Why did you choose your username?

I'm using my real name because I was here to virally promote a movie, just like all the other celebrities on reddit before.

It was a very successful promotion.

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To play off my instance name.

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I'm, uh, a big Korean.

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I was hurt by one and haven't healed

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It's a family name

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I love ninjas and carbonhydrates

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mom i'm internet famous

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I like not being easily identifiable on social media. When I was a kid my parents taught me to not reveal my real name on the internet and nowadays it seems that your real life and internet life should be the same.

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I can't remember

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I often expend my creativity elsewhere. 😅

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Because I'm not a banana, duh.

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Because I want to instill fear

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TLC wrote a song about me.

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It's been my nickname for over 50 years.

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Because I think that summer is too warm

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Rocks are cool

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Because it’s all I really want to do here.

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I’m a simple man.

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One of my nicknames growing up was Lil Miss Potatoes. But now I'm a grown up, so I'm Lady Taters.

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Because I make chairs.

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It's an anagram of my real name, 'lcdou 991y9'

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I thought it was funny

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KeePassXC password gen.

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You know what?

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I kept on trying to make an account and it wouldn't let me for some reason.

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I didn't. It's my IRL nickname. It means 'short circuit' (as in 'easily frustrated'). I'm the opposite of it, I'm the calmest person on this planet. My friends thought it would be funny. (the full word spells 'Kurzschluss')

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I was thinking of McDonald's and balls

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I still haven't grown the fuck up

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Shork

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It’s the name of my favorite Star Ship! USS Defiant

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I like pizza, words with four 'z's, and palindromes. So I appended an 'ip' to pizzazz, and here we are!

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Old WoW randomly generated name. Stuck with it for years now

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I just wanted to share an interesting fact about myself.

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Corrupt windows nt boot menu circa 2003.. It should have said "last known good configuration"

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I just run pwgen -c 6 -0 and picket one that I liked most.

I did same thing when I was picking my Wifi home network name (Wahthahv)

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Well I'm a very confused person, and I'm surprised at the world around me.

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Remembering multiple names is too hard. I'll just stick with the one mom gave me

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When I joined up, there was much discussion about bots, so I reckoned that I should set the record straight.

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Have you seen kiwis? They're adorable!

The bird is alright too I guess

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You'll never guess where I browse the internet from

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I like tea

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Step 1: Download https://www.eff.org/files/2016/07/18/eff_large_wordlist.txt

Step 2: run the following in the terminal

shuf -n 20 eff_large_wordlist.txt

Step 3: choose two good looking words from the output

Step 4: smoosh them together with optional underscore or capitalization

Now you have a tasty username worth sharing with friends and family!

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I like Moss. I like Bears. There it is!

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It appeals to the edgelord teenager in me.

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I like coffee and I like vectors. I made it in high school and thought I'd be one of those names I regret, but even now I still like it.

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I grew up in central Flordia in the 80s and 90s. I loved saltwater fishing. Because of this I started to have lots of interactions with pelicans.

After awhile I became kind of close with them, we somehow seemed to communicate, I would spend hours with them, sometimes I would take out the boat and float around the shallows for these huge schools of pompano that would swim around the deep shipping channel then they would come up in the shallows for a few seconds and hit the bait fish really hard, it made them an easy catch and an unbelievably hard fight on ultralight gear.

I would go alone, sometimes with friends, but the one living being that always showed up was the pelican, and in this particular case it was a fishing spot I found near the Skyway bridge in St. Petersburg.

This is where the pelican became my favorite bird, we had some good times together, one bird in that area though new me and followed me around, never bothering me, never once trying to catch my bait that obviously has a hook in it, it seemed to know what was up, I'll never forget those pelicans and especially my buddy who always loved hanging out and getting fat from my catch.

So I carry the name because I love pelicans and the more people see the name maybe just maybe they might think twice before harming one of these magnificent birds or littering which is heavily contributing to their extinction.

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My initials if my middle name were Keith

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I had a T-shirt with a toaster that had flame decals and just the word toast underneath. People kept asking me what it meant, as if there was a secret meaning to warm bread.

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My Geometry teacher started calling me this. Still don't know why.

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I chose my name as a shortened version of the name I generally use on social media platforms. It's just this one is easier to type and since the account didn't exist I took advantage of being able to use the shorthand.

