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Sync Swim .
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 19
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Why not some sort of compromise such as hardbuttons, selectgametype or selectdifficulty? _________________
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LegatoB .
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Electric Avenue
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Toups, you should come to the IRC sometime to discuss things with people. The angry mob demands discussion of plans for Whatever The Site/Forums Will Be Eventually Called. |
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benreed .
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 8 Location: all up in yo grill
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Sync Swim wrote: | Why not some sort of compromise such as hardbuttons, selectgametype or selectdifficulty? |
Too fucking clunky on all points. hardtype is straight, symmetrical, and to-the-point. Too many people forget the elegance inherent in simplicity. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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LegatoB wrote: | Toups, you should come to the IRC sometime to discuss things with people. The angry mob demands discussion of plans for Whatever The Site/Forums Will Be Eventually Called. |
Er, okay. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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BalbanesBeoulve .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 84
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject: Re: help me make the final decision for the site name. |
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Mister Toups wrote: | -hardtype |
Easily the best one, in my book. Though it's a little too extreme and edgy and tuff.
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-onecoin |
Lame.
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-becausevideogames
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Meh, probably the 2nd best one, but i'm not a fan.
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-selectbutton
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Very weak.
Lets put save and continue as one of the choices. A little long, but not like it can't be abbreviated SAC. |
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chompers po pable .
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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becausevideogames is good. it is also a bit long (LPN).
hardtype is solid, and short.
onecoin is weak, although the reference is funny. still no good.
selectbutton, an almost useless button? |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Lets put save and continue as one of the choices. A little long, but not like it can't be abbreviated SAC. |
lol
also: no. We've already spent an inordinate amount of time deciding a site name. A decision will be made tonight. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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oligophagy .
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 28
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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guys we should name it wordbox.com because it is about words on a rectilinear grid |
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Swimmy .
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Toups if you want to vote and get the least offensive response, you ought to use a Borda count. It can't be done with the forum poll but there are few enough people that self-tabulation wouldn't be too hard. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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BalbanesBeoulve .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 84
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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I can't help but feel I'll be disappointed with Herr Toups's choice. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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Swimmy wrote: | Toups if you want to vote and get the least offensive response, you ought to use a Borda count. It can't be done with the forum poll but there are few enough people that self-tabulation wouldn't be too hard. |
That looks complicated and isn't really necessary given the fact that I will be ignoring everyone's input and making an arbitrary decision based on my own whims. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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Ethoscapade .
Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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hardtype or selectbutton. |
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chompers po pable .
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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yes, although we wouldn't be able to hate for your decision if it wasn't yours, you know? you want us to love you, toups. all you need is love. our love. |
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Mr Mustache .
Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Queens
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Please not hardtype or selectbutton (sorry Ethoscapade). _________________ Straight up |
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dmauro .
Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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BalbanesBeoulve wrote: | I can't help but feel I'll be disappointed with Herr Toups's choice. |
You could always register a dreamhost account and just make the new forums yourself I suppose. Wasn't the deal that the old forums were gong to be elsewhere, so these will be entirely fresh or what? |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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dmauro wrote: | BalbanesBeoulve wrote: | I can't help but feel I'll be disappointed with Herr Toups's choice. |
You could always register a dreamhost account and just make the new forums yourself I suppose. Wasn't the deal that the old forums were gong to be elsewhere, so these will be entirely fresh or what? |
No. These are the new IC forums and they will also host an archive of the old forums. I'd like to avoid the notion that it's an entirely new entity, because it's not.
Let's please not make a bunch of splinter forums until this one fails horribly okay? _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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baron patsy .
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 58
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: help me make the final decision for the site name. |
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Mister Toups wrote: | These are my choices:
-hardtype
-onecoin
-becausevideogames
-selectbutton
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hardtype: i like this one
onecoin: too obscure a reference and just generally a stupid-sounding name
becausevideogames: as has been said, too long. not catchy enough.
selectbutton: this one's all right. a little bland, though. |
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kthorjensen .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: NYC
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Hardtype is where it's at. Becausevideogames is unworkable and sounds like an excuse for wetting your pants. Onecoin sounds like Hollywood makeup master Kevyn Aucoin and he's gay. Selectbutton is useless. Just name it after me an get on with your day. _________________ did i forget to tell anybody about my stupid fucking book? |
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kthorjensen .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: NYC
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baron patsy .
