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[–] MegaTony@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My name is not Tony

[–] aaaa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Because fewer a's were all taken

[–] SangriaFerret@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Randomly generated by another website and I thought it was funny.

[–] sherman@kerala.party 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] first_must_burn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix

First
Must
Burn.

~Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

[–] webpack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I originally chose this as my Minecraft nickname, it's the name of a JavaScript library that I used (https://webpack.js.org)

[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Mine was easy

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 1 year ago

I chose mine because one day I had nothing to do and was super bored, so I just stared at ceiling and blackedout. And mind you I wasn't tired or anything neither did I sleep, I just lost consciousness because I was bored.

[–] monke@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] TurboNewbe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This my first nickname from when I start gaming on line : Star Craft - Broodwar.

[–] TheBestUsername@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Mine should be obvious.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like to smoke dope.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wanted to add "the magnificent" to the end of it but it didn't fit so

[–] CupDock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Two random nouns

[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well. I am a wench. And quite jaded. I wanted to make something I had not really used before, back when I joined the place that shall not be named, and it sort of stuck. I also really love the color green. If it makes you feel any better I am a much happier person today than I was then. Still a wench though. 😈

[–] Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] beta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Beta as in Beta Pictoris, a cool star.

[–] Still@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I have no f***ing idea.

[–] EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was a now deleted YouTube video by OneMinuteGalactica called "Apollo launches his viper funny" where Apollo from the original BSG tries to take off, but the launch tube just goes for miles and miles while the bridge crew and other pilots scramble to figure out what's going on. I thought the reference to it was funny and sounded cool when I was 15ish and it's pretty much stuck

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

iron maiden song, a poker hand, and my name has 2 a's.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Because it sounds perverse, slummy/moist, and randomly generated in equal measure.

[–] serfraser@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the back of my name stuck on the front of my name. Also hope it makes me sound like a knight of the seven kingdoms.

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[–] TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I liked Ren and Stimpy when I was a kid first getting on the Internet.

[–] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I'm waiting to drop a standard line that can be deduced from my username, but I still haven't landed a good post to do so...

Also, I wanted it to be disjoint from my former Reddit usernames

I don't remember my username

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I came up with it when I created my second acc on Reddit; I didn't want to spend time thinking of a username so I just thought of the first two words that described my mood at the time and went with it. It means "melancholic potato", I like how dumb it sounds

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Because my tiny little arms have been replaced with laser-cannons.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

BillyWitchDoctor.com work mostly with chicken.

[–] erasebegin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

song by a band that fitted with my habit of nuking my PC every couple of weeks, either because I wanted to try a different Linux distro or because I got some kind of Limewire chlamydia

[–] psud@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One needs a username. So I chose one that I have used for a long time, which incidentally I couldn't use on Reddit

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[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

TK is a journalism joke. In that field, placeholder headlines used to commonly be written in as "Headline TK" or "TKTKTK" etc. It comes from back when newspapers were typeset physically before set in lead to be sent to the printer. It is short for To Come. Many editing marks are misspelled on purpose to make them stand out from the final text. "TK" is an unusual pairing of letters, so it stands out.

[–] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Not calm.

Not typical.

Full cat.

HISSSSSSSSSSS

[–] ToastyToast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using some form of this name for 10 years. It's a part of me now.

I left a shaker cup with some drink mix in there for weeks, totally forgot about it. Now it's a science project

[–] qazasxz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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