X Theme Weeks
 

I'm all for the fun weeks to change avatars and such for one another, but I'd agree now that beyond the confusion and work it takes to change user names, we should restrict these to just those details that can be changed by the user him/herself.

For such instances as my Werewolf Games, usernames are somewhat important. Thanksies!

Actually, I kind of agree here. After this week is over, let's try to keep the name changes to a minimum. It's really not necessary, and it just ends up confusing a lot of people.

Well, I like it. It'd be pretty hypocritical if I didn't, changing my name twice already.

If some people want to have a little fun by changing their names, I don't mind them doing it. I mean, there's always a list around somewhere, and you usually get used to it in the short amount of time that it lasts. Granted, that doesn't mean I think we should go around and have one of these every week, but one every so often doesn't hurt.

I think Ace Combat Week is a creative use of name changes, but I still don't like them. It's too difficult to tell who is who, and I don't like having to constantly refer to a list of people. Even a_week was easier than this.

In Luke's case, the people playing should identify who they are in his thread after the name changes. It wouldn't take much for whoever's playing to say "Gee, I'm regularily Colonel Skills" or whoever the heck they are.

I, for one, like changing my name all the time and I get the admins to do it on a somewhat regular basis. I think it's silly not to allow it. It just takes a little bit of effort from the member who's name has been changed to inform everyone of who he is.

It's official, no more theme weeks.

We did actually, and Tritoch (SILBER-1) even compiled it into a list to make it even more easier for everybody.

Then MAESTRE CHEF week comes along ... osnap.

You could have all chosen callsign names that had to do with your actual name.

Like, tails could have been FURRY-1.

You know, to keep it as somewhat of a community themed event. =\

If there had been a greater variety of names, perhaps Ace Combat Week would've been mildly tolerable. But when ALL the names are numeric iterations of the same four or five prefixes, it's too fucking confusing.

It's like having a dozen members all named "Sephiroth(insert stupid shit here)". Who can tell the difference? Who wants to?

While I do agree that Ace Combat Week's names are pretty annoying, I generally don't care that much who made a post anyway. I'm too lazy to look in the thread most of the time, so I just say "meh" and move along.

Lukage doesn't really have much of an argument here for the Werewolf game though. Like SILBER-3 (RockgamerXIII) said, I compiled a list of every Ace Combat member playing Werewolf and posted it asking Lukage to place it in the first post for convenience (post #156, page 7). Despite it being directly above one of Lukage's own posts, he's never done this.

I was just using it as an example, but the confusion as a whole just doesn't seem to be worth it. I don't WANT to have to make an add-on that replaces every instance of SILBER-3 with RockgamerXIII

Then it wouldn't have been AC0 week though. =o The entire point is our silly fandom of the game.

Luke, the 30 or so of us who went through the name changes seem to find it worth it. Since it's only for a week at a time and this sort of thing doesn't even happen very often, I fail to see what the big deal is. I had to look up some people for a_week too, but I'm not complaining. It's all in fun. At worst, it's a minor inconvience to some people and even then it shouldn't be much of a huge deal. New names are being recognized all the time when new people post or when someone changes their name in some other manner. I fail to see how this is any different.

That would have been lame. It's ACE COMBAT WEEK not RANDOM GFF NONSENSE week.

People don't seem to realize we ALL took our callsigns out of the game. Schwarze Squadron really does have 8 members and so on.

And yeah, I personally like changing my name all the time. According to one of the mods I pretty much hold the GFF record for most user name changes, and I'm not stopping that any time soon.

I don't foresee there being tons of name change theme weeks in the future after this, so I think everyone who is complaining could at least try and grin and bear this for a few more days and then it's all over.

Bunch of fucking crybabies. >_O

Essentially, all I'm getting out of this thread is:

"Let's not let users on GFF have fun their way because I am a lazy bastard who dislikes a very, very irrelevant inconvenience."
"Hear hear!"

I mean, I thought the a_ week was fun and all, but it was from the perspective of the person part of the fun and games. Not really a biggy as far as my NEEDS here (CHOCOPIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!), but just a suggestion.

Your suggestion amounts to taking away the freedoms that make this place so fucking awesome.

With a_week most people DID have names that described or helped describe them and did stuff like put their names in custom titles/sigs and shit, so that can't even be used as en example.

With this week I liked the whole anonymity factor, and the rest of us agreed it'd be better to ditch it all for seven days and have some fun while we could as a collective unit.

Again, it's only seven days and we're already halfway through.

ADDITIONALLY: BLARING IRONY from Crash Landon who wanted to conduct his own week where he would give almost A HUNDRED (three times more than AC0 week, mind you) users random names. You should just delete your post now because you have no right to even complain on this basis. Even if the names would be more variable, keeping track of a hundred of them would be much harder than this.

