Nice, very nice. Now it is all clear to me. It originated from the word, "toozin! I would have never thought! God, Toozin, you word your posts so well.
Well, I invented this character called "Blob" for comics and flash games, so when I got PSO I made a HUcast named RoboBlob. I've been using it ever since.
Back when the MUGEN community was hot, I was a humble, newbie, unexperienced creator, who did fontpacks (quite many, actually :P), some stages, and a few screenpacks (my most successful one being the DragonBall GT Final Bout one). I tried to sign up at the Mugen Development Forums (MugenDEV) for quite a while, with a lot of sign in names I thought about, but all were already taken. In an act of desperation, I chose this one, and not surprisingly, it wasn't taken (who would have thought of using a place and a name for his/her screen name, and besides, why such a small place like this one? :P). At first, I didn't like it at all, and instead, I used to identify myself as ShadowVegita or DarkVegita, but with time this one kinda grew on me, and right now, I wouldn't trade it for anything. :P This has been my screen name ever since (and that was around five to six years ago :D).
My other screen name, NightshadeZero, comes from the unofficial name Bandai gave to the Black Armored version of the Zero collectable action figurine. :P That's all there is to it.
I love R. A. Salvatore's novels, especially the ones where he makes a whole new world, not just Forgotten Realms. So, I used Elbryan from the Demon Wars Saga. And the 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. :)
Actually it just came to me. I have no idea, it was awhile ago.
Mine sort of did that, and it wasn't for a while later (about a week or two ago) that I realied where I got it from. Even now, I don't know WHY it came to me.
I was like 11ish, I had to make an AOL account, and I love Yoshis. 11-year-olds aren't creative. Intially it was Yoshi3481. By the time I was ready to leave for broadband, this nick and its password became my login everywhere, because I feared I wasn't good at remembering, so it had become part of me, so to speak. But the first broadband service I had had a 8 character limit on names, so it became Yoshi348. Nowadays, I don't think I have my old 3481 name anywhere, and my passwords are a lot more varied due first to the minimum character limit imposed by some sites for passwords, and now for the "duh" reason of security. Yoshi348, however, stuck, as it was my nick when I really started becoming active online and, in fact, really became a true gamer.
Mine just came to me as well. Funny thing is, apparently there are a bunch of other "Xin"'s (seems it's an Asian name). My old nick, N10sb2002, was sort of cryptic. More of a password than a nickname (and I'm sure you all think it's my password now....).
And am I the only one who guessed what Nate's nick meant early on (before that thing on the page)?
it's pretty cool, actually; it's like a analyzed version of the synthetic word "daylight," which is definitely germanic in origin (germanic languages are synthetic and romance languages are mostly analytic, i.e. spanish rio del sol, english sun-river or sunriver).
My name comes from an old PC game called "Radix: Beyond the Void" that almost nobody played. I got chatting with the developer who was making a new version and pointed out a lot of bugs in the game and I was added to the special thanks of the 2.0 release. When I needed a name for Quake I picked "Lord of Radix" but eventually decided that was too long.
For my Nick you need to know my real name: Timo Geiss
so, in school, someone used to call me once Gice-T (Gice like Geiss, and T for Timo, the whole resembling Ice-t [...] It was a rapper for you really young Kids outthere ;)), but i really liked it, so it became my real-life nickname...
as i got online, few login would allow the "-" so i had to change it into gice and thats what my name nearly everywhere is, since i never saw another =) got my own domain, and i have NOTHING to do with galactice ice ;)
Well...... I was originally using "Black Mamba" about three years ago, until I forgot the password for the account (I can't even remember where), so I came up with "Green Mamba." I've stuck with the name ever since.
Both Green and Black Mambas are snakes. I can't remember why I chose to have a user name of a snake, but, eh, whatever.