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And did you choose decent one this time or Rimjob_stew one?

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[-] TheGiantKorean@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

I'm half Korean, 6' 230lb. My martial arts instructor said to me, "You're the biggest fucking Korean I've ever seen." So Giant Korean just kind of stuck.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

I like frogs.

I also like to change usernames on a semi-regular basis, so it was time for a change, and this is the first time in a really long time that I've been able to have a four-letter noun as a username. So I shall celebrate the joy of being simply "frog".

[-] YourHeroes4Ghosts@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

It's a line from a Pink Floyd song. I like the fact that when people see my name, if they know the song, they probably hear it in their heads. This is especially poignant since I once had a love like no other- it was our song. He died, but he would have loved my username. He would have loved Lemmy, too.

[-] swan_pr@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze?

I'm sorry for your loss, I hope you are doing well now.

[-] YourHeroes4Ghosts@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Yes, I am, thanks. I lost him in 2018. He will always be "my one"- but I'm over 50 now, and looking forward to my solo future.

[-] TheGiantKorean@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry to hear about your loss. It's a wonderful song. One of my favorites from my favorite band.

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[-] BaconInMyPants@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

One time I walking past a bar with some buddies in high school and a very drunk man was kicked out right in front of us. He screams and hollers at the bouncer and throws a big tantrum about it for a bit then out of NOWHERE he pulls out several folded up strips of bacon out of his front pocket, takes a bite and this seems to calm him down.

We're all flabbergasted by what we've just witnessed and we're all very obviously staring right at him when he notices us. He slurs, "Sorry you had to see that, little dudes" and offers us some of his pocket pork as an apology, which we politely refused. He shrugs and goes on his merry way.

This was right around the time reddit was taking off and I made my account a few days later and it was the first thing that came to mind. Thus, BaconInMyPants was born.

[-] recently_coco@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

It's a new name for me. I'm Coco, recently.

[-] kobold@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago
[-] cooljpeg@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I had an old internet friend on Tumblr when I was 13-14 or so who had the username "coolpng". One day they just deleted all of their accounts with no warning, no trace, no nothing -- just vanished, so I made the username "cooljpeg" in honor of them and in hopes that maybe they'll run into my e-presence one day. It's also just a simple 'n funny username, and I love jpegs so :+D

[-] green_witch@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Just another heathen who likes plants and mushrooms tbh.

[-] Feanor@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Feanor is one of the most important elves in the silmarillion. He is the creator of the silmarils and he led the noldor back to Middle Earth

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I've been a Tolkien fan for sixty or so years.

Baggins wasn't available on Reddit but it was here.

I also use it in email addresses.

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[-] nowrongnotes@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

"The piano ain't got no wrong notes" - Thelonious Monk

[-] kajko@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

This year we made a jackdaw friend in our garden. We can feed it directly from the hand and it's comfortable around us.

Jackdaw in Swedish is Kaja (sounds kinda like "Kaia")

We named it Kajko (kaiko). I liked the name and now I'm using it.

[-] winterstillness@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I love the stillness of winter. The type during a blizzard where everything "sleeps".

I had this realization when playing Dragon Age: Inquisition: https://dragonage.fandom.com/wiki/Winter_Stillness

Also this; https://imgur.com/a/lEpKXAF

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[-] AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

In Anarchism one of our most influential books is The Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin, also known as the Bread book. I needed to burn my old social handles and at the time the anarchist meme sub reddits would call our dank memes yeasty memes (since bread) and so I chose the name AnarchoYeasty

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[-] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Zoids toys are cool and I like Futurama.

[-] neintynein@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago
[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

No luftballons for you!

[-] RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Having been on the Internet longer than some of you have been alive (damn whippersnappers), it was a result of being tired of choosing usernames. To prevent doxxing, I had been creating new accounts every few years, and this was the last name I made at the Alien site.

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[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

In the 90s I was Boatman_Charon on IRC. As happens on the internet - folks shortened the far-too-long username to boat. And one of my good buddies typoed it 'Bota' once, and from that day forward I was Bota instead of Boat. And being a 20 year old on IRC... I replaced the 't' with a '7'.

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[-] ladydascalie@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

In French the word "Didascalie" is used for stage directions, often scribbled in the edges of a play, oftentimes by the author. "Les" indicates a plural, so my name would read "Les didascalies", or "the author's notes".

It pronounces basically the same as Lady Dascalie, hence where the name came from.

[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It’s a word I made up in High School (mid 90s) for a D&D character. It’s based on the Latin word for truth - veritas - but with tweaks it sound “cool” and like an actual name. When my family finally got internet, it also became my go-to username/identity for all things digital.

