Loloffensive?

And "i want 2p on u" could just mean i want to place two pence on the letter U, and has nothing to do with watersports.
And Frederick Ulrickson using just his initials with a period between doesn't automaticaly mean he's trying to be rude.

This made my day. Thanks!

You overlook the fact that many words have completely different meanings on each side of the Atlantic.

Offensive odor and all.

Kudos to you for accepting the opinions of the folks here without trying to defend your original position.

All too often people say they just want people's opinions when they're really looking for agreement.

That's a refreshing change and sorry you lost the name fella

Square.

I went down to the track to watch the alphabet race once. I wanted to bet 2p on U, but they said the D twins (DDs) were a safer bet. So I went long on DDs.

My letter came in first place, but the cashier (the letter B) never paid out. So I told the manager "Tell that B I want my money!" Eventually, B came back with her friend S and double-teamed me. "What is this BS?" I asked as they threw me out.

The preceeding story was brought to you by the letters W, T, and F.

Seriously OP, you knew *EXACTLY* why your name was offensive--no one is that naive. Stop pretending it was inoccuous. It's an insult.

Brilliant! /e,applause

I wish people would read through the thread before sticking their foot in their pie hole.

Well the generic names don't necessarily mean they were offensive, We also have a lot more people that try to make copyright/trademark ripoff characters. So it wouldn't be fair to lay the blame solely on one group.

But I do agree we have more than our fair share of touchy people.


Yeah, I got a huge laugh out of that when I got told I had to change his name.

These things are often started because someone is annoyed with a player. It's often not that someone took offense to a name, it's just a cheap/easy way to be spiteful.

The EULA is pretty clear that names with drug references won't be tolerated so when it gets into the hands of a GM, they don't have room for discretion.

He was a dark/dark scrapper so you could even see the foul stench emanating from his body when his toggles were up. I even had the flies aura. His battle cry was, "Pull My Finger!"

Apparently we have ten fingers and only two eyes for a reason...lol

I have read the entire thread, and I've done no such thing. The OP's friend clearly deserved to be hit with the generic stick, and pretending "J" doesn't stand for "joint" is pretty silly. While some people in this thread have claimed they don't understand the reference, they weren't the ones who created the character in question.

EDIT: I'm curious--how many people here were hit by the generic stick and felt like it was unjustified?

That must have been even more awesome after power customization allowed you to color the stench cloud. Putrid brown or sickly green? So many delightful options.

Yeah, but after reading the responses and explanations from other members, the OP graciously acknowledged that getting genericized was completely justified. He seems to "get it" now, he doesn't really need to keep getting hit upside the head with it.

Yeah, I'll admit I do tend to dogpile people. I shouldn't kick 'em when they're down, but some things are so ridiculous that it's hard not to, even when they admit it.

*Drops torch and pitchfork*

Marijuana affects memory, he might need reminders.

I've had three characters reset to generic status myself. In all three cases, I thought I'd had an original idea and been lucky enough to snag the right name. In two of those cases, the names were only available because they were copyrighted, but too obscure to already be pre-blocked like Wolverine or Batman or something.

The first character was similar to an obscure Silver Age DC character who hadn't been involved in anything major since before I was born. Since I was in the process of transferring the character's resources to another alt before deleting him when the genericing occurred, I wasn't too heartbroken. 30 seconds on Google left me fully satisfied with the GMs decision anyway.

The second character was an almost spot on recreation of someone from one of Image's subsidiary imprints. I'm more than a little ashamed of that, because admitting I had an "original" idea that paralelled an Image creator makes me seriously doubt what creative talent I thought I posessed. 30 seconds on Google again confirmed the validity of the GMs decision. And after the rename, I came up with a better idea to fit with the powersets anyway, so it's all good.

The third character, I contested. Lunaticia is a violent sociopath and brawler for hire who flunked out from Mu Mystic training and became a Brute instead, hidden behind the innocent facade of a pretty twenty-something asian girl with modeling aspirations. La Lunatica is a seven foot tall albino mutant who feeds on the psychic energy of emotional trauma and transforms it into super-strength, from the post-apocalyptic future of Marvel's short-lived 2099 line. They have similar sounding names, and if La Lunatica were translated into CoV her mutant power sounds like a fantastic justification for a Brute's Fury, but the similarities end there. Fortunately, the second GM agreed.

I find myself doing this on all my new characters now. I create the costume, come up with a name, then hit Google for a quick once-over. There have been several times where I've found myself frustrated because some obscure company or cousin-of-a-cousin-of-a Marvel character had the same name. Usually I just try something else and move on. I guess I've been lucky--I've never had a character get genericized.

My most embarrassing moment in the first few months of playing was a rad/rad defender whose costume design I was extremely proud of until I was watching a Butterfingers commercial. It was Bart Simpson sparring with the Comic Book Guy. I realized then that I had unconsciously copied Radiation Man from Bart Simpson's comic book.

I deleted him fast. (This was before I knew there were such things as tailors in the game.)

For what its worth, I didn't get 'Roll me another J' as a drug reference. It looked like a nonsense phrase to me.

Sorry to say that character was deleted to make room for other ideas many many months ago. Long before we got power customization.

Keep in mind, though, that filing a petition is NOT the same thing as someone being generic'd. One can, of course, follow the other, but just because someone spitefully files a petition on another player doesn't mean that the GM who picks up that petition is in any way obligated to take action if she/he doesn't find merit in the petition.

To be fair, it's a lot more likely that a kid is going to smoke pot than rob a bank while fending off the police with a broadsword and his awesome ninja skills.

Similarly, just because you got generic'd doesn't mean someone filed a petition (though it is fairly likely). Please don't blame the people in your immediate vicinity when generic'ing happens without warning.