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Happy Meeple community / Re: What do all the bot names mean?
« on: 02/05/20, 06:36am »
I know this is an old thread, but it said suggestions were welcome so...
Lobotomo is a fun name. An alternate version in the same theme but with a French twist (sorry if this is terrible in actual French, I am not French!):
Le Bot Ami
…it obviously sounds even more like lobotomy, and it seems appropriate for a bot that plays in a very 'friend'ly manner. To be blunt, I might like Lobotomo more, but I wanted to share the thought.
Other 'bot' names I like are:
Bottleneck
Bottomless
Jaboticaba - a fruit bearing tree
Phlebotomist - person who collects blood for examination, but also the term used in the archaic practice of bloodletting
(The) Abbot - has connotations of seriousness and importance (sounds tougher with 'The')
(The) Botcher - a blend of being a screwup and sounding like butcher (sounds tougher with 'The')
Burbot and Turbot - both are fish (great if you ever set up a game with 2 bots, especially if 2v2)
Botfly - nasty little buggers
Sabot - a wooden shoe (but I wouldn't give up the excellent Saboteur to use Sabot)
On a different thought, and not that anyone asked - the current bot names seem out of order to me. I figure they should be in increasing order of how menacing or difficult they sound. Given that I would sort them like this:
Lobotomo
Botiful
Botero
Lechebot
Botanist
Bot-Dog
Botulis
Ghbost
Zombot
Saboteur
Botox
Verboten
Also, I am not a fan of the bot names Botiful, Botero, Bot-Dog, or Ghbost. I suggest replacing them (whether you use names from my suggestions or not). And I don't like having Botulis AND Botox (since they are derivatives of the same root), so I would replace one of them. I'm not sure which though, they're both good in different ways. Maybe keep Botulis since it's a little more subtle.
So, putting that all together, here's a new list - with my dislikes removed, my favorite suggestions *replacing them, and again in order of how menacing or difficult they sound...
Lobotomo
*Botcher
*Jaboticaba
Lechebot
Botanist
*Phlebotomist
Botulis
*Botfly
Zombot
Saboteur
*The Abbot
Verboten
This sorting order also ends up with thematic pairs. 2 bots that are harmless, 2 that give you something (for better or worse), 2 from academia, 2 that are kinda gross, 2 that are dangerous but manageable, and 2 that have a sense of deep authority.
Yes, I spent way too much time on this.
Cheers!
P.S. I couldn't get any of the emojis (from the row just above the text entry box) to work while entering this post.
Lobotomo is a fun name. An alternate version in the same theme but with a French twist (sorry if this is terrible in actual French, I am not French!):
Le Bot Ami
…it obviously sounds even more like lobotomy, and it seems appropriate for a bot that plays in a very 'friend'ly manner. To be blunt, I might like Lobotomo more, but I wanted to share the thought.
Other 'bot' names I like are:
Bottleneck
Bottomless
Jaboticaba - a fruit bearing tree
Phlebotomist - person who collects blood for examination, but also the term used in the archaic practice of bloodletting
(The) Abbot - has connotations of seriousness and importance (sounds tougher with 'The')
(The) Botcher - a blend of being a screwup and sounding like butcher (sounds tougher with 'The')
Burbot and Turbot - both are fish (great if you ever set up a game with 2 bots, especially if 2v2)
Botfly - nasty little buggers
Sabot - a wooden shoe (but I wouldn't give up the excellent Saboteur to use Sabot)
On a different thought, and not that anyone asked - the current bot names seem out of order to me. I figure they should be in increasing order of how menacing or difficult they sound. Given that I would sort them like this:
Lobotomo
Botiful
Botero
Lechebot
Botanist
Bot-Dog
Botulis
Ghbost
Zombot
Saboteur
Botox
Verboten
Also, I am not a fan of the bot names Botiful, Botero, Bot-Dog, or Ghbost. I suggest replacing them (whether you use names from my suggestions or not). And I don't like having Botulis AND Botox (since they are derivatives of the same root), so I would replace one of them. I'm not sure which though, they're both good in different ways. Maybe keep Botulis since it's a little more subtle.
So, putting that all together, here's a new list - with my dislikes removed, my favorite suggestions *replacing them, and again in order of how menacing or difficult they sound...
Lobotomo
*Botcher
*Jaboticaba
Lechebot
Botanist
*Phlebotomist
Botulis
*Botfly
Zombot
Saboteur
*The Abbot
Verboten
This sorting order also ends up with thematic pairs. 2 bots that are harmless, 2 that give you something (for better or worse), 2 from academia, 2 that are kinda gross, 2 that are dangerous but manageable, and 2 that have a sense of deep authority.
Yes, I spent way too much time on this.
Cheers!
P.S. I couldn't get any of the emojis (from the row just above the text entry box) to work while entering this post.