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Originally Posted by NachtMystium
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So as long as it's an obscure reference it's okay? Good logic
Name generator from verant is hearsay and not provable at all. Literally holds zero weight in your argument
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You're right, I can never "prove" the name came from the generator. But I can prove I had it on live in 2000 (maybe 2001) as I've got screenshots from era-appropriate GM events that could never have happened her on P99 (eg. one involves the Avatar or Love, which to my knowledge has never appeared here). And since this was before the drug alias, where else would I get such a random fantasy sounding name other than the generator? I'm not that creative.
But really you hit the nail on the head with:
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Originally Posted by NachtMystium
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So as long as it's an obscure reference it's okay? Good logic
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It's actually perfect logic: the whole idea of "breaking immersion" is that you see something from outside the game that clearly doesn't belong. An obscure drug alias won't register to 99% of the players as something that doesn't belong.
I had a friend name a WoW character Rengstorf ... after a street name near him. 99% of people don't have a Rengstorf street near them so they'll just see it as a cool name for a dwarf, no harm no foul. But if someone named their character "AvenueQ" that would obviously not belong to 100% of the players.
This isn't rocket science people: if your name clearly means something non-Everquest-related when most people see it, it doesn't belong. If your name is the same as something obscure that most people have never heard of, it's fine.
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Originally Posted by NachtMystium
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So who is to blame for not enforcing them for years?
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Um, the staff? And if you really can't see fit to forgive not enforcing one particular rule 100% of the time in the past (on the free server they've been running for almost a decade) ... you're an ass.