New Coral Named After Call of Duty: Black Ops

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New Coral Named After Call of Duty: Black Ops

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 27, 2011 @05:29PM from the Cnidarian-shooter dept.

dotarray writes "An American aquarium supplier obviously has a gamer on the payroll, after naming two new forms of Acanthastrea coral after Activision's shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. From the article: 'The Facebook post announcing the two new forms openly admits to the video gaming influence – and it’s not the first time a video game has inspired the Quality Marine coral namer – One of Swords points out that earlier this month, The Master Chief made its glorious pink-and-purple debut.'"

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not really news by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 17:43 · Score: 0

It's not a new species or anything, just a color variant. There are thousands of them and people name them whatever they want.
More server names by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 18:16 · Score: 0

We name our servers after coral reefs...but that thing is too hard to spell. I guess we'll just call the next one Ice Cube
Advertisement found on slashdot, news at 11 by Mr.+Freeman · 2011-10-27 18:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

Just to reemphasize a point here: this is not any kind of scientific organization doing any kind of official naming. This is a thinly-veiled advertisement for an aquarium supplier which named two colors of coral some gamer-related terms. They aren't even named after call of duty specifically, they could refer to about 70% of games on the market.

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1. Re:Advertisement found on slashdot, news at 11 by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 18:34 · Score: 0
  
  Thank you! Finally some common sense and *gasp* actual research! ON THE INTERNET!
  Wow.
2. Re:Advertisement found on slashdot, news at 11 by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 21:00 · Score: 0
  
  ...which named two colors of coral some gamer-related terms. They aren't even named after call of duty specifically, they could refer to about 70% of games on the market.
  For that insight, you could have quoted the two names and save us the trouble to RTFA...and help not give the supplier so many referral clicks.
3. Re:Advertisement found on slashdot, news at 11 by TangoMargarine · 2011-10-28 01:59 · Score: 1
  
  ...says the guy who still fails to mention these things are called "noob tube" and "nuketown."
  
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4. Re:Advertisement found on slashdot, news at 11 by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-28 04:42 · Score: 0
  
  very true, but most of the kids just play that same redundant zombies game over and over, and the writer of that article is obviously another one of them.
TFS by mwvdlee · 2011-10-27 19:30 · Score: 1

Just a minor nit-pick; TFS is about the naming of corals yet TFS fails to mention the names. Would it really have been so hard to mention the names?

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1. Re:TFS by notmyusualnickname · 2011-10-27 19:49 · Score: 2
  
  'n00b tube' and 'Nuketown'.
2. Re:TFS by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-28 03:08 · Score: 0
  
  I thought you were joking until I read TFA. Jesus Christ.
Both named after black ops? by flimflammer · 2011-10-27 19:40 · Score: 1

Article seems to imply only Nuketown is named after Black Ops, while n00b tube seems to be one of the nicknames for YouTube.
(but why on earth you name coral 'n00b tube' is beyond me)
1. Re:Both named after black ops? by notmyusualnickname · 2011-10-27 19:51 · Score: 1
  
  (that'll teach me to refresh before posting...)
  the 'noob tube' is a reference to Halo's sniper rifle.
2. Re:Both named after black ops? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 19:52 · Score: 0
  
  n00b tube also refers to grenade launchers in cod
3. Re:Both named after black ops? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 20:36 · Score: 0
  
  The noob tube is a reference to the grenade launcher in Quake 1
4. Re:Both named after black ops? by Narishma · 2011-10-27 22:48 · Score: 1
  
  Noob tubes generally refers to all kinds grenade launchers and RPGs found in most first person shooters because they deal a lot of damage and don't require much aiming skill.
  
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5. Re:Both named after black ops? by flimflammer · 2011-10-27 23:13 · Score: 1
  
  Ah, that explains it well. Thanks.
6. Re:Both named after black ops? by Talderas · 2011-10-27 23:18 · Score: 1
  
  The n00b tube was a reference to the M2 Carl Gustav from Battlefield Bad Company 2. That thing was such a n00b tube that they ended up nerfing it.
  
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7. Re:Both named after black ops? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 23:43 · Score: 0
  
  We were saying noob tube in 1997, a good 13 years before bbc2 came out.
8. Re:Both named after black ops? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-28 01:25 · Score: 0
  
  i see what you did there...
9. Re:Both named after black ops? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-28 03:24 · Score: 1
  
  I have to agree. These console kiddies didn't invent a lot of these terms. They were borrowed from the PC gaming community that was using them long before... I remember the Q1 grenade launcher being a n00b / newb weapon because new players would generally just run around spamming grenades with no regard for themselves hoping that some poor schmuck would get hit and die.
  I would also contend that such terms probably began before Quake, maybe even during the four player LAN days of Doom. BFG 9000 = newb tube.
  Also, who is this Master Chef anyway? Why does he have a sniper rifle? I would assume that he excels at the preparation of beef wellington. Where is his/her restaurant?
10. Re:Both named after black ops? by TehNoobTrumpet · 2011-10-28 04:06 · Score: 1
  
  Also, they're tubes.
11. Re:Both named after black ops? by djdanlib · 2011-10-28 06:44 · Score: 1
  
  Like the Internet?
12. Re:Both named after black ops? by TehNoobTrumpet · 2011-10-30 15:36 · Score: 1
  
  Well, it certainly isn't a big truck.
It's becoming cyclical by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-27 23:55 · Score: 0

After many years of games using real-world names to add appeal to their products it's about time for a payback. In Brazil, recently took place a federal investigation called "Black Ops".
That's fine by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-28 01:25 · Score: 0

I'm just happy that you can't find the 'Nuketown' coral more than twice in a row.
Sonic Hedgehog by joocemann · 2011-10-28 05:05 · Score: 1

... is still my favorite science from gaming term.