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I was a big weeb, and my original name was Nekomaru. As I "grew out" of it, I translated the name back into English, and realized I actually liked it better.

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It's a reference to human cannibalism. I found it interesting that humans taste similar to pork. I'm just weird like that.

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Childhood nickname.

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My job involves making donuts.

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Cogito ergo sum.

If I don't think, I'm DoesNotExist

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I became that which I feared the most

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The cat’s nickname. It’s very floofy.

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I tried and it worked.

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It was my neopets username in like 2004 lol.

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Because of Russians.

Se got lots of immigrants from Ukraine these two years. One girl started going to our summer camp/all year group (something like Scouts) and started dated my friend. He keeps "dictionary" of mispronounced words.

There is lots of good usernames but "plactagonic relationship" was best at the time (it grew a lot since).

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A real life nickname I've had since I was 7. I've just stuck with it for the past 26 years. It actually originated from the Beanie Baby Lizzy. And Izzy is just Lizzy the Lizard without Legs. 🐍

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I stopped taking my daily interval 💊

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To paraphrase a longer explanation, I’m a Nintendo fan, I like Mario games, I love the Bowser fights. I wanted some alliteration on that and Bashing came to mind. Played with that and ended with BowserBasher

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The Dude abides.

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There's a character on Adventure Time named AbracaDaniel and I just switched in my name.

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Here's a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

TLDR: in our current capitalist and technologically advanced society, we increasingly live in a world where reality and fiction mix, so much so that it's hard to tell what is real or isn't real. They blend into each other. This is hyperreality. Arguably what's real doesn't even matter as much. The 'truth' generated by (social) media is often far more consequential than something as trivial as what actually happened.

For people who like movies, watch Cronenberg's Videodrome or Existenz. That's what 'reality' has become.

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I write an anticapitalist tech blog at theluddite.org

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It's the name of my youtube and twitch channels.

The name is a bit of a long story using text to speech in Sea of Thieves to annoy another crew. Tried getting to to speak in an irish accent and misspelled "charms" and the way the TTS said "chamrs" was just hilarious. So there we go.

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What if Carl’s Jr. had a son

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I came here to Hoot and Hollar dag nammit I’m Yosemite Sam!

But sometimes I do fancy myself a yammerin’

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Because I wanted to be obscure and mysterious, but if I'd call myself MrMysterious I'd know deep inside that I'm a wanker.

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You can work it out yourself by looking at my instance name.

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It's a play off Friend of Dorothy.

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I like potatoes.

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I rather like it.

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Agents 0 to 640 were taken.

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Typo.

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Why not?

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Its the same username I had at the other place that shall not be named, until I got permabanned for reasons still unclear to me.

I originally joined via the swimming sub there, looking for recommendations on waterproof music players to use while swimming so I can listen to AC/DC and Motohead etc while swimming laps. I'm a bogan (Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated) and I swim laps every day. Therefore..... waterbogan

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Coolest shit I’ve ever pulled off happened on a sick day

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I had a bottle of maple syrup on my desk and I'm not a very creative person.

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The first time I tried karaoke, I was a bit intoxicated and worried that, having a common name, another Nick would get confused. My parents worked by full name incorrectly, so, I figured that that would be a great way to differentiate it, not realizing at the time that the name "Nick" itself normally has a "k" in it, making "Nick w/ a K" arguably more confusing. After sobering up, I found the whole concept wonderfully silly and decided to switch to it as my main screen name.

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Self descriptive.

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Just some random thing that comes on my mind at the time, i guess.

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That is just who I am

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Food you want to eat but won't risk your life for

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I like pretty assholes

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To promote razors

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I was binge watching the show "Letterkenny" One of their plotlines was about a Ostrich. Allegedly.... Im Australian, No Ostriches, only Emus.

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Way back in the day I wanted my club penguin to be named sparky, but that name was already taken. So club penguin recommended to me sparky678348

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Out of habit. It was my reddit username for almost a decade and the first thing that came to mind when I made a lemmy account.

Why I originally chose "justlookingfordragon" on reddit: I was looking for fellow Pokémon X/Y players with dragon-type safaris willing to share their codes, but the simplest usernames like "dragon" and "safari" were already taken, and "Imjustlookingforadragontypesafarikthxbai" didn't fit the character limit. I originally didn't even plan to keep the account, so I didn't care that the username was silly and awkward.

