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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Uhh. I was inspired by a manager.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

What are you, a cop?

Jk but for real, how'd you get your username?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Govt-issued

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I use a Dvorak keyboard and am not very creative.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I like dark souls

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I was messing about in a fighter simulator (previous milenium) and the game told me I did an insane move. It sticked, so I called myself TheInsane. In an online game, that nick was already in use, so I got the suggestion to take TheInsane1... nah, there is only 1 answer to everything, so I added that. It stuck since then. I got me the matching domain in '22.

I'm using KoffieNu as well, as it matched my domain koffie.nu (proud owner since '98), mainly on mastodon, git and some dutch lemmy instances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

A cheesy 90s drink, they were fun to see how far you could spit the jelly bits, or just a kinda fun drink I rarely saw as a teen. Nothing great but when you lived in the middle of nowhere it didn't take much in the mid 90s to be entertained as a teen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

My friends' band in high school was called Dances with Bread. I was their biggest fan, so I wanted a username that was bread themed. But I also felt like a username that had a sci-fi feel to it. ToastedPlanet was available on Reddit and it was available on Blåhaj Lemmy. But I managed to mistype it on DeviantArt as ToastePlanet which is embarrassing to say the least.

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I was tickled pink about this prehistoric fish that went viral a little while back and I thought I would adopt its name.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Pulp fiction.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I've been using Monster ever since I randomly chose it during a Mario Kart race while on a school trip. There were 8 of us playing Mario Kart DS and I wanted to stand out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's like when kids make up a ridiculous nickname for you in grade school, but it sticks and you end up using it on your business cards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

In memory of the Apollo app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Just made that shit up. I was trying to think of something stupid that wouldn't identify me in any personal way, and this one made me chuckle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Pure Pwnage reference

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My cat’s name is Shadow. I do a lot of techy things, so “EXE” felt like a cool thing to add. “ShadowEXE” doesn’t flow as much as “ShadowCatEXE”. I also have alt names with DLL instead of EXE, but it’s not as cool.

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Well it started when I was born and my mom named me Bill…

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It sounded funny. It has nothing to do with Linux, but yet I still run Linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Data structure and algorithm class in college.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Well, the box was staring at me when I created this account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I very briefly hosted my own Lemmy instance at endofti.me. The username seemed appropriate there. Just kept it when I moved instances.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Went to a party in college where I didn't know anybody. Back then, my solution to not being able to remember other people's names was just to not give my own unless pressed. So they gave me a new name, and I've used it ever since.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Named after Jubei Kibagami of Ninja Scroll, first anime movie I ever watched. The 08 was my jersey number when I played soccer.

Ninja Scroll

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It was going to be my pen name. But the two years into the pandemic, I started evaluating the costs of the sunk cost fallacy of writing. Still, it was too good of a name to let go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Mine is just a combination of a shortened nickname from just out of high school (Donkey) and my D.O.B. Not secure, don't care... I got sick of writing out my original when logging in as it was too long. Donkey_Snickers That was back when the tagline for the Snickers chocolate bar advertisements was "Really satisfies"... I had a bit of an ego regarding my sexual prowess 20 something years ago...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. RIP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Preteen me was bad at Japanese.

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