@this@sh.itjust.works
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I feel so validated!
My personal favorite is FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
Kind of similar to your own, there.
No theirs has humor, class and sophistication.
Unless you are specifying a mailto link, you need to preface the username with @ to mention them, i.e @RobotZap10000@feddit.nl
Thanks.
I was attempting to say the name without mentioning them directly.
Yours was the first I thought of after reading the question…
Definitely not mine. First, too many people don't actually pay attention to realize it's not "fuck" and surprisingly too few people get the joke considering Lemmy is so Linux crazy. But most frustratingly, people just assume I'm an asshole because of it and then treat me like I am. Sometimes I really regret it.
Telling people to filesystem check isn't cool, man. Instead, we should coach them to switch to a journaling or CoW filesystem.
Well I think you're cool. It's the kind of inside joke that makes me feel foolishly self congratulatory for getting it
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To this day, I remember from probably twenty years ago or more seeing something on SomethingAwful that included the name “HPHovercraft” and it’s just the greatest. I’ll never forget it.
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Pretzlcoatl
Similarly, quetzaldilla.
My brother, when he was playing Overwatch back then, was killed by someone called Kim Jong Skillz
Saw a UrethraFranklin on reddit I think
Margot Robbie used to be around here
She was an extremely active user here, despite being a busy Academy Award nominated actress. I assume she’s busy filming her next movie, or maybe in talks to do Barbie 2.
Such a shame because she was actively involved in the Fediverse. We need more Academy Award nominated character actors and actresses to join. Then this place would really take off.
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world, not sure if you’re still filming out of the country but drop a line here if you can take a break from your busy schedule!
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For tumblr, that username is cute. For LinkedIn, it would be brilliant.
I think the first person to use an obfuscated name like lIiḷ|ḷiIl was pretty clever.
This has me really curious about the most obfuscated, ambiguous/difficult/problematic possible usernames both for security/privacy and interesting anomalies in general.
Feel like one could make a whole book on this -- please send any resources that could shed insight if possible
I don’t know what technically constitutes the most troublesome username, but surely some of the kaomoji Japanese folks have come up with are up there. Good luck trying to type these.
ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ੈ♡‧₊˚
You have me curious to know more. I already know some Japanese from being a weeb, but could you explain what makes your example so difficult to type specifically? I only recognize one of the many symbols used
I think kaomoji have been a thing in Japan even before unicode was invented. The Japanese encodings and IME (input method esitors) allowed them to type a wide variety of characters, punctuation and symbols that aren’t available in most western encodings, so I feel like the Japanese folks had a head start on creative use of typography.
For example, if you want an eyeball you can just type “do” (degrees), and the IME will pull up °, and “omega” gives you ω, so it’s pretty easy to make (°ω°).
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I remember a guild called Two Maidens and Chalice. Can’t remember the game, but t’was funny.
Don't try to win me over with your use of t'was.
T’wasn’t trying to.
Reanu Keeves
You're treathbaking! You're all treathbaking!
Sounds familiar. I think I saw him in Skyrim a few times.
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Ran across a Hunter back in my WoW days named Bowjob. Had a good laugh.
Yours is pretty good, actually.
Most names I see here are just references or trying to be ultra edgy and offensive (SatansMaggotyCumFart for example). They might be memorable, but I wouldn't say they are creative.
Not many people have puns or even well done portmanteaus for usernames. 😔
I have seen yours the most. It's not the most creative but it's definitely the most eye catching from all big Lemmy posters.
Would it be more creative knowing the origin?
It's my two dogs' names combined. Loki and Kona. But I also misspelled it and the KOLA should have been a KOLO. KOloNAki.
It's definitely fun to know that.
For me creative would be more like when something makes me giggle but only after reading it twice.
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JeffBoyardee
I like @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today
Right back at ya.
MaidenOregon is a brilliant play on Made In Oregon
League of legends player named Fizz on my Jayce. Crass but clever.
It took me entirely too long to catch the gag in @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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I_HATE_KNICKERS
there were a lot of funny ones on the Opie and Anthony reddit
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