Naming Policy

[Alawen Everywhere]

Nalkin gets it; Lazortag never will.

I really don't care about appropriate names. I've never participated in any of the name nazi antics. I don't really care if my name gets changed. I am super amused that Starklen immediately launched into google to search for my randomly generated elf name.

My entire point is consistency and even a vague semblance of fairness. I like Cyrius and I think Uthgaard is alright, too, but they both are taking the server farther in the direction of "because I said so", which I personally consider a mistake. Without the player base, this server is just another personal playground in that long list of emulator servers we all ignore every time we launch the software.

Maybe you don't think that can happen here. You would be wrong.

[Starklen]

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

Nalkin gets it; Lazortag never will.

I really don't care about appropriate names. I've never participated in any of the name nazi antics. I don't really care if my name gets changed. I am super amused that Starklen immediately launched into google to search for my randomly generated elf name.

My entire point is consistency and even a vague semblance of fairness. I like Cyrius and I think Uthgaard is alright, too, but they both are taking the server farther in the direction of "because I said so", which I personally consider a mistake. Without the player base, this server is just another personal playground in that long list of emulator servers we all ignore every time we launch the software.

Maybe you don't think that can happen here. You would be wrong.

You should change your name for the sake of consistency imo.

[Alawen Everywhere]

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

You should change your name for the sake of consistency imo.

I wonder if you realize that you are never funny or clever or interesting or cool. Stop eating the paste, mouthbreather.

[Pico]

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

I wonder if you realize that you are never funny or clever or interesting or cool. Stop eating the paste, mouthbreather.

you are pretty much the definition of mouth breather after your giant rant about being terribly oppressed on a video game emulator

[Alawen Everywhere]

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

you are pretty much the definition of mouth breather after your giant rant about being terribly oppressed on a video game emulator

You clearly won't ever get it, either. I could not give less of a fuck about who is named what on this emulator server. It's all stupid pseudo-bureaucratic bullshit. It's an easy decision. Either you treat everyone the same or you say, "Fuck you, we do what we want," and stop explaining or responding to criticism.

The stupidest thing is for the community forums to be administered by the staff. Now that is not classic.

[Starklen]

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

I wonder if you realize that you are never funny or clever or interesting or cool. Stop eating the paste, mouthbreather.

And you're a bitter old hermit. Get fucked.

[Alawen Everywhere]

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

And you're a bitter old hermit. Get fucked.

Oh no *gasp* Starklen told me *inhale* to get fucked. *pant*

umb?

[Lazortag]

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

Nalkin gets it; Lazortag never will.

I really don't care about appropriate names. I've never participated in any of the name nazi antics. I don't really care if my name gets changed. I am super amused that Starklen immediately launched into google to search for my randomly generated elf name.

My entire point is consistency and even a vague semblance of fairness. I like Cyrius and I think Uthgaard is alright, too, but they both are taking the server farther in the direction of "because I said so", which I personally consider a mistake. Without the player base, this server is just another personal playground in that long list of emulator servers we all ignore every time we launch the software.

Maybe you don't think that can happen here. You would be wrong.

This isn't really a fair account of what happened in this thread. You asserted that IB was somehow going to be favoured by not getting its name changed, after which it was clarified that the policy wasn't aimed at guild names. This is what you said in response to Aasimon concerning this:

Originally Posted by Alawen

I would also say that you are making it very clear that equal justice does not apply on Project 1999, which is, of course, something you are clearly entitled to do. It is, at the end of the day, your sandbox, and you can make whatever arbitrary rules and rulings you so choose about who gets to play, with what and for how long.

As far as I can tell (since I can actually read, and you can't), this isn't at all consistent with Nalkin's interpretation of the meaning behind your posts in this thread - which is curiously what you stuck to in the end. Nowhere in your post does it say, "it's inconsistent that the policy applies to character names and not to guild names". Maybe Nalkin has a point, but you never did. You just kept repeating things that were already adequately responded to. I actually can't believe that I had the courtesy to respond to everything in your enormous TLDR posts and you didn't respond to one word in mine.

