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How attached are you to your username? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thelsim to c/[email protected]

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Do you have a single username you feel attached to?
Or do you like to use different names for different occasions?

Edit two and a half days later:
Thank you all for answering my question! It was so interesting and fun to read all of your responses.
I really appreciate you for taking the time to write.

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[–] thelsim 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, so your username made me curious and I decided to look up who or what this Porygon is (I'm not into Pokemon at all).
And I got to this little bit of info about the first episode that featured this Pokemon:

This episode caused more than 600 children in Japan to be transferred to hospitals by ambulance because of seizure-like symptoms they reported, due to a flashing strobe effect present at several points of the episode, and was therefore banned and never aired again anywhere in the world.

That's interesting! I don't know where I'm going with this, I just wanted to share :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As for my username, the pokemon Porygon was never shown in another episode of the show. This is in spite of the Pokemon not being the actual source of the flashing lights. That was Pikachu. #JusticeForPorygon

[–] thelsim 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for explaining! That's sounds really unfair yes.
You keep fighting that good fight! :)