Dance of the Title Thread: Resurgence in wild?

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I'd accept something in a similar vein maybe idk

I vote we refuse to give Elbirn the title of Meme Police on the grounds that he requested the title "Something in a Similar Vein". Clearly an unforgivable faux pas.

Also, nom Nancy for "Never Lynch"

1. She's a strong town player who is incredibly good at towntelling and hard to mislynch.
2.

You lynched her, duh.

Dammit!!!

This is why you never lynch Nancy!
Betrayed my own golden rule, now it betrays me back XD

3. Subject: no deadlines mafia [game over]

This is definitely town!sheep. But even if I couldn’t read him off of meta, he is obvtown also by play.

The last might seem a little offensive because she ended up being wrong, but it's just the first example to come to mind. It's more that Nancy locks down her townreads, trusts herself, and never lets anyone bully her away from her opinions, which can be both good and bad.

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I agree that that's not enough on it's own. That's why there's three whole bulletpoints.

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It's okay, the Alisae is the enemy of the good.

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Disloyal Faux.

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How sinister.

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accept w/e title fits site rules that people vote on bby's

This blanket acceptance is a challenge that you, the members of the title thread, must meet. Find the most ridiculous Taly title mastina won't torpedo, and make him come back from hiatus to see it in all of his posts.

"This guys a pedantic dickhead"

Not to be pedantic, but dickhead seems pretty crude for our strict title criteria.

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[bold]Your Name[/bold]

You don't have to break the tags because they're not real bold tags, but it's pretty obvious what the joke is.

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Bald titling > Bold titling.

What are bald tags, and how do they work?

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northsidegal of habit

TIL, northsidegirl is a nun.

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Now this I wanna hear, Nancy!

Something something hairy feet.

Nth boonfather

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Both godfather and modfather are positive associations to the title, imo. Boon is definitely puppet master scum along the lines of the

old

godfather role.

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Hey, loves! Sorry for my recent absence.

That's Not All, Folks!

for Boonskiies might make sense if the BooneyToonz games had any connection to Looney Tunes, aside from the name. As far as I can tell, there's one game that had pictures of Looney Tunes characters in the votecounts and nothing else in any of the games that's in any way related. I quite like the BooneyToonz pun, it sounds nice as a name for a game, but the pun is of course not a good basis for a title. So to sum up, no.

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gogurts is a better title then that
and gogurts is an awful title

I thought gogurts was a phonetic pronunciation of his name, not a title.

What about something along the lines of Pokemon Professor instead of specifically Bill?

As cheet noted he is best known for pokemans and keeping the sum of all mafiascum knowledge safe from the likes of Team Rocket. Seems like it might fit more than Platinum.

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nth Pokedex

Also, I'm going to read all of wgeurts' posts in that annoying mechanical voice from now on, which probably means I'll scumread him more often.

You're welcome, wgeurts.

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Nominate Chevre for The SUPPreme Leader

If this is real, should drop the article. Sounds better as just SUPPreme Leader imo.

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Link the arguments?

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Katy, I'd stop trying to sell you own title.

Does seem like it'd be counterproductive if I cared more.

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I agree. I'm saying that I'm mostly ambivalent to the title because I don't know Katyusha very well. If I knew her better, the fact she was arguing for it would probably make me less inclined to like it.

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change the dash to an underscore

Nth

+1

or like, negative 4. Whatever weight my opinion has.

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its ok u can get a "u tried" sticker

No. All the "u tried" stickers are mine. I'm using them to seal boxes.

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The misspelling makes that post hilarious to me.

Still, I think that Smooth Criminal seems like a better RC title than People Tried.

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mastina you can do better
For example
“Hi I’m your mason!”
Or something along those lines
Is a lot more fitting tbh

Nominate mastina for

Hi I’m your mason!

Aside from all of the reasons described in title troll thread, I feel like this kinda fits mastina’s personality a lot more the “mason” would
It also kinda tells people “hi its me and I’m here to stay”

I still say it should reference the fact that she’s probably fakeclaiming masons. Given her otherwise rigid stance on not fakeclaiming as town or scum.

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Or

I'm your mason

Both because she embodies the emoji in site culture and because it eludes to the questionable nature of the claim.

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I think Pine's title should be revisited and should totally be something about the fact that he is a scumstump in those Camn games because 1) he likes scum, 2) tree stump and Pine in my mind have good username connotations

I like "In Your Head" a lot so I think the threshold for improvements is gonna be pretty high.

Maybe

Can't See the Scum For the Treestumps

, but it's a bit wordy imo.

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Nth.

Not sure if it's just because me scumreading him has kinda become a meme between us, but I love that title.

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Personally?

I have made a habit of coming into the endgames of Dann's town games and expressing scumreads on him, which RC also did just now in a game I modded.

Additionally, Dann is very town as scum, and the resultant paranoia means he's frequently misread and pushed late game regardless of alignment.

Not sure if RC has another reason to add to it, and from my reasons alone it's a pretty weak title. But it's a pretty weak title that I like, so I'm gonna throw whatever weight I have behind it.

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I like all of the mason variants for mastina. Does anyone have an argument against or a reason for a specific one? I feel like the discussion there just kinda died for no reason.

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I think it applies as a fairly generic scum move (asking for a protown action in a way to get it it shot down instead of actually considered). Regardless, probably a discussion to take to md.

I disagree that faking masons is objectively bad play, although perhaps the consistency with which mastina does it could make it so. It’s a more extreme version of an arbitrary townread, which I’ve seen used to good effect. It’s objectively good for scum mastina, and theoretically has the effect of lowering the kill rate on a high power slot (mason) while raising the kill rate on a low power slot (neighbor).

The risk is also low yield: mastina and her neighbor become ‘unlynchable’ but that just reduces the odds from n/m to n-1/m-1 for a scum lynch.

TL;dr I don’t think you can say it’s objectively bad play, regardless of how annoying you personally feel it is.

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nom saudade for

Stay Positive, Friends

Seconded

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Anti-nom

Anti-nom as well.

Very negative.

Is it just because it's a catchphrase or is there a different reason?

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But if moreso feels like they're getting rewarded for Pine's work.

+1

It'd be something different if Pine or PP was getting a title based on this, but cyrus was kind of along for the ride so to speak.

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I dunno. I feel like the chinese character for doot was better.

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that, like all lettering I don't understand, means "bean soup".

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Nom Elbirn for content aficionado since it appears to be a form of meme police he actually likes and you monsters wouldn’t vote to let him keep it. Shame on you.

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I'm the only one who upvotes it. 6 people express that they love it when I nom it here.

Clearly I'm just more popular than mastina.

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I was not trying to nth creative commons. Also, I am not schadd_.

