We’ve all been there before. Load up a game only to be met with a blank space asking what should be a simple question: What would you like to name your character? Or, even before you pop a game in, your GamerTag? Or your PSN ID? Your Steam username? Five hours pass and maybe you’ve come up with something cool.
So, what it is? What’s your handle online? And perhaps more importantly: what’s the story behind it?
I’ve been alternating, but I love to snatch up “Tesseract” when I can. First off: it’s a four-dimensional hypercube, and what’s not awesome about that? Second off: it even sounds cool to say. Third off: as someone with a four-letter first name, I don’t get many opportunities for nicknames but “Tess” sounds pretty delightful.
I used to use “Zereshk” a lot. It’s a word in my native language — Farsi — which is a sweet and somewhat sour berry. I kind of just liked how it sounded but you wouldn’t believe how many people I’ve run into online who get tripped up on that triple consonant at the end.
And, yes, the waving girl up there with the poor excuse for hair is my Xbox Live avatar. (Video games hate people with long hair.)
What about you guys? Share your stories below. It can even be a tale about your Kotaku name.
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106 responses to “What’s The Story Behind Your Online Name?”
XBL Used to be Cliffracer, account got hacked, now is Skoomaplease, both in honor of that awesome homeless dude in Oblivion. “FLYYYY CLIFFRACER FLLLYY, SO HIGH IN THE SKYYY!!!”
Red Artifice was picked from flicking through a dictionary for a hotmail account in high school. No deeper meaning, just sounded cool, and now I’ve used it for a decade +.
I know right? It’s especially bad if you are a guy and have long hair. and a beard. and look angry all the time.
It’s a compelling story of using the first letters of my first and last name… and totally putting them together! D:
I hate this question, every time I have to come up with a name for my character I usually just go for “player 1” or “me”, and for usernames/gamertags I sit there for hours trying to think of something that isn’t taken and usually just end up going with one of the suggestions they came up with from my failed attempts.
and evilmonkey is… the name your parents gave you?
Yes, yes it is.
Mine is a compound name. It’s actually short for Wisecracking Hacker.
The hacker part is the old school definition of a computer expert before everyone started using it to describe a black hat hacker or user with malicious intent.
As for the Wisecracking part – it pretty much sums up what I did 90% of the time in high school.
Wisecracker Hacker has a good ring to it!
That might explain why when I’ve signed up to some forums and found that name already taken. Same compound, different reasons.
I kid you not, I found my online name taken four times already.
Don’t the good hackers now call themselves ‘crackers’ so you could be Wisecracker and come full circle
Nah, a cracker is a malicious user. However, it also depends on where you work and where you have been schooled.
My path was a hacker is a good user and can (virtually) work out any computer system while a cracker is someone who uses hacker skills to cause trouble.
Another pair of terms is the white hat and black hat. And there is even the ethical hacker and hacker pair.
The definitions for a non-malicious and malicious computer user have been over loaded now I often just stick to the old school terms as I am more likely to be understood when I compare the two.
Interesting take on it. I always associated crackers with pirates, and hackers with malicious deeds. Most self proclaimed crackers I’ve known over the years are only interested in removing protection. The lines are probably very blurred these days though
PhoenixK/PhoenixKobra/PhoenixKobrakai
Always loved Phoenix (Phoenixes?) as a kid, plus it was a mad eidolon in FFIX 😛
Kobrakai because it’s a song I liked at the time I was creating my first gamertag (2002?), also the name of the evil gym in the first Karate Kid movie. Plus I think it sounds cool.
I ended up using Stonefalcon from my first time playing an MMO. Admittedly it was WoW BC and I wanted to play a Tauren because I loved their code of honor and a druid cause a friend bet me a case of beer I couldn’t get it to main tank raids. Looking at the names of the Tauren I took “Stone” for the Tauren’s physical stature and “falcon” for the freedom of the animal since druids had the freedom to shapeshift into multiple forms. Everyone I knew in game kept saying how apt the name was so I decided to use it for everything.
FYI I did enjoy that case of beer 😀
Awnshegh (AWN-shay) is from D&D Birthright and is an Elvish word for a nasty Elven group known as the Awnsheghlin translated as “Of the Blood of Darkness”. Been using it for nearly 20 years and no plans to change.
My Xbox Live name is ‘TheCryingNipple’ because I have sensitive nipples.
