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by ta1243 487 days ago
P@55w0rd --- excellent

wriggler-airborne-genealogy-wainscotings --- awful

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I hate how they connect those words, i much prefer the random choices that i can get from 1Password: WRIGGLER$airborne2GENEALOGY!wainscotings

Now, i have had several sites that i cant accept passwords longer then 16 or 20 characters so i have to return to P@55w0rd like passwords (random, not work based).

I stumbled upon a few sites which have slightly different rules on registration page comparing to login. On registration page the password is length limited and they cut off the excess without saying. But on login page they don't do that so the password you pasted no longer works
You're falling for the same errors that xkcd pointed out in the first place.

Adding different connectors and different cases adds a lot more to remember and hardly any extra entropy