Wonder if anyone else has a familiar nickname that's way off from their legal name. I quite like mine and have been having my close friends use it. It's probably the closest to a true name I got since internally I use it when talking to myselfs. It tends to be odd to my white friends but idk sometimes it hard to explain to them
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Same. Except, my nickname is based off my legal name but people who don't speak the language wouldn't know this. I've been told they thought I just decided to pick a totally different name because it sounded cooler. Haha
Fr my white friends here my legal name and can't connect the dots, my mom has a cooler one goes by Maria but for some reason her family call her kooka I think that's how you spell it
Kuka? Is she Puerto Rican? I knew an older Puerto Rican lady named Kuka.
Please feel free not to answer to avoid doxxing though.
cuca is also a nickname in mexico
Ah. It's a nickname for Maria?
i think so, but i seen it being used for concepcion
Funny, according to Wikitionary, Cuca refers to
An evil old hag in Brazilian folklore, said to attack children who don't go to bed early.
That's it and nah she from mexico so idk why she has that she just said that's her family nickname
Extremely common to have several depending on context. My will tell stories about how can know someone for decades without knowing their govy.
Even in gamer(tm) spaces most ppl will just refer to each other by their tags.
Yeah for me most of my friends online know my name, like not legal name but familiar nickname. It feels nice I always wanted my irl friends to use it but I was too meek to get them to use it now when they call me it I feel happy.
Hell yeah new empoc mega
The main riff for the next song laid out
I actually built this riff upon an older djoke comment I made here
After this track, I got one more to write, and it's just gonna be a very short instrumental, like no more than 2.5 minutes most likely.
There is new heist game about a group reclaiming back stuff stolen from colonizers and crackers are crying in the comments
What a fucking banger.
Would your platform allow a game about whites stealing from African museums?
The stupidity on display is astounding
I structured an intro and a verse section.
The verse starts when the ambient guitar comes in at 0:27. I decided to make the ambient guitar and the chug guitar polyrhythmic.
I wrote this song to be a semitone flat, being in drop E♭₁ instead of drop E₁.
RAHHH, i love chicago footwork im learning it rn, i love dancing so much such a great way to interact with music beyond listening to it