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| Topic Started: Jun 9 2009, 02:41:31 AM (510 Views) | |
| Todd McCloud | Jun 9 2009, 02:41:31 AM Post #1 |
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Planet Telox
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Pretty much what the topic states. My nation name is actually kind of old. It actually started when I joined a Starfox forum (it's a Super Nintendo game) and couldn't think of any other name, and didn't want to use my older forum name of UrbanFox, so I came up with Todd McCloud and it stuck since. I thought about using UrbanFox on NS, but that name is pretty popular now, so I stuck with TMC. My oldest surviving nation, Cavask, is based on the largest city in a series of novels I wrote in high school. |
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"Your uniform doesn't seem to fit. You're much too alive in it." "You must be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi "The worst prison would be a closed heart." - Pope John Paul II Vekaiyu's Wiki Page | Ikrisia Levinile's Wiki Page | Listonia's Wiki Page | |
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| Haor Chall | Jun 9 2009, 06:47:45 AM Post #2 |
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AquinasNet
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Well, Haor Chall is my main nation name (despite actually being the third nation I created) and it’s a fairly obscure Star Wars reference. Haor Chall is the name of the company that designed some of the Trade Federation droids. AquinasNet comes from Deus Ex, where the Aquinas Protocols are the communication systems which the AI Helios links to. Other that I use are also sci-fi linked. The ApostleCorp is stolen from Deus Ex 2, Kuat Industries is another one that borrows from Star Wars and Weyland and Yutani is from the Alien films. |
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Senator for International Affairs, The Pacific "When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout." | |
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| YaM | Jun 9 2009, 07:39:43 AM Post #3 |
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Jedi Master Batorr
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Well... it is kind of lame, but I heard of a Yo Mamma joke and decided to use my nation as Your Mum and Yo Mamma... |
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| Lazlowia | Jun 9 2009, 08:47:19 AM Post #4 |
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PR of Lazlowia
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Mine has some very old roots. When my friends and I played GTA3, we noticed, that the host of a radio station called Chatterbox or something like that was called Lazlow. The interesting in it was, that it sounds like Laszló, a hungarian first name, which is incidentally my first name too. Even one of the callers in the game asks him, that is he a hungarian, which he denies. Lazlow appeared in GTA Vice City and GTA San Andreas too. Later, when I made an e-mail address, my friend suggested that I use this name. When I first met NS, I couldn't think of any realistic country name, so I took an easy route and named it after my name in the e-mail address as Lazlowia. Later I made a stupid mistake and registered here simply as Lazlow, so I had to make a plausible explanation. So I came up with the idea, that Lazlowia was called differently and Lazlow renamed the country after himself. This just made things worse, as people are still confused about my nations name. Some call it simply Lazlow, but you can read the proper name of the country under my avatar. |
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| Dyr Nasad | Jun 9 2009, 10:09:15 AM Post #5 |
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Slave to the Hive Mind
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well...some really obscure D&D allusions Dyr is from Agrach Dyrr, a Menzoberranzan house Nasad is from Ched Nasad, a drow city PRESTO! You get Dyr Nasad |
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| Really Nice Hats | Jun 9 2009, 11:57:19 AM Post #6 |
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Mo
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I thought it was funny. |
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| lowbrook | Jun 9 2009, 03:48:13 PM Post #7 |
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NES w/8-track expansion
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Oh god, my name is really boring compared to you guys. It is the name of the estate where i live(hangs unimaginative head in shame). |
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| Kandarin | Jun 15 2009, 11:42:57 PM Post #8 |
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Ferret princess
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It's a land in Runescape, although I haven't played that game in quite a while. |
"Torpored Caitiff Antediluvian"
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| Deleted User | Jun 19 2009, 11:47:48 PM Post #9 |
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Deleted User
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Mine is from a story a friend and I wrote when we were 13. The name lasted. The story didn't
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| Megalocyathus | Jun 19 2009, 11:51:09 PM Post #10 |
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NKVD
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I am a Great Pacific Octopus, I live in the oceans and can open corked bottles to retrieve any tasty bits of fish placed within. |
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Ashurnamabi, High Octopoidal Senator of the Moist Republic of Megalocyathus Servant of the Grand King Ashurbanipal Namulpulassar "He who has 8" Ink®, Good for Mom, Great for Dad, and the Kids would probably die without a steady supply of it. | |
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| Tingst | Jul 8 2009, 02:55:06 AM Post #11 |
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Kilroy was here
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When I was in the process of creating my current TEP nation, I was drinking a cup of take-away coffe. On the cup I read "Tingstad". I believe it was the name of the company making the cups. I didn't want to be a complete thief, so I dropped the end and just named it "Tingst". A couple of weeks later when I was working on the geography and history of the nation, my morals concerning theft had obviously gone down the drain, seeing as I named the nations second biggest city "Tingstad". |
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| East Malaysia | Jul 8 2009, 03:10:45 PM Post #12 |
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Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind.
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Well...I wanted something realish, so I tired many and EM just stuck. Tho at times I wish I had picked something far fetched. Lol. Oh well. Four years later, here I am. o.o
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| Shivat | Jul 9 2009, 08:56:48 AM Post #13 |
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Politically Incorrect
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I took it from a rol game, because sounded like korean or japanese |
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| Deleted User | Aug 31 2009, 01:59:29 PM Post #14 |
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Deleted User
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I'm from the Pacific Northwest and wanted something Cascadian. Several variations of Cascadia and Oregon were reserved, so I gave up. A couple days later, while checking out hotels to possibly take my wife to for our anniversary, I found the Grand Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia. The rest is history. |
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| Infinite Loop | Sep 3 2009, 02:48:15 AM Post #15 |
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Take Off, Eh?
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Well On January 25th 2003 Fark.com Linked NationStates.net, and I made 2 nations, Cupertino the founder of Farkistan, and 1 Infinite Loop. both named for Apple related things, the home town of Apple and the street address, other than that it is all the diseased black puss inside the thing sitting atop my neck. |
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| Cloudous | Sep 4 2009, 06:06:30 AM Post #16 |
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NES w/8-track expansion
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My brother made this character called Giggy, and used it to create games and an internet mask. So I made one called Bell (these are now both of our nicknames). When he needed placesin his game for all of these characters to live in, we decided Bell should live in Cloudous, as her characterisation was that her head was up in the clouds. Thus, the name stuck. |
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| Darkesia | Sep 7 2009, 11:13:10 PM Post #17 |
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Will kill for chocolate
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I had a couple other nations before Darkesia. "TryThisGame" comes to mind. lol When I had decided to stick with NS, I wanted to use the name I had become known for in some political debate forums where I participated. However, "InTheDark" was taken. I tried some variations and finally came up with something that sounded like a nation name... sorta. Dar-kess-ia, Darkesia (not dar-key-sha as many people pronounce it)was born. I still have one person in my dossier from those first days of migrating from the debate forums to NS. Everyone else is long gone. |
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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state. [Galileo. On the margin of his own copy of Dialogue on the Great World Systems]. | |
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