I’ll often include spoons in other usernames, simply because they’re my favourite form of cutlery.
Ahh yes, that’s why there are so many spoons, forks, knives and spoforkives out there on the internet forums. Explains a lot.
Many many years ago at school, my friends and I ran a local IRC channel on Austnet. One of my friends, Brad, decided one day to change his handle to B-Rad. (Be Rad) I thought this was incredibly stupid. So I changed mine, Bob, to B-ob as a joke. It stuck.
B-ob wasn’t accepted on a lot of forum registrations though, because of the hyphen, so I started phonetically spelling it out as beeawwb and alternate between the two now.
Once upon a time many moons ago, I was part of a group in a forum that was known for being able to derail any thread, only one section was free form our tryanny and that was the news threads posted by the devs … well, one day that changed and we ended up starting a 2000 post derail that zigged and zagged between topics like a club footed ballerina and ended up melting something. Everyone started changing their handles and display pictures to some one else in the forum to add to the confusion and whoever could stay hidden the longest won control of the main forum.
I won and changed my picture to a piece of tofu trying to claw its way out of someones lips. Later I began ruling the forums as SCREAMING TOFU! and it kind of snowballed from there.
Was that the old MekTek… I remember Gwars going ballistic whenever we’d crawl out of the spam threads.
In high school, I went through a host of daft handles before settling on Trojan Rabbit. When I tried to sign up with AIM, that was taken and it suggested TrjnRabbit. For some reason, I decided that was non-terrible and went with it.
Somehow it stuck and I’ve been using Trjn and TrjnRabbit for about a decade now. I’m fairly confident that every account online that uses either of those names is me. Well, aside from Twitter and Reddit. Someone decided that Trjn was a good name to post porn under on Reddit.
Those condom people when will they learn
I’ve definitely never, ever used the name CndmBunny to mock myself.
Ever.
Except that one time.
Cndmbunny is what I reckon the Duracell bunny uses..keeps going and going and going
The porn account is actually you
“Kaiser” comes from my favourite RPG series, the “Breath of Fire” series and was usually reserved for the ‘ultimate’ dragon form. “Neo” comes from Kaiser usually always being taken.
I got my name from mishearing a line in Futurama where they were talking about pop tarts. I simply took that and added a number because all the cool kids use numbers.
My PSN username and a truckload of my online forum names is Matt_3D. It’s crap, and has no meaning other than my name is Matt and I do 3D for a living. I’m hopeless at coming up with usernames, so I just reuse that over and over. Hopefully I can change that with the PS4.
Oh, as for hoi polloi, we just randomly say it at work for no other reason than that it sounds silly.
Gamertag was Bogan Josh cos I listen to metal and at an indian restaurant told the guy my name and he laughed “like Rogan Josh”, mate of mine said more like Bogan Josh, sorta stuck, but that account stopped being able to play EA games so created Black Dahlia NZ after my favourite band The Black Dahlia Murder
I think I was simply looking for an exuberant name to appear in people’s kill cams for Team Fortress 2. It’s often shortened to Splendifero due to various services with character limits, which is okay because it makes me sound like a wizard.
Back in 2004, I was really into Crank Yankers.
I then put a wog accent on the vame to make sure it wasn’t taken (I’m Greek).
Remember the game Dance Dance Revolution? Well, I used to a big player of the game, one day a friends suggested Dans Dans Revolution as a nickname, and I liked it.. (oh when youre 20 everything sounds good) – Over time I removed the Revolution and put DansDans together, but most people now just call me Dans
after hearing my friend complain about his lag and hearing him be convinced he was being ddos’d, i just told him it was some random hobo stealing his copper wiring and making him lag and dc. hence copperbandit.
About 15 years ago I was at my childhood friends house playing Sim Farm on their PC. When it asked for me to enter my name I accidentally typed ambrew instead of andrew. It kinda stuck since then and my nickname is brew.
One of my mate’s was on about creating these things with fusing words together. So I fused hydrogen with my first name and this is what I got.
Mine came from a line in the “Tundra Rap” from Mighty Boosh season 1. It usually varies depending on the if its taken or if I can use hyphens.
It was a nick name an ex gave my penis.
What? You were expecting something poetic???
Classic Loops. XD
*insert 80’s canned laughter*
Chu-Twinbeam-Loopa?
Man. That still happens. The other week i had a Tri-stream going.
I imagine it’s how Link would pee.
