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I think the name was just something that sounded cool and was either made for gaming or when I helped mod a sychtube channel.

The avatar is just one of my family's old chihuahuas staring at me with a toothless unhinged look.

Portmanteau of "True" and "Escape".

Because online spaces allow us to Truly Escape reality :)

Penguins are cool. I ride dual sport motorcycles. (And other motorcycles. But definitely those.)

It was my character name in my first MMO, the English beta for MapleStory back over 20 years ago, and I've been using it ever since. I picked it since it was close to Mithril, from Lord of the Rings.

In terms of avatar, it was in my downloads folder

Avatar: my current DnD character (art found online). Name: Initials and favorite number. Not very clever or funny, just practical.

Lemmy let's you have a user avatar? I've never seen one using Voyager.

My username is a Latin phrase meaning (this particular definition is from Wikipedia): In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants.

I think rebellion against the US government is required at this point regardless of your political affiliation as our Public Servant's have shown to not care for who they represent, the American people.

The name was originally chosen for nerd cred (for anyone who recognizes it - Atra esterní ono thelduin. Mor'ranr lifa unin hjarta onr. Un atra du evarínya ono varda.) but I later realized that it's also great because it's an actual word from an actual story and 99% of search engine results for my name are going to bring up that story and its wiki. It's an extra layer of pseudo-anonymity that I enjoy.

The avatar was just cause it's funny, I use this one all over the place.

I wanted something short and unique and this was somewhat pronounceable with a vowel in the middle

Wanted something that showed who I really am

Ever seen castaway? Its pretty good

If I have spare time, I sleep.

https://omarmouallem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Will-the-Real-Burger-Baron-Please-Stand-Up1.pdf

I'm the real Burger Baron and so are you! It's a local franchise of sorts with a very messy history.

My name is Joseph, and a lot of kids mispronounce it as "Jofish" or something similar. I can't remember who actually started the nickname for me, but it caught on. It doesn't hurt that I enjoy being in and around water anyway.

Moved from one end of my country all the way to another not too long ago, and I've felt like a fish outta water since. Or, an Outwatered Fish.

My name is a reference to the famous British tank gun and anti-tank gun from WW2. Used in tanks and as standalone anti-tank guns. Put in the Sherman tank to create the Sherman Firefly because it packed more of a punch against enemy armour than the American 75mm.

There was a post I saw on Reddit that I wanted to respond to, and that meant I needed an account. I just happened to have visited this site right before then, and so the username just naturally popped to mind.

Much later on, I made an avatar to fit it.

Nothing really deep about it.

I like cats and that it looks like a stylised way of writing Cam, which is a cool little geared mechanism.

Its from Lethal Weapon 3. The clip will explain better than I can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoMcyMTCLI0

Display Name: I love Steins;Gate. El Psy Congroo.

Alt Account Display Name: That account is for Asian Diaspora Community stuff and Poetry, so I used Wong Ka Kui since that is my favorite Cantonese singer (he's dead now RIP), and as a native Cantonese speaker, I felt like it makes sense to assume his name as my online screen name for that purpose. I mean, songs are just poems but you volcalize it + music, fitting to, in the future when I feel like it, post poems under that name.

Actual Username: I made the acccount when I was depressed.

Big Sad = Great Depression

DeathByBigSad = I'm gonna die by the economic system collapsing

Profile Pic: I hate CCP. I'm not pro-ROC/KMT either, but I just like to trigger tankies xD

Well, my username is just what I came up with when trying to think of a cool sounding name. I don't remember what I originally used it for but I do know that I've been using it for several years at this point. It is one of my two most active names and I use it in a wide variety of places but I do know that I have seen people using my name, so if you see my name being used somewhere, it's possible that It's not me.

As for my profile picture, I've been using a picture of Zack Fair from Crisis Core as my main profile picture ever since I first played the game back in high School. He was one of the first characters who I really felt attached to. Prior to this, I was using Castlevania characters. Ever since Crisis Core got a remake, I've been thinking of going back to using Castlevania characters again but it just doesn't feel right to me anymore.

I do also want to mention that I do also use a picture of Clippy as my profile picture on some platforms. I've been doing this ever since I saw that one Louis Rossmann video and I use it on platforms that I don't support.

Drew a comic that made the front page of reddit over a decade ago. Family and friends noticed it and identified me because the username wasn't subtle if you knew me, personally. Ditched the account immediately and used a generator, which came up with this. Decided to re-use it for shits and gigs. For those wondering: no, neither the comic nor the account of mine had anything weird or inappropriate, I just appreciate a certain level of privacy in most online communities.

I combined my dogs names, Kona and Loki, to come up with KoLoNaKi; but when I actually made the original thing using this name, I mistyped it as KolAnaki and didn't notice until like a week later.

Avatar is an early ass AI image gen image of my fursona when they were still a totally new thing and I was checking 'em out. When I have some money to spend, I'd like to get a better one made by the artist who did the banner I'm using on my profile currently.

it's part of your cock

Somehow it just seemed to tie things together.

There's this epic show called Psych. Hidden pineapples appear in pretty much every episode and movies.

Probably misremembered term from an Anne Rice novel. Google gives me nothing. As such it seems pretty unique.

Kinda/remotely/vaguely is the phonetic version of the surname my best friend gave me some 40+ years ago.

The avatar is a red blob hinting at what I'm into (plus my name) ;)

A long time ago my when my little brother was in first grade, he got a homework sheet where he had to unscramble a bunch of names. I thought this scrambled version sounded cool, and have been using it as username everywhere ever since.

I had just heard the expression: "It helps the general effort." It was in a Discworld audiobook. It made me think: "Yeah, I could use some help right now." That was still rattling around in my head when I had to come up with a username. I don't remember what I was having trouble with, so I guess that worked out.

I really liked watching B-grade 90s-00s SciFi movies with my dad when I was a kid. That was the name of one that came out around the time I made a reddit account, I don't know if I ever even watched it, it just sounded like a good username. Reminds me, I should probably make a new lemmy account that's not tied to the same name

Just being honest and upfront, no reason to question otherwise.

Picked a random space word and a random object in the room at the time.

My avatar was created by me a long time ago based on the "Astro" part of my username.

As a child in the local library, I always passed the large print section and there was always this one book there: The Spitting Image. It had a furious-looking gargoyle on the cover and it used to scare me at first, but over time it seemed goofier and goofier. And since as an adult I have to fight the urge to be goofy when I should be serious, I felt like it was suitable.

Despite what you might think my name has a story. The first part has to do with the sound you would hear right before you died in an early FPS game, and the second part was the clan I was a part of at the time (happy). None of my name has to do with drugs.

A friend in primary school just started giving us weird nicknames and decided to call me the wizard pope (not really but that is the best translation) he even held elections and elected me to the position so I just started using it as my username. The picture is self explanatory though I did have to change it in the spring.