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Naming Your Character In RPGs?
Thanks to InsertCredit for their feature discussing the player-inputted choice for character names in videogames. They discuss some of the joys of DIY character naming ("Some people will buy an RPG, only to name the characters after their favorite profane words"), as well some more unlikely pleasures ("I became obsessed with buying used Final Fantasy VI cartridges for 100 yen at a certain game shop in Akihabara, just to see what all the characters had been named.") Taking a lead from this distinctly unconventional article, what names have Slashdot Games readers entered for characters in their favorite RPGs, and why?
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Feature: notes from FF Dog #1: on naming characters in videogames
by tim rogers
07092003
One thing I've observed on any number of forums about videogames is that people can't stop arguing about what makes an "RPG" an "RPG." Some are clever enough to define the name of the genre: "RPG means 'Role-Playing Game' -- an RPG is a game where you play a role." Some people are quick to shoot this down, with much typing of words. Some people quote the significance of naming a character in a pen-and-paper RPG, and having never played any of those, I don't always get what they're driving at. I do know, however, that in the past fourteen days, seven readers of this very website have emailed me, asking for advice on naming a "badass samurai" for their "new campaign." I guess it's that time of the year.
I get lots of weird questions from the people of the internet, and I won't get into most of them. I guess it's best to start this by saying that someone asked me the other day what an RPG was to me, and I said I wasn't really sure. I thought this over while replaying Final Fantasy IV for my Project FF Dog feature, in which we named the hero of the quest "FF Dog" and the summoner, Rydia, "j00dy."
It's like this: An RPG is a game where I name the main character, and/or I don't ever think to change the main character's name.
Supporting evidence of my belief: in Konami's Cybernator for Super Nintendo, I'm offered the choice to change my mecha pilot's name from the options menu. I change it, sometimes. I do not, however, care what his name is. Sure, it's fun to see people call him "Billy" in the cut scenes. That doesn't mean I really, honestly, care. Therefore, Cybernator is not an RPG.
In an RPG, I think, the decision of a character's name should fill me with a kind of anxiety. I decided this today when FF Dog mourned the death of the Sage Tellah by screaming out in vain: "No! g00zer!" Did I really want to name Tellah "g00zer"? Was this not too silly? What did this say about me, or about videogames?
I didn't really come to any conclusion -- just that RPGs sure have changed.
If you were enough of a loser to play Ultima: Exodus on your NES (hey, I was), you know that pretty much the greatest coolism that game offered the player -- aside from the permission to kill any random townsperson -- was the joy of seeing whatever four-letter names you chose for your characters on the sidebar during a battle.
The original Dragon Quest ramped up the level of coolness -- here you were as one lone man on a quest to save a princess and kill a couple of dragons, and the descendent of a hero, no less, and the only name he had was the name you chose. This guy who, in the world of the game, was someone: he bore the name you gave him. That alone kept me playing.
When Dragon Quest II rolled around, we had three heroes, each of them royalty of their respective kingdoms, all of them distantly related to the guy you played in the first one.
The original Final Fantasy took a step in some ambiguous direction for the significance of character-naming: here you were as four heroes from another time period, each of you carrying a Crystal, each of you having a character class and a name of your choosing. In a recent experience of the Final Fantasy Origins edition, I played with a party full of Doug, Billy, FF Dog, and Jules, each one named after I person I, in some form or another, know. Yet I felt this distance between the game and myself: when the king of Cornelia first met my group, he called us by our team name: "Light Warriors." Never once was FF Dog or Billy referred to by name. I felt like I had been tricked into playing, not that I was playing by my own will. When I die in my Gameboy Color edition of Dragon Warrior I, the king wakes me with the words, "Billy! You died!" This urges me to play on more than naming a sexy Red Wizard "Tim" ever could.
Final Fantasy II begins with a plea for the player to name the four main characters. Or, rather, rename -- the characters all ha
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/tell Azbywnwefcxxyx-III I'll buy that cloak for 5g
/tell Azbywnwefcxyxx-III I'll buy that cloak for 5g
/say sod it, I'll go buy one from the vendor for 10g
Half-life : King.Robo
Everquest : Cmunthen Alnawyer
DAOC : Urt Vert, Rong, Ryte
SWG : Bennt, '-'
A wise only RPGer will chose a short uncomplicated name
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usually work the best for me. The Welsh alphabet uses the same 26 characters as english but the pronounciation and the dipthongs are more complex. Also all the dd's, ll's, and y's male the names properly fantasy like. However lately in games that I have several scenarios, I've taken to naming my characters after their class. It's easier to keep things straight.
Meddle thou not in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and with most anything.
I have a UO character named Laimass Rawlplyr
Styrofoam IS biodegradable, you're just impatient!
The only proprietary MMPOLRPG I have played was Ultima Online a year or two ago. My heroine had a greek version of my real name, but when I tamed a wolf, I named my beast "Assassin." Then, after clicking on my wolf I kept seeing "******in!" or something like that and I had no idea why. After few hours of playing I kept wondering why on Earth my other wolfs, namely Killer and Murderer, had no such problem with their names whatsoever, only to realise that Ultima Online was censoring vulgar language... I remember that I was really asshamed that someone could see me while calling my wolf and I stopped playing for few days.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
i got zelda link to the past for GBA a couple o weeks ago and when i turned it on the previous owner had changed the names of the game files to FUCK and YOU. youd really think that the employees would check the carts before they put them on the shelf. i could imagine some little kid buying it and telling his mum my game tells me to fuck you!
of PKilling MUDS...
my favorite has got to be mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm.
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm has walked into room.
> kill mnmnmnnnmnmnmnm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmnmmmnnmnmnmm
[hh:mm:ss] player is not in room!
> kill mnmmnm
[hh:mm:ss] mnmnmnnnmnmnmnmmm D - E - S - T - R - O - Y - S you with his backstab.
you are dead!
>FUCK!!!!!!!!
I've noticed that Star Trek and a lot of fantasy and sci-fi stories use names with a lot of the 5-thru-10 point scrabble tiles. X's (Xannix), Z's (Zai), and Q's (Qui Quon) are for aliens. K's (Krakus) and J's (Jaran) are for ethnic names. It's so formulamatic it's funny.
Another convention is to use lots of vowels (Bea Ai), lots of consonants (Kwllk), or apostraphes (T'Den, Q'Sung).
