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What do you think about other users' usernames?
This is kind of silly. I've been tild'ing a lot recently and have come to recognize some other users, and am wondering how accurate my simple reactions are, or whether they're shared by anyone else.
- deimos - Moon of Mars, and also a character in either one of the early Unreal Tournament games or Quake 3 Arena. Uh, also a figure from Greek or Roman mythology or whatever š
- cfabbro - "C fab bro" - Identifies as a "bro", and does something involving fabrication?
- douchebag - Expects to get hated on maybe?
- akir - For some reason makes me think of Admiral Akbar from OG Star Wars.
- algernon_asimov - Has been explained. I too love Flowers for Algernon and Isaac Asmiov.
- boxer_dogs_dance - I picture three dogs on their hind legs "holding" each other's forepaws, merrily dancing in a circle. It makes me happy š
Sorry if I've forgotten your username! Reply and I'll tell you what yours makes me think, I'm feeling associative.
LOL, hardly. I'm a queer computer / video game nerd who also loves comics, anime, science fiction, fantasy, and has worked in IT most of my life... so about the furthest you can get from a traditional bro. About the only "bro-ish" thing I'm into is combat sports, and have been since I was a kid, but I absolutely hate the bro-ish culture surrounding it. Fabbro is Italian for blacksmith, and it's also my last name.
thanks for the ping, @Weldawadyathink
I had no idea! That's so illuminating.
My mental view of your username has always been that you're a "fab[ulous] bro" -- someone who's a pleasant balance of distinctly male and distinctly queer.
Hey, yours is one of those usernames I forgot to mention in the OP!
I figure it's just your name, KF Wyre š
Edit: Kevin Ferdinand Wyre
That is so much cooler than my actual IRL name that Iām tempted to change it!
Also youāre kind of on the right track with it being a sort of name? After using the handle here for a while, I started a now abandoned blog that turned ākfwyreā into the much more real-name-looking āK. F. Wyreā.
The genuine origin story is much more boring. I stole it from a map in the game Killing Floor. In game itās labeled āKF-Wyreā, which I took wholesale and just changed the aesthetics.
I chose it partly because I like Killing Floor (though Wyre isnāt actually one of my favorite maps), but mostly because it was meaningless and presented as gender neutral.
I wanted something meaningless because I didnāt want to get too attached to it. I first joined Tildes thinking I was going to rotate accounts every so often for privacy purposes. Jokeās on me though, as Iām now quite fond of this handle and dread the idea of leaving it and its history behind.
Also, I wanted something gender neutral because, while Iām a guy IRL and am fine with that, I also like that the internet can give me a bit of a breather from being seen that way.
So, ākfwyreā was born: a meaningless, genderless sequence of characters, that later got turned into initials with āK. F. Wyreā, and now has finally blossomed into a full-fledged name ā Kevin Ferdinand Wyre ā that is way more awesome than the one I actually have.
Yāall can all call me Mr. Wyre now. š
There's nothing remotely boring about anything from killing floor. Paying it homage as you have marks you as an individual of exquisite taste.
Funny. Whenever I've seen your name, I've been reading it as K. Fwyre. (Like a little kid who can't quite pronounce "fire" correctly.)
Honestly, the way I pronounce it in my head is all just one word: kuh-fwhy-er
You'll always be "KF" to me. There's no need to be so formal. :P
I have occasionally forgotten your gender and then later something reminded me, so in that sense it worked :)
The cfabbro lore is deeper than I thought.
You're a fabulous bro
Thanks for clearing that up! I sort of figured that at best it was an ironic embrace of bro-ness.
Etymology is fascinating. I wonder if Fabbro meaning blacksmith could be translated as or shares roots with words meaning "fabrication brother"?
I've never actually looked into the etymology before, but it apparently comes from fabrum which is Latin for "artisan, craftsman, forger, smith" which originally comes from the Proto-Italic faĪ²ros meaning "to fashion, fit"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fabbro
You what? I assumed that everyone would look into the origins of their family name at least once during their life. (Although, maybe this is that once for you...)
Yeah, the fact that I had never looked it up before actually surprised me too... especially since I love etymology and often look up all the origins of all sorts of random words. For some strange reason I had never thought to do it for my last name before now though. :/
Oh well. At least you've done it now!
