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asiacatdogblue This Won't End Well... from Chicago, IL Since: Feb, 2010
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#1: Jun 11th 2012 at 11:35:12 AM

I have talked about this before.

How do you feel about name changes. localization or otherwise?

Are you annoyed by them, fond of them, or just indifferent?

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#2: Jun 11th 2012 at 12:09:19 PM

Name changes? As in...?

Forum name changes? Character name changes? Actual legal name changes?

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asiacatdogblue This Won't End Well... from Chicago, IL Since: Feb, 2010
This Won't End Well...
#3: Jun 11th 2012 at 1:50:41 PM

All of the above.

Yep, I'm still here.
chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#4: Jun 11th 2012 at 1:53:05 PM

One of my favorite teachers changed her last name to an astronomical body. waii

Parable State of Mind from California (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#5: Jun 11th 2012 at 1:59:23 PM

Occasionally I've wanted to change my name to something cool. But I can be amazingly possessive, my name was the first thing that was mine. I'm not giving it away.

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wuggles Since: Jul, 2009
#6: Jun 11th 2012 at 2:07:27 PM

I don't really see a need for them. I mean unless you just hate your family that much, or you're a singer or something (even then I think it's weird when they legally change their name to their stage name). I can't imagine changing my name, even though it was given to me by my father, who I don't really get along with.

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#7: Jun 11th 2012 at 2:17:15 PM

@Chihuahua: Did she have an astronomical body? wink

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Gabrael from My musings Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
#8: Jun 11th 2012 at 7:26:44 PM

I look forward to having my name changed. I am still trying to get the spelling of my first name cleaned up and matched on all my legal documents.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
Just awesome like that
#9: Jun 12th 2012 at 8:14:32 AM

My dad works with a guy who legally changed his name to "Head Bubba."

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Ghost101 Ghost101 from United States Since: Sep, 2012
Ghost101
#10: Oct 10th 2013 at 4:32:58 PM

edited 10th Oct '13 4:36:39 PM by Ghost101

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#11: Oct 10th 2013 at 4:33:48 PM

This is not for trope names.

MikuruFan from Away Since: Nov, 2012
#12: Oct 10th 2013 at 4:34:54 PM

First, this is an old thread.

Second, read this. And it's not because I wrote that.

ACloudInTheSky from AZ Since: Sep, 2013
#13: Oct 10th 2013 at 5:05:28 PM

I've considered changing my name before.

Kiefen MINE! from Germany Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: It's not my fault I'm not popular!
MINE!
#14: Oct 14th 2013 at 2:48:53 AM

I wouldn't do it even though my name(Kevin) is THE white-trash name for boys in Germany.

edited 14th Oct '13 2:49:09 AM by Kiefen

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#15: Jul 10th 2014 at 3:37:25 AM

If you mean characters in a japanese cartoons having different names in the dub, well it's good. With the Pokèmon ones i usually refer to them by the English name, or even by the japanese ones sometimes. I'm from Italy but i was very "americanized" and often in English-language forums by the time Black\White came out. It's the same for The Sims, but there they did not translate the names, or well, they did translate them, but only for the ones introduced in TS 1 and TS 2. This is because the TS 1 families had descriptive surnames. (There's an household of childhood acquaintances known as Chris and Melissa Roomies but in the console version they're Chris Jones and Melissa Smith) Sims introduced in TS 3 never had dub name changes. Or at least, not in the italian version. And you do not need dub names anyway. Kingdom Hearts and Total Drama Island do not use dub names. For Sailor Moon i also like to refer to their "casual" forms by the names they have in the japanese version.

And if you mean someone in real life changing their names to something from a fandom or something else, i'm okay with it too. A lot of people change their names when they enter high school, mostly hipsters actually. Someone has any news reports of people changing their names to fictional characters?

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Explosivo25 How fleeting... from Beach City Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#16: Jul 10th 2014 at 7:21:41 AM

[up] Actually, the Total Drama series does use dub names. I know some of the names are changed in the French Canadian dub, IDK about other ones.

I don’t even know anymore.
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