The Humanities Department May Have Been A Little Bit On Fire.

[rionaleonhart]

You people are amazing. Absolutely amazing. I love you and your hilarity and the way you are always so wonderfully reassuring when I need it. But most of all, I love the fact that, when I jokingly ask for fanfiction about Jeremy Clarkson failing at university, people will actually write it.

I have such insane good Internet friends

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[rhosyndu]

Because I am childish and secretly five I change characters names to things like "boobies" and "willies", which is neither mature nor interesting but does make me giggle.

[dracothelizard]

Also, we had entire schemes for naming characters in Eye of the Beholder II. A friend of my brother's insisted on proper 'heroic' names like Natasha or Natalie, whereas me and my brother went with 'the more ridiculous names the better' so we often had very unheroic Dutch names, or things like 'kwijlebal' (drooler) for the guy who did look like he drooled a lot.

[twilit_wanderer]

Final Fantasy VI is a good game!

I don't rename characters that much, but sometimes my brother does. The first time he played FFVII, he thought "Cloud" was a stupid name and ended up calling him "Jack" (not even he knows why), which made one of Aeris' comments look a bit weird (something like "Jack? A Jack of All Trades," which I then had to explain wasn't worded that way because of his character's name but because it was a legitimate phrase). Also, when he first got a PS2 and FFX, he didn't have a memory card, so he restarted FFX approximately ten thousand times and grew to hate Tidus, and so eventually started renaming him something ridiculous each time. ImaHobo and KickMe are the only two I remember off the top of my head.

There was a FFVIII game once where we named all of the nameable characters after whatever was near us. Squall was "Crayola," but I don't remember what the GF, Rinoa, or Angelo were called.

[twilit_wanderer]

And shoot, I feel kind of like an idiot for asking, but I've been working a lot on the Transformers/Top Gear thing and have been asking the very few people I can, so. I am not sure what all incidents I should include from the time of "Jeremy vs the GT (after he bought it back and before he sold it again forever)," so are there any specific ones you think I should add in?

[rionaleonhart]

Well, from a news clip after he bought it back:

Jeremy: The thing is, okay, all the stuff that was put on in England went wrong, as we knew before, okay? Well, one of the things they supplied was the trickle charger. Put it away in a garage in October - October the fourth; on October the fifth, it seems, the trickle charger blew up. So the battery wasn't being charged, so when I came to start it it wouldn't start. Got a new trickle charger; six weeks later, this morning: 'Right, here we go.' (mimes pushing buttons) Alarm; came off perfectly; all the lights came on. Pushed the button - 'Start' - and all that started (dramatic pause) was the rear right hand indicator.

(later)

I think I'm right in saying that I have never completed a single journey anywhere, there and back, in it. Ever.

[twilit_wanderer]

I have the beginning and ending written up, I'm just stuck on what all to include in the middle (I have up until he gets the GT/Mirage back, then it cuts to getting rid of it again. Makes for an odd read). He had it for over year, but I cannot justify rewriting everything we know went on with it (partly, yes, because I am lazy and so it would take me several years), so I was thinking of just including a few events. Maybe the whole "driving across France to reach the Millau Viaduct" thing, but I'm not sure what else to include.

[rubaiyyat]

[magi] I've always wanted to play a game of FFVII, naming Cloud "Failure," Aeris "Ancient," and Red XIII "Nanaki." Then you could have lines like "Don't call me 'failure.' My name's Failure." And the like.

[rionaleonhart]

I named Red 'Nanaki', because I already knew a bit about him before I started playing. It made the dialogue in Cosmo Canyon bloody confusing.

[rubaiyyat]

[magi] ...though, Patrick and I did just have an interesting discussion regarding games I've never played....

kadrin: The Original One, Arceus, created Dialga and time began to flow, and it created Palkia and space had a meaning.
draegonhawke: And you can capture these things.
draegonhawke: There's something vaguely skew about that.
kadrin: I'm currently EV training my Dialga, which I keep in a tiny ball.
kadrin: Also, with the aid of a Nintendo event, you can capture Arceus.
draegonhawke: So, basically, you can stuff God into a pokeball.
kadrin: Yes. God-in-a-ball.
draegonhawke: Still with a lower attack power than Mewtwo?
kadrin: Yep! Because Mewtwo is the most powerful Pokemon of all.
draegonhawke: Can you rename Mewtwo?
kadrin: Yes.
draegonhawke: Can you name Mewtwo "Nietzsche"?
kadrin: Yes.

[rionaleonhart]

You can also name Mewtwo 'Poodle', and there is absolutely nothing he can do about it.

[thebaconfat]

Squeem once started a new game of FF8, just so she could do this:

Dr. Kadowaki: "Looks like your eyes are focusing. You should be fine. Sa your name for me."
"...........Batman."

She also once name Squall "Buttpod", and Rinoa "Assbulb". This time around, we named Squall "Jimmy!", Rinoa "Xena!!!", and Angelo "Dogg :)". We also named Diablos "Voldemort".

[rionaleonhart]

Dr. Kadowaki: "Looks like your eyes are focusing. You should be fine. Sa your name for me."
"...........Batman."

I ACTUALLY BURST OUT LAUGHING AT THIS. That is amazing!

[squeemu]

I was so going to mention the "Buttpod" thing but kept forgetting the last bit. "Butthead? Buttbutt? Buttorgan? What is it."

Clearly, Buttpod didn't stick as well as it should have. But the most amazing thing of all is not that I forgot Buttpod (especially because it's an injoke), but that after about twenty minutes into the game it stopped being funny.