I invent names quickly with as little thought as possible, a lot of times following the sterotypes above. It's not great, but it works.
It's probably cheaper to collect monickers in chat rooms than buying Final Fantasy cartridges, though.
I didn't think you cared, but since you asked... ;)
;)
Anything online that is long enough to actually fit, I use 'RevRagnarok' (gee, look around this post). That's just become my online alter ego. http://www.revragnarok.com/ explains the reasons - basically, Ragnarok is just such an interesting story, etc, and I am also a legally ordained minister. Many of my friends now refer to me as "Rev" in Real Life(TM) and even at work (which can get embarassing).
For some of the console games, just "Ragnarok" fits. Or some shorter form. Then when they say (in games like FF8) that we need to get to the Ragnarok I think "But I'm right here ppl..."
RevR or even RR is used sometimes, like when I am very limited. Just, contrary to my evil friend's obsession, never 'Rag' or 'RevRag'!
Some previous ones:
absorto (in middle school a spanish->english dictionary said it meant 'mentally lost')
X-Phile (loved that show early on)
- RR
I should put something clever here. Maybe someday.
Huzzah! This will no doubt be a popular article, but I'd like to go ahead and nominate this article for the most worthless /. article of the year award.
:)
'Cause you know it's gonna be a slow news day.
moox. for a new generation.
In CRPGs, I usually play as "Morpheus", since that was my BBS handle back in the early 90's (yeah, before the Matrix). I think I originally picked this because of The Sandman comic from the late 80's/early 90's.
In pen and paper RPGs, I used to play as "Arcaidia", "Algernon", "Moebius"... Whatever comes to mind.
Online I'm either chrish (my user ID at work when I started using IRC) or Taffer (a derogotory name from Thief: The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age).
- chrish
I named my DAOC char "CarpelTunnelSyndrom". I know it's spelled wrong, but I was drunk when I made the character, so lay off :). The reason I named him that is because the way DAOC displays kills. Whenever a I kill another player in combat a broadcast message is sent saying:
"XXX was killed by CarpelTunnelSyndrom."
Everyone gets a laugh on that one.
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My younger brother named Link 'Zelda' when he played Ocarina of Time, just so that he could see the princess say "Zelda... that name sounds familiar..."
I always use MrGrey if I can. This goes back to quake2 when I was invited to join the Reservior Dogs clan, and of course, no one was allowed to be MrBlack, and I surely didn't want to be MrPink. (come on, every adolescent teen joins a clan right?)
So now when I play RPG's I stick with the name I had used for so long.
Other names I use are
Mithrandil (Hobbit/LOTR references)
Liam (Just a good Irish name)
Nimrod (Nimrod is Biblical, check out Genesis - he was a great hunter in the site of the Lord)
The scary thing about online names, is that the more you play games with people, the less they use your real name. I can't remember the last time someone called me by my real name at a LAN party. Most of the time they don't even use my real name when we aren't online or at a LAN party.
-Tolerate my intolerance
Recently, I started playing Dark Age of Camp-a-lot, and I immediately created a huge troll-bitch named Darl. :(
For some reason though, i got mobbed by loads of angry wolves, and not a single bystander offered to help me out
When I was Everquest Online Adventures there was this guy running around shouting "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?"
His name, of course, was Verizon.
I just called my game Schnark. No good reason...just liked it.
Curmudgeon Gamer: Not happy
The only thing I hate more than the person who named there guy BONG WALTER is those morons who take really obvious fantasy character names and respell them a bit to get past the filters.
You would be amazed how many different ways you can spell Legolas...
Oh well... back to playing my Troll Shaman.....
DEEZ NUTS
"I am a kernel in the linux army"
I used to use the name Kaos, just looked cool and sounded cool. Then once i started getting into computers (oh say around 90 or 91) I picked up the name Xerxes. Xerxes was a persian King wo destroyed Greece and forced it into the golden age. By not completely destroying the greek people they rebuilt and The golden era of Greece was one of my favorite times. Therefore I use Xerxes most of the time now. Also (as asome little perverted 15 yr old pointed out to me one day whilst adventuring) it spells SexRex backwards, Ah well you do what you can I spose.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers"
I try to use Kurgan or MacLeod depending if I'm feeling good or evil(usually Kurgan). Unfortunately I'm not the only one who's seen Highlander so I can't always use one of those.
is the funniest I've ever seen...
In high school I was looking through my chemistry book and came up with Alizarin Erythrosin. It's the name of 2 pH indicators. It just sounded so good together I've used it ever since.
Can't get much more nerdy then that.
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
I choose the Hotshots part duex naming convention. Advil Midol Prozac You name it ! :)
I usually go by the tag : HansDatDoDaDishes Not its not german, just say it slowly and u will get it.
THRILLHO!
JRjr
Just Google for "RPG Name Generator" and you'll be set. Yeah, it's the lazy way out but I'm tired of sitting at the computer trying to think of some creative name. Let the generator do it for me (it's often more creative than I ever could be with names) and let me get to playing. I do name the main character myself however. The only game I can think of that you were forced to be really creative was with the pen and paper RPG Paranoia. In fact, a while back I was talking with Greg Costikyan about it and we agreed it was one of the best features of the game.
Diablo2X:
Bowazon: Pincherz
Paladin: Stabyte
Werebear: Krunchin
ThrowBarb: Great_Throwdini
SWG:
Female Wookie Medic: Ykkoni
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Back int the day when FFIV came stateside as FFII, i thought it'd be amusing to name all the characters after Star Trek:TOS characters.. esp since the airship was named enterprise. surpringly, then names -sorta- worked.. cecil : Kirk Kain : Spock Rydia : Uhura Rosa : Carol Tellah: Sybok(sp?) Palom : David Porom : Savik Yang : Sulu Edge : Checkov Cid : Scotty (oh yeah, that was obvious :P )
FuSoYa: Bones
I cannot remember what i would name Edward since i'd usually forget to name him before he'd get crippled.
In RuneScape, quite a few people have chosen names related to killing other people (PKers)
In all my games, people are named shady or something like that*. Back in 1997, I was watching an episode of Sanford and Son. Grady, one of the characters on the show referred to himself as 'ShadyGrady.' Since then, I have referred to myself as ShadyRudy in all the games I play, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, etc.
*So you see, it has nothing to do with Marshall Mathers III.
What, me Tweet?