I actually completely forgot about Crash's random name change week. That's a *really* good point.

On a side note, GELB-2 is coming off a tad hostile here but I can assure you he doesn't mean to sound like that. It's just that after we tried really hard to get sigs and avatars going for 30+ people and got an admin to go to the trouble of name changes for us, we get crapped on immediately by people when other weeks have been proposed that do similar things.

I guess when you don't enjoy the subject matter like some others do I guess you can not like it, but personally I don't have any trouble telilng the different people apart.

This is no different than the nick command in IRC, instead of a whois, check our profile or that master name list. You'll figure it out right away.

Why is this a big deal?

Or in my case, following the bandwagon~

No, seriously, this is really irrelevant to just about everything. I personally don't even care that I don't know who half the people are. It's fun to me to talk to people with newfound anonymity.

(At least until they do a whois in IRC)

I just thought it would be a little more witty/community friendly to come up with your own squadron style names and group yourselves by interests or something instead of just seemingly random squadron names. It's not like it would have stopped you from using the group avatars/sigs. You know, something like that sephiroth week that happened forever ago. =/

Point taken. However let me say this.

a_week and AC0 week are the largest group name-swaps we've had to date and the confusion each brought is evident. Although a_week allowed most people to give subtle cues to their identity, some altered name owners were still difficult to identify. I had no idea that Merv was a_cat_is_fine_too because I was away from home and simply didn't get the joke.

AC0 Week is twice the confusion of a_week since there's next to zero personal clues or variation on the names used. What's the point of even having a name if it's not unique and nobody knows who the fuck you are without checking some distant thread for the secret decoder ring that deciphers the code?

Let it be said that I'm now kind of glad that my mass-name change was never implemented. After the head scratching AC0 Week has caused me, I'm tempted to call for a moratorium on name changes for the next 6 months.

Of course, there was one key element to my name-change project that would've differed greatly from the current chaos:

IT WOULD'VE ONLY LASTED ONE WEEK.

You know, maybe this shit's why GFF is in a slump at the moment. Because nobody knows who the fuck they're talking to anymore!

Seriously. You all like Ace Combat. Your point is crystal clear. Go buy a lollipop, suck on it for a while as a reward, and put your names back to normal so the rest of us don't have to play guessing games.

So did a_ week, and so will ACZ week (Ace Combat ERA is a joke, see.) But that isn't good enough for some people, a week is far too long!

That point doesn't work too well.

The whole point, as has been stated, was to show our love for Ace Combat and to have some fun with the anonymity and act together as a single unit. Shit, most of us have gotten beyond attaching names to posts and just take what's been said at face value rather than who's saying it (though I can't speak on behalf of GALM-2). Why can't you? It's only a week, pansy.

Wake up fuckhead, we may joke and call it Ace Combat ERA and all, but at the most these name changes will only last a week. There's no difference, so your point is moot.

GFF is slow because everyone's too busy being assholes to one another to actually have fun like some of us are.

It's nice you approve of our love for Ace Combat, and I'll continue to show my love for it how I want to, and you can take your little ideas and suggestions about how we should go about it and what I should do here on GFF and shove it up your god damn ass.

Shit, we should keep the names longer than a week just to piss you bastards off.

Yeah, what the rest of the squad said. The names will only be like this for another couple days, so it's not much longer that you're going to be inconvienced. You may be confused because we've had our avatars up for a little longer though.

Your other questions have been covered, I think. The point is because we like the game and because we feel like geeking out about it a bit. blah blah all that crap.

Blaming us for GFF's annual spring slump seems a tad harsh though Crash. ;_;

So, umm, lol?

Lol my ass. I'm not getting caught up in any of that nonsense outside of this thread.

Crash tries to slam us over something he himself was getting ready to do full on and much worse than us, so I'm not going to just lie down and take it.

So, ummm, lol? :tpg: :tpg:

Get out. I seriously don't intend to keep the name changes longer than a week.

I don't think you got what I was loling at. :(

Maybe if your post was longer than three words and was an actual explanation I might have gotten it.

Shit, I didn't know we were allowed to get away with blatant spam like that. Let me go into some thread an quote someone with "LMAO!", brb.

Well, a quote was included in my post. That's kinda the key part of most post, not actually me going 'lol' since I figured most people would do that of their own accord once they had what you said pointed out to them.

Sorry if it went over your head, though. :(

Disengage, NERD-1. If you're not going to be useful than stay out of the dogfight.

EDIT: Also, mad lolin @ the post below this one. Get off the earth already BZ.

I said this the first day these people changed to retarded names.

Personally, I like the idea of these theme weeks. I'd have participated in a_week if I'd have seen the original thread. I'd have been a_biscuit, if I had done, but that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that I recognise the problem of identifying people, especially because I'm fairly new and don't know many people anyway.

