[headdie]

Back in the late 90's I was playing a browser, tic based strategy called Planetarion.  My leader name from one of the rounds was D Rebel which when I got into counterstrike became D_Rebel, then I joined a just for fun CS Clan called CBM but one of the co founders went by the name Rebel so i needed to change and as my most common way of dying in the game was by headshot I started using Headshotted (one game even had an english teacher trying to explain to a kid that Headshotted is not a real word :-D ) anyhow Headshotted is a bloody pita to say and type so i soon shortened it to headdie.

[Kopachris]

My first internet alias, made when I joined lego.com at the age of nine, twelve years ago.  Portmanteau of Kopaka and Christopher, my first name.  I've been using it all over the internet ever since.

[Hobbie]

"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?"

[Dark Hunter]

Metroid Prime 2 has an evil version of Samus Aran, called Dark Samus.

The Space Pirates refer to Samus as "The Hunter", and they therefore call Dark Samus "The Dark Hunter".

Dark Samus is a supremely awesome badass, so I stole its title. 

Of course, the name is often taken when I go onto other websites. So I often tack a "Sol" onto the front. "SolDarkHunter".
That one was a suggestion from XBoxLive, believe it or not. "Dark Hunter" had been taken, so it suggested some variants, and I thought the "Sol" one was actually kind of cool, so I went with that.

[swashmebuckle]

Inspired by butt-piracy on the high seas.

[Black_Yoshi1230]

Middle school, was a fan of Yoshi's Island back in the day, and on one of my binders, I had the wallpaper for Yoshi's Island DS.

One of my classmates said Black Yoshis were racist, then half the class got into an argument about it for about 20 minutes straight.

That's how I came to my username. The "1230" was tacked on because when I made my YouTube account, the clock said "12:30" and I was "eh, I need a number, I'll go with that."

[Nuke]

Combination of "Red Baron" with "Maniac", in an attempt to sound like a crazy GTVA pilot.

Your name always brought Baron Harkonnen to mind for me.

hes not really insane in the book like he was in the 80s movie, lust for power and slave boys yes, but not insane. the miniseries better portrayed his character.

[Rhys]

I used my middle name.

I'm not very creative.

[AdmiralRalwood]

"Two fighters against a Star Destroyer?"

"You know, whenever the name of Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian comes up, the words 'It's worse than that' ring in my ears. Sometimes I hear them when I'm dreaming."

[Hobbie]

"You know, whenever the name of Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian comes up, the words 'It's worse than that' ring in my ears. Sometimes I hear them when I'm dreaming."

"There are three types of dress clothing. The kind that offends the wearer, the kind that offends the viewers, and the kind that offends everybody. I'm going for the third type. Fair is fair."

Is this going to devolve into a Starfighters of Adumar quote-off?

Spoiler:

RIP Aaron Allston.

[Trivial Psychic]

The name itself comes from a Saturday Night Live sketch starring Christopher Walken which satirized one of Walken's earlier movies "The Dead Zone".  I won't go into details regarding the film or sketch, but I have occasionally displayed uncanny and quite unintentional clairvoyance on matters completely inconsequential.  Apparently its a family trait from my mother's side.  Anyway, my brother joked about it once, referencing the SNL sketch.  I decided to take it on as a nickname.  In full it is "The Trivial Psychic", but I sometimes drop the "The", (as here).  I also sometimes condense it to "TrvPsyc", which I began back in my Need for Speed: High Stakes online racing days, because it would fit on a license plate.

[Boomer20]

Boomer is my callsign in all combat flight simulator games. It started back with Janes ATF and has stuck since then.

Cool, I grabbed mine from Janes FA!

Yeah I recognise FIZ as one of the callsigns in it. I always found it cool how the ATC would actually call you by your callsign when clearing you for takeoff or landing.

[Scourge of Ages]

"Scourge" was my Starcraft profile, but it wasn't enough. So I tacked on "of Ages" from the Def Leppard song, I figure.

[deathfun]

I'm actually surprised how Starcraft keeps getting mentioned

[Jeff Vader]

If you can request username change... I can rid myself of this mark of shame! Yay!

Sorry BTA. They won't change your name unless you have a really good reason for it. I saw a thread once where this was explained. I tried to find it again for you but I couldn't. As Betrayal said, his name wasn't changed.

I just asked one day "Hey dude, can you change my username" and BAM, done. Best regards, former Lobo.

[Gortef]

I think it was around -95 or -96 when I wanted to join in an internet chat room by myself for the very first time and needed an alias... thus I started randomly punching keys, after three keys I had "Gor" and then decided to end it "tef". And so I was reborn as Gortef which has stuck with me ever since.

Though around the same time I was called as "Ninja Kangaroo" by my fellow scouts for a very short while, but that name didn't live long.

[0rph3u5]

Unsuprisingly, my username comes from the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice ... most beautiful love story I've read during my formative years (yeah, I'm that weird kind of a romantic)

I had to modify it "a bit" since "Orpheus" is usually taken

[starwolf1991]

Everyone assumes mine comes from the Star Fox games, and as a result, bombard me with orders for barrel rolls. Indeed, the original Star Fox ('Star Wing' in some countries) for SNES and Lylat Wars for N64 were top favorites of mine growing up. So was Tribes 2 in its glory days, which is where my name really comes from; Tribe 'Starwolf', the blue-themed tribals who kept you safe from the Bio-derms with some shiny spinfusors. And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.

SHAZBOT!

[Lorric]

Everyone assumes mine comes from the Star Fox games, and as a result, bombard me with orders for barrel rolls. Indeed, the original Star Fox ('Star Wing' in some countries) for SNES and Lylat Wars for N64 were top favorites of mine growing up. So was Tribes 2 in its glory days, which is where my name really comes from; Tribe 'Starwolf', the blue-themed tribals who kept you safe from the Bio-derms with some shiny spinfusors. And the '1991' being my birth year, because originality took a hike at that point.

SHAZBOT!

Add me to that. I nearly responded to one of your posts with "We'll just see about that, Starwolf!" one time. I'm glad I didn't now.

[Spoon]

Back in the late 90's I was playing a browser, tic based strategy called Planetarion.

Planetarion! That **** was the **** back in the day.