Dance of the Title Fairy: A Froggy Fandango

[Maruchan]

Ego

[Maruchan]

it's mediocre, we all agree it's mediocre, and we're going with it anyway

You handed over the reins, dude.

I mean, I wasn't going to say this. But I'm glad we're all thinking it.

[Maruchan]

so uh titles right guys?

All the people who need titles have one
All the good titles have been given

Ouch <3

[Maruchan]

no 0s isn't the same as universally liked
even first place isn't universally liked

Universally Not-Hated?

[Maruchan]

i think it's a sliding scale of more closely related to vivor versus more closely relates to supp. the further from the word jury you get in search of closeness to SUPP the further from the vivor aspect you get, and vice versa.

[Maruchan]

Nth outback stealhouse

[Maruchan]

fourth

[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)

[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!

[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!

8. Her MS Username is based off of laser tag.

[Maruchan]

Judging by Chickadee's GTKAS answer (which I'm guessing is where Maruchan got that information), I would say that it's really not true.

Why did you choose your current username?

I played a lot of laser tag back in the day (when I lived close to a playable operating system) and this was the handle I chose for myself. My 500+ games were all under this handle. It came from my high school biology teacher. She used to call her students her chickadee’s.

Her lasertag handle was based off of her High School Biology teacher's Student Nickname.
Her MS username was based off of her lasertag handle.

Which is more meaningful to me:
Something I spent over 300 games playing (at twenty minutes a game, that's 6000 minutes or 100 hours) to get my name written on a wall, continued playing for likely tens if not hundreds of more hours after getting my name on a wall, and probably hundreds of dollars for said hours of playtime, to the point where i wasn't allowed to play with non-pro's like myself

something someone called me once or twice an hour for an hour a day for 5 days a week for 20 weeks that i then offhandedly used while registering for a game of lasertag before i fell in love with lasertag


obv door #2

[Maruchan]

My username for the site was based off of the closest item to me when i was registering for the site.

I now willingly go by maru anytime I am around scummers, have changed my name from TheGavin on other websites to Maruchan, have multiple discord handles set to Maruchan, and have accepted that as a secondary "go to" option for internet username (behind the name mrcheeste0 I have used since 3rd grade)

Obviously, my discord handle is Maruchan based off of the fact that I ate maruchan noodles and left the packaging on my desk back in July 2011. Duh.

[Maruchan]

itsok jiffy.

we can drop it for now.

We'll re-nom her next year after we host an entire meet in a state none of us live in purely off of her and my enjoyment of laser tag as the sole focus.

[Maruchan]

and probably hundreds of dollars for said hours of playtime

Over $2,500.

definitely based the username off of a high school teacher petname though, and not lasertag.

[Maruchan]

i think it was banned over calling names and cussing vice the title in discussion

[Maruchan]

Jiffy got banned for being Jiffy but his main point is quite valid.

this is pretty much exactly what we're saying in discord.

[Maruchan]

(preferably with something more clever than "pew pew")

At this point I think this is why DRK is digging heals.

Apparently titles have to be "clever" and meaningful, vice just meaningful.

[Maruchan]

nom chickadee "pew pew pew"

i literally laughed out loud irl

[Maruchan]

since nobody appears to be reading

KK doesn't appear to be reading either. I did come back to this,

[Maruchan]

since nobody appears to be reading

KK doesn't appear to be reading either. I did come back to this,

nuh-uh. Doesn't count if you came back to it as I was writing my post.

Plus, "pew" isn't even an obvious lazertag noise. It's not a great title.

nom chickadee for "zap zap"

[Maruchan]

luminism sounds cool too

[Maruchan]

If this is still a thing in 3 months maybe then it could be a title

i mean in three months we'll be halfway to coloradomeet where we plan to play unlimited lasertag for $26 two days in a row

[Maruchan]

I really like MTD's. thats the best one I've seen yet. I wonder if it is "clever" enough tho

[Maruchan]

yeah but it doesn't focus on the art thing, and i remember reading on some title fairy thread in the past referencing a title towards anything avatar related is a no-go because avatar themes/trends/rules can change in future, and so title fairies don't like to use them as a basis for titles.

I'd prefer creative shot if we're trying to reference two things, as opposed to perfect shot

for which I like more without caring the reasons behind it, I like perfect shot better, as i think it sounds better than creative shot, and is a better reference to how good she is at lasertag.

while I topped her score in games, I did so with an accuracy between 5 and 10 percent, meanwhile her accuracy ranged from 30 to 80 percent.

[Maruchan]

Laser Precision

? The connection to art is a stretch, though--it makes it sound more like she has accurate Mafia reads.

Since I didn't read it, did anyone nominate

Lovely Bones

in the last discussion?

great book
completely unrelated to bones though
and i dont think of anything to do with that book when thinking about chickadee

although she IS lovely
and the shtick on bones is funny.

[Maruchan]

i like laser precision the best so far

[Maruchan]

^seconded

[Maruchan]

mine was a jokingly seconded because i know that will never make it lol

[Maruchan]

nth

[Maruchan]

What's the tie in between percision and laser tag @ alisae? I don't see it

[Maruchan]

please for the love of god stop putting a z

it's driving me crazy

and I'm not debating the accuracy of a fucking laser

Tbf a good half of laser tag outlets spell it lazer

[Maruchan]

dropping the laser component or waiting a bit will lead to something better here

anti-nom

[Maruchan]

Precision brushstroke doesn't make a particularly good reference to lasers and the attempt to do so weakens it as far as its ability to reference her art. I get that there's interest here in getting both of these things into a title, but the nominations that are coming out of it are forced and I think either dropping the laser component or waiting a bit will lead to something better here.

