
I Am So Freaking Stupid. (Destiny)
by Morpheus , High Charity, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 05:39 (3339 days ago)
Anybody remember the classic, ridiculous Elite Namelizer? What if we did that for Cabal? Some crazy jumble of idiot letters and apostrophes all over the place. XD
Or maybe Hive? 10-letter max, The (insert gross body part here) of Crota/Oryx? That's a fun project!
Engineer that!
Ok, I've been up for far too long, I'm going to bed...

This is a great idea. I wish I could program.
by Funkmon , Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 05:49 (3339 days ago) @ Morpheus
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I Am So Freaking Stupid.
by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 13:30 (3339 days ago) @ Morpheus
Anybody remember the classic, ridiculous Elite Namelizer? What if we did that for Cabal? Some crazy jumble of idiot letters and apostrophes all over the place. XD
Or maybe Hive? 10-letter max, The (insert gross body part here) of Crota/Oryx? That's a fun project!
Engineer that!
Ok, I've been up for far too long, I'm going to bed...
That really wouldn't be that hard to do. But I wouldn't know how to do it in Java so that you could host it. I could do it in C++ pretty easily.

Just throwing this out there
by kidtsunami , Atlanta, GA, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 14:30 (3339 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV
Anybody remember the classic, ridiculous Elite Namelizer? What if we did that for Cabal? Some crazy jumble of idiot letters and apostrophes all over the place. XD
Or maybe Hive? 10-letter max, The (insert gross body part here) of Crota/Oryx? That's a fun project!
Engineer that!
Ok, I've been up for far too long, I'm going to bed...
That really wouldn't be that hard to do. But I wouldn't know how to do it in Java so that you could host it. I could do it in C++ pretty easily.
If you know how to do C++ you should be able to whip something up in Javascript in an afternoon (and that includes learning javascript).

Just throwing this out there
by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 14:39 (3339 days ago) @ kidtsunami
Anybody remember the classic, ridiculous Elite Namelizer? What if we did that for Cabal? Some crazy jumble of idiot letters and apostrophes all over the place. XD
Or maybe Hive? 10-letter max, The (insert gross body part here) of Crota/Oryx? That's a fun project!
Engineer that!
Ok, I've been up for far too long, I'm going to bed...
That really wouldn't be that hard to do. But I wouldn't know how to do it in Java so that you could host it. I could do it in C++ pretty easily.
If you know how to do C++ you should be able to whip something up in Javascript in an afternoon (and that includes learning javascript).
Pshhh, I program. I don't lower myself to scripting :-D
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It can be done, but would be more complex than you think.
by BeardFade , Portland, OR, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 15:30 (3339 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV
Both of these things would actually be slightly more challenging than you expect.
It's pretty clear that both the Cabal and the Hive have certain linguistic conventions for their names. Consider the wizards. Each of their names begin with Ir. Bungie has created some sense of language and grammar for their different species. Thus, in order to make names that follow closely to convention, you would need to know/program these conventions in.
Next, consider that you could not randomly throw letters together, put an apostrophe in the word and get a Cabal name. Not only do we need to follow the convention that syllables need to connect in (more or less) a consonant-vowel, or vowel-consonant pattern in order to even be speakable, but I think it's pretty obvious that the apostrophe in Cabal names is actually either a 1) a contracted syllable, similar to "e'er" being "ever" in certain hymns, or 2) is intended as a form of glottal stop or 3) acts similar to a dagesh in Hebrew which at times represents a small pause and separation of a doubled letter. I think the final one has some creedance in that most of the names have a doubled vowel (typically "a") separated by the apostrophe.
All of this to say, while it can be done, the most realistic and worthwhile product would still appear to be simple, but could actually be quite complex under the hood.

It can be done, but would be more complex than you think.
by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 15:36 (3339 days ago) @ BeardFade
Yeah, I do computer languages :-)
That side of it shouldn't be hard. The alien language part of it would be much harder to figure out.

The difficulty will be in constructing the data to drive it.
by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 16:17 (3339 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV
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The difficulty will be in constructing the data to drive it.
by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 16:21 (3339 days ago) @ dogcow
I assumed it would be user inputted data. Which means it should be able to construct almost any string/s (with certain limitations) and create a name. Unless we are just supposed to click a button and out pops a name for a given race.
Obviously we need more data and I mean that in all senses of the word :-D

The difficulty will be in constructing the data to drive it.
by BeardFade , Portland, OR, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 17:32 (3339 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV
I definitely was under the impression that this was a click a button, spit out a name idea, and thus requiring a couple arrays of words or letters to work with.
If user input was sought, then we're traveling into territory that requires validation or at least some required parameters to manipulate the input.

The difficulty will be in constructing the data to drive it.
by MacAddictXIV , Seattle WA, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 18:11 (3338 days ago) @ BeardFade
I definitely was under the impression that this was a click a button, spit out a name idea, and thus requiring a couple arrays of words or letters to work with.
This would be the easier solution.
If user input was sought, then we're traveling into territory that requires validation or at least some required parameters to manipulate the input.
This is basically half of my day job's description :-)

Same here.
by BeardFade , Portland, OR, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 20:41 (3338 days ago) @ MacAddictXIV
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Nope.
by Funkmon , Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 18:24 (3338 days ago) @ BeardFade
edited by Funkmon, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 18:31
It's not that hard. We simply come up with some common stuff to cabal, set a specific spot for that, randomize it, then use the used input boxes to insert the other crap. In the elite namelizer, it was the last two letters of your name, the first two of your town, then the first three of your Nick, reversed.
Or, even easier, we don't come up with a list of common things, and just put in *first 4 of Nick*us *name until vowel*'*duplicated vowel**first 3 or 4 of street reversed* to make it more recognizable. Randomize your allegiance and class.
I actually could program this in Visual Basic, which is the only language I learned. What is that for server side scripting? ASP?
A very funkmonian reply
by marmot 1333 , Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 15:46 (3339 days ago) @ BeardFade
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I expected a top joke. :(
by Funkmon , Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 18:11 (3338 days ago) @ marmot 1333
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Instead you get a glottal stop
by marmot 1333 , Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 18:12 (3338 days ago) @ Funkmon
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I smiled when I saw this.
by Robot Chickens, Wednesday, January 06, 2016, 15:58 (3339 days ago) @ BeardFade
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