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[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Because Reddit is run by morons.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 9 points 2 years ago

I like crab and i'm easily annoyed.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I got to the username prompt Sagat's voice jumped into my head. While I enjoyed SF2 way back in the day I haven't played in probably 25 years, so I'm not exactly sure why I thought of it.

(pic is AI generated, close enough)

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[–] Pooptimist@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Well, I try to be an optimist, but life sometimes is just shit

[–] Betch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I change usernames every couple years. Betch is just something a couple of my friends started calling me a while ago. It basically became my name until I found something I liked to replace my deadname and it also became my new online identity.

[–] Yrt@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm really bad at name creation and wanted to try a character in an online game. Who could have guessed the name "try" was already taken... So I turned it around, it sounded alright for a dwarf char and 15 years later it's still my username.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago
[–] toastman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From Ren and Stimpy. Powdered Toast Man,

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[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Big fan of the Polish Hussars.

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I played with someone on the psvita that had this name. One day he said see you tomorrow and never logged back on. I took his name now. I only use it for forums tho

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was in a hurry creating a lemmy account and spewed out the first thing that came to my mind

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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

I was 9, I like video games, my first name is Harry

Almost 20 years later and there are people IRL who call me "gamer" and not "Harry"

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I'm in witness protection. Turns out not all girls are made of just sugar and spice.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I'm ready good at killing rocks in Minecraft

[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

QA for a 3PL. Apparently QA didn't prior to my arrival try things like entering words in zipcode entry boxes, typing 65537 letters into an address field, or holding the shift key when selecting which State to ship to.

I made a lot of, well not what I would call enemies but I wasn't exactly friends with any of the developers.

[–] maxxxxpower@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got it off of a hair dryer.

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All the other names I use were taken =]

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

There was this user named dolphinfucker69 that posted a really elaborate text post about fucking dolphins and became a sort of microcelebrity on certain subreddits that I am not proud of frequenting so I won't name. If you know you know. Anyway he eventually got banned and it was memed on for a while and he did some ban evasion. I needed a new account at the time and figured a name similar to that might make some people laugh. So here we are

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It's a mnemonic major variation of Jake that is usually available... And I came to dot world before the first 2k users joined but after "Jake" was taken.

The intro of Power Stone on the Dreamcast.

[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Random word list

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

For reasons I no longer remember, about 14 years ago I stumbled across The Endless Forest. I poked around on the web page a bit, decided it was interesting but not interesting enough to actually install, and moved on. A short while later I saw something on Reddit that I felt like posting a comment on, and so I created an account and this was the first username that popped to mind.

Quite some time later I got into modding a game called Minetest, and a very common element in its API is the "facedir" of a node - short for facing direction. I had a lot of people assume I'd drawn my name from that, but it was sheer coincidence.

[–] Toes@ani.social 7 points 2 years ago

Total mystery to me

[–] ScreamingFirehawk@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It got rejected when I suggested it as a name for a Corvette class light frigate, despite it sounding awesome

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[–] 8565@lemmy.techtriage.guru 7 points 2 years ago

It was my user number in high school. A decade ago.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Uhh. I was inspired by a manager.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

What are you, a cop?

Jk but for real, how'd you get your username?

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've always used wildcard since the early 2000s. But nowadays wildcard is often used up already without adding numbers to it. So I combined wildcard and cardology and no I don't know anything about cardology.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was a teenager and I thought RadX sounded cool (this was a full year before Fallout 1 came out, so I don't think it had any other inspiration). A few years later, I wanted a little continuity, but also something not quite so cringe-worthy. A single "i" fixed it.

[–] Ticklemytip@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

JustTheTip was taken. So I had no choice what so ever

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Divine inspiration more than 20 years ago.

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

I use a Dvorak keyboard and am not very creative.

[–] curioushuman@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[–] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

I like dark souls

[–] Whippygoatcream@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago

A fun conversation about goats milk while on acid and whip its lol

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