Posted on 08/29/2021 3:33:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Bethesda’s Pete Hines and Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg chatted about some past stories, including one Hines shared about a woman going into labor during the Skyrim reveal at Quakecon 2011. She stayed to watch the full reveal then left to have her baby. One of the folks interviewing Hines joked that the couple might have named their kid Dovahkiin after the main character from Skyrim. This didn’t happen, but Hines did point out that someone did just that and Bethesda gave them free Bethesda games for life.
“I also ask that no one name their baby Game Pass,” said Greenberg.
Everyone laughed and moved on to a story about Greenberg officiating a Gears of War wedding. (Video game conventions and their live streams are weird this year.) But now, I have to imagine that at least one person out there is thinking to themselves “Oh...would that work? Could I get Xbox Game Pass for free, for the rest of my life, if I named my kid Game Pass..?”
Based on Greenberg’s response here, I don’t think it would work. However, if it did work I’d guess it would only do so for the very first person to try it. So, there’s your challenge. But is free Game Pass for life really worth your child having to live that terrible name?
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My wife and daughter just went to a birthday party for a girl names Infinity.
I couldn’t help but to ask if her middle name was “and beyond”
Lexus
Possibly conceived in one.
At least that is not calling her Jim Beam.
Sister worked in our ED as registration clerk.
Names on Medicaid card were
Mercedes, Buick
and the twins
Chevette and Corvette.
My dad was an accountant/auditor, and he began his career in the pre-computer era, so he had to go through index cards. He saw a lot of great names.
Some of Dad’s favorites:
The Bath sisters: Wanda and Needa
Carrie Freshwater
And the daughter of Learjet founder Bill Lear. Her name is Shanda.
Then, of course, there was the famous governor of Texas, Governor Hogg, whose family consisted of Ima, Eura, and Hesa.
In Westchester County where I mostly grew up, there is a family upcounty who run an orchard. Their name is Outhouse. Outhouse Orchards. The partiarch of the family was listed in the Westchester County phone book until the day he died as A. Purdy Outhouse.
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