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Title of a book by my favourite author Jonathan Carroll. Almost all of my various handles over my time online have been some variation of one of his book titles because they're so unique. I used one on Reddit and some Nazi started stalking me, and it turns out some lady on Twitter uses it as her handle there, so he kept messaging me and calling me Stephanie.

I'm a huge fan of Bathory, so I just combined Quorthon with his previous stage name, Ace.

I used to play GH3 on PS2 a lot and i played boss battles quite frequently

One time, in another game called Soldat, when a clan was recruiting they told me to change my old nickname since it was bizarre (i was 15 yo). I was looking for inspiration and quickly came up with Lou (final boss in GH3), added ` so i would be recognised easily while also not impersonating anyone unintentionally.

Few months passed by and i saw someone on some Soldat-related IRC channel chilling with my nickname and that person wasn't actually impersonating me (he/she used that nickname for much longer time than me since "Lou" is actually a first name which for me, as a native polish speaker, wasn't that obvious at the time) so that huge coincidence made me come up with an addition to my nickname - 2nd boss in GH3, famous guitarist - Slash. In the end i started using LouSlash`

As time passed by, in some places/websites/games i couldn't use ` so i drop it occasionally.

I read it in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books

A few years after high school I joined the stage crew for a musical theatre group some friends started. At a performance after party, I was looking after some of the younger cast who had a few too many: one of them decided I was like Bosley to their Charlie's angels; the other felt I was looking after them in a fatherly way - so they combined it, and that became their nickname for me. Also, the nickname my siblings had given me, NoPatchGlandBoySleepyTheIronDeficientBrother was just too long.

First shiny Pokemon I ever got. Basculin carried my team a lot, hence the name "CaptainBasculin".

I love airplanes and was excited to see a “modern” one where you could slide back the canopy just like in all those old WWII movies! It’s even ok to fly with it open (a little)!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_American_AA-5

it just means emoticon in french canadian

I love the phrase “your average Joe”, but it doesn’t translate very well, or I couldn’t think of a translation quickly enough (English isn’t my first language), so when I was talking with my friends one day, I translated it as “your average mortal”, and I liked it

Tally Hall (band) → callyral (pseudonym + username) → cally (nickname)

I was making a silly joke on Reddit...

I saw a watch company use the name Omega, before I even knew it was the name of a greek letter.

Patrik/Pat is just my name, sometimes use Legendbird on sites because once it was the first thing I thought about (Zapdos, to be exact).

M is the letter my real name starts with, and 137 has been my favourite number since I was a kid, and I still think is the coolest number (has nothing to do with 1337, as some people have previously thought).

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rijndael

Mothman+StarWars+Back to the Future

Bit warden made it for me

Just a greeting used in an RPG I really liked. As pretty much the only formal greeting in its setting, it seemed very overused, so a friend and I started using it in our friend group as a meme, and I decided that it actually goes pretty hard as a username.

I have no imagination and my legal name is Tanis Nikana.

It scans like a username when it’s all lower case and jammed together though.

Ranidaphobic; but going with Frog-Man was a too on the nose rip off of Bat-Man (and it’s taken anyway).

I liked playing tachanka on R6, tht is short for TheHolyTachanka

Used to live in Norway when I joined reddit, and the whole Norse lore resonated with me. Back then I had a number attached, that wasn't needed on Lemmy anymore.

Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

I'm fatigued in more ways than one and people joke that I'm fae because I'm allergic to metal.

I like the word argyle and I'm angry

no imagination and I thpught it was funny image (current acc avatar)

It's an auditory pareidolia I often have, everytime someone says "courant d'air" (which is draught in french), I hear my first name.

I like captain Picard.

Mine stands for "Divided by Zer0", based on the programming error "division by zero". Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for "database zero" or "dragonball zero".

I'm a squirrel.