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Post by Beelzebibble on Jul 17, 2010 8:55:13 GMT -5
The only reason I have a severe issue with 'Gatebound' is that it sounds way too much like Earthbound and HOLY TROLL JEGUS THAT IS A COMBINATION THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN. EVER. (Even if Sollux already used PSI Rockin' Omega at least twice.) Ah! Okay, don't read this then. Especially not the third post! Or, you know, any of this stuff really.
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Post by StellarWind Elsydeon on Jul 17, 2010 9:04:36 GMT -5
... Huh.
I did notice the Sims influences (obviously) but not Earthbound's. Interesting.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jul 17, 2010 9:05:30 GMT -5
Of course my problem is I'm defending Gatebound while also slowly coming to terms with the fact that "Househeld" is probably the best of all possible names.
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Post by StellarWind Elsydeon on Jul 17, 2010 9:32:46 GMT -5
The Federal Commission of Me approves.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 17, 2010 19:58:49 GMT -5
RP Gates and Pohatu: Two starcrossed lovers.
So, what should we call this topic? Gateboundgate?
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Post by Tout-Perd on Jul 17, 2010 20:06:04 GMT -5
Now, as for non-silly post, I think Househeld is a good name, but too close to feeling like "Lee's writing Blaise, and he goes thesaurus diving." It may be the foremost of our options, but I have a slight distaste for it.
Choobeh is right in that Gatebound (I almost typed Goatbound. Wow.) is a bit too serious, a bit too epic. Homestuck's charm is its fairly easygoing, casual tone, which just so happens to spiral into madcap epic awesome. Otherwise though, it is a very solid name.
I personally like Lodgejammed. Most people don't think of "Lodge" as housing, but I personally think that it's a pleasant, friendly term. Jammed is to make it into a pun on Logjammed. I dunno about less timber-industry intensive areas, but a log jam has connotations of a royal-grade clusterf*ck, a huge pile of trouble and work to be done. That's what I was going for, the whole "Everything goes crazy and screwed up" deal.
EDIT: Ignore Wikipedia, they only discuss it from an ecology perspective. Logjams, in lumberjack jargon, are when you're floating logs down a river, and they get all snagged up on a bend and tend to get guys killed when they untangle the dang thing. They typically would either send some poor fella in, or would just dynamite the works.
So, a logjam is either, as said above, a clusterf*ck, or a huge impending ammount of work coming in.
Oh, and I forgot our dark horse candidate, Roomglued. I like it a tiny bit more than Gatebound, but I think we could use a different first word. Not sure...
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Jul 17, 2010 20:34:17 GMT -5
Can we reset the poll? And start voting all over again?
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jul 17, 2010 21:04:22 GMT -5
"Househeld" sounds like you went thesaurus diving?
Househeld is the most run-of-the-mill name on this list. It is only one letter away from being a word that people use all the time (I had to refrain from using the phrase "a household term"), and yet it also functions as a synonym for Homestuck, which is what makes it so awesome.
Lodgejammed sounds like someone went thesaurus diving. And so do most of the other names on the poll.
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 17, 2010 21:14:45 GMT -5
Just make round two with all the names with 0 votes taken out and all the new ones added in.
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October
Citizen of the Archipelago
SINGER IS A CROOK, WHOA-EY-OH.
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Post by October on Jul 17, 2010 22:10:51 GMT -5
i don't even really consider this a homestuck rp, is that kinda bad?
its honestly more like a sburb rp :/
we could conceivably name it anything, it doesn't HAVE to be a refernce
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Post by Ninety on Jul 17, 2010 22:21:32 GMT -5
It doesn't have to be a play on homestuck but there's really no reason to avoid it. It's probably easier than coming up with a completely unrelated name that everyone agrees on.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Jul 17, 2010 22:26:34 GMT -5
i don't even really consider this a homestuck rp, is that kinda bad? its honestly more like a sburb rp :/ we could conceivably name it anything, it doesn't HAVE to be a refernce This is true and why I have supported Gatebound so much since it's not an exact synonym of Homestuck but captures the same rhythm. "Househeld" is just awesome for being such a verbally easy synonym for Homestuck though.
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Post by Ninety on Jul 17, 2010 23:28:02 GMT -5
I dig Househeld.
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Post by ch00beh on Jul 17, 2010 23:32:59 GMT -5
I like Thesaurusdove
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Post by StellarWind Elsydeon on Jul 18, 2010 10:29:11 GMT -5
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