The name is a bit of a long story using text to speech in Sea of Thieves to annoy another crew. Tried getting to to speak in an irish accent and misspelled “charms” and the way the TTS said “chamrs” was just hilarious. So there we go.
Out of habit. It was my reddit username for almost a decade and the first thing that came to mind when I made a lemmy account.
Why I originally chose “justlookingfordragon” on reddit: I was looking for fellow Pokémon X/Y players with dragon-type safaris willing to share their codes, but the simplest usernames like “dragon” and “safari” were already taken, and “Imjustlookingforadragontypesafarikthxbai” didn’t fit the character limit. I originally didn’t even plan to keep the account, so I didn’t care that the username was silly and awkward.
To paraphrase a longer explanation, I’m a Nintendo fan, I like Mario games, I love the Bowser fights. I wanted some alliteration on that and Bashing came to mind. Played with that and ended with BowserBasher
I forgot my password to bitwarden so now I just completely transitioned into a nihilist. Display name is different from username, but basically the same theme.
TLDR: in our current capitalist and technologically advanced society, we increasingly live in a world where reality and fiction mix, so much so that it's hard to tell what is real or isn't real. They blend into each other. This is hyperreality. Arguably what's real doesn't even matter as much. The 'truth' generated by (social) media is often far more consequential than something as trivial as what actually happened.
For people who like movies, watch Cronenberg's Videodrome or Existenz. That's what 'reality' has become.
I was a big weeb, and my original name was Nekomaru. As I "grew out" of it, I translated the name back into English, and realized I actually liked it better.
Its the same username I had at the other place that shall not be named, until I got permabanned for reasons still unclear to me.
I originally joined via the swimming sub there, looking for recommendations on waterproof music players to use while swimming so I can listen to AC/DC and Motohead etc while swimming laps. I’m a bogan (Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated) and I swim laps every day. Therefore… waterbogan
Can’t a man lie in peace these days. Back in my day lies spread like wildfire in a cornfield during a heavy wind. This why we can’t have nice things anymore. Everyone is snooping on everyone memory talk thingy and reading the most intimate thing they shared to another stranger at 3AM after yet another mental breakdown. Shame on you. Shame.
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