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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days 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

[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bullshit, max Xbox Live gamertag length was 12 characters

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In the 360 era, it was 15 characters. Still not enough

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 38 points 3 days ago

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

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As a child, I loved the x files. I wanted a cool name for AOL. Thought I was clever picking the character Deep Throat, I was so cool. Didn't realize till later what it also meant.

[–] tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

gay: the possibility two people beat anon to that tag

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

People sometimes did it just because it looked kool

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To make it look cool it would have to be xXxTheChildPredatorxXx

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

woah, let's hang and go bowling

[–] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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

[–] frog@feddit.uk 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fake: Anon thinking of others

Gay: Literally named ChildPredator

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How bout not calling gay people child predators

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I think the context makes it clear I was going for "this guy is interested in little boys which is gay", not "gay people are interested in little boys"

[–] julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah but there's a subset of people who are both slightly humourless and who don't know not to affirm the consequent who are going to be super offended.

[–] FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Paedos can be exclusively interested in little girls, you know. They can even be women themselves if you can imagine such a thing.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

would have been better if it was Dutch

not sure how a silly language would have made it better

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

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