Better member titles

[Raveness]

There is certainly enough nomenclature that could be derived from known Bioshock materials or Randian philosophy that we can make custom member titles from, rather than just having "Junior Member, Senior Member, Advanced Member"

Anyone have any titles they'd like to see in place of the generic one's we currently have? Offer up some suggestions and maybe we can get Mum to change them :)

[^ilovebioshock!]

Junior Daddy
Daddy
Big Daddy
Senior Daddy
Supreme Daddy
Junior Sister
Sister
Little Sister
Senior Sister
Supreme Sister
Junior Splicer
Splicer
Senior Splicer
Supreme Splicer
Junior Protagonist
Protaginist
Senior Protaginist
Supreme Protaginist
Big Fish

[Club Heaven]

How about these ones ?
(no particular order)

- official forum clown
- annoying uninformed kid
- horny grown-up
- wiki intellectual
- get-a-life artist
- clueless moderator
- innocent vamp
- helpful attention *****

This reminds me of a fantastic site which should be mandatory for everyone who ever posted on a forum. Most of you probably know it, but it can't hurt to refresh your memory :)
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/

[Hatesink]

Also— might it be possible to exclude emoticons from the five image limit (or increase the limit a little)?

[jackinthebox]

Also— might it be possible to exclude emoticons from the five image limit (or increase the limit a little)?

i already asked Elizabeth about it and she said "it would bog down the way the forums run"... i think she is right :(

[Hatesink]

i already asked Elizabeth about it and she said "it would bog down the way the forums run"... i think she is right :(

Is there a way to separate the emoticons from the image tag images?

I'm guessing it's probably more trouble than it's worth.

Edit: I guess I'm probably trouble enough for Elizabeth without making these kinds of requests :p;)

[2K Elizabeth]

hmmm. i'll consider revising the titles to something more fun. as for the images, you're getting overruled. :-P

[Hatesink]

as for the images, you're getting overruled. :-PD'oh! :p;)

[splicer]

how about,JUNIOR ANORAK,SENIOR ANORAK AND MINGING ANORAK:D :D :D

[Hatesink]

Splicer adeptI'm not sure that we should name ourselves after "the enemy" (sorry Splicer (http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/member.php?u=412) ;)) since I think on some level it causes conflict.

I post to ttlg.com under the name TheManySingsTheBlues and I've never experienced such levels of hostility on a forum (I took "the many sings the blues" as my user name basically because sometimes, if you're listening carefully to the background noise in SS2 there's a Many sound file that sounds like it says "The many sings the blues"), and I genuinely believe that on some levels the phrase "the many sings the blues" causes a lot of dissonance for some people.

I chose it because I thought it was ironic, given that a lot of the metaphors used by the many are to do with music.

Edit: I also chose it so that a few people might hear it and basically jump out of their seats thinking some errant forum poster had broken into their house ;)

[splicer]

i dont mind raveness's suggestion of splicer adept-its pretty cool since i get to see my name over and over:D :D :D and while on the subject of our first lady,she deserves a special mention for slipping the word NOMENCLAPTURE into an earlier post-reminds me of Mr Logic from VIZ!

[Raveness]

hmmm. i'll consider revising the titles to something more fun. as for the images, you're getting overruled. :-P

Thanks Mum :) Try and gather some suggestions from the Irrational team, I'm sure they can't find some fitting titles.

I've reworded mine:

0-29: Stem-cell sibling
30-99: Lab monkey
100-499: Genetic elite
4th level: DNA director
5th level: Nietzschean overman

[Rapture_Tourist]

Before I make further suggestions, I think that "Rapture Cultist" should be in somewhere and this title should show great addiction to the community.

[LowEnergyCycle]

Before I make further suggestions, I think that "Rapture Cultist" should be in somewhere and this title should show great addiction to the community.

I'm thinking that perhaps Rapture Tourist is a fairly fitting one... for the lower categories, like... :p

[Rapture_Tourist]

I'm thinking that perhaps Rapture Tourist is a fairly fitting one... for the lower categories, like... :p

You could be right, LOWEnergyCycle ;)

[Hatesink]

Hatchling?

