SoNick

It means nothing, this isn’t really an open-ended question.

I get that, I’ve been “SoNick” or some variation of it for a few decades now. However, a friend of mine uses different - but thematically similar - usernames for different services, when I asked her about it she explained that as a girl on the internet she has attracted more than a few stalkers; changing up the username makes it harder for them to find her on different services.

The difference is that ActivityPub clients currently only display the username part and hide the host for some reason. This can lead to confusion, I don’t get why the full address isn’t displayed by default.

On one hand, a Sonic hacking forum I’ve been a part of since before its current forum software has been running the same database since 2003, on the other hand I fully acknowledge that it’s the exception and not the rule.

I still say “Never give up! Never surrender!” occasionally to this day

I came here to comment Sir Terry Pratchett’s works as well! They’re all really good while also poking fun at fantasy tropes

He was elected to lead, not to read

Starship Troopers is weird because the book went full on in embracing the military-industrial complex and was kind of shit because of it. The movie made it a parody instead and it worked great!
…then they made a few sequels that yeah were more in line with the original book but in this case is that really a good thing?

Again? Wasn’t Gnome3 bad enough?

Is it 2002, or the early days of the internet?