And most importantly, what is your mother's maiden name?
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I AM HUMAN. I ASSIGNED MYSELF THIS USERNAME AS PROOF.
Greetings, fellow human. I, too, chose a very normal human name as humans often express interest in the taxonomy of mathematical relations.
I'd have guessed it was from The Gamers! You could backstab someone with a ballista.
Violet (my birth flower) + 08 (my birth year).
bruh aren't you too young to be hornyposting...
26-8 =18
I am already dead
Back in 1998, I overclocked a 486DX2 66MHz to 80MHz.
Back in 2003 or 2004, I overclocked a 1280x1024 CRT monitor from 1994 to 2048x1536 resolution.
Back in 2006 or 2007, I overclocked a Pentium 4 motherboard to support CPUs beyond the listed max of 2.4GHz to 2.53GHz.
So, it only made sense, like who the fuck overclocks CRT monitors? It was about that time I picked my username. I'm still signed up with Yahoo with this username, if that site even still exists today 😂
Edit: The underscore is deliberate, it makes it a little confusing to verbally say my username, like "over under score clocks?"...
wait holy crap what? you can overclock CRT monitors?
Yes. Well, the older ones anyways, before they got full digital phase locking anyways.
I had a dumb but rather high tech 15 inch CRT for it to have come from 1994. No smart logic though, just a few relays you had to trigger with certain frequencies. No error messages, no safety checks, the thing either accepted the signal or it didn't. Or it could explode, that was the fun in trying, and yeah it actually worked and didn't explode!
How did I do it? Well, by then I had an XP system and an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200. Wait, this was in late 2005 or early 2006 come to think of it..
Anyways, I checked all the details of the monitor's supported frequencies, both horizontal and vertical. I found the max resolution, while compromising on the framerate, I used 25Hz interlaced to achieve that, with the Nvidia Control Center of the time..
man that's dope! never got to play around with CRTs because I was born too late. maybe for the better 'cause i'd probably instantly electrocute myself
Probably so, I got zapped quite a few times myself.
That's probably what's wrong with me ain't it? 🤔
It was officially rated for a max of 1280x1024, 50Hz progressive. The more common resolution of choice back then was 1024x768, 60Hz.
Well I wanted a much higher resolution than that, so by absolutely maxing out the horizontal output transistor frequency to 64KHz and doing some quick number crunching, I was able to make a custom display mode of 2048x1536, 25Hz interlaced.
Although the vertical refresh rate got both cut in half and also switched to interlaced, it still absolutely qualifies as overclocking, because the horizontal output transistor (HOT) is basically the most stressed out non high voltage component in any CRT monitor.
Running the HOT at the bleeding edge of the manufacturer's frequency rating of 64KHz could and would indeed burn it out prematurely if run too long like that, especially without additional cooling, so I didn't run it too damn long like that, but I just wanted to see if it was even possible.
The monitor itself was from 1994, so it was effectively all analog, no digital onscreen menus, no signal checking and no error message on the screen to say boohoo video mode not supported, the monitor just tuned itself to the signal and frequencies I calculated and arranged for it.
It did however have quite a few analog image transform buttons on its front panel though, for things like trapezoid and shear distortion, raster rotation, corner bowing, etc, lots of things most monitors from 1994 didn't have, which meant the CRT yoke had probably twice as many deflection coils as a regular consumer CRT.
Not bad for a monitor from 1994 that probably never saw anything over 1024x768 in practical use before I ever acquired it. I got literally 4 times the pixels of the typical desktop resolution of the time.
Was it worth it? For daily use, no. For learning experience, absolutely!
TL;DR - Much higher pixel resolution, at the cost of framerate.
I long ago lost that monitor and related hardware over the sands of time, moving one place to another multiple times.
The benefit though was that I effectively quadrupled the number of pixels on screen from the common 1024x768 resolution of the time.
1024x2=2048, 768x2=1536
I was basically pioneering early extra high definition video output before it was even a thing.
The images themselves wouldn't look any different, except smaller as each pixel was only 1/4 of original size, giving me a much larger visible pixel area for image editing.
It wouldn't have helped gameplay much though, as I had to sacrifice framerate to accomplish that.
Edit: You definitely can't do shit like that on modern LCDs, that category of overclocking is exclusive to old CRTs.
You've actually read this far?
