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childhood memory i guess

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

I actually forgot why

Came to me in a dream

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

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.

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

Very vaguely related related to my old reddit dead name.

Controversial

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I get mad sometimes

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

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.

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

I lost my username once and couldn't recover the account

I love the movie.

I'm trans and I like Sci Fi.

ummm I was you know...

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).

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.

It's the generated handle of my reddit account and I was happy with it because its a good name and it's over here.

Name of my favourite novel.

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

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