be to COWPS |
Benco97
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Posted - 2003.08.28 11:00:00 -
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Please don't think that I am one of those people who makes the stupid names with numbers and special chars.
I use Benco97 because I was assigned it in school and it has stuck ever since. EVERYTHING I do online I do as Benco97, Except messenger
got a rather strange name on that 
ok, I'll tell : 'The fox with purple hair'
Strange, no?
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annoing
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Posted - 2003.08.28 11:12:00 -
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I used to be no_one_really because i was fed up of people asking "who are you in the real world then?" in beta... then that changed to annoing because I found that people asking why 'no_one_really' really annoying. 
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The Inquisition
Long live the Inquisition
Long live the Emperor
Long live Amarr!
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EveJunkie
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Posted - 2003.08.28 11:19:00 -
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I dont think I need to explain my name.
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GM Arkanon
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Posted - 2003.08.28 11:27:00 -
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I was going to name myself after the arcade game "Arkanoid". Turns out I've been misreading the font all my life and thought it was called "Arkanon". A very good way to impress people on your first day of work.
GM Arkanon
Senior Game Master
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cowpsisgod
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Posted - 2003.08.28 12:11:00 -
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liverpoolfc
as another footie related name, i was wondering why not chose k.dalgleish or i.rush etc etc etc
or even grace yourself with the name b.shankley.
to some it is a matter of life and death, to others it is much more than that.
but remember that cowps is god
IS COWPS GOD OR WHAT?
yes he is 575 app = 250+ goals
praise be to COWPS |
NTRabbit
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Posted - 2003.08.28 12:22:00 -
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Ive been NTRabbit for near on a decade, a few years longer than my online gaming career.
How i got that name is ofc not for everyone to know
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Endyl
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Posted - 2003.08.28 12:32:00 -
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Edited by: Endyl on 28/08/2003 12:33:00
My original char is Lyph.
I didn't even created it in Eve, but it was a healer, and is a mixup of the name Lif (in Nordic mythology the survivor of Ragnarock, the battle of heroes), the word Why, and Life.
The Y is a letter that you find in every of my char name (I like having alt chars for everything).
I transport the same set of names from game to game, so people I know usualy end up knowing all my names.
Endyl is usualy my PK char in all games, but it ended that in Eve having too many alts is not really possible.
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Alkad Mzu
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Posted - 2003.08.28 12:37:00 -
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My character comes from one of the main characters in the "Night's Dawn Trilogy" by Peter F. Hamilton.
That goes for me as well.
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Sarkos
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Posted - 2003.08.28 12:48:00 -
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For many years I have played the Star Wars RP game, and Sarkos is my main character. So when I started playing EVE, I took that name.
Sarkos - Oracle
Either free the slaves or we will come and get them.
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Fulmen
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Posted - 2003.08.28 12:52:00 -
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Literal Latin Translation:
a stroke of lightning
a thunderbolt
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Tharrn
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Posted - 2003.08.28 12:53:00 -
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Tharrn - Counselor, USS Younameit (can't remember  )
One of my many characters from my early online-gaming experiences back in 1994. Star Trek freeform RPGing on the bad old MSN. Does anyone know vTrek, A Call to Duty or Fleet here? ;)
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Koinski
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Posted - 2003.08.28 13:03:00 -
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Cpt. Koinski is a polish member of the british army during WWII.
He is a member of the Long Range Desert Group, AKA Desert Scorpions, operation in Sudam, Somalia, Ethiopia,...
Made immortal by the art of Hugo Pratt (Author of Corto Maltese), a personal favourite.
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Ashton Black
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Posted - 2003.08.28 13:29:00 -
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Edited by: Ashton Black on 28/08/2003 13:29:51
Been using this handle since the days of The Bard's Tale by Westwood Studios. The other characters were Charlie Dung. Edith Foxtrot. (anyone see the pattern here?)
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.08.28 13:44:00 -
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Danton 'cause I wanted something classically french yet not fruity and not having been ingame to actually see the very imaginative names of others to further inspire me I must say I'm not in the most creative league, not even in the qualifying group. 
