I don’t mean my username! Yours!
I guess this is more of a game and maybe not strictly the right place. But, the idea is to make a top level reply with you asking ‘guess’ or saying ‘:)’ or what have you, and everyone else should answer what they think the username means or refers to, without looking any words or concepts up! Off the cuff, what do you think it means when you see this person’s username?
Not sure about the mobile apps, but if you hover over someone’s name in Lemmy it will show their username if they have a display name set. My username is quite boring and straightforward, but I like seeing other people’s weird usernames especially on semi-anon places.
Bonus: What do you visually think when you read it? Even if you misread it as a typo, what did you imagine when you read it & saw their avatar?
the nerds on here will probably get it quickly ;)
Faulty operating system with an army?
I’m not nerd enough! Obviously thinking of a colonel in distress, but everytime I read colonel I think of a middle school friend who would not believe me that it’s not pronounced “ko low null”
You got pretty close by accident because it is a wordplay on the pronounciation of colonel! And like your friend, I initially thought it sounds like “ko low nell” for a very long time until I realized that English pronounciations are just guesswork sometimes :D That’s why the word is now stuck in my mind forever (alongside town names like “Gloucester”).
Wow, that’s so funny that a silly memory from my childhood could get it that close!
I didn’t get it without reading other comments because my spoken English sucks major donkey balls (or should I say… colonel donkey balls?), but now I got it.
My username means, I am Steve.
Steve is Steve… sounds too convenient to be true.
Right? I’m highly skeptical here as well 🤨
there are many other steves but there is only one that is me 💃
I don’t believe you.
Mine’s insanely on the nose… i’m not very creative.
Creativity is not equally distrubuted in your regime. Does not seem very communist to me.
A common misconception, you might read this short essay to avoid one of the most common strawman.
Thank you! I will readily admit to ignorance. I apologize for the tired stereotyping.
Yeah. I see how the concept of equality gets distorted through the pervasive lens of capitalism, or just the materialistic view of things.
Political equality would necessarily strip away expectations of ability or productivity. Expectations are itself often violations of boundaries, just forced upon people.
No problem, happy to help.
Mine is too. I completely understand.
Sup?
sup dude
Some may get mine others may think I’m a weirdo.
I can’t remember who is the Annie that is thirsted over the most, but I assume that one’s bossom.
🐒
🖊️
Do you want a banana?
This is probably my least enigmatic pseudonym, but maybe someone will have something to say about it.
Well, it means comfy, but I think you probably meant it as a vibe based on your avatar, however I pictured a worn beige recliner. Pretty ratty, but comfy.
Hah, I don’t even have a fireplace, candles or a warm drink. I’m a fraud!
spoiler
yes, it is a vibe. but in hindsight, I also like to treat it as a reminder, or a goal. It’s the internet, why make it any angrier?
that they are very comfy there you go
:D
There is literally no mystery to my username.
Hey, if someone doesn’t know what didactic is, it is a mystery! It’s a big word! Which that someone would be me. I feel like it’s in the back of my brain but I’ve forgotten off the top of my head.
Yay, time to explain! You may be familiar with the term autodidact, someone who crafts their own curriculum and teaches themselves subjects without relying on the guidance of other humans.
So, didactic means to be used for instruction, to teach.
I can interpret my name in two ways I think. First, is that I am an instructive dumbass; my incompetance and consistent foolishness provides lessons, learning from my mistakea. Second, I am a teacher who is also a dumbass.
That’s a fun one! Plus having alliteration makes it more fun.
Yes, I think so.
The self-deprecation might be a little fatiguing, and it is a lifetime habit I am trying to extinguish.
Still, it enforces the wisdom to never take myself too seriously, and that I always have something to learn.
I feel like mine should be pretty easy but let’s see
Probabalt zepplin like someone else said, but I was thinking more like a final fantasy airship.
Zeppelin
yep, occupying a permanent spot as #1 on my favorite bands list
I would be extremely surprised.
a man should clean himself
Kobayashi’s long last brother?
If you think mine is cannabalistic, I don’t blame you :P
Clever. I actually read it as freewifihotspots before seeing your comments.
Um… Dim Sum but I get my choice of married women? Sexy I guess.
well I would assume your wife’s hot pots would be ‘free’ to you in a sense so hmmm…Are you offering your wife’s hot pots for free? They’re probably good!
:)
uhhhhhh, I got nothin. At most I’m misreading unkow and unknown so disappearing unknown but also 74. Usually two numbers at the end is year born?
In Poland, the term “kierunkowy” can be associated with a phone number and a specific region. That was my first guess ;p
It is, it’s for south-eastern part of Lower Silesia region.
In Poland, the term “kierunkowy” can be associated with a phone number, specifically 47 - Norway. That was my first guess ;)
Wałbrzych
Mine is because I’m just a Firefly fan
Well now my username just feels boring haha
a small russet potato! and 08, would be a bit young if it was when you were born, so when you graduated school? Could just be a number of course
It just means there are 7 other russjr’s on here.
Kinda weird.
Oh god, I don’t know how I’d be able to compete with the others!
Thunderdome rules: 8 russjr’s enter, 1 russjr leaves
Certainly a good guess! It actually comes from the fact that my name is Russ[ell], and my name comes directly from my father so I’m “Russell Jr”. Then the number 08 comes from my birth date, which is the 8th of March!
Ah! I didn’t think about 08 ever being simply the day of your birthday instead of year, that very interesting.
Mine should be rather apparent. I lack creativity.
Gotta have those calcium programms
Codes strictly on TI-84’s
Pretty much lol, I got into programming in high school by writing programs on my TI-84. Needed a username to post some programs I made online and that’s what I’ve gone by online ever since.
Of course, these days I’m a software engineer and mainly do embedded C and desktop C++ as a hobby with my OpenRGB project.
I’m going to pretend you program Calckey to make it interesting
Hm…sheldon screaming bazinga like a bot at ikea
