X Theme Weeks

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?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by GELB-2

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.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.