Ask Lemmy

Despite what you might think my name has a story. The first part has to do with the sound you would hear right before you died in an early FPS game, and the second part was the clan I was a part of at the time (happy). None of my name has to do with drugs.

My name is a reference to the famous British tank gun and anti-tank gun from WW2. Used in tanks and as standalone anti-tank guns. Put in the Sherman tank to create the Sherman Firefly because it packed more of a punch against enemy armour than the American 75mm.

Took the name I use everywhere online, put an _, and chose the lowest number I could, which I do on basically every platform

I had just heard the expression: "It helps the general effort." It was in a Discworld audiobook. It made me think: "Yeah, I could use some help right now." That was still rattling around in my head when I had to come up with a username. I don't remember what I was having trouble with, so I guess that worked out.

I really liked watching B-grade 90s-00s SciFi movies with my dad when I was a kid. That was the name of one that came out around the time I made a reddit account, I don't know if I ever even watched it, it just sounded like a good username. Reminds me, I should probably make a new lemmy account that's not tied to the same name

Picked a random space word and a random object in the room at the time.

My avatar was created by me a long time ago based on the "Astro" part of my username.

Just being honest and upfront, no reason to question otherwise.

I don't have an avatar because I can't figure out how to change it. Looked it up plenty and always come away empty handed.

I... uh... made it before I realized I could ask chatgpt to help me

Drew a comic that made the front page of reddit over a decade ago. Family and friends noticed it and identified me because the username wasn't subtle if you knew me, personally. Ditched the account immediately and used a generator, which came up with this. Decided to re-use it for shits and gigs. For those wondering: no, neither the comic nor the account of mine had anything weird or inappropriate, I just appreciate a certain level of privacy in most online communities.

The avatar is a self-portrait. I made an avatar for Mastodon and decided to make a separate avatar for slrpnk.net to, you know, make it more solarpunk-y.

As for name, I picked Rose as my cutesy trans girl name - I also picked Xbox gamertag "Rose in Shadows" one day, and use "Yesterday's Rose" in realname field in places. I guess I was mostly inspired by the last line of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose: "Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus" (roughly "the rose of the past endures only in name; we hold only the bare names") Dunno why I decided to put the z in "roze". A momentary bit of edginess? Notorious Hacker Alias???

romanized real name; result of clicking in Inkscape for 2 hrs.

My username was based on the expanse

M is the first letter in my real name and 137 is my favorite/lucky number. I made my avatar about a decade ago, inspired by synthwave music and style (specifically after seeing waveshaper play live).

It’s from one of my favorite movies hunt for the wilder people. There’s this conspiracy theory dude living in the woods named psycho Sam and he goes on a rant about how form filling is how they getcha and he basically left society to avoid filling out anymore forms.

World of Warcraft forums night-shift.

I'm autistic, have adhd, am neither right or left handed, and am a sociopath.

I didn't choose the weird life, the weird life chose me, I just accepted it.

Sometimes I can be a bit pedantic, and I like alliteration, and too many people were confusing my old go-to user name with a terrorist organization, despite it being peak IRC.

I randomly chose my name while playing Mario kart on the ds with friends back in high school and have been using it ever since. The avatar is a portrait I drew of a character in my book.

"After the end of World War II, the world was split into two - East and West. This marked the beginning of the era called the Cold War."

I typed some alphabets and numbers that just popped into my mind at the moment.

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Reference to a bad* movie that I think everyone forgot. Except for me... Making sure that movie won't be forgotten. (Well, I think its bad)

Never bothered with an avatar.

Should be obvious

The first part is just an alias and doesn't really have an interesting story

The second part is the airport code of the city I lived in when this account was created. I was actually quite curious if anyone could have guessed that without me saying it out loud

My use name is cobbled together from a word list of Tolkiens valarin language. Akasan means story telling and the -Z suffix makes it a personal name. I thought the extra h would aid in pronunciation, but I'm practise most people just say aka.

My avatar it's my own Photoshop of one of the doges of Venice, with a Shibu face. Mind that I made this before musk ruined the doge meme and I won't let him run this. A clan mate took it, drew a mustache+soul patch on it and made the texts instead of historical, lewd as she thought that more appropriate (I do sport a mustache and soul patch irl)

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin. Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell. Naked I was sent back – for a brief time, until my task is done. And naked I lay upon the mountain-top...I was alone, forgotten, without escape upon the hard horn of the world. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth.

I was promoted from the rank of Commander Aggravated.

The avatar is an AI creation.

It's from the Wug Test.

"This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday, he _____"

Also, what client are you on that shows you avatars? I have not used one yet that shows avatars.

I'm a fan of the poem and have had this name for 30+ years.