Gearheads of War

Zoso fan came from my fanboyism toward Jimmy Page from led-zeppelin. His "symbol" is commonly referred  to as zoso because thats what it appears to spell.

The 501 in my title comes from the 501st legion, the star wars clone trooper unit (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/501st) known as 'Vader's Fist'. Any players of Star Wars Battlefront 2 will tell you that the blue striped clones are the 501st legion, the main characters in some of the campaign.

Sparton is a bit of a longer story. When I joined xbox live there where a lot of spartans due to the Halo franchise; it was a common moniker. Well, SpartOn, well, thats unique. Everybody wants to play with Sparton. Everybody, I mean Everybody, thinks that Sparton is cool. Even if you don't. Also, I think the title Spartan deserves a certain respect, like Doctor. And besides, so much Spartan hoopla has been generated in our videogame world that it has become synonomous with super soldier, tough guy, saviour of the world.

It's almost like samurai v. knight. So much Japanese culture has been saturated into American society that we've begun to beleive in the samurai as a defender of the weak, damsel rescuing machine that we forget that they where a group of feudal lords keeping Asian society in the medeival period until the 1880s, while knights are barbaric mercenarys without particular skill or honor.
Neither popular conception is true, and it's not true to beleive that the Spartans were heroic warriors attempting to save the world. Nor, were they barbarians staining the penninsula of Greece, savages with nothing but a soldier state.  

So, I suppose my tag shows my fanboy status of star wars, and also my desire to be a mediator (an. . .arbiter, if you will [haha]) of society, unbound by conventional wisdom.

Also, Spartan 501 was taken.    

I did rock climbing without any gear for a few years, hence the term Freeclimb. I just replaced the ee's for 33's because of the whole use of the term "l33t"....from that we get Fr33climb. Simple.

I was trying to come up with names for a while but I never could get one that I created, so I made mine RoBBins0096 because Robbins is my last name. Simple and to the point :)

MDK was a game back in the day and i liked the lettering and the 2002 is my HS grad year

Blankman was a hilarious movie starring Damon Wayans & David Alan Grier.  It came out back in the hey day of In Living Color.  I cracked up at Wayans' character & hence; I chose the name since it was kind of unique.

My gamertag has been makin me mad for the past couple months because everyone enjoys singing that stupid "fergie" song EVERY time I join a lobby...lol

Well, the truth is I really can't stand "fergie" *notice the 'ie' part is not the same as 'y', big difference there. Not even kidding. Of course we  share Ferguson as a last name and thats where we get the nickname. (think her's has an extra 's')...lol

Fergy=Nickname
33=basketball and baseball #
WF=West Fargo - my high school/city

And thats my story! haha... I've thought hard about switching gamertags, but well, as far as I'm concerned Fergy33WF always = me!

Well, I have 3 sons, and aside from meeting and winning my beautiful wife, it is the accomplishment, could it be called that, that I am most proud of.  I added a little sci fi flavor to it by changing the "o" to "u" and calling myself 3Suns.

However, on XBL, we are not allowed to start GT with a numeral.  Since "Three Suns" just didn't cut it for me, I decided to go reverse l33t and use a letter instead - ESuns.  I am quite pleased with it and I really like it when people actually call me 3Suns as opposed to ESuns online.  Happens every once and a while.

http://3suns.blogspot.com/
(Just started a blog in anticipation of my next favorite game)

is the nick of a very calm and cool killer from the anime Gungrave. It matches to my personality (not the killer!!) so I picked it. When I choose a name I want it to tell a little story and matching to myself. And honestly: doesn't it sound very cool? ;))

I've really enjoyed reading everyone's story here, great idea Papi.

As for myself, it's relatively simple: just a creative twist on Airborne Ranger. My dad was in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam, and while he kinda despises the Army after his experiences, he still has many fond memories and some pride of being in the Airborne. I'm a sci/fi fan, so I just put a futuristic twist on it by renaming it Starborne. For the past few years, I've been writing a novel-length sci/fi story that revolves around a Starborne Ranger, and I kinda just fell in love with the term.

Gearheads was the first site I joined under this name. Previously, back in my Halo fandom days, I always went as Omniscient or Omni. And that was simply because I liked the word. :)

Mine is dongcopter because when I was in college, we were messing around on the computers looking for funny URLs and dongcopter.com was one of them.  I actually own www.dongcopter.com now, it is just how I found it four years ago

I belive in Karma. Every thing you do in life good or bad comes back around to you. The Dark being the bad or evil Karma. I use the Dark because its the complete opposite of what I am in real life. and 76 being the year I was born.
Papi no lie I am polish and my wife is mexican, small world.              

It's carry over from a High School nickname.  Master P was pretty big during my sophomore and junior years of Highschool, so my friends and I came up with our gangsta names.  Mine just happened to be Master P combined with a portion of my last name leading to Master Pre.

The irony is that I was just a small town kid from South Dakota, so I'm hardly a "gansta"!  I suppose I'm actually more of a "wanksta"! hahah

The original meaning of my name really isn't there anymore, I can barely stand Master P anymore, but the name just stuck and will continue to stick!

