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Kid Named After Everquest Character
eToychest writes "Sony Online Entertainment just sent notice that some poor baby has been named after a character in EverQuest. Apparently players really, really love this game. Case in point: player Tabitha Ayers gave birth to a baby girl January 6, 2005, and promptly named her Firiona Vie Ayers, in honor of EverQuest's famous spokes-elf. The path to geekdom for this child has aready been paved in 12-sided dice and character sheets." At this point I think it's safe to say that SOE is going to be the cause of the downfall of Civilization.
I used to know guy named Gimli-- honest! His parents were real big Tolkien fans in the 60s.
Among several careers, he worked as an EMT & a security guard in a big city-- he enjoyed the rough scene. Big guy...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Isn't this the same as the guy who named his child "2.0" instead of "Junior"? I can't really expect much more creativity... next people are going to name their kids "Apple" and "Moonunit".
Film stars and musicians are real people. Elves, gremlins, video game character and Eskimos are not.
$6.21 is the number of the beast before sales tax. Meh.
You DO realize that this is a "News for Nerds" site, right? I wonder how many people on this site have kids named Han and Kirk!
Ha! My little Jean-Luc can beat up your Kirk any time!
Mmkay, so at 13 this kid'll just rebel and turn cool.
Clever parents learn to fake out their kids, which is why I'm going to pretend to be a Republican from when my kids are btwn 10 and 18.
"But mommy, why did you name me Trogdor?"
At this point I think it's safe to say that SOE is going to be the cause of the downfall of Civilization.
Sid Meier is going to be pissed.
Just think of all the guys out there named Mario- Nintendo has doomed them to Nerdom!!
Er, yes? As in "the vast majority" yes?
Firiona is not a bad name. I rather like the sound of it. In fact, it is a substantially better choice than, say, "Apple".
I'm planning on naming my son Guybrush Threepwood.
find . -name "noobs" -print | xargs rm -rf && echo "pwnd."
...she can't go to college until she's a level 25 high school student.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
SOE has claimed copyright infringement. Sony lead attorney, R. U. Stiltskin, said that in compensation the mother must give up... her first born child!!!!
I am an Eskimo you insensitive clod!
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
She can grow up and marry my sysadmin's son, Anakin.
Not so addicted that they didn't have time to concieve.
I must admit, I'm amazed at the restraint showed by Slashdot on this topic. Nobody has said anything like
"This must be a record: two Everquest players got laid on the same night."
or
"I guess he broke his +5 Latex Sheild of Damascus"
or anything about a rod of might.
Nobody's made any tasteless comments about needing to call a GM because they got stuck in a crack. Or joking about how much of a hammering the server can handle. Or mentioning that the character is now capable of generating food, but only for very low-level players.
No one has questioned whether Firiona really is a girl, or is just pretending to be one.
... how the @#$% did he find time to stop raiding the planes to breed?
This kid better learn to change her own diaper and prepare her own baby bottles quickly.
Nah, the parents will just need to type "/diaper" at the prompt and the closest diaper service will be automatically sent out to deal with little stinky. SOE already has the billing information so the process is easy enough for even the most addicted and feeble MMORPGer.
-Pinkoir
She could have been named Fiorina instead.