On the naming of things... in PoE, or, The thesaurus can be dangerous

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anubite wrote:

I'm more concerned the "Pirate Ship Graveyard Cave" is going to be a permanent name for that area where you get the All-Flame lol. Couldn't it have a more poetic title?

Shipwreck Tunnel

"Grotto of the Wave-Lost." =^[.]^=

Carnal Canal?

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Metronomy wrote:

Carnal Canal?

LOL, awesome. :D Three Internets to you, good sir.

Yeah, sorry for the attitude burst there. If we're discussing PoE rationally, I can keep my cool effortlessly, but petty pickiness like obscure words, jargon and thesaurus misuse tends to arouse my slightly more...edgy side. I'm being playful, I promise. Just with a little show of teeth.

Maybe cannula rather than IV's an Aussie thing too. I asked around this week (because you know, I won't even begin to pretend I don't care about stuff said here) and most of the people I know knew what it was.

ANYWAY!

Pirate Ship Graveyard Cave...yeah, that's rough. I admired the renaming of zones with the last patch -- Submerged 1 and 2 becoming lower and upper, for example, lends the place a clever and subtle sense of verticality.

"Cavern" is taken, damn you Merveil...

I like "grotto"; it always brings to mind pirates for some reason. Probably because it's not just a cave, it's a cave specifically used by people.

Grotto of the Lost? Seems generic enough, but also indicative that something can be found there. And the spectral enemies down there certainly remind me of lost souls.

Grotto of the Forsaken?

etc etc.

I like Grotto, did I mention?

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

Grotto of the Forsaken?

I like this direction. It could be something simpler like Forsaken Grotto. Grotto of the Damned may be nice too.

Cannula is in common medical use in the Southeastern US, at least.

Gladja liked "grotto," Charan. =^[.]^=

Slave Girl's Perfumed Hidden Grotto

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

I'm being playful, I promise. Just with a little show of teeth.

You remind me of my friend Kayden, and sometimes myself, because I can do it as well.

Sometimes I'll tell someone to "chill out, man." Perhaps that comes off as bossy to them? I don't necessarily mean it to come off that way, but there are a lot of people on the Internet who act like children, and sometimes that's just my natural reaction.

When my brother was just getting into his teenage years, I found myself doing something that used to annoy me about my father. That is, I would explain something which might have been fairly obvious, in 3 or 4 different ways. What was really bad was when I found myself doing it, out of habit, to someone else who knew fully well what I was talking about the very first time I even hinted at it.

Also, I'll tell someone I know in person things like "I expected more from you than that," and they know I'm not meaning it to be a dick, that I'm just jabbing at them in a friendly way, but someone who didn't know me might take it as though I was trying to be rude or condescending. So yeah, that shit happens. :)


But I'll quit wasting everyone else's time now. On to the real, on-topic conversation!

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Pirate Ship Graveyard Cave...yeah, that's rough. I admired the renaming of zones with the last patch -- Submerged 1 and 2 becoming lower and upper, for example, lends the place a clever and subtle sense of verticality.

Those changes are cool, but I'm a little saddened by the loss of the name Cathedral of Bones. They've changed it to the Vaal Ruins, which isn't bad by any means, and probably makes sense in context with the upcoming storyline, but cone on. Cathedral of MFing Bones! It's just so badass. But oh well.

I concur about the Cathedral of Bones/Vaal Ruins change. Of course, if they expand those two short levels into something that actually feels like a set of extensive ruins, including a... Cathedral... I'd be happy to explore it. =^[.]^=