"Wolf Link" was a nickname that came later.

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I hit randomize in a passphrase generator until it farted out a mental image that made me laugh.

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it is I

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Because it’s clear to me that in order to solve the problem of school shootings, we must arm kindergarteners with grenade launchers.

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

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I lived in Tropical country and iced cool water is the best

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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

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I have a big dick , I swing it for the glourius five year plans.

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Mine should be obvious.

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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. 😈

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I like noodles

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

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

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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

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I am a TANK

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Mine was easy

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

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I just want to have a good time

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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

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idk

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Two random nouns

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1: Has just three letters. 2: Doesn't really mean anything. 3: I like how it sounds.

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I’m one of Zaphod’s cousins

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I like popcorn.

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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

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It's my real name.

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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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No anime.

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am sour ._.

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Because squid can fly and it's awesome.

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

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Because i'm a monke

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

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Star wars

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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.

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In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix

First
Must
Burn.

~Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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For Karl!

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

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Because it's accurate

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Because fewer a's were all taken

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Beta as in Beta Pictoris, a cool star.

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

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BillyWitchDoctor.com work mostly with chicken.

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I don't remember my username

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I like to smoke dope.

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I have no f***ing idea.

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My name is not Tony

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I really don't care.

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Don't have the best internet and my favorite video game franchise is Metal Gear.

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Deur

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I hate myself

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I'm a nerd. I'm a Natalie. I'm a nerdy Natalie.

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After 10+ years on Reddit with the same username, I signed up for Lemmy without the underscore back in June. Then I stopped using all social media until Sync came out and now my password/email recovery don't work. So I effectively locked myself out of my real username and back into the same shittier one that I had to use on Reddit :'(

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Tanith was one of the goa'uld from Stargate SG-1 which I was a huge fan of as a kid. Back then I was not so good at spelling so I sounded it out and kept adding letters until I found a username that wasn't taken

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Always wanted to be a TIE Pilot...

/Empire did nothing wrong.

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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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I was hoping to be generic. Also, to add to articles and photos on lemmy, I wanted random photos from users. I don't even care what they are. So far I've seen a beautiful landscape.

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FLCL song

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b

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I was trying to call someone an idiot, but I only had a calculator on hand. I also didn't consider talking as an option.

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

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It’s an alteration of an older PSN name I used a while back and it has a really nice ring to it.

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Because I am a big man (170cm) and my name is "Mikael" which can be shortened to "Mike"

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I'm afraid to say why.

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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.

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Eigengrau's interesting colour

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Because 10 year old me didn't know how to spell in japanese.

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I used to always play Pyro in Team Fortress Classic and would just run around setting people on fire and then running away. It was my only strategy and so I adopted the name.

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It was a randomly generated name in an MMO I used to play.

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It's the name of my pet bird.

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norbel

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In memory of the Apollo app. RIP.

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Gamertag. My new one at that though

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My initials are kn, I was 10, and kn10 was taken :p

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My username originally was Emerald_Earth, because I saw the old Lemmy.world logo with the Earth (that had green on it, like am emerald). I switched to Emerald when I realized it was available. Short and sweet.

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After one of the best songs from the band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Fun fact: it's also the favorite song of their bassist!

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I love dogs

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I'm a Bailey Sarian Fan.

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That references the name of my programming language I first-learned in my entire life.

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It's a futurama reference. Meant to be anonymous but ended up getting lucky with a lightsaber gig and am now stuck with the name lol. Only unfortunate part is I wish I'd known which account was going to get lucky lol

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I like Fallout 2 way too much.

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I love reading books

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chu

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I had a bad dream

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I just think they're neat

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

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Not calm.

Not typical.

Full cat.

HISSSSSSSSSSS

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Discord nickname that originated from OneShot (the game my icon is from). I chose it like 4 or 5 years ago and it stuck on Discord so I just adopted it to here

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Real name is Mitch and am somewhat irritable, so. . .

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I thought it was funny

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My username? Cuz I've had it since like 2003 or so, possibly even earlier. I'm a simple man, I like consistency.

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It's been my internet identity / haxxorz handle since the 1990s, and the story is about as benign as Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner and his black-and-yellow striped sweater.

