Help, I am In a Quandry???

by **Sannop** » Thu May 08, 2003 10:15 pm

This is mainly for those that I play with on BF and the new Raven Shield Group.

Ok I messed up. BF and this server were one of my first online gaming experiences. I signed up early with an old high school nick. But now I am noticing a huge problem, my nick is hard to work with on TS. People don't know how to pronounce it , and it sounds like so many other terms. (The other night in RS people were saying "up" and I thought they where saying "sa Nup" This confusion occurs with any word ending in nop mop pop etc.. I go "what").

I wish that i would have registered with another nick. I am not going to ask ecgn to change it because it isn't an emergency.

So do any of you have any advice?

I have thought of the following options:

1) Re-register with a new nick. I would lose all the posts, and it would take time for some that I regularly deal with to know the difference. This might also break some etiquette.

2) Play with a new nick and use my signature at the bottom of all posts to state that I play under the name ______

3) Just add something simple to the front of my nick in BF (like my first name.. steveSannop.. or MrSannop) that would keep recognition but give something easier to say and recognize on TS.

4) Just drop the p with the ingame nick. Go with Sanno in stead.. might be easier to hear and say on TS.

5) Just keep it as it is... please let me know if you haven't had any problem with the nick on TS.

This is just a thought, and I was just throwing this out there... any ideas would be appreciated.

by **{CN}Doomfarer** » Thu May 08, 2003 11:59 pm

Simple question here. Are you fond of your current nick? I mean this in all seriousness. Before playing games online I used to use the nick Catseye. Wasn't too attached to it and felt that I needed something that I felt described me (or my idea of me) in some way. Settled on Doomfarer, and have never been tempted to change it, not even after the DoomfarMer mishap I ran into during a shoutcast of one my matches. I do make sure that anyone who mispronounces my name knows the REAL way to say it. If you are attached to Sannop, keep it. If not, then think on what you want and ask if a nick change would be possible. It never hurts to ask (well outside of women anyway).

by **Freedom** » Fri May 09, 2003 12:09 am

Good question.

One thing to do is just begin using an "in-game" and TS nick that you want people to easily recognize and pronounce and then keep the Sannop here in the Forums with a change to your Sig and even text of the new Nick somewhere on your avatar. I think that most people will easily make the association pretty quickly.

by **Camel toe joe** » Fri May 09, 2003 12:24 am

I say leave it, people will get used to it or tell them how to say or an abreviation for it..IE.. people just call me camel..maybe we can just call you snap?

by **Sannop** » Fri May 09, 2003 12:50 am

Thanks guys.

Doom, Good way to look at it. I am not really attached to the nick. I am attached to the familiarity that I have with the other regs. That produces a "catch-22". The regs would easily be able to jump to a new nick but they also know how to pronouce the current one. I actually like my other choice on the other BF server that I was a member of (until I stopped going there... why go? ecgn rules). I was SweeneyTodd after the role I just did. Purely on an attachment level... I like that nick more. I have done a ton of roles, but none as fullfilling as that.

Camel, good idea. Snap has a ring to it. But then again.. you are camel toe.. and snap is close to snapper. :lol:

???

Freedom, It is Raven shield that makes me think of changing. RS requires such quick communication.

hmmmm???

by **Freedom** » Fri May 09, 2003 7:45 am

I think us reg's can make the adjustment whatever you decide....

by **Camel toe joe** » Fri May 09, 2003 10:07 am

Originally posted by Sannop
Camel, good idea. Snap has a ring to it. But then again.. you are camel toe.. and snap is close to snapper. ???

well snapper was my first choice for you

by **Harry Canyon2** » Fri May 09, 2003 10:09 am

How about a rarely used name...

Something like...'PLAYER' ????

:ar15:

by **RCinator** » Fri May 09, 2003 2:38 pm

Originally posted by Camel toe joe
well snapper was my first choice for you

I think all of the regulars should abandon our current nick names and then get new ones that are subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) references to vaginas. Mine new nick will be Lippy McLabia . . . or maybe Brooke N. Himan . . . hmmmm

j/k

by **{CN}Doomfarer** » Fri May 09, 2003 3:45 pm

I reccomend you switch to Ass Raping Monkey. Has a nice ring to it... Oh wait, that may be Xenius's alternate nick...

by **Sannop** » Fri May 09, 2003 5:05 pm

Originally posted by {CN}Doomfarer
I reccomend you switch to Ass Raping Monkey. Has a nice ring to it... Oh wait, that may be Xenius's alternate nick...

I was going to.. but it is very hard to explain how the monkeys are in the barn... sheep are much easier.

by **Sannop** » Fri May 09, 2003 5:06 pm

RC... or we could go with nicks for male genitals.. like Floppy

by **RCinator** » Fri May 09, 2003 5:08 pm

If we do male genitals, I'll be "Bob and the Twins" or maybe the old classic "Richard Cranium".

by **Sannop** » Fri May 09, 2003 5:11 pm

Skinflute

Ok.. this thread is starting to go downhill :rotflmao:

by **RCinator** » Fri May 09, 2003 5:14 pm

Willy One Eye . . . . or my favorite Nascar driver . . . Dick Trickle

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