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  1. How do you come up with good net names?


    #83172012-01-24 02:31:08eterno said:

    Title is self expanatory. You see, I'm stuck with a really horrible net name and I'm looking to change. What do you guys do when you're figuring out net names?

    And... No, eterno is not my net name. It's the name of my Animal Crossing character and my CL name. Anywhere else, I'm known with generic sucky McNumber net name that stuck.

  2. #83262012-01-24 03:17:58Ucui said:

    Take your name, last and first, then take little bits. Put them together. Then put it backwards.

    EX: Alex Nguyen = Aluyen = Neyula.

    You now have a name that sounds and looks stupid. :D

  3. #83312012-01-24 03:34:07eterno said:

    @Ucui Which one is the last name? The last name in official documents? The family name? Or the one with a location on it?

  4. #83342012-01-24 03:44:28Ucui said:

    Does it matter? Just take some some words and mash them up till they look cool enough for your taste.

    I tend to go with family name though.

  5. #83552012-01-24 05:29:28eterno said:

    I'll try your formula

    Alriv = Viral WTF?

    Then my family names

    Elektrik = Kirtkele

    Hmm... That kinda fucks it up...

    Then my alias

    Kinot = Tonik

    Fuck, I'll put them together!

    Viral + Elektrik + Tonik = Viktor Klein

    Ok, now I'm a German >:(

    This is hard...

  6. #83372012-01-24 03:54:29JoJoBird said:

    I used two nicknames I've had before for this account jojo has been my "online" name since PSN so I used it everywhere.

    Yes I've been called bird I'll leave you to figure why.

    For help I suggest something with a fez because fezes are cool.

  7. #83542012-01-24 05:28:43 *Senkonna said:

    I threw together a bunch of random ass kanji and started thinking up different ways to read them, just a bunch of mixing up with kunyomi and the onyomi.

  8. #83572012-01-24 05:40:51eterno said:

    A quirk of understanding Japanese I guess...

    I only know a few unfortunately. (大電車)の読み方は何ですか?

    Or what if I just throw kanji randomly? 成当雨商品泳 How would they be read?

  9. #83592012-01-24 05:50:26 *Senkonna said:

    You can get pretty liberal with it. If it isn't accompanied by furigana, I'd read 大電車 as だいでんしゃ or おおでんしゃ; I guess you could read it as おおきでんしゃ, but usually おおき is written 大き (though I've read tons of literature that just have 大 already and still read as おおき, but it's pretty uncommon/irregular).

    成当雨商品泳 can be read a shit ton of ways, and I be too lazy to list them. Japanese naming is pretty convoluted because parents usually try to name their kid something special, but not special as in the pronunciation of their name, but special in the characters used to form their names, that's why it's pretty fucking annoying to guess someone's name if only given kanji. It's also why when people introduce themselves via naming, they'll tell you the characters that make up their names as well. For example: "MY NAME IS XXX XXX, WRITTEN WITH THE CHARACTER FOR SEX AND THE CHARACTER FOR BLOWAHUGELOADINME."

    Or something like that.

    EDIT: Oh right, forgot to mention there are also names that use no kanji at all (and it's not limited to only foreigners), but that has nothing to do with coming up with net names.

  10. #83682012-01-24 06:34:18eterno said:

    Oh yeah, I remember that scene from Black Rock Shooter, yeah lol, Japanese people must have been teased of their surnames a lot when they're in elementary school!

    But, how do you get the perfect combination? I mean many Japanese people have pretty much a mix and match name, right? But how could 'SUPERHEROJUSTICE' and 'ROLLERCOASTEROFDOOM' be read as Hiroyuki?

    Or how do you come up with names like in DRRR! ? I mean, everyone's name there seems to have perfect combination.

    Lastly, how is 'Hiroshi' and 'yakyuu' (baseball) related?

  11. #83752012-01-24 07:06:18Senkonna said:

    Errr, can't say I know much about that last one other than Hiraoka Hiroshi was credited for introducing baseball to Japan.

    As for the perfection combination, it's pretty much whatever the fuck the parents want it to be. Most will name their kid based on common onyomi or kunyomi readings, so not every name's characters are nonsensical, but just know that if a parent wanted to, they can say "read it as Dick, and write it as [insert any fucking character they want]".

  12. #84032012-01-24 09:35:20eterno said:

    Oh, ok.

    How would you read 古川 then? Apparently my name is old/middle english for 'old river' (which is the river closest to the sea) and quick google translate gave me that and the reading is ふるかわ and is a surname but what would be alternate readings for it?

  13. #84092012-01-24 09:51:56 *Senkonna said:

    If you're just going strictly by the common on and kun readings, there are a lot of different combinations, but here are a few common ones used as names:

    こかわ/こがわ ふるがわ/ふるかは こが こせん

  14. #84142012-01-24 10:03:54Senkonna said:

    Honestly, I don't really know; I'd probably hit up a dictionary site that has the readings for 古 and 川 and start messing around with different combinations.

  15. #83672012-01-24 06:31:16 *Ecstasy said:

    blackposting yeah.

    I'm just coming across the words and use them as my nicknames later. Like I used Fieber after I was ill and had nothing to do and started learning German, Keloid - after I had piercing problems (it became my gaming name later) and so on.

  16. #83702012-01-24 06:45:43Elegy said:

    I use less common words I've grown fond of for one reason or another. Limpid, Elegy, and Misanthrope where a few of mine.

    I have personal connections to each but I suppose you could check a thesaurus or something like that.

  17. #84362012-01-24 12:17:41King_Cupcakes said:

    Simple: Just think of the last thing you ate (ex: bacon) = a add an underscore _ = b The color of your shirt times the item next to you (white fan) = c a random number (132) = d Follow the equation a+b+c+d = username bacon_whitefan132 there you go

  18. #85222012-01-24 21:21:43acostoss said:

    Mine:

    Make noises that begin or end with "a", pick one you like. I did this for 3 usernames before this one, which has a special history of it's own.

  19. #85412012-01-24 22:48:29Flywalker37 said:

    Make it a pun on your name and something you like.

    I.E.

    My name is Luke. I like star wars. Theres a character whose name is Luke Skywalker. I'm black. I'm the flyest nigga yall have ever seen.

    Luke [Fly][Walker]

    and I just like the number 37. :P

  20. #85862012-01-25 01:59:12Trzaska said:

    I steal my names from various places. The first I stole from Love Hina, changed a letter. Etc, etc. My current one is the least original, which is just a common Polish last name.

    I think.

  21. #86202012-01-25 09:01:54chirio said:

    Suggestion: I once randomly typed hiragana and katakana, read it as it is, take off some unnecessary sounds, then used it as a net name.. but I guess it does not work all the time..

    well as for me.. Chirio is inspired by Togame(from Katanagatari).. I changed the "ee" into i and used it as a name for my local manga archive (I host mangas inside the dormitory, it's called "the Chirio Library").. then I used it in online games and found out that it is one hell of a unique name (since the games do not give suggestions like chirio_01 or chirio01).. ever since then I used "chirio" as my net name..