A thank you...

[catfish]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=catfish

catfish
A catfish is someone who pretends to be someone they're not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances.
Did you hear how Dave got totally catfished last month?! The fox he thought he was talking to turned out to be a pervy guy from San Diego!

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I was really falling for that gorgeous gal on Facebook, but she turned out to be a catfish.

All well and good if I hadn't been using this nickname most of my life and over 15 years online. That link I posted earlier was me from 2003 (still typing here) and that pic was one of a walking catfish (duh)...

Sorry, I have right to use the name, not some Johnny come lately...
If you've ever had you ass handed to you by "catfish" in EA's NHL 1999, 2000 or 2001, it was probrably me (or otingocnitac, lol). If you've ever had your ass handed to you in Socom 2 by "catfish" (or Justin_D_Nile), that was also me... If you've ever soft-modded your Xbox 1, you probrably used something I had a hand in (no, I didn't develop the hacks, just improved 'em). The Linux fonts were released and I discovered how to use them for other things. The "swapless" audio hack was "discovered" by me and coded by the guy who coded the original. Here's a script I made for signing xbe files EZ-Xbedump
No, this isn't about "me" and making myself feel important, I'm just defending my use of my moniker.
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Oh yeah, I'm calling Bullshit! on apophenia's statement... "Both sock puppetry and trolling require more effort than I can be arsed to give"
Fucking trolls...
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