Could you make a living being the guy who comes up with video game characters' names?

Could you make a living being the guy who comes up with video game characters' names?
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It’s a part of the video game creation pipeline, yes, but no there is not one guy who sits thinking up names all day. There was likely a guy who sat and wrote a program that would generate random names, then he moved on to a different part of working on the game.
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