When I was between the ages of about 13 to 17 I used alt-codes to give every letter in my name or clan name an accent or special character when playing online games. So when I see them now, I automatically assume they are between the ages of 13 to 17. Öméģå, or something similar with the name Omega, was my secret clan name when I played Warcraft II with my buddies in school.
Is that rude of me? Probably, and I know I shouldn't make assumptions, but I'm sticking with it.
Only reason I have an odd alt-code is that I found out that the name I had been using for over 3 years on my previous server was already taken on the server I was transfering to. I wish there was a way to send a message to a character, and have that message get delivered to the account holder so that I could just ask if they could free up the name. It has never appeared on the armory, doesn't even give a message of it being someone under level 10. I have the awful feeling it's just an inactive or old trial account. I've attempted to contact anyone with the name on other servers with the thought that they may have created an alt with the same name on KM, but so far I haven't gotten lucky.
At least people can find me by typing '/who tish'. Can't say that about the people who use alt codes for nearly every letter of their name.
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Did you try petitioning a GM about it? We have a couple people who have gotten their names "back" if it's reserved by an inactive account. Worth a shot at least.
Did you try petitioning a GM about it? We have a couple people who have gotten their names "back" if it's reserved by an inactive account. Worth a shot at least.
I did once. Maybe I just got a GM who was unwilling or didn't know they could, so maybe I'll try again.
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So.. got on my rogue to smelt some ore. Bad idea. I couldn't make it 5 feet before had 3 people shooting at me. I decided to stay as a turkey and some druid gave me 45g to right click the buff. Hard to pass that up
The only reason I use ASCII code in my name is if it's something I just absolutely MUST have for a name, but is already taken. Chances are I won't be seeing that name anyway since my sense of humor tends to be different from most people.
That being said if I see someone with X's in their name for any other reason than their character being Xavier, or some variant thereof, I get a little suspicious.
Also bad name is bad:
Kevinrouge.
He also was quite terrible at being a "rouge".
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ASCII characters are the characters that appear on standard english keyboards. It may be more correct to call them unicode characters, but even then technically every character in every name is technically unicode.
That's not correct at all. ASCII is a character encoding that represents far more than the characters on standard english keyboards. There's the nonprintable characters before 32 and the characters that people generally mean when they say "ASCII character" past 128. Unicode characters require 16-bit storage per character and as far as I know WoW doesn't use unicode characters.
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jackalFuck Yes. That is an orderly anal warehouse.Registered Userregular
That's not correct at all. ASCII is a character encoding that represents far more than the characters on standard english keyboards. There's the nonprintable characters before 32 and the characters that people generally mean when they say "ASCII character" past 128. Unicode characters require 16-bit storage per character and as far as I know WoW doesn't use unicode characters.
ASCII is 7 bit. I'm probably wrong about UNICODE though. I guess it is 8 bit, but still that would be ANSI.
That's not correct at all. ASCII is a character encoding that represents far more than the characters on standard english keyboards. There's the nonprintable characters before 32 and the characters that people generally mean when they say "ASCII character" past 128. Unicode characters require 16-bit storage per character and as far as I know WoW doesn't use unicode characters.
WoW uses Unicode, but it uses UTF-8 rather than UTF-16. Actually, they've only got a subset of Unicode implemented for some reason, but most of the characters are there; you just need the proper escape sequence. For instance, try this: /script SendChatMessage("\226\128\162", "SAY")
I wish there was a hotkey for "report spam" because I use that thing 50 times a day.
Although, I saw a brilliant thing the other day in AV. A horde player was using an orb of deception and would erraticcally run near groups of alliance when he was alone. It actually took quite a bit before anyone realized they were horde and then attacked them.
I wish there was a hotkey for "report spam" because I use that thing 50 times a day.
Although, I saw a brilliant thing the other day in AV. A horde player was using an orb of deception and would erraticcally run near groups of alliance when he was alone. It actually took quite a bit before anyone realized they were horde and then attacked them.
I wish there was a hotkey for "report spam" because I use that thing 50 times a day.
Although, I saw a brilliant thing the other day in AV. A horde player was using an orb of deception and would erraticcally run near groups of alliance when he was alone. It actually took quite a bit before anyone realized they were horde and then attacked them.
Their name was Redspy.
Brilliant!
This gave me an idea for my rogue. Toss on the orb and stealth around like I always do because I fail at PvP on my rogue. Clad in his gay trucker pants
I wish there was a hotkey for "report spam" because I use that thing 50 times a day.
Although, I saw a brilliant thing the other day in AV. A horde player was using an orb of deception and would erraticcally run near groups of alliance when he was alone. It actually took quite a bit before anyone realized they were horde and then attacked them.
Their name was Redspy.
This...
This is a level of awesome well beyond my comprehension.
