Here’s another post fresh from the Sarcastic Gamer Community blogs, this time coming from Kage, who’s not happy with online usernames. Remember, getting onto the front page is as easy as signing up for an account on the forums and getting to work in your own personal community blog. We’ll be keeping an eye out for any articles that really stand out and if it’s awesome, we’ll put it up here. Nice work Kage! Another rant! This topic has probably already been done to death…but i’m going to talk about it anyway. You can usually divide bad online names into fairly distinct groups, so let’s watch Kage go through them all and systematically tear them to shreds =]
You can usually divide bad online names into 4 fairly distinct groups, so I’m gonna go through them all and systematically tear them to shreds. Hit the jump to read more.
1) The people who think they’re ninjas or assassins. Example: ShadowSnipa
Commonly combined with the next group, these people are usually fairly young and assume that whatever they write as their name, they automatically become awesome at it. They constantly play sniper classes, and take every opportunity to remind people of it. You like sniping, and you like hiding in the shadows, we get it, it’s just a shame you’re not very good at it.
2) The “more numbers the better” people. Example: deathslayer34988361
Why do people do this? It appears to be for no reason at all. It’s understandable when the original name is taken, but when people add 10 digits to the end of their name voluntarily, it looses all meaning. Sometimes I’ll see a perfectly decent online name, that’s been ruined with such a cascade of numeracy, that you could probably code an entire game with it. It’s not original, clever or cool. What it is: stupid.
3) The pretentious Latin names. Example: Dominus Mortis
As in the example, these types of names are almost always in Latin. People use Latin because they think it makes them seem intelligent and sophisticated. Wrong, it makes them look popmous and arrogant. The example I gave means “master of death” by the way, a name that I have actually seen used. Most people don’t know a shred of Latin, so what’s the point of naming yourself something that no one understands? Answer: no point.
4) The “random symbols make me look cool” people. Example: W$@*H^%G
Do I know what my example actually says? No. Well, it’s the same for people I see with these awful names. Spelling things in LEET is sad, and it’s even sadder to use it in your name. Don’t kid yourself into thinking you’re interesting and different, because the more people who think that, the less true it becomes. You don’t have to use the entire ASCII alphabet in your names, people.
Ok rant over. That’s most of my major annoyances out the way. If i’ve missed any out leave a comment and I might add it in.
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17 responses so far ↓
1 SamFtw // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Great rant dude! Its good to see quality community blogs being featured.
2 Legendary Hooligan // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:12 pm
all very true, very good points. although sometimes adding a few leet characters in your name isn’t all bad. it’s better than a slew of numerals at the end, at least in my opinion.
3 Artemas // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Nice. What about people who use random gods and goddeses?
4 Seth // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:36 pm
What about people that use text as little graphical frills?
xX= IMADORK =Xx
5 Lono // Jul 30, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Good stuff Kage!
6 DeusExMathias // Jul 30, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Hee, hee, hee! Number 3 for me!
I really wanted “deus ex machina” (god from the machine) as my Gamer Tag, but it wasn’t available. My dad always called me “Mathias” when he’d pretend I was in trouble. (”Mathias” is the original greek for Matthew and means “gift of God”)
So my entire “popmous” Gamer Tag means: “God from gift of God”
That’s not arrogant, is it?…
~Deus
7 Yamster // Jul 30, 2008 at 4:06 pm
You missed out the emo/goth names you get such as =xX~MCR-4eva~Xx= which just suck and make me very very sadface.
8 SamFtw // Jul 30, 2008 at 4:20 pm
^Totally agree with Yamster on that one. I don’t care which band you listen too, so why is it your name? There really must be more to someones persona than just a band right? If not maybe that person should go outside for a bit.
Then die. :p
9 Jacob816 // Jul 30, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Plus those guys who’s names are too hard to pronounce in any short time frame. “Watch out Gleehardfasteningpiece, there’s an enemy behind… oh nevermind”
10 walkyourpath // Jul 30, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Excellent post! A few more I’ve encountered . . .
The 14 yr. old white rappers :
GangstaPimp4Life, etc. This one makes me laugh — sure you’re a pimp. You just rode the bus home in shame after Winnie Cooper told you she wouldn’t go to the dance with you. The information superhighway doesn’t qualify as a “street” to gain cred from.
Genitalia references :
Out of the sheer absurdness of the phenomenon, I will occasionally laugh at BigWangSlappa420, but for the most part it’s just sad. You know what they say about gamers with long usernames, right?
11 =xX$had0\/\/us-Ninjorz9000Xx= // Jul 30, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Don’t hate the playah, hate the game!
Ahem
Name = Infneon
The amount of times I’ve read a name and physically rolled my eyes… Sniper (snipa, Snipah, sniperrrr) comes up a lot and then you see them running round blatting everything with an MG or something
12 Dont Eat Yellow Snow // Jul 30, 2008 at 5:26 pm
You forgot Group 5:
People that use common sayings for names . . .
oh Sh*t … That’s me
Words to live by:
“Don’t Eat Yellow Snow!”
13 JameZDeadman // Jul 30, 2008 at 5:44 pm
there a lot that can come out of that blog, secuel is one of those things, theres too much material to let it go
14 bueatifulraven // Jul 30, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Mine is sweet! One for them all. It’s the, straight-guy-wrote-a-staright-song-with-a-gay-sounding-name-about-a-girl-which-makes-it-less-gay usetname. I see you missed that one on your list…
15 Vargos // Jul 31, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Honestly, I have a problem with the immense amount of people that use names of characters from video games.
I swear, If I see another person with any variation of the name Sephiroth I’m liable to go postal.
Kane is legit…it was biblical waaay before its video game variations.
16 Shadowbird // Aug 1, 2008 at 5:21 am
Using Latin (or any other non-English language) is actually a great way to go with the name you want, even if it’s already taken…
17 Freaky // Aug 1, 2008 at 6:19 pm
The one I hate the most is all of the Naruto, or other anime names with -kun, -chan, -san or whatever else the people can think of in their name.
People who are like “RAITO-KUN” “NARUTO” Or of course the fangirls who are like “SASUxNARU4EVAH”
That and the emo ones. Oh how I hate the emo ones.
Oh that and andone who uses Dark, Demon, Shadow, Assassin, Killer, ect in their name like it makes them evil because its in there. Really it just makes people want to hurt you..
The ones I like the most are the random ones. Like “Backyard Carnival” ” Haha
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