*DAMN R6 Forum

i was bored today(slow forum day) so i started thinking(like all good brains do) and i got to thinking about rs(different tatics to try when i get the time)then i got to thinking about the players(and some of the fun games i've had over the years) and then i thought about the names, and what they mean. i also realized that we havent had a nice, non serious thread in awhile,and i thought that i would try to lighten things up in here.
ok, down to buisness
i'll take a gamble and guess that everyone's name here has some sort of meaning to them, i know my screen name has a story, and i'll bet that everyone has a reason for their's well(after all you chose it) so i 'm asking everyone who wants to, to come on out and tell us why you chose your name,what signifigance it has(if any) and any other interesting tid bits(about your name plz. let's try to keep this focused here) that you feel compelled to share

ok, so here's my story

first of all i was always the wiz kid in school, when i was struggling in kindergarden, they had me take an iq test, and instaid of finding me retarded(as the principle hoped, so i am told) they found out that i was basically bored. and as all little kindergarden kids do, they tease those who are different, and i was called the brain for the next 2 years(we moved out of that school when we moved to our new home)

now flash forward about 5 or 6 years
i log onto gr for the first time, and i need an icon. i start to look around on my computer, and didnt even get past the desk top when i saw the norton utilities icon sitting there, looking like your steryotypical genius, the memories came back, and then i had a name
it was: brainiac
but everyone called me brain, so i just shortened it up.

my name has had a few comic uses on gr my favorite was this one

brain causes <insert victim's name here>'s arm to punch themselves in the stomach. OOOF!!

and that was probably more info that you wanted to know about me, but hey, it was a refreshing change from my usual spam/borderline spam posts wasnt it?

p.s. if someone knows the meaning of grifters name, can you please share it? that is a question that i never got around to asking him...

Well, Bondo is a derivitive of my last name and what pretty much everyone (including teachers) called me at high school and now online.

As for Flaming Bisexual...well I think that one speaks for itself ;)

Brain that is a nice story and since i feel like taking a break from WC3 i will share the story of Cow.  This started way back when i first got on GR and started playing RB6 my original name was 1nTh3F|_3sh or intheflesh, soon after my trip with 1nth3|_3sh i was asked to join a clan called a_ clan a_ only wanted people to have animal names so i decided to choose cow and ever since then i have been cow, mooooooo.  Whats your story?

my story is in the first post,cow
and bondo, what is your last name(heh, i always though it had something to do with the car repair product)

I began as [janitor] Mort (My last name is Mortimer.  the kids in middle school shortened it to "Mort" for a nickname.  kids can be sooooo cruel!)

Needless to say I had a reputation for sucking as Mort.  But I greatly improved, enough to get into wrath's ?ber1337 *POD* clan.  But the name haunted me, so i switched to precious roy.

On MTV a few years back there was a puppet show called "sifl &olly"  Aside from sifl and olly, there were serveral other characters on the show, for example, "chester" the socially inept kid.  Also, there was the "precious roy home shopping network"  precious roy had a menacing voice, liked the indigo girls, and insulted both sifl and olly a lot.

I really liked the show.  Plus people also often confuse me for being gay, both on and off the internet.  So the name seemed fitting.

 Well Brain your not completely right, about the chosing of the names.  Infection sounded pretty cool and was suggested to me by Wombat, so I took it.  Why not eh?  I'm not very good at making things up.


Also Bondo and I do enjoy changing our names around =)

my first Screen name had little meaning( silent Sniper) just thought it was kind of cool... when i joined |?K| i team killed rapid ever time i played with it so i though it was cursed so I asked rapid for a name and he said casper. I was going to change it a ouple times but i just liked casper over anything i could come up with so...

Well, back in the day a few years ago on GR while playing R6, I was terrorizing people under the name destroyer (ok, maybe not terrorizing people but getting my ass handed to me by everyone who had skill in the day). One day while this was happening, the song "Rock Superstar" by Cypress Hill popped onto the radio. About halfway through the song, it says "assassins" several times. So that got me thinking...

At the time when I was named destroyer, there were some 5 other people with the same exact name. So I did a search on GR for the name "assassin" and lo and behold, there were none. So from then on I changed my name to assassin and have since become one of the most imitated names throughout gameranger  ;).

As for the history of how my bro (sNiPeR) and I created the clan name PsYcO, that will be saved for another time.

P.S.: If anyone can figure out the former identity of the clan leader of PsYcO on the MSN zone, it would be appreciated. He tells me that he named his clan after mine after playing on GR during the summer of 2001.

lets see.. when me and my bro started, we used MGS charachters, because MGS just kicks ass. We used "Sniper Wolf", "Gray Fox", "Meryl Silverburgh", and prolly a couple others. I kicked around a couple other names i had used, my AOL names "TheMax2", "Maximilian The Great", and "spazmotik" but they didn't really work.