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I prefer

Busboy Revolutionary

for Formerfish

Revolting Busboy?

He does have a tendency towards shock value humor, and I'm partial to multiple meanings.

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Nominate Cyrus62 for

Dealt with the Devil

for this

Long story short, a bunch of alternate wincons were present in this game. Cyrus was mafia and had to hammer his teammate or otherwise get an item that his teammate was holding. Two other town players (Pine and PenguinPower) had this same wincon. Cyrus made a deal with Pine and PP by outting his teammate with the item so that Cyrus could hammer the teammate and get the item to satisfy his alt wincondition. Much chaos ensued, but Cyrus was hung, followed by the outted teammate, which had the domino effect of causing the last mafia to concede. All because he made a little deal with the devil.

Pine is the devil because he is

devilishy good looking

good at scum.

Maybe Pine’s title should be changed to something involving devils and deals...

It actually already is. But more than that, it's a reference to site history. I'm not above recommending a new Title for him if it fits better, but "In Your Head" is a high bar to hurdle.

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I will re-issue

Busboy Revolutionary

as the most balanced of all suggested options.

Nth this.

My suggestion wasn't ever really serious, more a tongue in cheek poke at his unfiltered style. And yes, it was a little insulting and thus probably not worth serious consideration as a title.

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Nominate Cyrus62 for

Dealt with the Devil

for this

Long story short, a bunch of alternate wincons were present in this game. Cyrus was mafia and had to hammer his teammate or otherwise get an item that his teammate was holding. Two other town players (Pine and PenguinPower) had this same wincon. Cyrus made a deal with Pine and PP by outting his teammate with the item so that Cyrus could hammer the teammate and get the item to satisfy his alt wincondition. Much chaos ensued, but Cyrus was hung, followed by the outted teammate, which had the domino effect of causing the last mafia to concede. All because he made a little deal with the devil.

Pine is the devil because he is

devilishy good looking

good at scum.

Maybe Pine’s title should be changed to something involving devils and deals...

It actually already is. But more than that, it's a reference to site history. I'm not above recommending a new Title for him if it fits better, but "In Your Head" is a high bar to hurdle.

What does his title reference?

The game that made mastin retire from mafia and forced the birth of mastin2.

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Shhh. It's mastina's thread. We have to take every opportunity to rib her.

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don't vibe the ellipsis, nth tho

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Nth the nomination already went through.

I dunno, maybe latecomer. "The nomination already went through" seems wordy.

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No, fuck you. Wait until we fail in the event first you stupid tree.

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Nom Pink Ball for The Power of Love

First, it's a reference to a song I like. Bite me.

Second, Pink Ball is an incredibly positive person. In the Alipine game that just ended, he multiple times organized a sit down and feel good session that derailed the game from going toxic.

Third, Pink Ball in that same game managed to turn the positive emotions and gratitude from his appreciation pages into a crazy strong shield that saw him into the endgame with little suspicion from town despite being the only claimed investigative in a situation with several conftown and a really tiny mislynch pool.

tl;dr Pink Ball endgamed through the Power of Love.

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Huey Lewis and I'm appalled that you have to ask.

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Too generic. Maybe “All His Fault”

DANNFLOR! WHY HAVE YOU BETRAYED ME?

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Okay so my actual problem with "Deep Wolf" as a title is that is is a broad mafia term and it could be applied tk so many people in so many games. He did a great job, yes. He was not caught, yes. But is he the pinnacle of deepwolf play on MS? No.

Its like titling someone "obvtown". That would be a bad title. Literally the same logic applies.

I'm not saying we shouldn't title him, just not this.

dannflor has been in more games than just this
him being a deepwolf is somewhat of a meme at this point, i don't think alisae v pine was even the largest influence on this

Yeah, sure. But that doesn’t address any of ari’s points. It’s a meme title that’s not really special enough for what DANNFLOR (WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME) is. On an unrelated note, my phone now autocorrects DANNFLOR to be in all caps.

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Dirty Dann is 0/10

Oh be fair. It’s at least 2/10

Agreed. The image of Dann as a cast member of Footloose is worth at least one star, as is the alliteration.

Wolf in Wolf's Clothing? As a reference to the fact that somehow every game he's called out as the deepwolf and then still ends up winning the game as a deepwolf.

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i miss smooth criminal

idk if people tried is actually a good title for me

You'll take Beat It and you'll like it.

nth Penguin, with the understanding that I'd prefer mastina put that GIF wall Pine quoted into Penguin's title line. Yes, all of it.

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You could have posted that with a mouse and the onscreen keyboard, pops.

I like Beat It

RC doesn't, and while personally it evokes a "He's a measuring stick to judge yourself against" vibe there's the alternative "Get out of here RC" that makes it a rather unfortunate title.

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I don't see it as mean spirited. Not good? Sure. I thought the change away from Smooth Criminal to people tried was bad. I just don't really personally support letting you switch back because you don't like the new one anymore because it feels like asking for a title, tbh.

I also don't feel strongly enough about that to oppose the switch.

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the monthly titles are permanent????

if they meet the criteria i guess, for the first event anyone could just request a title that they'd get but at the end if it wasn't voted to be kept by everyone it'd go away (unless you're me)

You can also refuse them, just like normal titles.

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I just don't really personally support letting you switch back because you don't like the new one anymore because it feels like asking for a title, tbh.

I mean a user shouldn't have a title they don't like.

And it's only a matter of time before he was nominated for Smooth Criminal again if it wasn't just given back to him automatically.

I also don't feel strongly enough about that to oppose the switch.

Also, a user can always request their title be removed, FWIW.

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Might be more effective to PM her.

Might be even more effective for RC to PM her.

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I could probably make a decent pun for his potential title but it somewhat depends on his answer to this question.

Hey @PenguinPower
Do you pronounce GIF with a hard or soft "G"?

It's pronounced astronaut.

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nom PenguinPower for
.P EN G

capitalization at his preference

nth

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P En G with the spaces is my preference based on the phonetics.

I could also go for something along the lines of Emperor Penguin as he's clearly gone mad with power. (Reference to his being a long standing (the longest standing?) Listmod and his willingness to lean into bad jokes about abusing his power).

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nom Pine's antinom

Pine's Antinom is a terrible title for Dannflor, tbh.

I mean, I don't actually think Dannflors a super deepwolf player

I don't think the title was ever about Dannflor actually being a deepwolf and more about the meme of Dannflor always being called a deepwolf, fwiw. (Agreeing with Enter)

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Nom Dann for

Sheep In Deepwolf's Clothing

I think this captures the meme of "Dann always being accused of being a deepwolf" better, captures the cute-n-cuddly "I don't want to lynch Dann, even though he might akshually be scum" vibe I get from his scumplay, and captures the fact that he's basically the sacrificial lamb for which we blame all of the issues with AliPine. (DANNFLOR, WHY HAVE YOU BETRAYED ME?)

