Sigh. I knew the time would come when I'd have to defend myself against such accusations.
The truth is, evil_d is a shortened form of the nick I usually use. It does kind of make me sound like, say, Chuck D. And, well, I'm cool with that. But I wasn't trying for it.
My real nick is "evil_deceiver". It's a reference to Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy. I'm actually trying to sound not like a rapper, but like a pretentious philosophy student. However, since no one ever gets the Descartes reference, I usually end up sounding like a wannabe hax0r. I can't win for losing, it seems.
But wait, you say. Why didn't I just use "evil_deceiver" as my nick for the Strip Creator? And that's a fine question. In fact, I tried to, but I got told that it was already in use. Sure enough, it was. Now, the interesting question is, who is this mysterious person who's using my nick and hasn't created any comics? The way I see it, there are three possibilities. The first is that someone else out there also uses the same nick, but doesn't think much of the Strip Creator. The second is that I registered it myself, but mistyped my e-mail address and never got the password. The third is that a member of a mysterious shadow organization is going around registering my handles in various places so I can't use them. In fact, this third possibility seems to me to be the most likely.
So, in conclusion, if your wife feels the need to mock me, tell her that there are plenty of valid reasons for her to do so, and she doesn't need to make up any new ones. In any case, I do appreciate your willingness to inflict physical harm on your significant other on my behalf. Like you said, it's the thought that counts.
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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!
