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Super Tetris ([info]supertetris) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2005-05-24 11:03:00


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Current mood:Mildly Amused

Oh no, not EverQuest wank!
Hello, this is Kalypsi from livejournal. My good friend SuperTetris agreed to post this report for me. Thanks!

Everquest is a popular online game that has had a following for years now. When you play EQ2, you have to follow rules, and one of those rules is what you can name your character. EQ2 doesn't want you giving your characters well-known names from history, religion, or popular culture, vulgar names, and names with titles, among other things. This never goes down well with people who want to name their characters names like Darthjesus and Princessofcarnage, and arguments over this always seem to eventually turn to Hitler's name being thrown around, such as what happened in this older thread. (And you can't call your character Hitler, either.) If you see someone violating this policy in the game, you can report the name and it will be changed if the GMs agree with you.

This time it all starts when eqfool makes a post on the official Everquest 2 forums about his character's name being changed. Everyone is pretty civil until other players manage to get eqfool to tell them what his character's name was: Knockers. eqfool quickly launches into an angry rant about "idiot name nazis," how terrible SOE is, and adds a cherry on top of the classic wank sundae by blaming it all on "Amerika."

The discussion continues for a while with people discussing naming in games and the ramifications of naming a character "Knockers." xolthar05 adds to the discussion with this statement: “The mammary gland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammary_gland is an adaptation of the sweat gland. It's can get all scientific and very unexciting,” which should make some of you happy even if you don't know a thing about EQ2 because boobs were discussed.

After this, Outkast1980 enters the discussion with a heated post. He calls all those who petition names "immature kids," and starts complaining about how his character's name (Outkast) was reported and changed to Outflast. His friend's name was changed from Princessofcarnage to Winfueva, and another friend's name was changed from Weewee to Weril. Damn those immature kids for reporting those incredibly mature names. He proceeds to diss SOE, because that's the most popular hobby for people on the forums, and adds that he will probably be banned from the forums for exercising freedom of speech. He also includes: "I have talked to enough gamers that have told me, we don't bother with forums because gms,devs etc won't ever take critism and admit they have done wrong, and everyone else is just fake and will always back sony and the devs/gms (to certain extent of course)."

Ktok immediately writes a short message pointing out where every one of Outkast1980's names violated the naming policy. I guess in Outkast1980's terms, Ktok's one of those fakes who backs Sony. Outkast1980, the boy who can't stand it when people won't admit they're wrong, returns with this post:

Wow that cracks me up
first off WeeeWeee isnt me . is a friend . now is weril how [expletive ninja'd by Faarbot]
outkast being a copyright issue. get a frigging grip already
and the princessofcarnage reason is simply [expletive ninja'd by Faarbot]. I could careless what it could be mistaken for.
WeeeWeee being derived as anything else is childish simply put. if 95% of you take that as a male's anatomy. that shows enough to me on why so many names get reported.
lame.



What a terrible world we live in when we can't name our characters Darthjesus.



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[info]hypercubed
2005-05-24 06:35 pm UTC (link)
So, if I went over there and named a character "Hooters McFly", there'd be a huge uproar and they'd try to make me a Nazi? Is that the gist?

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[info]phosfate
2005-05-24 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Or "Todger Smegmaster"?

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In that case.... - [info]pope_shane, 2005-05-25 07:11 am UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-25 07:43 am UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]pope_shane, 2005-05-25 08:17 am UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-25 08:37 am UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]pope_shane, 2005-05-25 09:16 am UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]wankismyfandom, 2005-05-25 11:09 am UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]sewingmyfish, 2005-05-25 12:52 pm UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]pope_shane, 2005-05-25 01:01 pm UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]sewingmyfish, 2005-05-25 01:40 pm UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-25 05:25 pm UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-25 05:21 pm UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]marlo, 2005-05-25 09:52 pm UTC
Re: In that case.... - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-25 10:03 pm UTC
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[info]walkingundine
2005-05-24 07:32 pm UTC (link)
They wouldn't make you a Nazi. If your name offended someone, they could 'petition' to have it changed. Same if you decided to name your character Raistlin or Drizzt (you would not believe how many deliberate misspellings of 'Zaknafein' there are in EQ). In some cases it's because of obscenity or people being offended, and in others it's because of copyright law.
Your name would be changed to something random and probably vaguely fantasy-flavoured.

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[info]mouseybrown
2005-05-24 07:40 pm UTC (link)
Or Wedge Wangmeister, Pootitty MacBooty, Whizzinyer Bush and CumOn Yertitz.

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[info]smo
2005-05-24 10:32 pm UTC (link)
All right, you win. Hooty McBoob it is.

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[info]emlan
2005-05-24 07:30 pm UTC (link)
I can still make a new charactor with the same exact name, if it's so bad why can one do that?

I am making a new charactOR and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!!1!!

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[info]coffee_mug
2005-05-24 09:55 pm UTC (link)
Icon love to the max. Raito so would.

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[info]mouseybrown
2005-05-24 07:42 pm UTC (link)
:wipes spat tea from monitor:

Thanks for that! It totally made my afternoon.

