A little Question and Answer Thread.

[Cyfarfod]

tl;dr In yer opinion, how long is TOO LONG, FUCK OFF for an AI name?  Is there a hard-set character limit?  I don't wanna be obnoxious.

anything that causes your messages to take up more than a line is too long. unless you type big messages on average. any name more than half a line of the chat is way too long, but i guess that depends on the size you play ss13 at also

I guess, to rephrase... about how many characters IS that, do ya think? About 40-45?

[NateTheSquid]

i'd say 40 is too many. maybe around 30-35 or less, imo

[warcrimes]

Personally I like to look at the name length and content as "Is this marketable?"

Could some company say "here's the name of our newest bottom-shelf Artificial Intelligence series" and reasonably expect some megacorp to buy it? alternatively, could some engineer say "Here boss here's the new AI you asked for" and not have it immediately forgotten?

In other words I tend to steer toward a shorter name with a good mouthfeel rather than a more verbose name. CRIMECORE-2000XL > Rather Skeevy Computerman Y2K

[Cyfarfod]

i'd say 40 is too many. maybe around 30-35 or less, imo

Personally I like to look at the name length and content as "Is this marketable?"

Could some company say "here's the name of our newest bottom-shelf Artificial Intelligence series" and reasonably expect some megacorp to buy it? alternatively, could some engineer say "Here boss here's the new AI you asked for" and not have it immediately forgotten?

In other words I tend to steer toward a shorter name with a good mouthfeel rather than a more verbose name. CRIMECORE-2000XL > Rather Skeevy Computerman Y2K

Thanks. I know this is a pretty fiddly question but I'd rather bug people here than actually type something in, in a round, and end up being obnoxious by accident.

[warcrimes]

That said, literarilly relevant names are always super cool, but are obviously gonna be a total miss on anyone who doesn't get it.

[Roomba]

From what I recall the limit is about 30-35 characters which is maybe about a line and a half long depending on your screen size. You should be fine length-wise even if you max it out.

[Vitatroll]

Four alphanumeric characters.

[Cyfarfod]

Four alphanumeric characters.

Right, next time I get AI I'll be 'Four Alphanumeric Characters', then. :P

[Grek]

AI names I use:

baby leech snuggles
itty bitty mouse skeleton
knotted bandages
soft meat crowns
painted ant skulls
sound of a mistake
nun skin balaclava
lightly-fryed lamb skull
sneezing of earwigs
tapeworm loneliness
1.5 meters of intestine
centipede inside a banana
50lbs of fresh stork meat
thimble of dry yak blood
inside out skeleton
rapid-onset tooth decay
birdhouse full of tendons
transocular roach nest
your laminated baby teeth
low fructose dental fleas
induced aortal dentition
barbie doll crematorium
green seahorse hoof jello
aquarium full of cow eyes
banana nut puffin eggs
bonsai treehouse for bees
bonsai beehouse for trees
butter-filled snail shell
toe jam filled eye socket
secret bomb test site
maple syrup up your nose
vivisected animatronics
unicorn flavoured candy
butt made out of butter
irradiated americana
disconcerting rhyme time
peanut butter on your cat
emagged waffle iron
acetaldehyde smoothies
nuclear toast extruder
vegetables that scream
fresh scorpion cooties
beetle extraction device
ginger back hair toupe
tiny dinosaur armpits
fruit rollup balacava
chocolate coated baloney
baloney coated chocolate
average density of france
hot greased up popemobile
horseshoe crab batter
tadpoles in maple syrup
reconstituted eel screams
hagfish slime+lime juice
secret waffle test site
wheat + wheat byproducts
bowl of rice crusties
toasted corn flechettes
wholesale cricket caskets
gatorade filled syringes
syringe toothed aligator
second-hand colostomy bag
warm bonemeal funnel cake
inflatable pigeon bones
soap from corpse products
google deep dream: pears
universal tire masticator
partially moist towelette
sneeze recoil compensator
explosion analysis device
shark fin rotation unit
flavoured soy yeast paste
martian kings evil brain
fruity yogurt celebration
smiling bee with red hat
smiling bee with blue hat
smiling bee with two hats
happy puppy fuzzy funsies
adorable kitten surprise
fireworks just because
emergency hug protocol
skeleton wearing 20 butts
cuddle circuits online
free pancake dispensary
bats eating yummy grapes
banana and nut cream pies
ai powder: just add water
laughter in slaughter
candy coated goose lungs
really more of a magenta
bacon lettuce and thumbs
cobra based ear medicine
stomach full of syringes
miraculous slug paintings
blanket inside a pig what
segway full o baked beans
secret faceless coinage
babys first bullet casing
fluorescent bulb flickers
smallpox for brine shrimp
snozzleberry newt rollups
ceramic squirrel heads
NPcomplete werewolf serum
hilarious murder prank
fanny back full of bees
infinite bucket o tongues
disappointment circuits
gelding tool and ravenbar
recently promoted catwalk
delightfully toasty robot
very very very fat cyborg
approximate fire solution
mountain of shark corpses
irradiated cluwne kitten
rogue space murder device
elaborately meaty effigy
mustard based pentagram
cuddly pyramid of otters
chocolate coated scalpels
powerhouse of the cell
mayple syrup hellscape
memetic testing apparatus
chef hat full of pudding
quantitative cheesing
delightful mailbox spider
corpse telemetry artifact
huge nerd party for nerds
soap from corpse products
communist banana takeover
hydrogenated orphan ichor
mandatory orange poncho
fireperson inspection day
spooky space printer
shamefuly alcoholic zebra
all despising baby skull
pork drippings sonata
wholly owned subsidary
periph mount noble steed
large angry tree squirrel
partial fluency in german
faint scent of paprika
veterinary malpractice
quietly sobbing parakeet
entire state of lousiana
absolutely not for lunch
tiny child named gregory
several very small mangos
some kinda anime haircut
suspicious plant noises
slightly expired yoghurt
staisfyingly fluffy cat
anticlimatic bass drop
angry chinchilla noises
common pelican diseases
watercolour bloodscape
grammatical peculiarity
alphabet naming committee
pride of methed up lions
excruciating festivities
love that is half true
dental tartar sauce
westminster urn show

[Superlagg]

FRANK.file extension. ALL CAPS.

[NateTheSquid]

jfc grek.

AI names I use:

KRAKEN

[Frank_Stein]

PANOPTICON is my AI go to

Fits thematically, and if you're unfamiliar with the concept of the panopticon it sounds like a generic robot name like Optimus Prime

[LuigiThirty]

Windows XP Build 2600 or nothing.

[Lady Birb]

I guess because this is an AI name thread now, I have always used PR-99 Automated Doorknob as my AI name.

[Cyfarfod]

I went with Catch-22 last night, cuz it's one of my favorite books, hoping to have fun explaining how I could only open doors for people that already had the authority to open said doors among other things. Instead I got to watch some dick run around stealing everyones IDs. Oh well.