I am surprised at the number of people here who are seeing "bro" in your username. To me, it's always been "c _ fabbro", and that "fabbro" has been indivisible.
If someone had ever mentioned it was an Italian surname, I might then have made the jump to the Latin word root "fabr-", as in "fabricate" and "fabric". When you tell us it's an Italian word meaning "smith", as in "blacksmith", the link to "fabricate" becomes obvious.
And I have just realised that your name is a cognate of the common English surname "Smith". You're an Italian "Smith"! How boooring... :P
I once had a perfect stranger approach me in an airport in another country, sit next to me and ask me my last name. Stunned, I gave it to them, and they proceeded to tell me its probable linguistic path through Europe. Wished me well and left, never to be seen again. That was the once for me.
Wow. That's amazing! And scary. But amazing!
Neat! Then "fabricate" almost certainly shares a root with "fabbro", but "bro" is probably a coincidence.
The name is everywhere. In Dutch we have a lot of "Faber", which is also from that root.
I'm glad you cleared that up! I never knew what your user name meant, but I'd always thought of it as something simple like mine (though the "lem" part of mine is a shortening of my last name, not the full last name). I was surprised at the impression that you were some sort of "bro" in that goofy whatever-that-word-means-now sense.
Heh. I always assumed your username was short for Clementine! So thanks for clearing that confusion up too. :P
Truth be told, my brain went to "fabrication bro" aka maker man. With the amount of knowledge you posses and diverse projects you work on it felt right.
Hah, thanks, but nah... I'm just old. Live long enough and you too can convince people on the internet that you posses a wealth of knowledge when the reality is that you actually know very little, but about a lot of disparate things you've stumbled across over the course of your life, and somehow managed to retain bits and pieces of, which you can then regurgitate when needed. :P
Hush, you! Stop giving away my secret!
So one might consider you an.....āIT bro?
:D
Wait, you went with first initial + lastname for your username? Who does that!
/joke
(also thanks for the ping below)
I never really notice peoples usernames. Early internet forums I'd pay a lot more attention (though it could also be because of avatars and signatures). I dont know why I unlearned it.
Does yours have meaning?
I just like Ents
"I like turtles" energy, I love it. I also like Ents. We need more Ents.
Same. Glad to see Ent friends around.
Wait, is Quickbeam the young ent who hangs out with Merry and Pippin when the entmoot is occurring because he already made up his mind to kick Saruman's ass?
Edit: Yup. https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Quickbeam
Yes that's me haha
Avatars definitely played a huge role for me. Having a visual representation makes remembering the name a lot easier.
Also used to get annoyed when someone would change their avatar because it would confuse me for a bit lol
Same! That's why I pretty much never change my profile picture. Though recently Telegram (which is what I use the most) added a feature to set separate profile pictures for your contacts and for everyone else, so now my public profile picture is always my logo, but the private one is usually a funny photo of me that I sometimes change, because people who I know personally will probably recognize me even with a different pfp.
I always notice clever (bad) puns, obvious literary references, etc. in usernames, as /u/triadderall_triangle and /u/Algernon_Asimov can attest. "Necronomicommunist" works, too.
When I was a teen, I was VERY active on YoYoExpert.com and their forums. I didn't have a local yoyo community so I had to resort to the internet to find my tribe. I also happened to find the forum literally during it's founding, and joined in just the first week or so of it's launch.
One day I found the stats page and found out I was only a dozen or so comments/posts shy of being in the top 5 most active users, so I found myself purposefully posting more and more to get on the list.
But all this is to say I'm in the same boat as you. Back then I paid attention to posters and commenters. There was a actual sense of community that was really cool. We talked not just about yoyos, yoyoing, and tricks and events, but we chatted about each other's lives. I remember mentioning in an off topic thread that I was going to a marching band competition the coming weekend, and someone PM'd me the next week and asked how it went.
There was even a small movement a few years into the site's life where a lot of us changed our screen names to just our IRL First Names, which added to the sense of community.
This largely went away when I migrated to Reddit. I don't know if the amount of users made it harder to keep track, or perhaps the abundance of throw-away accounts? Or perhaps it's just that I've gotten older and no longer feel the need to supplement my friend circle with internet strangers.
Yeah, I'm with this guy on the matter!
