You don't choose your username. Your username chooses you
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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I like Fallout 2 way too much.
I was trying to call someone an idiot, but I only had a calculator on hand. I also didn't consider talking as an option.
I'm a guy who likes MsDOS
Tanith was one of the goa'uld from Stargate SG-1 which I was a huge fan of as a kid. Back then I was not so good at spelling so I sounded it out and kept adding letters until I found a username that wasn't taken
Deur
I hate myself
I love reading books
I just think they're neat
b
norbel
I left a shaker cup with some drink mix in there for weeks, totally forgot about it. Now it's a science project
One needs a username. So I chose one that I have used for a long time, which incidentally I couldn't use on Reddit
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It's the name of my pet bird.
FLCL song
Always wanted to be a TIE Pilot...
/Empire did nothing wrong.
Never tell me the odds
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Not calm.
Not typical.
Full cat.
HISSSSSSSSSSS
TK is a journalism joke. In that field, placeholder headlines used to commonly be written in as "Headline TK" or "TKTKTK" etc. It comes from back when newspapers were typeset physically before set in lead to be sent to the printer. It is short for To Come. Many editing marks are misspelled on purpose to make them stand out from the final text. "TK" is an unusual pairing of letters, so it stands out.
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Don't have the best internet and my favorite video game franchise is Metal Gear.
Real name is Mitch and am somewhat irritable, so. . .
I had a bad dream
After one of the best songs from the band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Fun fact: it's also the favorite song of their bassist!
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My initials are kn, I was 10, and kn10 was taken :p
It was a randomly generated name in an MMO I used to play.
I used to always play Pyro in Team Fortress Classic and would just run around setting people on fire and then running away. It was my only strategy and so I adopted the name.
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In memory of the Apollo app. RIP.
Gamertag. My new one at that though
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I've been using some form of this name for 10 years. It's a part of me now.
That references the name of my programming language I first-learned in my entire life.