What do you think (this person's) username means, without looking it up?

You got pretty close by accident because it is a wordplay on the pronounciation of colonel! And like your friend, I initially thought it sounds like “ko low nell” for a very long time until I realized that English pronounciations are just guesswork sometimes :D That's why the word is now stuck in my mind forever (alongside town names like "Gloucester").

Right? I'm highly skeptical here as well 🤨

A common misconception, you might read this short essay to avoid one of the most common strawman.

Hah, I don't even have a fireplace, candles or a warm drink. I'm a fraud!

::: spoiler spoiler yes, it is a vibe. but in hindsight, I also like to treat it as a reminder, or a goal. It's the internet, why make it any angrier? Make a site a home. :::

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Yay, time to explain! You may be familiar with the term autodidact, someone who crafts their own curriculum and teaches themselves subjects without relying on the guidance of other humans.

So, didactic means to be used for instruction, to teach.

I can interpret my name in two ways I think. First, is that I am an instructive dumbass; my incompetance and consistent foolishness provides lessons, learning from my mistakea. Second, I am a teacher who is also a dumbass.

yep, occupying a permanent spot as #1 on my favorite bands list

Pretty much lol, I got into programming in high school by writing programs on my TI-84. Needed a username to post some programs I made online and that's what I've gone by online ever since.

Of course, these days I'm a software engineer and mainly do embedded C and desktop C++ as a hobby with my OpenRGB project.

It just means there are 7 other russjr's on here.

Kinda weird.

Certainly a good guess! It actually comes from the fact that my name is Russ[ell], and my name comes directly from my father so I'm "Russell Jr". Then the number 08 comes from my birth date, which is the 8th of March!

maybe it just didn't load but I didn't see that avatar when I guessed!! I can't believe I forgot her name.

In Poland, the term "kierunkowy" can be associated with a phone number and a specific region. That was my first guess ;p

In Poland, the term "kierunkowy" can be associated with a phone number, specifically 47 - Norway. That was my first guess ;)

lol, I like your thinking.

I just love the rooster in pants, thus the name tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H76uUjVJ0i4

It admittedly is a bit of a tricky one...

::: spoiler spoiler It's a combination of the metasyntactic variable foo and the German word for "lint", which is "Fussel". :::

But I really like the cute weasel idea as well 😄

Wrong guess, but right reasoning! The word is ferre (to bring), not ferrvm (iron).

(Third hint: I don't vsvally distingvish v/u in Latin.)

Nope! Though I do like hearing a good story, haha. I won’t post the answer in case anyone else wants to guess, but if you want to know it’s easily searchable. :)

In Poland, the term "kierunkowy" can be associated with a phone number and a specific region. That was my first guess ;p

Nope! That’s a good guess though considering my recent hobbies. I had a pipe burst earlier this year and ever since I’ve been working to repair the damage in my house. My dad has worked on houses my whole life and I’ve learned a ton from him! It’s nice to be able to stretch the insurance check a bit by doing the hard work on my own.

I have a leak in my roof though, and I’m not looking forward to the quote for that because my roof is old and apparently not well ventilated, so I’ve got moss in my shingles now. That’s something I can’t do on my own.

yep that's it

nah that guy lives down the street

Heh... This never occurred to me. I'll just claim that's what it is from now on.

That would be pretty cool. To be honest, what I had in mind when I come up with this (as a teenager) is probably impossible to guess but maybe someone will surprise me.

Yours reminds me of Cardi B but I don't think that's it, right? :D

Yeah I tend to read it as "amen ok" myself these days... There are actually two letters, o and e, missing from the very end. The one I wanted to use was either taken or I, wisely, figured out a phrase from some random anime isn't something I want to use for the next 20 years :) Can't remember because it's been too long.

Lol that's funny but not even close its an auto suggested world of Warcraft name from almost 20 years ago don't even know why I still use it have not played the game in over a decade

Yup, I'm going to guess Pegasus and Celestia combined.

Nope, never played Terraria. Here's a hint: I gotta have more cowbell!

Nope, never saw the movie :p.

Uhh...I actually don't, haha! I'm probably missing something, sorry!

yup

I do enjoy the genre, but the two are unrelated I’m afraid 😅

the Fizzle beam was the name of an attack I used in a role play game, I was a fire mage ( a fizzle is a failed nuclear explosion) , and bleam is just beam with a L in the middle, for no reason

THAT weasel might be ineffective, but not me 😈

(I Know, answering 2 days later kinda defeats the purpose of my name... Mine is an obscure and regional reference, so i wouldn't be mad if you don't get it.)

Ah, interesting :D Actually, it is a name, but from a fantasy novel

I like that interpretation :p but I had a different thought process with my name

The "Zero" is a nod to Zero from the Megaman X series (I love him mad) and "the Red" is a nod to Axle the Red, a maverick boss from Megaman X5. He's my favorite boss across the MMX games, so I did a dumb mashup of the two lol

Definitely Halo, was a huge fan back in the day and now just keep using the name for consistency.

Ding ding ding

Three VI = three sixes = 666

as a hint it begins with M and ends with ass effect

Haha not quite. It was a fandomly generated gamer tag for games for windows live when I was young. Somehow I remembered it and it just sorta stuck lol

Why yes, yes it is!

Only in the 1940s

Close! Thought the word lucid was cool and am nerdy with servers, so I chose daemon as it relates to my hobby/career.

More or less a realistic kernel service.

Honestly thought it sounded cool, like a realistic kernel service.

Not that far off, not actually a spell, but it's a fantasy videogame, and the "no die today" is right :D

It's from Gothic, an awesome standalone RPG series released more than 20 years ago. Ulu-Mulu is a symbol of peace that you have to craft and wear at some point into the story to avoid being killed on sight while entering a city full of orcs. An orc shaman is helping you in your quest and he keeps saying "stranger wear Ulu-Mulu stranger no die", it was so cute that I "adopted" it into my username.

That's hilarious, I think I'll use that next time someone asks me where the nickname comes from 😁

That's a good one too!

Correct! Magus means mage. It's derived from my first and last name

I would second that, I also immediately had the "mage" association.

yeah i don't think this is much better but a name's a name

It's a beat tape, but absolutely! ^-^

It's not from Polandball at all, i hate that den of racism, orientalism and all kinds of shitty chauvinism.

It's actually reference to one of the oldest polish memes "Russia is not a country, it's a state of mind" usually being thrown at something weird happening in Russian social media. But since that's just a pot calling kettle black, when i first created that account to spread some polish facts on chapo, what else i could call it :D