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How did you come up with your username?

I’ll go first, it’s simple, the Internet is literally an open field where anyone can do whatever they want.

@lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Japanese version of nier automata has one of the characters scream TWOOOBEEESAAAAANN through tears.

I love it. It is so over the top it makes me laugh thinking of it.

The English version is no where near as dramatic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was the first Red Hat Certified Engineer in the state of Oregon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Impressive!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Second line of Mama Told Me by Three Dog Night.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I rolled dice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I read an article about an ape that had bad flatulence.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

@InternetIsScary

I stole it from the bad guy from an obscure anime game, then added Halo related numbers because the name was already taken.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It a compound from ludność meaning population and trolling so Lud + rol

I think I have thrown a t as it was unwieldy to say.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Roleplayed an orc for 20 years.

First name i picked just stuck. Randomly choose it using the prefix for informal acknowledgement, and the suffix for inappropriate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Been using it forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Twas foretold in the stars that one day a raccoon would arise, one of debatable taste, ethics and moral code. Many eons later, I took on that mantle and ascended to my true calling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I hate thinking of usernames and I am extremely bad at it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The day the 3rd party apps left reddit, I've been wandering around, looking for what once was

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

0% perspiration

100% catsperation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It a pseudonym that I use for lemmee.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I grow stuff (mostly peppers and tomatoes for a while now, but I’m adding squash to hand pollinate and strawberries this year) in deep water culture hydro, which involves a 5 gallon bucket of nutrient water and an air pump creating bubbles. Super basic setup geared toward “permanent” plants that keep producing indefinitely, or big plants like weed. Works well since complex and long-term don’t mix well for me. Way way back in the day on the forum I used to frequent, dwc setups were called bubble buckets.

And I like monkeys, I relate to them.

However doing a quick internet search shows that apparently there’s an anonymous recreational drug information page under the same name (among numerous other things) so that’s a bit awkward.. I’ve got nothing against drugs, but nothing to do with that site either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was joking and laughing it up with my friends at an outdoor bar in Texas where I stopped at the bar on my way in from the airport (grew up there but left after university cuz Texas is too right wing dystopia for me).

Lady gets mad and tells me to quiet down

I reply with “mam, I came here to do 2 things… hoot and holler, and I dun run outa hoots”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It's the tastiest way I've had it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Using a name generator and a list of nearest stars, then I chose something that sounded cool.

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Because I am Billgamesh, king of Uruk, the walled city

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I saw the scene on Reddit many years ago and thought it was hilarious, so it stuck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Normal ghost -related name was taken. Geist was also taken so I did a fun misspelling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

A take on bah humbug

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My original username was LinuxTux, then LnxTx, and now lnxtx (more neutral).

Back then (~2005) I was fascinated by Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First wow character. Not sure how I came up with it. I knew I wanted it in "two parts" so I could name all my wow characters the same way: rutrum, vinrum, seprum...and many others Im sure. Havent logged into world of warcraft in many many years.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I ran a random name generator until it spit out something I vibed with

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I would tell anecdotes and stories that wandered off into the woods & an old friend said I had 'tangentism'

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It's an accidental misspelling of Kichea, and was my Eve Online character's first name. The misspelling made it unique for many years, until a kitchen sink company came along and started using it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I used to really like Shakespeare and Serious Sam. Still do, actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I am a lifelong fan of Tolkien and the colour of my hair is golden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Abbreviation of my real name, and a Chinese slang

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Line from a solid song by a local band i found when i was 16. Oddly enough, it never occured to me how much i liked it as a name until a decade later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's my first name and a single syllable of my last name. This is my standard user account that all my family and friends know, so if they want to find me online, they know what to look for.

I used to do private user accounts so I could post things that I didn't want people in my life to find, but then I realized I just didn't care to use them. I stay true to myself, even online. Anything I post is what I would happily share with anyone in my life anyway, so there's no reason for me to maintain multiple accounts anymore.

Also, I'm retired now, so it's not like I need to watch what I say online. I don't have to fear my boss finding less-than-professional social media content I've posted. My friends are all still working and they get really nervous about broadcasting our chats, like when I'm trying to stream our gaming sessions on Twitch. They sometimes vent about their work, and they're afraid of their employer finding it. (BTW, I don't record our game sessions.)

One friend in particular will ditch our game nights completely if I mention it's going to be livestreamed. I live halfway across the country from him and I don't even know his employer, but he's paranoid they'll somehow stumble across my Twitch stream and recognize his voice or something. I'm lucky if I get 2 viewers all night long, so I'm pretty sure he's safe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Don't remember the "FuzzLord" part, but Ace comes from whenever a game asked for a 3 letter initial for scores or if I needed to enter a name for a save, I always chose Ace.

I presume the "Lord" part comes from me sometimes being an arrogant prick at times who thinks he's better than others when in reality I ain't much better than the next guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

When I first played Mass Effect I thought it was silly that I could give Shepard a first name that would never be used, so I tried to come up with the absolute dumbest first name I could think of. Turns out BanjoShepard is available on practically every platform, so it became my internet persona.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I stole it from Tom Peters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Way back in the day when I was on another social media they banned my account and asked for identification because of my name at the time....so I made up a variation with this user name on a payslip in photoshop and they accepted it.

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