Hello, and a trivial question

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:41 pm

Davidtq wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Flashheart wrote:
Massive bump for this topic eh?

As a relative newcomer to this superb game I am troubled by it's silly (IMHO) name. Whenever I talk to anyone about it I have to spell it out and offer up two or three pronunciations, all of which seem equally daft. It also looks like open office lite!

To the powers-that-be, please, please, please, change it's name to something else! Please?
No.

Not that I'm a power that be!
Indeed the OOniverse just wouldnt be the same without all the "oo" names in various oxp added items, which in some ways recaptures the humour of edible arts graduates that was sorely lacking in the actual elite sequels.

As DaddyHoggy I have a number of Commisions for Ad-X bringing to potential customers attention the delights of a number of unOosual companies...

I wouldn't know what to do with myself otherwise.

Flashheart · Post by **Flashheart** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:57 pm

Yes the object oriented, leet, blah blah, geekiness is all well and good. Trouble is some of the OXP puns seem to be inconsistent with 'oo' replacing 'oo' AND 'o' sounds.

(I wonder if Tesco would be any more likely to sue than Braben....)

Davidtq · Post by **Davidtq** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:05 pm

One of my OOlite spells coincided with watching the highlander TV series and I just couldnt hear the "princes of the universe" theme song without thinking "princes of the ooniverse":lol:

Given that Franchises chequered history an Oolite tie in probably wouldnt be impossible, pehaps Roory Mcleod vs the Thargoid Immortals somewhere in Witch space...

ramon · Post by **ramon** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:14 pm

The review in MacWorld
http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/r ... iewid=2154
says:

"Oolite (Object Oriented Elite) is as addictive and compelling today as Elite was in 1984."

Flashheart · Post by **Flashheart** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 3:17 pm

The first time I saw the word I thought it was related to oolith which made me think of monolith and 2001. Strange.

EDIT Ooniverse suggests oolite, Tescoo suggests ohlite. Still it's better than Quack. Sorry, Quake.

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:23 am

I've always said OO as in coo (Scottish cow) lEEt.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:25 am

Flashheart wrote:
The first time I saw the word I thought it was related to oolith which made me think of monolith and 2001. Strange.

EDIT Ooniverse suggests oolite, Tescoo suggests ohlite. Still it's better than Quack. Sorry, Quake.

Tesc-oo/Tesc-oh - depends where in the world (or even UK) you're based - after all people from Bristol pronounce "Asda" as "Az-dal"

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:48 am

Flashheart wrote:
To the powers-that-be, please, please, please, change it's name to something else! Please?

No.

And I am the power what am what I’yam. :-)

Flashheart · Post by **Flashheart** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:05 am

Oh...alright then. I still don't like the name but I can live with it because it is so flippin' good

zevans · Post by **zevans** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:55 pm

I assumed it was oo-oh-lite, same as the geological term and many other words from the same Greek root meaning "egg-shaped."

But I am only an egg myself and have not grokked it in fullness...

lfnfan · Post by **lfnfan** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:33 pm

I assumed it was 'oooo-leet' as in "oooh - I've just discovered this wicked remake of elite - leet"

now I just say 'uh-leet', sort of like 'elite', but not quite.

my wife says 'that game'

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:37 pm

lfnfan wrote:
my wife says 'that game'

Are you sure it's not 'that *expletive deleted* game'?

lfnfan · Post by **lfnfan** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:52 pm

no, she's too sweet for that.

it's more like: "you're playing 'that game' again

"

Rustybolts · Post by **Rustybolts** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:58 pm

lfnfan wrote:
no, she's too sweet for that.

it's more like: "you're playing 'that game' again "

Lol i get that to! Only i dont say oh its that soap again when she's watching tv.

Flashheart · Post by **Flashheart** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:27 pm

Rustybolts wrote:
lfnfan wrote:
no, she's too sweet for that.

it's more like: "you're playing 'that game' again "
Lol i get that to! Only i dont say oh its that soap again when she's watching tv.

Ooooh thats askin for trouble!