Stapled Peacock Flesh - pls rename this planet

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SentineI

SentineI
I kid you not, there is a planet called "Stapled Peacock Flesh" in the Calhuacan system (it has two space stations orbiting it, and it's an important system for Arissa Lavigney-Duval).

It's blatantly obvious that some Kickstarter backer was trying to see how far they could push the boundaries of taste & Frontier's moderation process. Not only does it totally break immersion (absolutely no-one in their right mind would name a real planet that), but it's fairly unpleasant in it's own right, and quite possibly was intended to have a rather different reading. I'm not the first person to complain about this issue:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=153104&p=2375012&viewfull=1#post2375012
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
Cry me a river, then go harden up. Seriously, it's like people let themselves get offended at every little thing these days.


I still shake my head at the loss of Cox Ring, seeing as I had a science teacher named Mr. Cox in high school.

Perhaps looks to ones own immaturity, before pointing out others.

Sounds like a great rare item, by the way...
Z...
 
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SentineI

SentineI
Ah well, the lack of responses to this seems to show that no-one cares about immersion-breaking (and just plain unpleasant/rude) planet names, so I guess Frontier won't be doing anything about it (unless Microsoft complains, or someone questions their "PEGI 7"/"ESRB Teen" age rating, or they get bad publicity) :-/
 
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Serpentstar

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Have you even read any of the Iain Banks "Culture series" of books? That planet name fit right in with the concept of unusual naming conventions. Your break in immersion is another's break in the monotone method that we have been seeing. How many systems do we have named Ross? My clan must have been very active astronomers to have named so many.
 

Pazmino

Pazmino
Couldn't care less about some silly names - I saw a commander with this name the other day - was laughing like hell. For sure a German player came up with this one. Split it into 3 words, one starts with a, then r and z and then translate.

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Get over it and move on.
 
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CaptainKremmen

CaptainKremmen
mossfoot said:
The planet name doesn't need a change - it needs a backstory :D
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Noted explorer Ignatius Huffurrurrurr never commented on his most famous (or infamous) discovery, in what is now known as the Calhuacan expanse. His longtime journeyman partner Ralph Newbury, however, set the record straight in his memoirs, hand-written with paper and ink, in his twilight years.

"Nobody should blame Iggy for that!", he wrote. "Just take a look at the original shipboard tablets of the age. Pull up the old brochure for the Universal Cartographics' ClaimLog App of the day, and put that side-by-side with the brochure from Meat-2-Veg Galactic eStore!"

"Now do you see? Both of them with the orange theme. Dark orange, light orange, orange buttons... both with an orange text entry box with an orange 'Submit' button!"

"Ignatius didn't name that planet deliberately! He wanted to call it Miranda, after his daughter! He was just ordering a delivery of Stapled Peacock Flesh for our regular Sunday dinner... or that's what he thought he was doing!"

"Universal Cartographics then went and lost their original discovery tag data... again... and we couldn't send a name correction in to fix it! The damn place has been called that ridiculous name ever since!"
 

Carnster

Carnster
It's one planet among billions. I don't see the point in changing it. At some point, the human race would have to try all different kinds of conventions for naming, rather than a generic and forgettable code number.

I'm personally looking forward to visiting the planet 'River Plate my rectum'.
 
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Krovennan

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If it was a Kickstarter backer, then they paid money to get that planet named. You on the other hand, are trying to negate that because you bought the game at a lower price point and complained about it on a free forum. You willing to refund the backer's money? That could be in the thousands for all you know. If you aren't, then on what grounds exactly do you feel you have the right to take away something someone else paid for? This ain't Tumblr, you can't just cry some great injustice and send the herd after someone.
 

SkipRat

SkipRat
Zeeman said:
Cry me a river, then go harden up. Seriously, it's like people let themselves get offended at every little thing these days.


I still shake my head at the loss of Cox Ring, seeing as I had a science teacher named Mr. Cox in high school.

Perhaps looks to ones own immaturity, before pointing out others.

Sounds like a great rare item, by the way...
Z...
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Prof Brian Cox... Astronomer, presenter for the BBC...

I find boy bands offensive, I find soaps offensive... But I don't go around and ask them to be banned... I watch something else, whilst I am burning effigies of them :D
 
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Manuelman

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Dude, there are towns in spain called Guarroman (filthy man) Parderubias (couple of blonds) Los Infiernos (the hells) Ajo (Garlic) VIllapene (Penisville, literally)... when people run out of fancy names, and there's billions of planets, people are gonna get creative.

EDIT: I was forgetting Despeñaperros (dog hurler, like, in hurling the dog out of a cliff).
 
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DocLooshkin

DocLooshkin
It's fine, as far as I'm concerned. England's towns used to be full of prostitution-focused streets named Gropec*** Lane (you can look it up) - Stapled Peacock Flesh is nothing by comparison. The backer bought and paid for that name and Frontier agreed and took their money. Unless some new reason appears for doing so, it's a little bit late to be changing it now, especially since almost nobody cares.
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
When I biked across Canada for 100 days and finally reached Newfoundland I was shocked to see town there called... well, let's just say it rhymes with Bilbo.

OMG, my immersion was ruined and I had to restart my entire bike trip from Victoria once I convinced the mayor of the town to change their name ;)
 
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Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
mossfoot said:
When I biked across Canada for 100 days and finally reached Newfoundland I was shocked to see town there called... well, let's just say it rhymes with Bilbo.

OMG, my immersion was ruined and I had to restart my entire bike trip from Victoria once I convinced the mayor of the town to change their name ;)
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There's a food product here in the UK, produced by a company who's brand name is Mr Brain's.

They produce a traditional English dish called.. well, it rhymes with Maggots, but swap the M for an F and you get the idea.

Available in the UK in shops just about everywhere - there's even a Wikipedia article on this dish.

I was shocked - SHOCKED! - when I saw this product, called as it is, and on sale in supermarkets!

My immersion was ruined, and I started a campaign to have these offensive items removed forever!
 
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