Gear = I love Gears of War
Daddy = My most favorite of titles, due to the numerous times I here it come from my son Titus on a daily basis.
77 = Many things happened in 1977.  Elvis died, Star Wars was released and I was born.
Why, you may ask, is my user name on here different?  It's my email address.  Great post by the way papi, I can't wait to hear from some of the others!

I am allways asked why Joeyscorpse? First of all Im a huge fan of  Death Metal and zombie movies, When I started playing UT I made a guy for my son named Psycorpse and while I was Tattooing I was called calico Joe, Fryer Joe and then Joey due to the fact all the babes wanted to use my wifes pet name for me. So needing a Gamertag I choose Joeyscorpse I am Joey -I am a scorpio (scorpse) And just like the zombie flicks my undead corpse (me) is playing the game. (lol) Trust Me I have thought about a change but well see.
And I post here as Captain Crunch cause when I was working for the big 3 - Some girls talked about diver down and my fuzzy multi-colored beard and captain munch slowly turned into captain crunch. I was not aware that gears crunch was on the train in the last level.

I know I haven't played with you guys yet, just hasn't worked out, but one night I will.

As for Major Dan, it is simple, my first name is Dan and I am a Major in the AF.  It also comes a bit from Lt. Dan from Forest Gump and Major Tom from the David Bowe song.  Also, I had a hard time making Major so it meant a lot as it had just happened when I signed up for XBL.  So looking back maybe it isn't so simple.  

Thanks.

im from texas but now live in washington state, well i love texas so much that i'm always telling people up here how great texas is.  my friends say i corner people into the "texastrap" haha  and 7 is my lucky number.

for me, in my native tounge, naveeda is to naveed what cliffy is to cliff or what jimmy is to jim. and naveed is my real name.

to see how some of you guys got your 'tags.

Mine is easy. I have an odd (but not creepy) fascination with the Grim Reaper. Everywhere he is there's mass chaos and destruction, and plus he has a cool name. The way I thought of spelling it 'Grymm Reepur' though is a pretty funny story. I was playing FN3 when I was using an old tag and I created a fighter. I made him as a power-house and I was thinking of a name I could give him. After awhile I thought of Grim Reaper since, but I wanted to make it original, alas Grymm Reepur. As for the 999, just a random number that seemed to fit.

wow, 33 posts in a one day- Nice post papi! That's awesome I've always loved your gamertag and am glad to know its meaning.
SweetTea023 just comes from my love of the drink sweet tea....and because I am Zoso's sweety.

I used to be a fan of Saturday morning cartoons, and I saw this one little leprechaun try to fight bugs bunny for his gold back (or something like that, there was a leprechaun ok?) and he tried to box him to get it back.

I thought it was hilarious, and I came to the conclusion that it was quite an original name.

Besides, can you really refuse the amazing synergy, that could rip apart the fabric of the universe, that evolves from Boxin and Leprechaun stuck together? I don't think so.

its really not that cool, sorry guys.

My tag comes from the term used for club kids that are into industrial/ebm music: Rivit Head (there are different spellings of it). I spent many nights in that scene and love that kind of music. Gears of War is definitely the ideal kinda game for a Rivit Head. I wish I could change my tag to "Gearhead"!

This evolved from ROGUEWARRIOR7.  When I first started LANing with H1 I picked ROGUEWARIOR (max #of letters hence the missing R) after Richard Marcinko (an ex-Navy Seal who led the Red Cell division of Navy Seals responsible for a lot of counter cold war bs in the 70's and 80's) who wrote a book called Rogue Warrior.  So that stuck until XBL when I could finally fit ROGUEWARRIOR in.  Of course someone had already taken that so I added my favorite number; 7.  The HHR part of my name stands for my Halo 2 clan; HeadHunt3rs Reloaded.  Anyway, I took the clan "brand" and lopped off the warrior and kept the 7.

Just seeing that contrast of navy seal/chevy was a little funny to me.
Of course, one should grab hold any oppurtunity to Z formation snap ones fingers and go 'Oh, snap.'

  I think it was like 8th grade...long time ago.  And we had a coach from Denmark or something.  So he couldn't really pronouce my first name Marcus very well.  It sounded alot like Maca.  I have no fucking idea where the face part came from my buds just started adding it.  I never see it anywhere so that's good.  Plus "maca" is actually a plant from mexico used for sexual drive or some shit.  Yeah had to distance myself from that.

Yeah, I'm not very partial of the car either!  It's kind of like a cracked out version of the PT Snoozer.  Hopefully I'll be on Friday nite so you guys can frag me.  I might be LANing though so we'll see.  Later.

One of the best posts yet Papi.  I think now is a good time for you to bring out this because many of us are starting to get to know each other.   As for me, I am a 36 year old Polish father of three.  However, I don't feel old.  Kenai 91 comes from the summer of 1991 (just turned 21).  Spent the summer in Alaska with two college buddies working in the Salmon factory in the Kenia peninsula.  Spent the rest of the summer traveling and having some of the best times ever.  After college, named my black lab - Kenai.   I always heard it pronounced (Keen eye), but Ken eye works too.  Tried to get the gamer tag to be just Kenai, but believe or not, someone else already had it.  You gotta love how big XBL has gotten.