So, time marches on and i start listening to Anti-Flag. And then the fateful day comes when, in one big swoop, i start *NADS and become Capt. Anarchy all at once. While, of course, listening to Anti-Flag.

I've probably had over a dozen of different nicknames, but something tells me I gotta hang on to this one. The reason for that is because it suits me best. Let me explain. 'Beefy' is a synonym for fat or big. 'Figure' - in one way or another - ?is the shape of a person...
I think it's pretty obvious from now on.

Just a reminder;
-Beefy.

umm cookie, hmmmm.... i dunno, someone just gave me that name and it stuck with me. and we all know what cookies are.. i hope.  ;D ;D ;D

as for the name grifter it apparently comes from the n/v grift, which means to cheat or swindle... so essentially it means swindler, but i dunno where he was going with it  ???

Well as soon as i got GR i thought of a name and typed it in


no coinsidence

I lose money, thats it.

Well we had 2 Clemens in my class so I got a short version of my family name Mautner Markhof. First they called me Mautner but I didn't like it because it sounds "hard" so we changed it to Mauti.

LoudNotes is more than just my identity for rainbow six...it is my entire online persona.  Thus I subject you to my origin tale 8)

Originally, about 4? years ago when I first got email I needed a screenname.  I decided it should be something that represents me and what I like to do, and at that time I was very active in martial arts as well as playing music.  I wanted my name to reflect those two activities.  Finally, I settled on "notestriker", which remains my email today.  

If you think about it..."notes" are things you play in music and "striker" is someone who hits things.  However, it looks like crap with 2 s's so I kept it as you see above.

Anyway, that doesn't explain LoudNotes.  About 2?  years later...these things all run together...I discovered AIM.  I registered for it through the netscape site so that I could have a webmail account to use for backup and traveling.  Anyway, I was very happy with notestriker, so I tried to register.  Unfortunately, I was having connection problems that day, and I thought it failed.  However, it actually had worked and I'd registered the screenname, but I didn't realize that for a few months.  I think I also registered Notesstriker by accident...but I don't remember either of the two passwords for those sn's.

Anyway, I had to decide on something else.  I had given up tae kwon do by that point, so music was my primary activity.  Nowadays I could add some more things to allude to, but anyway, LoudNotes seemed fitting.  I believe I'm equally adept at playing softly, but there is a certain rush that comes from crisp and clear soaring trumpet melodies at high volume :)

So LoudNotes became my AIM screenname, and once I got used to it, it seemed the appropriate thing for all my online communique.  As far as I know, no one else has come close to it, except for a friend who was so taken by the name that he became "Powernote"

So anywhere else you see a LoudNotes, it's probably me  ;D

However, when I joined #SKUL in r6, everyone else had a new name that they used only for that clan.  So I figured I'd pick something rainbowsix-related.  ModMan referred to my propensity at the time for experimenting with game modding, and later reviewing the mods of others.

I was never good enough for POD...so any curses my name(s) might have had stuck with me my entire playing career.

Thank you.

My name has deep meaning and significance. Actually no. I will tell you the story of Cossack. I am a very patriotic Russian. Cossacks were rebelious mercenary horsemen that reigned the steepes. My family is part of the Don Cossacks group. They had a reputation for being feirce, very wild, and in most respects crazy and unorthodox. They were heroes of Russia, and defended her valiantly, and attacked her meceisly. All the virtues of Cossacks embodies me. So when I went to America, I moved to NYC. Some very educated kids started calling me Cossack. I found the name fiting because I am wild and crazy. And as you can tell I play Rogue Spear in a very unorthodox style.

slightly off topic, but i saw that you did tae kwon do, loud.
what rank did you get, i just ask because i'm in martial arts as well. in fact, i'll be testing for my second degree black belt this august

Good luck!

I reached 2nd dan (well, "poom" actually because I was under 16).  However, there was a change in the school leadership after that and I stopped taking...and moved on to other interests.

Keep up with it though - I don't remember a whole lot nowadays...

Also, are you taking the Kukkiwon certification test or just the one offerred by your school?  At mine we had a choice - I recommend getting Kukkiwon certification because then your degree is internationally recognized.

actually it is a combination art called kuykki-do mainly tae kwon do with a little judo, grappling, and hupkido thrown in. whay back wen it was one of those small secular arts(you know, back when each clan had thir own art) now it's backed by one of the major korean martial arts colleges(i forget the name though)
and ty for the luck, hopefully, i wont need it

Ok Bucaneer, how do you know all of this? You a personal freind of Michael Baker? Are you Michael Baker? Sorry for that last accusation. I am just tring to read through the lines. I am a paranoid guy.

You don't need a wiz to figure that one out.

ty for the info
just one question,was the name of the series grifter, or something else?

I seriously need some YABBC tag training...

