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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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[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would be extremely surprised.

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

a man should clean himself

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Kobayashi's long last brother?

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Two small hints for mine: 1. Latin, and 2. it has nothing to do with the smoking chimp avatar.

[–] Firnin@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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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[–] Foon@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm actually curious what people would say about mine!

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Foon to me is the sound of a pool noodle being thrown.

[–] Foon@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

That's hilarious, I think I'll use that next time someone asks me where the nickname comes from 😁

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's Dutch short for telefoon

[–] Foon@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

That's a good one too!

[–] Communist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Mine's insanely on the nose... i'm not very creative.

[–] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] agonizingnose@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago (2 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

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think googling will help, but I'm up for some guesswork.

[–] sup@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[–] six@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd love to participate but I think mine may be a little too easy. haha

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[–] MrsEaves@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ahhh, excellent. Let’s see if I can find my community here. Guess away.

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[–] ZeroTheRed@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.^

[–] misnina@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Harvesting eyes of cuthulu from terraira?

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Nope, never played Terraria. Here's a hint: I gotta have more cowbell!

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I gave up and looked it up. Thank you for your nickname! (You likely get what I mean, I don't want to spoil it for the others.)

[–] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Uhh...I actually don't, haha! I'm probably missing something, sorry!

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[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (5 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

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[–] Satiric_Weasel@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Hex" alongside the pic of Doom guy reminds me Hexen, another old style first person shooter. So I guess that you enjoy the genre?

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I do enjoy the genre, but the two are unrelated I’m afraid πŸ˜…

[–] Kurt@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] TheV2@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not what you probably think first...

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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] HarvesterOfEyes@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago
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