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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?

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[โ€“] alen@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In that case, my first image that shows up is Allen from the harvest moon friends of mineral town remake. And I hate him. : )

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[โ€“] cnschn@lemmy.cnschn.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeaah mine's really hard to make any sense of. It was an automatically generated username some time back, and then I kept using it all over the place because it was kinda short and still kinda unique. I'd love some suggestions on how to pronounce it though, no clue in that regard!

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[โ€“] smfx@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Mine's an initialism followed by a homophonic substitution :)

[โ€“] prothy@terefere.eu 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

we're friends if you know what mine is

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[โ€“] LucidDaemon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[โ€“] linuxdaemon@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like @misnina@lemmy.ml's interpretation. But I had to comment on yours since mine is only 2 letters different. Though mine is pretty obvious where it came from :)

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[โ€“] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Just a fancy word for an alarm clock?

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[โ€“] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like this game, tho I can't figure out any name in this thread lol, try mine :D

p.s. my avatar has nothing to do with it

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ulu mulu no die sounds like a spell! which the no die is obvious. or it's a caveman situation of referring to themselves not dying "Ulu Mulu no die today"

[โ€“] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not that far off, not actually a spell, but it's a fantasy videogame, and the "no die today" is right :D

It's from Gothic, an awesome standalone RPG series released more than 20 years ago. Ulu-Mulu is a symbol of peace that you have to craft and wear at some point into the story to avoid being killed on sight while entering a city full of orcs. An orc shaman is helping you in your quest and he keeps saying "stranger wear Ulu-Mulu stranger no die", it was so cute that I "adopted" it into my username.

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wow!! I'm surprised I kind of got the sentiment from it. It is oddly cute.

[โ€“] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is indeed! If you're into RPGs I highly suggest Gothic, it's a fantastic game, if you can stand 20 years old graphics that is lol, but once you're into the story you won't mind the graphics being so old, having a compelling story makes up for it IMO.

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm all about crunchy old graphics, those are the best kind.

[โ€“] arbiter329@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] hrimfaxi_work@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a horse.

[โ€“] Fizzlebleam@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think my username is hard to guess

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[โ€“] Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you figure it out, would you kindly tell me? I have absolutely no idea.

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[โ€“] ZeroTheRed@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know how long lemmy posts tend to last/float up and down, so let's just say you're right on time?

Zero The Red, being in The Red means in debt, so you are trying to 'zero out' the the debt in some place. Could be taken metaphorically.

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[โ€“] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[โ€“] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha not quite. It was a fandomly generated gamer tag for games for windows live when I was young. Somehow I remembered it and it just sorta stuck lol

[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I had used xbox gamer tags when I was young, I'm sure I would have been stuck on some very long standing nonsense name, but we only had nintendo so no real online capabilities lol.

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[โ€“] Firnin@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just sounds like a name, but I'll admit I misread it as Finlin (how my weird mouth says Finland) pretty quickly.

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[โ€“] privetmoshi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I know privet isn't private, but it does seem like a solider named moshi.

[โ€“] threevi@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Came up with this name during my edgy teenager phase

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