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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 04 March 2016 08:37:34PM 2 points [-]

Will his next account be CopperKettleDrums?

Comment author: gjm 05 March 2016 07:44:32PM 0 points [-]

Good catch! (That poem has "The Lion" in it too, as well as old gold and torchlight crimson. But not Eugine, Azathoth, or the Voice of Ra.)

Comment author: gjm 22 March 2016 11:53:50AM 0 points [-]

Right poem, wrong fragment.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 22 March 2016 01:19:09PM 0 points [-]

The sphexishness is strong with these ones (both Eugene and the LW moderators).

Comment author: gjm 22 March 2016 01:58:27PM 1 point [-]

I do wonder whether Eugine is deliberately being obvious as a sort of fuck-you to the LW community in general and its moderators in particular. "You guys are so ineffectual that I can keep just using names chosen the same way and saying the exact same things and being super-obvious about it, and before anything's done I'll have had months to fight the good fight. Hahahahaha!" With, perhaps, a side order of "See how weak and useless the namby-pamby liberal mindset makes you."

Comment author: Lumifer 22 March 2016 05:33:27PM 0 points [-]

A simpler explanation is that there is no reason for him to be non-obvious.

Comment author: gjm 22 March 2016 06:50:09PM 0 points [-]

Agreed. (But simpler explanations are not always correct, and my mental model of Eugine -- which admittedly is probably not terribly good -- feels quite likely to do that out of some combination of fun and spite.)

Comment author: gjm 22 March 2016 12:00:50PM *  0 points [-]

Likely future names: Golden_Horn, Nameless_Throne, Last_Knight, Strong_Gongs, Red_and_Purple, Gun_upon_Gun, Cross_and_Castle, Scarlet_Running.

Less likely: Cold_Queen, Doubtful_Seat, Timeless_Houri, Kissed_in_Galilee, Leprous_White, Sick_and_Sunless, Yellow_Face, Painted_Poop.