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RaneFire

Joined May 2011

RaneFire 2012-08-31T19:33:41+00:00

15 years ago, my big brother was showing me how to start a game of quake 1 when I was 9 years old, around 1996, on a Pentium I computer. He asked me to give myself a nickname, anything I wanted, and for some reason I spontaneously came up with RaneFire. I've been using it ever since, for everything gaming related.

I know there's a 'raneFire' user on deviantart (Who is not me) but we're on opposite ends of the world.
When I found out there were 2 ranefire's I was kinda depressed to find that my nick was no longer unique

but I've been seeing more ranefires and other iterations popping up quite a bit anyway, so I'm not bothered with this whole 'nick-steal' nonsense. Besides there's Rane, rain, and everything else, and there's 100's of these. The only thing that was unique was the 'exact' spelling and that's it. At least I'm the only RaneFire from South Africa. (wow surprise, we even has internets.)

At the end of it all... I picked an arbitrary nickname with a slight spelling difference of 1 of 2 of the most common words ever, but all my gaming buddies past and present know me by it, so I just keep on using it.

A childish name, but I was a child when I thought of it.

Practice Lists (pretty old now):
Jumps | Short Streams | Single-Tap | Streams | Reading (Unfinished. ETA: Unknown)

Fixumi

38 posts

Joined April 2010

Fixumi 2012-09-04T11:47:52+00:00

S-Fox

It began with Super Smash Bros Brawl when I played it online, I had to think of a name, at first I was very good with Ike, the nickname was only 5 letters max. so I named it
S-Ike (S means Super) actually sounds stupid but whatever.

No long time after that, I was very good with fox( I still am), so I named it S-fox, but call it whatever you want, like S for "Super" or "Star" but for me its just an S that nothing means.

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Fixumi

Actually I use another nickname for games, sites etc. called "Fixumi" which had a better story I think.
Anyway, since November 2010 I became very interested in Anime an my first Anime I watched was Lucky Star, Konata Izumi was(still is) my fave character(also my fave of all anime).
And my most favorite videogame character is Fox(Starfox), so I mixed up the name Fox with Izumi, so it became Fixumi.

I rather call my nickname Fixumi, but unfortunately I cant change 'til I become OSU! supporter, so I can get the possibility to change my name.

Greetz, Fixumi

Lally

3,176 posts

Joined December 2011

Lally 2012-09-11T10:57:14+00:00

Lally = Alisa (my real name) Lally this is how all my friends use to call me since i'm 13 yers old so this is the reason :3

Basman1453

28 posts

Joined March 2012

Basman1453 2012-09-11T13:08:32+00:00

Basman --> a traditional entertainer, fairly famous in my home province (East Java), now passed
1453 --> the Fall of Constantinople

I'm a man of many names on the 'net, frankly. :v

haha5957

1,433 posts

Joined July 2010

haha5957 2012-09-11T13:12:48+00:00

haha= the only English word i knew when i first entered internet. i think its about when i was 6 or so.
5957 =~~not~~ a random number

meh

eru

2,885 posts

Joined November 2009

eru 2012-09-11T15:31:25+00:00

i can't stop thinking about it!

it's just the internet. if you feel that you can't take what's written here, go watch porn, it will lift up your mood a little.
blog | last.fm

Kedi

163 posts

Joined May 2010

Kedi 2012-09-12T00:55:15+00:00

İt's mean cat in Turkish. Keeeedddiiiiiii :3,

Rumerjose

47 posts

Joined March 2012

Rumerjose 2012-09-13T13:43:16+00:00

A mix of a soccerplayer, and from my grandfather's name.

Feel free to PM me and send friend request in MAL !!!

Visit my Blogsite!

rumer-reviews.16mb.com

Spaghetti-san

28 posts

Joined August 2011

Spaghetti-san 2012-09-14T01:20:06+00:00

My real name is Ronan. When I joined it seemed like someone already has that name here so I came up with Rororonan.

