Addendum

The state of suffering from excessive dark spew will be called spewganza, and the sufferer will be referred to as a spewganzatic.

Humor Crime

Whose fault is it that out of four humors, two of them are bile? Was it a little natural philosophy joke, just some levity between peers? Anyway, from now on black bile is dark spew.

Speaking of Names

Spring is the worst-named season, right? That word means too many things. Fall has the same problem, but we can fall back on autumn there. Ver isn't as effective since it may not be registered as a word when we try to popularize it. I think we're gonna have to go French on this one, fellas.

Another Marketing Failure

I don't see cooper as a fantasy profession too often, and I suspect the reason is that it doesn't sound at all like what it is. Contrast that with smiths or vintners. Admittedly I don't see many vintners, but I think we should all ignore that for the time being.

Addendum

The switch will help us get away from current ridiculous generation names. We'll get Generation Zero, Generation One, and Generation Two. After that we'll go back to junk again, but there's beauty in the ephemeral.

Video Game Retrospective

Looking back on it, the Quest for Glory games would have sold double if not quadruple had they been called Quest for Virtue, Quest for Goodness, or Quest for Justice. Did they think they were selling games to vikings or something? To Mycenaean-age Greeks?

Addendum

I would have called it "All-Out Hundred Battle," thereby proving either why I'm not in charge or why I should be.

Salesmanship in the Modern Era

The naive ask why Konami is spelling the hottest new Yu-Gi-Oh format all funny, but the savvy never considered anyone would call a new product a single word that brings up thousands of results on any search engine. The key mistake was to spell it "Genesys" rather than "Jennasyss" or, to be particularly saucy, "Djenasus."

Legibility

Some people have trouble getting into fantasy, what with the invented terminology and exotic names. In other words, the greatest contemporary fantasy universe is online drama. It's a cooperative work too, like Thieves' World.

Addender

And then Shadowverse Worlds Beyond doesn't have Shadowcraft, so what's with the shadows in the name? Does the name imply the acceptance of the developer to live in the shadow of bigger card games?

Addendum

I never thought about this before, but Shadowverse is a terrible name. Then again, if I never thought of it, I suppose it's fine. Economists call that "revealed acceptance."

Addendum

Shouldn't the subtitle be the title? What kind of name is Magic? At least put an exclamation point on it. And in what way does the Gathering modify or clarify Magic? The whole thing is bizarre.

Picking at Old Wounds

I don't think Magic: The Gathering gets nearly enough attention, as a name. Isn't it weird? Isn't it thoroughly odd?

Q&A Corner

Q. Why is it the Enchanter's Moon and not the Enchantment Moon?
A. Euphony.
Q. Does that answer really explain anything?
A. Without taste, it cannot be heard.

Unsolved Mysteries

All these years later and we still don't know why he called it Ivanhoe. Why not Wilfrid Goes Bananas! or That Time Richard I Was Away for A While? Wilrid's barely even the main character anyway.

History Corner

Historically, many people had children. However, they gave them bad names, by and large, not to mention the children generally did not merit any lines. They were more like extras.

Thoughts on Millennia

I mean the hot new strategy game, which you might not know, because it's called Millennia. In the modern era, don't you have departments to make sure your game's title is reasonably searchable? I haven't played it, so that's my only thought.

An Analysis of the Sales of Final Fantasy VII: The New One

On day one, people had just looked up what it was called and therefore knew what to buy. By day two, everyone had forgotten which was which. Hence the dropoff.

Tired of the Same Old Currencies?

Gold, crowns, potch, we've seen it all before. We've seen some of these, too, but that won't stop me.
- casholeons
- blucks
- monni
- gramgrams
- glizzies
- dollarios
- borts
- spinkles
- zouches
- foddor

Charlemagne

Even Yu-Gi-Oh! knows not to call him Charlemagne, and that's a game where you fight with warships made out of sushi. Such an ugly name. It goes with Charles the Great, and while Karl the Great or Big Karl are better, that's good enough.