[-] distractedcactus@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I have a fairly prickly personality IRL and online communities like this one make up the majority of regular interactions with people outside of my home; it's my "distraction" from being an introverted grump. Plus my insides are mostly water and pulp, so I have that going for me.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

I made the mistake on the r site of naming my account for what I used it for, which was wasting my own time. It was intended to serve as an active reminder that I could be doing better things with my time. I had about 50/50 split If people thought I was a troll or not, though, so I didn’t bring it with me.

I wanted to go with a different but similar theme, and a lot has changed in my life and frankly, I’ve grown rooted and apathetic. The username is a reminder to be better.

This probably won’t be the account I end up using long-term, but it’s a good one for now, as I learn everything.

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Misspelled 'Fedaykin,' the name for the fremen death commando in Dune.

As edgelordy as that sounds, I mostly just liked the word. One spelling error creating a character in a game and I liked it better, so I kept using it.

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[-] modulartable@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Thank you Xbox Live username generator

[-] SoaringFox@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago
[-] NoThanksFriend@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I had been using another name that expressed gratitude in the affirmative, decided to change it up to a name that is more for saying no politely.

[-] DSLeMaster@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Someone doxed me about a decade ago so now I use my first two initials and my last name. Harder to get doxed if you only say shit you'd say face to face with someone.

[-] skepticalifornia@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I live in California and I am naturally skeptical of anything you tell me 🤔

[-] Velociraptor@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a six foot turkey.

[-] CookieMeowster@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Awesome things I appreciate and/or identify with:

  • cookies
  • the blue monster that chomps them down
  • cats

Surprisingly, so far my clever play on words has rarely been taken anywhere I signed up, so I use it for any accounts I don't mind being link-able.

[-] SenorBolsa@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's just a goofy thing me and my friends used to say and I made a depiction of it (much worse than my current avatar, which I commissioned from a cool artist I met a while back) I just thought it was fun.

Wish I knew what her current website/contact was id love to share it but I think she has gone a different way since.

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[-] CorvusNyx@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

One, I like Corvids. Brilliant birds they are, various mythologies around them, etc.

The latter portion is a reference to an old gaming clan I was a part of in my youth called MotR: Mercenaries of the Republic. It was a Star Wars Republic Commando clan, one of the biggest among them. I was part of Nyx Squad, and we were the biggest group of misfits and weirdos among the other squads. We weren’t always the most skilled, but damn we had character, and we had fun.

[-] king_dead@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Its just an old space ghost reference

[-] coldredlight@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

It's the song that was playing when I first made the account and couldn't think of anything that wasn't already taken.

[-] Foidi@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Quite random actualy, I just came up with it and it stuck

[-] iWantaSandwhich@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I was hungry and was thinking about making a sandwich

[-] Animortis@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

In college I took a “Latin and Greek roots of English” course. I wanted a new username around that time and wanted something that sounded cool, so I figured out the Latin version of zombie and chose that.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't ever really have a name for my fursona and then I got my dogs, Kona and Loki. I combined their names and came up with Kolonaki, but then misspelled it when I entered it in something the first time. Now it's Kolanaki.

It kinda sounds Hawaiian (pronounced cola-nah-key). 😋

[-] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Part pun, part general description, part alliteration. Also, preferably easy to say/read without CamelCase or under_scores or hyphen-ation.

I like comics. I also like comedy. My mind is an absolute fucking mess, full of nonsense, and I have trouble keeping things in order.

I find the best way to deal with it all is to laugh at it.

Mixing it all together, comically cluttered. Amusingly disorganized, both physically and mentally.

[-] swan_pr@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I've had the same (same or some iteration close to it) for over 20 years, 25 maybe? I used to be Valhalla in the 90s but at some point it became impossible to keep it as the name was popular and used on multiple forums and sites.

Being a big Led Zep fan I had chosen it from Immigrant Song. So when it came time to change it I thought of their label Swan Song and just added my initials to it. I have a couple of other accounts for other purposes that are almost as old but not as meaningful as this one is to me.

[-] newtraditionalists@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

It's a Devo album, my personal fav of theirs.

[-] Rottcodd@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Rottcodd is a character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels. He's the curator of The Hall of Bright Carvings - a sculpture gallery in a far distant corner of the castle that virtually no one ever visits - where he leads a simple and contented life. When he isn't working or loafing about, he spends time observing the distant life of the castle - or what he can see of it at least - through a single tiny window.

For better or worse, I relate...

[-] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's a reference to my favorite author, but using different words to get the same ve sound. So far no one had noticed

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