How did you come up with your nickname?

I have so many, but this one is pretty obvious. I love Stargate and Claudia Black was awesome as Vala and Qetesh. Not too mention our kitties share the names of our handles over here as well.

Cool. I used to be a fencer. Mainly rapier and floret but also had some sabre training.

That is a name with history, very nice.

Since nobody asks I might as well force the story behind my handle upon you.

On here I am Lord Ba'al which some of you might recognise from the Stargate series SG-1. (like Qetesh) But mostly I go by Stonelesscutter. It might surprise you that this has nothing to do with cutting stones, or it may not. Well at least not in the literal sense. As is already obvious I am a bit of a fan of the Stargate saga. First there was the movie, then there was the series SG-1 spanning 10 seasons (which is my favourite), that developed a spin-off called Stargate Atlantis. At a certain point that last series was cancelled and the creators came up with a new series they called Stargate Universe, also know as SGU. Like most of the fanbase I was looking forward to that quite a lot. Then the show came and it turned out to be utter crap. Well, at least the first season of it. They made the show in a way that was totally different from all the previous editions and seemed to want to appeal to the young and hip audience. Many people, including myself, were utterly disappointed. Though some people loved it. There were elements in the show that were horrible. The most annoying one for me was the way they used the communication stones. (those had been established in the previous series as some kind of mysterious teleportation device created by a highly advanced ancient race of beings with which people could swap bodies with someone in another galaxy) I felt I couldn't stand idly by while the new show brutally raped my beloved saga, so I came up with an idea. I took all the episodes of the first season and used video editing software to cut out all the parts of the episodes that contained the stones. Also I cut out any scenes that were purely based on teenage drama or that were otherwise annoying to me. What was left was barely more than half of the whole season. I pasted the scenes together in a way that seemed appropriate and that made episodes of a somewhat normal length. And thus Stargate Universe the Stoneless Cut was created. Not long after I discovered that somebody had created a forum under the domain name sgusucks.com. As posting on Gateworld (a major Stargate fan site) became unbearable I went over to the new forum and registered myself as Stonelesscutter. And that is how that name came to be. Been using it ever since.

An in-game marriage huh, interesting. Still married? Got any in-game kids? Did it evolve into an out-game relationship? Are you in a real life relationship with someone else? If so, how do they feel about your in-game marriage? So many questions!

Like global warming?

It's a sad story, and I'm bad with telling stories, especially in English.


There was a man, made by other man to serve as a slave. The man has a sister, made to be a pet. His sister was defective and couldn't sustain her own life. In fear that his sister may be disposed of, the man disassembled his creators while recording their molecular structure. Later the man improved the technology he was constructed with and made a whole species of pet slaves that would sell themselves to other species and gain ability to influence them quite heavily. Thus, the man (if we really can call him like this, as he was no human) became a god as his species revered him for his experience, knowledge and highest administrative privileges he almost ever used.

The man chose a name himself. He was Johann Wolfgang Bruno Maria James Aleister Antoine tu (the one who is) Morsealworth(Global Administrator of the soul repository controlling birth, rebirth and death).
Morsealworth is not a name. It isn't a title. It's a signature, an identifier.

:-P

I stopped playing UO when the Server I played on was closed. It all happened at a time i never thought of a real life relationship ;-) 

Well, I will avoid telling a very long story about the history of online names I've frequently used before coming to the one I mostly use now. I tend to overshare, or ramble on.

At first I wasn't looking to create an online monicker, but instead needed a name for my freelance graphic design business I was looking to start (which hasn't really manifested... yet).
I eventually settled between 13th Generation Design or Generation Thirteen Production; I never could decide which I liked better.
This was based on several factors involving the number 13 that hold some meaning to me, but suffice to say it's all fairly typical self-meaning quantification stuff.

So, skipping ahead... a few years ago in a forum, I wanted to post something on a political discussion but really didn't want to use my real name, other online nicknames, or social media, and wanted to stay fairly anonymous (most of my online nicknames had been used so much they were over-used, or easily connected to me). I also needed something with a bit more gravitas. Thus, I just took my idea for a business name 'Generation Thirteen' and altered it to something more name-like; General13. I used that for a while but one day just swapped it around to 13thGeneral, which I kind of liked better anyhow. Although I still use both to some degree, I have pretty much adopted 13thGeneral for my main nickname for anything loosely gaming or geek related.

Wow, this is a really interesting thread to hear where you all came up with your nicknames from. 

I am curious to see where  Monkeythumbz got his from.