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?
Some may get mine others may think I’m a weirdo.
Mine’s insanely on the nose… i’m not very creative.
I’m actually curious what people would say about mine!
It’s Dutch short for telefoon
That’s a good one too!
Foon to me is the sound of a pool noodle being thrown.
That’s hilarious, I think I’ll use that next time someone asks me where the nickname comes from 😁
I don’t think googling will help, but I’m up for some guesswork.
Sup?
Am I late to the party?
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.
I like that interpretation :p but I had a different thought process with my name
The “Zero” is a nod to Zero from the Megaman X series (I love him mad) and “the Red” is a nod to Axle the Red, a maverick boss from Megaman X5. He’s my favorite boss across the MMX games, so I did a dumb mashup of the two lol
That’s how my best friend makes his usernames! It’s very fun that way.
Mine is easy to guess
Your name is Dick.
Only in the 1940s
Hey, I don’t know how old you are!
Mine isn’t very interesting, but sure
Ok, let’s do this. If you can guess where it’s from, you have great taste.
And don’t worry, I don’t actually harvest eyes.
Harvesting eyes of cuthulu from terraira?
Nope, never played Terraria. Here’s a hint: I gotta have more cowbell!
I don’t think I understand the reference, haha.
Alright, I’ll explain it: the ‘I gotta have more cowbell’ comes from a Saturday Night Live skit where the band Blue Öyster Cult are recording the song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” which has a cowbell playing after the first guitar chords, and the producer (played by Christopher Walken) keeps saying that he wants more cowbell. Tension rises within the band whether to have more or less cowbell.
I couldn’t find the full skit for some reason, so here’s a video of every instance Christopher Walken mentions cowbell throughout it.
So, to sum it up, this was me trying to hint, in a not too obvious and probably convoluted way, that Harvester of Eyes is a song by Blue Öyster Cult. It sounds kind of anti-climatic now, to be honest.
Nah, that’s a fun way to try and connect the two! I just haven’t watched much SNL, so it’s lost on me.
Me neither, it was just really popular in the early 00s so I ended up knowing about it. But yeah, I wasn’t sure if people would still remember it after all these years.
Nobody is guessing this one
You don’t go on pizza
Mine’s pretty obvious.
Well is The Arbiter from Halo, or just in general?
Came up with this name during my edgy teenager phase
36?
Ding ding ding
Three VI = three sixes = 666
I would be extremely surprised.
Kobayashi’s long last brother?
Who can figure it out?
I like @[email protected]’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 :)
Honestly thought it sounded cool, like a realistic kernel service.
A mailer-daemon that gained sentience (became lucid).
Close! Thought the word lucid was cool and am nerdy with servers, so I chose daemon as it relates to my hobby/career.
More or less a realistic kernel service.
If you figure it out, would you kindly tell me? I have absolutely no idea.
I know you mean satiric as satire but I sort of read it as “sarcastic” which fits with your reply, lol. A weasel that is ineffective on the internet, because satire is dead.
THAT weasel might be ineffective, but not me 😈
(I Know, answering 2 days later kinda defeats the purpose of my name… Mine is an obscure and regional reference, so i wouldn’t be mad if you don’t get it.)
