How do you pick your usernames?

I pick something that describes me but isn't too specific

Been using it since the 20th century, and it's never taken by anyone else.

I used to trust a lot of things, but then i stopped

"Cloud" is the name of my first love.

I don't want spam

Well I know what I want, so I ask for it in the username.

Sometimes, I use a password Generator for nicknames

I'm just really, actually Frankenstein.

I usually go for a play on words

Mine accurately describes me

It's a concept in Japanese martial arts that I read in a book by Takuan Soho.

Wiki:

Fudōshin (Japanese: 不動心) is a state of equanimity or imperturbability (literally and metaphorically, "immovable mind",[1] "immovable heart"[2] or "unmoving heart"). It is a philosophical or mental dimension to Japanese martial arts which contributes to the effectiveness of the advanced practitioner.

I was training in Jujutsu and kenjutsu at the time and the concept clicked. I know it sounds very 'weeb' but it was an epiphany and quite profound for me at the time.

There's a Shingon Buddhist deity that encapsulates the concept too and he holds a sword to cut through ignorance and delusion.

There're some related concepts like Mushin that come together with marital arts.

• Fudoshin - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudōshin
• Takuan Soho - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuan_Sōhō
• Mushin - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushin_(mental_state)

It came to me in a dream. I don't know what it means.

I created this account to ask about curves.

Hellsing fan yo

I just use my password.

It helps to have a favorite band whose logo is related to your hobby

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Nobody really gives a crap anyways and the signal username is not displayed to your peers. Combine some shit and be good.

I generally just use my name

My default is the first name I gave to myself before I even was in first class.

When I need something else or temporary I just slap together some words.

Something I was really into at one particular moment.

I don’t

I'm weird and generally people think I'm an idiot

I'vr used https://www.name-generator.org.uk/ before. Worked well enough.

Some leather men called me this at pride and it stuck

I try to make it as short as possible because it looks cool to me

Assuming the name has no real use or meaning, I'll often "blur" the site into a similar/related word, and possibly do that a couple of times. For instance, Signal becomes singer, becomes your favorite singer. Or signal becomes noise, becomes Public Enemy. Bonus points if I can bring it back to a pun

I never use the same username across systems. That would make correlation way too easy.

Be edgy and random

Ethereal_tuberat

Well let's be real, anyone who's had them has tried this. As someone who does this often I must say it was difficult to type my username

I had a plan that'd I'd comment on random things i came across and give a really convincing but incorrect take on it. Never got around to it.

i imagine you won’t have an issue with spam in signal considering the .## they add to every username.

But in general the more distinct it is the less likely you’ll have someone nagging you.

If you want to avoid building a footprint of similar usernames my favorite is just switching out some letters (o’s to u’s or a’s to e’s stuff like that) or taking out specific letters entirely (ex: ottr)

Don't wanna dox myself but mine was my favorite character in a video game and my favorite band. That combination was never taken in anything.

I spent 5 minutes coming up with a xbox360 username as a kid based off games I recently payed. Good enough to last me my entire life.

It's my actual name. Anonymity is an illusion.

mine is just a shortened version of freedom fighter

I used to ride a motorbike like a cunt. Tried to be descriptive.

A username I used from other sites.

I like donuts

It's meaningful to me, and meaningless to the internet.

Whatever came to mind first

For the last while I've been randomising the dictionary of 3 or 4 character words and running down the list until I find something I like the sound of and is available. If it's a well populated username base I might need to drop back to a list of all permutations of a-z in that length and do the same.

Was called it a lot as a kid, I took it and made it my own. Now it let's me know who to block when someone has literally nothing left to their argument that they have to resort to using my username as an insult.

i was rather picky with my current username.

i used an overused skyrim meme,
and the name i came up with for one of my titanquest characters.

but i wanted to use the same username across games, and those usernames sounded dated or weird outside of their context.

at the time i came up with my current username. i was quite obsessed with IT security stuff, and i was fascinated with talks that explained how the Kerberos authentication protocol worked.

i shortened that to Kerb.
(In hindsight its a missed opportunity to not use krbtgt instead)

in a mmo where i ended up multi accounting quite a bit,
i started to add unix file permissions in octal behind that name eg. Kerb755, Kerb750, Kerb4755

i also used these numbers whenever my username is to short or taken already

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Just kind of random gibberish

I get dizzy

It just sort of came to me

I had no idea and translated that to Swahili.

Something bad had just happened to me

Not sure how I picked this one it was the name for a throwaway account I forgot about for like 10 years. Nowadays I like the randomly generated ones that are like random adjective with a random animal noun. Like AngryRaccoon or UglyBear

i put in all the brainpower i can muster and think for about 2 hours before just choosing a random roman god/dess or something stupid that i think sounds cool or has to do with something i like, because i can't think of anything original. like if i had to make one right now it'd probably be uhhh superfluidhydrabreath

if i were queer enough i'd probably change that to supergenderfluid, but i'm not

games like stellaris are the most challenging to me solely because they require you to make up a lot of names, and i don't wanna use the auto generated names because that's stupid and for cowards. often times i spend more time making up names or designing my characters than i do playing the game the day i start