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Nom Pops for Particular

I think this is probably the most accurate title I could think of for Pops. But maybe it’s becaise I have a lot of recent history with her. Whenever I read a Pops post she seems very particular. It isn’t a bad thing and I Hope Pops doesn’t take any of my suggestions as digs because they aren’t imo. Pops knows what she likes and isn’t afraid to tell people they don’t meet that standard.

If you can’t have Tiara, take the next best thing yknow

I don't like this, but I can't really say why I don't like this. Like, everything you've said is true, but it still doesn't really fit.

I definitely think this is an avenue that should be explored though.

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If you're talking about fire on the Mountain, it was before that.

I think FotM was when Dann first got pinned into the "Probably a deepwolf" as town though. Like, No deadlines was when he proved he had a solid scumgame, but the meme started in/around FotM afaicr.

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It's very important to me that we all recognize that I'm mastina's top friend.

Is this a Deepwolf?

Nth. My only reservation applies to my suggestion too (it's a little wordy). I feel it does capture all of the nuance of the meme in the same way.

i don't know if this has been discussed but i think the aesthetics of the title need to be brought into account

Dannflor
Deepwolf

look at how stylish that is
it rolls excellently off the tongue / eyes
for this reason it is my top choice

I mean... Mastina said no. This is like Meme Police for Elbirn, where we're just beating a dead horse. No matter how much some people like the title, mastina has valid reservations and ultimately it is her decision.

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This is too far outside the actual reason for Dann’s Title. People call him a Deepwolf because they are paranoid. It just turns out he won a game because he was a Deepwolf. He’s like Schrodinger’s Deepwolf.

I noticed this, looking back, but I don't think we ever discussed Schrodinger's Deepwolf. And I think it at least merits discussion.

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I think Sorting Hat >>> no expectations, and giving her a better title is better than just waiting until the perfect title comes along. As the adage says "the

perfect

popsofctown is the enemy of the good"

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I mean... popsofctown has many enemies.

Speaking of which, have we thought of any way to make popsofctown's title? Particular seemed bleh, but I think there's potential there. Maybe something to do with Pandora, given the nature of cats to have high standards?

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Eh. I still don't see how she's Princess-y at all. No inheritance of power, no damsel in distress, no magical forest creatures doing all her housework for her. She earned her place at the top, she didn't stumble into it via a quirk of birth.

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Yeah but the first step is actually saying hi so people will know you EXIST!

The first rule of mafiascum: You don't exist.

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RC, did you ever post an argument for PP for nsg or address my concerns?

I feel like you strongly want that title and I don't get why.

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"Schrodinger Wolf" can kind of give the impression more of "You never know if Dann is scum or not until you see the flip" that although similar isn't exactly what we might be gunning for here in my opinion.

The point we're looking for in my opinion is that Dann can be town read but there is that "I town read Dann but he might be a deepwolf".

"Schrodinger Wolf" directly more references someone you aren't sure about the alignment until the flip, that although like I said it's a similar concept, I don't think it's exactly what we were going for.

I think rather than "You never know Dann alignment" as "Schrodinger Wolf" might indicate, the pun is "Dann is probably town but you never know, he might be a deepwolf". Therefore you never know for certain if he's the "deepwolf" or not until he's flipped, rather than not having a solid read on him (since I think most of the time he's just town).

Agreed. I'm not opposed to Schrodinger's Wolf, but I don't feel it has the whole of the meaning.

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nth

Gentleman's Howl

Nth.

Also, what pine said.

Also also, what’s the mastina word on sorting hat?

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When I see Gentleman's Howl I don't really intuitively think anything and I kind of expect that's what most people outside of those watching the thread right now will also feel.

Disagree. As I see it the mod to the meme is there for people who would appreciate the meme, but to the uninitiated it just says that Dannflor is friendly and polite, even when wolfing. Which... is pretty true. Dannflor is one of the most consistently chill players on site and I think referring to the fact that he’s crazy easy to get along with enhances the title, not detracts from it.

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I don't blame you for having that stance, cheet, I was just sharing how I saw it.

And I feel like the culture of werewolves = bad and gentlemans = good is pretty unanimous on this forum. :shrug:

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if dannflor picks the wrong title i will feel obligated to put him on my ignore list forever so that i'm never exposed to his blight

The Wrong Title isn’t one of his options, so he’s pretty safe I think.

With that said, does anyone fit that title? It sounds promising.

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Wallpost Title Fairy: I endorse this product and/or service

Nom mastina for

Wallfairy

Aside from the obvious, this is superficially similar to wallflower, which while shyness isn’t the cause, can describe how she’s been sidelined by activity issues in this iteration of her mafia career.

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Nom RC for

Seal of Approval

Approval of Seals. (nth)

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irony is dead

Irony, being made of iron, was never alive and thus cannot be dead.

NOM mcmemo for 'no title'

Promising. Can we instead just leave a blank line where the title would be?

nth emotion picture & still reeling

nom plotinus for

Kitten Caboodle

1. we in the titling community love puns (?)
2. cats
3. sort of alluding to the thoroughness of plotinus posting
4. going back to the "categories" discussion that only me and keely had earlier (from the newbie games)
5. cute title

Puns? PUNS!

Nth. Totally for his thorough and meticulous modstyle and not because I'm a shameless lover of terrible humor.

One way to find out

Nom Psyche for "it"

As a title for Psyche,

ick

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You're gonna need to sell me on this.

ick

seems a bit mean for a title, even if Psyche's prickliness is one of his most endearing features.

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ABOMINATION! PINE HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A RESPONSIBLE ADULT, WHO MODERATES THINGS. I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS.

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I'm very disappointed that we're not allowed to force ducks to run through the streets of this thread to an arena.

Agreed that ducks doesn't need a title update to celebrate his new job, esp given he didn't need a title update to celebrate his old job.

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What's the meat of it?

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Eh, honestly I don’t have a problem with rewarding civil disobedience. If he actually did request the ban and was turned down it seems like he did due diligence to try to resolve the issue within the rules and then resolved the issue the only way that was still available.

I also don’t really think it sets a bad precedent as the specific behavior it’s rewarding is not possible anymore AND someone looking to emulate the behavior would have to get banned in the first place and then appeal, come back, and still have people care enough about them to want to title them.

OTOH, I don’t really care enough to look up whether he did attempt to achieve his aims through proper channels.

Fence, prepare to be sat on.

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I have extreme trouble connecting clearly the title nominated to pops, AND, it feels super-generic and not specific to pops.