Most of the time, when I'm making a character in DAoC, I'll try to make it culture specific. My Midgard characters I steal names from sagas. Hibernian I look for Irish names, or names from Celtic mythology. British/Scottish/Arab names for my Albion characters.
Then sometimes I'll get a bug up my ass and name a character with speed boost "Delivery" and give a last name as whatever race it is. My bonedancer (summons skeleton pets) I called "Dry Bones".
I may not always make it "appropriate", but I try to at least make it witty.
The MMPORG planetarion requires you to name your planet, name the ruler of the planet (and if you want to succeed you'll also need an irc nick). You are referred to in-game as 'ruler' of 'planet'.
If you don't want people taking revenge for things you did in the last round, each round you need to think up a new pair of names every 2-3 months when a new round starts.
In the past, I've been:
Andy_R of Just a Planet
The Ambassador of The Embassy (claiming diplomatic immunity whenever I attacked!)
Mr K of X$X (short names are easier to deal with)
James Bond of World That is Not Enough (our entire 15 player galaxy used characters from Bond films, which indicates to outsiders that we were pretty well organised!)
The Neoist of Akademgorod
Commander Powell of Dark Star (from the film of the same name)
If anyone wants to browse the entire 14,236 palent/rulernames in the game at the moment, there is an external browser that shows you the rankings here: http://www.pilkara.com/rank.php?action=planet
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
Ass-Hamed? The point is that Assassin was a wolf, which was tamed... Oh, never mind.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
I just pick syllables I like at random and go with it. I came up with this handle (Kalak) years ago this way and have kept it as a result. Plus it's a nice palindrome. Lanar is another one I came up with that I can remember.
I never liked coming up with names anyway, so this way I can use the syllables as building blocks and come up with something that might sound original. Makes for nice throw away names, which is why I can't remember them a few years later. For all I know I've been using the same one over and over, but keep forgetting.
Maybe I should write a quick script that produces names based on this idea. I could patent it and sue everyone for infringement because it can come up with any name used in any media.
(This method is a great excuse for the fact that I can't spell well either.)
I am, and always will be, an idiot. Karma: Coma (mostly effected by
When forced to choose, I've always had a tendency to choose "Longshot"--espeically if I'm a thief or rogue. I have no idea why.
In non-RPG games, I'm typically "decafjedi," "Dei," or--on rare occasion--"El Scorcho." Meh.
Decaffeinated Jedi
DecafJedi
my weblog: apropos of something
I played many MUD's/SLED's in my days as a younger hacker.Don't have the time anymore but I always was playing:
Dogen Haunt
My favorite name to this day was
Burble de Bobity Boo! Someone I saw once
Exactly. And assassin? Even more so. Assassin is just a Muslim who, under the influence of deadly hashish, terrorized and insanely murdered Christian Crusaders. Of course I perfectly realised that "assassin" means hashish addicted person in Medieval Latin and Arabic, but I couldn't believe they could have considered it vulgar at all. I can understand it is related to violence and drugs, but vulgar? No way. Especially before the September.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
A buddy of mine goes by the name of "Kissy Bear" when he was playing Q3A. When asked why he chose that name, he had a great reply: "It sucks to be killed by a Kissy Bear."
When he would play drunk, he'd go by the name "Drunk Kissy Bear" because "It sucks even worse to be killed by a drunk Kissy Bear."
But just like the bloke Keith in the article, I would always leave the names of the summon monsters as they were, because they often had mythological meaning and great names, like Quetzacotl the Aztec feathered serpent-god.
In FF8 however, i didn't realise that you were actually naming the final boss halfway through when a seemingly irrelevant scene asks you to give a name to the monster on Rinoa's silver ring. It was a late night gaming sesh and i couldn't be bothered to think too long about the name i was giving it. Imagine my horror then, when in the final scene I was confronted with the ultimate boss, the scourge of the planet, a name before which everyone would quake... the demon 'Ringy'.
:)
I am always some version of The Mighty Squid. Every nickname, every username, every character every time. Online or off. Don't ask why but I like the consistency of it. Does anyone else use the same username/nickname/handle for everything?
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Oh, I see, another "troll" feeling insecure while interacting with intelligent women. Enjoy my "freak" list then.
Karma: Positive (probably because of superiour intellect)
I took my original BBS handle of Locust from the Blizzard SNES game Rock -n- Roll Racing. One of the vehicle upgrades in the game was Locust Jump Jets. I used that name in every RPG, FPS and so forth. Five years later when Everquest came out, I couldn't use Locust because it was the name of a mob, but Lokust was accepted, and I eventually transitioned over to Lokust because it was slightly more unique.
Now, I run into problems with the name Lokust being taken already in a lot of the games I play. Of late, I have been going by Ljokust, to go for that extra Norse look, when Lokust is taken.
The best one I've ever come across is fantasy name generator.
diablo 2 with the expansion: Gronde
at the end of the game you can name any weapon after you, so you can make a maul (big sledge hammer) in to "Gronde hammer of the underworld"
i like to use the names of the wu-tang clan.
there's nothing better than seeing that ghostface killa just did 120 HP of damage, or that ol dirty (or big baby jesus, or dirt mcgirt) just bought a new gun.
If I'm being me, rather than taking on a persona, then it's Erroneous. It's just a word that became a name. I've been Erroneous on BBSs and MUDs for a long, long time.
Where possible I name "characters" after vegetables. I have no idea why.
My Diablo II Barbarian was called "Cabbage" and Paladin "Aubergine".
I've also had a fair few Turnips, Carrots and Parsnips in the past too.
erroneous: look me up in a dictionary
There's no way around naming the main character Toma. Female lead usually gets called Cleo.
Graduate of the LeRoy Funkified Badass School of Soul.
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Diablo II LOD:
.... suddenly I'm drawing a blank on my sniper's name.... Damn... guess that ends my list...
Paladin: Houndin
Amazon: FrauCeinwyn
Paladin2: SoldierOfJordan
Old MUD (Formerly named Tempest now Darkness Falls)
Wolfin the Author (Wizard on Some MUDs)
Chiang the Monk
Old RPGs
Dwarf: Thraim Axeblood
Elf: Loranthalis Evensong
Anti-Paladin (AD&D 1st Ed): Rok Hellraiser
Unreal Tournament:
567-4329562vi (Robot Skin)
Half-Life TFC
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. -Ronald Reagan
In Ultima VIII it was quite refreshing to name your character God.
