Project 1999 Naming Policy - Page 32

maskedmelon · #**311** 11-15-2016, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Muggens [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So youre saying Dronestrikes have another meaning in Japan? Im in Europe and it means the same here as everywhere else. Exactly like Irishcarbomb. Banzai is not really relatable here as its a japanese expression/exclamation unique to Japan, equivolent in the west could be something like "live well" or "live long and prosper"(from star trek). Were I am we have no specific expression for this. But when the americans are boming around with their drones we all say dronestrikes.

Conversely, do all americans(I assume you are) compare dronestrikes with polaroid cameras and druid spells? If so you seem desentized to violence.

No, point is, people feel different ways about words. What about a character named Carpetbombing? Or Nuker? Or maybe Nukesalot? What about Slickblade? Pirates? How do you feel about Raiding?

maskedmelon · #**312** 11-15-2016, 11:26 AM

I will add though that it not a very fantasy oriented name, even if it is funny ^^

Lhancelot · #**313** 11-15-2016, 11:33 AM

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I will add though that it not a very fantasy oriented name, even if it is funny ^^

yeah and I can see it being offensive to some. I should have just nodded my head in agreement with Muggens I suppose, but I was curious to hear more. I guess I am a kverulant, afterall.

I learned something today, so this discussion proved worthwhile, anyway. Thanks to Muggens I learned what a "kverulant" is. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

maskedmelon · #**314** 11-15-2016, 11:37 AM

As did I ^^

fadetree · #**315** 11-15-2016, 11:46 AM

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Just because the word "drone" has some evil connotation to you doesn't necessarily mean the word meant the same to him or others who read it.

I personally would think of the word as you do, but at the same time I can recognize the dual meaning behind it, the other being a play on the name of the druid spell, "Drones of Doom".

Do you think the designers created the spell name "Drones of Doom" intending it to remind people of drones used to bomb or attack people? I doubt it.

Personally I don't get upset over the name, but I can see how you might feel.

One time on EQ1 ages ago there was a guy named "Irishcarbomb" and I did not like this name, for the same reasons you don't like "Dronestrikes". I guess I am older, and less impressionable and even less offended by words so neither name phases me now.

I wouldn't be surprised if they rmeoved his name, then again I wouldn't be surprised if they did not.

Remember that it's an insect-based attack...that line of dots has attack messages about a 'swarm of insects'...so I've always thought the 'drones' reference was to bee drones, which are male bees. The designers might have thought that these were like warrior bees or whatever; what they actually do is lay around and try to have sex constantly. They don't even have stingers. Any comparison to human male behavior is coincidental.

Lhancelot · #**316** 11-15-2016, 11:50 AM

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Remember that it's an insect-based attack...that line of dots has attack messages about a 'swarm of insects'...so I've always thought the 'drones' reference was to bee drones, which are male bees. The designers might have thought that these were like warrior bees or whatever; what they actually do is lay around and try to have sex constantly. They don't even have stingers. Any comparison to human male behavior is coincidental.

That's true, ants have drones too which are 100% males who are the weakest members of the colony. They basically are born to fly in the air, have sex with queens, then die. (NOTE: correction, according to the definition below the drones have sex with PRINCESSES!)

Drone: The drones are the male ants in the colony. They are usually even smaller than the workers. Their head and mandibles (ant's jaws) are small. One can see their genitals with the naked eye. Their complex eyes are larger than these of workers or females. Their behaiviour is inadequate. They hatch from infertilized eggs, which can be laid in special cases by workers. This happens when the queen is dead in order to keep the colony's genes. In the nest drones do not do any work at all. They even can not feed on their own, but workers feed them. The only aim in a drone's life is to fertilize a princess. After that they die.

fadetree · #**317** 11-15-2016, 11:53 AM

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That's true, ants have drones too which are 100% males who are the weakest members of the colony. They basically are born to fly in the air, have sex with queens, then die. (NOTE: correction, according to the definition below the drones have sex with PRINCESSES!)

Drone: The drones are the male ants in the colony. They are usually even smaller than the workers. Their head and mandibles (ant's jaws) are small. One can see their genitals with the naked eye. Their complex eyes are larger than these of workers or females. Their behaiviour is inadequate. They hatch from infertilized eggs, which can be laid in special cases by workers. This happens when the queen is dead in order to keep the colony's genes. In the nest drones do not do any work at all. They even can not feed on their own, but workers feed them. The only aim in a drone's life is to fertilize a princess. After that they die.

So they are basically flying penises. That DOT keeps getting grosser.

Lhancelot · #**318** 11-15-2016, 11:58 AM

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So they are basically flying penises. That DOT keeps getting grosser.

lol. It's funny the only thing they have worthwhile apparently is their penis.

maskedmelonpai · #**319** 11-15-2016, 11:59 AM

Perhaps doom is their princess and they seek to fertilize her and that spell just make them mistake the target for their princess...

Lhancelot · #**320** 11-15-2016, 12:00 PM

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Perhaps doom is their princess and they seek to fertilize her and that spell just make them mistake the target for their princess...

Well. That creates some unpleasant imagery. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]