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My name's Darren. Here I am in the 'net.

It's a reference to a Simpsons episode, where Bart writes "nobody likes a sunburn slapper" on the blackboard in the opening.

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

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.

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

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

It's from valarin (Tolkien's language of the Valar)

https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/motsvalarins.html

Akasan is 'he says'

-z suffix is a person's name

So it's basically 'Teller' (I'd say storyteller) in valarin.

The 'h' was supposed to help in pronunciation, it only mildly does, I find

The Reddit API debacle that killed third party apps.

Calvin and Hobbes. I added a 'y' to the end because I could.

It means bare, naked, possession-less.

School nickname

In Portuguese "zero hora" is the midnight shift, people started making jokes when I slept in class and the name got stuck.

The way I drove and the papers I used for rolling joints back when I was a teenager

Tenno, wake up. It's time to put on the silly norg fish mask from cetus and make it look good.

I liked Legos and I liked Pikachu at the time(I was 11 or so? Trying to make a Minecraft account lol)

I don't think I'll be able to use this name for anything commercial if I wanted to do that...

I was playing some crappy F2P MMO (Perfect World, maybe?) and I made a warrior of some werewolf race. Just played with random wolf-related combinations and settled on this. Quit after two days and the username carried on for probably 15 years now.

I don't even really know all that much about Stalin. I just pulled it out of my ass.

Username should be pretty self explanatory. If you still don't get it you can either ask me or bravely run away.

CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan's best. Violà.

I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.

Bitwarden username generator 👍

Someone else took karl first and I want to know which one of you it was

My display name is a short-version of my nickname which is a phonetic amalgamation of my first and last name.

Sometimes I get kinda pedantic.

When i joined the fediverse I decided to make a break from my old usernames.

Every time I go to make a new username I just choose the first 2 words that come to mind

I mashed the keyboard.

Mine comes from the intro to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

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

I was making a silly joke on Reddit...

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 chaotic and I like cookies, nothing more to it!

What about you pip? My first thought was the main character of Kid Icarus.

Way more years ago than I would like to admit, when I was in my teens, I learned to play a Fender Mexican Stratocaster. It became my name on my BBS, and has stuck ever since.

Most people think it has to do with FM radio.

Edit: Also, this question has managed to get replies from almost all of the prolific participators on Lemmy. Nice.

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

Redditors are stupid in very specific ways and it annoys me.

Remember that mobile game that was popular a while ago, Neko Atsume? It's that, but with Etna from Disgaea, because at the time I first made this username (years ago) Neko Atsume was taken and I was playing through Disgaea D2.

A bunch of goofy bureaucracy name fuckups to my real name. It’s a long and boring story. It’s in no way related to being a group for tacos addicts.

Hank likes hominy.