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Just made that shit up. I was trying to think of something stupid that wouldn't identify me in any personal way, and this one made me chuckle
My original reddit name. It is on my 2 Guinness World Records for "Largest Online Secret Santa".
It means = Paramedic, guy(pig), and I did "save" two babies as a Paramedic.
In memory of the Apollo app.
It's like when kids make up a ridiculous nickname for you in grade school, but it sticks and you end up using it on your business cards.
I was tickled pink about this prehistoric fish that went viral a little while back and I thought I would adopt its name.
It's embarrassing. I'm not telling.
They were out of Bort usernames.
I based it of the kid who goes “fahfahfahfah” in the pork chop sandwiches gi joe thing but everyone thinks it’s a reference to Jeff Dunham
i thought that my old username (that i came up with when i was 8 and creating an account for runescape) was too childish.
At some point after i watched donnie darko while being really high. The rest is history
I very briefly hosted my own Lemmy instance at endofti.me. The username seemed appropriate there. Just kept it when I moved instances.
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I got it from a random generator after I had to change my Minecraft username when I was a kid. Been using it ever since.
Not so wild as I used to be.
My favorite cyberpunk book, Neuromancer has a bartender in it named Ratz who serves drinks to the main character in a bar called Chatsubo
At the time, I was playing a lot of Diablo.
Sleeping pills and a misspelled person. It was my pirated minecraft username first.
I eat a lot of pasta
I had a boss back in the day that I had a really good rapport with, and he would jokingly call me Shrek because I was almost a foot taller than he was. I also worked in a lot of restaurants in my late teens to early twenties and found a love for cooking that has never really gone away.
Back in the olden days I played Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast at a buddys home. I didn't have a username for online play and I think he had gotten his from a Majoras Mask guide, so I flipped through it and randomly chose Gibdos. It's been my one and only username for over 20 years now.
It used to be the name of my character back when I played DnD, and the very origin was some online dwarvish names generator.
my friend's username started with "int" and I wanted a similar username, and interstellar sounded cool (I was also 12 when I made it) and then I added a 1 because interstellar was taken
I made it up myself. I came up with the phrase decades ago, and recently decided it was time for a new online moniker since a number of people were able to deduce my real identity based on my old one I'd used for a couple decades prior.
I like glitchy stuff, and I had friends who added "-ington" to everything for laughs.
kill cry > blacklisted word on whatever I was trying to sign up for originally > jumbling intensifies > kryllic
If someone had a gun to my head I would have said your username is obvious a reference to the cyrillic alphabet and I guess I'd be dead.
A fairy name generator.
I like Marvin from hhgttg. Also, I have sleep issues.
It was tough, but I squeeked it in just under the wire.
I read Les liaisons dangeureuses my second year in France and loved it. Misspellt de Valmonts name though :-)
The upside of the misspelling was that the name was always free on any forum up til not that long ago where bots started to recycle existing usernames all over the place.
I think mine is kinda obvious but in case it isn't, it's "GNU" in the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet. I got it because I like aviation and Linux... and also because I'm too autistic to get a more normal one
I have always loved magic/mages/wizards/locks/witches/shamans in video games. When you have to make tons of alt accounts on MMOs or RPGs everytime i did another mage playthrough I started coming up with names for the memes. Some were okay, some were bad.
When I went to do a hardcore playthrough of a game and was trying to think of a "sweaty" (sweaty being someone who puts in a lot of effort, for those unaware) pun, sweatyfireballs was born. I was so proud of if it, it became my new go to user name over my long running previous name that I came up with for my mage on vanilla wow. I peaked that day.
I was originally called deadlok, it was a gaming name I came up with when I was 10 and stuck to it other than contracting it a bit.