Spyke

Well, obviously Quentin Callaghan isn't my real name. I got this from some online American name generator.

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That is literally my name. I was never first with that name on any internet service thing so it was a novelty to name myself that.

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Remy Rosereply
lemmy.one

Well as luck would have it, that kinda totally works out... 😅

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sh.itjust.works

I had the intention of dropping in on those 'is it octopodes or octopuses' debates with 'um, actually it's octopeople'. Only I got tired of the joke after the 2nd or 3rd time so there you go.

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I randomly created it about 25yrs. ago when I was first hanging out on message boards, and I just stuck with it.

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Wanted to be as unknown as possible on gamefaqs lue board 20 years ago and i have kept it ever since

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It was my only non-bot account on this instance which only existed to create communities. My main account's instance closed down so I made this my main.

I haven't posted in ![email protected] which I really should do as it's the perfect username for that community.

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Randoms represent. I just use a password generator to make me a user and pwd. I'll ditch it in about a year anyway, no point spending any effort.

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sopuli.xyz

Well you were right lol. But I have to ask, why 1 instead of l, surely it wasnt taken

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Thanks! Glad you think so.

When I was creating the gamertag, someone else had the L version. I was surprised too.

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Surprisingly no, I hadn't seen the movie yet when I came up with it. It was really surreal for me when I saw that scene in the movie.

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sopuli.xyz

My username is a portmanteau of words siivu and viipale which are two different types of slices. I'm not sure if English differentiates these two types of slices but siipale is something between those two or both at the same time.

Anyway, in addition to being an interesting portmanteau my username sounds similar to sopuli so it's a perfect fit for Lemmy.

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Because I'm certain I'm a Ten and what's not to like about tea? But really, all caffeine is good caffeine, and only my partner is giving me a ten on a really good day!

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Because I like Doctor Who, and it's just wrong enough in German that it's never really taken by anyone.

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My original gamer tag on Xbox was gameknight named after the Minecraft book series then when I moved to pc the name stuck around for a little bit on steam and eventually I wanted a silly placeholder name so it was SeñorFlipFlop.

Well the most temporary fixes are often the most permanent solutions and with the exception of discord all my usernames now are some variation of flip flop with my gta rockstar name being Flippy-Flopp and planet side being FL1P1E5FL0P

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South Park reference for something I found funny. Not much to it other then that.

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lemmy.world

Made up the name Pronell Mordini for a MUD called Kaspelheim back in 1994. The game didn't last long but I've used it online since then.

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sopuli.xyz

Damn youve got an online persona thats 30 years old! Thats impressive

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Rouxibeaureply
lemmy.world

Best I can do is imprison your soul on a planet name dirt. I named my kid after good-ol' hourglass eyes.

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lemmy.world

My best friend had two Russian Blue Cats. One named Raistlin, the other Foucault. Did you name his brother Caramon just to explain the sibling rivalry?

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I had a black cat I'd named Dalamar years before that. Sadly, no siblings for the child and no naming rights over the cat's brother.

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Because I discovered the Greenday album with the same name as a teenager about the time my family got the internet and also I gave a sleeping disorder. And I’m too lazy and uncreative to think of another.

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lemmy.world

My nearly 2m slender cousin "gifted" it to me when we were first time at a internet cafe playing CS. 20 years later I'm still using it and now it fits my body too^^ btw it means fat, thick person

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lemmy.world

Sadly not. But hey, it makes me look kinda smart and russian... I can't even read russian xD

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Tolstoy is worth reading even translated. I can't speak russian either but nabokov and tolstoy are top 5 writers for me

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jlai.lu

Because I could'nt get it on Reddit. So first thing I did arriving in the Fediverse was to leverage the power of multiinstance to get the perfect pseudonyme.

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sopuli.xyz

Best part of lemmy is you can get any username, even if its taken theres other instances where it isnt.

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I got mine from that website childish gambino got his, forgot the website name.

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