I am the Pasta of my Plate
Noodle is my Body and Tomato Sauce is my Blood
I have Satisfied over a Thousand Empty Stomachs
Unknown to Alfredo, Nor known to Ravioli
Have withstood Boiling Waters to soften Many Noodles
Yet, those Meatballs will never hold anything
So as I pray, Unlimited Spaghetti Works.
Anime Grills are qt.

Himesaka Noa

osu! Alumni

3,315 posts

Joined February 2012

Himesaka Noa 2012-09-14T05:27:54+00:00

I selected this username when occurred buffer underflow exception.

Fly away!

GoreObsessed

129 posts

Joined September 2011

GoreObsessed 2012-09-16T02:09:12+00:00

every game and site that i frecuently visit, i use this nick. its explains by himself
gore and my obsession for it

Xirai

72 posts

Joined October 2010

Xirai 2012-09-17T07:29:38+00:00

I wanted a name like Rai for a game...but it was taken, so I made Xirai out of it.
Unfortunately in a lot of games Xirai is already taken so I just use similar names like Xirail, Xiraight, Xirain, Xirait....etc xD

Holy Firetruck....it's the NubNubTrain!

Seph

Seph 2012-09-17T14:13:58+00:00

when it was sephwin its from my real name joseph plus penguin which was a name people call me when i was in highschool.

Mercurial

Mercurial 2012-09-18T05:03:51+00:00

Dota.

Kaona

494 posts

Joined August 2010

Kaona 2012-09-18T15:16:39+00:00

Before I switched my main alias to Winter, my alias used to be Kaona which I use here and on a Japanese learning forum. I also use it on this TeamSpeak server I sometimes drop by into.

At the time, I was really into Kimmidolls and my favourite Kimmidoll at that time was Kaona. Enough said.

brylidan

28 posts

Joined December 2011

brylidan 2012-10-08T23:19:18+00:00

bryan( my real name ) + Illidan ( warcraft character's name ) = Brylidan

and its pronunciation is

http://translate.google.com.pe/?hl=es&t ... 20li%20dan [ just click " hear spanish pronunciation " ]

Birdy

5,757 posts

Joined April 2011

Birdy 2012-10-09T13:38:30+00:00

I like static (as in noise, which is also included in my name, obviously) and birds. I was first going to put Static Passerine, and I regret I didn't.

Moriya Suwako

269 posts

Joined June 2011

Moriya Suwako 2012-10-09T14:42:32+00:00

My nickname?
I loved playing Super Mario at the time I joined in osu!, and I found Yellow Yoshi was cute with no specific reason at that time. :3
For 1996,that's because I was born in 1996.But it's regretful that the nickname"Yellow Yoshi" was already be registered, so I can only use "yellowyoshi1996".

Pettanko

246 posts

Joined September 2012

Pettanko 2012-10-09T15:12:21+00:00

Delicious.Flat.Chest.

Blue Stig

378 posts

Joined November 2011

Blue Stig 2012-10-09T17:34:23+00:00

A happy accident.

kikones34

72 posts

Joined June 2011

kikones34 2012-10-09T18:19:23+00:00

My nickname is a phonetic mod of my actual name: Adrià Rico Blanes -> Rico Blanes -> kiko nes -> kikones

34 is just the number that describes my entire life (?

Foxtrot

1,165 posts

Joined April 2012

Foxtrot 2012-10-09T22:44:22+00:00

kikones34 wrote:
My nickname is a phonetic mod of my actual name: Adrià Rico Blanes

Thank you.

XK2238

2,069 posts

Joined October 2011

XK2238 2012-10-10T07:21:56+00:00

Last letter on first name + First letter on last name + Favorite number
Done

I am...

Uni

osu! Alumni

250 posts

Joined December 2010

Uni 2012-10-13T16:31:59+00:00

Cookie because im a baker
I hope it explains it

Naikaze

2,401 posts

Joined July 2011

Naikaze 2012-10-13T16:34:20+00:00

I use this nick everywhere
It begins from the game WoW when I make 2 characters, Gatya and Gatyaa.
Then I leveled and geared Gatyaa more and liked it more so I use it everywhere.

