I’m Romanian and I recently came across the definition of bangmaid which fits me perfectly, so that’s how my username came to be.

  • Alk@sh.itjust.works
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    23 minutes ago

    When I was a young warthog, I needed my first username. I thought to myself “what’s cool, that I can base my name on?” “Gansters are cool!” “How about Al Capone? He’s cool. He is even a good person. He invented milk expiration dates or something like that.” “But I can’t just have that name, I have to make it cooler. I’ll write it using l337 speak.”

    Thus, my username “alkpwn” (plus some numbers because it was taken on Xbox live) was born.

    Quickly, I realized people didn’t always understand it. They would have trouble pronouncing it when they saw it in halo 2. From “Al capn” to “Alk pawn”, I got all sorts of pronunciations.

    My friends ended up just shortening it to Alk. And here we are.

  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 minutes ago

    I play games, was 7 at the time so wanted to seem grown-up, and my first name is Harry… Yeah, creative I know

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    11 minutes ago

    Mine started as a gamer tag. I wanted something that sounded cute and unassuming, it was fun to see scrolling text announcements like “Ninja_AssassinX was killed by Coco Puff’s rail gun”.