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[–] Tsaot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I had a T-shirt with a toaster that had flame decals and just the word toast underneath. People kept asking me what it meant, as if there was a secret meaning to warm bread.

[–] CoffeeVector@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I like coffee and I like vectors. I made it in high school and thought I'd be one of those names I regret, but even now I still like it.

[–] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I still haven't grown the fuck up

[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I joined up, there was much discussion about bots, so I reckoned that I should set the record straight.

[–] Solely_a_Catt@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what a bot would say

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[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Remembering multiple names is too hard. I'll just stick with the one mom gave me

[–] dukk@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago
[–] HairyOldCoot@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Self descriptive.

[–] airbus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Just some random thing that comes on my mind at the time, i guess.

[–] Doesnotexist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Cogito ergo sum.

If I don't think, I'm DoesNotExist

[–] LemmyWinks666@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I rather like it.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality

TLDR: in our current capitalist and technologically advanced society, we increasingly live in a world where reality and fiction mix, so much so that it's hard to tell what is real or isn't real. They blend into each other. This is hyperreality. Arguably what's real doesn't even matter as much. The 'truth' generated by (social) media is often far more consequential than something as trivial as what actually happened.

For people who like movies, watch Cronenberg's Videodrome or Existenz. That's what 'reality' has become.

[–] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

That is just who I am

[–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 5 points 1 year ago

It was my neopets username in like 2004 lol.

[–] noodle@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I like noodles

[–] pizzazzip@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like pizza, words with four 'z's, and palindromes. So I appended an 'ip' to pizzazz, and here we are!

[–] UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Because I wanted to be obscure and mysterious, but if I'd call myself MrMysterious I'd know deep inside that I'm a wanker.

[–] RoyalDonutForce@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

My job involves making donuts.

[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I write an anticapitalist tech blog at theluddite.org

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[–] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I came here to Hoot and Hollar dag nammit I’m Yosemite Sam!

But sometimes I do fancy myself a yammerin’

[–] AveragePotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a play off Friend of Dorothy.

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[–] Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Food you want to eat but won't risk your life for

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was a big weeb, and my original name was Nekomaru. As I "grew out" of it, I translated the name back into English, and realized I actually liked it better.

[–] eatisaiy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Because it’s clear to me that in order to solve the problem of school shootings, we must arm kindergarteners with grenade launchers.

I was binge watching the show "Letterkenny" One of their plotlines was about a Ostrich. Allegedly.... Im Australian, No Ostriches, only Emus.

[–] Whaler_Shaver@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] sparky678348@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Way back in the day I wanted my club penguin to be named sparky, but that name was already taken. So club penguin recommended to me sparky678348

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Because my tiny little arms have been replaced with laser-cannons.

[–] Cyo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

1: Has just three letters. 2: Doesn't really mean anything. 3: I like how it sounds.

Out of habit. It was my reddit username for almost a decade and the first thing that came to mind when I made a lemmy account.

Why I originally chose "justlookingfordragon" on reddit: I was looking for fellow Pokémon X/Y players with dragon-type safaris willing to share their codes, but the simplest usernames like "dragon" and "safari" were already taken, and "Imjustlookingforadragontypesafarikthxbai" didn't fit the character limit. I originally didn't even plan to keep the account, so I didn't care that the username was silly and awkward.

"Wolf Link" was a nickname that came later.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] TheDude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] NotSpez@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Mine was easy

[–] cholesterol@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 year ago

I became that which I feared the most

[–] sour@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m one of Zaphod’s cousins

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[–] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like popcorn.

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