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[info]hypercubed
2005-05-24 07:55 pm UTC (link)
This is the best wank...well not /ever/. But it's the best wank of the hour!

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[info]kijikun
2005-05-24 09:42 pm UTC (link)
*fondly remember reporting dumbass names during her time playing Galaxies*

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[info]silrana
2005-05-25 12:49 am UTC (link)
I used to play the Sims Online. Only once did I break down and report a property name. I have a high tolerance, but Kiddie Porn Palace was too much for me.

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(no subject) - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-25 01:08 am UTC

[info]mooncalf
2005-05-24 10:02 pm UTC (link)
*puts on her HOLY GOD I'M OLD hat*

Waaaaaaaay back in the day I used to play on TorilMUD--a really popular old text-based Forgotten Realms MUD with which Everquest shares an astonishing number of ideas, hm--with the guy who would go on to found Everquest. I remember sitting 3w listening to him talk about the 'graphical MUD' he was working on and the various things he wanted to accomplish, and I also remember snorting to myself and thinking 'that'll never work'. Ahaha. I guess he showed me good. But anyway.

If you know what I mean by '3w', you're my new best friend of the day.

Anyway, this wank made me laugh because that exact concept of name approval is, ta da, a TorilMUD concept! Like many other things native to Everquest!

Amusingly, the founder's name on TorilMUD? Aragorn.

*cough*

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[info]walkingundine
2005-05-24 10:24 pm UTC (link)
Hypocracy, thy name is EverSmack.

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[info]smo
2005-05-24 10:31 pm UTC (link)
Would Dartjeebus be an acceptable substitution?

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(no subject) - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-24 11:26 pm UTC

[info]isobelsomething
2005-05-24 11:12 pm UTC (link)
*facepalm*

I'm so glad I quit being a head GM a while back. It's not good for the blood pressure to be dealing with idiots all day.

MU*s and MMORPGs bring all the morons to the yard.

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[info]wankismyfandom
2005-05-25 12:21 am UTC (link)
Be glad I'm not a GM, otherwise your name would now be something along the lines of GeeImadork Perpetualvirgin, and would be unchangeable. Prolly make all your armor hot pink too.

I'm just not well suited for Customer Service positions.


*snerk*

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[info]livii
2005-05-25 12:55 am UTC (link)
Great stuff. People assuming superiority based on age, someone with the name woode feeling superior that their name is actually "anex" or something like that, and eqfool (the late "knockers", hah) saying he could never make himself play a female "charactor". Heh!

The kicker? I agree. This sort of political correctness is a symptom of all that is wrong with our modern society... with a sad, or possibly depressed, smiley.

OH NOES!!!

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[info]kalicephirot
2005-05-25 01:05 am UTC (link)
Every wank that involves boobs is great! :D

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[info]greenling
2005-05-25 04:50 am UTC (link)
Well-known names from history? Huh. Does that mean you would get in trouble for, say, naming a half-elf character (I have no idea what races are in Everquest) Tam-Lin? How about naming a human wizard Merlin? How about Norse gods? Are Celtic ones obscure enough?

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(no subject) - [info]hypercubed, 2005-05-25 05:38 am UTC
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[info]aerobot
2005-05-25 06:36 am UTC (link)
You can't name characters from religious or historical people? Aww! I love doing that!

What about mythology? Or is that under 'religion'?

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(no subject) - [info]vanilla_tiger, 2005-05-25 04:24 pm UTC
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[info]fandom_bitch
2005-05-25 08:41 am UTC (link)
I think my eyes are going to fall out after reading that whole thread. Ugh, white/red/green on black...yuk, yuk, yuk!

Anyway, I've never really gotten into Evercrack and now I have another reason not to bother. :P

It all seems a bit hypocritical, I mean, I thought Knockers wasn't that bad at all, and in a game where you kill critters for gold and power. Now the name Hooflung Poh was hilarious and I hope that name never gets reported. Honestly, I'm female and I constantly channel what I call my inner 13-year-old boy who would wanna push the limits too.

Granted some of the names were very bad. But there you go, you get something like this online, you are gonna get a lot of idiots pushing it.

But then again, I have never pretended to be very mature.

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[info]fandom_bitch
2005-05-25 09:05 am UTC (link)
Honestly, this has had to have been one of the most amusing wankfests I've come across in a long time. Many of the names alone have had me laughing so hard...I'm so mature, I know, but given my day today, this was greatly needed.

Fandom_Wank, you made my day.

Fandy M. Beeyotch ;)

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[info]oxydosic
2005-05-25 10:54 pm UTC (link)
I'd think it'd be damn hard to find an original name with as many people there are playing that game. The name policy may be a tad strict, though honestly it'd ruin the experience for me playing with people with names like HelloKitty or something.

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[info]hypercubed
2005-05-25 11:16 pm UTC (link)
*wonders if Wisney ever had any wank like this...*

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winterfox
2005-05-26 10:53 am UTC (link)
*laughs*

Does anybody remember a male barbarian NPC who stands near the docks in Freeport? With the name "Bate Masterson"?

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