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title: Names
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published: 2019-06-12
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to give something a name is to give it **power**.
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sometimes, a name is what matters most.
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names are what were most often first introduced to.
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names are what we remember things by.
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names are ***very*** important.
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## love letter
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at the moment one of my projects is a love letter engine, the classic boardgame with a million rethemes.
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i thought itd be a good chance to develop architecture that i could then go on to use for the *1998 Neon Genesis Evangelion Trading Card Game* (admittedly not the best name ever).
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for that one, im planning on calling it *EVAC*, for, obviously, the ***EVA**ngelion **C**ard game*
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this love letter game is going to be *lain* themed (lets all love lain!) so i spent a while and came up with:
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> drum roll please
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# LainLettA
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which i like for a couple of reasons
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* it looks neat with the triple caps
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* it sounds similar to love letter
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* im vain and like to put tA into my project names
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and this time tA fits in there *perfectly*
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## so what?
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this game, so far, would probably make more sense themed to Fantasy Flight Games **Android** ip, an ip i really like.
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..but then the name would be fuarked up.
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> Le AndroidLettA? what the *hell* is a Le AndroidLettA?
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and so, because the name gives this project power, its staying lain themed.
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## what about us?
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names can have many powers.
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set in stone usernames give us our everlasting power, **tA** has been recognised from irc rooms from years back, it gives me an underlying digital identity, its ***important***
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display names that can be changed at will give us our *current power*, they show people our current state of mind, our current mood, in a way that isn't *important* per se, but oh so important.
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theres a theory in rationality about *type 1* and *type 2* brain functions.
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**type 1** is our rational, think over all the options thinking.
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**type 2** is our spur of the moment, "fuark it that'll be cool" thinking
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and these `[user|display ]names` exemplify both of these functions, respectively.
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## nani tf are you trying to say?
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if i knew this blog would be better and this post would be longer.
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names are powerful, dont neglect them, take pride in them, but feel free to take them for the *importance* they have, whether large or smol, because thats the real, meta importance.
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stay shiny kids
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`:wq`
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