Dance of the Title Fairy: A Froggy Fandango

[Annadog40]

Nom Chickadee for

pew pew

Explanation for those who weren't there?

She's a laser tag god.

[vonflare]

pew pew pew

pew

[Majiffy]

Nom Chickadee for

pew pew

Explanation for those who weren't there?

She's a laser tag god.

And by this we mean she knows more about Laser Tag than most people running the joints.

[vonflare]

lmao not even the counter lady knew about the game mode chick wanted to play

those silly kids using bullets instead of missiles

[Inferno390]

Anti-nom
Since that this is related to one specific incident that only a handful of people will understand
Don’t think it works

[vonflare]

your location misuses a possessive apostrophe so your opinion doesn't count

[Creature]

me needs a new title

[Ginngie]

Since that this is related to one specific incident

the entire point of titles

but okay

[Psyche]

you guys invest so little effort into your noms and then get so snarky when someone outside the nomming clique says they don't really see the appeal

[Creature]

Isn't Chickadee like MS' Kenny?

[Ginngie]

I mean behind the scenes I was trying to find something to do with lasers and art in order to relate more to chick

but okay

[vonflare]

Isn't Chickadee like MS' Kenny?

isn't kenny MS's kenny?

[Irrelephant11]

nth Pew Pew

It's fun! I wasn't there but it takes two seconds to explain and I like it. It says something fun about Chickadee and I can't think of any ways to misinterpret it as somehow having a different connotation than "fun!"

[Majiffy]

Anti-nom
Since that this is related to one specific incident that only a handful of people will understand
Don’t think it works

The entirety of Toronto meet? So like ~20 heavily active users?

[vonflare]

I like the title

I think it would be very difficult to come up with a title that incorporates both bones and laser tag

and we already tried to think of a title that's just bones

so lets try a title that's just laser tag

[Maruchan]

you guys invest so little effort into your noms and then get so snarky when someone outside the nomming clique says they don't really see the appeal

Since that this is related to one specific incident

the entire point of titles

but okay

(literally this wasn't a post by anyone even AT the meet)

[Majiffy]

There were/are definitely meet-specific user titles so it's not like we're treading new territory here.

[Maruchan]

reasons I think this is good title:

1. Laser Tag is a Big Deal to chickadee, so I think relating her internet life to her real life life will be something she appreciates, in that it incorporates an aspect of her personal identity that for many years held extremely high value to her.
2. She literally knows more about laser tag than anyone else I have ever met in my life, and not just at this place, or on this one event or etc. There are apparently 4 majorly-used operating systems for the laser tag equipment most laser tag places use, and she is quite familiar with all of them, and the differences between them. Her favorite OS she is beyond knowledgeable about, to the point she was teaching the Canadians who owned the shop about their own setup.
3. With the sole exception of myself (and even then only in about half of the games), she was the top player, and in most games scored in the realm of TWICE the next highest player's score (bar myself for the games where i was rivaling/exceeding her slightly). (I only rivaled her even because I was nearly as enthusiastic about laser tag in high school, but with less focus on the learning about the game/hardware/software and more focus on just the playing)
4. Outside of the overall specificity of the title, I think there is a more specific game (the first game we played) that had a notable event to myself that I will always think of when seeing this title. We literally tied to the SINGLE point in our first game of laser tag, while on opposite teams, while the next highest player on either team was multiple thousands of points behind either of us. We both score 14,109 points each in our first game. That was so hilariously random that I don't think I'll ever forget it.
5. A rather large portion of the speakeasy is familiar with the Toronto meet thread/discord and could see Chickadee's passion for laser tag from when it was first mentioned until it happened. we drove 40 minutes away from our lodging to go to the best place vice 5 minutes to the closest, purely off of chickadee's level of familiarity with the systems used.
6. It's cute and fun and short and can be explained as simply "She's a goddess at laser tag", which is concise and doesn't take a long explanation.
7. Pew Pew!

[Creature]

Yey this got stuck on my ego

[vonflare]

now you're here forever

[DeathRowKitty]

The current nom seems to be very much the kind of thing where you really had to have been there. There's nothing on-site that someone can look at and say "oh yeah Chickadee's title is

pew pew

because of things like this". Either you were there or you weren't and if you weren't there, the explanation that she knew a lot about laser tag at a scum meet is just....really boring and hardly even seems related to Chickadee's MS presence.

Besides, you're supposed to create a forced meme about it first and have that catch on so you can claim it's not just a meet-related title.

.

[vonflare]

but forced memes are bad

[xyzzy]

nth pew pew

even if you weren't at Toronto Meet, Chickadee's knowledge and enthusiasm for laser tag was a thing she'd talked about extensively elsewhere, so the "this is about one specific event" argument isn't even valid (note that I immediately responded in thread that she'd definitely be in for laser tag before she even saw the discussion about it—I saw the words "laser tag" and immediately knew that would be one of her top priorities because of how much it had been talked about).

[Creature]

There were/are definitely meet-specific user titles so it's not like we're treading new territory here.

Aren't they like 50% of the titles?

[vonflare]

I don't think so

they're not common but not nonexistent either