My humble opinion, "bob" needs a new name

InfamousInfamous Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 127Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">*ducks and covers*</div>Ok, wtf kind of a name is Bob for a bloodthirsty killing machine. I dont like using it and think the name should be changed. We should all use terms like "lev1" or "chomper" or "spider". Not bob. bob = bad! Just remeber that. Bob = Bad Bob = Bad!!

Now whos with me!
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  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    "BOB" is a great name, respect "da bob" (da bob is how i say it, but respect "da bobs" name, okay? lol  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
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  • BananBanan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 235Members
    ok, ok, so at first, bob Might just sound like a "dumb" name or even a "BAD" name, but hey, it's classic, once you get use to the so called bloody killing machine named "Bob", it's acctually a great name, think of it, WHERE'S MARLEY?<!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
    I'M SORRY SIR! BOB ATE HIM!
    lol, then they can both have a good laugh, lol!
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  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    i like the name bob, im sure Moleculor likes the name bob, its so new, and different, thats what makes it great, just go with it okay?  <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Just keep in mind that there will be official names as well; it just hasn't has been a high priority in the past. 'Bob' is for you forum loonies to use.

    <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • InfamousInfamous Join Date: 2002-01-28 Member: 127Members
    Yes but MonsE, what happens in this scenario:
    Ingame-
    Marine1: Look out, a BOB is coming!
    Marine2: Hahahahah whats a bob dumbas-AHHHHH MY JUGULAR!

    Its much more offical and atmospheric if you said "Look out a level 1 is coming." If anyone calls it a bob in game, they are getting killed.
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  • KheldarKheldar Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 64Members
    Bob sneaks up behind Infamus and start eating his leg <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
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  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    ...... whats your point, it can be a nickname, like bob = biojenetic oblistic bioparasite, they would say a bob hahaha whats that you dumb$^%*, all the marines would already know what it is...
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  • RhoadsToNowhereRhoadsToNowhere i r 8 Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 33Members
    I seriously doubt that "Bob" will be the official name of that critter, but I figure pretty much all of the forum community will call him Bob as a pet name.

    I'd consider asking Bob what he wants to be called, but then again he has a nickname for me..."Meat."
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  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    i have a nickname for my self "m16a2, ak47"
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  • GreedoGreedo Bounty Hunter Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 37Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I've hated that name from the very moment it was introduced.  If it could die a quick, painful death I would be very appreciative.
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  • MuuMuu Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 23Members
    I must admit that I have a gernaral dislike for the name bob because I over use it for everything If I cant think of a good name for something I call it Bob, if theres 2 of them they become bob and harry and three just add harry. Its just too boring maybe if it had a nickname like muffit or Mr.Cranky Id be happyer - but what do I care and what does it matter
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  • FlayraFlayra Game Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment San Francisco Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 3Super Administrators, NS2 Developer, Subnautica Developer
    Bob isn't his official name, but of course it's the most prevalent one.  When we have real names for the aliens in-game (and people are playing) I'm sure Bob won't be the only name you hear.

    You won't hear ME calling him Bob (though I admit I slip now and again). <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • ChromeAngelChromeAngel Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    * Imagines a dev team meeting where Flayra keeps having to correct himself whenever he refers to the level 1 alien as 'Bob' *

    As an un-offical nickname Bob is as good as any other.  I like the idea that B.O.B. stood for something scientific and the grunts had just used the abbreviation as slang.  This happens all the time where scientific names are used regularly.
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  • UnCriticalUnCritical Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 73Members, Constellation
    I have a friend called bob and everytime someone says his name i find it amusing because of NS!
    I think hes getting paranoid.
    And do you really think that ppl will stop using bob as the name for a lvl one? even after the official names are invented....cos i dont, its gonna be bob forever!
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  • doctopepadoctopepa Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 99Members
    -did you just call me lotte?!
    -(thinks...) is that a problem?
    haha!

