Your Name/Avatar/Signature

[Swastika von Judenbutt]

Tell us about your name, avatar, or signature.  Why you picked it, where it came from, what it means, whatever you want.

My name is pretty much gibberish with German mixed in. "von Juden" means "of Jews", so I guess it means "Swastika of Jews-butt".  I wasn't really thinking of anything meaningful when I made it, it just sounds funny.

My avatar is a gif I found.  It's multiple angles of an odd face John McCain made, set to lick each other.  Here's the original:



It says "MY FRIENDS!" in the background.

[Graham]

Hello random kid that wanted to show off his retarded avatar.

No one cares.

[homerofgods]

Hello random kid that wanted to show off his retarded avatar.

No one cares.

more like he wanted to test posting in forums. My avatar is from Heroes III, cuz i like the look of the game

[Dascoo]

I'd John McCain.

[Swastika von Judenbutt]

I just wanted to know the story behind everybody's stuff :S

[Shard]

Well now, my signature came from Croat1gamer, and his awesome misinterpretation. I like Soulblade, eod of avatar.

[croat1gamer]

More by your misunderstanding of the usage of the word "for".

And the "Awesome" should be somehow making it obvious that it was sarcastic.

[PANZERCATWAGON]

i find your username offensive

[Blue-ninja]

Ah, counter-totalitarianism...

[croat1gamer]

That is what it was supposed to be.
To offend people subtle.

[echo_trail]

Hello random kid that wanted to show off his retarded avatar.

No one cares.

more like he wanted to test posting in forums. My avatar is from Heroes III, cuz i like the look of the game

Basic earth magic, yes? ...Which is, btw, one of the most important skills you can have in the game. Implosion and Townportal for the win.

Anyway,
echo_trail is a nick I started using a good year before we switched to the new forum, both ingame and forumwise. I got the idea from a song by the japanese electric rockband Boom Boom Satellites(don't let the name scare you off, it's actually pretty neat) and the song they made 'echo tail'. It's not a really glamerous story, it's not even a very good song. But I was looking for a quick namechange, and there it was. I stuck to it ever since, though I have been known to use a few different names ingame from time to time, such as Mukerji, Djinn, Seraph, Sidewinder, Chemical and Paralog. Always went back to echo_trail though.

My avatar, 'bunny in a box' as it's come to be known, is originally a piece by some artist named Luc something.. it's part of a series of similar pieces, all containing some sort of fluffy critter with the same sad look on it's face. Quite interresting really, but these days I keep it for nostalgia only. I've been using the avatar for the better part of 3 years, if I remember correctly, and so it stays. SDFilm made a counter avatar once, with this white bear(also a piece from Luc's series), modified into holding a lock or something above my darling bunny's severed head. Clearly he's compensating for being a redhead.

The signature pictures a scene from the Animatrix episode 'Beyond', which was the 7th episode, I think. I loved the matrix and the animatrix as well, and out of all the nine, this was the one I loved the most. As the title suggests, it's a story about a young woman in the matrix that is able to actually go beyond the guidance program, and witness the flaws of the matrix, manifested in a particular location, 'the haunted house'. Errors occur in there, such as broken lightbulbs lighting up, shadows moving away from objects and persons, gravitational anomalies and rain from clear skies. It's an interresting concept, and I'd definitely recommend watching it, along with the rest of the animatrix.

There you are.

[STM1993]

My nickname's full meaning is "Spy_The_Man1993", as seen in my signature. I adopted it from some random guy's name I saw on runescape many years ago (he was called spy the man), then just stylized it a bit and added my birth year. Yes, talk about the lack of originality...

For a long time I've used this nickname. Though I've constantly changed names in-between (because of my ever-changing desires and hyper-active mind), I finally found that the constant name changing is causing a lot of problems for others, and even for myself. Therefore, I decided to re-adopt this old name that I've been known for all the while. I didn't like typing the full name out and I now don't really like what it stands for, so I shortened it to the abbreviation I have here, "STM1993". Why "Spy"? I used to want to be a spy, musta wanted to imitate James Bond and SpyKids and been reading too many of those books where they teach you how to use secret codes. I got over that now though.

Anyway, coming back to this, my avatar. I cut it out from a larger picture and used it as an avatar. I simply thought it looked cool - a tough-looking guy with blueish powers seen around him and in his eye. Never played the game before, but the character shown there is the protagonist in the game, Psi-Ops. He is a character with psychic powers that allow him to have telekinesis, pyrokinesis (cause fires) and mind-control, just to name a few. My inspiration on getting this picture? The song "With my Mind" by Cold, which so happened to be a theme song for Psi-Ops.

Signature's just my full nickname and some links that probably aren't going to be very useful.

[UnknownSniper]

Name: Random name from long ago, too lazy to come up with a better one.
Avatar: Presidential election inspired
Signature: Lyrics

[Hair|Trigger]

My avatar, 'bunny in a box' as it's come to be known, is originally a piece by some artist named Luc something..

Luc the speedpainter/concept artist for Link-Dead?

[Boots]

Because i have a shoe fetish, ohkay?

[LtKillroy]

Before I change my avatar again, the explanation for this one is it is the best Magic: The Gathering card ever printed.

BEHOLD

[Smegma]

That card is first pickable

[{LAW} Gamer_2k4]

Name:
Back when I was playing Age of Empires II online, I wanted a nick that was appropriate, unique, and current.  I settled on Ripper_2k4, since it was 2003 then and I wanted to make sure that the year would be applicable for a while.  After I began to play chess online instead, I changed it to Gamer_2k4, since "Ripper" isn't quite relevant to chess.  The {LAW} prefix is a clan that I formed a while back; it eventually broke up, but we can't change our names here, so the tag remains.

Avatar:
Haruhi Suzumiya from the anime "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya."  I saw it, liked it, and decided to reflect that with my avatar choice.

Signature:
My signature is just my name and a couple of quotes I found interesting or insightful.  My personal text, "To Wikipedia!" is a common thing I say when I or my friends want to know about something.

[Baoden]

Baoden was an old name that I used back in the days when I shamefully played World of Warcraft, before it was ruined. It is based off the old Scottish name Beodan.

The avatar is there because SOME WILL WIN, SOME WILL LOSE, SOME WERE BORN TO SING THE BLUES!

I HAD a signature. It was those little dragons that you click so they can live or something. I then realized how ridiculous I looked when I had dragons paired up with a Journey avatar and I quickly removed them.

[Espadon]

I make my own avatar and signatures.