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I think it's pretty obvious.

I felt it was both accurate and efficient at contextualising my posts/replies. 👍

I always use names based on the titles of books by the writer Jonathan Carroll. They're fascinating books and great titles. Sometimes I use the names of one of his characters instead. Really an author people should read more of. Bones of the Moon is one of his first few novels and part of a trilogy.

Thought it was funny

My husband picked it to annoy his dad, and now I use it because I can’t be bothered to pick my own.

The best part is getting him in “trouble” online.

Candle wax at a hot chili cook-off, IIRC.

It's derivative of the first username I ever made...for RuneScape when I was in 6th grade.

It's part of the name from a character in a book that I liked. Liked the book and the name.

Needed something distinctly Canadian and probably only identifiable by other Canadians.

D&D character from a couple score years past. That old chestnut.

Wishful thinking. I was planning on living in a camper traveling Europe after completing my masters degree. Ended up getting an accidental daughter instead. Proceeded to have another two children with same girl and wanted to make her my wife for life. Getting a divorce instead and can not travel because small children need their dad and i love them all.

Buggrit

Stole it from someone on a piracy bbs I used back in the early 90s

I'm a girly girl, I love pink, Cath Kidston and Disney. I really like Butterflies! Thus Lady Butterfly was born

Generic words are harder to find in search engines, plus i like snek

My parents.

I post under my real name both out of nostalgia for usenet (the original federated forum) where it was customary to use your real name in Germany. And to be able to post identifying information without fear of being "discovered".

With enough data points and a little investigation it is ridiculously easy to identify a single user. My wife demonstrated that to me a few years back when she identified some anonymous bloggers and turned out to be correct. Otherwise I might be tempted to post really private stuff under the misguided impression that I am anonymous.

I used to have names I cherished, but then started wanting to delete accounts every once in a while. I set up an account on lichess with a pun album title, so I looked around the room, saw my skullgrid poster and went with that.

I'm an Irish jewish cephalopod.

the signup form made me do it!

i make new accounts regularly and just throw in whatever bubbles up from my internal user name generator with very little thought tbh.

The moment I was creating my user, I checked and I wasn't a velociraptor.

I used a random username generator and somehow it generated something that perfectly applied to me

I was chosen.

I don't even really remember to be honest x)

Oh shit, story time again. I'm going with the short version because I have some ideas in my head I need to set into my current project, but still.

So, the user name southsamurai used to be southern samurai. But that's too long for a lot of games and forums, so it got shortened.

But southern samurai goes back to the early naughties. I have been into martial arts in one form or another since my early twenties. And, as it so happens, most of what I trained in was Japanese in origin, at least in the forms I learned. This included sword stuff. Mostly casual, really, I never was some kind of master. Barely good enough to teach noobs, and only noobs.

Anyway, by the time the century turned, I was as good as I'll ever get. I was also working a lot. 60 plus hours a week, and kinda more since one of my patients needed care overnight. But it was semi off books, and it was essentially some pocket money for sleeping there instead of at home, and being there if he needed something.

So, of an evening, I would exercise. I had put on some weight over the years after I stopped lifting, and hadn't adjusted my diet and exercise well. The biggest I've ever been.

So, when I was out in the side yard, where my patient could call to me, I'd do various stuff.

The neighbor decided it was entertaining to yell out sumo from across the road. I dunno, I guess a fat dude doing rolls and falls means sumo to him. Dude was bigger around than me anyway, and I shrugged it off.

But, one evening, I'm doing sword stuff. Cutting tatami in specific. It's fun as hell once your get the basic techniques down, btw. Very meditative, but fun.

He decides to come over and watch. Eventually he gets my attention and cracks a joke about sumo again. I kinda rolled my eyes internally and pulled an "actually" card out in the hope it would bore him and he'd bugger off. Described the difference between sumo and what I was doing, and that most of the stuff I did was to samurai than sumo.

He cracked and said I had to be the fattest samurai in the south. Which tickled me a little since he was fatter, and I still could have picked him up and thrown him. My patient weighed about the same as this guy, and I carried him. So it was funny instead of insulting.

I laughed at him, cut the tatami closest to him and packed up for the night.

After I told the longer version of the story to some friends, it turned into a bit of a nickname. Mostly online, but irl too. And it stuck.

Sadly, I'm not the only one using the exact user name, though I think I'm the only one on lemmy. There's also another half dozen using variants of it.

A poignant book about programming

I knew I loved the name Rose, and wanted to try exploring it as a part of my identity in any way possible, especially when I wasn't really using it fully as a name yet.

Turns out, many of us have done this. I have run into so many variants of "Rose Thorn", and like 90% of the time it's been a fellow transwoman.

My main programming language is Typescript. Also one of the first I've taught myself.

My genius.

My first love was called "Cloud" (translated name).

How I feel because I don't understand other people...

it used to be John gray.

because John doe is some unknown person, and the color gray can be like for something unknown, was my logic

then I shorten it to jgray and someone online keep calling me Jay.

so here I am

doesn't take a genius why there's 91 at the end.

Used an online fairy name generator, and I'm an ordained minister.

All the more unusual ones were taken.

Thought i would make an reference to an obscure movie. Turns out it was way to obscure, or no one reads usernames here

Rictus was already taken.

Because of Sid Meyer's Pirates on C64. I named my char Angus McAnge, a mix of my real name's letters plus Angus (Yes, huge AC DC fan back then). It stuck with me as a user name. Over the years I'm left with mcange. ARR

Its the name of my Fursona.

I noticed that inserting the "lon" into the string "threemusketeers" would result in a string containing the substring "elonmusk", I thought it mildly amusing, and it was available on Reddit. That was pretty much the extent of the thought that went into it.

Edgy idea of obsessing over someone till the end

I have a bad habit of always having some endless shuffling YouTube playlists on in my headphones. Can't sleep without it, can't walk outside without it. Can't do the dishes without it.