[splicer]

Thanks Mum :) Try and gather some suggestions from the Irrational team, I'm sure they can't find some fitting titles.

I've reworded mine:

0-29: Stem-cell sibling
30-99: Lab monkey
100-499: Genetic elite
4th level: DNA director
5th level: Nietzschean overman- What the f***!:confused: :rolleyes:

[splicer]

I can't talk,I'm too busy scratching my arse and eating a banana!;) :rolleyes: :D

[Hatesink]

Hatchling?The reason I suggested this was that someone read (I think it was) 'Hatchery' on the white board in one of the photos of the 2K office, so presumably at some point something may hatch (but I'm guessing whatever it is probably won't be friendly, so maybe 'Hatchling' isn't that great a name).

I'm wondering if we know enough about the game to make good suggestions.

It seems to have a nineteen twenties aesthetic and people talk about it a lot in those terms, but it's set in the nineteen fifties. Maybe there are names specific to those eras that might be suitable.

I'm guessing 'Big Daddy' has to make the list.

A few ideas:

New Arrival (or how about 'fresh blood';))
Rapture Tourist (Thanks to LEC (and of course RT;) for that one)
Rapture Resident (although I prefer just 'Resident' —it sounds better and it's probably more sticky.)
Rapture Cultist (I agree with RT on this one (I don't think Raveness should have dropped it from her suggestions, I think it's great))
Big Daddy (I'd like it if we could think up such good options that this wasn't used, but hey, who am I kidding, how could it possibly not be used ;) )

If they're separable by sex then I think 'Little Sister' would be great for a new girl but I'm guessing there'd have to be a male equivalent (which might screw up the list)

Edit: A couple more...

"Baby Vamp: an attractive or popular female, student" (http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm) —for if it's separable by sex. 'Little Sister' could lead to 'Baby Vamp'.

Also— "Crasher: a person who attends a party uninvited" (is it ironic that the player character 'crashes'?)

Débutante?

(I've been looking at some nineteen-fifties slang, but I've not really found anything that 'cool'. There's some stuff that might be applicable, but it's not really 'cool' (e.g. 'Dolly' for a cute girl)

[splicer]

if thats the case,and the names are to be era context based-you may as well call yourself Vera or Doris.....Doris Splicer has a pleasing ring about it!:D :D :D

[Hatesink]

if thats the case,and the names are to be era context based-you may as well call yourself Vera or Doris.....Doris Splicer has a pleasing ring about it!:D :D :DElvis and Doris (British military nicknames (if you're a guy you're Elvis and if you're a girl you're Doris))

[splicer]

well,thats that sorted out then!;)

[Hatesink]

Ancient Colossus

Outsider

Initiate

[borgdrone89]

Ancient Colossus

Outsider

Initiate

Initiate of the blood magi

[Hatesink]

Trawling Lovecraft's Ashes:

Ancient Colossus

Demophon

Walking Dead (maybe not appropriate for BioShock but maybe if they pick up the Call of Cthulhu sequel it might make a cool alternative to 'newbie')

Curator

Reptile

The Drowned

Leviathan

Gargoyle

Vampire :p;)

[nmrahde]

granted Nyarlathotep or Cthulhu don't fit but Dagon would...

0-50 Castaway or Plasmid
51-100 Diver or Little Sister
101-250 Rapturian or Splicer
251-500 Big Daddy
501-1000 Leviathan
1000+ Dagon

[Hatesink]

granted Nyarlathotep or Cthulhu don't fit but Dagon would...

Yeah but Dagon's lame ;)

Vermis Mysteriiss

Ancient Ones

Unique names? Assatur (Hasta), Shupnikkurat (Shub Niggurath— The Black Goat of a Thousand Young.)

[nmrahde]

Jörmungandr, Kraken, or Poseidon then?

