On a good day I’m up around 5 AM, but I often find myself up even earlier than that. I joined my first Lemmy instance during one of these bouts of insomnia, prompting my username.

My avatar is from a worldbuilding project I work on.

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    29 days ago

    Keys on a qwerty keyboard. Just so that it’s different here from everywhere else.

    The only reason I have a username and not an avatar is because I was forced to pick a username but not an avatar when registering.

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    29 days ago

    We call someone who can’t do anything right, or is “useless”,“un zero a l’esquerra”, a zero to the left (as in the zero in 01, which is the same as 1, making the 0 irrelevant).

    I consider myself one such zero to the left, but that’s too long, so leftzero. 🤷‍♂️

    Also… lemmy has profile pictures…?

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
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    Metastasio was an Italian poet and librettist who lived in the 1700’s. Being someone who creates poetry and music, I wanted a name to reflect that but with a modern flair, so I swapped “meta-“ for “giga-.”

    Also, as “metastasis” translates roughly to “changing states,” “gigastasio” can be taken to mean “billions of states,” which is an apt description for how my mind works.

    My pic is just some random pic I took. It’s my kid’s shark stuffie. His name is Chocolate Milk.

  • dkppunk@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Dkp for the loot system and I have always liked punk music

    My avatar is my orc rogue standing over Orgrimmar at sunset. It was when I first got my Thunderfury, so I wanted a cool picture with the badass sword.

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    I think the name was just something that sounded cool and was either made for gaming or when I helped mod a sychtube channel.

    The avatar is just one of my family’s old chihuahuas staring at me with a toothless unhinged look.

  • papalonian@lemmy.world
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    I’ve been using this username since I was like 12. I think I’d just watched Babylon 5 and was trying to come up with a username that took a cheesy cringey self given nickname (Papa) and mixed it with some sci-fi sounding stuff (Babylon) and came up with papalonian.