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.

Mine accurately describes me

I usually go for a play on words

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.

I just use my password.

Hellsing fan yo

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

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

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.

I generally just use my name

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

Something I was really into at one particular moment.

Be edgy and random

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

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 like donuts

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)

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

mine is just a shortened version of freedom fighter

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Just kind of random gibberish

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.

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

It just sort of came to me

Something bad had just happened to me

Whatever came to mind first

I had no idea and translated that to Swahili.

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.

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