It’s not nearly that awesome, though.
Just messy.
‘Quick Link, you have to retrieve the Master Sword and gather the Tri-stream’
…
Great, Legend of Zelda is ruined…
DAMNIT THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS XD
Just wait for me to ruin ghost busters.
DON’T CROSS THE STREAMS!!!
‘If there’s something strange
in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
CHULOOPA!
‘If there’s something strange
in your neighborhood
Who’s it gunna be?
CHULOOPA!
* Fixed
Fine, i was trying to make you look like the good guy, squirting your tri-stream at all the bad guys… DON’T MAKE ME BRING OUT YOUR NIPP- I MEAN- WRESTLING VIDEO!
This is a Chalupa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalupa
Apparently, according to the Spanish dictionary, Chalupa means: small boat.
I know exactly what a Chalupa is – but not quite me.
The said ex was Argentinian, so i put on a latino accent in a high pitched voice, which she decided was the voice of… mini me… and dubbed the nume chalupa – oh which i changed the spelling of.
Although… small boat would be quite apt.. I mean, it is full of semen and handles well in the wet.
Ok ok.. i’m going..
also fitting if you had a big girlfriend..
Slap her in the gut and ride the waves inI was about to say ‘delicious’ then thought better of it.
I’m just glad you didn’t think “cheesy”
Friend failed to pronounce my name correctly and created the name “Grommett” – I do however get a lot of questions about surfing due to the term ‘Grommet’ which is a young surfer I believe.
Been using this name for almost 17 years now, Aww, I’m old 🙁
a grommet is also a rubber seal for a bong!
That explains a LOT of odd questions about me smoking.
lols
I used to go under many handles growing up my first was Cam when I was 9 then it changed to Cam289 when my brother took me to a LAN cafe when I was 12 as he used Zell289, then it changed to CamV289 because Cam289 was always taken. Eventually when I was 14 I started playing BF2 using CamV289 I joined a clan and they said everyone has to use clan tags and have a cool name that doesn’t sound silly..basically I stayed up till 2am thinking of a name, I knew I wanted to keep the CamV part because it’s my name and I wanted people I knew to remember it was me and I was getting cold and I’m like “hmm the cold merciless eyes of a sniper spreading fear across the battlefield…ColdCamV” and that is the origins story of that.
Radelaide was something my friend came up with since my name is Adelaide. Get’s shortened to either Rade or Rad, depending on who I’m talking too.
Varanid – ripped from Varinidae the latin name for Aussie monitor lizards with derivatives of being:
Varanus Varani, Varanos.
Then Thrud from the GW comic character Thrud the Barbarian.
And: Virii – singular virus.
And when I’m out of options: Varadoob
Now we all know it’s bad form to steal each others handles so DON’T DO IT! ;p
Detention, Grade 5… (19 years ago) i was told to start writing from he dictionary…. got bored after the third word. decided id create a cool logo and name my dictionary instead…. i thought the letter Z was cool. was sitting next to a Xerox machine…. and thus Zetrox was born….
unfortunately i didnt do much to claim my nickname online immediately as i spent 100% of my online time between mIRC and Quake, so i ended up adding a 2k at the end of it… cause i thought that was also cool
ShaneWSmith for everything.
But I’ve got no idea how I came up with it :\
Could only take a master mind to come up with such a devious name, Alphonse
I really like how it has the word ‘news’ embedded in the middle.
I heard it on Starship Troopers, when the Roger Young arrives at the star base: This is star base Ticonderoga, welcome Roger Young.
Except I had no idea how to spell it, and I only adopted that name about half a year later, after I woke up on a camping ground with that name stuck in my head.
Mine’s based on a mispronunciation of my name that was then transformed into something else.
I don’t use the full version here though.
I got Lord_Itchybum after reading an article about names and the author used “Lord Uberfregmeister” and I thought that was pretty cool and wanted to keep the Lord part of it and the itchybum part was just a revelation. This name has gotten me to talk to women online because they are curious as to who would have a name like that and purely because of the name I have a 10 year friendship with a woman now.
Kermi is based on my last name. In 5th grade someone called me “Kermit”. In High School that got shortened to “Kermi” which is my online/IRL nickname to date. (My mother’s co-workers interestingly made the “kermit” connection but elected instead to call her “Froggy” in the workplace).
