As with all my online accounts:

• Visit a name generator website.
• Find one that doesn’t suck.
• Check if it’s available.
• Here we are.

And each has a different email address. I hope adtech loves me. 😁

RAWRGWAWGGR

I learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube and figured I could make a username out of it.

Plus, it doubles as a reference to a pixel on a screen and I’m a security engineer, so… It kinda works both ways.

I had a boss back in the day that I had a really good rapport with, and he would jokingly call me Shrek because I was almost a foot taller than he was. I also worked in a lot of restaurants in my late teens to early twenties and found a love for cooking that has never really gone away.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_have_two_cows

I didn’t.

I just really like the character.

my dad came up with it on his own and I adopted it

It’s a reference to Hollow knight and Subnautica

Also it’s a double negative

I was a bookish child and my mother used to take me to the local library weekly. On the way to the children’s section I had to pass the large print shelf. There was always this one hardback book there, The Spitting Image. It had a bizarre looking gargoyle on the cover and I used to look away so I wouldn’t have nightmares about it, but peek at it between my fingers. Every week for years the spitting image would watch me run past it to the Tintin books. Eventually I lost my fear and I could look it straight in the face. It was a goofy thing, nothing like as sinister as I first thought.

Once upon a time the world was a magical place and I used to invent my own rituals as protection.

Apathy during the reddit drama

Took the windows shortcut “Control-Alt-Delete”, removed the delete and trol, and replaced the c with a k

Divine inspiration more than 20 years ago.

Mistakes.
I created a test account on SDF pubnix. Since it was a test account, I didn’t use my usual username, but just user224. Then some good user (xiled) decided to verify my account. Thus I had to stick with it.
Then later on Twitter I’ve seen SDF announce their Lemmy instance. Not knowing what Lemmy is, I’ve used the same username as on SDF pubnix, which was an accident.
I can’t change it either, and this account has some history already. Just building up on mistakes. Just like when I find a “temporary” solution to something.

Main character from The Darkness that Comes Before/The Prince of Nothing series by R. Scott Bakker. Liked the character, liked the name, loved the books.