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• LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bullshit, max Xbox Live gamertag length was 12 characters

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  • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In the 360 era, it was 15 characters

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s him! It’s the man my parents always warned me about!

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• tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fake: there is no way anon needed to wrap x’s around that tag

  gay: the possibility two people beat anon to that tag

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People sometimes did it just because it looked kool

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    • DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To make it look cool it would have to be xXxTheChildPredatorxXx

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• kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I love that there is at least two other people with that username, but with less Xs around it.

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  • Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe not, some immature kids think anything with X in it looks cool. Just look at Musk renaming twitter.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It used to be “the thing” in early 2000’s or around there.

      Sudden flashback to Pepsi X as well.

      They’re definitely not there just he taught the simpler form was taken. Simplicity and minimal design is not what was in vogue in the noughties.

      These young’uns don’t get it, amirite

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• frog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My friend had an AOL name ending in “420”. My mother asked me about this person. I had no idea why she was so curious about his birthday.

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  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Years ago I was reviewing resumes with my boss. He handed me one and asked for my input.

    The email address ended in 420. I told my boss that either they and Hitler had something in common or they probably won’t pass a drug test. My boss asked for an explanation and I pointed out the email to him. He just took the resume and binned it.

    So yeah, don’t put 420 in your email even if you share a birthday with Hitler.

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    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Narc.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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    • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That wasn’t very cashmoney of you.

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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For context: This happened in a German speaking country.

  Friend of mine thought it would be cool to have Bladesaw as a gamer tag, but he was a kid and his English wasn’t great, so he spelled “saw” with German phonetics: “Bladesau”.

  Until he was at some gaming event where he entered some competition and was called up to the stage as “Blade Sau” (Fat pig).

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  • Lesrid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have a similar story where I thought Hades would be a nice edgy name. But everyone with a mic pronounced it Heyds. So I later changed it to Hadies and for some reason that worked

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• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fake: Anon thinking of others

  Gay: Literally named ChildPredator

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  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How bout not calling gay people child predators

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    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think the context makes it clear I was going for “this guy is interested in other kids which is gay”, not “gay people are interested in kids”

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• hbar@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As a child, I loved the x files. I wanted a cool name for AOL. Thought I was clever pickling the character Deep Throat.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Predator series would have been better if it was Dutch with a new crew being hunted by a different alien Big-game Hunter every time. Like he becomes infamous for taking out the first guy so they all want a go at him for clout. Then they could have different gimmicks like a guy with dogs, or an urbane alien who chats you up and uses poison.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    would have been better if it was Dutch

    not sure how a silly language would have made it better

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    • Aganim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It wouldn’t. Source: it’s my native language.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mine was Prowler325. It was like 1997 and the sweet looking Plymouth Prowler had just come out.

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  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Misread that as Prower and just assumed you liked Tails

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