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MuonDecay

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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #660 on: October 18, 2008, 05:44:52 am »

Not adventure mode... but I spot a pretty favorable embark site which features a brook named Bulwarkdinkle the Natural God

Bulwarkdinkle? That sounds like a knock-off of Bullwinkle.

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and the nearest large dwarven civilizations are: The Massive Gloves and The Furious Anvil

This seems a cartoonish world...
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #661 on: October 18, 2008, 07:48:40 pm »

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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #662 on: October 19, 2008, 01:31:10 am »

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR, RNG?
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #663 on: October 19, 2008, 05:49:01 am »

I had a dwarf in one of my past forts with the last name "KnifeMen". Before I noticed his awesome name I had him outside pulling a lever on a far off bridge to cut off goblin access to a part of the map, he was ambushed and got his left eye torn out but made it back to the fort. It was then that I found out about his name, needless to say I renamed him "Snake Knifemen" and he became one of my forts best soilders.
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #664 on: October 19, 2008, 11:13:59 am »

RNG indeed stands for Random Number Generator. However, in this case, the names are probably generated using random numbers, so the phrase can be used to describe the random names in DF.
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #665 on: October 19, 2008, 11:58:31 am »

RNG indeed stands for Random Number Generator. However, in this case, the names are probably generated using random numbers, so the phrase can be used to describe the random names in DF.
RNG - Random Number Generator
RNG - Random Name Generator

It's an acronym, not a proper noun, therefore it can and does have multiple meanings.
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #666 on: October 19, 2008, 03:03:12 pm »

A proper term for a specific instance of the RNG's result would be RGN - Randomly Generated Name.
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #667 on: October 19, 2008, 05:40:37 pm »

The Island of Murder. 2 out of 5 tiles here were volcanoes.

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« Reply #668 on: October 19, 2008, 08:54:42 pm »

I got two dwarves in my small army that have Tomb in their name.

Tombknights and Tombsabres.

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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #669 on: October 19, 2008, 11:08:59 pm »

I once had a dwarf named Sibrek Martyredbridges. He died from falling off of a bridge.
Also, one of the Human nations in my world, "The Infinite Universe", is called "The Conferations of Garlic".
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #670 on: October 20, 2008, 05:30:21 am »

I got two dwarves in my small army that have Tomb in their name.

Tombknights and Tombsabres.

:O

Sounds like they could found some warrior orders to protect dead dwarven heroes. :D
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #671 on: October 20, 2008, 05:32:57 pm »

I guess it's a hodpodge of Vampire Hunters, Mr. Sizik.
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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #672 on: October 20, 2008, 07:57:17 pm »

A proper term for a specific instance of the RNG's result would be RGN - Randomly Generated Name.
   
Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #666 on: October 19, 2008, 03:03:12 pm »

Anyone else notice?
Sean's the devil :O

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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #673 on: October 20, 2008, 08:58:53 pm »

The Sea of Women.

Also, The Forest of Orders, on The Island of Execution.

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Re: Funniest Names
« Reply #674 on: October 22, 2008, 02:15:44 pm »

The Violent war. Well it did include the Hippy Menace
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Rather than having them directly force you to mine adamantine, I would suggest that they give you strange moods that require adamantine. "Dig out the adamantine or Urist here goes insane and dies" is suitably vicious.

(It occurs to me that you can probably get "Lovecraft" as the random name of your fortress. That's when you know you're screwed.)
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