Youtube - Twitter

mnh48

163 posts

Joined September 2012

mnh48 2012-10-14T04:23:29+00:00

My user name actually came from my real name (first name only, last name is not included) that is: Muhammad Nur Hidayat
I used this user name in most of game forums, language-learning sites (like lang-8), and used as a user name for Wikipedia too..

For Facebook user name, I added ".aka.Nurul" at the end of my user name, so it becomes MuhdNurHidayat.aka.Nurul which that "aka" stands for "also known as" and "Nurul" is name that some of my friends called me (IDK why they called me Nurul).
(By the way, do you know that Facebook account actually can have user name?? I think you have to verify your account first before you can use a user name in Facebook, I verified my account using mobile phone..

)

Alternative user name is Yacchan, used mainly in anime forums and anime websites (except MyAnimeList). Yacchan came from Yorokobi Hidayatsu + chan.
(FYI, the big tsu (つ) when combined with other, e.g. chan (ちゃん), will become cchan (っちゃん)- small tsu (っ) with big chan (ちゃん))

Yorokobi Hidayatsu (Japanese:喜び飛騨萢/English: Hidayatsu Yorokobi) is my Japanese name, whereas Xi Da Ya (喜达亚) is my Chinese name.
Before this, some (Japanese) would call me Hidayachi (because they usually read 萢 as yachi instead of yatsu) but now they call me Hidayatsu (LOL).
Ah... I really need furigana(s)!!!!

-=written by Yasuyoshi Yatsuko=- Signature last updated on 23 August 2015, 01:45AM (Malaysia time GMT+8)

Flanster

5,938 posts

Joined August 2010

Flanster 2012-10-14T04:54:48+00:00

^ dude ._.

Tesu

602 posts

Joined October 2012

Tesu 2012-10-14T15:23:21+00:00

Frezix came from DOTA IMBA

jabberwockey

396 posts

Joined July 2011

jabberwockey 2012-10-14T17:21:12+00:00

Shoily is my real name the end

My Pending Maps/Guest Diffs. mod them? o u o;;

Ohrami

685 posts

Joined March 2010

Ohrami 2012-10-14T17:30:58+00:00

Me and a friend were watching Clannad, and pretty much the only other anime he had seen at the time was Fruits Basket. When Kyou appeared, he called her "Kyo-kun", referencing the Fruits Basket character. We thought it was funny, so I used this name for osu!. Not so interesting, but people ask me often.

Tweelon

55 posts

Joined March 2011

Tweelon 2012-10-14T20:17:28+00:00

Twee (is random) + lon (is my nickname, a mix of my first and last name shortened). [e.g. Okarin for Okabe Rintarou (Steins;Gate)]

At least, I subscribe in many websites since many years by "Random stuff"+ Lon, or simply take Lon as username when it's possible.
And unfortunately, Lon means somebody else in this kind of game.
Therefore, the people I know here identify me more as Twee than Lon. But whatever

Tesu

602 posts

Joined October 2012

Tesu 2012-10-15T06:35:07+00:00

Shoily wrote:
Shoily is my real name the end

epic name

Vext_old

987 posts

Joined October 2010

Vext_old 2012-10-15T06:39:18+00:00

My name means Koalas in Turkish.

jabberwockey

396 posts

Joined July 2011

jabberwockey 2012-10-15T07:58:06+00:00

Vext wrote:
My name means Koalas in Turkish.

I thought it was short for "vexed"

My Pending Maps/Guest Diffs. mod them? o u o;;

ann_old

ann_old 2012-10-15T12:07:00+00:00

xann is an uncreative alternative for ann that I use a lot which is short for anne.
Yes, 1 letter shorter.

Anne means Mother in Turkish.

Bass

1,846 posts

Joined January 2009

Bass 2012-10-15T17:45:49+00:00

People asked me many times in what meaning my nick is used.
It's not definitely either bass guitar or fish. It came from Basshunter who I used to listen long time ago. On some of mp3s I noticed there is written "Bassmaster" so I took it(first time it was used on polish forum)

Professor Prinny

280 posts

Joined July 2012

Professor Prinny 2012-10-15T19:10:39+00:00

My username right now is a shortened version of what I usually use: Professor Prinny Layton

But if the site cannot handle 23 characters at least then I use the alternatives: Professor Prinny or Prinny Layton
First used when I found this beautiful

Prinny/Professor Layton

avatar.