I tend to pay attention to usernames when I see them come up more frequently (e.g. in a specific thread, or a frequent user in a subreddit or such group) or if they reveal they have something in common with me, such as living in the bay area. Otherwise not really.
Well I like yours! Lovecraft/Raimi fandom meets socialized politics via wordplay.
Mine is a partial anagram for part of my IRL name. I figured it out two years ago, when I was learning welding so I could fix a rusted out truck frame that an unscrupulous used car salesperson sold to a naĆÆve used car buyer (me).
E: I also listen to a lot of metal.
How do you do, Taut Camel. Is that a family name or...?
Dang it, I doubled the A - fine then, Tut Camel!
Omg, you've outed me! But only my family calls me Taut, for you it's Tautford. š
I mostly don't. Many forums have so many users that you're unlikely to come across the same user enough times to develop any sort of relationship.
A feature I wish more sites had (tildes included) that I like from Reddit is to be able to mark a user as a "friend". All this does is light up their username in a thread if they've commented. It's great to see someone you "know" pop up in a random thread and it does help develop that sense of community.
You could utilise the user labels in Tildes ReExtended to achieve this effect.
Oh interesting, I'll check that out!
I think it's never a good substitute for a service-level thing (which is tied to my account and doesn't need to be explicitly synced), this is probably a good stopgap.
Immediately installed. I'd been thinking of making something like this myself (I have a lamentable tendency to just reinvent the wheel instead of looking for existing solutions).
My name is Jason and recently I realised that I can refer to json as m'data.
Hahahah. I love this.
As an Australian I see your username and think it's missing the letter 'n'.
I'll walk myself out
Would that make it "cutmental"? ;)
(From another Aussie.)
the opposite of cut metal
even better honestly
HAH! Never occurred to me! This is the exact purpose of this thread š
Edit: oh and also I remember you from that LOTR thread. I was among the crowd who was confused that your username was "valar" in spite of having not read the Silmarillion - I didn't recall valar, maiar etc even being mentioned in LotR, though it's been 20 years since I read them so š¤·
And now I need a name change.
Hmm. Since I was summoned, I might as well give the origins of this handle. It's dumb, though.
When I was fairly young I needed a new name to use on the internet because I was previously using some dumb combination of my real name and some extra numbers. I have famously bad handwriting, so I decided to close my eyes, take the crappiest pen I could find in an unfamiliar grip, and wrote my name down on a piece of paper as sloppily as I possibly could. Then I looked at the scratchings on the paper and attempted to reinterpret them. Thus, @Akir was born.
In my defense, I came up with it 2-3 years before the other Akir rose to prominence.
Iāve never really thought about the meaning behind peopleās usernames. I just use it to identify people, especially those that I frequently have conversations with.
Mine is pretty self explanatory though. Iām a father, guy that enjoys building things, and I just like Phineas and Ferb. Iāve just had a weird attachment to Doof for many many years, and dress up as him for Halloween from time to time.
Please tell me one of your kids' got dressed as a platypus with a fedora to go along with your costume.
Not quite, but close enough. My wife dressed up as Perry the Platypus one year for Halloween before we got married. It was equal parts hilarious and adorable. This year my daughter wants to go as Bluey. She has no idea that I secretly put together a Unicorse costume. Iām going to be a huge pain in the ass all night.
Ok, that is awesome. It is really cool that you are doing that with your daughter, to surprise her with your costume. I had to look up the character, because I am not familiar with Bluey, and that might be a fun way to spend that night.
I don't put too much thought into other people's usernames. If the origin or meaning is obvious to me, then that's cool. If it's not obvious to me, then I assume it's meaningful to the person who created the name and I move on with my day.
That said, there is one username here that frustrates me: mycketforvirrad. I want to know who "virrad" is, and why someone would give them "mycket"! I assume that's not how it works. I assume it's some Scandinavian reference that I will never figure out on my own. But that name looks like "mycket for virrad" to me.
"mycket fƶrvirrad" = "very confused" in Swedish. Ironic considering the amount of confusion seeing that username seems to cause people. :P
p.s. I only know that because I looked it up ages ago when I was trying to figure out what "cket" and who "virrad" was too. My cket for virrad! ;)
Thanks!
I looked up a translation a while ago and spoiled the mystery for myself, but up until that point my English-speaking brain parsed it the same way you did.