"Hello God, it's been so long since we've spoken..."
Its actually the name of a chainsaw, but has that rpg feel.
Bring back the old version of slashdot.
For Multi-player games, my name goes between
CashCarSTAR (tSP song)
DarkPaladin (my original)
Karmakin (Newest one and my current fav)
For single-player games, I never change names if the name is set, with one exception. In Chrono Trigger, I rename Frog to Glenn to clear up some sillyness, as well as so I can actually have a character with my own name. (And such a GOOD character, in every way)
When I need to create names, I use generic names, in order to facilitate easy gameplay. In Wizadry for the SNES, for example, I named them after the role they played with a number. (Because of the alignment system, I kept working parties of both good and evil people and jumped between them)
I just do dumb stuff (well, maybe not)..
.. that way I didn't have to constantly look at the info sheets to figure out who the hell I was controlling with a party of 7 indistinct icons.
The only RPG's i've played in memorable history were the Baldur's Gate series, and the original SSI Gold Box AD&D titles.. and in every one of those, I named my characters by their classes. The fighter was called "Fighter", the Cleric/Fighter/Mage was called "CFMU"
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
In FF3/6, I renamed my characters to less obnoxious, not-all-caps versions of their names. Reading about LOCKE and CELES and TERRA really got on my nerves.
Not so much with RPGs but with FPS like Quake III and Bond on the GC or Perfect Dark on N64 we had a habit of changing names often. Usually something to either poke fun at our opponents, or to be totally insensitive regarding a recent tragedy.
For example - during one game of Bond multiplayer we had Alliyah, Dale Ernhardt, and Enis Cosby all running around. It's pretty funny, in a very sick way, to read "You just killed Dale Ernhardt"
In Quake at the office I have most recently been Nate-Sucks, Steve's A Fart Brain, and Sit On It.
I like games like Dark Cloud where you get to name your companions as well as yourself. That way I can still be somewhat cool, but I can run with guys like 'kingpantie' and 'dorknose'.
In a related note, the best thing about Animal Crossing is when the other characters ask you for slang. Then they pass it around amongst each other. I've watched the word 'dickbreath' spread around two towns now. It's the only way I've found to have fun with an otherwise monotonous game. [Please don't light me on fire. I understand why you might enjoy it, I just don't]
i don't like my old sig.
Chrono Trigger
...there's a lot you can do with 5 letters... :)
Some of my favorites:
Chrono -- Porno
Lucca -- Fucca
Robo -- Homo
In the superb MMORPG Neocron I'm, perhaps rather unsurprisingly, "Skinfitz". I like consistency for things like nicks and it's always interesting when you get people asking "hey are you the same xxx from yyy?".
I think my fav nicknames from Neocron at the moment are there is a guy called "anima" and a female char called "anima's sex toy". (Mind you I am in a clan with someone called "clitoris" and someone else called "Fur lined mixing bowl" but there you go.)
Actually I got mentioned in the Neocron monthly magazine (NEMA) last month... Not that I'm bragging or anything...
When I'd wasted hours and hours in Bard's Tale II on my old Apple ][c only to have all 7 characters die of a poison trap, I'd go back to the beginning to blow some frustration by trying to get the silliest party combination I could think of out and fighting.
The best I ever came up with was a party of seven dwarves. They were Deadly, that bunch. They were the Seven Deadly Dwarves. Lusty, Slothful, Gluttonous...the whole crew.
Of course, you can't get past the second dungeon with a full party...but it was fun anyway.
The Humblest Mollusk on the Net
fantasy name generator
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I doubt anyone will see this but I think it's relevant.
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resignator or tsubati for any FPS (battlefield 1942, the whole quake/doom series, and tribes 1&2) In mmorpgs I usually go with tsubati as well(the thief in Conan the Barb) but my long time favorite name was droctagon (enchanter on EQ). Sure there have been others but those are the 3 names I usually stick to. Back in the UO days I used the name Travolta :P
"At first, we thought it was just another snake cult."
I try to get the Computer (Easy) names in Warcarft III
and genreally stupid names like Painful_Urine
n00bz0rz1337, Runny_Diahrea and my favorite, Herpes Galore
I personally am using "Ubel Enis" right now which in German Translates to "Evil One"
. .
I also have Nasser Traumn (wet dream) and Hand Solo in Star wars galaxies.
Here are some of the other SWG names that people have taken...mind you that the EULA and the character creation screen STRESS that you can not name yourself after any real life person, anything offensive, or any fictional characters from star wars or any other movie or TV show..
Sorry for the crappy format, slashdot needs to turn down their filters!
Barris Fueller. Penny Poopiepants.
Fat Marksmen. Bones HesDeadJimDead.
Longdyk. chu'baca. Cat Woman.
I-Crave Power. PooMAN. Smokabola.
-B-O-N-G -M-A-S-T-E-R-.Stonecold Steveaustin.
Error Loading. Jozeph Stalin.
Fellof Theledge. Ivana humpalot.
Dir-T Undies . Rush Limbaugh.
Fuzz Nu'tz ( a wookie). kewl dude. Emperzizle Palpazizle.Fifty Cent.
Grouper sandwich (Mon calmedic).
Super'Fly (twilekentertainer).
Dustmop (wookie).
Silly Doggie (bothan scout).
Chewintobacca. Rosham Bo.
Cow Vomit. Worf (a wookie).
WOOT NOOB. Bigwiener. Shaeven McGroyne.
Jheebus Crimnee". "Union Leader",
"Oscar Grouch". "Juan Valdez" (you know, the coffee guy).
"Venn Detta. "Seal Clubber".
Indiana Jones.Tony Danza.
Ivegotagun Andimnotafraidtouseit -Marksman.
Ivana Humpalot - Entertainer.
Juge Dreade - Marksman (Probably an aspiring Bounty Hunter or something).
Stonecold Steveaustion - I forget the profession.
F-aggot F-aggot.
Break Windu (the best star wars themed name yet...).
Bloody Pee. ICUP. RobinWilliams.
Alota Fagina. Ivana Humpalot.
Look Skywalka. Bobba Phett
Doesit Hurt. Canyew Feelthepowah.
BigPimpn. Marth Daul
Gen'Aside. SHEWBACCA.
