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I don't mean my username! Yours!

I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking 'guess' or saying ':)' or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person's username?

Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone's name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people's weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.

Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?

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[โ€“] amenok@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[โ€“] GatoB@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Magusbear@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Give it a shot if you like

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Magus makes me think of a mage for some reason? I don't remember the word root of why that would be. So, mage bear!

[โ€“] foosel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I would second that, I also immediately had the "mage" association.

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[โ€“] arbiter@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

you can teleport large quantities of vehicles all together into the enemy base, can make them invisible in an area of effect, have a somewhat fragile personality for a capital ship, and don't have much attack power

[โ€“] marz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[โ€“] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] kionite231@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

your name is kylee and you like any of the -onite crystal names, and thus you are kionite

[โ€“] mstankiewicz@karab.in 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe my original nickname - Miersetnik. What do you think?

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[โ€“] Countmacula@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Honestly I just wanted something that sounded funny and non controversial lmao

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[โ€“] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Ok, let's do this. If you can guess where it's from, you have great taste.

^And^ ^don't^ ^worry,^ ^I^ ^don't^ ^actually^ ^harvest^ ^eyes.^

[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I gave up and looked it up. Thank you for your nickname! (You likely get what I mean, I don't want to spoil it for the others.)

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[โ€“] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Pegistia@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mine has a special meaning, I doubt anyone will guess

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Pegistia@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Lol that's funny but not even close its an auto suggested world of Warcraft name from almost 20 years ago don't even know why I still use it have not played the game in over a decade

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[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Two small hints for mine: 1. Latin, and 2. it has nothing to do with the smoking chimp avatar.

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] foosel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's give this a shot then!

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

foosel, I can't figure out a meaning. It makes me think it would sound like a type of cute weasel. That's very weird for me to think that of a word that I don't know, but it is what it is!

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[โ€“] Kurt@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] CoqPants@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[โ€“] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

The proof is in the pantaloons?

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