I just think the Grasshopper Mouse is neat

My username was based on the expanse

I like cats and that it looks like a stylised way of writing Cam, which is a cool little geared mechanism.

Wanted something that showed who I really am

Well, my username is just what I came up with when trying to think of a cool sounding name. I don't remember what I originally used it for but I do know that I've been using it for several years at this point. It is one of my two most active names and I use it in a wide variety of places but I do know that I have seen people using my name, so if you see my name being used somewhere, it's possible that It's not me.

As for my profile picture, I've been using a picture of Zack Fair from Crisis Core as my main profile picture ever since I first played the game back in high School. He was one of the first characters who I really felt attached to. Prior to this, I was using Castlevania characters. Ever since Crisis Core got a remake, I've been thinking of going back to using Castlevania characters again but it just doesn't feel right to me anymore.

I do also want to mention that I do also use a picture of Clippy as my profile picture on some platforms. I've been doing this ever since I saw that one Louis Rossmann video and I use it on platforms that I don't support.

The name was originally chosen for nerd cred (for anyone who recognizes it - Atra esterní ono thelduin. Mor'ranr lifa unin hjarta onr. Un atra du evarínya ono varda.) but I later realized that it's also great because it's an actual word from an actual story and 99% of search engine results for my name are going to bring up that story and its wiki. It's an extra layer of pseudo-anonymity that I enjoy.

The avatar was just cause it's funny, I use this one all over the place.

It’s from one of my favorite movies hunt for the wilder people. There’s this conspiracy theory dude living in the woods named psycho Sam and he goes on a rant about how form filling is how they getcha and he basically left society to avoid filling out anymore forms.

Reference to a bad* movie that I think everyone forgot. Except for me... Making sure that movie won't be forgotten. (Well, I think its bad)

Never bothered with an avatar.

Portmanteau of "True" and "Escape".

Because online spaces allow us to Truly Escape reality :)

Every time I see your avatar, OP, I think of Audacity 😅

Mine's just... Something I came up with. It came to me in a dream I guess.

If I have spare time, I sleep.

Display Name: I love Steins;Gate. El Psy Congroo.

Alt Account Display Name: That account is for Asian Diaspora Community stuff and Poetry, so I used Wong Ka Kui since that is my favorite Cantonese singer (he's dead now RIP), and as a native Cantonese speaker, I felt like it makes sense to assume his name as my online screen name for that purpose. I mean, songs are just poems but you volcalize it + music, fitting to, in the future when I feel like it, post poems under that name.

Actual Username: I made the acccount when I was depressed.

Big Sad = Great Depression

DeathByBigSad = I'm gonna die by the economic system collapsing

Profile Pic: I hate CCP. I'm not pro-ROC/KMT either, but I just like to trigger tankies xD

It's a variation on a local folkloric figure, and the image is modified from the album of a poem about the figure by Martin Newell and the Hosepipe Band.

https://omarmouallem.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Will-the-Real-Burger-Baron-Please-Stand-Up1.pdf

I'm the real Burger Baron and so are you! It's a local franchise of sorts with a very messy history.

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.

I'm a fan of the poem and have had this name for 30+ years.

As a child in the local library, I always passed the large print section and there was always this one book there: The Spitting Image. It had a furious-looking gargoyle on the cover and it used to scare me at first, but over time it seemed goofier and goofier. And since as an adult I have to fight the urge to be goofy when I should be serious, I felt like it was suitable.

My username is my first name abbr and my middle initial just backwards. Ben A. It still pretty anonymous if I wanted it the right way around but Aneb is very funny to me tbh. It was very seductive when Staments said it in verse in his voice memo to me a while back. Its also something my grandma does with words so its an homage to her as well. tsuguanimajneb would be too long ¯_(ツ)_/¯

A friend in primary school just started giving us weird nicknames and decided to call me the wizard pope (not really but that is the best translation) he even held elections and elected me to the position so I just started using it as my username. The picture is self explanatory though I did have to change it in the spring.

Lemmy.zip has/had a mismatch between frontend and backend validation on usernames. When the frontend allows something that the backend rejects, you get some random "InvalidName" pop-up on form submission.

I tried several different variations of my preferred user name, but I couldn't figure out what was violating backend validation, so finally I settled on InvalidName. Which triggered a server error (500 error or timeout or something, I don't recall).

But finally, one glorious moment in time, the lemmy.zip server accepted InvalidName2 without choking, and the rest is history.

In terms of avatar, it was in my downloads folder

Lemmy let's you have a user avatar? I've never seen one using Voyager.

My username is a Latin phrase meaning (this particular definition is from Wikipedia): In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants.

I think rebellion against the US government is required at this point regardless of your political affiliation as our Public Servant's have shown to not care for who they represent, the American people.

I turn things.

It’s funny.

I had just heard the expression: "It helps the general effort." It was in a Discworld audiobook. It made me think: "Yeah, I could use some help right now." That was still rattling around in my head when I had to come up with a username. I don't remember what I was having trouble with, so I guess that worked out.

I chose my username when I was still a teenager, originally with the meaning that I'm a nerd, but not like an amazing or extremely smart nerd, nor extremely awkward. Just your average guy with autism and nerdy on particular subjects.

I've mostly kept with it because it's how most of my online friends know me, and I still think it's part of my identity, although I've since developed interests that a stereotypical nerd might not have such as cycling, mountain biking, travelling and hiking.

I... uh... made it before I realized I could ask chatgpt to help me

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin. Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell. Naked I was sent back – for a brief time, until my task is done. And naked I lay upon the mountain-top...I was alone, forgotten, without escape upon the hard horn of the world. There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over, and each day was as long as a life-age of the earth.

I wanted something short and unique and this was somewhat pronounceable with a vowel in the middle

It was my character name in my first MMO, the English beta for MapleStory back over 20 years ago, and I've been using it ever since. I picked it since it was close to Mithril, from Lord of the Rings.