Later in High School my friends and I were joking around talking about fictional companies we would operate. For instance, my friend with the initials “VIP” would call his IT company “VIPCom”. along the same lines, I went with “Kermitron Enterprises”.
Sometimes online when I need to register for a new site or service the name Kermi is taken so I use Kermitron in it’s place. On very rare occasions Kermitron is taken so I use “kremitorn”.
The reason for this is also from my High School years when a popular mp3 (during the pre-napster file-sharing days) was titled “Kermit and Big Bird stoned”, featuring soundalikes of Kermit and big Bird having a funny conversation while purportedly stoned off their heads. At one point Big Bird called Kermit “kremit”. Logically, I would swap around both instances of the letter R in Kermitron to get kremitorn.
Annoyingly, I think I signed up for steam as kermitron a long time ago but when I finally started USING steam it simply wasn’t available so I used kremitorn instead. Years later, I was already committed to my new account.
Same goes for my PSN ID. I originally signed up for a Playstation Network ID online before owning a PSP or PS3, and used an email address with a high number of characters. When I got a PS3 I tried to use this email address but couldn’t as there was a character limit – so I used an alternate email, but then was unable to use the name ‘kermitron’. I defaulted to ‘kremitorn’. I was later able to recover my ‘kermitron’ account by updating my email address (following the PSN security issues where we were all prompted to change our passwords) but of course again by this point I was committed to ‘kremitorn’ so that’s just what I use now.
The compelling need to use a word with my “@hotmail.com” email address back in the early ’00s WITHOUT adding any numbers…tried a bunch of random things till I found one that hadn’t been taken.
It’s the middle six letters of my first name, but the m is truncated to be an n. Also, electronic Ronin.
Also my favourite singer’s last name is Veronin but that’s actually coincidental.
Vonsack comes from a nickname I got in highschool/from my room mate, which was ballsy. Ballsy led to Sackman which led to just sack.
I was DJ at a party and I was dubbed Von Sack as it sounded more Dutch.
Go Figure.
Riley Jones is a combination of my Second name and mothers Maiden name.
When I was 15, I found out that I was a test-tube baby. When a friend of mine found out, he said that i was too fat and that i must be a beaker baby. I didn’t play online much until i was about 23, but when it came to deciding on a handle for Xbox live, it just seemed right.
In MSN messenger days, chat would show up as ” says: blahblah”. I was playing around with this, and changed my name to a
to make it look like no one was saying something (hard to see a
).Then I found out you could have emotes instead, so I used the (Z) stick-man emote. Haw, I’m so clever.
Then I went to uni, friends saw it, and I didn’t have a nickname. “StickMan! That’s a pretty cool nickname!”. And it stuck, even more since I’m kinda lanky.
So now I’m StickMan IRL too.
Ynefel is the name of a fortress from CJ Cherryh’s Fortress series of books, and is always available as a username on pretty much every single thing I ever use. Been using it for a bit over 10 years, from memory.
Prior to that I used Eidelon for a very long time, based off Eidolon, who was one of the Serpent Riders from Heretic and Hexen.
XBL is also N0NEoftheAB0VE (the capital Os are zeroes) and that was because of my YouTube channel which I set up for recut mash-up videos on politics
http://youtu.be/tuw1EBAHyGY
I really liked Swat Kats.
The first bike I bought with my own money, the Schwinn Moab A3
http://www.kant.ru/enciclopedia/bikes/schwinn/01/MoabA3.jpg
No idea why I chose the “boy” part. MoabMan probably would have been more appropriate – although it looks a bit weird and creepy.
Came up with a character uninspiringly (and, unintentionally ironically) named “Stealth” in a free writing assignment in 7th grade. Went through various variations on that… until I finally stuck with the similarly uninspiring and cliche “omegastealth”. Been using the initials of that, combined with the answer to life, the universe and everything since I left for uni, mainly on forums and such, since it is slightly more obscured and far less douchey-sounding. The upside is, it’s so bad that it’s never taken. Ever.
(Oh, and it syncs quite nicely with my original career goal – to work for Microsoft and fix Windows once and for all. Unfortunately, second year Uni killed that with the knowledge of how utterly complex operating systems actually are. I still dream of a version of Windows that actually tells you what it’s doing, tho…)
Horsimus was back in high school; it started off as ‘horse’. Then the derivatives began until one day in class, studying Roman expansion I think, someone called me Horsimus Maximus. I thought it was hilarious (I’m quite a large unit) and it pretty much stuck.