Beefy it is important to read in between the lines. Becasue the world is never what it seems to be. Plus is there any logical way you can prove Grifter is dead? This might be a rouse to retire from gr, or a drama trick. I still beleive Grifter (bless his soul) is dead but is there any sure fire proof to know that someone is dead when they are over the internet. Always look around and suspect everyone. Anyhow this is getting way off topic. I wont reply on this subject after this post.

Testin' something...
Allright. Got it working.

yes you do, what did that take you? 5 mb 6 modifications to get that right?

Yeah, about 6... if not more. The thing is, I never got to quote anything anyone ever said, so watching me at it and actually succeed in doing it takes time. Like anything else, right?

you could just press the quote button on the side of every post, atleast that is what i do...

Thanks for the reminder, Brain, but I figured that one out by myself already.

Interesting you say that. I had been playing Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear for months before I finally explored the CD and found the GameRanger app. Ever since R6 I had loved sniping and always used Dieter Weber. Anyway, when I logged into GR for the first time, I thought about a name, and decided that since I loved sniping, it should have something to do with that. It was also around this time that MGS1 was out, and I was playing it a lot. So I thought, "Hey, Sniper Wolf's a cool name, I'll use that." However, people kept asking me what Sniper Wolf was, and I was getting sick of telling them it was a MGS Character. So I changed to Sniper. Then in FBI I became SNiPER. And then in Agt, I cut it down to SNiPE, since there were way to many  "Sniper"s out there. And that's the story of my name. Nice idea for a thread brain!

Kilzo is the Graffiti name of my oldest known friend. It just seemed like a perfect name for this game.

And Cossak, Grif did take his name after the comic book character. One day while he was helping me set up my KDX server we had a lengthy conversation about comics and such. He liked the fact that Grifter was a bad-ass anti-hero.

And I highly doubt a man with his intellect would try and pull a fast one on all his friends by faking his own death to retire from GR...he would just leave...

Kilzo "The Butcher"

Sorry Buccaneer. Seeing as I never even knew Deadeye I got a bit suspicious. That is all. I know faking a death would be a stupid joke to do. As I said before I beleive Grifter died. I have faith in that truth. I was just thinking things through. And inteligence has nothing to do with it. I knew a guy on my other forums who wanted to quit it. Every one respected him like Grifter. So he got an alter ego charecter and said that he died. Later on someone with the same style of typing and ip came on to this forum and we all got suspicious. It turned out someone raised the same question as I did in this forum. Turned out after constant flaming we found out that the guy was the guy that said he died. He lost total respect and was banned from the board. This is why I am suspicious when I hear of a death of my internet freinds. I do not doubt Grifter's death or you people. And I am sorry for mildly insulting you. This was just a thought that popped into my head. I hope you people see my point. It is totally impossible to tell what happens to your internet freinds. Unless you know them or know some one else personally, or have a death certificate yada yada yada

How far off topic are we going to go? I guess that this happens to most topics eventually though.

I dunno where my name came from... I was just messing around, and found out it looked good in a Quakeworld
< http://www.quakeworld.net > game & in Quakeworld, the only thing I am any good at, is either Soldier, or Sniper, I decided for Sniper.

jt.

kills jt

lol

ok, let's look at it this way cossak, what reasons would grifter have for faking his own death?

to leave the forum? well he could just retire, that would be simple, and there would be no backlash if he left.

to fool us all? why? and, does that sound like grifter to you?

for a big joke and he will eventually announce his return? i doubt it, if grifter was faking and came out and admited that he faked it, he would be shunned and he would have 0 respect, something that i got the impression he strived for.

now what  reasons do these new ppl have for lying to us? no good ones that i can think of. they arent asking for money, they have supplied us with information with out obviously withholding anything? i dont even see a good motovation.

so, look at the 2 situations: 1)grift died. 2)grift is faking. using acham's <sp?> razor we see that the simpelist situation(and therefore the most likely) is that grift actually died.

no, all me nieve if you want, but i think that if there is no good reason for a person to lie, why would they in the first place?

    My origin story: when I was merely an infant, I was bitten by a radioactive spider, beaned with a chunk of Kryptonite, dropped into a vat of boiling green liquid, doused with gamma radiation, had my mutant gene artifically stimulated, and was given a nifty green ring. However, that has nothing to do with my name.

    When I first got AOL (2.1, I believe. Back in the day), I took the name Big Red 100, based on my school nickname. A year or so later, I wanted to change my name, so I went with Jaltir, which was the name of the character I played in a MUD called Gemstone III. Jaltir is still my AIM SN to this day. Some time later, when I got involved with message boards, a wider scope of e-mail, etc., I wanted a name which would cause fewer questions about its origin. A bit of thought was enough to come up with Lothario, which has a good sound and an entertaining meaning. Unfortunately, it was taken. So I went with Mr. Lothario, which has not been taken on any service I've tried so far. When I first came on to GR, I simply used the same name. Now, I am master of the dodging mojo and of the suck, alternately.