So I have been playing more tournaments at a certain local gaming store, which it turns out has a tradition of assigning nicknames to regulars. At the latest tournament, the organizer when calling out the names/nicknames of the players remarked that I needed a nickname.
Now of course I don’t technically need one, especially since half the people he mentioned didn’t have a nickname. But I’ve been brainstorming for one and in case I come up with a good one I’ll suggest it.
The game I play there in case it matters is Warhammer 40K, the tabletop miniatures game that introduced the world to the trope of GrimDark (i.e. completely over-the-top evil and violence without letup.) So a properly over the top grimdark moniker would be apropos, too.
– The Unwrath of Khan: It’s a play on my last name.
– Two-Shoes: It comes from the Dead Milkmen song The Blues Song:
“Every bluesman needs a nickname. And people always call me two-shoes, because I always wear two shoes. I know it’s not much of a nickname but by the time I got around to getting mine, all the good ones had been taken.”
– Square-boy: Most players use rounded off dice (still six sides, but with a little of each corner rounded off.) I use ones that aren’t like that, and hate to use the other ones. This name, or some variation on it, would signify both that aspect of gaming and the fact I’m a bit more tightly-wound than average.
Do a forum search for “band name” and see if any would be short enough for a good gaming nickname.
If you can wait more than an hour, I’ll do it for you! Together, we can get you an awesome gaming nickname, step b is a mystery, but the third step is the most fun.
I just tried that per your suggestion and unfortunately “name” was too commonly used. But I did find a couple band name threads before I stopped slogging thru all titles with the word “band” in them, and there were a couple good ones in there. The only one that piqued my interest was “Newt Incubator” and while I like Aliens I’m unfortunately a 37 year old male. Although “Alien Incubator” might not be bad since I never play the “Aliens”-type race in Warhammer 40K, it would be a self-deprecating comment on how I lose to them, and I’m a self deprecating guy in instances like these.
Now if I could only come up with the perfect one I can start with the profit
Well unfortunately I forgot about a previous engagement, so if you can give me another hour, I’ll do it the right way. Or someone else can, type the following into Google, no changes:
site:boards.straightdope.com “band name”
Without even clicking on any of the results but merely looking through the titles of the threads that come up, “testicle wrench” caught my eye for some reason. Yes I’m straight!
Ok, after a google search of the boards for “band name” I have compiled a list of possible gaming nicknames. Mind you, this is only from the first page of the results, if you want me to scour the other three, you have to wait until I get super bored again
Without further ado, I present you some gaming nickname suggestions:
[ul][li]Vomiting Baseballs[/li][li]Inflatable Boy Clams[/li][li]Lung Mustard[/li][li]Smorgasborgnine[/li][li]Jelly Pistol[/li][li]Flowhose[/li][li]Groping Blindly[/li][li]Random English Words[/li][li]Yellow-Bellied Chicken[/li][li]Surprise Nookie[/li][li]Poor Man’s Lava Lamp[/li][li]Gratuitous Umlauts[/li][li]Evil Turducken[/li][li]Flapcats[/li][li]Osmium[/li][li]Jennifer Grey’s Nose Job[/li][li]Screaming Hairy Armadillo[/li][li]Senseless Marmoset of Stupidity[/li][li]Stupid Ultrasonic Penguin[/li][li]Death to the Paperclip[/li][li]Pippi Loves Spunk[/li][li]Jackhat of Doom[/li][li]Pencil Neck Geek[/li]Tae Kwon Do Monkeys[/ul]
