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I was in a hurry creating a lemmy account and spewed out the first thing that came to my mind

I change usernames every couple years. Betch is just something a couple of my friends started calling me a while ago. It basically became my name until I found something I liked to replace my deadname and it also became my new online identity.

I was 9, I like video games, my first name is Harry

Almost 20 years later and there are people IRL who call me "gamer" and not "Harry"

From Ren and Stimpy. Powdered Toast Man,

I casted spells

Am Gen-x

Am liberal

Easy as.

I thought it'd help to be descriptive.

I'm in witness protection. Turns out not all girls are made of just sugar and spice.

When I got to the username prompt Sagat's voice jumped into my head. While I enjoyed SF2 way back in the day I haven't played in probably 25 years, so I'm not exactly sure why I thought of it.

(pic is AI generated, close enough)

For reasons I no longer remember, about 14 years ago I stumbled across The Endless Forest. I poked around on the web page a bit, decided it was interesting but not interesting enough to actually install, and moved on. A short while later I saw something on Reddit that I felt like posting a comment on, and so I created an account and this was the first username that popped to mind.

Quite some time later I got into modding a game called Minetest, and a very common element in its API is the "facedir" of a node - short for facing direction. I had a lot of people assume I'd drawn my name from that, but it was sheer coincidence.

It's a mnemonic major variation of Jake that is usually available... And I came to dot world before the first 2k users joined but after "Jake" was taken.

The intro of Power Stone on the Dreamcast.

It was my user number in high school. A decade ago.

There was this user named dolphinfucker69 that posted a really elaborate text post about fucking dolphins and became a sort of microcelebrity on certain subreddits that I am not proud of frequenting so I won't name. If you know you know. Anyway he eventually got banned and it was memed on for a while and he did some ban evasion. I needed a new account at the time and figured a name similar to that might make some people laugh. So here we are

I got a gift.

Im a pig with a doctorate, and one has figured it out yet!

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It got rejected when I suggested it as a name for a Corvette class light frigate, despite it sounding awesome

I've always used wildcard since the early 2000s. But nowadays wildcard is often used up already without adding numbers to it. So I combined wildcard and cardology and no I don't know anything about cardology.

My daughter gave me this name.

I like dark souls

Honestly? I was trying too hard.

It's my name

It's my stage name

I use a Dvorak keyboard and am not very creative.

What are you, a cop?

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

Total mystery to me

Random word list

Big fan of the Polish Hussars.

Uhh. I was inspired by a manager.

Govt-issued

Hmm..

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

Data structure and algorithm class in college.

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.

Who knows?

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.