The Gamer's Quarter

Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:53 am Post subject: SelectButton.net: Discuss!

These are my choices:

-hardtype
-onecoin
-becausevideogames
-selectbutton

Instead of saying why you want a certain name, I am only interested in hearing your complaints about the existing names. Let this be a trial by fire. Whichever one I feel has the least amount of convincing reasons NOT to use it, I will use. If anyone is seriously unhappy with any of these names let me know in this thread. I will decide the final name tonight after work.

I am currently not considering anything else. If you must make more suggestions, do so via PM, and I will periodically update this post with new suggestions. I'd like to keep this discussion focused on simple arguments (try to keep the bickering and lol axe stuff to either of the other two IC fallout threads, if that's alright), so it's easier for me to read and make a good decision.

Thanks!
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SuperWes · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

I don't like onecoin.com/onecoin.net because it's not available.

becausevideogames.com is unavailable, but .net is.

hardtype.com is available.

Apparently Tim already has selectbutton.net, so we're good to go there.

-Wes
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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

I think HSB put it a little better than I did.

Rud13 · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 130

One Coin is ultimately a weak name. It's quiet. While it does go along with names like The Gamer's Quarter and Insert Credit, it's nowhere near as powerful as either of them. I wouldn't be really upset if it was chosen, but I feel we have better options.

Becausevideogames is strong. However it also points that the only thing we talk about or think about is video games. Which as we very often talk about other stuff and the like it's a bit limiting. Again it is long, and I think deciding between video games and videogames and making it consistent could cause more strife than needed.

Select Button is also a bit weak to me. Again, it seems to have to much of a video game reference going on. It is bland. No one particularly pays attention to what the select button does, it's never the first option. I'm going to echo James's earlier sentiment when I say that I don't exactly like the idea of Tim naming it (No offense.)

And I'll say that Hard Type as a video game reference didn't strike me till I heard it explained to me. It just punched.

EDIT: made my last point make sense.
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OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

I really like BecauseVideoGames. Granted, my slow, Middle-of-Nowhere, TX dial-up connection will prevent me from using the forums as much as everyone else, but I remember in another thread someone said something about it becoming a really nice injoke (something like BecauseVideoGames ate your mother or something like that).

Hardtype sounds way too edgy and generic, Onecoin sounds really similar to Insert Credit, and if that's what you're going for than that might work but a better name would be something like Freeplay, and if Tim's already got selectbutton.net that one needs to be seriously considered even though it sounds very generic and almost boring.

Psiga · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject:

Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject:

Mr Mustache · . Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Queens

No one liked the idea of an onomatopoeic name? I think it could be fun and effective.

Other than that, I agree with hott stott on all counts, and heylisten.com is still the best....there were some other good names in the other thread, but I'll have to go back and look through it when I'm off work
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Lestrade · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject:

Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject:

dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

We should just start a poll thread on neogaf and let them decide.

Psiga · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject:

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

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gutomatic · . Joined: 25 Nov 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Curitiba, Brazil

hardtype: I like the FF reference, not so much what it tries to say about the community; and it makes me think of TDS - I mean, the hardgay guy.

onecoin: not strong, the injoke is too obscure and it's not related to videogames per se. It's not one-crediting.

becausevideogames
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OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

Hey Listen sounds almost as generic as HardType too.

Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

hardtype makes no sense to me because I didn't read the other thread where it was coined. onecoin and becausevideogames wouldn't make any sense to me if I hadn't been present in the overall community when they were relevant. selectbutton is the best of the bunch, but that's not really saying a lot.
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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

I think, if anything, the name shouldn't be a reference to just one game but games in general.

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Mr Mustache · . Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Queens

Yeah, heylisten is a bad idea...it's still kind of cute though, and has the sort of spirit/catchiness we should be aiming for.
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showka · . Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 70

I don't really like any of these names, but I guess my favorite would be SelectButton. I really wish we went with selectbuttons instead. I think it somehow sounds less bland, and the "s" lets it roll to a stop. Selectbutton stops too blunt and it sounds like its referencing the actually button on a controller. Oh well.

OneCoin doesn't have a good ring to it. I liked it for about five minutes after Rud13 told the story behind it but now that the context has faded from my mind its gone back to sounding lame.

HardType is almost good but it really sounds like a boner reference.

BecauseVideoGames is too long and artsy. Using "because" like that makes it sound too pretentious and I think is way too specific for its own good. But I guess its probably my second choice after selectbutton.

LegatoB · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Electric Avenue

onecoin is too in-jokey, which apparently people hate?

becausevideogames is too specific, which apparently makes it bad. it is, however, pretentious, so maybe that makes it good?

selectbutton is tim's idea and therefore unacceptable because then we'd just be a bunch of tim-imitating wankers amirite?

hardtype is hard, motherfucker. Yeah.

beige · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 38

jachbla · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 8

Hi Guys. Recent former IC member chiming in.

I have to agree with those folks that say that onecoin and selectbutton are trying too hard to capture the feel of the old name.

hardtype sounds cool but says little.

becausevideogames is pretentious but is the best of the bunch methinks

JamesE

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Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

stotelheim · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 118

http://hardtype.livejournal.com/10845.html

Argument against/for the name hardtype. And as someone said hardtype sounds like a real site, the others don't.

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http://insertnot.com/

Because we all know we don't like to play, we just like talking about playing!

benreed · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

Eh. I don't really like any of those four, but hardtype strikes me as the least offensive. It appeals both to the touchy-feely "we-love-nichey-games" set and people like me who like to pontificate tersely and with foul language wherever possible.

I still like inserttoups better than anything else.

FortNinety · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

Hard Type has teeth. All the other don't. I'm not 100% thrilled with HT, but its the best of the bunch.

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Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:32 pm Post subject:

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

Hardtype really strikes me as a talk about HUGE SPRITES and INSANE BOSSES kind of a place, which is alright, but I think it's not inclusive enough as to evoking everything you'd want to carry over from the old forum. Of course it's silly to say a forum name could somehow exclude certain posters or lines of discussion, but "IC + teeth" sounds vaguely unappealing. I don't think i'd ever come to be 100% happy with that name, and I don't think IC would have ever been improved by "teeth" besides.
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showka · . Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 70

Maybe all the bad connatations with "HardType" will clear up after a few weeks,like what happened with "Wii." I mean Wii is still a dumb name but HardType is kind of cool, except for the boner connection. I was thinking it might look cooler in a banner.

BecauseVideoGames sounds like an online store.

SelectButton seems mostly okay, its just not that inspired. The select button traditionally has the least personality of any button on any controller its ever been on.

beige · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 38

I see the fact that hardtype evokes images of a stark erection as a bonus.

Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

The other problem is that when I tell my friends about the website I started I will have to say "it's called hardtype.com" and they will laugh at me.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

It doesn't pass the "mackin' on the cute koei rep" test.
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showka · . Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 70

My two favorites right now are selectbutton and hardtype. Selectbutton is just a tad too timid and bland, but hardtype seems to be compensating for something.