"I know very well that he spent that time and my point is the unnecessarity of it. He did specifically tell me what a long time he spent on it. Also, by logging into a game related forum once every fifteen minutes or so as I sit at my computer writing my term paper for english, I'm not wasting my time. I'm on here for roughly two minutes each time and it breaks up the tedium of writing. I'm being productive and checking around a fun site which I enjoy at the same time. With him we're talking hours of sitting in one place in his room just deep in thought, just like Plato or Socrates."
That may seem excessive, but a gamertag is essentially a nickname. Nobody wants a stupid (to them) nickname. So yeah, people like to put some thought into it, because they want to be referred to as something they like the sound of. If you first few choices aren't already taken by someone else, it's a lot easier too.
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