Username Explanations

[Draco Ex Machina]

Well, I'm a mechanical engineer, and I've been a big fan of dragons since I was a small child. I also used to want to be a writer for a long time (and still retain some minor aspirations), and Deus Ex Machina is a pretty common literary trope.

Altogether, Draco Ex Machina makes a certain amount of sense for my username. I tend to use it for just about everything, from games to forums.

[613 The Evil]

My nickname is too old to be able to remember its meaning clearly... Well if I really bothered perhaps... But nah.

[Krulle]

Evil. luring me to this thread to read your usernsme explanation, and then.... nothing...
Argh, my curiousity is annoying....

[Maelphaxerazz]

My username started as a character name on a Neverwinter Nights 2 persistent multiplayer server set in Planescape. The character was a Baatezu warlock - by game rules a tiefling, but I spent pretty much all the time in Horned Devil form so he was RP'd as a Baatezu. Maelphaxerazz was chosen because it sounds like a suitably Baator-esque, fiendish name.

[StreetSamurai]

My username derives from a profession in Shadowrun. I've only played in a few short Shadowrun campaigns during my gaming career, but I really enjoyed the cyberpunk setting mixed with fantasy.

[Krulle]

Welcome the both of you.
How nice to jump in and explain your username.

[crow76308]

I loved the movie The Crow, and fell even more in love with the graphic novel, and I lived in zip code 76308. That simple.

[Krulle]

That explains a lot, thanks, crow.

[UnabatedBasher]

Honestly, UnabatedBasher7 was just my auto generated Xbox360 gamertag, and I thought it was cool so I kept using it. I would like something more short and catchy but I'm too indecisive to pick something better, and I've had this one for so long that I'm attached to it

[Krulle]

That's an interesting story. I never used proposed names, as I always feared too many similar names used by others then.
Nice to know that it does work for some.
Thanks for sharing, UB7. (Do you mind the abbreviation?)

Also, welcome!!

[Complains]

I'm feeling really dumb right now. So I'm 32, you can check my facebook page under ronan.schuck, and I clicked the UNDER 18 button and did my stuff until the end. I obvioulsly didn't want to send a permission letter for my 60 year old dad to sign, so I made an email just for this forum to ask the Goblin Queen to please give a happy ending to Minmax and Kin, as friends at least, or ending up together. I'm going to do it now

So yeah... complains is right, I guess

[Krulle]

Misclicking happens.
Welcome to the forum!

[Screaming]

Username explanation: Screaming is short for Screaming At The Small Clouds. My character in pathfinder named himself that when he became a bard and started traveling.
He was aiming for "The soft voice of the heavens" or something equivalent but he hasn't quite gotten the hang of Common yet.

[Krulle]

Nor of volume control. Nice name.

[Velgar]

I'm mostly going to blame David Eddings for my go-to name.

It does incorporate a small part of my actual name and was very likely inspired by Garion, Belgarath and Polgara. Also was delighted when a past friend said that I "only picked it because it means two spears".

Vel - (Tamil: வேல், lit. 'Vēl') is a divine javelin (spear) associated with Murugan, Hindu war God also known as Vel Murugan.
Gar - From Middle English gar, gare, gere, gore, from Old English gār (“spear, dart, javelin, shaft, arrow, weapon, arms”)

Definitely not planned, but not unwelcome either. Though pity it's two different languages, would work better if it was from one.

I just liked how it sounded.
(Still could be my goblin-name, and in very similar fashion as one creature named Two-Edge.. )

When I can't get it, I use several different version of it, but lately I've mostly stuck with Velgar Grim. As a small nod to brothers Grimm, who collected the many tales of others and by telling them made them immortal in ways they might never have achieved on their own merits. But also bit to my usual stance towards things. I tend to look through the negative aspects of things before going through the positive ones.

Also it's hilarious to go around with all things fluffy, pink (or my favourite, yellow [loving Big Ears for a few reasons, not to mention the layout of this forum...]) and silly when your nick is anything "Grim".

Had once Gav Thorpe mention that I should change my name to Velgar Grim, 'cose he thought it cool (one of the greats when it comes to Warhammer-lore) and I even own a book signed for Velgar Grim by him.
Definitely my treasure among treasures, that one.

[Krulle]

Welcome Velgar.
Yes, it's always nice to learn your chosen nickname can have other meanings in other languages...

[Pesters People]

Hi! I tried to make up a goblin name for myself from my job. A lot of my job is calling and messaging people to remind them to do stuff. So I picked this one, Pesters People.

[Krulle]

That's a nice name.
Welcome, btw!

(in case you're wondering why the last poster before you was 4 years ago:
there's no link on Goblinscomic page to this forum anymore...
And together with the reduced number of new pages going up, that means nearly no fresh "blood" coming this way.)