This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.
When i joined the fediverse I decided to make a break from my old usernames.
Remember that mobile game that was popular a while ago, Neko Atsume? It’s that, but with Etna from Disgaea, because at the time I first made this username (years ago) Neko Atsume was taken and I was playing through Disgaea D2.
My display name is a short-version of my nickname which is a phonetic amalgamation of my first and last name.
Someone else took karl first and I want to know which one of you it was
As a bookish child, I made weekly trips to the library. To get to the kids section I had to pass the large print shelf, and there was one book that was always there: The Spitting Image. The gargoyle on the cover scared me! But when I finally looked him straight in the eye I found that he was trying to look furious, but came across as a little goofy. That’s the way I imagine myself, too.
Guess.
HUM - The Scientists
Keep this benzine ring around your finger, and think of me when everything you wanted starts to end
The song is one of my favorites. About a couple scientists, probably in a relationship, testing drugs
With HUM, you never can really tell what they are talking about but it’s always pretty poetry and awesome music. With a good imagination.
Ambian, maybe? I don’t especially like disco, and my name isn’t Doug. But I felt it in my heart at some point that isn’t exactly clear to me.
Just needed a name and combined a word with an animal
Display Name is because the Earth part of a Universe Simulator program run on a windows 11 machine and the Earth.exe process crashed, which is why we have assassination attempts, felon president, CEO getting shot, random coup attempt in South Korea. The Simulation program just spews random plotlines without the Earth.exe process to fine-tune it. Its basically telling AI to draw human hands, it keeps making no sense.
I believe it’s self explanatory.
Found a Kraken in Ultima Online. Thought it was rad and didn’t know how to spell it as an 11 year old.
Star Wars Galaxies I was on a red wine kick at the time and had found Ecco Domani to be a good low priced red. I meeded a character name for SWG so I looked up “to seize” in Italian to make “seize tomorrow”.
It’s actually “squeeze tomorrow” or “tighten tomorrow” and should have been “cogliere il domani” which is cooler. But c’est la vie, or questa è la vita.
It popped into my head while I was thinking of one, felt kind of clowny, then I searched for it online and didn’t find any results. I was shocked that, apparently, nobody else is using this, so I’ve decided to.
