Small Pet Peeve of Mine, what's yours?
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Re: Small Pet Peeve of Mine, what's yours?
As for peeves, I am still bitter people can use rape, and at one point penis, in pet names but I couldn't name a pet Jade.
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Re: Small Pet Peeve of Mine, what's yours?
Getting negative whispers over the slime or any other retired pet most definitely stems from a place of jealousy though, I'd say.
I had a sit in Trueshot Lodge looking at people's pets, and a good solid 75% of them were unnamed :c
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Oh god this. This is such a thing that gets up my nose. If the name you want is taken FIND ANOTHER NAME. BEAT THE NAME BOSS, IT CAN BE DONE, EVEN ON MOON GUARD. Good christ.Sukurachi wrote:People who over-use accents and foreign characters.. or worse yet, use characters that they don't realize do NOT sound like they think they do.
I saw a rogue named "ßackstaßßer", and I can't help but call him "Ssackstasssser".
The other one is ridiculous accents like over-use of à, â, é, è, ê.
I use accents in some of my pet names and toon names, because my mother tongue uses those accents. I don't do it to get by Blizzard's naming policy, or to get a name that someone else already has by switching out a letter or five for diacriticals.
Though there was a guy on WRA (a gnome) named Faßulous, and once he was in a raid with me and some friends, and he got SO PISSED OFF when we kept calling him Fassulous, it was totally worth it.
That and 'Sslood-anything' makes me giggle. I have NEVER reduced myself to using 'letter candy' unless it's appropriate (I did have a character named Loiré for a while but that one I think is fair.)
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The "Fassulous" comment had me guffaw! That's exactly what I would do.Nachtwulf wrote:Though there was a guy on WRA (a gnome) named Faßulous, and once he was in a raid with me and some friends, and he got SO PISSED OFF when we kept calling him Fassulous, it was totally worth it.
That and 'Sslood-anything' makes me giggle. I have NEVER reduced myself to using 'letter candy' unless it's appropriate (I did have a character named Loiré for a while but that one I think is fair.)
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I've been leveling a baby warlock named Lynxaria on Proudmoore, since my warlock on Korgath didn't make the cut for paid transfers when my guild died—she would have been Lynxia (after my horde warlock's succubus) but naturally that was taken, and Lynxaria was the substitute I managed to come up with that sat well enough. She hit level 100 today, at which time I got to current content and started answering questions in general chat where people actually are... and discovered the existence of an existing WoW streamer named Lynxaria.
Like, it wasn't intentional at all but I'm now super skeeved and am trying to think of a new name for her, despite not really having the $10(?) a name change would entail. It's probably not a big deal in the whole scheme of things but... eugh. I don't wanna be encroaching on this lady's brand! :(
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*raises hand* Guilty!Sukurachi wrote:People who over-use accents and foreign characters.. or worse yet, use characters that they don't realize do NOT sound like they think they do.
I saw a rogue named "ßackstaßßer", and I can't help but call him "Ssackstasssser".
The other one is ridiculous accents like over-use of à, â, é, è, ê.
I use accents in some of my pet names and toon names, because my mother tongue uses those accents. I don't do it to get by Blizzard's naming policy, or to get a name that someone else already has by switching out a letter or five for diacriticals.
But mainly because I've had the same names since Vanilla and refuse to give them up so if I move servers I just add an accented é or á to them. I don't even think about the sound tbh! Sorry not sorry I'll forever be Castile, Sakurie, Tsukino, Nadeshiko and Tsurani if it kills me (or annoys the shit out of you )
Also guilty of the rare pets thing - mainly because I like the challenge of finding them not so much the bragging rights. Even if a pet shares a common skin I'll track down the rare one to give myself a challenge. I love all my pets so again sorry not sorry.
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But when I see a name like "Éllérïànâßôllå", well, that pretty much grates on my nerves.
A bit of palindromic wisdom:
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Nighthuntress Syrenne, Hati, and my Toasterpuppy, all sitting on top of the mob I just killed, making it completely impossible for me to loot it, and then being attacked by 3 other mobs that I COULD have avoided had I been able to loot that first damned mob immediately after killing it, like I WANTED to.
A bit of palindromic wisdom:
"Step on no pets!"
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I love pets - combat or non.
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Slickrock wrote:Given their current trend, we'll probably get a spirit toucan that farts loops.
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I report those people.Novikova wrote:Please stop sitting on a huge mount over a spawn, as well as using all your toys on a spawn point. A couple are cute and fun. Overdoing it is just rude.
It drives me bonkers when 4-5 idiots on their mammoths literally block the entire mission board in the class hall.
A bit of palindromic wisdom:
"Step on no pets!"
Casual player.. don't raid, don't PvP. Suffer from extreme altitis
I love pets - combat or non.
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(Bonus weird if it's the pet and not the character)
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I'm a little guilty of the silly names one myself, though. I usually only give the names to a silly pet, like the Chimaeron I named Ugfug or the giant puppy named Doggapus for the short time it was around. I also took Broken Toe from the Ring of Blood in Nagrand and slapped it on my Chromaggus in the form of Brokintoh, because at the time I thought it sounded totally awesome.
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If maintenance is not normally Wednesday mornings, and you didn't announce said maintenance days in advance, then it's not "scheduled maintenance", it's an exceptional maintenance period.
A bit of palindromic wisdom:
"Step on no pets!"
Casual player.. don't raid, don't PvP. Suffer from extreme altitis
I love pets - combat or non.
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Slickrock wrote:Given their current trend, we'll probably get a spirit toucan that farts loops.
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ROFLMAO!Boven wrote:Now is probably not a good time to mention that my Tauren hunter named his Ox pet 'Girlfriend.'Xella wrote:People not naming their pets, or naming them something ridiculous.
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