Thank you for appreciating my words and the time it took to type them.
Sam's Photofacts: https://repairfaq.org/
Edit: I am not Sam, this is just a treasure trove of information on how to troubleshoot and repair discreet electronics.
Sam Goldwasser is to me almost as important as Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman...
People like you keep my hope in humanity alive.
In 2002, I tried dozens of fighting game related usernames on AOL Instant Messenger until I found one that was still available without modification. Since then, I've been hitstun, making combos possible.
The first part is short for my initials, (Zebra Ignatious Kavanaugh) the second part is for where I was born (Zambia, After Khristmas) and the 25 is for 2025, the year I was born.
Does that not strike you as boring?
Like do you identify in any way with that moniker?
I feel like I would forget my username.
That's so interesting. What was your mother's maiden name and the name of your first pet?
I've got no distractions. I play by sense of smell.
Im remarkably childish, and when asked a question the first thing that pops into my head is often "your mom". I live in Scotland now and "yer maw" is how they say that.
To the untrained eye, yermaw looks like it could be a real name, or some weird DnD monster or something so I got away with that to some extent.
My dogs, Kona + Loki = Kolonaki
But then I fucked it up when I first used it and spelled it KolAnaki.
Sounds like something Spez would say if he signed up on the Fediverse 😂🤣
I think the word "if" is doing some heavy lifting there. I can't really see it happening.
Oh cool, now what username would you have of you combined your mother's maiden name, your social security number, and your credit card number?
Slammed some letters together in a way that produces somewhat pronouncable word. Absolutely zero meaning behind it.
Random username generator
Most of my usernames are made like this to ensure I won't feel cringe about it some years later (memories with "UnicornSarah8272" in Brawl Stars at 2016)
To see if I could
It's my real name.
I searched for my middle name (name that I go by) and it was already taken but surprisingly my first name was still available on Piefed ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I counted BACKWARDS
Well I think I speak for the youth when I say
Six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven six seven...
Well I like creative usernames as much as the next guy, but I ended up with this instead.
It's the names of two characters I like. From Paper Mario and the Trails series.
It's punny. It sounds like the Finnish Peter Pan, but it actually means Peter Lay (as in f*ck).
My friends hated the word "moist". I then thought of a way to make my friends hate my username more than they already would have.
Surprisingly, I still have friends.
I'm drunk. I live in Texas. So it was very difficult to choose my username.
Original username is because:
Me Very Big Sad Right Now™ (depressed af)
(economy also kinda about to become very big sad... which could kill me)
As for the display name (some clients/platforms might not show it) that I later chose cuz I don't like the original name anymore:
I like 海闊天空 the song, and so I just picked 黃家駒 (Wong Ka Kui) the lead vocalist to as a name to represent my identity as a native Cantonese speaker... cuz I wanna feel unique™ lol
Sudo. It's what sudo stands for.
Or Switch User Do? You can use it run stuff as other users too, not just superuser (root).
That would be the "modern" version. At some point it changed from "Super User Do" to "Switch User Do".
Or Wikipedia is wrong. Which can happen.
This name was made for a MUD back in 1994. The full name is Pronell Mordini, and he was a perrin (otterfolk) merchant king, a background character in the world.
I was tasked with making my own palace and marketplace but the game shut down months later.
I've more or less been using the name online ever since then, as it's almost never taken. Someone did get to pronell@gmail.com first, but who cares, especiially now?
My wife sometimes goes by Mrs. Pronell online. I've teased her that it should technically be Mrs. Mordini.
08 is an unreasonable birth year to have. You're simply too young. Stop it.
Ananas (pineapple) + "nääs" ('you see' in Finnish = näetkös, but in local dialect - it's also a bit of a stereotypical joke that people repeat it too much, like "you know").
Back when I was in highschool I wanted a gamer tag that my friends would be embarrassed to lose to.
It started as simply cocopuff
From Jules Verne's posthumously published work, "Paris in the 20th Century"
“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from the Academic of Sciences, and Monsieur de Pulfasse's 'Meditations on Oxygen;' and we have the 'Poetic Parallelogram,' and even the 'Decarbonated Odes. . '
As a scientist with a deep love of the humanities, I found Verne's view that science would ruin literature and poesy quite humorous. Especially since in reality it has just neglected it.

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