Ask Lemmy

When I was a young warthog, I needed my first username. I thought to myself "what's cool, that I can base my name on?" "Gansters are cool!" "How about Al Capone? He's cool. He is even a good person. He invented milk expiration dates or something like that." "But I can't just have that name, I have to make it cooler. I'll write it using l337 speak."

Thus, my username "alkpwn" (plus some numbers because it was taken on Xbox live) was born.

Quickly, I realized people didn't always understand it. They would have trouble pronouncing it when they saw it in halo 2. From "Al capn" to "Alk pawn", I got all sorts of pronunciations.

My friends ended up just shortening it to Alk. And here we are.

Asphalt ploughman. I love wandering around city streets. Night and day.

WE MUST FEED!!!

I really liked Shakespeare and Serious Sam.

A character in a short story about superheroes I wrote in high school

I'm basically ADHD in a meth pipe. And no, I don't do drugs.

The movie Old by M Night Shyamalan. That characters name was just so funny.

Well I'm sorry, that doesn't sound very fulfilling

Medic = paramedic

Pig = typical male

Baby saver = I've delivered 2 babies and helped my team save a 9 month old from drowning.

Well, I am my own inspiration I suppose.

Skip to the 1:00 mark. My buddy and I sold weed in high school, and we also loved this movie, so we called each other Santiago and Dunbar.

I had no idea... literally... in Swahili.

I grew up with the OG winamp and was trying to dissociate with the handle that I've been using across the web for 25 years, so...

The first two spoken words in this awesome Amiga game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tQHKbCxnGQ

Ancestor

Kebab

A friend from primary school just started calling me this (in our local language of course) one day.

Give me pizza or else

Just felt cute

I am a big fan of the game Prey, and mixed it up with pokemon :-)

I'm an annoying vegan. Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, earthling ed?

I have no idea

Capybaras

Nostalgia. Now it's pretty much obsolete computer terms. When I was a kid, half of a byte was still relevant in computer programming on an Apple 2 Plus computer. One nibble (also can be spelled nybble) is equal to 4 bits.

Dracula but with a face.

The Testament album "the new order"

I think I used one of these "turn your name into a fantasy name" generators in like 2007 and changed it a bit and that is my username pretty much everywhere now.

I'm Darren and here I am in the 'net

My dad gave me the nickname. I always loved it.

Sometimes my mind goes dark places like nihilism, but deep down I think we should all be nice to each other.

The big bad wolf.