The "What's a good name for this?" thread

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Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behind

Or possibly something more low-key, like The Council, or The Nine, if they don't want to flaunt their powers.

Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.

I feel like they would have a cool name. They're kinda like the Illuminati, everyone knows who they are, but not really what they do, or if they're even good or not.

Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behind

For my part, it's my pleasure. ^_^

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My suggestion...

And this is meant with the best of intentions*,

Just write the damn thing.

Don't worry about every detail. We use word processors now, you don't have to plot every last sentence, because editing is easy.

Its OK to "pants" it. Your characters will speak for themselves, and soon tell you if you got them wrong.

Write the novel. You have it it in you. Worry about the form of it later, just let the story escape.

• it really is.

Is this for me... or the other guy?

Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behind

In the hypothetical scenario that a pan-Arab superstate comes into being and proves to be stable and adequately prosperous in the long-term, would it make sense for "Arabia" to used as a common name for it, alongside its other existing meaning as a shortening of the Arabian Peninsula's name?

Edited by MarqFJA on May 11th 2022 at 6:09:35 PM

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I mean probably...

Some call it stalking, I say walking just extremely close behind

For comparison, "Scandinavia" can mean:

1. The Scandinavian Peninsula, which includes Norway, Sweden and Finland.

• The Scandinavian cultural region; strictest definition only includes Denmark (which is not on the Peninsula), Norway, and Sweden.

1. The Nordic countries, which includes Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland.

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In a future history of my devising, the world is hit by a combination of events about a decade from now — pandemic outbreaks, a global economic depression, wars breaking out at the worst possible times in the worst possible places for the global community, etc. — that halts the progress of globalization and even induces significant deglobalization, before the world eventually "stablizes" into a new world order, one of supranational unions that seek collective autarky for themselves and view each other with distrust, sometimes even outright hostility.

Would it be appropriate to call the series of events that led to this new status quo the "Great Regression"?

EDIT: Damn, the term had already been coined. How about "Great Relapse"?

Edited by MarqFJA on May 13th 2022 at 1:39:04 PM

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How about the "Great Depletion"?

I need codenames for the following military operations for a wargame set in an alternate World War 2.:

• Thrust I: The Americans, British, Norwegians and Finnish Armies enters through the Baltic States.
• Thrust II: The French, Italian and German Armies enters through Belarus.
• Thrust III: The Hungarian and the Southeastern European Armies enters through Ukraine.
• Thrust IV: The Persian and Turkish Armies enters through the Caucasus.

Each thrust codename is named after a conqueror who attempted to conquer Russia in real-life history.

As in depletion of natural resources? That's not really what drove the crisis or the subsequent tensions; some of the new superpolities emerged as a result of undeveloped countries finally succeeding in capitalizing on their wealth of resources in a way other than simply exporting them to the developed countries.

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No.

"Depletion" as in "Depletion of Mankind"

One obvious choice for thrust II would be "Napoleon", but he was not a successful conqueror.

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• Thrust I: Pyotr Wrangel. Had the Allies' backing during Russian Civil War, and was basically regarded as a demigod by the White Russian diaspora.

• Thrust II: Gonna concur with C105's opinion that Napoleon, while an obvious choice, is also kind of questionable. You know who did successfully bring the entire Russian aristocratic class (and eventually Russian society at large) under French cultural influence, though? Peter the Great, that's who. His chief admiral, François Le Fort (after whom the Lefortovo district of Moscow is named), also happened to be a Huguenot.

• Thrust III: St Cyril, after the Byzantine theologian who brought Orthodox Christianity to the Slavs (it didn't have to be violent conquest, right?). Or maybe one of those first millennium CE nomadic confederation leaders who didn't conquer Russia proper, but did stomp around its southern peripheries a bit (Attila, Álmos, Asparukh).

• Thrust IV: Timur. Didn't stick around in Russia proper for too long, but did launch an invasion that shattered the power of the Golden Horde under the khan Tokhtamysh, leaving its remnants vulnerable its resurgent Russian vassal princedoms.

Edited by eagleoftheninth on May 13th 2022 at 6:44:57 AM

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The military operations should not have obvious names or names that make sense. It's a bad idea, and the only ones who had obvious operation names in WWII were the nazis.

Try this generator instead.

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Warrior name ideas for these characters?

• Tempeststar
• Antstar ^note  (Fawn. Shadowclan's long-lived dictator who dies from a massive stroke)
• Brightkit (Not sure if the story's going to be that long but just in case)
• Goldenpaw ^note  (Yellow-looking ginger tabby)
• Bluepaw
• Claypaw
• Bonepaw
• Bullpaw ^note  (ginger tabby. Or solid chocolate or cinnamon. I haven't decided)

Edited by Nukeli on May 13th 2022 at 5:14:49 PM

~ * Bleh * ~ (Looking for a russian-speaker to consult about names and words for a thing)

Wow, that is... very grim. Excessively grim, dare I say. What's wrong with the Great Relapse, anyway? It does nicely highlight the backpedaling of the international community back to a state of far less global unity and internecine conflicts.

EDIT: Fixed "Lapse" to "Relapse".

Edited by MarqFJA on May 14th 2022 at 6:43:19 PM

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Because it lacks in a way that describes how bad everything went during it.

It is too neutral. And it hints of things going "backwards" rather than "stopping".

Edited by TitanJump on May 13th 2022 at 6:39:13 PM

The "Great Relapse" also carries that indication of things going backwards, I do think.

As an alternative suggestion, what about the "Great Foundering"?

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I thought that the "Great Regression" was fine, and popular culture of the time won't give a damn that a bunch of economists already used it for something (and neither will alternative history readers).

I think there’s a global conspiracy to see who can get the most clicks on the worst lies

I actually like "Great Foundering". It gives an impression that the world stumbled and fell, then got up and started walking again, albeit it's now lame. It can also refer more directly to the utter failure of globalization as envisioned in the past (that is, all countries directly uniting into a single community^note An analogy that comes to my mind is if the USA annexed 50 other countries as additional states to the ones that it already has and in the process at least doubled its total population over the span of just a couple of decades; even if that happened peacefully and with democratic backing of both the original US citizens and the annexed population, that is bound to place very serious stress on its political and economic mechanisms, if not break them entirely, along with all the turmoil from trying to assimilate many different cultures.).

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If I may but in, I think adding an "L" to that as the letter before the O would enhance the imagery while avoiding possible confusion with the connotations the "Founder" part might evoke

Edited by MorningStar1337 on May 14th 2022 at 9:33:00 AM

The Great Confederating? Or Great Federating?

Because all these smaller states are coming together and forming these confederations. People probably wouldn't necessarily see it as a bad thing. The period before then when globalization broke down and Autarky came back into vogue would just be considered part of the process.

Unless you're saying that all these things happened and globalization breaking down and Autarky returning only happened late in the process.

I don't really like the Great Regression, because it implies people think things naturally can go backwards. People tend to believe whatever they're doing now is either a temporary setback if it's worse than yesterday for them, or a bold step forward if it isn't worse for them. Simply Mass Deglobalization might work as a name.

Though yes, the Great Floundering or Foundering are good, if you want a "the great x" format for the name.

Yeah, that, and it somewhat was staggered, because many of the eventual superpolities emerged as a response to others coming into being and prospering.

But "flounder" is described as having less severe connotations compared to "founder" (the verb).

Edited by MarqFJA on May 14th 2022 at 9:06:53 PM

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