August 16, 2007

What's in a Name?

I have to choose a gamertag, and I'm coming up empty. I've already rejected "Static Zombie" as being too long and unwieldly-- I'd rather have something a little pithier. Suggestions welcomed. Save me from being Peter2488.

Posted by Peter at August 16, 2007 10:57 AM
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Petarrrrrrrr!

Posted by: irwando on August 16, 2007 01:13 PM

Big Peter. I bet you'll make lots of new friends.

Posted by: Jessica on August 16, 2007 01:45 PM

I think it'll get him banned. :)

Michael Adcock was going through the same thing recently. He wanted to use the first- initial-last-name thing. It was rejected. :)

Posted by: Chris Lemon on August 16, 2007 01:50 PM

If StaticZombie is available, I would definitely go with that. People shorten your name no matter what you pick, so unless you'd hate being called Static or Zombie (or probably just Stat) I think it'd be a good gamertag.

I was on the Xbox Live beta back in the day, so I got first pick of names. I went with.... wait for it... Jake!

Posted by: Jake on August 16, 2007 05:04 PM

It's not an election, but I vote for "Statzor". When you have reduced your enemies to statistics, you can say that you "Statzorred" them. Thus, you will be 'l33t. 12-year-olds across the country will ph33r your skillz.

Posted by: Larry Hosken on August 16, 2007 06:20 PM

I agree with Jake, StaticZombie is a good gamertag. When I first got my 360 and couldn't recover my old gamertag I just plugged in what I was spending most of my free time with...I wound with 'DieMacher' as my tag. Did you get one of the newer 360's? I got mine less than a year ago and I just got the dreaded RRoD tonight :-( Better now than next month though.

Posted by: Sean on August 16, 2007 09:27 PM

Actually, wouldn't you rather it be next month? Eventually they're gonna start replacing them with the newer Premiums that have HDMI ports and better heatsinks now.

They expanded the warranty to three years because of so many RRoD issues, so you have lots of time to go through another one... :)

Posted by: Chris Lemon on August 16, 2007 10:03 PM

Get an Elite.

Use StaticZombie.

Add me. :)

Posted by: Jack on August 27, 2007 03:39 PM

Get StaticZombie, then if you don't like it, change it. 800 points and you're good to go. And add me too! (SloRyder)

Posted by: Andrew on August 27, 2007 05:55 PM

I had an idea but Larry's Statzor is much better!

I was going to suggest Sarrettzen which would be pronounced "saracen".

Posted by: Other Jeff on September 17, 2007 06:53 AM
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