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A pretty cool program

Updating my computer 

People don't like being proven wrong, and often try to dismiss it with some variation of "Im not gonna sit here and be told the whatfer by some random idiot"

Like, excuse me sir, you are the random idiot, because you were the one that was wrong.

So when it came to registering on Lemmy, that popped up in my head and bobs your uncle.

Real nice honeypot too, every time someones wrong and backs themselves into a corner instead of admitting they are wrong, they inevitably give some variation of "living up to your user name, huh", which just continues to prove that the actual idiot is the one lashing out like that.

Violet (my birth flower) + 08 (my birth year).

bruh aren't you too young to be hornyposting...

26-8 =18

I am already dead

I used to use long defunct old emulator names as uaernames. Now it's dirty local burger chains.

He's literally me

There's a glaring bug in the lemmy dot zip sign up process (via web at least). There's clearly some sort of backend validation of usernames, but it's a mysterious black box with no helpful feedback to end users.

Presumably there are forbidden characters, character limits (min/max), banned word/phrase filters, etc and I assume there's a check to make sure the name isn't already registered. But the only feedback provided is a server-side message "InvalidName" that shows up in a pop-up. That's all the info given, and I even checked the http responses directly to see if they contained any more info. Nope.

After numerous attempts and variations of usernames that I wanted with no luck, I tried InvalidName, and still no luck. So then I tried InvalidName2 and that finally worked.

So, yes bugs and glaringly obvious UI/UX issues are par for the course with the Fediverse, but at least this instance hasn't been shut down or suffered weeks-long outages since I joined, at least not yet.

Chip Chiperson meme

Back when I was in highschool I wanted a gamer tag that my friends would be embarrassed to lose to.

It started as simply cocopuff

Oh cool, now what username would you have of you combined your mother's maiden name, your social security number, and your credit card number?

Wanted to create a 5th character in a game to test something and ran out of variations of my normal username 15 years ago. Test worked out, it became my main and now we're here ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

From Jules Verne's posthumously published work, "Paris in the 20th Century"

“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from the Academic of Sciences, and Monsieur de Pulfasse's 'Meditations on Oxygen;' and we have the 'Poetic Parallelogram,' and even the 'Decarbonated Odes. . '

As a scientist with a deep love of the humanities, I found Verne's view that science would ruin literature and poesy quite humorous. Especially since in reality it has just neglected it.

idk I'm just a toast in ukrainian

You're seventeen/eighteen years old??

Long story short I got frustrated trying to think an username and typed angrily "ei ole" in Finnish (means it isn't) and then it hit me.

I'm an Ashkenazi cephalopod.

Mine is from a GameCube era videogame that if anyone asks and I answer have no idea what I am talking about.

IRL first name

I was told by everyone I knew growing up and even now that I was weird, a freak, different. So I just kinda went with it.

To be fair to all of them they're completely correct it just took me awhile to see why. I have to constantly remind myself that I don't think like most people or act like most people to the point it's instantly obvious to pretty much everyone around me

Many many years ago I was in high school and just hoped on the maplestory train. Of course I was a complete newb and didn't realize you could screw up your character.

This was back when you had to roll a virtual dice to determine your starting stats. This was also back when you can screw up your character if you over level the character before getting a job because you only earn skill point after you get the job.

I ended up having to remake my account like 5 times due to some combination of:

1. Unoptimal starting stats for what class I wanted.
2. Missing the job advancement by a level.
3. Unoptimal skill point spending.

By the time I was about to create the character I would end up playing on for 3 years, I couldn't be arsed to think of a good name. So yeah...

I like the anonymity this community offers and to laugh, hence Someonelol.

I AM HUMAN. I ASSIGNED MYSELF THIS USERNAME AS PROOF.

And most importantly, what is your mother's maiden name?

No way you were born in 1908

When I was something like 8-12 years old I was watching Toonami and Cartoon Network. At that time shows like Tenchi Muyo and YuYu Hakusho, despite being very different, took up the same headspace to little kid me. When I needed to come up with a username for the first time ever it was on a now-extinct Game Shark forum and it was as uninspiring as a kid would likely make, something like user123 or whatever.

The second username I ever made, and I don't remember what website it was originally for, I wanted to use the name of a character from one of the shows I was watching. I transcribed the name like how I thought it would be spelled. The character's actual name would now be spelled kione from Tenchi Muyo. The character I thought I had come up with the name for, though, was someone with red hair, but whom I thought was a demon in the show. I'm not certain anymore, since this is over 15 years ago, but the character I was trying to name was either Kurama from YuYu Hakusho who is a demon, or Washu Hakubi from Tenchi Muyo who isn't a demon because that's not a thing in Tenchi Muyo, but I think I just conflated the characters into one. Doesn't matter, since I got the name wrong either way.

t;dr dumb little kid me conflated red-haired anime mad scientist with red-haired anime demon, and the name from a third anime character. I spelled "kione" as "kionay" phonetically. poorly. been using it ever since.

I'm drunk. I live in Texas. So it was very difficult to choose my username.

Random keyboard mash. I think it turned out alright.

I picked a random word in the dictionary. Unfortunately the first word was diarrhea so i picked a second word

It's what my nephew said he wanted to be for Halloween when he was 3.