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14 year old me thought it was a cool gamertag. 30 year old me still agrees.

I didn't ever really have a name for my fursona and then I got my dogs, Kona and Loki. I combined their names and came up with Kolonaki, but then misspelled it when I entered it in something the first time. Now it's Kolanaki.

It kinda sounds Hawaiian (pronounced cola-nah-key). 😋

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka has Oompaloompas working as slaves(?) in his factory. I constantly have the Oompaloompa song playing in my head so it's Oompaloompa with more OOMPH! Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, I am a moron and I know it would've been better as Oomphaloompa, but it's too late now. At least there's twice as much oomph now.

I wanted a username that would be googleproof

means frog

I've got the same one here as on reddit, and on tildes as it happens. It is a variant on a local mythic being in my part of the world.

So mine is because of Bell end of year 2022.

As things happens in Ukraine, we had one girl from Kharkov on summer camp. She started dating one friend here and he keeps "dictionary" of things she misspelle.

There is a lot of good usernames there but the plactagonic relationship is my favourite.

You can probably guess my two favourite indie platformers

It's shortened from what I actually wanted, NorthernLightMountain, since that was too long. That in turn is based on the main antagonist (MorningLightMountain) in my favorite book from my favorite author, Peter F. Hamilton.

I live quite far to the north so I figured it would be a nice twist on the name.

Used to go by other handles on other sites but figured I'd start fresh over here.

Still hoping for a change to a bit longer display names. :)

I chose the username "computerfan" because I'm a fan of computers. Soon I found a website where that username was taken, so I added my (at the time) favourite number to the end and kept it ever since.

I would tell anecdotes and stories but would constantly go off at a tangent. Someone said I had "Tangentism".

Genesis, particularly Peter Gabriel-era Genesis, is my favorite band. I've played around with using names from their songs as usernames for years, but it's only when I joined Reddit that I decided I should try to settle on one. I've always been fond of this track off their 1972 album Foxtrot. So if you should see some variation of this username online, it's probably me.

I don't remember which forum I was on, but it was around the late 2000s. Me and some people were joking around, the subject of wrestling came up, someone asked what Triple H's name stood for, so a bunch of us started making fake answers. I really like one that I said, so I just made it my user name. Haven't really felt the need to change it since.

Considering I moved here after deleting my Reddit account, I present to you...

I blurted it out in a chat one day in reference to something, and realizing it would be a clever band name or something... Well when I need a new identity to serve as a vehicle for my current creative output, here we are. I realized that it was at least somewhat clever and oddly not taken anywhere. So I am running with it.

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For whatever reasons my friends were messing around giving each other weird nicknames and I ended up with metal toilet (we had just been in a gas station that must’ve had a metal toilet). I tried it out I a couple things and it’s stuck since.

I like Oscar Wilde and puns.

it’s the title of a YMO song!

it's a digital play on the word gadabout (one who wanders in search of amusement).

It's just a cool sounding thing from my favorite anime that doesn't scream "I'm a total weaboo," also one of my favorite songs from said anime. (Eureka 7, well the song is from the """"sequel"""" and is one of the few redeeming parts, but anyway...)

It's a tribute to my husband and love for Studio Ghibli movies, specifically Howl's Moving Castle. He is my Howl and I am his Sophie ☺

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I have no idea what the original words were. But my coworker at an old job had one of those magnet letter boards. I just haphazardly rearranged her note and it became Scrumpf Dabogy. I liked it so much I kept it in my head until I needed it for a new account somewhere.

I had just been to Sonic that week and their best drinks are their limeades. I hate coming up with names for anything, so I went with something simple.

I like retro and vintage things.

I chose mine for two reasons: the first lofi hip hop song I listened to was titled wet season and everyone on social media shortened season to szn so I adopted the name with the shorter spelling. And my second reason is because I love the rain and the smell of the earth after it’s been raining :)

The Matrix is one of my fav movies ever. The first one, anyway. That scene where Dissolved Girl by Massive Attack plays, this piece of magic is seen

I've always been small like a rabbit. You should probably follow me, too.

Mine is a bad pun. It's not even an original pun, but you do need to be pleasantly weird enough to know the source.

In electrical engineering, a thevenin equivalent circuit is a small, simplified circuit that mimics the behavior of a large, complicated one for the purposes of calculation.

Whenever I talk on forums, I make effort to distill ideas that are often nuanced and math-heavy into something everyone can relate to. The thought once struck me that I'm making a thevenin equivalent of myself, and the name stuck.

It's a reference to my last name, which, at least in the U.S., is much more commonly spelled with an e on the end. I always have to clarify that there's "no e on the end" whenever I give/spell my name to anyone.

I also make no secret of my actual identity and only say things I'd be comfortable saying in person. I know there's some risk of running into a crazy stalker person, but thankfully I haven't dealt with anything like that so far in my Internet years.

Incorporates my name with a positive attribute (at least imo), made the mistake at that other site, of a username that was pretty easy to reply 'user name checks out' in a negative connotation, even when asking legit questions or making positive comments. Hoping to get the same reaction on Lemmy but positive this time around!

It's a play on words for my name and generic. If anyone I know sees my username, they won't know it's me lol.

Mine is the first name plus last name initial of my OC, whom I renamed after realizing I was trans! So I use it everywhere lol.

shortened from username generator name

I used “Saint Derelict” as a pen name for some poetry in high school, then in college I used it without the Saint as a character name in Numenera, and it stuck as a gamer name. I used it here because my other online handles are either unwieldy or name-based and I didn’t want a new one

neco arc on kbin :D

My is just the name of my fursona. I came up with it years ago by just combining parts of random words until I got something I liked and that was unique.

I thought of an username made up of shortening my first and last name when I was like twelve, and I just kept it. It's unique, unpronounceable, and long enough so I can claim it literally anywhere.

Julian Carax, a character in The Shadow of the Wind.

It's my name.

Boring, but I looked at my desk and saw a rolodex and a cisco switch. DEX CIS to DEXSIC

When my wife and I first started dating she called me Bear.

I also like Skyrim.