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?
Some may get mine others may think I’m a weirdo.
Hm
Mine’s insanely on the nose… i’m not very creative.
Sup?
I don’t think googling will help, but I’m up for some guesswork.
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.
I’d love to participate but I think mine may be a little too easy. haha
six pixel art tapes
It’s a beat tape, but absolutely! -
Two small hints for mine: 1. Latin, and 2. it has nothing to do with the smoking chimp avatar.
take a wild guess
Venus
yep that’s it
It’s not what you probably think first…
The 6 short cousin of vegetable drink.
Mine is easy to guess
Your name is Dick.
Only in the 1940s
Hey, I don’t know how old you are!
Am I late to the party?
I don’t know how long lemmy posts tend to last/float up and down, so let’s just say you’re right on time?
Zero The Red, being in The Red means in debt, so you are trying to ‘zero out’ the the debt in some place. Could be taken metaphorically.
I like that interpretation :p but I had a different thought process with my name
The “Zero” is a nod to Zero from the Megaman X series (I love him mad) and “the Red” is a nod to Axle the Red, a maverick boss from Megaman X5. He’s my favorite boss across the MMX games, so I did a dumb mashup of the two lol
That’s how my best friend makes his usernames! It’s very fun that way.
I’m actually curious what people would say about mine!
Foon to me is the sound of a pool noodle being thrown.
That’s hilarious, I think I’ll use that next time someone asks me where the nickname comes from 😁
It’s Dutch short for telefoon
That’s a good one too!
Nobody is guessing this one
You don’t go on pizza
If you figure it out, would you kindly tell me? I have absolutely no idea.
I know you mean satiric as satire but I sort of read it as “sarcastic” which fits with your reply, lol. A weasel that is ineffective on the internet, because satire is dead.
THAT weasel might be ineffective, but not me 😈
(I Know, answering 2 days later kinda defeats the purpose of my name… Mine is an obscure and regional reference, so i wouldn’t be mad if you don’t get it.)
