He's a great dev. Despite that, a friend and I would troll him pretty hard on IRC. There was a user who popped on at some point named Elig who was good friends with him. We speculated that it was a fake alter ego of his (Elig is Gile backwards, short for Gilead).

Also his name Exophase came about because someone asked him to name a boss, but it was too cool a name for someone's game, so he used it for himself