Sometimes I have a tag at the end like this: Professor Prinny Layton| Lv ????
with the question marks representing special dates e.g my birthday: | Lv 2811 or in American date format: | Lv 1128

H_Hitachiin

819 posts

Joined September 2012

H_Hitachiin 2012-10-22T20:32:03+00:00

Watch Ouran Highschool Host Club XD

StarriorX

18 posts

Joined July 2012

StarriorX 2012-10-22T21:18:41+00:00

The name "Starrior" is the title of a game that I've started developing, stopped, restarted, etc. for several years now and will likely never actually finish. I re-designed it every time I restarted and wound up disliking what I had come up with.

I'm not sure why I chose it for my nick here, honestly, but there it is.

The "X" is just random, though.

Happiness is good friends, a nice job, and a good challenge now and then.

Of course, a little chocolate doesn't hurt, either.

PinkSheep_old

32 posts

Joined October 2011

PinkSheep_old 2012-10-22T22:49:41+00:00

I like pink sheep

Blue

2 posts

Joined August 2012

Blue 2012-10-22T23:14:54+00:00

I like the color blue

ann_old

ann_old 2012-10-22T23:17:41+00:00

~~I like myself.~~

StarriorX wrote:
The "X" is just random, though.

Fellow random "x" user, yay. (My old username was xann)

Vext_old

987 posts

Joined October 2010

Vext_old 2012-10-23T01:06:09+00:00

My name means sexy walrus in Welsh.

Blaziken

611 posts

Joined June 2011

Blaziken 2012-10-23T17:07:14+00:00

My first 3rd ev pokemon

GeeNX

1,081 posts

Joined June 2012

GeeNX 2012-10-23T19:06:42+00:00

StarriorX wrote:
The name "Starrior" is the title of a game that I've started developing, stopped, restarted, etc. for several years now and will likely never actually finish. I re-designed it every time I restarted and wound up disliking what I had come up with.

I'm not sure why I chose it for my nick here, honestly, but there it is.

The "X" is just random, though.

X is just random... JUST RANDOM, YOU DONT DESERVE THAT X!

xXLeonKunXx

15 posts

Joined May 2011

xXLeonKunXx 2012-10-23T22:29:37+00:00

Because of my name. My name (on brazilian) is Leonardo (the brazilian of Leonard).

So, I taked my name, and the "Kun", comes from japanese culture (at time, I loved japanese culture).

Pretty flowers

UnderminE

osu! Alumni

4,011 posts

Joined August 2010

UnderminE 2012-10-23T22:54:06+00:00

Leandro you should have tried this ^ too <_<
xXLeanKunXx

Mercurial

Mercurial 2012-10-23T23:07:32+00:00

Dota.

Simple as hell.

Tesu

602 posts

Joined October 2012

Tesu 2012-10-24T03:32:51+00:00

Frosty - i get this name by Frosty The Snowman

Renard_old

Renard_old 2012-10-27T00:09:31+00:00

fox

Tenjou Utena

Tenjou Utena 2012-10-27T04:42:08+00:00

Shoujo Kakumei Utena!

Drexel13

1,263 posts

Joined October 2011

Drexel13 2012-10-27T06:56:49+00:00

Drexel = random typing
13 = my lucky number

halo..

fengyuepengs

4 posts

Joined October 2012

fengyuepengs 2012-11-01T03:16:18+00:00

My username is my ture name and a‘s‘.we are start class,that is all.

Yafutsufa

98 posts

Joined January 2012

Yafutsufa 2013-01-02T14:07:27+00:00

got this name from when i'm playing persona 3 and see Yatsusfusa name, but when i'm gonna write it into some username or IGN i mispelled it into this *damn fvckin typo*