Dark Helmet Poocacca ( a wookie)
Led Zepplin BJ's Everyone.
iwantyourbabies oriwilltakethem
Douche Baggins Pennie Sillin (a medic)
ikickyou indanuts. Thuggin Hard
ICU Too . Fuzzy
Beeeeaaaaarrrr (yet another wookie). Uterus Maximus (reported according to a friend) Luda Kris
Scruffy Nerf-Herder, Mike Hunt, Allota Weiner
Mech Anized, Two Pac
Romulis, Poppa Capp
San Holo, Huck Finn.
Mitsubishi Galant, buildushytqyk
Undercover Brother, Craptastic Software.
Appolo Creed.Rape Tana Kleenex Box.
DAARTH VAADAR Futher Mucker (Wookiee, kinda funny)
Snow Chainz (Albino Wook) Deez Nutz
Britney Spears. Dancing with Men (female entertainer)
megaHurtz (wookiee).
Lando (have no idea how this got through the filter).
Bucacca. ChewinTobacca Tupacca
Darfh Mall, Trixar Fo'Kids
SloppyTaco, Daaaaaaaaaaaaarth Maaaaaaaaaaaaul
Hung So'loo., wolverbacca, lol brb, Newbacca.
Hunglika Horse, The Biznicht, Number One
the hizzle, Jason F'ett, Sithlord Mike (I believe)
Bill Clinton (seriously), Kwame Kilpatrick
Pucking Funk, Chewbacon
WraithofMaul, Pay Mee(female entertainer)
Sky Lukewalker., Jebus Haxxor.
Dirty Sanchez, Wookie, Whoosha Daddy.
Mark Sman, Jenna Jameson( a female entertainer) Montgomery Burns, afk'S ampler, Chia Phett
Pink Undies, FatAlbert, SloppyTacoEater, CamelToeLicker, SlipperyHole.
OldFart, Chowbacca
Bobbacca, noobbacca
uhClem ...'
(because my mother was a Bozoette at school)
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'...bozos by their nose-o's. From the Spanish
"vos otros", the "b" and the "v" being the same.
I.e., viz., BVD biz. Underwear industry: it is
estimated the *no* undewear will be worn by the
year 2020
Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check
Back in the day we used to all sit around the Apple ][ and Mac Plus and play multi-character RPGs. We always had a character named "Porter" who was really strong. He'd carry all of our stuff. We'd also send him into really dangerous situations because we just didn't care about him.
Damn, those days were fun.
My personnal favorite that I have seen was Fightor the fighter.
FFI - Wasn't there only 4 letters (maybe five)? And I used names of friends, so sorry Baryshnikov.
And FFII(US), I decided like a lot of people to go that humorous route of giving names such as "bitch", just to hear them say it in the conversation.
Now, I usually use Punk, cause it's short enough to be used in most games.
"Good work punk."
Atlas Shrugged : Thematic Story
Back in the day, in Trade Wars (a BBS "door"), I would purposely take names that sounded like those of the NPC "Aliens", like Sheeshu Quifex, or Quizak Zormphir. I still use Quizak in EVE-Online. In more medieval MMORPGs I stick with Evunca the Mad.
I am alone, yet I also surf the universal backwash of undifferentiated Being, which is LOVE.
...I know at least three people that independently named Barret Wallace of FFVII "Frogman." It remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of life, even today,
i have a nasty tendency to name all of my characters either after my favorite Anime characters (i.e., Kizuna from Megami Kouhosei), or just a Japanese name i pieced together from my Kanji dictionary (i.e., Asako).
i'm pathetic. i even play female characters exclusively.
but, more recently, i've leaned a little more toward Elvish names in some games (i.e., Elrith E'len in NeverWinter Nights).
yeah. i'm an Otaku. i'm not proud of it. but that's what i am.
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
MyASS!
because when I kill someone "player1 was blown away by MyASS!" and when I die "player1 Killed MyASS!"
heh!
...was in a Team Fortress Classic game of Dustbowl a bout a year ago.
Hello I'm Johnny Cash
Still the best ever.
my dogs. They are Aspen and Tahoe. The other name I liked to use is Yossarian. In Everquest, when I got a last name for Yossarian, I used "RunYoYoRun". I had a few comments on Yossarian, particularly from people who had read the book (Catch-22). However, I got the strangest comments playing Tahoe.
_ _________________
Some guy: "Where do you live"
Me: (after some thought) "I come from the fair forest of Kelethin".
Some guy: "No really, where do you live? See, I live on the lake and was wondering if you were a neighbor."
Me: "Oh, no no I don't live there, as much as I would like to, I just named myself after my dog."
Also, there is this thing in Everquest called "dude-speak" where you write things like a twelve year old and in "dude-speak" you use "Ta" to mean "The". So anyhow, some guy runs right up to Tahoe and says, "You don't look like a hoe."
It took me a minute to figure out why he said that, but then I realized I bet he was expecting "Tahoe" to be some really hot chick. Oh, I can only imagine the dissapointment.
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a war on terrorism? How can we end a war on a method?
I use the same name any time I'm playing games with other people online, another loser. another loser has killed you you give 10p to another loser etc I feel it gives a sense of perspective.
FPS type games i typically go with qwak, killwhity, or cracker (if i'm drunk, i just tack the word drunk in front of my name) RPG's i tend to find an adjective that best describes the character when playing MMORPG's i usually go with something thats in german, japanese, or spanish. as for pokemon... well let's just say half my pokemon have the word 'fuck' in their name. I'm guilty =/
This is a geeky topic, but I'm contributing so I can't complain.
Around Ultima 1 or 2 I thought up a main character name that ended up sticking around for the rest of my gaming days. It became my on screen personality, and even though every game had seperate characters, themes and storylines, my same guy lived through all the Role Playing adventures available.
Around Final Fantasy 1 I realized I needed some supporting characters to journey with my main character, so I decided on some satisfying names to compliment him and they stuck around through countless more adventures.
To this day I still use the same names that are synonymous with all my Role Playing experiences combined. Eventually they reached a peak of 14-15 or so character names, (spawned by the massive cast of Final Fantasy 6), and they've occupied the same roles (hero, love interest, villain, etc) in every RPG I've ever played. I've invested so much time into these *names*, that now they're obligatory for every game I play in some way or another. It's kind of interesting to see the attachment to an identity that has undergone all these fictional stories. Needless to say I can't really find it in myself to use any other names, since the current ones have so much history.
I asked a couple of friends who know bits of Japanese for suitable names for my characters (a knight, a thief, a black mage and a white mage). The requirements were that the words had to sound like names, and had to be related to the character class in some way.
