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My name's Darren. Here I am in the 'net.

It's a reference to a Simpsons episode, where Bart writes "nobody likes a sunburn slapper" on the blackboard in the opening.

I love the phrase “your average Joe”, but it doesn’t translate very well, or I couldn’t think of a translation quickly enough (English isn’t my first language), so when I was talking with my friends one day, I translated it as “your average mortal”, and I liked it

A few years after high school I joined the stage crew for a musical theatre group some friends started. At a performance after party, I was looking after some of the younger cast who had a few too many: one of them decided I was like Bosley to their Charlie's angels; the other felt I was looking after them in a fatherly way - so they combined it, and that became their nickname for me. Also, the nickname my siblings had given me, NoPatchGlandBoySleepyTheIronDeficientBrother was just too long.

I'm a huge fan of Bathory, so I just combined Quorthon with his previous stage name, Ace.

I read it in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books

It's from valarin (Tolkien's language of the Valar)

https://glaemscrafu.jrrvf.com/english/motsvalarins.html

Akasan is 'he says'

-z suffix is a person's name

So it's basically 'Teller' (I'd say storyteller) in valarin.

The 'h' was supposed to help in pronunciation, it only mildly does, I find

The Reddit API debacle that killed third party apps.

It means bare, naked, possession-less.

Calvin and Hobbes. I added a 'y' to the end because I could.

School nickname

In Portuguese "zero hora" is the midnight shift, people started making jokes when I slept in class and the name got stuck.

The way I drove and the papers I used for rolling joints back when I was a teenager

Tenno, wake up. It's time to put on the silly norg fish mask from cetus and make it look good.

I liked Legos and I liked Pikachu at the time(I was 11 or so? Trying to make a Minecraft account lol)

I don't think I'll be able to use this name for anything commercial if I wanted to do that...

I was playing some crappy F2P MMO (Perfect World, maybe?) and I made a warrior of some werewolf race. Just played with random wolf-related combinations and settled on this. Quit after two days and the username carried on for probably 15 years now.

I don't even really know all that much about Stalin. I just pulled it out of my ass.

Username should be pretty self explanatory. If you still don't get it you can either ask me or bravely run away.

CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan's best. Violà.

I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.

Guess.

I'm fatigued in more ways than one and people joke that I'm fae because I'm allergic to metal.

I was promoted from the rank of Commander.

I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.

I saw a watch company use the name Omega, before I even knew it was the name of a greek letter.

I was making a silly joke on Reddit...

Title of a book by my favourite author Jonathan Carroll. Almost all of my various handles over my time online have been some variation of one of his book titles because they're so unique. I used one on Reddit and some Nazi started stalking me, and it turns out some lady on Twitter uses it as her handle there, so he kept messaging me and calling me Stephanie.

From a famous Australian poem called... "Said Hanrahan"

https://www.australianculture.org/said-hanrahan-john-obrien/

https://youtu.be/FhykvrPZwA4

The pinnacle of Australian culture

I’m chaotic and I like cookies, nothing more to it!

"Behold, a token effort" sick line dropped by best boy linhardt in fire emblem warriors three hopes

My display name is probably from the most mysterious song on the internet

A bunch of goofy bureaucracy name fuckups to my real name. It’s a long and boring story. It’s in no way related to being a group for tacos addicts.

Minecraft username I coined at the age of 8. The name speaks for itself.

Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse

Redditors are stupid in very specific ways and it annoys me.

Hank likes hominy.

Every time I go to make a new username I just choose the first 2 words that come to mind

I mashed the keyboard.

Way more years ago than I would like to admit, when I was in my teens, I learned to play a Fender Mexican Stratocaster. It became my name on my BBS, and has stuck ever since.

Most people think it has to do with FM radio.

Edit: Also, this question has managed to get replies from almost all of the prolific participators on Lemmy. Nice.

Surname plus 3 random numbers

https://current931.bandcamp.com/album/hypnagogue-2