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 58
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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kthorjensen wrote: | Hardtype is where it's at. Becausevideogames is unworkable and sounds like an excuse for wetting your pants. Onecoin sounds like Hollywood makeup master Kevyn Aucoin and he's awesome. Selectbutton is useless. Just name it after me an get on with your day. |
listen to this man |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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kthorjensen wrote: | Onecoin sounds like Hollywood makeup master Kevyn Aucoin and he's awesome. |
That guy is from my hometown. Crazy huh. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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crispus attucks jr .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 23
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Mister Toups wrote: | kthorjensen wrote: | Onecoin sounds like Hollywood makeup master Kevyn Aucoin and he's awesome. |
That guy is from my hometown. Crazy huh. |
He sounds pretty gay. |
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RedLightning .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 17
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: Re: help me make the final decision for the site name. |
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Lurking n00b chiming in here.
-becausevideogames
Generic. Long. Holds no real identity on its own. Because videogames what? And hell, did your grade school teachers not teach you not to end sentences with "because"? And di your middle school teachers not teach you about sentence fragments and how to avoid them? BVG as an abbreviation sounds stupid. Does not really describe the community on its own to any degree. Most decidedly un-edgy. Just plain sounds stupid as a whole.
-selectbutton
A button that most console manufacturers have realized is absolutely useless and have omitted due to its redundancy. Just great. Do you not realize that the PS2 and PS3 are the only current-gen consoles that still sport Select buttons on their controllers? Even Nintendo, the goddamned inventors (?) of the button realized that it was totally useless and dumped it! Do you want the forums to be identified with Sony fanboys now?! Do you?! Think carefully now. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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crispus attucks jr wrote: | Mister Toups wrote: | kthorjensen wrote: | Onecoin sounds like Hollywood makeup master Kevyn Aucoin and he's awesome. |
That guy is from my hometown. Crazy huh. |
He sounds pretty awesome. |
He is from what I hear. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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DonMarco .
Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 349 Location: 33903
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: help me make the final decision for the site name. |
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RedLightning wrote: | -selectbutton
A button that most console manufacturers have realized is absolutely useless and have omitted due to its redundancy. Just great. Do you not realize that the PS2 and PS3 are the only current-gen consoles that still sport Select buttons on their controllers? Even Nintendo, the goddamned inventors (?) of the button realized that it was totally useless and dumped it! Do you want the forums to be identified with Sony fanboys now?! Do you?! Think carefully now. |
Ha-HA! Vestiges. _________________ Collector of over 1,538 strategy guides. That's weird, right?
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Swimmy .
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:32 pm Post subject: Re: help me make the final decision for the site name. |
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RedLightning wrote: | Because videogames what? |
Because videogames. . . MOTHERFUCKER!
Explanation: A long, long time ago, there was talk about printing IC shirts, and people were deciding what to put on it. The thread turned into a bunch of catchphrases with insert credit before them. The thread favorite was a shirt that said:
insert credit
Because videogames. . .
And, on the back,
MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!
Aside from that, it could be turned into its own catch. Insert whatever you like after "because videogames."
Because videogames
Are better than girls.
Because videogames
IS ART!!!!
Because videogames
Make me cry.
Also my grade school teachers who told me not to begin a sentence with "because" were fucking wrong. They were also fucking wrong when they told me not to split infinitives or strand prepositions. Oh, hey!
Because videogames
Aren't for prescriptivists.
I really like that name. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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chompers po pable .
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 142
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject: Re: help me make the final decision for the site name. |
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RedLightning wrote: | Lurking n00b chiming in here.
-becausevideogames
Generic. Long. Holds no real identity on its own. Because videogames what? And hell, did your grade school teachers not teach you not to end sentences with "because"? And di your middle school teachers not teach you about sentence fragments and how to avoid them? BVG as an abbreviation sounds stupid. Does not really describe the community on its own to any degree. Most decidedly un-edgy. Just plain sounds stupid as a whole. | because videogames. why did we (mainly) hang out over at IC? because videogames. i like the name, because awesome (this is proper english, in case you didn't know).
edit)) just wanted to clear this up, because annoying. |
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RedLightning .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 17
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Oh. Well. I guess that explains a few things.