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I guess I’m a sucker for puns.

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It just seemed fitting.

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Am arcane and slimy, was descriptive.

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TJA – A German reaction to the apocalypse, dawn of the gods, nuclear war, an alien attack or no bread in the house.

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I was really craving pancakes with maple syrup, but I was at home without pancake mix or syrup, and everything was closed because it was 3am.

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It's the truth

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It was about time.

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I was hungry

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I like Gallade.

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Nyan Cat, but different

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"All the things that used to be inside of me, now they're outside... But the inside of me is empty."

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Nakari has "existed" since I was a teenager. Started off as a character I used in writing as an outlet, but slowly the name also became a handle for me. Hell, I guess an entire "presence" since it's my go-to for most sites.

Lexfortaine came around because I wanted something vaguely "proper" sounded in a D&D game, and I never actually got around to giving the character Nakari a "canon" last name. It worked well enough for an asspull, and has just been tracked on ever since. Grown to like it, actually. Feels more like a proper name.

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Honestly, Halo 3

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Everyone gets excited whenever I board a ship

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The Neve 8028 is an amazing mixing console lmao.

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I'm a guy who likes MsDOS

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I have many thoughts

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It started off on Discord as a joke I no longer remember the context of, and was originally just "PopeJoeI (as in Pope Joe the First)" , and then spread to other areas, like the site formerly known as Twitter.

Then Discord added the crowns to admins and it then became "PopeKingJoe" and that's that.

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I made a club penguin account when I was younger and this is the username I use ever since.

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You don't choose your username. Your username chooses you

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because of duckington city? shall we? cheers my friends

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Years ago, when I was around 13-14, I wanted a "cool" sounding username, since I was also sick of coming up with usernames for websites. I did some thinking, and came up with "Mr.Champion". Used it ever since.

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Boom, still got it

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Because I had to to create an account...

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It's from a book I like.

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An inside joke

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Good music.

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bears

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I love thinking about the universe and I'm a guy. Not much too it. lol.

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Been using it for so long, that I forgot how I chose it

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At the time I hadn't tried limeade

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Because it said I had to?

Or is the question, WHY did I choose THIS username?

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spider

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From an old clip that played on a radio station back home "Sittin' on the porch with my ol' lady, eatin' a ham-sammich"

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Username generator

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I just like dogs...

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WoW forums name. (Night Shift represent!)

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Cool hobby from my past ….. plus for whatever reason lemmy didn’t like my generated username and I gave up

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I love the movie.

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Wanted to be crass and nerdy, simultaneously.

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I just hate Disney

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I promise!!!

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it's my name in Arabic, translated to English. very creative, i know.

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I'm your best friend.

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My name is the spell that I can cast in real life. Not as good as a real Muscle Wizard's, but it's something

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Old internet nickname, back in the MSN Messenger days.

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Would be a very long comment but it's a reference Black Kettle's betrayal and murder by General Custer.

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Mai waifu.

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I combined my dog's names (Kona and Loki) but fucked it up the first time I ever used it as a username. It was supposed to be "Kolonaki" taking the first two letters of Kona and the first two of Loki then alternating in the second half of both. KoLoNaKi. But I accidentally entered "KolAnaki" and just ran with it.

I liked it so much, I made it my fursona's name since before that name was just "Raccoon."

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Take a wild guess

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I couldn't come up with shit so I put a random word through a cipher and switched a few letters around

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I was in a little cafe in Taiwan and that's what we ordered.

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I'm a fan of BNA's tanuki main character Michiru, and Summer Tanuki's storyline, and how Tom Nook's name is pun with Tanuki and...

The stars just aligned for me, I swear.

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Cave Story

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Akuma is a boss. Been my favorite all through my childhood.

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My preferred username was already taken a long time ago. This was meant to be a temporary replacement, but now this is my preferred username.

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Because it's a pejorative term for a loud-mouthed know-it-all bloviating idiot and I like to keep myself humble and try not to take myself too seriously.

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It's such a majestic creature.

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I sometimes say things that may not be 100% correct. I’m only human.

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Among us name generator

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I used the same moronic username I got from a name generator for 20 years before Reddit was trashed. I took the opportunity to reinvent myself. I'm a techie with a beard....

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I used to really love William Gibson. It's the name of a fictional musical duo in one of his novels, Idoru.