Also, I took flying lessons in high school, so it became Pegasus, which I think was brilliantly clever on their part.
Discovered gaming on an Apple II+ using a glorious colour screen … the one colour it used was green …
Yes I’m that old … and was reinforced as my major arcade love back in the day was BattleZone in all its greenscreen-glory.
Its actually CJS which is just my initials and originally with a lower case j cause IDK why. But in 2142 everyone just called me CJ anyway and it has stuck since.
Sadly there’s some game out there involving a train and people wont leave me alone about it. I have no idea what the hell they are talking about either. My name isnt Carl.
Given CJ is a hard name to grab anywhere cause idiots steal it not knowing I exist so occasionally or when I want it to look more formal such as in my email address then I use my full last name instead of just an S.
My old tag was a character from a book I read in highschool, which became pretty tiring as I got older. My new one is an abbreviation of my name I thought sounded cool. Fortunately most services let you update your name these days so I could keep my accounts, unfortunately Sony refuse to let users change names, so I haven’t played a PlayStation game since the switch.
It’s a reference to the coldest scene of one of my favourite movies – Vito Corleone, wounded and aged, reeling from the death of his favourite son, realises that he no longer commands the Corleone family. That the reins of power have slipped to Michael’s hands and that he won’t get them back.
In order to stay relevant and not be put out to pasture, he turns on a dime and stabs in the back his adopted son, Tom Hagen, who he confides to Michael is a good consigliere, but not a “wartime consigliere”, indicating to Michael that he should be kept on in the key advisory role – a power behind the throne.
And because that’s too long a username for most systems, I shorten it down to War Consigliere.
CaptainAwsum = Was supposed to be funny scarcasm but it gets taken as arrogance and im abused all the time! lol
Lyrics to the song “Crayons Can Melt on Us for All I Care”:
I just wasted ten seconds of your life
The song is 12 seconds long.
I have a wee drab of viking blood in me, so i always tend to get into researching info behind my character name, apparently its a name attributed to Wolves, and warriors who held Wolves and Odin in high regard, and it means The White Mask. and yes i have a beard so that makes me more qualified to use it.
i have also been known to use the following names in online shooters
DavidBowieKnife
CassiusClayMore
OOOHHH my first post in so long
I’ve gone through a fair few aliases in my time but Stamperrific has stuck for years now
Started back at my old job, where I used to put template stamps on documents. There was an IT guy (called “Moose” for unknown reasons) who used to give people nicknames based on what you were doing at the time, announcing to the whole office what you were doing and subsequently making an associated nickname out of the activity.
So one day he shambles past my desk , stops and looks at me stamping these documents, says “oh, looks like you’re doing a lot of stamping there, STAMPY!!!”
About half the people heard, including one of my mates and after much laughter the nickname stuck
Stamperrific came about as my xbox gamer tag because Stampy was taken, and I didn’t want to have a name with weird characters 🙂
Anyway, back to the shadows I have more stamping to do 😛
shadowjesta, then Shad0wJesta, lost the first one when the system went from xbox to xbox360, it got corrupted somehow, not sure why I chose this name though, It could have been a randomly generated one maybe?. I’m thinking about changing it when I get the Xbone, not for any good reason, but I’ve had Xbox Live since it first appeared, and always had the same name. Time for a change?
A summary of two of my favourite things in life. One being math.
My name has a very strange and often misunderstood origin. Ever since I was a wee little boy, I have loved star wars. When I first started out online, I wanted a unique name. Something no one else would ever choose. So I chose to combine the most hated character in existence (jar jar binks) with my own name and there you have it.
Mine came from the good ol’ arcade high score days where you could only input in 3 letters, someone at my local arcade had MIK already and another used M1K so I went with MIX (also I think DJ Mix-a-lot was playing on the jukebox as well) and I’ve used it ever since only adding numbers to it if necessary
I believe it was in a random TV ad back in the day, been a while so don’t remember the details. /coolstory
I’m disruptr on everything.
It comes from a much loved song by one of my favourite artists.
http://youtu.be/gG7Tvxf-3cU
“OTHUNDERGOESER”!!!