Edit: What do goats have to do with Rapture? ;)

[Hatesink]

Jörmungandr, Kraken, or Poseidon then?I don't know— it's not really up to me :p;)

Dagon's just a bit wet ;)

I like Jörmungandr

Poseidon's a bit nineteen-seventies

How about:

Azathi (Children of Azathoth)

Bringer of Pests (Bee Arm!)

Beast

Unaussprechlichen Kult

[Hatesink]

Brothers of Chaugnar Faugn :p;) (I know— it's not really BioShock)
(It's a kind of phonetic spelling of Shauna Fawn (probably a friend of lovecrafts. Other names of his characters are anagrams))

Klarkash-Ton = Clark Ashton

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Cabala of Saboth

Fun Guy from Yuggoth (I know, but I couldn't help myself ;))

[nmrahde]

..........

[Hatesink]

..........Why?These limitations piss me off so much

[Hatesink]

Brothers of Chaugnar Faugn :p;) (I know— it's not really BioShock)
(It's a kind of phonetic spelling of Shauna Fawn (probably a friend of lovecrafts. Other names of his characters are anagrams))

Klarkash-Ton = Clark Ashton

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Cabala of Saboth

Fun Guy from Yuggoth (I know, but I couldn't help myself ;))

And Milwaukee writer Robert Blake is an allusion to Robert Bloch, Cthulhu Mythos writer and author of Psycho.

[lotkrotan]

you also have to remember the member titles apply to all of the 2k forums, not just bioshock.

[Raveness]

Demons, Vampires and Gargoyles are anithetical to Lovecraft's works. Derleth was a bleeding waste of pen & paper for including some of those.

[Hatesink]

Demons, Vampires and Gargoyles are anithetical to Lovecraft's works. Derleth was a bleeding waste of pen & paper for including some of those.I took those specifically from Lovecraft's writers notebook. I own a copy. The others are from the second edition of the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana.

[Raveness]

I took those specifically from Lovecraft's writers notebook. I own a copy. The others are from the second edition of the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana.
Same here, but Lovecraft's original collection of stories never focused on such traditional folklorish baddies, rather he had a disdain for them and imagined a legion of unconscionable alien beings that we could not hope to understand fully.

Derleth tended to take the route of a "good vs. evil" approach, sprinkling in generic monster types like the ones mentioned, and made the GOO's and Elder Gods susceptible to our technology or archaic scientific methods. What a hack :rolleyes:

Besides, these titles are meant for Bioshock. I like some of your suggestions, maybe I'll try implementing them on my Cthulhu site.

[Hatesink]

You've spent way too much time at ttlg

[Hatesink]

Is that right? Hmmm, so going there once a week for about 5 minutes to glance over the dross posting on their Bioshock forum counts as way too much time?

Okay, let me phrase that in language you understand:

I couldn't be less interested in what you think.

[Raveness]

Okay, let me phrase that in language you understand:

I couldn't be less interested in what you think.

Well I bet you could be even less interested, you haven't put me in your ignored list :p

To each his own, I guess. If you do not like my personality or what I have to say, there's nothing I can do about it. I am who I am :)

[Hatesink]

Okay— what's an ignore list, what does putting you on it mean in terms of how it will effect my accessibility to threads, and how do I put you on it?

If you want me to leave you alone please help me to help you by supplying me with that information. Otherwise I'll just assume you're playing a game with me and by implication I'll think you're in some way interested in me.

[Hatesink]

Cool— She's into me. ;)

[nmrahde]

Number of BioShock threads at forums.2kgames.com: 230
Number of NON BioShock threads (including all these off topic ones): 111

So based on that data right now anyway BioShock-themed member names make sense.

However based on the fact that Hatesink posts accrue faster than the US Nat'l Debt;):p , they might decide to put in titles that liken us to Rhesus monkeys (and I don't even know what those two have to do with each other!).

The problem is that the ultimate title for that chain is "Escapee from the Von Braun", which clearly fits more for a forum for some other completely non-related *coughcough*:rolleyes: game...

