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				@WildOrangutan I just realised that we don't have hats!
Valve would go nuts over something like this - 
				
				Just remember that your old name can be found easily, for example from this https://devrant.com/rants/1392233/...
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				@electrineer
I imagined that even if the tags would update by themselves (which i doubted), there will still be non-tag mentions
But really, one more step it's not much, but it's a start - 
				
				Just asking for a friend, obvs, but, er... how do you change your devrant username? Is that possible?
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				@electrineer No, that would be highly inappropriate. I am the king of the geoffs.
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matt-jd9713ythats the nice thing about having a common name and stuff, profile: generic guy, name: locally so common you couldn't find me if you tried 
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