This. Like, pops is convincing, sure, but that's like, the least special thing about her. Her work with opens, her friendliness, her self deprecating style... All of those are things that scream pops more than her ability to be convincing imo.

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Eh. I don't think calling pops a politician is particularly complimentary and it's a title that could age incredibly poorly.

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Yeah, but even assuming her beliefs align perfectly with the current speaker, which is not something I care to investigate, AND pops is pro politicians in general, what happens if the next Speaker is an entirely different person?

I just personally feel that any title tied to a real life position for which the connotations could (and frequently do) rapidly swing around is at best risky. People who feel like Pelosi is a favorable comparison would not necessarily feel the same about Gingrich, for example.

PEdit: I kinda like that one, tbh.

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no one reads a psyche post tho

Who?

Yes.

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Now, before you default to "Shut up, Jingle." or "You're an idiot, Jingle." or "Underwear go inside your pants, Jingle." this is at least an 80% serious nomination.

Nom RadiantCowbells for

Alien Ant Framer

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Does RadiantCowbells need a new title? I think the answer to this is yes. Over the years, he's had several, and Smooth Criminal was arguably the most fitting. I'm not arguing a return to Smooth Criminal (he's good at scum, but I can't remember the last time he went an entire game without being wagoned out of paranoia at least once) and I'm not saying Solid Criminal is a bad shift over that as it fits the newbells better than smooth criminal does now. OTOH, Solid Criminal just doesn't feel special to Raybells in the way that it could. It's true, in that I'm fairly certain that Raybells is at least mostly solid and good at playing scum, but there are any number of solid scummers that play scum well. It's a title that fits, instead a special title. It also completely ignores that Raybells isn't good at scum at the expense of his other play.

So let's examine my suggestion:

Alien, in mafia terms, is a role that is very strong as both town and scum. In fact, in smaller games Alien makes sense as the majority (or even entirety) of the power for a game. Alien, as a faction, is a shorthand term for a scumteam that is so powerful that they need a significant nerf (a single nightkill per game). Both of these show the strength of the seal as both factions, a capability of shifting the game to win as either faction nigh singlehandedly.

Framer, similarly, is a role that is difficult to play well. You have to figure out how to get a cop to target your choice or accurately figure out that a cop will be investigating a town player. More importantly to the title though, when applied correctly, Framer can get a lynch on even the strongest town player when it would normally be nigh impossible. This is a clear reference to RC's ability to push through lynches through sheer force of personality. It doesn't hurt that Raybells has been known to fake a guilty to get a lynch from time to time (and isn't that exactly what a Framer does, mechanically?).

Ant, here is a reference to the ability of ants to lift weights much larger than their own, and also the propensity of some ants to scream at you while suicide bombing out of trees. Actually, no it isn't, but I needed to include it for the pun so it stays.

The core of this title, however, is much simpler. Alien Ant Farm sings the song Smooth Criminal. Smooth Criminal was RC's title for like, decades. This isn't a username pun. This isn't an avatar pun. This isn't even a behavioral pun. This, right here, is our chance to award a title that is a title pun. And it fits.

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Does RC put Framers in setups he mods, though?

God no, that role is terrible.

But he COULD.

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I don't see why we can't change the title later if Zoraster manages to organize his crime. I support the disorganized version.

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Nom wooper for Oompa Loompa.

I’m fairly certain we as a site kidnapped him from the strange upside down kingdom of Aus in a very wonka like fashion to force him to work in our factory, managing the gtkas, replacements, open marathon group, and scummies. I don’t think it’s a good enough title to replace his main’s, but I think his contributions are worthy of an alt title. Also, this might get him to sing parables while he works.

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Shush you, you don't get to talk about your own title noms.

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That title is so much better if Hectic is an alt, tbh.

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But is enter nthing the speakeasy thing or the blank space?

We may never know.

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attention friends
can we put all of our efforts together to title NSG?

I feel like there's a title in the amount of effort we've put forward into finding her a title with a lack of tangible results.

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Lies. I’ve put no effort into some truly awful title suggestions.

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I'd like to request a title, but not on this site, one of those fancy British ones with an estate and an income. Is Duke of York open?

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Is Duke of York open?

It is, but you have to get 10,000 men then march them up to the top of the hill and march them down again.

Goddamn coronavirus. First I have to cancel all of my raging parties, now I can't even assemble a mob of people to go on a hike and earn me a place in the nobility of a foreign country.

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Nominate Nero Cain for

League Commissioner

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He's been involved with running every fantasy sports league I've seen on ms in recent memory.

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I like making the fantasy league connection explicit, but I get the point that it’s a bit on the nose. I’d be fine with Mr Commissioner as a secondary option though.

(To be clear, I’m also not involved in any of the fantasy leagues and am going to pm someone who is to see if they can bring perspective, since I honestly don’t know how that shit works.)

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While I'm not a fan of calling people Woats, I will admit that I think the title does fit and sounds pleasant.

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Today will be stricken from the public memory. We shall never again reference Firebringer being right about anything.

Is the Ultimate really necessary for Ali’s nom? Cosplaying Assassin sounds stronger imo and I don’t know that the danganronpa reference is truly integral. Like I don’t think specifically danganronpa when I think Maria. I think anime, sure, and multiple accounts, but I don’t think it’s integral to her as much as the rest of the title is.

I’d also support

Janus

as a nod to two faced without being as insulting, her membership in the ms pantheon, and because of janus’ ties to duality. Not really sure the Roman aspect fits with her character though, tbh.

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Madame Masque is a marvel villain whose main shtick is manipulation. Notably she has multiple versions of herself running around and is functionally the leader of the Marvel mafia, which could be a reference to Maria's skill as antitown, although I'll admit I'm not sure the Marvel angle fits her.

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Nom nsg for

Multi
Line
Title

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Although really i just want to say A girl with no name but I’m not sure how into GOT mariar is. I do think it’s the most apt though :p

nth, tbh.

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Nobody said it was a good suggestion, just a serious suggestion.

I'll let myself out.

(To make this not wholly useless, I prefer my current title to Serious Suggestion, so whether it is or isn't a good suggestion is a pretty moo point.)

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FWIW the nom was more about league discussion outside of mush mash than actual knowledge of the leagues themselves. Iirc he had been campaigning in schat for people to join when I thought that up.

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nth Did nothing wrong

I don't get the reference but I hope to soon once I finally play it. I agree with the reasoning that this fits more than Innocent Child.

"Did nothing wrong" has a strong association with historical figures involved in genocide.

That is not the first thing I thought of when I see that title.

Even if the association isn’t immediate for everyone I kind of feel like the fact that it exists for some people is enough to make it a bad title choice. I also feel like we should be able to find a reference that encapsulates the gist of that as “evil person who appears perfectly innocent” is a fairly common trope.

I also don’t know kanna.

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wait that Nero Cain title was completely forgotten and not talked about?????????
why???????

I came up with it

For real though I think the title thread died for like a month around then.

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I prefer "Alternatively," over "Alt-ernatively," but both are fine and I'm not opposed to just let mariaR choose which one they prefer, if the nomination goes through.

+1


Also, the harder panzer argues against Nero's title the less I care that panzer doesn't like Nero's title. Does anyone who doesn't come across as "I don't think Nero deserves a title" have an issue with it?

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I don't think the hyphenated or capitalized forms look great. The original is best imo.

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Could someone quote the original equi nom so I can decide if I support it? I'm being lazy rn.

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just "lo and behold" i feel completely loses the reference to endgames.

FWIW, XLO has been a catch all for situations that were either LYLO or MYLO in the past and doesn’t carry the same connotations since it’s literally using x in the algebraic sense where you can replace it with anything.

Also ELO has far stronger associations with the band which kinda makes it a shitty title for skitter imo.

Not really concerned about stripping titles from people who siteflaked as a priority as them having siteflaked means their title isn’t popping back up on new posts. If an active user has a problem title it should 100% be brought up and addressed though.

Basically, I don’t think trawling through the user list for things that people could find offensive is a reasonable request on mastina’s time when all of those posts are probably archived anyway. (Kept in the museum closet, to borrow Ari’s metaphor).

If a title is inappropriate and is being seen the report function should be more than adequate.

Edit: I got drunk and noticed I used the wrong their.

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I still vastly prefer XLo to ELo, although I admit I’m probably the minority there.

3rd

+1

I'm very eh on Last Hurrah. I get it, but to me it feels like it's trying to please everyone.

I’m not sure what’s wrong with trying to please everyone if the end result is that the person getting the title can choose a title they like, tbh.

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That might be good enough of a pun to get over my dislike of ELO tbh.

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you either die SleepyKrew's friend or you live long enough to see yourself become his enemy.

A coward dies a thousand deaths as SleepyKrew's friend.

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ngl, I kinda want the title to be Capri Denim now. I'm aware that that's a terrible title.

Not a big fan of the Auro suggestions.

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Korina has a similar title for different reasons. Anyone who sees both titles without knowing will assume the two are related. Strike one.
The event of "rolling cult leader six times straight" isn't particularly memorable (unless you have a fondness for math), nor something that he had any choice over (unless we count as not signing up for the game as a choice). Strike two.
It doesn't fit his personality. Strike three.

Eh.

First of all, the two titles are vaguely related, it just takes a bit of knowledge of the players in question to figure that out. Both of them signed up for basically every game with cults in them for a long period of time because both of them like cults a lot. Drew randed cult leader a ton, Korina has actively campaigned to get more cult games going. But both of them undoubtedly have a large fondness for cults and cult games.

(For reference, Drew was also in: viewtopic.php?f=84&t=81570, viewtopic.php?f=4&t=81744, viewtopic.php?f=56&t=81273, all of which had cults. Him being a cult leader via gamblers fallacy was a topic in at least one of them.)

Second, it probably wouldn't be memorable if Drew hadn't leaned into the curve. From a recent game:

Subject: Redneck Mafia GAME OVER PARTNER!

Also, obligatory......'Swear I am not 3p this time guys' post.

As it stands, it is fairly memorable as evidenced by the pattern Hectic brought up starting literally a year ago and Hectic still remembering it.

I'm not a big fan of the title, but I don't think the grounds on which you're arguing against it seem particularly strong.

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can I link to SE outside SE?

AFAIK, the rules just say you can't share information given in speezy outside of speezy. If you link to speezy, only people with speezy access would be able to follow the link anyway.

The relevant section of the rules only makes things explicit for sitechat, but the same principles should apply elsewhere:

Subject: Forum Rules and Guidelines

Speakeasy and Get to Know A Scummer Content

1. The Speakeasy and GTKAS forums are designed to be semi-private and are not listed in search engines. Do not share personally identifying information found from either of these forums in Site Chat. This includes name and photos. When in doubt, ask the person you’re talking about privately first.
   
2. Sharing links and discussing The Speakeasy/GTKAS generally are both acceptable.
   
3. Please understand that The Speakeasy and GTKAS are very limited in the protection they provide and generally the Site Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators do not exist to stop rumors, stories, etc. that originated in The Speakeasy/GTKAS.

With that said, lacking the context of the original speezy thread, it sounds like something that is both personality representative and lighthearted fun. I'd throw my hat behind it.

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Yeah, the context is as advertised. Nth.

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Eh. It fits him, but it's both less unique to him as an individual and less creative than his current title.

Antinom.

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^ White Knighting

Clearly Isis is mafia. We should never have let her graduate.

look reck just because you have the best title doesn't mean you get to shit on Bro's title

Agreed. You don't have to have a good title to shit on people's titles here. That's why I'm allowed.

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right around the corner.

That’s pretty decent as a “Holy shit Hectic is everywhere” joke, but I’m not sure it’s title material.

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I'm probably not gonna support any Hectic title that isn't at least tangentially related to Mario, tbh.

Duplighost could work, I suppose.

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His main definitely has a strong association with Mario, at least imo. Either way, that's just my two cents, so feel free to propose away. There's a reason I'm not the universal title arbiter.

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Anti-nom Hectic's title.
He's already been one gift to the community.

FTFY

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I encourage Monty to choose one of the options being presented as Monty doesn’t really feel like a title so much as just how he’s addressed.

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nth Nero Rome

I actually like that a lot.

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In fairness mine is an event title.

I disagree that the basis of the title being username based invalidates the title when there are other connections to be drawn though.

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I broadly agree actually but I foresee it being an issue. Maybe not though!

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Kind of off topic, but I have this weird feeling that we're going to get into a fight every time we interact, and every time I can think of it's ended amicably.

I just wanted to let you know that despite the fact I may come off as aggressive sometimes I respect and like you and feel like your opinions have a fairly high weight to them.

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God that game was great.

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Inb4 yall get a warning for being off topic

pffft. Mastina thinks I'm too entertaining to warn about being off topic.

On the other hand:

Nom Nero for Last Centurion.

I have reticence based on the fact that it is a Doctor Who reference and Nero doesn't particularly strike me as a Doctor Who person. However, I think the title fits despite the Doctor Who reference and it's not like the storytelling concept is unique to that storyline.

It's a nod to both sides of his username (Nero being a Roman emperor and Cain being the first murderer, cursed to wander the earth, protected from being murdered and functionally immortal in some popular mythologies (Cain implies he actually was a Roman Centurion at some point in the movie He Never Died, for example.). It also references his longevity and the fact that he's been pretty constant throughout ms's history while still remaining the same NC we've known for years. While others have come and gone, Nero has been here, playing mafia and watching the site change around him, a remnant of a forgotten age.

Also, it's less potentially insulting than While Rome Burned as it doesn't imply Nero was passive in the face of the collapse of MS.

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For the record, while I feel like Jingle's explanation of the title was a little bit forced, some parts of his nomination do resonate with me in that Nero does genuinely give off the vibe quite frequently of being, so to speak, 'the old man whose ways have largely died out'. While he's far from the only geriatric player onsite, and while the title is partially a username reference, this particular title feels like it's unique to him and not generically applicable to everyone and is more than just a cheap username pun, in that it feels like it might work specifically because of being not one of those traits but a combination of both.

This is pretty much what I wanted to get across.

With that said, I agree with reck that it’s not a perfect fit, and would welcome any attempts to build on it to make a better title.

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I really kinda like “The Grey” over Gandalf as it also invoked a “that’s probably an old guy yelling at the kids to get off his lawn” vibe. I would probably support both.

The tldr on the doctor who reference is that at some point

Spoiler:

a companion gets left behind in Roman times, becomes a centurion and then waits two thousand years As a night watchman to reconnect with the doctor, doing nothing to change history. Later: role play jokes.

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would "the great"
sound something appropriate for nero cain? tbh it just sounded cool after saying it once i'm not sure how its relevant to nero :/

I don’t think there’s a connection. As far as I know he has never been czarina of all of the Russias. Nor can I recall any particular attachment to a horse.

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Let's hit this illusion of "too soon" at it's source quickly.

titles for users who are very new. While there's no set rule for how long a user has to have been on site in order to receive a custom title, someone who's just finished their first newbie game and posted nowhere else on site probably shouldn't be getting title nominations.

There is actually a guideline against titling people who are too new. That guideline is vague and arbitrary, as are most title fairy rules, because vague and arbitrary is exactly what the title process is.

With that said, I feel like Noraa is probably well established enough to deserve a title if there's a title to fit her, but neither the Tsunami thing nor the Conftown thing really encapsulate her imo. I could definitely see something along the lines of cub given that my impressions of Noraa have been that she plays up gimmicks and cuteness a lot, and not in an annoying way. She also seems to have a habit of talking about herself in the third person? iirc someone compared voting noraa to kicking a puppy and she does like to play up her innocence, so I could see a possible title coming from that angle.

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nominate Norwee for the title “Survivor” because I think it would be incredibly funny to officially give him a title but for it to functionally change nothing about his profile

ngl, I think that's hilarious.

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There really isn’t much point to nomming titles for members that they’re almost certainly likely to auto reject, is there?

The presumption being that Norwee would auto reject the title.

There's always the chance that Norwee would want the title on the grounds that he also thought the joke was funny, which would also kind of invalidate the whole "It's mean" aspect of the complaint. I'm not saying Norwee would like the title or accept it, but in his shoes I definitely would accept the title, especially given the fact that if we ever changed the default titles he would be able to keep Survivor. And I think it satisfies enough of the criteria to actually make sense as a title for Norwee.

tl;dr: the person whose opinion matters on whether it's mean or not is Norwee, and if he doesn't like the title he definitely has the option of refusing it.

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Wouldn't it be?

Norwee would be the only person on site with a special title that was the same as the normal title. It's a reference to something that happened in site history, and from what limited interactions I've had with Norwee I think there's a decent chance he'll find that funny too.

I'm not saying it's a perfect title, but personally I think it's at least worth offering to him, and I just wanted to explain why I think that.

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The context is that he requested a title, got told not to request a title, and then requested a title again months later. All of this happened a significant amount of time ago (the last occurance was like March, I think) and he's contributed to the thread in good faith since then. Also:

He didn’t ask for a title you demons.

Look at Nero, asking for a title then saying no to his title

Did norwee ask for a title again?

Nobody has asked for a title. Stop spreading false rumors.
You'll wake the sleeping demons.

I think NorwegianboyEE asked for a title again

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Does Nero still consistently make it to the endgame? Cause 2858 actually makes me think Nero more than Norwegian.

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Nom brassherald for

Ban all titles

Or maybe Banal Titles.

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You’re assuming Nahdia isn’t a the worst alt. Soon ducky will begin replacing the mash mods and nefariously reprogramming the experimental Isis bots, all to further his agenda of stealing the world’s supply of bread crumbs.

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I wish there was something like an event where mastina gives a title to everyone that asked for it and people keep it for like a month then she takes them back unless other people says "it fit very well it should stay"

This rings a bell for some reason.

I’ll see myself out.

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ig my average is even higher than 80 then :/

From your profile page:

Total posts: 10245 (0.08% of all posts / 77.61 posts per day)

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Question: Would a blank title fit Brass? What I really mean is this: do they rarely make substantive posts?

I would argue that brass's posts are at least as entertaining as my own, and I have a title, ergo brass is deserving of a title if a good one is to be found.

Whether a blank title fits brass, meh.

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I can't believe I ever thought I posted here too much.

@Jingle that's game posts only. Click to view her posts and note the number you see there.

I was more pointing out that she has an easy method of finding out posts per day (If she wants to include non game posts she can apply the same ratio to her total posts from “view my posts”).

Also, I know I’m supposed to forever hold my peace, but I honestly kinda dislike the uncapitalized aesthetic in Noraa’s title and given that most of the people who nth’d said title nth’d the properly capitalized version would like to suggest we give her the option of capitals. (Sorry for being both nit picky and late, mastina)

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Except Gypyx doesn't lie but he's still close enough lol.

That's... Not bastardry? I feel like there's a lot of confusion around what bastard games actually are (particularly when acting as a reviewer in borderline cases), but Gypyx setups just seem designed to punish people for trying to outguess the mod.

Maybe something along the lines of Modding with Wine instead?

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^

I don't think "It's not as good as [insert title here]" is really a good reason to turn down a title.

Nth

While I was unaware of this, it seems like an incredibly wholesome alternative to fighting for pagetops, and from 3228 it certainly looks like it's title worthy.

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Can you ask questions that lead us to deduce the answers to our questions, Equi?

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Every party needs a party pooper

nom brass for “party pooper”

banalltitles?

Although, giving someone a title for consistently fighting title gifting seems backwards, tbh.

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Nom Elbim for Meme Police

POTY

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Idea for title event: title cage fights.

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Sarcastically? People beating each other up in a cage.

If mastina actually wanted to use it? A fairly generic title, signups to try to get it, and voting to see who fits it best.

