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This is pretty silly. I think they should lean into the silliness even more. Pretty silly is the worst kind of silly. Give them names from D&D or something. A
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
This is pretty silly. I think they should lean into the silliness even more. Pretty silly is the worst kind of silly. Give them names from D&D or something.
A level 7 gnome warlock with a ring of true sight and the wand of absolute freezing => Russia has hacked payroll and is encrypting your savings.
A level 4 half-orc paladin wielding the singing sword of ix => Iran has created a new chat bot that is data mining the entire world.
Then it will be very silly, a much better kind of silly.
- pid-1 4y agoOr in old Dota wisdom: "never go half retard"
- jraph 4y agoMakes me think of James Veitch, "This is what happens when you reply to spam email" (at 4:50) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o5hSxvN_-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o5hSxvN_-s
- Zababa 4y agoOutside of silly, your proposition also allows to encode more information into the name. Race could be geographical origin, class can be if it's state-sponsored or independant, level the "level of danger", and gear the methods used. You can even add an actual name to easily refer to them. But the issue is that in both of your examples the coded descriptions aren't really shorter than the real descriptions. I guess this is the issue, they want names that are a bit descriptive but not a full description, and you gave a full description. Still, I agree that half silly is the worst (at least to me), it sounds like "corporate-allowed fun" which ruins the point.