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diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/028-names.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/028-names.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..de47c074 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/028-names.7 @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +.Dd October 30, 2021 +.Dt NAMES 7 +.Os "Causal Agency" +. +.Sh NAME +.Nm Names +.Nd three types +. +.Sh DESCRIPTION +There are (at least) three +different types of names +a person has. +. +.Pp +First, there are normie names. +These are names usually made up +of several words +each of which is capitalized. +Most people have one of these, +but it's possible to have more. +They're names that might appear on +various types of Documents. +A +.Dq legal name +(dubious) +is a normie name, +but normie names need not be +.Dq legal +(dubious). +I list this category first +not because it's more important, +but because it is by far the most boring. +. +.Pp +Next, there are Real Names. +Most people have at least a few +and will probably go through +different ones over time. +Your Real Names are anything people +use to refer to you. +On the internet these are often not capitalized. +Sometimes that is the only distinction +between a Real Name +and a normie name. +. +.Pp +There was a period of time +when I was playing a lot of TF2 +and not really leaving my apartment. +I had set my steam name to +.Dq gluten product +(yeah, from that dril tweet) +and I talked in the game's voice chat +quite a bit. +Naturally other Gamers in voice chat +called me +.Dq gluten +and at some point I realized +that over the span of months +I had been refered to as +.Dq gluten +more often than any other name. +So that was a Real Name of mine. +People used it and I responded to it. +. +.Pp +Last, there are the True Names. +The kind of name that knowledge of +gives one power over a person. +I don't think any humans +know their own True Names, +but I do believe they exist. +It's possible that other animals +know theirs. +It's probably best not to know though, right? +I think if I knew mine +I would always worry +about accidentally revealing it. +. +.Sh AUTHORS +.An june Aq Mt june@causal.agency diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile index 5b3c86b8..af50eee7 100644 --- a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ TXTS += 024-seprintf.txt TXTS += 025-v6-pwd.txt TXTS += 026-git-comment.txt TXTS += 027-openbsd-linode.txt +TXTS += 028-names.txt all: colb ${TXTS} |