The names I went with were:
"Amaya" kinda breaks the second requirement; but it sounds good, and a word connected with the night is still befitting of a black mage.
If I ever play another RPG with no default names, I'll do the same thing again.
-Stephen
I went through a period of playing a decidedly odd RPG called Paranoia in the 80's...
You played a "family" of 6 clones and your "rank" (a color) had to enter into it.
So you got Roy-G-BIV (A Green rank) and PAR-O-NOID (Orange)...
We got *quite* silly with those.
...Xoff
Phineas J. Whoopie, you're the greatest!
Ahh, that's just as good as naming everyone Kefka in FF6 (3 US). It gets really confusing once you get to the war room meeting, and you've got 8-10 people named Kefka all plotting how they can off that other Kefka. Favorite quote: "Kefka: I hate Kefka"
I use Anal Intruder because it's my girlfriend's favorite toy:D
When I used to Play Q1-Q3 I would use the name "GayandProud" even though I'm not gay. Why you ask? Because there are so many homophobic players online that when you frag them, very close to being a pun, their self worth drops to absolutely nothing and they get pissed and leave. I guess you could call it gamesmanship and being mentally abusive which is another one of my favorite pastimes.
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
Was on SWG. This guy was running around with "Cantsleep WookiesWillEatMe". THen theere were the more crude ones....
I had names like Faith, Hope and Charity for
fighters. Other characters (rogues and mages)
included Hittem Hie, Kickum Lough, the twins
Hittim and Bashem Harde, Castem Quik, Blastem
Nowe and his sister Zappum.
When I have a bevy of characters to name, I ususally give them names that reflect their class, for quick recognition. i.e.:
cleric = Cedrick
mage (wizard) = Willy
fighter = Fred
ranger = Ralph (or Rick)
druid = Drusilla
monk = monko
By the way, the topic is mildly interesing but the article itself may just possibly be the most boring one I have ever read on slashdot. I'm not certain as perhaps I've read one less interesting and just fogotten, but it's hard to believe. What are other people's nominations for more boring articles?
1. Diablo II Expansion, sorceress named "of_Something".
2. In old AD&D stuff, the name of whatever class they were ("FIGHTER", "CLERIC", etc.)
3. In Quake 1, "a hairy old man" was fun when using the Thunderbolt (I'll let you do the math).
As for Final Fantasy 3/6, I've heard of at least one person who named everyone "Kupo". Not quite as good as calling everyone "Kefka", though.
* Q
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Bonus odd but true story:
I played Zelda on the SNES in the early nineties and as I said above, I used my real name. When I was done, I sold the game to a video game store. A few years ago I got nostalgic so I went to a used game store and bought a used copy of Zelda to replay. Ready for the weird part?
When I got home and popped the cartridge in, there were two different names in slot 1 and 2 but my name was in slot 3. And in case you're thinking this isn't so weird, I didn't buy the game from the same store I sold it to. The stores were in opposite ends of the city.
I always used to use stupid, boring names, mostly out of an eagerness to start the game. But then I saw an episode of MST3K, SPACE MUTINY ( Link1 and Link2 ).
Mike and bots started making fun of the buffed-up hero by calling him names like Hulk HunkMeat and Slab HardCheese. Very funny.
Ever since, I've used that formula. Current Diablo character: Meat Doomslab.
After I've played RPGs through a few times I always thought it was funny to rename my characters with names from other characters in the game. Messes with your head good if you know the story...heh...
Supposedly, although I've never tried it, if you name your main character in Baldur's Gate (the original) Drizz't D'urden (or however you actually spell it) when you come across him fighting gnolls in the forest he says that you're the person thats been impersonating him and he tries to kill you.
I just use names that people will remember :)
No game forces you to come up with ridiculous names in great quantity quite like the Pokemon games. You have to dole out dozens of names to all those weird little guys.
I named my rock guy OJ Simpson. Obviously, I was running out of names.
One night I was playing Gameboy and my wife was reading a book. I had just defeated some monster and my Pokemon gained enough experience and...
I inadvertantly shouted "OJ SIMPSON IS EVOLVING!"
Now sometimes when my wife can't understand something I say, she'll say "OJ SIMPSON IS EVOLVING!" to give me the signal that I'm not making any sense.
Here's a short guide:
I probably missed some, but those are the most common Celtic combinations.
You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.
The best name generator I have ever used is igsgames name generator.
Many features and options. Also has a random thing generator and many other useful things.
Unless you already know what you want, you basically need something thats interesting to tell a story about. Just randomly throw some right-sounding syllables together, and then add some random details.
Since its harder to think of random stuff than stuff that somehow makes sense, try a free online name generator
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IGS Games has a name generator for those of us who have a difficult time with naming our characters.
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As an example here is a name I generated choosing the options Descriptive, Elvish and Gang: Sinful Lanorain Legolan and her Mysterious Band of Pirates
Worth checking out.
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I usually chose a name that goes contrary to all the other names in the game.
I played Half-life, CounterStrike and America's Army for a while, and everyone was named something like "31337 r0x0rs" "Ass kicker" "Snipe at night" "-=-Army=-=Ranger-=-"
So I chose "Gigglesworth". This offended many players, because I didn't chose some violent ass-kicking name. I often got told something like Ass Kicker says: "Gigglesworth??!? WTF kind of 'name is that? Your gay".'
However, the best players were the one's who didn't take the game too seriously, and they usually loved Giggles.
Ah, and had a great time when I ran into Mr.Bigglesworth.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I really like the Everchanging Book of Names...
Although that IGS one can be amusing... "King Tostoy Vasif the Elegant Winner and his Helpful Band of Blackhearts".
"Oh no, the Blackhearts are helping repress the peasants!"
- chrish
I've always been rather partial to using "Pastor of Muppets" as my character name in all the online shooters, even if i get the question "you like metallica?" every 3 seconds. I've never figured out who this metallica guy is, though....
Got sushi? The Sushi FAQ
"sexy" is a good nickname for any RPG.
"hi sexy, would you like to buy a tunic?"
Security is inversely proportional to the commitment of one desiring to circumvent it.
