[hericium]

Hah. Just yesterday I was contemplating how awful Angelina Jolie's character's handle "Acid Burn" was. Like - who the fuck would choose such nickname for themselves?

Other than that - cult movie. Love it. Awesome soundtrack, not that bad acting and not that bad script for back when computers and internet were hip, not just the usual thing.

"Hackers" caricaturally but still somewhat properly presents the phreaking culture which was and is rather uncommon for non-niche movies, especially from that era.

This movie aged well.

[pohl]

Both Acid Burn and Zero Cool had handles that came off as self-deprecating. I kind of liked that, as counterpoint to the competitive ego dynamic between them.

[ZeroCool2u]

Same.

[onychomys]

I think we all had some screen names in high school that seem pretty terrible now.

[munificent]

Back when I was sixteen, I hung out with this kind of crowd and most of the usernames were about how dangerous/scary/bad the person was. I thought it would be funny to deliberately choose a username that was the exact opposite of all of that.

Thirty years later, I'm still using it.

[mwcampbell]

I have to admit I'm almost 42 years old and a native English speaker, and until just a few minutes ago I didn't actually know what "munificent" meant. I just looked it up, and based on the thoughtfulness of your comments here, I think it's an appropriate username.

[derwiki]

Ultra laser. Doctor Doom!

[vehemenz]

Boy meets world. Let's go?

[toast0]

Hey now, I think mine is fine :p

[geoffbp]

We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!

[marpstar]

> Awesome soundtrack

Hackers is my go-to movie as an initial test for a home theater system.

[ulkesh]

Mine is the opening to Tron: Legacy. But Hackers is a good one as well.

[baldeagle]

I thought it was a pun on the chemical and the database properties (hydrofluoric acid vs Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability)