Title Fairy: Abuse of Mooglepower!

DemonHybrid · Post Post #25 (ISO) » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:04 pm

Nthing Hammerhead

Ythan · Post Post #26 (ISO) » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:48 pm

Is this something he's done in more than a single game?

nhammen · Post Post #27 (ISO) » Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:55 pm

I dunno.
Also, if you notice, he has changed his avatar since the suggestion came into being...

CSL · Post Post #28 (ISO) » Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:18 pm

I change my avatar too much. ._.

shaft.ed · Post Post #29 (ISO) » Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:30 pm

Ythan wrote:Is this something he's done in more than a single game?

I'm really getting tired of this question. Single game based title are clearly not off the norm. Look at the Title Fairy for chirstsakes

Sotty7 · Post Post #30 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:32 am

Just a note to say that both myself and Percy had titles agreed upon just before the last thread went to crap. I'm not sure if Oman missed them or just didn't like them.

yabbaguy · Post Post #31 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:19 am

+1 shaft.ed.

Barring a reputation for notoriety, didn't just about everyone from the early days of MS get a title after enough time on the forums? Seems like it was almost an effortless thing then. What changed?

Xalxe · Post Post #32 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:20 am

yabbaguy wrote:+1 shaft.ed.

Barring a reputation for notoriety, didn't just about everyone from the early days of MS get a title after enough time on the forums? Seems like it was almost an effortless thing then. What changed?

More people with unique (read: new) personalities. Nowadays for the most part you look at somebody and can go "meh, they're like X"

Ythan · Post Post #33 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:00 pm

shaft.ed wrote:
Ythan wrote:Is this something he's done in more than a single game?
I'm really getting tired of this question. Single game based title are clearly not off the norm. Look at the Title Fairy for chirstsakes

If a player does something once, gets a title, and never does it again, does that make sense? If we're just going to grant titles based on the norm then is discussion even necessary?

Oman · Post Post #34 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:02 pm

Thanks to the sticky-er. You're good people.

shaft.ed · Post Post #35 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:22 pm

Ythan wrote:
shaft.ed wrote:
Ythan wrote:Is this something he's done in more than a single game?
I'm really getting tired of this question. Single game based title are clearly not off the norm. Look at the Title Fairy for chirstsakes
If a player does something once, gets a title, and never does it again, does that make sense? If we're just going to grant titles based on the norm then is discussion even necessary?

The point of such titles is to commemorate some sort of interesting thing that happened in a game. Like Oman's title for example. Pretty sure he hasn't claimed NK Immune Miller Vig again.

The points of discussion in these cases IMHO should be
1) was the event remarkable
2) is the title "witty"
3) could it be done better

-1) Getting 4 straight hammers, three of which were scum seems remarkable enough. Lord Gurgi got a title for four failed NKs as a SK before. Similar concept, though a little weaker. So I would tentatively check this box.
-2) The guys username is Sharkfinn for cryin out loud. It's perfect for the title Hammerhead. So yes, this is "witty" and to me more than compensates for the slightly weak 1)
-3) I don't think you can do it any better. So it's either this, or dump the concept.

I can see an argument against this being remarkable. But I don't see why they need to hammer everyone at every turn in order for it to be an applicable title.

And why do I feel like a lawyer before the Supreme Court needing to look up case history for a title thread?
This should be fun.

Vi · Post Post #36 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:26 pm

shaft.ed wrote:This should be fun.

Quoting this for more truth than the old thread had room for.

hitogoroshi · Post Post #37 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:39 pm

I like Hammerhead.

I also agree with shaft.ed that a lot of great titles are going to be one-game deals. Sure, sometimes players have a "thing" that stretches multiple games, but a lot of memorable events are memorable precisely because they were spontaneous.

ReaperCharlie · Post Post #38 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:27 pm

Nobody expects Vi to win both Professor Mafia and Paragon of Mafia Hunters in the same year again. Just sayin'

Kublai Khan · Post Post #39 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:39 pm

ReaperCharlie wrote:Nobody expects Vi to win both Professor Mafia and Paragon of Mafia Hunters in the same year again. Just sayin'

It's Vi. I kinda expect it, actually.

gandalf5166 · Post Post #40 (ISO) » Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:15 pm

I'm gonna have to agree with KK there. But I DO like Hammerhead. Plenty of titles are based on just one game, and I think that that is easily worthy.

Incognito · Post Post #41 (ISO) » Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:54 pm

shaft.ed's post 35 is right on the money. I think Hammerhead is a great title so I'll

Nth

it.

Kublai Khan · Post Post #42 (ISO) » Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:59 pm

Ythan wrote:
shaft.ed wrote:
Ythan wrote:Is this something he's done in more than a single game?
I'm really getting tired of this question. Single game based title are clearly not off the norm. Look at the Title Fairy for chirstsakes
If a player does something once, gets a title, and never does it again, does that make sense? If we're just going to grant titles based on the norm then is discussion even necessary?

Well, if we only give titles based on continuing quirks, then all we are doing is encouraging title-seeking people to adopt an obnoxious abnormal style of posting for the sole sake of earning and/or justifying a title. *cough*haystack*cough*

quadz08 · Post Post #43 (ISO) » Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:21 pm

More unnecessary Nthing for Hammerhead

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Also, I support a nickname in that vein for DRK. However, I have no witty ideas.

Mr. Flay · Post Post #44 (ISO) » Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:59 pm

yabbaguy wrote:+1 shaft.ed.

Barring a reputation for notoriety, didn't just about everyone from the early days of MS get a title after enough time on the forums? Seems like it was almost an effortless thing then. What changed?

This is an old forum legend and has always been wrong. More 'old' scummers have titles because they've been around longer, but there's still only

a couple hundred

239 with titles, total. Of those, 24 joined in 2002, 33 in 2003, 28 in 2004, 40 in 2005, 22 in 2006, 50 in 2007, 29 in 2009, 11 in 2009, and 2 in 2010.

ReaperCharlie · Post Post #45 (ISO) » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:26 pm

Hooray for research and actual numbers!

So.. who was Title Fairy in 2005 so we can crucify them for not being strict enough?

Vi · Post Post #46 (ISO) » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:15 pm

CONTROVERSY:

Nominate dramonic for Big Gay Fluffy Owl

Second word is obvious.
Other words are av-based, but I can attest that all of dramonic's avs since he joined have been owls.
Not punny or deeply meaningful, but it was previously acknowledged in some thread or another that forumgoers identify him as precisely what the title says.

Ythan · Post Post #47 (ISO) » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:19 pm

The owl thing extends beyond his avatars.

gandalf5166 · Post Post #48 (ISO) » Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:07 pm

I definitely think of him as a plushy owl.

shaft.ed · Post Post #49 (ISO) » Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:36 pm

Mr. Flay wrote:
yabbaguy wrote:+1 shaft.ed.

Barring a reputation for notoriety, didn't just about everyone from the early days of MS get a title after enough time on the forums? Seems like it was almost an effortless thing then. What changed?
This is an old forum legend and has always been wrong. More 'old' scummers have titles because they've been around longer, but there's still only
a couple hundred
239 with titles, total. Of those, 24 joined in 2002, 33 in 2003, 28 in 2004, 40 in 2005, 22 in 2006, 50 in 2007, 29 in 2009, 11 in 2009, and 2 in 2010.

You forgot to mention only 25 people joined in 2002.
I'm on to you old man.

@Vi, to me that's not special enough for dram