I just want to have a good time
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Beta as in Beta Pictoris, a cool star.
Mine should be obvious.
Randomly generated by another website and I thought it was funny.
No anime.
What about Pingu 2017: https://myanimelist.net/anime/36259/Pingu_in_the_City
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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.
I realised some time back that my first name backwards made me sound like a knight. I've failed to utilise this in usernames except maybe once.
Mine was easy
Because my tiny little arms have been replaced with laser-cannons.
It's my real name.
I am a TANK
And the most lit general.
Pun intended
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 like popcorn.
Because it sounds perverse, slummy/moist, and randomly generated in equal measure.
I write an anticapitalist tech blog at theluddite.org
This is great:
We know what happens when the open internet balkanizes into small walled gardens made by big tech companies because we're living through the early stages of it now. They compete for your attention. They try to squeeze every single moment of human life out of you. They will actively encourage bad faith actors to weaponize the web in order to drive engagement and maximize profits. They will do this at the expense of human rights, global health, and civil society. Their engagement maximizing algorithms will contribute ethnic cleansings.
You might find Suler's Psychology of Cyberspace interesting as well as this concept of "Profilicity" developed by Moeller and D'Ambrosio.
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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
My name is not Tony
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
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. 😈
I'm a guy who likes MsDOS
It was a randomly generated name in an MMO I used to play.
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
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.
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.
I just think they're neat
Don't have the best internet and my favorite video game franchise is Metal Gear.
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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I love reading books
I left a shaker cup with some drink mix in there for weeks, totally forgot about it. Now it's a science project
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.
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
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