Rule # 1 - pick something you can remember
Rule # 2 - pick something your team can remember
Rule # 3 - Rule # 1 is not necessarily equal to Rule # 2
Rule # 4 - Rule # 1 is not necessarily greater than Rule # 2
Rule # 5 - See Rule # 1
HDGary secures my bank
I named my save game file "Mortar", only to find in horror that this because my "name" in the game, and all villagers, NPCs, etc, addressed me as "Mortar", and not "Link" as I would have vastly, vastly preferred.
When my wife started her save game using her (feminine) name, only to find that her character would be addressed by this name, she was fairly upset with me for not warning her!
Note to RPG developers: when allowing us to pick a name, let us know it will be used as our name in the game!
MORTAR COMBAT!
The favorite... whatever... was the name of the most powerful spell in the game. It was worth a chuckle or two to cast "breasts" on the enemy. However, what really had our retarded teenage minds rolling with laughter was that everytime the main character would go home to rest, his mother would say something like, "Eat some pussy and scoot up to bed!"
Yeah, you know you did it too. Perverts. ;-)
-J
Newbifier
Stafoo (pronounced version of 'stfu')
It's fun PKing people while on a character with a retarded name... It seems to piss people off 10x as much.
The first PC game I ever got into was Diablo 2, where I spent hours bulking up a Paladin named [H]olyGeekboy. (Note the 'leet [H], to symbolize my patronage of a cool hardware enthusiast website.
:)
For some reason, it suck, and so now I am [H]olyGeekboy in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament 2003. It makes no sense for those games, but it's still kind of unique, like all those soccer moms in California who spell seemingly normal names with q's and apostrophes all over the place.
Mine is SuDZ just about everywhere I go.
Yes I am that original
SuDZ
If I am being serious, I tend towards names from other sources (mythology, movies)
Lief (as in Lief Erikson) or Rhetoric are my favorites for male characters, and Arachne is my favorite for female characters. Monsterous characters get named "Speaker to Animals" (on those rare occasians it fits) or "Oberon" (my cat's name) Wizards I always name Yzap, because that is the most wizardly 4 letter name my friend and I could come up with when we played Final Fantasy 1 for the first time all those years ago. . Robot characters always get named Tom Servo or Crow
Often times though, I am not feeling very serious, and this has led to such characters as "MacGyver", (my DAOC Paladin) character descriptive names like "Dwarfy McDwarf", "Druideric Treehugger", and "The Holy Crap". And sometimes nonsense names like "Bog Dogkicker" or "Brock McNugget"
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
I almost always steal my names from books.
From The Death Gate Cycle (Weis and Hickman): Haplo, Xar
From Exiles (Rawn- I wish she'd freaking finish the third book!!!): Captal (which I use most often)
The funny thing is- everyone calls me capital.
If none of those work I make stuff up like Zalanthas.
You never know, you know.
uh, "Player" ??
(or what was the default nethack player name... was it nick danger or something?)
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Aeris dies, it's truly a sad event, as the player (if they've chosen Aeris as their fave) has become attached to the character, and they're stuck with Tifa "Boobs" Lockheart.
As for what I name my own characters, for the heroes, I usually give them some sort of amusing name based on the first impression they created on me (Cloud=Cool Guy, Squall=Scar, Zidane=Monkey, Tidus=Riptide, etc.). The others usually don't fare much better.
The article does touch on a point which concerns me to some degree-- the trend of some recent RPGs (like FFX and Xenosaga) to restrict or flat-out not allow character renaming. I kind of dislike this, as it tends to distance the player from the character that much more (not that this hurts Xenosaga-- the cutscenes alone do enough damage on the games interactivity). I suppose with voiceovers, there's really no way to get around it (though FFX did a nice bit of trickery with avoiding Tidus' name in the dialogue)... but still, I miss that personal touch.
/.'ers like to talk about themselves, and I am no different, so here we go...
In Diablo2,
Weredruid: Frank, as in Frank the Wereguy from HoL
Barbarian: Porkchop
Claw Assasin: Wolverina (vs. my freinds bear druid, Sabertooth)
And, Jereth the necromancer.
In UT2k3 I'm either Rev. Omestes (as in the obscure Orphic myth), or Anthroporraistes. Both of which are other names for Dionysus, which was one of my old BBS handles. I was also Zagreus in several muds, as well as Werewolf and Sadim: the God of Decay(Midas backwards).
In paper and pen RPGS, namely V:tm, I was Wyrm, the assamite. Or Paul Mua'dib.
In FF1, I always pick Bill, Bob, MnMx (short for Min-max, for red mage), and whatever else I want my theif to be.
In Morrowind my topless archer assasin theif mage is Antigone, and my pure caster (evil) chick is Medea (also a sorceress I used to play in DiabloII).
I'm pretty much stuck with greek myths and plays.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
Of course, with modern online games, this has become pretty much impossible - all those names are taken before you can even log on. I tried a few things but none stuck.
Until last year when Warcraft III was released. I'd shortly before bought my One Ring and cooked up an elvish (Quenya) moniker, "Cormacolinde" (it means "Ring Bearer"). I used that name, and started playing a lot. I liked the name, and it has a nice short version (Corma). Since then I've used it and some interesting variants (Cormacale, ring of light for example) or other made-up elvish names.
If he explores all forms and substances Straight homeward to their symbol-essences; He shall not die.
Anikin becomes a bad guy.
I know some people have already posted about using some sort of fantasy RPG name creator, but really - that's too linear.
What you need is a bit of randomness...
For me, the best automated fantasy/RPG name generator is my old Apple Newton Messagepad 100.
That model has such atrocious handwriting recognition that almost anything you attempt to write on it comes back as something totally unintended. It's great for coming up with names by writing someone's real name in cursive and seeing what the Newton thinks you wrote. They get even more surreal if you reset it's handwriting 'training'.
These properties make it great for pass phrase generation as well.
Every Single RPG, Computer and Paper, I have had atleast one character named BenZoate. The back story is when I started playing Shadowrun, I couldn't think of a name. So I did what anyone would do, grabbed the nearest container (a Mountain Dew can), put my finger near the contents, and took the name that under my finger. The word was Benzoate. This was like 10 years ago. The name has carried over into Rifts, Hereos Unlimited, Battletech, damn near everything.
I had the same name on Batle.net, but was offline for like a year and the name got taken. Now I can't get the name anywhere. So if anyone sees a BenZoate, get me a email address, the dude stole my name. I just want it back.
