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[–] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I was trying to unlock a dragon-type safari in Pokémon Y and you can't just enter a random code for that - you need to find another player who has such a safari in their own game already, share codes with them, and then you both need to be online at the same time at least once. After lots of googling I found a person on reddit, but didn't have an account at the time so I created one just for that dumb safari.

I didn't even plan to keep the account in the first place, so I didn't care for a proper name - that's the reason I was named "justlookingfordragon" back then. I tried "just_looking_for_a_dragon_type_safari_THX" first but it exceeded the character limit.

After that, I didn't touch the account again for a few months but eventually started using it proper for giveawys of Pokémon breedjects, and then later Zelda-related stuff. Still never bothered to find a better name and it's become somewhat of a running gag for me to use that awkward username elsewhere (like for youtube and lemmy for example).