Why not just make it a rule that you have to put your standard username in your signature, for future theme weeks? I mean, shit, is it that hard to see a post by a_cat_is_fine_too, and look down to the sig to see that it's actually Merv? I see that as a win/win situation, personally.

As usual, everyone gets super-defensive over their X-Theme week.

I also think its wicked harsh to blame Ace Combat for the slump in GFF activity. Thats so inaccurate, its laughable. Did anyone notice that this is one of several finals weeks? People are cramming. And they're likely taking tests. If they're not taking finals, then they're probably packing to head home for the summer.

Its really unfair to blame Ace Combat Week for the slump, even if the week is annoying in nature.

I hate these name changes - especially when they all insist on anonymity. But like they said - its only for a week. I'm not going to get myself in a HUGE TISSY over it.

I think I agree with Sassbox here. A good bit of us are mad craming for finals and semesters are ending. To blame the x themed weeks participants is just silly.

But Sassu, anonymity? Usually there's a master list in the thread saying who's who. If you really want to know, just head on that way.

So...why were you here in the first place?










I'm intimating that you're not useful, so we don't have to waste five posts getting you to understand what I'm saying.

The things that bothered me specificly about AC week were that some people used them as an excuse to spam pics of planes and air raids, and the complete anomity. With a_week, you could at least recognize people from their sigs and avatars, but now there's nothing like that. The only ones I recognize is Merv, because of the yukotbania thing he always has, and Tails because of his posting style. if you have to organize name changes, put something in to identify you, if not in your sig, at least in the custom title.

None of the people in this thread are useful if they can't stop theme weeks from interfering with roleplaying threads!

GELB-1 (Skills) made a great point when he said the "slump" was caused by everyone was being assholes to each other and ruining each others fun.

Then he said, jokingly, that we should keep names longer than a week. Blah pointed out this "contradction" ( :BIGARM: ). I don't think Skills was actually serious, though. I certainly don't want to keep this up longer than a week.

On some other forums, you have a username and a display name. You can change your display name at any time, but your username can't be changed. Doesn't sound like it'd be an easy task to get vB to do something like that, but reading this thread, I remembered that feature. Just thought I'd throw it out there.

p.s. I'm ramoth.

Actually, GELB-2 (Tails) said that and RacinReaver pointed it out.

Unless you were just trying to purposely add to confusion ;_;

No, wasn't purposely trying to add confusion. I just misremembered who said what. Friends don't let friends eat lunch and post on gamingforce apparently.

Contrary to what you might think, my duty here is to shoot down trolls such as yourself. It's a very useful service if I might say so myself.

You can't shoot down anyone who is a member of team staff. We have infinite lives and health through use of gameshark.

Requesting this be the new title of the Testing Forums

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Roger that.

All glory to Belka, NERD-1. Traitors will be punished. ='D

I'm glad you've finally come to your senses.

Again, I think you missed my point. ;_;

It's been suggested before that people put their "standard" username in the "Custom Title" box but several people felt that the incorporation of that text into their theme is important.

No, you missed my point, NERD-1.

Do I have to give you the full course on Belkan War.

There is a fine line between "missed" and "deliberately avoided".

There's nothing to be avoided in these here skies except missiles, FGT-1.

ARE YOU DENYING THE TACTICAL RECONNAISSANCE POWAAZ OF FGT SQUAD

Well... seeing as how they are faggots, and faggots are generally pretty useless, then yes. Yes I am.

I think you're wildly underestimating the importance of faggotry in Belkan defence!

The glorious Belkan Air Force has no need for faggotry. FGT Squadron is a Sapin unit, and that country is pretty much cannon fodder.

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I don't know why people are bothered by this. Reply to an idiot if he's acting like an idiot. Does your e-penis shrivel when you find out your friend posts like an idiot, or that someone as doofy as Furby can write something insightful? Get over yourself, jesus.

And for the record, I continue to like Crash's random name idea, even if he doesn't.

Kind of feel like registering "Tails" right about now. I need a dupe account for testing purposes, and nobody seems to be using that name, so...

I expect it'll be about 3 months before he's cycled through all the other joke names he wants to use, anyway— and by then some new game about flying planes will have come out and he'll be distracted. You'd be harming no-one.

For my part, I request a name change to NEEDSCISSORS-61

Has Tails actually been "Tails" even once since the forums came back from the dead?

Yeah, for a few weeks. It's currently set to stay Ray Prower until Skills and I think of something else. That's what I love about GFF, I can change my name to whatever I want, when I want, and there's no shortage of friends around here to give me ideas.

And way to hop the bandwagon after everyones left, Pang. AC0 week is over, name changes should be incoming soon.