Long story long, I use the same name for everything, or as close as I can get to it. Otherwise my mind would be full of all sorts of other names instead of something important. Like, ummmmmmmmm, other stuff.........Damn that dude who stole my name, its all confusing now..................I quit.
BenZoate smacks computer with a rather large trout.
I always name my lead character something along the lines of "MY EYE! MY FREAKING EYE!", so every NPC in the game appears to have severe physical problems whenever they address my character.
As opposed to my own mental ones of course
I name all of them CowboyNeal!
We originally started using what we referred to as "bar codes" in clan matches.
.. and then when we wanted to make our "identities" known, we would use one of the following:
.. etc. Any Christopher. Then I would say
:P
IlIlIlIl
IllIllII
IIllIlIl
llIllIlI
[WeIsCHRIS] Christopher Walken
[WeIsCHRIS] Christopher Reeve
[WeIsCHRIS] Christopher Robin
[WeIsCHRIS] Christopher Lowell
[WeIsCHRIS] Christopher Lloyd
"I'm Christopher Reeve, not walkin' (Walken)."
And Walken would reply, "I'm Christopher Walken, not robbin' (Robin)."
Renaming Final Fantasy VII's hero "Cloud Strife" to be "God" makes for some amusing moments.
Barret: The planet is dying, God!
God: I don't care! I just want my money!
o_O
In FF1, My White Mage and Black Mage are always Whitney and Blake, truncated to Whit and Blak of course
The Thief/Ninja is always Kain, I seem to remember reading a review of Phantasy Star II (for the sega genesis) and seeing this cool guy named Kain.
Here's a really geeky one (I know I'm not alone in this):
In Might and Magic: World of Xeen I used to name the characters after girls I liked! I ended up going out with a few of them later on (when I stopped playing RPGs), but I never told them the truth--one was a cleric, the other was a mighty fine sorceress.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahaha
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...in Soviet Russia, characters name YOU !
United States of America, good ol' backers of world peace.
I was in my youthfull teen days when I first played FF VII. I had a crush on some girl back then, and so I renamed Areis's character after the girl of my affections. Then, to my horror, Areis dies...
:-)
Needless to say, I never did hook up with that crush of mine.
It's because superior is mis-spelled in your "I'm so clever" signature.
Both of you might wan't to bone up on what a troll in this context actually is.
Mensa is for dorks. Who wants to be in a club with Gary Bushell, Jamie Theakston, Jimmy Saville, and
Carol Vorderman.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Everyone seemed to love this nick that I used on Counter-Strike: Bobwehaddababyitsaboy :D
Princess: "Oh, I like pie, I love you"
End Boss: "I'll kill you! I LIKE PIE!"
Guy: "Quick, I Like Pie, get the magic ingredients!"
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
That kind of reminds me: Re-watching the season 1 "Angel" DVD's there was a great bit where the character Doyle had to read a spell that was in latin, but didn't know how to speak it. Angel, in a hurry to explain it, simply said "v sounds like w and say all the vowels." Not bad for a 1-second lesson in latin enunciation.
Steering back on topic... When I play RPG's I like to steal character names from anime, but only if I'm one of the first people in the game, because "ruri" is about as in-demand as "mister black" was in "Resevior Dogs."
My back-up choice is to name my characters after Foreign players in the NBA. I never get a name conflict when I call my warriors "Rasho Nesterovic," and it sounds nice and bad-assed. Game moderators never call me on it, either, because anybody who spends his days enforcing naming conventions probably doesn't follow a lot of sports, and has no idea who Rasho is IRL.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
How incredibly intelligent argument of yours... I have no questions.
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I am terribly sorry, but your logic makes no sense whatsoever. I have no idea who could possibly moderate it to Score:1. I just don't know where to start from. Arsenic kills much less people than pork meat. But does it mean it is less deadly? No. It just means that fortunately much less people take arsenic than abuse eating pork fat. We have to look at two factors here: the raw deadlibility (D) and the average usage of LD50 dose (U). Number of deaths caused by the substance we are experimenting with (N) is not N=f(D) as you imply, but N=f(D,U) where f->DU/2 to be more precise. And for that reason I will never agree that arsenic is less deadly than pork.
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Dear Dr. Skwid (if that is your real name), please don't post anonymously. It is cowardly childish, to say the very least, and will only make our discussion not interesting any more to any one who might read it. Thank you.
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Then why on Earth are you cowardly hiding behind the facade of anonymity? Why indeed.
Please take no offense if I take the liberty to not comment this childish remark.
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and, tbh, I'm not in a discussion
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
You are right. Calling the childish argument in the lines of:
... ad nonsensum
-- Mensa is for dorks!
-- No, it is not!
-- Yes, it is!
-- No, it is not!
-- Yes, it is!
a "discussion" was indeed quite an intellectual exaggeration on my behalf, which I believe I am obligated to sincerely apologize for. Thank you very much indeed for pointing this mistake out.
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No. The wolf was tamed. Tamed, not hamed. And since you are not the first person to ask about this very matter, I must say that if I had only known how many controversies this little story would have introduced, I would have more deeply considered never posting it in the first place.
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Are you serious? If you were right indeed why on Earth alcohol would be legal, while hemp illegal in the UN international-law-wise sense? I mean, there were young men in the US being put to jail for time longer than their age just for possessing a "joint" for god's sake! I won't believe that it was purely anti-mexican propaganda. If hemp is not deadly then why all of the farms were destroyed? It was a great industry after all, even the first jeans was made from hemp. I just don't see any other rational explanation. What could possibly make hemp illegal if not high deadlibility? Maybe it was some conspiracy from cotton farmers or textiles producers? That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard.
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I am just sick of such pointless discussions! Drug has not caused the deaths. Neither has car. It was the unimaginably stupid person who used the car after taking drugs who caused the death, for gods' sake! I have no idea why people refuse to understand the most simple facts.
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I had a bad habbit of naming my characters after the X-Men!
Anyone remember a game for The NES called
"Wizardry: proving grounds of the mad overloard?"
True Story, I was playing along one day, when I accidentaly kicked the NES and suddenly my guys all had hexadecimal experience points! My Professor X (the Mage of course!) was a levl 47 Ninja w/ mahalito, madalto, etc..
The only reason I stopped leveling them, is because they tended to age, and your characters lost some traits as they got past a certain age.
I kicked so much !$$ and had the time of my life knowing I could explore the maps w/o being worried about dying.
I tried hard to duplicate the error, at the expense of many an NES.
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.