Personal Icon and Nickname meaning

Friday, January 21, 2005 by Sleeping Dragon | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Well I gotta tell ya, some of these personal icons are awesome. Jinn Fizz and Stupendous Man are two of my favorites. I'm interested in the meaning behind them. To some it just looks cool, to some there may be some history. Also, I think I know why BoXXi's is a box, but I don't know why he's BoXXi. What makes Corky_O Corky? Why does butch have a 123 and a motorcycle? What's a Jafo? Why did sbgFX kill the Spyder?

So if you got a minute, tell us why you chose your nickname and what, if anything, your icon represents.

I won't go first this time. Someone else.
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Sleeping Dragon
Reply #61 Wednesday, February 9, 2005 8:42 PM
never realized my previous icon was such a poor subconscious mimicry of the master's own; until I saw them side by side on another thread.

sorry danilo


joeKnowledge
Reply #62 Wednesday, February 9, 2005 10:19 PM
hahahaha
don't ever do that again!!!
muhahahaha

long live the master!

danioc
Reply #63 Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:59 AM
My nick is my name

danillo = danilo
O = Oliveira
c = Castro

I added a extra "L" for mail reasons.

My avatar i builded based on my Sektor WB skin.

Sleeping Dragon
Reply #64 Friday, March 11, 2005 11:50 PM
Thought I would give it a bump to see if there were any more who wanted to share.

Sleeping Dragon
Reply #65 Friday, April 15, 2005 6:22 AM
Starkers?

SSOne
Reply #66 Friday, April 15, 2005 8:07 AM
www.ssone.com

PurrBall
Reply #67 Friday, April 15, 2005 8:09 AM
Meowy for the love of cats.

The user icon... Self-explanatory, used to be a cat, but decided against.

HG_Eliminator
Reply #68 Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:37 AM
HG= Honor Guard, my unit in mechwarrior mercenaries.. Eliminator= what i do to the enemys in the game...my avatar was made by my buddy and team mate BoXXi..

KeithMacDonald
Reply #69 Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:25 AM
oh god... I wish i could change mine, but im stuck with phazonmaster.... (i got that from being abnormally addicted to METROID... check my skins, youll find some metroid stuff) I want to change it to z3_gx, named aftere my company.

MountainDragon
Reply #70 Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:01 PM
About five years ago in the wake of some major changes in my life I suddenly developed a very strong affinity for dragons - creatures of power, strength, loyalty and honor. Mountain because I live on the slopes of Mount Shasta. The avatar is a graphic from a photo of a figurine given to me by some good friends, and he's playing a guitar because I've been a guitarist for 35+ years.

thomassen
Reply #71 Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:12 PM
When I first got my hands on a computer connected to the internet (after two minutes of the modem going beeep duuurh eeerph beeep duur etc. etc. each time) and started signing up on websites I used DrBrain as my nick. Can't remember any more why I choose that nick. Later on however I felt the urge for a change. I have allways been interested in strategy games and the old times, so I chose a nick that would fit within the games I played; Sir Thomas (SirThomas). However, later I adobted Sire Thomas (SireThomas) instead as I liked the sound of it better and less people had taken it. That was what I had initially signed up with as for WC. Then the last two years I've been planning my website for when I am finished with my studies and thought why present my self under a different idintity on the internet? So hence my current nick thomassen. All though I'd like my nick to be thomthom (derived from Thomas Thomassen), it was unfortunatly not availible.

thomassen
Reply #72 Wednesday, May 18, 2005 1:26 PM
The avatar was a abstract picture I made ages ago while playing around with Photoshop, version 5 I think..-

PurrBall
Reply #73 Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:29 PM
My new avatar has leaves in it because my backyard is just plain old woods, because I live in Maine, which is a mix Coniforus and Deciduious forest.

That's paht of da life in Maineahville.

Sleeping Dragon
Reply #74 Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:08 PM
There have been some changes at WC, so I'm exhuming this. Why is Bichur a troll? Did the leaves leave Maine for Meowy? Why is Bash "Bash" and why spongeBob? There seems to be a Giger contingent too. Jafo's avatar has been 'refreshed', and blindbatty has a cat? Why not a Bat?

horizon
Reply #75 Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:19 PM
not much changed with me.

Cynder-Elluh
Reply #76 Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:30 PM
Why is Bichur a troll? Did the leaves leave Maine for Meowy? Why is Bash "Bash" and why spongeBob? There seems to be a Giger contingent too. Jafo's avatar has been 'refreshed', and blindbatty has a cat? Why not a Bat?


Here's a question; being the avatar designer you are, why not try to make a couple of avatars to fit the names, ie, (how do you make a BASH?) be interesting to see that! And how about a "blindbatty" instead of a cat, even though "my" kitty cat is much cuter and sweeter.....

Cynder-Elluh
Reply #77 Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:34 PM
Forgot something, sleeping dragon's avatar is not even an animal,(dragon, sleeping or awake) what's with that?....
You have already explained about the "sleeping dragon" so why not an avatar to represent it better? just a thought......

_TAPPER_
Reply #78 Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:45 PM
Got my nick in my frat at college. I was the only one who could figure out how to tap the kegs at our frat parties,plus being able to carry 2 16 gal kegs at one time. (shudder) Quit drinkin since then but the name stuck. My avatar is from one of my alltime favorite albums by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Got the idea for the avatar after seeing Tarkus avatar and said to myself "why not". Couldn't find a decent keg either.

aimzzz
Reply #79 Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:55 PM
I'm Amy & sometimes get called aimz, aimes, something along those lines. I started using aimzz as my email address & carried it over to a forum I used alot. One day the forum software was different & nobody could sign in. People had to re-register with new nicks. I was in a hurry & just added another z-- aimzzz (formerly known as aimzz). Eventually, when the forum login was fixed & people could go back to their old nicks, I was surprised to get flack about losing the extra z. As a matter of fact, I realized that I felt naked without it & so have been aimzzz ever since. Tried to change my email, but the extra z was in use already. Oh well...

aimzzz
Reply #80 Saturday, September 17, 2005 11:59 PM
My avatar isn't related to the nick-- it's a SD special

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