Monday, July 28, 2025

Proposal: Naming Convention

In the rule “Customers”, replace the text “defaulting to a string privately generated by the Yard using any method of the Yard’s choosing” with the following:

defaulting to a string generated by the Yard by randomly selecting a name from the list on the wiki page [[20th Century English Names]] and re-rolling if any Customers already have that Name

Kevan asked for guidance on naming Customers, so here’s something that’s hopefully a little less taxing. Disclaimer: it’s an english-speaking biased list.

Comments

Kevan: Yard he/him

28-07-2025 18:05:16 UTC

We had a good name generator in the Censorship dynasty but it looks like it’s offline now.

I think the professions and appearances are probably a bit easier for me to write, in practice.

JonathanDark: he/him

28-07-2025 18:34:06 UTC

I don’t have a strong feeling either way, just trying to help out with the Customer names. I like the creativity and don’t want to lose it due to Emperor burnout.

Vovix: he/him

28-07-2025 19:11:59 UTC

imperial

eternalservererror:

28-07-2025 19:21:08 UTC

when I first saw this I read it with an emphasis on Convention. As in we’re attending a convention for naming.

Chiiika: she/her

28-07-2025 19:23:18 UTC

imperial

Nolemeldo:

28-07-2025 20:16:34 UTC

imperial

eternalservererror:

28-07-2025 21:28:46 UTC

imperial

DoomedIdeas: he/him

28-07-2025 21:33:27 UTC

imperial As this is a proposal for Kevan, I’ll defer to Kevan’s vote.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

28-07-2025 23:53:19 UTC

imperial

Josh: he/they

29-07-2025 07:41:03 UTC

against I like the job titles.

Kevan: Yard he/him

29-07-2025 07:57:48 UTC

against I prefer the job titles. They’re more work to generate, but the Night reports are easier to write and more interesting to read, and the concept makes more sense in context - food truck vendors don’t know the full names of their customers.

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