Fun thread - your favourite bot names...

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

yeah, that's almost the bump of the trimester

Currently I have my bots named after heroes from the Iliad by Homer (not the dumb jackass you see on TV heh, the true Homer ) so there are Hektor, Priamos, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Polydamas, Nestor, etc... and the bot chat files are all exerpts from the Iliad itself

its quite fun

(Hektor planted the bomb.)

Odysseus: Hektor, thou art strong but not wise, and I dare thou to defy Achilles and his iron shield

Hektor: Dare I will, as true as Apollon protects me my steel will crush his skull !

(Achilles: Need backup.)

Odysseus: from Ithake surrounded by the vast seas I will follow thou everywhere, Achilles.

Nestor: Argians, and you all, Akhaians with the bloody armors, hear my wisdom, let the fierce Hektor come and die, for in this trap he will fall for the price of his folly

Odysseus: Hektor, Zeus from over the clouds will strike thy father and thou in terror, thou will fall and thy weapons will sound below thou.

(the bomb has been defused)

(Hektor killed Odysseus with a headshot from xm1014)

[-=RAV=-AdrianShephard]

its my job to resurect old posts god isnt here anymore so he cant close em LOL

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Now that's a quite unique idea for botchat! However, aren't some of these entries a tad too long? Or has the botchat been changed to support longer lines? I seem to remember that there was a certain limit...

The next interesting project in that vein would be a sound pack that's really different from standard - like instead of "report in, team" "o brother, where art thou?"

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

yeah right, well I couldn't post a real log and I couldn't remember the exact sentences either (which are in old french btw), so I forged a translation for the dialog - but what I posted does resemble what's going on here

the limit is 128 chars, btw

[>BKA< T Wrecks]

Hmm... old French... is that very different from modern French? I'd like to know because in German, it's VERY different. In English, well... kind of. But in Spanish, it's really similar. If you can read Spanish, you can read many medieval texts because it has not changed very much. Of course, the vocabulary tends to be a bit problematic... *cough*

Btw, ins't it fascinating to see how threads trail off-topic and eventually develop into a discussion about something totally different?

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Luckily no, old French is not much different from modern French. The vocabulary tends to sound a bit medieval and some sentence constructs which are not commonly used nowadays were the rule back then, but I'd say if you can read modern french you can read old French without too many problems. The biggest problem is, indeed, the vocabulary of certain words which have now become completely obsolete.

The oldest French text known to date was, indeed, a weird mix of Latin and Gaul, with already transformed litteral structures. This text (very short) can be viewed here, accompanied with a modern french as well as english translation
http://www.historique.net/philologie/serments/
this, indeed, is some wicked text

but the "classical" old french is something that resembles more http://abu.cnam.fr/cgi-bin/go?troylion1
A normal native frenchman could perhaps not understand it fully, but get a grasp on 80% of it without too much trouble.

[SoUlFaThEr]

my few favorite botnames are a bit vulgar but hit the spot just right:

MyDixieWreckTed
UsuxMeGr8
BulletProofTits
BitchwithPMS
AssholewithAids
TheGreatCornholio
SadAimWhosayin <----LOOOOL just thought of that and added it in (saddam hussein )

[Huntkillaz]

Squirminator

[stefanhendriks]

i have a bot named:

Pierre-Marie-Baty

and somehow this bot always talks about an RACC bot :S

[Cpl. Shrike]

Here's some of the names I have put in the shrikebot_names.txt

Arthur_Dent
Attila_The_Nun
Djengis_Ban
Whosa_Bot


Recently I was thinking about adding:
Napoleon_Bot_Aparte
Alexander_The_L33t

Anyone got more twists on histories conquerors ?