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This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.

So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What's the meaning behind it?

Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I enjoyed The Talos Principle. And the messages in that world seemed about as real as you guys. I mean that in an endearing way

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Around the time I first started using this username about 7 or so years ago, I was playing through the Megaman Zero games, that take place approximately 100 years after the events of Megaman X, which take place during "year 21xx". So 'Zero22xx' specifically references the version of Zero from the Megaman Zero games.

On top of that, I also just thought it was a cool mix of letters and numbers that can look pretty random if you don't know the games, or if I'm not using a profile pic.

The only annoying thing is that at some point around the time I created this username, I started seeing an anime character called 'ZeroTwo' around. So I guess it could be mistaken that I'm referencing that too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I am kind of introverted, am I actually introvert or socially awkward or whatever doesn't matter, but for the simplicity I'm introvert and I like cats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm 6'4" / 193cm, so I'm taller than most.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I read an article, that the executioner who operated the electric chair was sometimes called the state electrician. I liked that, as I like many little known words and phrases. It has nothing to do with his job, the euphemism just tickled my fancy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

i like the swapnote girl so i borrowed her name

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

When I was younger, I was crazy about Idaho and wanted to move there. One of my old nicknames was Lil Miss Potatoes. Now I'm a grown ass woman, so I'm Lady Taters. People tend to think it's a nickname related to my chest though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got named Bizzle in like 2008 because my real name wasn't cool enough, it just stuck

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fo' shizzle my bizzle

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

water, metal, pressure and faith.

leaky showers and prayers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

An ex drinking buddy was drunk and high as F and would butcher the name of several people. I couldn’t let this one die.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's a permutation of a permutation of a pseudo random username.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I‘m doing a 6-2 job in finances on autopilot while mentally at another place to not be drained when I follow my hobbies after work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It is kind of descriptive...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Because I always wanted to have my own theme song.

But really, I browsed through my music collection by alphabetical order and it sounded cool. Blue Öyster Cult always delivers, even with the title of their songs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My username is called after my first home brewed beer. It's a portmanteau of a slur used for people of my city and the type of beer I brewed that day.

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

Kona + Loki + accidentally changing an O to an A = Kolanaki

And then it turns out, it's also the name of a place in Greece.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not exactly, it's actually Kolonaki - but close enough!

-a greek

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah that's how it was supposed to be spelled, but I messed up when I actually made my account after combining my dog's names. lol

Oddly enough, I thought it sounded vaguely Hawaiian.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, our language is weird. It can sound like any language depending on what you're saying and the words you're using

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, Greek influences a lot of other languages. I had the thought the other day that if one were to learn Latin and Greek, they could probably do just fine in understanding a majority of other languages in use today since most of them derive so many of their words from those two languages.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Means potato / lame

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Clipper Defiance was a Boeing 707 operated by Pan Am. Its main claim to fame was when on February 7th, 1964 it brought The Beatles to America for the first time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Former skydiver.

Performed a lot of Demonstration jumps into everything from airports, race tracks, professional sports stadiums, high school sports stadiums, golf courses, and a few other places that required skill and knowledge to land in safely.

Also, spent a lot of time teaching canopy skills to up and coming jumpers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I once created a character in a story when I was a child about a Jack Green from the planet Æarth, and named an account on a popular site accordingly as a similarly young person, as I lacked nominative creativity, evidently. People kept getting confused between Æarth and Earth so I just changed it to Earth for future accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I am terrible at names

The name i used before was "youtuber", which i "came up with" when creating my youtube account

This is the first name that wasnt already taken in Minecraft so i kept it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I asked Dr GPT for a list of nouns and adjectives with a particular theme and picked some I liked and combined them. I do the same process for all my digital identities.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s a reference to a more obscure Marx Brother, as in the 30s-40s comedy group. Does not have any special significance to me personally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The "conventionally attractive" Marx brother, who usually played the straight man. Still better known than Gummo, if I were to guess.

We're personally fans of Harpo, mainly because of the metaphorical whiplash that comes from watching his scenes. One minute you're laughing at the comical clown or admiring his musical skill, and the next you realize that he's actually a dangerous maniac. (Run, children!!!! He is not safe!!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Quote from Fight Club

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It came from long list of mispronounced words from a Ukrainian girl that came to our country when the war started.

The list is gold mine for usernames, I have to contact my friend who dates her to get it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I can remember the Ace part of AceFuzzLord very well. Comes from me always using Ace whenever a game requires a profile name or a 3 letter initial.

The Fuzz Lord part I don't remember really at all, but I assume the Lord part comes from the fact I think pretty highly of myself despite the fact I'm a nobody.

Oh, and do y'all see AceFuzzLord or do y'all see Dizzy Devil Ducky? I have no idea who sees either. I see Ace and I've had other people see DDD. Either way, DDD comes from the fact that he's my favorite Tiny Toons character.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My username is literal. I'm literally a wood scientist. Or more specifically, I'm a current PhD student in civil engineering and wood science. Identifying Wood by Hoadley was actually a textbook in one of the courses I took.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome, keep up the wood work ;)

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

I do quite a lot of that as well. In fact, woodworking was what made me first consider wood science as a field of study.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Andrew t a

Andrew (teachers assistant)

Or depending on my mood

Andrew (total asshole)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I couldn't think of a better one, and just shortened my full name.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

A fiend told me I'd make a good scooby-doo villain and it wasn't taken by anyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Mine’s a music joke and a reference to a line from the song “Shiny” from Moana.

Though if my great grandfather was a god it was of strawberries which is nice. He’d grow plants and ship them to gardeners all over the east coast

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

it's better than what I had before

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