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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.
What a completely one-sided and closed-minded argument. When my daughter was only months old EverQuest's Kunark had just come out. I put in a good deal of time in the game and my child received proper care. I actually take offense to that comment.
Some people play games, some work on computers and others work on cars.
Parents have been naming their kids after occupations throughout the '90s. Where I live, kids are named Hunter or Taylor or Baker. I even know a couple who named their kids Cooke and Plumber.
Cue the "my name's Carpenter, you insensitive clod!" comments.Actually, the only reason why it works is because if you type in any word into the address bar in Firefox and it's not a http:// link, it will do a "Feeling Lucky" search on Google. This has been implemented for a while.
The Everquest tabletop RPG is a d20 System game (the core of 3rd edition D&D), although it's officially OGL only and doesn't use the d20 System Trademark License because it includes some off limits things like character creation.
No IP in a person's name. [Unless you are in America where you have the right of "reputation"]