I think title fairy events are on hiatus though.

Mostly it was a joking response to Nancy though.

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Eh. A lot of the event titles are titles that otherwise wouldn’t really happen, mine included. (It’s mostly a username pun)

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^

I feel like Ydrasse has a more playful than dangerous air about her and I think Twirls Hair fits a bit better.

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I think the italicized version looks the best, but I would say this is one of those situations where all of them meet the bar for good so which specific form of twirls hair is best left as Y's preference imo.

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Italicizing is not necessary. I would argue the asterisks however, definitely are.

So says the precedent for leaving formatting in the hands of the recipient

Edit: This is entirely inaccurate. The precedent is actually that multiple good suggestions lead to mastina offering all of them and was set with monty, although mastina did say if someone asked for a capitalization based title change she would likely grant it in reference to Noraa's title.

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Not gonna lie, that seems like an amazing song to turn into bardcore.

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Nom Gypyx for

Complex Draft

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I've consistently seen solid setups come from Gypyx, but they all have one thing in common. They're all super complicated. Even operating within the bounds of 'Normal' Gypyx routinely pushes the line and does things no one expects. Also, something something Draft Mafia.

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Sure. So did skygazer, and a bunch of other people.

But I think Complex Draft is a title that IS unique to Gypyx because of both his propensity to complex setup design and his work with the drafting mechanic for his game and wouldn't fit you or skygazer or whoever else because of that. It's the overlapping of the two that made me want to nom him for it.

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I think you described Gypyx better than mastina in that post, Jake.

Gypyx is definitely known for his complex games. I dont think when I see complex draft though, I ever think of him. When I see complex draft I think of some genius setup which is a huge mechanical puzzle which is not what gypyx's setups are. His are complicated as in loaded with power. The mechanical puzzle part which is what I get from complex draft, is not there.
sorry this is late too.

I'm not sure how it's possible to have a well designed setup with loads of power and not have to account for the interactions as a big mechanical puzzle, tbh.

I'm around if people have specific questions about the title, but really I'm not sure what more there is to say from me. I would definitely be open to hearing alternative suggestions though, as I'll admit it's not a slam dunk title.

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Does Gypyx have an affinity with jigsaw puzzles I'm unaware of or is that just a play on the complexity of his setups?

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Does Gypyx have an affinity with jigsaw puzzles I'm unaware of or is that just a play on the complexity of his setups?

It's actually a reference to his love of the Saw franchise.

ngl, when I saw the nom I thought it might be a decent choice for Cakez.

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Just saw this (pun not intended)
I don't think this fits me too well. I mean I ran that Saw game but it's not like a big part of my personality or posting on MS

Yeah, it was a knee jerk reaction to the suggestion, I don't think it quite encapsulates you myself. I was mostly just wondering if there was context I was unaware of that made it fit better for Gypyx.

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nth Is A Lie for SirCakez

Not only is he the worthiest guy I can think of for a portal reference title (I do not support those lightly) every time I end up in one of his mod PTs (whether as a spectator or for other nefarious purposes) I hear the MS version of the Portal song at the end of the first game (This was a triumph, I'm making a note here; HUGE SUCCESS etc. Rest of lyrics on request). He approaches setup design with the same passion that GlaDOS has for scientific research and his games are barely full when he starts thinking of the next one. He also likes to subvert player expectations in his games (Tenet, SAW) which is perfect for the Is A Lie moniker.

Just my two cents.

I wasn't sold, but then I read this and now I like it.

But is Cakez old enough to have played the original portal? Not to make anyone feel old but I think he was like 6 when it came out lol.

I demand that we give cakez the title and also require he get the rest of the portal achievements, including portal 2 and the aperture labs vr game.

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I would like to point out that Pie's explanation of the word corporeal misses that subtext that it's bodily as in having a physical form not specifically a human body, but imo that kind of adds to the fitting nature of the title as this is a forum and all of our presences are non physical in nature. I don't know about e's personality well enough to understand if the title fits them, but I would assume it does based on the people who have nth'd.

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Oh shit, Noraa turned PB into a tree.

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I'm a month late but Nth Esurio if its still in question

Is there some sort of time limit for how many nths a Title needs to get?

Yes. All titles must be awarded before the heat death of the universe.


I'd support emotion picture and recommended for you. Heaven Scent and Reconsider It! just aren't great titles imo.

Also @ Ari, esurio's had the title for a while now.

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FWIW, I think titling Nancy based on her username being Nancy Drew doesn't really fit. iirc when we made Little Grey Cells she mentioned that she doesn't identify much with the mystery genre (It's a Hercule Poirot reference) and there's a lot about her that is much more iconic.

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I would be interested in Nancy's take on the suggestion, personally.

I know it's not really done on general principal, but if there's a potential legitimate issue with a suggestion, the nominated member should be able to speak up BEFORE the offer is officially approved in order to save discussion time for more productive thoughts.

Generally, yes, you can interact with a discussion about a prospective title for you with anything along the lines of "I wouldn't accept that title."

I'm pretty sure both RC and I have done so in the past. The guideline is more along the lines of it being in poor taste to say "I really like that title for me".

In this particular case I don't think the title has much to do with emotional manipulation and is more just that Nancy is an emotive person in general. It speaks more as an empathy thing than a mafia playstyle thing, but that could be personal bias and if she doesn't like it I agree that she should weigh in to say so.

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I think inno sense is more representative of her play but not that inno scent is an overall better title.

Still support recommended for you based on the prolific use of songs/youtubs/gifs

I can confirm that to the best of my knowledge Nancy has never kidnapped scummers to hunt them for sport on her private island.

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She deserves better is a shit argument to not offer the title.

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*with no better alternative

What you're missing here is that there is a better alternative that she deserves, because it better encapsulates her as a whole, instead of one very specific thing she does.

Responding to this as all of the related posts to cut down on wasted space:

I’m not really missing the context. I’m aware that you think inno scent is the better title, and that may well be true but that doesn’t really change my stance.

Given:

A. The recent trend of offering multiple titles as options.
B. The potential for a person with a title to receive a new title.
C. The number of titles that have come based on other people seeing/workshopping suggestions.

The argument that a title shouldn’t be considered because it’s not good enough is a poor reason to shut down a title.

The argument you elaborated into: that inno scent encompasses a larger portion of Nancy’s personality, is a good argument to prefer that title.

For clarity’s sake, I don’t think any of the jake feedback on the Nancy title has been out of line and he’s definitely engaging in good faith here. If it came across that way that was unintentional.

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Just "Centurion" is the best imo.

+1, if there was doubt.


Notably, I like that this gets away from the Dr. Who bit which was a good reason it didn't fit in the first place.