I then promptly headcanoned the name, thinking of it as a Scandinavian sequel to Flowers for Algernon.
As in:
Similar thoughts here but with āWaiting for Godotā as it has the same cadence. I canāt not read it with the same rhythm
LOL!
I had to put that name on a reference document because there isn't a hope in hell I would ever spell it correctly from memory and it is sometimes helpful to ask him about something since he is a resident tag wizard.
@mycketforvirrad
I donāt know who virrad is, but this one makes me stumble too. I always read it as āmy ticket for something (sometimes covid sometimes something else). My mental process is usually: hmmm my ticket for ā¦ ? Oh yeah itās that person.
Every time I read his username my brain says "myriad for cricket", I never realized I was reading it oddly until this conversation. I guess that's dyslexia for you!
Is yours a dukes of hazzard reference?
No, like many here it's just a nickname based off my real life name.
I'll just say it took me an embarrassingly longtime to realize @spit-evil-olive-tips is a palindrome.
oh no, my secret is out. :P
not embarrassing at all though, it's a long palindrome (at 20 characters, it just barely fit within the length restriction for reddit usernames, and IIRC Tildes has a similar limit) and not at all obvious - that's part of what I like about it.
the origin of it was thinking that it'd be cool to have a domain name that was a palindrome.
.tipswas one of the generic TLDs that was added a few years ago, which made it possible. (there were a few other possibilities that used.befor Belgium or.esfor Spain, but at least at the time they required proof of citizenship or residency which I didn't have)and then (hashtag ADHD) I ended up registering the domain but never actually using it for anything, but continuing to use it as a username.
Oh god, I hadn't noticed either! š
Tagging some people so they get a ping
@deimos
@cfabbro
@douchebag
@akir
@Algernon_Asimov
@boxer_dogs_dance
The one that stands out the most to me is @douchebag. I usually only see it when someone replies and @ mentions them. It always has a run through of emotions for me. It starts with anger at someone calling someone else a douchebag, then realization and sadness that that person wanted to be called a douchebag, then a sort of acceptance. I always want to say: @douchebag, I donāt think you are a douchebag.
I put my real name on my Tildes account because going back through my Reddit comments I often realized I get a little too harsh with my comments and are things I would be ashamed of saying in real life. By having my real name on this account, it reminds me to be more like the person I want to be and not the one caught up in the doom scrolling rage bait that is often posted on Reddit.
I switch usernames yearly.
I've noticed, the sillier my username, the more people are more disagreeable, and less likely to take me seriously.
Thank you! I feel the same way about douchebag, but you put it so well. Let this subtree of the thread be a moment of embrace for the person behind that username.
It's kind of crazy that no one had douchebag as a username. Kind of makes me mad I didn't think about having that for my username first.
There is an actual @douchebag here on Tildes; hence @Weldawadyathink's mention of that as a username.
Yeah I know but he was created this year. What I meant was i couldnāt believe anyone didnāt have it before this time. Which is why I used past tense.
Past tense in English is tricky. I don't know the formal terms, but there's past tense and then there's past past tense.
Like...
"Noone had used douchebag as a username until recently."
"Noone had ever used douchebag as a username."
Without the qualifier, just a simple "no one had" can be interpreted multiple ways. And I obviously interpreted a different way than you intended. Sorry.
Just in case you're curious about the name of the tense, it's past perfect in both examples (which is used to refer to the past of the past, going further into the past)
I enjoy puzzling out names, too :)
Mine's an Alice in Wonderland reference, and also descriptive. Its also sort of interchangeable with 'queer' in the book, which has certainly changed meanings but fits me either way.
Hey that's a good one! Curiouser is curiouser and curiouser š
Lewis Carrol's a good source for names. :-)
I was given this nickname by some friends who were frustrated that I would often only make mistakes late in the game for league of legends, and therefore āthrow the gameā too often. This came at a time that I was never really happy with the online handles Iād chosen for myself, so Iāve stuck with it all these years!
My username dates back to 1995 or so when I started work at a new job and the sysadmin asked me what username I wanted. I picked something that would be easier for people to remember than my last name, but still associated with it.
I wonder about nicknames that are hard to remember because they're very long and hard to spell or type. (For example, if you want to @ someone on Tildes.) I guess if you don't expect anyone else to remember it or type it then you might not think of that?
