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?
the nerds on here will probably get it quickly ;)
I’m not nerd enough! Obviously thinking of a colonel in distress, but everytime I read colonel I think of a middle school friend who would not believe me that it’s not pronounced “ko low null”
You got pretty close by accident because it is a wordplay on the pronounciation of colonel! And like your friend, I initially thought it sounds like “ko low nell” for a very long time until I realized that English pronounciations are just guesswork sometimes :D That’s why the word is now stuck in my mind forever (alongside town names like “Gloucester”).
Wow, that’s so funny that a silly memory from my childhood could get it that close!
I didn’t get it without reading other comments because my spoken English sucks major donkey balls (or should I say… colonel donkey balls?), but now I got it.
Mine’s insanely on the nose… i’m not very creative.
Mine is too. I completely understand.
This is probably my least enigmatic pseudonym, but maybe someone will have something to say about it.
Well, it means comfy, but I think you probably meant it as a vibe based on your avatar, however I pictured a worn beige recliner. Pretty ratty, but comfy.
Hah, I don’t even have a fireplace, candles or a warm drink. I’m a fraud!
spoiler
yes, it is a vibe. but in hindsight, I also like to treat it as a reminder, or a goal. It’s the internet, why make it any angrier? Make a site a home.
that they are very comfy there you go
Sup?
sup dude
Here we go
It means you like being stonewalled :)
Hm…sheldon screaming bazinga like a bot at ikea
Mine isn’t very interesting, but sure
I can’t remember any characters named ryuko, but sound familiar. in a bastardization it can be girl/young dragon.
Ryuko Matoi from Kill la Kill, avatar made that pretty easy guess
maybe it just didn’t load but I didn’t see that avatar when I guessed!! I can’t believe I forgot her name.
Anime character
If you think mine is cannabalistic, I don’t blame you :P
well I would assume your wife’s hot pots would be ‘free’ to you in a sense so hmmm…Are you offering your wife’s hot pots for free? They’re probably good!
Mine should be rather apparent. I lack creativity.
Gotta have those calcium programms
Codes strictly on TI-84’s
Pretty much lol, I got into programming in high school by writing programs on my TI-84. Needed a username to post some programs I made online and that’s what I’ve gone by online ever since.
Of course, these days I’m a software engineer and mainly do embedded C and desktop C++ as a hobby with my OpenRGB project.
I’m going to pretend you program Calckey to make it interesting
Someone who wasn’t feeling creative
it’s written on the can
Some may get mine others may think I’m a weirdo.
I can’t remember who is the Annie that is thirsted over the most, but I assume that one’s bossom.
🐒
🖊️
Guess mine?
your name is kylee and you like any of the -onite crystal names, and thus you are kionite
Good luck with that
“Hex” alongside the pic of Doom guy reminds me Hexen, another old style first person shooter. So I guess that you enjoy the genre?
I do enjoy the genre, but the two are unrelated I’m afraid 😅
Honestly I just wanted something that sounded funny and non controversial lmao
Are those stains (macula)… blood?
Lil’ mac dracula
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.
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.)
Uhh…I actually don’t, haha! I’m probably missing something, sorry!
Explaining it further.
As I websearched your nickname, the first mention that popped up was a song, Blue Oyster Cult: Harvester Of Eyes. I didn’t know the band or the song, but fuck, I loved it, I’m a suckeer for 70’s music. So thank you for the indirect suggestion!
Oh, I get it now, haha.
You’re welcome and I’m glad you liked it. Their first 3 albums are great starting points. Out of those, Secret Treaties is probably the most consistent but Tyranny & Mutation goes hard too. Especially Hot Rails to Hell.
Harvesting eyes of cuthulu from terraira?
Nope, never played Terraria. Here’s a hint: I gotta have more cowbell!
I don’t think I understand the reference, haha.
Alright, I’ll explain it: the ‘I gotta have more cowbell’ comes from a Saturday Night Live skit where the band Blue Öyster Cult are recording the song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” which has a cowbell playing after the first guitar chords, and the producer (played by Christopher Walken) keeps saying that he wants more cowbell. Tension rises within the band whether to have more or less cowbell.
I couldn’t find the full skit for some reason, so here’s a video of every instance Christopher Walken mentions cowbell throughout it.
So, to sum it up, this was me trying to hint, in a not too obvious and probably convoluted way, that Harvester of Eyes is a song by Blue Öyster Cult. It sounds kind of anti-climatic now, to be honest.
Nah, that’s a fun way to try and connect the two! I just haven’t watched much SNL, so it’s lost on me.
Me neither, it was just really popular in the early 00s so I ended up knowing about it. But yeah, I wasn’t sure if people would still remember it after all these years.
