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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like Marvin from hhgttg. Also, I have sleep issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A fairy name generator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Golden Sun for GBA... except it was taken so I added an I... it's occasionally taken so sometimes I switch it for a 1 but I hate doing that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It came from a one-off inside joke with some online friends (I don't remember the context) as PopeJoeI (Pope Joe the First). I eventually embraced it fully and changed all my online handles. At some point, Discord added crowns to server owners where it wasn't immediately obvious who owned it and it evolved into "Pope-King Joe".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It was my username on my porn account on Reddit. I derived it from my not porn account that I also used for other things and people IRL knew. I ended up using this one way more so kept it when Reddit banned me and I came over here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a reference to Hollow knight and Subnautica

Also it's a double negative

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a portmanteau of federation and degenerate. This account was going to be a porn account and I am a degenerate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I eat a lot of pasta

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A half-assed variation of "bah humbug"...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Combined a few numbers that are meaningful to me, turned it into hex, and here we are.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Typing and limited clicking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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