I don't really think of the usernames. I ended up using RES tagging back in the day to tag people with particularly insightful comments but I seldom, if ever, saw those users crop back up. I think our usernames, along with parasocial relationships and terminally online behaviors, lead to mini cults of personality and that gets in the way of independent thought.
I don't begrudge people who do but I seldom check the usernames of those I'm conversing with.
I notice a few come up often in the spaces I like to visit (Chocobean, eg) but otherwise don't think too much about them.
As for my own name, I feel it's better to leave it to people's imagination - the true story behind it is rather boring.
Don't be bashful - I bet you have interesting stories from your time riding the rails and working the land š
What if he farmed crops of hobos? Or maybe it's like a trout farm, catch and release the young hobos back into the rail yards until they're all fully grown and crusty?
He goes to tent to tent raising an army of homeless to retake San Francisco.
Retake? Certain neighborhoods are already taken.
I don't notice usernames that much. Sometimes they catch my eye though. Once a user named xep426 (I believe) caught my attention due to it being misspelled one very famous code from one really great game. I asked the user if the nickname originates from what I think it does and got reply "If I didn't reply to you I would know more about you than you would know about me :-)" basically confirming I was right. I also picked uo a few here on Tildes but can't remember any on top of my head. Deimos is one cool nickname for creator of Tildes though!
Oh... and you won't get mine if you don't go searching for me describing how it got to be my username (I did that a few times, at least once on that "once-was-a-great-site" starting with R and at least once here on Tildes. If you go looking that up, I suggest Tildes as that description has more background if I recall correctly.
Feel free to share the link if you find that comment, no Rick roll please.
EDIT: Did the work myself :-) https://tildes.net/~tildes/183w/why_did_you_select_your_username_for_tildes#comment-9k6s
I also enjoy seeing interesting usernames, especially if I can puzzle out it's meaning.
I selected mine when it was reasonably fresh, and goes all the way back (I think) to the Netwalkers forum and open diary. I had it fairly consistently on many places including Fark, Digg, and that R place.
I recognize people's nicknames, especially here on Tildes since this is a fairly small community (of active users). But I don't usually put any thought into how their owners came up with them.
This username is one I've been using for at least a decade. It's actually a combination of prior usernames. "JC" is an abbreviation for a character name I started using in the 2000s for some games and MMOs: Jaedan Chantes. I use this name in Eve Online and FFXIV, for example. "Phoenix" is from my probably oldest nickname that I started using around middle school, back in the late 90s: PhoenixFire.
hello fellow phoenix! I've also used the Phoenix nickname for a very long time haha
I am happy to round out the triumvirate of phoenicians in this thread, though I came to this username in a much more pedestrian way than @phoenixrises and @JCPhoenix. I have been using it for identification online and off for almost 45 years.
it's good to know that I'm the youngest Phoenix here at least!
Haha, nice. I like the sound of "Triumvirate of Phoenicians!" I think even if there are other phoenixes lurking about Tildes, we're still always the triumvirate.
Nice to meet you and /u/aphoenix!
There is also another long-time user, @aphoenix, too! :)
Yes! I haven't seen them around recently but we've talked a couple of times! Hope they're doing well haha.
Before I read your comment, I was thinking of it like a take on JCPenney.
I notice @vord in every thread I see. I don't really agree with them. It's always nice to see an opposing opinion.
If I had to guess a vord is an alien of some type?
Vanilla World of Warcraft, generated a random character name for my warlock till I found one I liked. Twas my main till I quit at the beginning of WotLK.
This name has persisted so long in part because it's much harder to dig for than many other pseudonyms I've used before and since. I thank Jim Butcher for releasing Codex Alera around the same time with The Vord as one of the main antagonists. Has certainly helped in that vein.
Until I joined Tildes i never really looked at usernames at all. The "username checks out" comments on Reddit always baffled me because who was taking the time to read the name of the commenter? On Tildes I'm much more likely to interact with the same people, so I tend to be more aware of them, but apart from names which have obvious references or meanings, I don't tend to put a huge amount of thought into them. That said, I find I am way more likely to misread usernames than other words. For example I thought @kfwyre was kwfyre for the longest time, and even when typing that out I started with @kw at first.