I was typing up something didn’t realise I was typing within the word “other”, ended up putting “undergoes” between the h and the r. And viola! The godly name you see before you! When I showed the kids, they cacked themselves!…
Been Jackablade since late high school after running through a long series of aliases of varying degrees of hilariously embarassing. This one stuck because it’s less terrible than anything else I’ve come up with and is very rarely already taken. Some people do have an annoying tendency to shorten it to Jackable though.
The name is taken from the Thief games and is, appropriately enough, a particular type of thief, probably a cut-purse. I think it’s only ever mentioned a couple of times in random documents, most notably in one of the Hammerite psalms that says “Guard thy tongue from falsehood as thou gardest thine purse from a jackablade”.
I loved hearing my to-be username as a nickname Shaun’s mum gave to Shaun in Shaun of the Dead. That was about the time I started signing up to places anyway, bebo for instance, back in the day.
It’s a track off Beck’s album Odelay and I also have a penchant for Disco.
If I have to name a character or leave a 3 letter non de plume on a high score table I use CAD. Getting that honor on an arcade game and putting in my European three letter name that is a girls name in Australia up there was an embarrassment I avoided, so I chose CAD.
Partly because I’m a chef for a living but also because I think it sounds cool 🙂
Mine normal one (welbot) stems from the days of old.. playing quake 2 on dial up. I had a habit of railing people in mid-air and generally just whooping ass in rocket arena.
Forever being accused of being a bot.. so I thought.. well..bot… welbot!
I started working from home over a decade ago. Rumours stated early that I don’t work, that I play games and watch porn all day. Hence slackarse. Oddly no one ever questions where I get money …
I’m a boilermaker by trade and in high school in science I always knew a solution was a form of liquid and metal is a solid solution plus its a fitting oxymoron for me
My name that I use everywhere and have always used for years is:
GrimFaceJoey
1: It sounds quite silly and funny.
2: It’s a unique ID in the fact that it’s never taken.
3: Since i use it everywhere, and it is unique, people who recognize the name will know who it is.
4: It’s not hard for people to pronounce or say and can be easily abbreviated to Joey, GrimFace or Grim instead of having to say the full name. This also allows people to address me easily in large party’s or lobby’s without confusion with other people.
Fun Fact: A Joey is a baby kangaroo and since I’m Aussie I think it’s quite appropriate :p
Axiom: the more assertive a gamer’s nick is about their prowess (e.g. 2good4u) the higher the chances of them being totally rubbish.
My handle was more of an evolution of my name. Real name is Damien, but that’s boring, so I was naming characters Daemion for something a little different. Funny thing was in Ultima VIII it’s the name that you are given by the fire mages as your Truename. The character I was playing was called Daemion, so I just HAD to replay the game to find out if the truename was just given as your characters name… which it wasn’t. This character was using the name Eldarion and was still given Daemion as the truename… that kinda freaked me out.
So… Damien to Daemion, but then discovered that Daemion was not that unpopular so I felt a change was in order, alot of people called me Dae or Daemon so… Daemondae… thought that looked a bit meh… so it became Daemondai…
Other names I use in games: Aisiadenae (handle of an old friend who I was told passed away), Kunimin (randomly generated name from original Everquest) and Eldarion (liked the name Darion and stuck an El in front of it).
Borganstein — my handle for almost everything. I think pretty much the majority of the borganstein handles out there are actually me. Went on a bit of frenzy signing up to things. It generally isnt taken. The background is that my name is Bjorn. When people found out I was named after the tennis player Bjorn Borg, my nickname became borg. I also love Star Trek, so it fit. I speak german and so changed it to suit haha Borgstone haha
Use to handle CoD Lobbies, Modify hex for names in game and Gamerscore…
So yea..
The MoDiiFii3r…
ive slowly progressed over the years.
1stly it used to be ‘Blade’ – + some variation of numbers if i couldt have just ‘Blade’ – mainly coz i thought it sounded cool.
then i moved on to ‘Seraph’ – a badass looking angelic behemoth with 6 wings.
now, ive decided to reminisce back to my early days of gaming on the Sega Saturn, from a fairly unknown gem called – Three Dirty Dwarves – among the travels of said dwarves, they came across an enemy known as a skinja – which was a description of a naked ninja – only wearing a head wrap and covered by a censorship rectangle over his nether regions.
the only way i can show what it looks like is if you go to 9:47 of this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2uNc7propo
as for the why, i guess im not so sure – maybe something to do with my new found comfort of being nude/ my old found love of being a cheeky smartass.