Marcellus 'cause it was my alias in another spacegame and quite frankly only a poor frustrated sollution when I realized that the - was out, subpar by the CCP. Oh and yes, I like Ving Rhames...
If we were given the oppertunity to change our names some day I probably will, someone report me!
Convert Stations
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Athule Snanm
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Posted - 2003.08.28 14:08:00 -
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I'm just glad I beat everyone in the rush to get called Ath¨le Snanm, I'd hate to be 'Ath¨le Snanm CEO' or something.
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Doomheim - EVE's only hygiene! |
Black Jade
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Posted - 2003.08.28 15:23:00 -
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From a Chinese fairytale titled "The Dream of the Red Chamber".
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Riana Tabost
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Posted - 2003.08.28 16:36:00 -
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Names are coolest when:
1. Full name (two part) with the first part easily pronouncable. ie: "Riana Tabost" not "zxucw ffpftdy"
2. Single handle name "Khyron"
My character was chosen for the former.
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May I recommend a Cybernetic Subprocessor?.. That's an intelligence implant, sweetheart.
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K'atch Moebus
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Posted - 2003.08.28 17:02:00 -
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I'm always late 
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Hikaru Okuda
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Posted - 2003.08.28 17:08:00 -
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I made mine up from two Japanese names that just sounded Caldari.
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Rinekar
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Posted - 2003.08.28 17:16:00 -
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Thanks guys for the replies, lets have some more...
Koensayr Drive Yards [KOEN] Website
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Omber Zombie
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Posted - 2003.08.28 17:17:00 -
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Guess what I did a lot of in Beta....
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"Remember people: Omber is the biggest evil ever created, DO NOT let it get to you!"
Waagaa Ktlehr, BDCI
I have a blog
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Singular
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Posted - 2003.08.28 17:18:00 -
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because Schizoid was already taken lol.
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Znaei
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Posted - 2003.08.29 03:07:00 -
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Znaei is just an alt for my RL nick Snµi
clagnuts> im drunk just come back from pirates night in spain , wtf i thought it was some eve guys getting together for a drink , turned out to be a feken real pirates show , doh |
Deneba Zaavi
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Posted - 2003.08.29 09:55:00 -
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Deneba Zaavi cause.... well, it's my name!
Deneba Zaavi
Deneba Zaavi
"The world is perfect as it is: a complete mess" - Joseph Campbell |
Deneba Zaavi
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Posted - 2003.08.29 09:59:00 -
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I'm disappointed in you, Rinekar. Until that last post, I'd imagined you'd named your character as a tribute to the time when Gary Lineker played in Japan.....
It would prolly have been Rainekaru.:P
Deneba
Deneba Zaavi
"The world is perfect as it is: a complete mess" - Joseph Campbell |
UrbanSlayer
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Posted - 2003.08.29 14:00:00 -
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This name was gifted to me by Prometheus after a particularly successful urban engagement against the Human//bug forces (100 Humans fell to my Executioner). Shortly after this, i began to exhibit bug thought and was classed as a "Metagen", and was scheduled for redaction. I escaped, and even though i am now openly against Prometheus, i still bare the name with pride.
Through an accident while travelling in the only Metagen FTL ship, i found myself sitting in an Ibis, with a Human//bug body and no knowledge of where i was. I have been trying to reach my comrades ever since..
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Moph
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Posted - 2003.08.29 14:14:00 -
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Edited by: Ia 'Ras on 29/08/2003 14:23:17
My real name  No kidding.
My name is Jaroslaw(Iaroslav). It is old slavish name (I'm from Poland). What it exactly means: 'The one who praises the lord'. However everybody calls me Iaras for short.
So now you know why it is Ia 'Ras.
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Moph
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Posted - 2003.08.29 14:22:00 -
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Cpt. Koinski is a polish member of the british army during WWII.
He is a member of the Long Range Desert Group, AKA Desert Scorpions, operation in Sudam, Somalia, Ethiopia,...
Made immortal by the art of Hugo Pratt (Author of Corto Maltese), a personal favourite.
original:
cheers, Koinski
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