My own username is basically just my real name. I chose Billie when I came out, and the initials of my surname are O and D, but to make it more internetty I use a 0 (zero) instead of the letter O. It has a fun bonus of looking like I'm zero-dimensional Billie, which I also like the sound of. It feels like a reminder that on the Internet you're rarely considered to be a whole, three dimensional individual.
I always enjoy seeing interesting usernames. Ones that are anonymous or simply actual names are not as fun as a sort of online nickname. In the last twenty-five years I've spent online, I've rotated through a handful, and they tend to mutate over the years with prefixes or suffixes or clipping bits off.
I just wanted something new to me for Tildes after years of using some old handles. It's short for Grey Ace Under Fire, because puns and stuff, and I use Grey a lot as a name anyway. It's really grown on me, I think I'll probably wind up using it a lot.
I do love a username with character!
Grey Ace Under Fire made me think of Grace-sunder-fire. Audibly, anyway. Written out it doesn't have the same charm. Nice username ^Ļ^
Hmmm, I'll have to play with that and see where it goes. Thanks! I'm not sure what to make of yours, though eclipsis comes to mind....
Whenever I look at my name I think of solipsism. But in reality, it was just a mishmash of letters that I figured sounded cool. Lol
mine is inspired by tolkien
Given your name, it's amusing that there's also a Quickbeam in this thread.
There must have been something in the air. ("I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.")
Mine is rather prosaic, although maybe with a bit more applicability now that I'm in my final year of law school: It's technically my initials, plus my birthday. I just like the look of the numbers and the word my initials conjure, though.
I kind of wish it was a little easier to identify usernames on Tildes. It's such a prosocial platform some way to keying in on the username would be appreciated. I saw a suggestion to maybe just color code them a bit, have a variety of colors assigned to the theme palette and assign each user name one of the colors.
That said I recognize the ones I see in the topics I frequent. I don't think too much about it but appreciate a creative username.
Mine isn't too deep. When creating characters for video games I'll glance around the room and try different object names. After striking out on several objects I noted that I do not own a coffee table. NotCoffeeTable just ended up sticking over the years.
I think I'm kind of bad at Tildes, because I tend to be a visual person when I'm associating things. So I have a general tendency to not even look at usernames when I'm chatting with people and even if I do, I certainly won't remember them. I found it much easier on old forums when a person had a custom avatar, as I'd then see it, see the name and the association would become locked in my memory.
Through sheer text, everyone may as well be anonymous to me and my dysfunctional brain.
I'm a bit sad that I now know what @cfabbro stands for because it was so mysterious and I like a good mystery. But I am also glad that I know a little more about them.
@deimos I learned was a stellar body. Which tells me they're a bit nerdy, but that goes without saying for Tildes.
I distinctly remember thinking that someone called @douchebag could never be an actual douchebag, so they must be very nice.
@kfwyre I have no idea but now "kfwyre" to me just means "excellent writer".
@Algernon_Asimov is pretty transparent, and I love that we have someone that knows all about Isaac Asimov so I can ask stuff about him.
Similar to @douchebag, I kinda think @patience_limited is actually very patient and forgiving.
Most obscure literary reference ever, with an extra layer of "I should become a better person, someday."
Iāve always liked theā¦ word feeling? (is that a thing?) of your username. My brain expects the order to be ālimited_patienceā, but the reversal gives it an interesting quality similar to Girl, Interrupted or Patience Ltd. (like a corporation).
I have also used "patienceltd" in the sense of being a limited liability impatient person. ;)
For a while, Web forms for information harvesting were so ubiquitous that I just started filling everything in as follows:
First: Patience
Last: Limited
Street: 123 Myob Lane ("Myob" is another somewhat obscure Eric Frank Russell reference, but it's a spoiler.)
I still get "Dear Patience" spam.
Your's reads to me like a Culture ship name.
That is a delightfully generous interpretation, thank you! I did give some thought to Mistake_Not.
Now I want to read "a door into the ocean." Sounds very much up my alley
All of Joan Slonczewski's work is worth a read, for imaginative world-building if nothing else. She's heavily into ethical treatment of sentience, so if that strongly moralizing angle isn't to your taste, you may not enjoy it as much as I did.
That sounds right up my alley!
I'd be curious to know what you think of mine š
"cutmetal" makes me think you went with your Mega Man 2 starting route.
