Ask HN: What did you name your username after?

Posted by smush on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Can be your HN username or a username for a different site.

Example: SMUSH is a common acronym for Super SMaSH bros Ultimate and I happened to purchase that game the same day I created a fresh HN account.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by activekerrar on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:25AM (#18715760)

Based on a name I made up for a character in a story I was writing many, many years ago. The name just stuck with me.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by dpg23 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @12:08PM (#18717160)

The Newspeak phrase "Double Plus Good Duckspeaker" from George Orwell's 1984.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by DrScump on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:34PM (#18721029)

The origin is a long story, but I've been using it online for 30 years.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by 4d66ba06 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:40PM (#18722555)

Randomly generated so as to not be associated with my real identity.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by _Schizotypy on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @10:18AM (#18716146)

SSMSHU?

SMUltimateaSH

Somehow this one is lost on me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by smush on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @11:20AM (#18716691)

It's not a perfect acronym. I didn't come up with it either, but for some reason the games have had the following shortened forms:

Super Smash Bros. -> SSB or SB64 Super Smash Bros. Melee -> SSBM OR SMMSH Super Smash Bros. Brawl -> SSBB OR SMBSH (pronounced sm-bush) Super Smash Bros. for 3DS / for Wii U -> SM4SH (the 4th Smash Bros game) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -> SMUSH

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by hopesthoughts on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:59PM (#18719548)

After my personal blog.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by JetSpiegel on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:21AM (#18715737)

Guess.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by smush on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:26AM (#18715766)

Der Spiegel but attached to a trijet airplane?

I have no idea.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by JetSpiegel on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:07AM (#18724953)

That's a better story than reality.

It's from Cowboy Bebop actually.

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Re:Ask HN: What did you name your username after? by n-gatedotcom on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @09:13AM (#18715696)

N-gate.com

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