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Sexual deviant, attention whore or just plain sociopath? Discover what your Xbox Live name says about you

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US

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Category: Violence

Examples: Ikilya, Blood 4 Blood, Nightprowler888, Sniper5982, Psychopathic, DeathxDealer13, Knives2, Reaperman, KiLLeR918, Hitman4Hire 88

Violence is the most prevalent theme found in Gamertags. Seems like practically everyone online is thirsty for blood, murder or revenge. If you cross their path, prepare to quake in fear at their terrible wrath.

Behind the menacing personas, however, are these players really all that thuggishly aggressive? We suspect it's mostly a front. A true badass wouldn't need to announce himself through some silly nickname; he'd let his badassery speak for itself. And if any actual killers use Xbox Live, they probably lurk beneath more innocent monikers... involving clowns. No, we predict that these seemingly violent gamers are, in reality, as meek and weak as a Doritos-munching kitten.

Dr. Frederiksen: "Saturated with aggression and deviance, this category is often the most troubling to outside observers. While they can be the choice of some truly troubled people, in most cases it is likely to be a relatively harmless way to fit in with the game culture that puts a premium on bravado. In reality... probably more conformity than meets the eye."

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lynx987 - 1 year 2 months ago

mines cky18200..........what does that mean

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abovedefault - 1 year 2 months ago

good article. Not completely right on the leetspeak one though. Ever heard of fatal1ty?

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PopeRocket - 1 year 1 month ago

^I agree. A lot of people use 'leetspeak' to get names that are not available when spelled correctly.

Now.. I will give 1 Internets to whoever can figure out where my tag comes from.

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MyGameName - 1 year 1 month ago

although it's not a LIVE gamertag but a PSN tag, what does mine fall into?

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Sizzler - 1 year 1 month ago

Pope, yours is from the Pope's hat? I don't know.

Lynx, yours is the Pop Culture refrence, because you used CKY, or the band "Camp Kill Yourself" (Better known as CKY)

And, WH47 D0 Y0U M34N 13375P34K!?

Also, mine is GOING to be Sizzler. And I don't see the refrence there. It stemmed from "SIZZLERSPERSONALPIKACHU" which I put for my Nsider username because I was going to Sizzlers that day, and I had to do something Nintendo related. I was also craving a personal pizza. I'm actually disgusted with what the name actually MEANS though, because, who would do such a cruel thing to suck a cute little electricity mouse?

So would it be Pop Culture?

But the name is just Sizzler. That could also fit under Sexual. Or, if you were thinking of melted flesh resulting from a flamethrower, that could fit into the Violence one. My first name is the CAPS category.

So which one? I need help.

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