Obviously not enough to get his name right! :P
Curious to see what those who donāt immediately get the reference think of my username. I sort of explain it in my bio.
As for the usernames of others, aside from the folks on the MC server (since I see the names constantly), and a few prolific folks here I donāt really notice usernames often. In the ancient days of forums I relied heavily on avatars and signatures to recognize people.
Yours is obviously about an evil hamster trying to create Armageddon
Basically! It's the name of an episode of Invader Zim, which was a cartoon about an alien very poorly trying to conquer the earth while posing as a child. One of his attempts is to plant a device on the class pet hamster that augments it and causes it to grow massive. Zim's plan is to use it to conquer the earth Godzilla-style, but quickly loses control of it. And for some reason the hamster's name is "peepee", so you have zim running around demanding that "peepee" obeys him. Which was the highest level of comedy for me in middle school when I first saw the episode. And if I'm being honest the absurdity of that and it somehow making it to air on Nickelodeon is still pretty funny.
But for the record I do not endorse the use of class pets, genetically modified or otherwise, to meet one's goals of world domination.
The book Iām reading to my kids at the moment has an evil hamster trying to cause Armageddon too! (The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabey - strongly recommend to anyone who has smaller children). Not quite the same as your story, but close enough :)
I'm imagining Worms: Armageddon but with hamsters.
I love that I could pretty much take dibs on any username without symbols or numbers. I could have probably grabbed a first name like @Sabrina or @Greg. Thatās not my name, but it would be kind of funny to me. Makes me wonder if thereās anything like @Disney, @Eminem or @Morty thatās free.
Poor @Greg! They're after your name mate... That's not on!
Just so long as nobodyās proposing cutting the name in half and giving two letters to each of us I think weāre all good!
I notice some usernames. If I read a comment that makes me think or laugh, I look to see who wrote it. And I've started to associate some with names I've seen before (like kfwyre or Deimos or cfabbro).
As for mine, the story's not that exciting. My roomies in college (my first time around in college) gave me the name by mashing mine up with a character from a popular (at the time) video game.
Yeah, this username is some real deep poetry.
I'm curious if you think of what I think of when I read my username.
My brain goes through the following whenever I read your username (including in the Minecraft server):
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Whenever streamers read my name aloud, they often call me ellipses! Lol. But when I see my name, the word 'solipsism' comes to mind, but I never meant to have it sound or look related to it. It was just a bunch of sounds I thought sounded cool.
A lot of times I can get the reference for their names, if there is one. And it is a lot of fun to see what people call themselves in the internet. Or if they have a fun backstory for their name, it is fun to read why they call themselves that.
thinking of a username is the hardest thing to do! actually, naming anything is one of the hardest things for me to do, that's why I named my kids foo and bar :)
This username was the first bit of wordplay that popped into my head: graphene + meme = graphmeme.
I just like necks
I picked "thefilmslayer" because it's my Letterboxd handle. I watch a lot of movies (closing in in 1,800 seen so far) and they are generally of the horror genre.
I see you like to cut metal.
I normally don't pay attention to usernames too. I used RES for the longest time, so rather than looking at the names, I sometimes notice I've upvoted or downvoted a person several number of times and be like "Hmm. This guy must have been a dick."
But on Tildes I do. I guess because it's a smaller site.
Iām curious. Ping!
(my username started as a semi-joke based on the username of someone I dated in the late 90ās. It stuck. You can find me on many of the primary social networks, and a few web forums, using the same one. Iām of the generation that kept names consistent across platforms. There are a few bratlings out there that arenāt me now, but for the first couple decades they were all me, as far as I can tell.)
Like many others, I don't really pay much attention to usernames on here, though I do pay attention to a few like cfabbro and Deimos.
My username here is actually completely different from what I normally do. With the exception of my old Reddit account (which has its own unique story!), my username on social media platforms is pretty easily traced back to me. As I've started moving away from social media, I've been wanting my name attached to things less and less. I finally realized the value of the anonymity of the internet. So when I came to Tildes, I thought I'd make it the first one where my name isn't attached. I've been a life-long Seinfeld fan so I thought I'd use one of the famous made-up names from the show for my character. Since George and Kramer are my favorite characters, it was between Art Vandelay and Dr. Van Nostrand. The former stood out to me more so it became my username.
I don't.