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I made an account

It got rejected when I suggested it as a name for a Corvette class light frigate, despite it sounding awesome

It’s a long story

From Ren and Stimpy. Powdered Toast Man,

It was my user number in high school. A decade ago.

All the other names I use were taken =]

Because Reddit is run by morons.

For reasons I no longer remember, about 14 years ago I stumbled across The Endless Forest. I poked around on the web page a bit, decided it was interesting but not interesting enough to actually install, and moved on. A short while later I saw something on Reddit that I felt like posting a comment on, and so I created an account and this was the first username that popped to mind.

Quite some time later I got into modding a game called Minetest, and a very common element in its API is the "facedir" of a node - short for facing direction. I had a lot of people assume I'd drawn my name from that, but it was sheer coincidence.

The intro of Power Stone on the Dreamcast.

Total mystery to me

It was random username that Crunchyroll generated for me. I liked the absurdity of it.

I casted spells

I was 9, I like video games, my first name is Harry

Almost 20 years later and there are people IRL who call me "gamer" and not "Harry"

It's a mnemonic major variation of Jake that is usually available... And I came to dot world before the first 2k users joined but after "Jake" was taken.

I got a gift.

Apathy during the reddit drama

Random word list

Honestly? I was trying too hard.

It's my name

JustTheTip was taken. So I had no choice what so ever

I'm in witness protection. Turns out not all girls are made of just sugar and spice.

There was this user named dolphinfucker69 that posted a really elaborate text post about fucking dolphins and became a sort of microcelebrity on certain subreddits that I am not proud of frequenting so I won't name. If you know you know. Anyway he eventually got banned and it was memed on for a while and he did some ban evasion. I needed a new account at the time and figured a name similar to that might make some people laugh. So here we are

i just wanted to sound like an american mafia wiseguy

It's my stage name

Am Gen-x

Am liberal

Easy as.

QA for a 3PL. Apparently QA didn't prior to my arrival try things like entering words in zipcode entry boxes, typing 65537 letters into an address field, or holding the shift key when selecting which State to ship to.

I made a lot of, well not what I would call enemies but I wasn't exactly friends with any of the developers.

My daughter gave me this name.

I use a Dvorak keyboard and am not very creative.

I got it from valarin, an obscure Tolkien language for the Valar. Without the h it means 'the storyteller' I thought the h would help in pronunciation, it usually doesn't.

A fun conversation about goats milk while on acid and whip its lol

It sounded funny. It has nothing to do with Linux, but yet I still run Linux.

I've been using Monster ever since I randomly chose it during a Mario Kart race while on a school trip. There were 8 of us playing Mario Kart DS and I wanted to stand out.

I was a bookish child and my mother used to take me to the local library weekly. On the way to the children's section I had to pass the large print shelf. There was always this one hardback book there, The Spitting Image. It had a bizarre looking gargoyle on the cover and I used to look away so I wouldn't have nightmares about it, but peek at it between my fingers. Every week for years the spitting image would watch me run past it to the Tintin books. Eventually I lost my fear and I could look it straight in the face. It was a goofy thing, nothing like as sinister as I first thought.

Once upon a time the world was a magical place and I used to invent my own rituals as protection.