Comments on: Bad Character Names

By: Mithral

Mithral — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:22:13 +0000

Howsabout juvenile sexually-based names including a bad visual pun:

Hornypreachr — A Draenei Priest with the ‘Horns’ hairstyle. (Get it? Ha! I’m funny!)

I actually made this one. And still play it.

By: Delos

Delos — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:55:01 +0000

You forgot names like Iilil (first letter is an i). Great post though, i really hate special characters in names for exactly the reasons you enumerated in your previous post. I always take into consideration how easy my name is to type when I create a character, even when I’m not including special characters.

By: Matticus

Matticus — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:56:17 +0000

So hilarious and yet so true!

By: Typhoonandrew

Typhoonandrew — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:56:17 +0000

Agree fully, even to the point of being far more nasty about bad names too. The paid character name change facility exists for reasons exactly like this. It made me so mad I posted about it too: http://typhoonandrew.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/wha...

By: Devv

Devv — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:10:28 +0000

I can go along with everything except "foreign" language words. Predatore and Imbroglio are stolen from the Italian language. My grandmother on my father's side was first generation Sicilian, so Italian holds a special place in my heart. Plus, "imbroglio" basically means a confused or messed up situation and there's not an individual word in the English language that means that... unless you count "clusterfuck." Either way, great post and I couldn't agree more. And for the record, I actually got a thank you from Chucknorris the other day. I was logged onto Predatore, leveling Herbalism, then heading to the Dark Portal. A lower level Human Rogue bit off a little more than he could chew with three mobs attacking him. I dismounted and took some of the heat off of him. My chat window read, "Chucknorris thanks you." It was only then that I realized this cat's name. I might have thought twice about interrupting my journey had I noticed the name from the start. =)

By: krizzlybear

krizzlybear — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:49:49 +0000

unoriginal, late, jammed, talking to reader, and swapped

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By: Oriniwen

Oriniwen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:48:03 +0000

I'm sick and I'm cranky today and I love a good rant. I talked a while ago about stupid guild names, but stupid character names are right up there too. Momma Ori Sez: If I can easily guess your race/class/role from your name on your guild application, you better believe you're not going to even get a "thanks but no thanks' email from me. Also, whoever invited the bank alt 'ninjaluter' to the guild when I wasn't looking ... your time will come. *angry fist*