Are u high?
(Tho I agree with dropping the laser part)

You realize her site name is based off of her love of lasertag.

like actually confirmed

we had a rant session about how y'all don't understand that shit.

Its also funny because the people she teaches are drunk and very not precisely following her precise art

i was not drunk! I only had a mixed beverage made using XO cognac and a mudslide in a can while she taught me how to art thank you very much!

[Maruchan]

You realize her site name is based off of her love of lasertag.

The fact that i used this name for pokemon showdown before mafiascum does not make it a name based off pokemon.
So i really don't understand what makes her name based off laser tag.

like actually confirmed

we had a rant session about how y'all don't understand that shit.

oh I don't know why I could possibly think that.
:eyeroll:


I now have accounts named Maruchan on a number of other websites. I didn't make these accounts named Maruchan because because I had a cup of maruchan ramen on my desk when I made them.

I made them because it is a name I would be recognized by from anyone who knows me here.

The name itself isn't based off of mafiascum, but it's importance to me is based off of mafiascum.

[Maruchan]

This is how much lasertag means to chickadee

[Maruchan]

As an outsider to the meet, and even with the info currently provided, I cannot see how Chickadee being an expert in laser tag is title worthy.

Literally caused us to all start another meet early 2019 in an area NONE of us are from, where 6+ people have agreed to driving (or riding bus) 24+ hours just to join solely because the location picked had good lasertag as described by chickadee.

That's kinda noteworthy imo

[Maruchan]

search the forum "cupcake"

Literally excluding the first posts regarding title fairy thread

you see cupcake

and it relates to Kats
U associate Kat's with a cupcake

Kats is bloody cupcake

Is it for any reason besides her avatar though

u associate lolbalance with me

It's the same for kats

That cuz you mod games where lolbalance is a thing
Katsuki hasn’t done anything cupcake related afaict

I think cupcake mafia has been a thing only like 100 times since I've been onsite?

[Maruchan]

so everyone keeps saying she in reference to katsuki

the person who i thought was katsuki who was at the meet was most definitely not female, and from their posts in the trans thread, i do not get the impression they are trans.

the person I am thinking if is most definitely a straight cis oriental-backgrounded individual.

is this the same person?

if so nth the nom?

[Maruchan]

ok can we go back to talking about Chickadee now

I actually thought QuickDraw was a really good title that everybody overlooked in favor of some bullshit try-hard titles and everybody spelling precision and laser as wrong as possible

I'd support it but the entire chickadee fanbase is being really toxic so I'm gonna abstain in protest

I'm being toxic?

[Maruchan]

Slightly sketchy because she kills us for our bones
sLIGHTly for lasertag
Sketchy because she an artist

[Maruchan]

sLIGHTly for lasertag

you realize that including this reason makes it less convincing right

I was just parroting gamma.

sLIGHTly Sketchy
Stealth pun revealed for you all

i thing it's a stupid connection, and reaching way too hard, which is also why I haven't nth'd this tittle.

I do not think she will approve this title, but I would love for DRK to offer her a title regardless because that seems rather unlikely to happen without a few months of "cool off from toronto meet frenzy", but I would love to be proved wrong and see her get a title.

anti-nom sketchy/sketchadoodle.

[Maruchan]

To be quite honest, the "light" thing would be a point against it, if I thought it were something that would be commonly looked at as being a part of the title

"I refuse to consider any title related to lasertag regardless of the support for one gg I'm king of titles and all must folo my rule muhahahahahahahaha"

[Maruchan]

To be quite honest, the "light" thing would be a point against it, if I thought it were something that would be commonly looked at as being a part of the title

"I refuse to consider any title related to lasertag regardless of the support for one gg I'm king of titles and all must folo my rule muhahahahahahahaha"

Let's not forget chickadee activetly disdained the last light based pun title. Or are we trying to push titles she'll probably not like?

She actually disliked every title suggested with the sole exception of pew pew. Or are we trying to arbitrarily decide anything lasertag based is eww?

[Maruchan]

Saying Gamma should get a title is like saying the worms in the dirt should get a title.

That's kind of rude.

Idk who this person is or why this I'd such a hot issue apparently but still you basically just said "gama is as worthless as worms in dirt" which is kinda fucked up

[Maruchan]

Ok let me try again.

Firebringrr you're a fucking worm crawling around in the dirt you total worm.


Yeah you're right I don't see anything wrong with that.

[Maruchan]

jk i got through it also is internet strangers title custom@/!??!?!? it appears with the custom so thats interesting

"Mafia ScuRN" not "Mafia ScuM"

[Maruchan]

Tbh I like and they don't stop coming better than smash hit

Nth

[Maruchan]

12 btw is the best title

[Maruchan]

Mint Jelly goes on the Lamb. It's a delicious flavor combination. I always get a bit of mint jelly when I go to Texas de Brazil to use with the lamb chops and leg or lamb they bring you. It's my favorite

[Maruchan]

Wow this meme will pass in a month or so imo

[Maruchan]

I suspect DRK isn't going to grant the title doot regardless of any number of nominations but I really want to hear an explanation for why his new title is what it is

[Maruchan]

nth. we need more not-mafia theemd titles

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