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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 14:22:00 -
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Upon character creation we weren't allowed to use certain characters, most annoying of these being the much useful - sign, yet there is no curbing lamers naming themselves qwerty1, 01010101010101, J0rt and whatnot.
Why are the CCP trying to kill any chance of immersion like this by not making numbers in names a no-no?
Would that be too much to ask for, people not using babytalk?
Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 18/07/2003 14:26:10
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yarr
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Posted - 2003.07.18 14:35:00 -
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You've got a thing about other peoples names. Last night you said you would pod me just for having a stupid name...
But you sound like a brand of dishwasher, although I'm not complaining. It all comes down to personal choice.
You say stuff about people with numbers in their names. But if they didn't have these numbers in their names, you wouldn't suspect them. Consider number-names an advanced warning to the wise.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 14:38:00 -
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You had a point?
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Kelly
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Posted - 2003.07.18 14:41:00 -
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The name R2-D2 didn't hurt the immersion into the Star Wars culture for a tonne of people..
I fail to see your point... I think It could be fun to have a number increment after every time I get recloned.. lukily I'm still on Kelly Zero.. but that's because I hide well.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 14:42:00 -
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I find your lack of imagination disturbing...
R2D2 was a droid, no-one here is a droid as it's simply not in the cards.
Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 18/07/2003 14:45:57
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Kelly
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Posted - 2003.07.18 14:51:00 -
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I have enough imagination not to let the names destroy my chance of immersion..
I think someone stated this as an issue recently..
OMIGOD.. it was actually YOU who said this.. how about that .. wow, isn't it a small world..
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 15:04:00 -
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Just keep bumping the thread dimwit...
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j0sephine
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Posted - 2003.07.18 15:42:00 -
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"I find your lack of imagination disturbing..."
With all respect, if just seeing a name you aren't familiar with 'breaks your immersion' then i don't think you're in position to complain about others' lack of imagination...
"R2D2 was a droid, no-one here is a droid as it's simply not in the cards."
And unless i let you get close and personal enough to check my inner plumbings, just how the hell would you know for sure if i don't happen to be a Jove-made android prototype, built to gather data on the inner workings of the Caldari state? And that maybe the nerdy Jovian eggheads that built me thought it was cute to hint at both jovian origin and me being the '0' unit in the series?
Oh right, none of this is in the cards. Scroll up and read that part about being in no position to complain, please....
(nope, none of this is true. because if it was, i'd have to kill you now.... =)
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Thanak
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Posted - 2003.07.18 16:26:00 -
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I don't like name in number but there is far more to worry about than this.
Anyway for all we know your name could mean "fat whale" is some obscure language.
I chose Thanak without a last name because there was no field for "Last name". I didn't know how the chat system work in game and I didn't want people to have to type something too long to talk to me.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 17:02:00 -
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L33t is still babytalk from the wannabe hacker scriptkids out there, have you no self respect?
How do you pronounce the 0?
Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 18/07/2003 17:04:17
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j0sephine
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Posted - 2003.07.18 17:14:00 -
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"How do you pronounce the 0?"
"oh", obviously. It just puts some extra accent on that syllabe, hardly a rocket science...
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 17:17:00 -
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Jzerosephine would be my educated guess.
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j0sephine
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Posted - 2003.07.18 17:32:00 -
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"Jzerosephine would be my educated guess."
If it's all that takes to feel you more sophisticated, feel free to pronounce it any way you like. =) It doesn't change the point though -- instead of complaining how some names aren't up to your taste, why not use it as a base for additional rp and make the Eve world more interesting, if only for yourself?..
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 18:04:00 -
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There need be little roleplaying l33ts are subhuman scum.
Ok so that's harsh but they get nothing from me, if they provide nothing in the sense of atmosphere to the game and the CCP won't protect their investment I will simply have to snuff them out as much as I can... :)
Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 18/07/2003 18:13:39
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Bad Harlequin
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Posted - 2003.07.18 18:23:00 -
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all this ****e... from some pansy named "Danton?"
i must be suffering an irony deficiency :P
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drunkenmaster
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Posted - 2003.07.18 18:28:00 -
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Danton, we are thousands of years in the future. What makes you think names won't have numbers by then? Just role with it. Or kill them all. Whichever entertains you most.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 18:29:00 -
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Now we got the Slipknot crowd in here too, where's the Teletubbies mob?
What makes me think they won't have numbers? None of the developers characters had numbers in them, had they had I'd never bought the game in the first place.
Second as I stated, numbers are pronounced a certain way, what purpose would it fill to exchange a letter with a number to these people, were they all children of unfulfilled wannabes with hacker wetdreams?
Edited by: Danton Marcellus on 18/07/2003 18:34:32
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drunkenmaster
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Posted - 2003.07.18 18:49:00 -
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dude, you got issues. personally, I'm not a big fan of l33t-speak, but I certainly don't hate it with such a passion that it actually upsets me. you should lighten up a little.
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j0sephine
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Posted - 2003.07.18 18:59:00 -
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"what purpose would it fill to exchange a letter with a number to these people"
Alternate spelling of already taken character name.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 19:08:00 -
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Yes 'cause a surname would be too hard for the little nugget wouldn't it...
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j0sephine
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Posted - 2003.07.18 19:22:00 -
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"Yes 'cause a surname would be too hard for the little nugget wouldn't it..."
