Ask HN: What did you name your username after?

4 points by smush 7y ago ↗ HN

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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n-gatedotcom 7y ago ↗

N-gate.com

JetSpiegel 7y ago ↗

Guess.

smush 7y ago ↗

Der Spiegel but attached to a trijet airplane?

I have no idea.

JetSpiegel 7y ago ↗

That's a better story than reality.

It's from Cowboy Bebop actually.

activekerrar 7y ago ↗

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.

_Schizotypy 7y ago ↗

SSMSHU?

SMUltimateaSH

Somehow this one is lost on me.

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

smush 7y ago ↗

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

dpg23 7y ago ↗

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

hopesthoughts 7y ago ↗

After my personal blog.

DrScump 7y ago ↗

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

4d66ba06 7y ago ↗

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