I still think the mere fact that it needed to be explained at all makes it too much of an in-joke to use for a set of public forums where new user signups are still being encouraged. "One coin" at least stands reasonably well enough on its own without requiring such an explanation, conjuring imagery of videogames without having to refer directly to them. |
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BalbanesBeoulve .
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 84
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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Can someone explain one coin to me? Coins make me think of Mario, but beyond that I have no clue. |
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Psiga .
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 124 Location: Green Valley, Henderson, NV
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hm. S'either gonna be onecoin or hardtype. I'm betting hardtype! |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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edit: wait, IRC tells me an IC'er bought it. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii?
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Swimmy .
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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Another in-joke. When we were playing the MMOGC game (see Rud's banner), the Japanese people who played gave an engrish translation of insert credit: "one coin." When you told them you were from one coin rather than 4chan they would be nice to you. _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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RedLightning .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 17
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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BalbanesBeoulve wrote: | Can someone explain one coin to me? Coins make me think of Mario, but beyond that I have no clue. |
Right here. |
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BalbanesBeoulve .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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RedLightning wrote: | BalbanesBeoulve wrote: | Can someone explain one coin to me? Coins make me think of Mario, but beyond that I have no clue. |
Right here. |
Oh yeah, i've heard that story before. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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Guys.
What do you think about
bossparade.com _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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ajutla Moderator
Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 264 Location: Kansas City
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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name is lame _________________
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SJ .
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 61 Location: swamp
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: help me make the final decision for the site name. |
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hardtype Yes
onecoin No
becausevideogames Yes
selectbutton No
bossparade is ok, but is not as good as hardtype and yet has the same flaws |
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showka .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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Mister Toups wrote: | Guys.
What do you think about
bossparade.com |
You're breaking the rulez. Although I'd love to have another shot at creating more names than the choices above.
My favorite one so far has been saveandcontinue. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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showka wrote: | Mister Toups wrote: | Guys.
What do you think about
bossparade.com |
You're breaking the rulez. Although I'd love to have another shot at creating more names than the choices above.
My favorite one so far has been saveandcontinue. |
I'm a little desperate, sorry. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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Psiga .
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 124 Location: Green Valley, Henderson, NV
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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showka wrote: | Mister Toups wrote: | Guys.
What do you think about
bossparade.com |
You're breaking the rulez. Although I'd love to have another shot at creating more names than the choices above.
My favorite one so far has been saveandcontinue. |
I'd have picked saveandcontinue over any of these other four as well. hardtype is about as close as we can get to decent from this list, in my opinion, but still not as good as jutla's recommendation. |
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JamesE .
Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 168 Location: Straight Up, Straight Down
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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bossparade is completely awesome and I am withdrawing my support from hardtype as a result _________________
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Psiga .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Curses. Right, we're supposed to be negative instead of say what we like.
bossparade is hippie shit novelty faire. saveandcontinue is slightly long and a little bit esoteric, if perhaps apt to our current situation. |
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Mr Mustache .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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Save and continue is pretty nice. Bossparade works, because of the word parade...would it be possible to put another word in front of it?
grumblegrumble.com
Actually, bossparade works nicely if you think of it as a really good parade. _________________ Straight up |
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JamesE .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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boss parade is awesome because it makes me think of all the bosses from alien soldier doing a conga line with party hats _________________
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Ging .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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We should use something representative of the spirit of the community.
So why not something like "Orange Skies"? (If it were mercifully not taken already, I didn't actually check)
I say Orange Skies because I believe we are best suited as dreamers, and it reminds me of that one awesome stage in Gunstar Heroes.
Edit: This forum... My sig totally does not work here. |
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Psiga .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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bossparade = clownboat |
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crispus attucks jr .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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oh god
uh
what's up ging. _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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ajutla Moderator
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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i think bossrush.com would be an improvement on bossparade.com, but i don't much like either because of the word "boss" (and in bossparade's case also because of the word "parade"). _________________
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Jeff Garneau .
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Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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toups just get nana to set up a page with every single suggestion and we'll check all the ones we like then sign our names at the bottom of the form.
no problem. |
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