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	hallidae 2008-03-13 03:04 am UTC (link)
	Oh my God, that's way up there on the list of Most Awesome. (Reply to this)

	cygnia 2008-03-13 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Clearly, he's a Retadin. :) (Reply to this)

	lroy 2008-03-13 03:48 am UTC (link)
	Ah, so that's the origin of that image. Cool! :3 I saw it a while back floating around and grabbed a copy to admire/keep for later uses. Tried playing the card game once... would rather just read the amusing cards and look at the pretty artwork... (Reply to this)

	eleutheria 2008-03-13 04:03 am UTC (link)
	Can this be another excuse to laugh at the uberserious WoW lolplayers who get all het up about people naming their toons something "un-fantasy" that "breaks immersion"? It's a video game with a fuckton of popculture references in it-- WHAT immersion? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	iwanttobeasleep 2008-03-13 04:54 am UTC (link)
	That happens outside of RP servers ~~who have a legitimate beef~~? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

eleutheria
2008-03-13 08:27 am UTC (link)

Mostly just on RP servers who do have a legitimate beef, but take it to interesting places sometimes-- I often wonder if they're just as irritated at Blizz for putting "Haris Pilton, Socialite" in Shatt as they are at gnomes who dare to be named something like "Nurufuzzy" because they think humor doesn't fit in WoW.

(Seen it on PVE servers sometimes too, but they're swimming against a tide there. I mean, Pat Robertson the Troll Priest is funny.)

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	lemone 2008-03-13 06:11 pm UTC (link)
	See, the silly names don't bother me. The only time it pisses me off is when it's something like the one hunter in my (RP) server who has the oh-so-original name of 'Hunteer' or the rogues who name themselves 'Hidenstab'. It's like, you couldn't think of anything better? More original? Really? REALLY, really? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bubosquared 2008-03-16 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	Not to mntion the gazillion variations of Legolas/Legolaz/whatever. (Then only one I actually liked was the female dwarf called Legolass. Hee.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	soupspooks 2008-03-13 06:21 am UTC (link)
	It bugs me when people call themselves things like 'iwantshoes' or 'eatmoarchikn'. Perhaps I'm too serious? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	belafarinrod 2008-03-13 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	Eh, just split the names a bit differently in your head. Ea T'moar and Iwan Thso Es wouldn't look to off in any B-fantasy book. Though I admit it's hard to do anything about Chikn. Maybe transcribe it to katakana (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

soupspooks
2008-03-13 04:55 pm UTC (link)

Aside from the fact that there's no katakana in WoW, the only thing I can really point out is there IS a naming policy and one of the conditions IS 'do not use phrases'. Another is not to use really popular game character names or celebrity names. I'd imagine the names they have have been acquired by permission, because I've heard of Blizzard being asked to remove elements of their games because the proprietary owner of the thing they're tributing says, 'no, go away'.

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	darth_snuggles 2008-03-17 02:33 am UTC (link)
	Ahaha, yeeeah, I'm one of those douchebags who doesn't care to think up original names. Named my tauren Appa and had a blood elf named Larxene for a while. ashamed (Reply to this)(Parent)

	worstangel 2008-03-13 04:22 am UTC (link)
	Oh, that's the best thing I've seen all week. <3 his expression! (Reply to this)

	iwanttobeasleep 2008-03-13 04:54 am UTC (link)
	OH MY GOD DO WANT And that wallpaper is just begging for a Motivation tagline. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tez 2008-03-13 06:23 am UTC (link)
	"Truthiness: More Powerful Than You." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	makeshyft 2008-03-13 01:59 pm UTC (link)
	"Paladins: Leeroy Jenkins was right!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	worstangel 2008-03-13 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	Who's got chicken NOW, bitch?! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kaen 2008-03-13 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	I'm surprised that the agent didn't at least check with him on it, since Colbert's such a huge geek that I'd have thought this would be the sort of thing that would thrill him. (Reply to this)

	mistressrenet 2008-03-14 11:52 am UTC (link)
	Colbert's agent is just failing all over the place! (Reply to this)

	snowden 2008-03-14 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	I finally have found a new desktop background! ♥ (Reply to this)

	darth_snuggles 2008-03-17 02:34 am UTC (link)
	It's- it's beautiful. God bless ~~America~~ Azeroth. ♥ (Reply to this)

	foresthouse 2008-03-17 05:21 am UTC (link)
	My guess is if Colbert actually sees this, he WILL be interested. Heh. (Reply to this)