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PlaceboEffect  ·  3258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the story behind your username?

I know about those heavy weeks. But it was a good kind of heavy for me. Christmas is a time for me to sit back and take stock of the good things in life: family, friends, and making a difference in the small sphere of influence I possess in this big, big world.

But as for the username, it started as a gamertag, the joke among my buddies being that I had randomly good games where I would decimate the competition, and on average do really badly. So if people met me in one my really good games, they'd find out they'd taken the placebo. The effect being that you think you've found a really good player but in actuality I tend to kind of suck in competitive games. Unless it's a a RealTime Strategy or Turn Based RPG. Then I'll whomp your ass every day ending in y.