Also, on an unrelated note, Estu is very smart.

My opinion in the end is that this "policy change" will change very little and people are overreacting, since the guides will probably just adhere to something resembling the old standard and only change really egregious names that they see or are petitioned to them. If the old standard was technically the same as this one as Uthgaard and others have said, then I think some fault lies with whoever wrote the old policy, because it does seem overly strict (names that are anachronistic, or references to real-world media, are probably harmless, but like Nalkin I care really little either way and can't fathom why people like Alawen have shat a brick over this. Also, it's pretty much classic, so I can't complain).

[Alawen Everywhere]

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

This isn't really a fair account of what happened in this thread. You asserted that IB was somehow going to be favoured by not getting its name changed, after which it was clarified that the policy wasn't aimed at guild names. This is what you said in response to Aasimon concerning this:



As far as I can tell (since I can actually read, and you can't), this isn't at all consistent with Nalkin's interpretation of the meaning behind your posts in this thread - which is curiously what you stuck to in the end. Nowhere in your post does it say, "it's inconsistent that the policy applies to character names and not to guild names". Maybe Nalkin has a point, but you never did. You just kept repeating things that were already adequately responded to. I actually can't believe that I had the courtesy to respond to everything in your enormous TLDR posts and you didn't respond to one word in mine.

Also, on an unrelated note, Estu is very smart.

My opinion in the end is that this "policy change" will change very little and people are overreacting, since the guides will probably just adhere to something resembling the old standard and only change really egregious names that they see or are petitioned to them. If the old standard was technically the same as this one as Uthgaard and others have said, then I think some fault lies with whoever wrote the old policy, because it does seem overly strict (names that are anachronistic, or references to real-world media, are probably harmless, but like Nalkin I care really little either way and can't fathom why people like Alawen have shat a brick over this. Also, it's pretty much classic, so I can't complain).

I didn't respond to you because you're simply not interesting. It was clear what bandwagon you were part of with the silly pop culture references of both your guild tag and your forum name. The dialog you wanted to have was extremely obvious. Going through the exercise of that dialog would have been tedious at best.

Do you feel more respected now that I quoted your post and typed some words to you?

[Lazortag]

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

I didn't respond to you because you're simply not interesting. It was clear what bandwagon you were part of with the silly pop culture references of both your guild tag and your forum name. The dialog you wanted to have was extremely obvious. Going through the exercise of that dialog would have been tedious at best.

Do you feel more respected now that I quoted your post and typed some words to you?

What the fuck? What "bandwagon" am I on? What does my guild name or forum name have to do with any of this? I thought my forum name was just a silly misspelling of a shitty game, but according to you it has some hidden significance. Why is it that me supposedly being on a bandwagon makes it so you don't have to respond to anything I say? Bagzan stated it pretty well:

Originally Posted by Bagzan

It's one thing to have strong wording, it's another when your wording goes from opinion to a statement of fact when your "fact" isn't really a fact and merely an incorrect opinion.

Believe it or not, but at the end of the day I really don't give a shit one way or another but the fact of the matter is you came out and called out individuals and an organization for something that is within the rules, reasonable based on the people in charge opinions [sic], and overall completely pointless and irrelevant. Then you started off on random tangents that didn't address points and calling people names ...

This is a 100% accurate description of your involvement in this thread. You go about making massive overly complicated posts qualifying your silly views with words like "clearly", "obviously", etc. to try and pass them off as fact, and when people point out that most of your concerns were entirely irrelevant, you ignore them and just keep repeating yourself. Later you actually tried to tell us that what you were "really trying to say" was that there was an inconsistency in the application of this policy to player names and not guild names, when you actually never, at any point, said anything of that nature.

Holy fucking shit Alawen, are you for real-reals, or just for play-play?