    anyways:
    to infamous: ofcoure everyone will know who bob is.

    to the team: promise me the name bob won't be mentioned ONCE in the release.

    not that i dislike it...
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  • KheldarKheldar Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 64Members
    Bob power... what would u call him?? write
    A if ur gonna call Him lvl1 alien
    B for Bob
    C for something els...

    write now... or Bob will scratch ur eyes out  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
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  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    B, i like bob, i dont like scientific names =P
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  • BananBanan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 235Members
    Oh well, it'd be fun if they called him Bob in game aswell, lol, come to think of, it would be VERY fun,
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Hehehe... this is the second attempt to get the name 'changed'. To think he got called it by a two word post I posted. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

    Anywho, not only do we have sprays, but also backgrounds featuring his name, so it wouldn't make much sense to change his name from that standpoint.

    And then, you've got the whole 'Bob is a really cool name for a bloodthirsty killing machine eviscerating humans for the survival of his race' thing.



    <!--EDIT|Moleculor|Mar. 13 2002,17:16-->
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Ehhh, Bob is not, and never will be, an official name. It's a forum veteran inside joke... revel in your l33tness of knowing it, but don't expect it to show up on any menus.
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  • BananBanan Join Date: 2002-02-22 Member: 235Members
    In fun mode? lol, naah, I understand "bob" would never be used as an official name, but it still would be fun, now, right?
    Although calling him bob in the game would be lame (wee&#33<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
    It'd still be fun,
    Anyways, where did you get the name "bob"?
    im asking this question mostly to moleculor sa he seems to be "the namer of bob",
    wow, must be som honour, eh?
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  • JaciusJacius Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 43Members
    I think they must have just been muttering off weird names and Bob stuck. It's not a great name, and not an official name, but it's short and catchy.

    And of course it's probably short for "Bad Old Bugger" or something like that <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->

    I'm not gonna try and get it pushed one way or another in terms of names, although I'll often refer to him as Tiny Tim, after the character in Dicken's Christmas Carol. I'm just waiting for something 'official' to call him besides L1 (which would translate to "Lee" <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->)

    -Jacius
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  • JedisarJedisar Join Date: 2002-03-03 Member: 264Awaiting Authorization
    I find it quite amusing...Remember, Military-types usually end up giving weird names to groups of people or creatures "Several Charlies up ahead!"


    Plus..lets not forget that police do it, too "We've got two dead John Does'"
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Bob is just what I call things that don't have a concrete name, or I can't remember the name of it. Or a general 'John Doe' type thing.

    Want the origin of Bob? <a href="http://66.70.175.88/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=10&TID=225&P=4&SID=31046#ID77" target="_blank">Here.</a> It's post #68.
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  • the_stalkerthe_stalker Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 49Members
    but can i still call him "da bob" <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo--> hehe, i like saying that  <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • KheldarKheldar Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 64Members
    ``da bob da bob da bob is on fire (cought in the barbicue)``  <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo--> hrmmm Bob will still be my favo name...
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I have not, and never will, call bob anything other than bob! Even if there is a cool official name, I still would keep calling him/she/it bob.

    --Scythe--
    the_only_scythe@yahoo.co.uk
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  • ComproxComprox *chortle* Canada Join Date: 2002-01-23 Member: 7Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Silver, Subnautica Developer, Subnautica Playtester, Pistachionauts
    I rarely call the alien Bob, it's like calling your dog, "Spot" even if he doesn't have a spot. It's just silly, and you won't catch me saying the name much. Only silly and easily amused people use it *cough* Moleculor *cough* <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    *is silly*

    *is easily amused*

    *has a Krispy Kreme only 10 floors down from him*

    I roxx.
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  • PsymastaPsymasta Join Date: 2002-03-10 Member: 295Members
    Sir! We've got 17 barbequed bobs in those vents over there! What's that Sir? Good work? But Sir! I left one bob for YOU to kill! And its standing right behind you! OMG!
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