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I am too lazy and boring for a username, so I just use my RL name.

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It's a reference to Buell Motorcycles and their tractor like engines.

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I like Doctor Who and it comes from my favourite season with my favourite companion.

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It's a long convoluted story but when I was a teen (I'm 46 now) I created a series of designs I called "earthbound angel" over the years it morphed to whoisearth.

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I asked chatgpt for generated usernames, and this was one that I liked

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Random word plus random number after it. I decided I needed to be a little more careful with my info.

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Autocorrect kinda fudged mine up and I said go it.

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childhood memory i guess

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Math was my favorite subject in school, and I think that adding the phrase "after dark" to something made it sound cooler. So I combined the two to create my username.

EDIT: my display name (not username) is the exact opposite of the display name I used on aliensite

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I actually forgot why

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A Tek chip was the delivery mechanism for the VR drugs from the William Shatner authored TekWar books.

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Very vaguely related related to my old reddit dead name.

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Because it works

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Name of my favourite novel.

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A weird set of events. First I just wanted to sign up on SDF Public access UNIX system but I didn't want to waste my username for testing it out in case I did something wrong. So I went with user224. However a good user named xiled verified that account for me so I stuck with that username.

Later SDF posted on Twitter about running their own Lemmy instance, and since I didn't yet know what Lemmy was, I used the same username. Slowly I made comments and posts locking myself into the stupid "user224" username. And I can't change it.

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I don't really remember, but it's short - 4 letters, 2 syllables and it's a real name. It's not my real name though and yes, people love referring to that n-word when they see my username. I have it for years and I don't regret it.

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I'll give you one guess...

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Because Ganondorf should have been a clone of Samus in Smash Bros Melee, not Captain Falcon. At the time, his one appearance (Ocarina of Time) had him using a projectile-focused moveset. This would have inevitably given him morph ball motions (down-B and roll), which would have ultimately been swapped out, but it's a fun thought that it would have been like that during part of development.

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ummm I was you know...

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This is my legal name

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I'm trans and I like Sci Fi.

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It's a variation on what my wife calls me. It's been my username on forums and such for a long time.

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Because this was my username on reddit before I deleted my account, and I don't have the creativity to think of something else

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My friends name is Nick and was thinking about him when I came up with this name. Also wanted a cool unique name like my brothers came up with for their gamer tags.

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Crunchyroll autogenerated it. I liked it.

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It's a reference to age of empires 2. My favorite game during my childhood.

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No one ever has had the user in anything I participate in

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Been using this user name since I made a PSN account when I was 12 lol

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yeaahhh unsure if i want to answer that...

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I live on South End and I love sunsets…combined, it makes no fucking sense.

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A catchphrase of an interestingly math-themed villain in my favorite game, The World Ends With You

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I was trying to figure out a username for another social media, and landed on this one after trying weird combinations of my name and birth year, none of which I like. Afterwards, it just stuck around because I became my life motto for many things as well.

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Came to me in a dream

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Controversial

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Wanted something not related to my other usernames and I fucking love gyozas

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I used this name for a specific purpose, then that purpose became irrelevant. With the API fubar, I ditched both of my profile names though this does bone one purpose of one of the old aliases (for my NSFW work) so I may end up bringing it back in some form. I like this name better though.

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Why?

Because one was required.

When?

2001, heading to Assembly '01, a large LAN event in Helsinki.

Or was it '02?

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I just used the name I use on Discord and a few others places.

It was originally Toothless_NEO and still is on Reddit, Steam, and for some reason matrix but I changed it everywhere else I could because an asshole was harassing me and encouraging other people to harass me (had to actually pay money to change it in some places, Xbox live makes you pay to change your username).

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It's like shootin' the breeze, but old time sailor-y.

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Wind... fire... All that kind of thing.

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Used to play a lot of games, some sci-fi, some fantasy... was lazy and didn't like having to come up with multiple names. It just kinda stuck.

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I get mad sometimes

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Someone once told me "pick two words and a number"

I did

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I thought my name in English meant "John Savior", so I just decided to make my online alias "JohnSavour", but for some reason I elongated it to "JohnSaveourSocks".

(Turns out it actually means John Servant, so "JohnServesYou" would've been more accurate.)

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I have no clue.

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