What’s in a name?

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I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and it’s really been bugging me.  Everytime I play Halo, I get bombarded with the “are you a chick” question, and everytime I want to strangle the person and fire a whole AR load right in their face.  It makes me want to change my gamer name all together.

The reason I’m “Pandemic-teek” in IRC is for strangers to not treat me differently than others.  I prefer teek over tipper, because it’s so ambiguous and sounds f*’n cool.  Lately I’ve just been making accounts on gamer sites as teek, just to avoid the “zomg GIRL” attack.  If I wanted to be known for my tits, I would have just done a porn site.

Tipper queen was the very FIRST “gamer name” I had and it wasn’t even a real one - only something I picked at the very last second.  Am I stuck as that for the rest of my gaming career?  What if I stopped playing Smash, would I still be a tipper queen?

What if I told everyone to just call me “teek” from now on.  One of my best friends calls me that already, and it feels more natural, I think anyway.  One less syllable than tipper.  What do you guys think?  Do people do this?  Are there others who’ve changed their name to something else after being “discovered?”  Decisions decisions.  Rawr.  Teek teeks.

*I use teek as a verb sometimes.  You’d have to know me to know what that really means.

164 Responses to “What’s in a name?”

  1. To be honest I have changed my name even after becoming “known” to some ppl in the gamer community. You just have to find an alias that suits you. Of course ppl will remember you as being Tipper Queen BUT it doesn’t mean you can’t change it :) I say go for it. I love Teek –not masculine and not feminine so you should be ok :)

  2. Well Tip in my opinion, I think that when you make an online name and you get fame for it than your stuck with that name. Cause I had this name HellsPride for a few years. It started back on an MMO called Dofus and I was very renowned on that game. Everyone knew my name so like in-game fame I had. So thats why the name stuck and I use it for everything.

    I suppose your situation is different cause your a girl. But lets face it. It only gets more annoying if you change it to something that is less girly. Then instead of people going: “OMGZZZ GIRL ON TEH INTERNETS!!11″ It will be “Are you a prepubecent boy or a girl?” And all my girl friends on xbl hate that. I think it’s real annoying too. I think you should keep tipper queen. They just arent used to seeing girls on Halo because boys are the majority of gamers in the world so they are more used to seeing other boys on. I’m sure if you changed your name many of your fans would be disappointed =[ I know I would..

  3. And as for the name teek I suppose if your going to change your name it does sound really cool. So it’s all a matter if you’ll actually go through with it.

  4. Miz - thanks for the input; I may need your advice if I really go through with it.

    HellsPride - your comment made me crack up. You’re absolutely right about not knowing if they are a prepubescent boy or a girl. However, I’ve been asked, “Queen, are you a chick” about 3535730957 times and it’s starting to get on my nerves more than anything. When I ask them why they want to know, they never give me a real answer. WHY DOES IT MATTER. >_< It just makes me miserable to have to listen to that question EVERY TIME I play Halo. I don’t even talk like a chick - at least with a gender neutral name, they’d just assume I was a guy with a high pitched voice. I wouldn’t mind still being called tipper, but I prefer teek.

  5. I suppose but why not just ignore them? All my friends get annoyed all the time by it but as long as your in a party with friends it dont matter. So why not od matchmaking with friends? That can help overshadow the asses that make you miserable =D Try it sometime. My friends say it makes it soo much better when I’m in their party and I shit talk them into oblivion bwahaha lol

  6. I think it’s up to you what you end up doing. I like Teek, it’s simple and easy to remember.

    I got stuck with DanielFooFan from years of Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament. I don’t mind it too much, and it’s worked for me in Halo3. Some guys ask me if I’m Asian and I like Foo. Other people know right away what it means, I’m a fan of The Foo Fighters.

    Hope you are happy with whatever you choose.

  7. Hells - I don’t have any friends that are in my level and the friends I do have don’t want to play with me because I suck against people their level. Plus, part of the fun is playing with people you’ve never played before. If it were a random person here or there, I would let it go. But imagine every single match? Now I don’t even answer them - I just tell them to play the game. I think I’ll keep the title, but introduce myself as teek. That way I don’t lose tipper, but I gain a cool nickname that I want everyone to know me as.

    Daniel - I like teek too. It’s funny because another guy who plays WoW is “teeb” so at first everyone got confused when I made the change on IRC. I mean, would “tipper queen” be a guy? What the hell are people thinking!?

  8. Well if thats the case than you should totally go do some ranked with me =D We could do Doubles. Which is like my favorite matchmaking =D

    And I can completely understand how you feel. One of my friends has a real high pitched voice and he gets abused all the time on Gears and Halo because of it. It sucks but he just likes to play. I’m sure your the same. =]

  9. so do you use Tipper Queen as your XBL Gamertag?

  10. … Only reason I ask is because I sent a FR and I hope I didn’t send it to some random person.

  11. Haha Daniel I just got a picture in my head of like some 32 year old man going into his account and seeing your request and going WTF! Haha I lol’d =]

  12. Hahaha, yeah it’s my gamer tag. I just found out it costs 800 MS points to change it so…. idunnolol. =/ I guess I’ll keep that as my XBL gamer tag.

  13. People ask for the obvious reason, but also because we all like to know who we’re dealing with. The internets may offer anonimity, and some people may like to have that, but most of us don’t like being in the dark. Visualize that. Imagine talking to someone in a dark room but not knowing what they look like, or even if they are male of female. Curiosity will get the better of you!

    As for name changes… well, having spent a LONG time on IRC I can tell you that even if you do change your nick, people will always remember you (and refer to you ) by the first one that became popular.

    Oddly enough, a nick is more unique than your real name so it’s a good identifier. It’s an identity you chose for yourself (even if it was off-handed. Mine was too, but so what?) and after a few years, it IS you. Many of us even get domains to make it more permanant.

    SO…. I’d have to say… you’re stuck with it! Use a shorter form where ever you can and that should be good enough.

  14. No no, you guys don’t understand. I get annoyed because my gamer name is “tipper queen” and people still ask if I were a chick. I mean come on, can you really picture a dude with that name? SERIOUSLY wtf.

  15. Well actually Tipper I know a couple guys with girly names. The funniest one being Rabbit Princess. And he had the manlyest voice ever. I was like “Hey Rabbit Princess are you a girl?” And he says in the manliest voice I have ever heard “No” Done I was dying laughing.

  16. Hahaha that’s hilarious. XD

  17. I wanna change my name to something comical like that. that would increase my poplularity so much lol. But I like my friend he changed his name from j92k to XXSgt. SpankXX Funny names are the shit haha And wetrailed off the topic big time lol

  18. Well Tipper, all i can say is this world can have retards, and for some reason people can seem to thing that queen = girl 90% of the time and king = guy 90% of the time

  19. Teek you rock I don’t care that your a girl and you most likely drag me through the dirt and the guys that ask and put you down are just to scared to be beat by one :)

  20. I used to have XBL but now i dont *tear*……Anyways i remember playin every day and seeing girls in matchmaking and it dident bother me at all….But those KSI dickheads are always like “LEIK OMG R U TEH GIRLZ???!!?!!?!?!?!?!1!!11!11″and id tell em to STFU.its so annoying when those retards dont think girls can play video games…..i swear if i could id reach through the TV and slap em all!!!

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