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[Flanker27]

Iv always loved the variety of usernames/nicknames we have on this site, and iv always been interested in the stories behind why people have them, if you dont mind post yours and how you came across that name to use or the story behind it

Mine is simply my fav modern era aircraft as im not very inventive when it comes to things like that

[BlackAce7727]

I'm glad finally someone bought this up, here it goes for mine;

The nickname/username ''BlackAce'' came as far back as 2006, primarily when I was playing the Ace Combat series on PS1 and PS2. When Ace Combat Zero came out that for me was my all time favourite of the series, and it was the first game when I unlocked the superfighter the ADFX-01 Morgan and it's a coincidence as there's a user on here called ''CodenameMorgan''.

Anyway I used to fly constantly black coloured jets and I always used to outscore my best mate in multiplayer and there was a system on it which determined if you were a ''Knight, Soldier or Mercenary'', in the beginning I was always blowing everything apart even neutral or injured aircraft/ground objects. This in turn my best mate called me ''Black Heart'' a few times but I was an ace with more victories and experience in flying, so that's when the Black-Ace was born.

I had it even engraved on dogtags which my best mate got for me when we made usernames for ourselves and what our aircraft choices was... mine was ''BlackAce, Pilot, ADFX-01 Morgan'' and when that was done I had and we went by how many kills we had. Because I'd had played this game I had over 7200 kills under my belt, and so it was chosen it would be ''BlackAce7727''.

It's a title I've held for over 18 years and that's how people know me in the aviation gaming world. I gave up the Ace Combat series properly after 2008. Granted I DID play AC7 but with no other people.

That's the story and yeah, it's a name I'm proud of.

All the best,
BlackAce7727
(Eric)

[SAS~Ghost129er]

Deja Vu

[Koi]

my name evolved from both my experience in the Armed forces and my dads. Our family name is Carpenter. The guy's in my unit would call  me " Carp"
or "Carpie". When I told my father this he told me the same was true of his experiences both in the military and at work. So when I first got into this game
I was in a Japanese Squad were, looking for a name, I noted that a Koi was  a variety of Carp as was the Goldfish but I thought Koi was better than GoldFish. so I chose it instead. 

[Shakaali]

Shakaali (Jackal in Finnish) originates indirectly from Frederick Forsyths novel "The Day of the Jackal". 

A long time ago - some time last century - I was playing cards with my friend and I was winning all the time. Finally he got angry, through away the cards and yelled: "You bloody.. eh... you bloody... (trying desperately to find a word to call me and spotted the aforementioned book on the table) You bloody Jackal!" and stormed out of the room. 

[SAS~CirX]

Back in the late '90s I was in an online squadron for the game Red Baron 3D. The squadron was called tHe MiSfiTs. The odd capitalization was a thing lol
At the same time I was in a band called The Flying Circus. So I chose as my screen name "CirCusEr" (as in, someone who lives the circus...bit of an invented word, but we did that back in those days too). For online playing, I had to add the squadron name in front of mine, so it became MSfTs~CirCusEr. We had to abbreviate things because of the size of the chat boxes. (btw, it was in those times where the modern texting ethics, linguistics and rules started. Was a very interesting time to be online) We used the wavey symbol to separate the squad name and player name. A tradition I brought with me later to SAS.

My screenname was a bit long winded for me, so I shortened it to just "Circus", iow, MSfTs~CirCuS . We then started dropping the "s" from the squad abbreviation, and it became MsFt~CirCuS . This bothered me because there was 4 letters in front of the wavey symbol, and 6 on the other side. A bit inelegant, and an OCD nightmare! So I substituted the last 4 letters "Cus", with a single X (which can be pronounced as "xus" or "cus" in addition to "Ex" and "Sis"). So then it became MsFt~CirX. As an unintended bonus, some players started pronouncing it as "Sir X"...which suited me just fine lol But it was originally just a shortened way to write "Circus".

As some of you know, there are a few other former MiSfiTs still around here too

[Gubi]

Back, not long after my third son was born, my wife, the Prairie Flower, started calling the infant, during her matriarchal dealings with him:  "You little Booger".  The name stuck to him as a toddler "Booger".  As he got older, I'd occasionally call him "Booger Man"...then "Mr. Booger Man"...and over time I reversed it to "Goober Man", i.e. "Mr. Goober Man"...for no reason, just did.  One night, in prehistoric times, I was on the early internet...and I was asked for a moniker.  Initially, I was stumped and bewildered.  I quickly opted for this:  "Mr. Guberman".  I was a designer for early squad based WWII sims...used that name for a long time.  When I started flying (i.e. Aces of the Pacific, et al) and knowing combat pilots like to have their call name in one or two syllables, preferably, I adopted the name Gubi.  That's about it, I guess.

[CzechTexan]

I'm surprised this has not been discussed before!  I've often wondered about nicknames I see here.

Mine is fairly simple.  I just wanted to express my roots and where I'm from.  My family heritage is Czech and I live in Texas.  Pretty straightforward with no mystery 

[sniperton]

Dunno why, but names ending with ...ton are frequently chosen as international aliases in Hungary. One minor character in the animated movie Cat City is called Edlington. He's a mouse among the cats who drinks coffee and behaves as if Armageddon were not imminent.

I remembered that when I was asked for a nick several years ago when I joined the Il-2 community. You know the feeling when you're asked for a nick you have never thought about? I felt Kirlington or Edlington would be fine, but the name should be adjusted to the genre, so sniperton was born in an instant.

[sniperton]

Shakaali (Jackal in Finnish) originates indirectly from Frederick Forsyths novel "The Day of the Jackal". 

One of my favourite books when it comes to fiction mixed with non-fiction. Prost, monsieur Chacal!

[Glaciar]

  very crazy post!! I love your stories!!

Mine, Glaciar, is the same as in english "Glacier". Because I love go trekking and I walked to most of the glaciers at my home, Tierra del Fuego Island - Argentina. "The End of the World".

You can look for me in HyperLobby 

[Knochenlutscher]

Knochenlutscher, aliteration Bonelicker is a slangword from Socialist Germanys Punkers
for Goths and Wave people. They always had clashs, verbal and sometimes barfights.
Our Senior Citizens funnilly referred to them breaking into cemetaries and
adoring bones of the dead at that time. Well the Punkers took that on and picked into the same scar.
I got opted this by the father of my Goddaughter, self a Punker in old Times in the 80s.

I wear a strong 80s parfums only, like Antheus (Chanel), contained raw ingridients, patchouly, wooden scents,
dead animals lubricants and whatever a Cave Man needed.
Topped with my Black Metal musical interest since 80s I had sth. near a Gothic for some people.

But I never had long hairs myself as a Metal Freak.

That's the story.