Maybe. Alternatively, they could want to have a character with just the first name, or just the surname. Or maybe they want their character with specific first and last name, and this combination is already used.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 19:53:00 -
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Now you're reaching, l33ts are just unimaginative griefers, yes I'm deducting their lack of imagination will lead them down this path sooner or later...
So spare yourself the bother to threaten to kill me ingame, I expect nothing else.
But really, this was addressed to the CCP, SWG I know planned to bar certain names from being used, a smart move on their part as they knew how much names like Boogereater, 01010101010101 and qwerty1 and such take away from peoples gaming experience.
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j0sephine
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Posted - 2003.07.18 20:29:00 -
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"Now you're reaching"
Hardly. People often name their characters after their favourites from movies, books, their own stories. When such character is somewhat popular, it's a given the original name will eventually be taken.
"l33ts are just unimaginative griefers, yes I'm deducting their lack of imagination will lead them down this path sooner or later...
So spare yourself the bother to threaten to kill me ingame, I expect nothing else."
And yet --unable to think of more than just one explanation and resolution-- you complain about lack of imagination of others and how it ruins your experience.
Priceless.
"But really, this was addressed to the CCP, SWG I know planned to bar certain names from being used, a smart move on their part as they knew how much names like Boogereater, 01010101010101 and qwerty1 and such take away from peoples gaming experience"
You really should read the SWG boards then. They have a number of threads going exactly on that topic, and how this feature didn't work out....
Now let's see if we can spin those unimaginative names into something interesting.
*Boogereater -- a Minmatar, obviously. named so by his starving mother because of the habit of digging his daily food dose out of his own nose since his youngest years.
*01010101010101 -- artificial intelligence gone awry during attempt of merging it with a human body? Or maybe some top-notch navigation computer engineer, a nerd with no life outside of his work.
*qwerty1 -- the result of mass-production genetic engineering, one of countless minions created to keep their mother Caldari corporation running and expanding. Was born at the end of the shift, when the supervising medic was itching to go home already and couldn't be arsed to come up with any name... so he just hit the series of keys and left the guy stuck forever with the ****ty ID.
See? instant content. Now think how can you spin something as generic as "Danton Marcellus" so it actually becomes interesting... i surely cannot.
Edited by: j0sephine on 18/07/2003 20:34:14
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Drewbicus
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Posted - 2003.07.18 21:03:00 -
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I have to side wtih the original poster here. L33t is nothing but a cheap bastardiztion of English used by people who, for whatever reason, simply will not use the language properly.
If I may point out the obvious, L33t speak makes you feel a sense of community with others of similar mindset. It also makes users of it look like idiots those who prefer to use the language correctly. It falls under the same category as simple laziness. It's an eyesore, an irritant, and a particularly bad idea to get used to using it in writing since it will tend to serve one poorly in education or business.
And frankly, with the amount of effort it takes one to use L33t, it would often be simpler to actually use proper English.
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drunkenmaster
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Posted - 2003.07.18 21:28:00 -
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one thing you're missing here. And that is that, other than the word 'l33t' itself, I've hardly seen anyone use leet-speak on these forums. only in their character's names.
If you can't manage to ignore it, then just consider them like children with speech impediments. But asking for a ban on numbers is just plain ridiculous.
Or you could consider them like The Borg, who are all know only by number, and would grief all existance if they had the time. They also cheat.
there, a couple more examples, and I'm not even trying.
I'm happy with just not giving it a second thought. an 0 is an o, and a 3 is an E. If your vision is not veiled in the red mist of rage, it's still fairly basic reading. I mean even the retarded 8-year olds can read it, right?
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Evee
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Posted - 2003.07.18 23:23:00 -
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Daneton, Your just plain rude. You've run rough shot over everyone whos posted, It's a shame that I happen to agree that numerics shouldn't be apart of a name but that doesn't mean they shouldn't as It's simple enough to just ignore and there are other issues far more restrictive to role play than the names of players.
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Talys
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Posted - 2003.07.19 03:45:00 -
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*sigh* to complain about a name is to miss the point 20 times larger that no one ingame role-plays. How can you complain about someone who's named 1010 when some guy named 'Arabus"
is talked about how T3 rocked? A little bit of perspective would be nice. ANd tolerance, but I suppose that's just not in the cards.
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Liessa
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Posted - 2003.07.19 11:36:00 -
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You complain that the People who use L33t speak have no imagination and are spoiling your role-playing experience, how people choose to use or abuse the english language has no relevance to their ability to role-play.
Your own bigoted views on these people only serves to show your own lack of imagination in being able to deal with it.
In short , get over it!
Edited by: Liessa on 19/07/2003 11:40:05
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Cell Satimo
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Posted - 2003.07.19 11:49:00 -
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I'm offering 1,000,000 ISK bounty for the corpse of any person who posted more than once on this ridiculuous thread.
Contact me in-game if you have a corpse.
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2003.07.19 12:32:00 -
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Why should I get over it, I loath that crowd and it makes no sense for CCP to allow it since it hardly draws in extra money.
Why should I have to create a scenario in which I makes sense of the l33t when there is no sense to be made. They want to be outsiders and a little special but can find no more imaginative way to be that way than to stick a number in their name. You're asking me to have oversight with people that could never offer that courtesy back.
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