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[–] [email protected] 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. 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I was playing a silly game online and I was so good at it I was basically stomping other players. Tac tac is how we describe the sound of walking loudly in Slovene (there are other ways to describe it: lomastiti, topotati...) and so I combined my name (Gregor) with tac tac and GregorTacTac became my username almost everywere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I like popcorn and may or may not be royalty..

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think mine is kinda obvious but in case it isn't, it's "GNU" in the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet. I got it because I like aviation and Linux... and also because I'm too autistic to get a more normal one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

A fairy name generator.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

At the time, I was playing a lot of Diablo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

My daughter gave me this name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Not so wild as I used to be.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

i just wanted to sound like an american mafia wiseguy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I wanted to upgrade my cringy username and realized it was very hard to choose something, after a while I decided to do the same thing Seba Jun (rest in beats) made for its stage name. 🎢

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My favorite cyberpunk book, Neuromancer has a bartender in it named Ratz who serves drinks to the main character in a bar called Chatsubo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's my lizard's name

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Pulp fiction.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I got plastic in my brain 🧠

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

We all do ):

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Alliteration, Rhythm, Rhyme, and I like properly made tea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Govt-issued

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Because breakfast is the most important meal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

pewgar is my defacto English name and seemsimandroid was my previous Reddit username but i couldn't put a slash so i put a underscore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I was 9, I like video games, my first name is Harry

Almost 20 years later and there are people IRL who call me "gamer" and not "Harry"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I just like that short comic/meme of the Muscle Wizard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Huge fan of GWAR and always used their lead singers name for online accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait until some internet rando types β€œGWAR” into a search engine and watches a video… fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Easily my favourite band. Seen them in concert many times and it never gets old.

RIP Brockie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

By all accounts Brockie had an epic send off. The band did him proud.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I was in a 3 little pigs mood at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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.

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