#naming things

[animentality]

[mouthtapedguy]

Every epic name was once a placeholder

[oricouldjustnot]

Its been a minute since I last read tgcf and I don't speak Chinese so i could be missing something, but I think Hua Chung might be the least creative namer ever.

Bro went for years without an adult name and didn't ever come up with one. His beloved asked for his name and he didn't even try! He just went 🤷‍♂️ and proceeded go by "nameless" for a while. He built a city for ghosts and named it Ghost City. He owns that city and named himself "Flower City"!

The second he had to come up with an alias he went with 3rd son, he's the third son of his family. (Real creative there bro.) I know san lang is a bit of a play on words but my point still stands. Also he named the manor that he wants his God to consider a paradise, Paradise Manor and didn't even bother to name his casino. Not to mention, the concept of paradise and flowers both came from Xie Lian. Either Hua Cheng is bad at coming up whith names or he's the most boring namer of all time!

[sp4wnofch40s]

I have some questions about naming ocs within the Pandora (Avatar) Universe

With Ikran it seems to be names with meanings derived from nature/appearance as "Seze" means "blue flower" so I have comfortably been able to name my Ikran ocs

But I'm struggling when it comes to Na'vi

Some film character names seem to have meanings derived/constructed from multiple Na'vi words, and other names like Lo'ak don't seem to have a specific meaning at all

So how are people going about naming their Na'vi ocs? And are there websites that help with meanings (besides reykunyu.lu)

[uncleasad]

WTF is wrong with those people?! 🤯 Can we please not demean fandom by calling any part of it ‘slop’?

Let’s keep ‘slop’ where it belongs…in the pig trough with the AI bros…

[askagamedev]

As a follow up for the IP rights question, I know there are a lot of games/movies/shows who's release or remake is in jeopardy due to either not being able to figure out who owns the rights or there being multiple parties that own part of the rights who do not agree. How do the rights owners go from "known" to "unknown" and how much piecemeal can rights be split up? (With the understanding you are not a legal professional. Still curious about the layman in the industry's understanding).

It can get pretty weird with how things get split up. Here's my current go-to example. Right now, Hasbro is currently promoting and accepting preorders for a Marvel Legends action figure for a character named Gargantos.

If you're familiar with the Capcom Marvel fighting game series, this character may look familiar to you... but you'd do a double take at the name. Here is a win screen taken from the Marvel Super Heroes (1995) arcade fighting game.

This character, however, isn't Gargantos - it's named Shuma-Gorath. So why is Hasbro releasing a toy based on a Capcom character design of a Marvel character that has clearly been renamed but nothing else is changed? Especially when the target audience almost certainly knows this character by the name Shuma-Gorath?

It's because today, neither Marvel, Hasbro, nor Capcom have the rights to the name Shuma-Gorath. Marvel absolutely owns the rights to the giant mystic eyeball squid character who has fought Dr. Strange many times, but they do not own the name. The name Shuma-Gorath was created by writer Robert E. Howard, also the creator of Kull the Conqueror and Conan the Barbarian. Marvel licensed Howard's IP and first used the name Shuma-Gorath for a space squid villain for Dr. Strange back in 1973. In 1994, Marvel was a lot looser with their licensing and Capcom was able to make use of this character for their Marvel fighting game. Since then, the ownership of Howard's catalogue (and the name Shuma-Gorath) was picked up by Paradox Entertainment (spun off from Paradox Interactive), which then became Cabinet Entertainment, which then became a company called Heroic Signatures that mostly manages IP, which was then bought by Funcom. Now Funcom owns the rights to the name Shuma-Gorath, which Hasbro was unwilling or unable to license, so the character's toy must be renamed Gargantos or Hasbro and everyone else involved might get sued for copyright infringement on the name.

In a bit of amusing trivia, the giant squid eyeball monster from Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness was also named Gargantos and not Shuma-Gorath for the exact same reason. So yeah, licensing IP can get really weird and also specific sometimes!

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[viddles-is-a-nerd]

Ummmm art dump of gorgon Cleo x gargoyle apo because they have consumed my mind <3

Also whole ass au based on this is cooking up in my mind so rip