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[-] waterbogan@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Was my reddit username for ten years. When I joined reddit it was through the swimming sub, looking for info on waterproof MP3 players so I could swim laps while listening to AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Slayer, etc etc. I'm a bogan that swim laps pretty much every day.... therefore waterbogan

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Axollo - Moonstruck and replaced the letters.
My earlier name was childhood cringe.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I eat a lot of pasta

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I was making a WoW character (back in the days even the Burning Crusade wasn't there yet). It was a troll with big tusks, so I thought he'd need a toothpick or two.
And the spelling is from "Don't be a menace to South Central...", there was a stupid gangster under this name, he's my soul animal.

[-] Daaric@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It used to be the name of my character back when I played DnD, and the very origin was some online dwarvish names generator.

[-] astanix@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I don't remember where my name came from but maybe it's a variation off the NES game The Astyanax

It's just a name I put into a BBS when I signed up 35ish years ago and I've used everywhere since.

[-] Glitchington@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I like glitchy stuff, and I had friends who added "-ington" to everything for laughs.

[-] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Named after Jubei Kibagami of Ninja Scroll, first anime movie I ever watched. The 08 was my jersey number when I played soccer.

Ninja Scroll

[-] Atin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

One of my favourite characters from a book.

[-] Bearlydave@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It was tough, but I squeeked it in just under the wire.

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Mine is an old Black Crusade character name. The original Xariphon was a scholar-warrior.

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I appreciate numbers.

[-] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] kirbowo808@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I just love the Kirby game series cuz it’s really cute but I also love Kirby himself as well at it being a reference to Kirbo from TerminalMontage, who I also equally love as is one of my fave YouTubers.

808 is a reference to the Roland TR-808 drum machine, referencing to many of my favourite electronic/alternative/hip hop musicians that have used it.

Also I love being cringe too so there’s that too xD

[-] SweatyFireBalls@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Dvixen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Had it for forty years, it was my CB radio call sign.

[-] dlok@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Resol = bunch of jumbled letters that are completely meaningless, but can be interpreted as either the first 5 letters of "resolution", or the backwards spelling of "loser"

van = Dutch word meaning "of" or "from"

Lemmy = this is insanely obvious

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[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I'll let you guess the second half 👍

The first half is actually short for Indigo.

Back in the day my old internet alias was Indigo Michigan. I eventually dropped the Michigan when I became a Brony. "Indigo Brony" didn't really sound great, so I shortened it.

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

It's a reference to Hollow knight and Subnautica

Also it's a double negative

[-] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Shit!

I got bored of winning all these fuckin accolades for porn.

Then the world started runnin outta french fries and burrito coverins, people starvin and shit.

Enough was enough!

President Camacho 2024!

[-] Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

As with all my online accounts:

  • Visit a name generator website.
  • Find one that doesn't suck.
  • Check if it's available.
  • Here we are.

And each has a different email address. I hope adtech loves me. 😁

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A resemblance to Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon. It's my nickname amongst my friends and round the pub (some of whom don't know my birth name) to the point you could go into my local and ask for the Emperor and someone would point you in the eight direction. So when I signed up online, it made sense to use this name and it has since became my nom-de-plume and is, in effect, my Common Law name.

[-] RoseRose56@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I used the username blackandred56, until one day I used blackrose56, and since then it's blackrose56 or roserose56. I just liked rose.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Typing and limited clicking

[-] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago
[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

wanted a zerg sounding name when I started playing SC2 and then mained terran instead

[-] ggnoredo@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I mostly enjoy but not competitive online player from UO and Everquest era so I tired of typing good game no re do

[-] gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago
[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

If by that you mean the URL one, it's a combination of different anime characters, but if by that you mean the one you see on comments, it's short for the one I've had at birth. You can change how it looks in the account settings.

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. It's the name of an optional NPC that writes you a few letters and then dies. He has no relevancy at all, but I like him. Based on where you are, he may be written without the 'r'.

[-] Alchalide@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I had to make a new name for the then brand new game: league of legends. I was high af and came up with this. Inspired by boss names in wow I guess.

[-] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Random word generator.

[-] PixeIOrange@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My xbox Gamer tag was oXOrangeBudXo because i was very cool and unique and just started smoking weed. I then went normal and was OrangeBud in different ways. Then Orange because i didnt smoke anymore. And then PixelOrange because i like the pixels. And if that name is taken, its PixeIOrange with upper i.

[-] sailormoon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I am the pretty Guardian in a sailor suit who fights for love and justice!!!

[-] zxqwas@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Keys on a qwerty keyboard.

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