[Raveness]

I think any member titles dealing with System Shock 2 should be based around the decks of the Von Braun. Ex:

1st title = Engineering grease monkey
2nd title = Med/Sci sexy nurse
3rd title = Hydroponics tree hugger
4th title = Operations android
5th title = Recreations superpimp
6th title = Command Astro-Nut

[Jeff]

I so, so, so want to be a sexy nurse. I need that rank.

[nmrahde]

Can I skip the tree hugger rank?

[Jeff]

I can't decide between sexy mustard and sexy jesus... This is a real conundrum.

[Hatesink]

They don't have sexy basic utility-chic (why wear anything else:confused:)

Anyway, I like boy's clothes ;) on girls and on me.

[nmrahde]

I wanna be Frog (http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=372&highlight=quina)!

Although Sexy Abe Lincoln and Sexy Pope would be my second and third choices...

@Raveness the eyes of your new Avatar freak me out.

[Hatesink]

Actually, you'd better make that the sexy mental patient
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6523/britneypv6.jpg

[Hatesink]

Carmilla

Feeder of the simulacrum

Cult Auditor

[Hatesink]

Groupie ...

[BioShockWins]

I like the ones that went something like

Rapture Visitor
Rapture Tourist
Resident
Rapture Cultist

Dunno about the Big Daddy one though o.O!!!

(yes, I do remember reading this thread... dunno why I didn't post in it though lol)

[Nias Wolf]

There needs to be something for 2,000 posts...

Ken Levine's stalker?

[That_dude]

There needs to be something for 2,000 posts...

Ken Levine's stalker?

I think Big Daddy fits it pretty nicely. Or, we could save that for 5,000 posts. :eek: And have Andrew Ryan for 10,000 (Which no one will ever get, EVAR!)

[borgdrone89]

There needs to be something for 2,000 posts...

Ken Levine's stalker?

nah, "soon to overtake hasink"

and then a thing > hatesink's post count: "overtaken hatesink"

[snEEkie Villain]

There needs to be something for 2,000 posts...

Ken Levine's stalker?

that is absolute gold! hahaha. :D

[LordLeckie]

Citizen (junior member)
Spliced (member)
Eugenist (senior member)
Rapturian (supreme member)
Cultist (super duper member)
Dystopic (4000 posts +)

i know some of them are actually adjectives rather than nouns but what the hey.

[Knight]

Citizen (junior member)
Spliced (member)
Eugenist (senior member)
Rapturian (supreme member)
Cultist (super duper member)
Dystopic (4000 posts +)

i know some of them are actually adjectives rather than nouns but what the hey.^^^^ Winner

[Raveness]

Citizen (junior member)
Spliced (member)
Eugenist (senior member)
Rapturian (supreme member)
Cultist (super duper member)
Dystopic (4000 posts +)

i know some of them are actually adjectives rather than nouns but what the hey.

Honey, that's very good, but what about Moderators? :(

[That_dude]

Honey, that's very good, but what about Moderators? :(

Little Sisters, perhaps? Admins can be Big Daddies!

[Nias Wolf]

Security Bots of course! ;)

[That_dude]

Security Bots of course! ;)

D'oh, why didn't I think of this? I still go with Little Sister. :p

[Raveness]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/RavenessM/Caps/snoring.jpg

[lotkrotan]

Security Bots of course! ;)

does that mean with a little skill we can hack the mods and use them to destroy our enemies :D

[Raveness]

does that mean with a little skill we can hack the mods and use them to destroy our enemies :D

Brilliant my good man........but whose to say that already hasn't happened? Raveness is under my unfettered control
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/teufel/devil-smiley-029.gif

[dwknaisch]

rapture tourist
rapture citizen
rapture protector / big daddy
rapture victim / little sister

[lotkrotan]

Brilliant my good man........but whose to say that already hasn't happened? Raveness is under my unfettered control
http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/teufel/devil-smiley-029.gif

the return of splicer! run from you life!

[Necros]

Hm, couldn't we write something there? I think that would be cool. :cool: