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I feel a little dumb asking this, but why is 'asdf' used in the moniker? Is there any significance to it?

It was the first name that came to mind when I was thinking about easy to remember name. Other than that, there's no significance.

Default character movement keys in videogames, middle 3 fingers resting on awd by default.

I don't really buy this. Asdf is where your fingers land for general purpose typing, which predates computers, thats not something gaming gets to own.

Default movement in games is also WASD.

Oh whoops I completely messed up lol.

wasd are the default movement keys. asdf is just the qwerty left hand home row.

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