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anti-nom Scenturion

Clearly this is just a personal grudge against NC 39.

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Nancy drew make the right call

Don't let Isis bully you. You can choose the left or center options if you want.

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Also, every time I see one of scent based titles I can't help but wonder why everyone is smelling Nancy.

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Not an antinom, btw. I get the intention of the title and I don't think it's ruined by my impression, just wanted to get that out there before I have to hold my peace.

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Back in the Game!

Back on The Game™!

Is this a nomination for someone? Cause it feels like it should be a nomination for someone.

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I'd think someone who had a reputation for regular hiatuses, but working from nom backwards to who it should be a nom for does seem a little counterintuitive which is probably your point.

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Nah, the title would be digital, not ferrous.

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I vaguely prefer the versions with ex machina because they are more recognizable to a layperson.

Also, Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus.

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Anti nom the perfect title for monkey, just to be contrary. Clearly none of you realize that A50 can’t be trusted with any kind of business.

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Eh. While I don't disagree with any of the individual things said, none of that screams Gamma to me in any appreciable way, tbh.

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+1 Prism.

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how ‘bout diamond in the rough?

"Ethical Gem" might be a fix to tie your "Right Stuff" intention to this. (And it's a username reference.)

Kind of a "Rare to see someone actually standing by their morals in this day and age" reference. I dunno, I'm not in love with it but it seems like a step up and it might lead somewhere.

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I’m not sure how I feel about the unpolished/finished connotations of in the rough for gamma. Like, gammas been around for a long ass time and has put a lot of work into self betterment, and not acknowledging that seems like a disservice.

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People might be unaware of this but Gamma has gone out on a major limb for me wrt to extremely upsetting onsite things that happened to me awhile ago, so definitely not “tilting”. He didn’t have to do that for me but he did it anyway, so I hope you two can work out your differences and hopefully clear up any misunderstandings you might have.

That's not what Ari is saying. I know you have some degree of dyslexia so I completely understand the mistake.

What Nero said is titling, as in the process of receiving a title.

What I think you're reading is tilting, as in being put off center.

Nero isn't making aspersions about Gamma's character here, just saying that the reasoning on these particular titles seems off to him.

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How about “righteous jewel” then?

but I also like “rare gem” too.

I think the 'rare gem' loses the ethics/morality connotation you were going for and is mostly a username thing which makes it kinda meh. Not opposed to Righteous Jewel.

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antinom? I suspect he'll want to just keep his original title

Unless you've talked to Cabd directly, what you think he'll choose isn't what he will choose. Besides, we've had plenty of other titles for one-off events. The rest of your stuff if fie, but "I think he'll do this" doesn't count as a point.

For the sake of letting Cabd choose.

Nth

Nom Cabd for Quicktopic Sniper

As well as the one off, this captures one of Cabd's strongest attributes as a player, especially his scum game.

He can brutally abuse neighborhoods like nobody's business. I can provide receipts going all the way back to 2013 for those who have never had the experience of being neighbors with him.

Nth both.

Also, we in the office of pedantic assery would like to comment that it is entirely possible that a guess as to what someone will choose can be accurate even if founded on absolutely nothing.

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Sum of the Parts?

I'd argue that in most cases a hydra is actually significantly less scary than the two individuals that make it up, but that cabd/ffery is just as scary as cabd and ffery to play against.

Also, reversal of a common phrase.

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If there are title nominations for you in consideration in the thread, be careful about giving too much feedback or input - while declining a specific title or set of titles that's currently in discussion for you is perfectly fine, going too far beyond that may cause users to become uncomfortable with the current proceedings.

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That's fair, I'm just reminding LLD that it's generally seen to be in poor taste to be overly involved in the creation of your own title. I don't disagree that she deserves a new one, but think it will be more meaningful if it comes from the community than if it comes from LLD guiding the community.

Anyway, I don't actually object to anything she's posted about the titles here. I think strength in numbers has promise both as a reference to her plurality and her attempts over the years to bring the vulnerable members of the site together, but admittedly I don't know her very well and was vaguely hoping people who do would weigh in on that.

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It kinda sounds like implying LLD is gonna run away from conflicts to me (like it's a portmanteau of Stand and Fight and Fight or Flight) which is not at all how I see her. I don't think I see a world where LLD backs down easy at all, even when it puts her own well being at risk.

Not sure if anyone else would take it that way though.

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Isn’t this just making a title for the sake of making a title.
I’ve been led to believe this should be an natural process, but this doesn’t really seem it.

The key difference between this case and the cases you’re referring to is that the vast majority of the latter were functionally “I’d like a title” “Okay let’s try to think up something cute and fluffy which can apply to half the user base” vs “my title no longer fits me” “okay here are some ideas that might.”

I like all three current noms, but I think any best LLD title is going to feature defense or protection and wonder if anyone who’s a bit more creative than me could tailor one or more of them to that angle.

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48 hours on Bullet Trains/Bullet Trainer for VastaNeurotic:
1 day, 23 hours, 55 minutes
Speak now, or forever hold your peace.

I feel like there was room for a pun here.

Nominate Mastina for “There Was Room for a Pun Here”.

I think False Prophet is more a reference to who Mastina used to be on site more than who she is and frankly I think she deserves to be recognized on the basis of the here and now. I’m not opposed to false prophet as a (site) historical reference, I just feel that as Daffy Duck once said “My memes are no longer relevant to the youths.” And that mastina has changed a lot as a person since the days of mastin2 and we can do better than a reference to that.

Mastina herself is a pun maker of no small skill and this is a pretty blatant reference to her preference in giving people titles that include puns.

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Nominate Malakittens for Mewbie Fosterer
She's modded like 34 newbie games by my count, many of which have cat-centered flavor.

Nth.

Nominate lalaladucks for Study Buddy

Nth

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I kinda sorta prefer it with the A, because "a study in x" is a phrase I know is a thing, a la the Sherlock Holmes story, but I'm fine with either version

Agree. Not only is "Study in X" choppy imo, it's less complete contextually and doesn't have the artistic connotations. It just feels like removing an aspect of the title for no real purpose.

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We could maybe emphasize the pun with an Excel-lence if people aren't noticing it.

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Aronis - Just here for the Pagetop!

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Fwiw the intersection of modding and pagetopping reminds me more of people who read to children in libraries or book clubs in general than the “really interesting book” angle of page turner. Admittedly, I’m not a music person so pagetyrner doesn’t immediately scream helpful. if alianna is notably musically oriented, particularly piano oriented, I’d support that idea a lot more.

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Like, I think pagetopping is a good start, but there should be something more to make it special to alianna.

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No, you’re too late. The pagetop was three posts ago.