{"id":2146,"date":"2010-05-16T23:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T22:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2010-05-17T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:06:35","slug":"good-products-evil-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/16\/good-products-evil-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Good products, evil names"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Instead I play City of Heroes, and even my mobile phone is called Hero. \u00c2\u00a0Not that I am superstitious or ambitious or anything.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Rise of the Godslayer<\/em>” should be out just around now. \u00c2\u00a0It is the first expansion pack to the online multiplayer game “Age of Conan<\/em>“. I took an early interest in this game as it was developed here in Norway, by the Norwegian company Funcom. Technically AoC is head and shoulder above the competition, as can be expected when developed in this affluent and hi-tech little nation. But I am not going to buy a game with a name like “Godslayer”.<\/p>\n

Nor am I planning to buy HTC Desire, arguably the best smartphone on the market today and the successor to my own HTC Hero. \u00c2\u00a0A telephone is an expression of your personality, and there has been more than enough desire in my life without naming my phone after it. \u00c2\u00a0Can you imagine the Buddha or Christ wearing a phone called Desire?? \u00c2\u00a0What is going on in people’s heads using names like that. \u00c2\u00a0For that matter HTC Droid Eris. \u00c2\u00a0I don’t want to pull out my phone only to have people around me go “Hail Eris!<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Of course, there may be people who don’t read the Chaos Node for the same reason. But that is completely different… Right? \u00c2\u00a0Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead I play City of Heroes, and even my mobile phone is called Hero. \u00c2\u00a0Not that I am superstitious or ambitious or anything. “Rise of the Godslayer” should be out just around now. \u00c2\u00a0It is the first expansion pack to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}