I wish there was a hotkey for "report spam" because I use that thing 50 times a day.
Although, I saw a brilliant thing the other day in AV. A horde player was using an orb of deception and would erraticcally run near groups of alliance when he was alone. It actually took quite a bit before anyone realized they were horde and then attacked them.
Their name was Redspy.
Brilliant!
This gave me an idea for my rogue. Toss on the orb and stealth around like I always do because I fail at PvP on my rogue. Clad in his gay trucker pants
Every now and then, I use a gordok ogre suit when I'm pvping on my rogue. I can only imagine what goes through the head of someone I ambush.
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Every now and then, I use a gordok ogre suit when I'm pvping on my rogue. I can only imagine what goes through the head of someone I ambush.
Fantastic idea. Oh I'm going to have fun with that...
Since I've been doing DM runs for goblin rep I've discovered that people will pay up to 100g for these suits
Yeah... I still have quite a few bouncing around in the mail between alts after doing the grind for the insane title many months ago. I've sold a few of them, never for that much though. I usually just use them myself every now and then for fun.
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Yeah... people just buy them off the AH to have fun being an ogre. If you are grinding goblin rep by running through DM, you end up making tons of them. Most of them went to waste because they are unique. But any time I was able to mail one off to my bank alt during the goblin rep grind, I did.
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I get curious about my own gear score compared to my guilds main tank. We mess with each other back and forth about gear. Some of his is better, some of mine is better. More like a friendly rivalry.
Ascendo Tuum. That guild name sounds awfully familiar. Maybe we have it on my server as well. Or a server I used to be on, or it used to be on my server and isn't anymore. Anyway.. it looks familiar.
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Only reason I have an odd alt-code is that I found out that the name I had been using for over 3 years on my previous server was already taken on the server I was transfering to. I wish there was a way to send a message to a character, and have that message get delivered to the account holder so that I could just ask if they could free up the name. It has never appeared on the armory, doesn't even give a message of it being someone under level 10. I have the awful feeling it's just an inactive or old trial account. I've attempted to contact anyone with the name on other servers with the thought that they may have created an alt with the same name on KM, but so far I haven't gotten lucky.
At least people can find me by typing '/who tish'. Can't say that about the people who use alt codes for nearly every letter of their name.
-- Gnome mage enchantress and inscriptionologist... er scribbler --
I did once. Maybe I just got a GM who was unwilling or didn't know they could, so maybe I'll try again.
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I lolled.
That being said if I see someone with X's in their name for any other reason than their character being Xavier, or some variant thereof, I get a little suspicious.
Also bad name is bad:
Kevinrouge.
He also was quite terrible at being a "rouge".
Love,
Pedantic Computer Scientist.
ASCII is 7 bit. I'm probably wrong about UNICODE though. I guess it is 8 bit, but still that would be ANSI.
WoW uses Unicode, but it uses UTF-8 rather than UTF-16. Actually, they've only got a subset of Unicode implemented for some reason, but most of the characters are there; you just need the proper escape sequence. For instance, try this: /script SendChatMessage("\226\128\162", "SAY")
<X mens>
Ugh.
even if nothing ever gets done, the anger I feel when I see them would be relieved.
Although, I saw a brilliant thing the other day in AV. A horde player was using an orb of deception and would erraticcally run near groups of alliance when he was alone. It actually took quite a bit before anyone realized they were horde and then attacked them.
Their name was Redspy.
Brilliant!
This gave me an idea for my rogue. Toss on the orb and stealth around like I always do because I fail at PvP on my rogue. Clad in his gay trucker pants
Only way this'd be better is if he were a Paladin.
I see that and raise
This...
This is a level of awesome well beyond my comprehension.
Further proof that the Jenkins title is only used by tools.
needless to say, I completely ignored him and skipped right to the next person
Every now and then, I use a gordok ogre suit when I'm pvping on my rogue. I can only imagine what goes through the head of someone I ambush.
-- Gnome mage enchantress and inscriptionologist... er scribbler --
Fantastic idea. Oh I'm going to have fun with that...
Pins!
Since I've been doing DM runs for goblin rep I've discovered that people will pay up to 100g for these suits
Yeah... I still have quite a few bouncing around in the mail between alts after doing the grind for the insane title many months ago. I've sold a few of them, never for that much though. I usually just use them myself every now and then for fun.
-- Gnome mage enchantress and inscriptionologist... er scribbler --
-- Gnome mage enchantress and inscriptionologist... er scribbler --
Gearscore addon? C'mon, really?
I had to check that screenshot because my Hunter's name is also Schroedinger, with the appropriate textual-marks.
It's not as fitting of a name anymore, since I've been running with my Ghost/Spirit Wolf more than my Cat.
I could always name the Wolf "Cat"...
That guy must go through a lot of mascara.
Funny, that was teh first thing i noticed too
lawl gearscore