A hypothetical

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Supposing one were to be messing about with one's personal file in the team database and happen to clear one's temporary codename, strictly in the interest of seeing how alternatives might appear on the page. Suppose this were to temporarily revert the entry title to "TEMPLATE".

Then suppose one, whilst attempting to remove said placeholder, appears to have frozen said system in the midst of clearing the first T, leaving this selfsame one currently confronted with a screen which now rather distressingly insists itself to be _EMPLATE.

How would one go about fixing this? In the strictly theoretical sense, of course.

Comments

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Wait, you assigned your code name as "Emplate"?

What the hell is an emplate?

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

A busted-ass template?

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

Or a plate with the letter M printed on it.

That speaks volumes about your relationship with your sister, Laverne, which I now believe to be inappropriate for this forum.

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Wait, are we on speaking terms now?

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Your assessment is inaccurate. At its most literal interpretation one could argue only that my sister is in me, not on me.

. . . I suspect that statement does not quite convey the intended message.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

"Assigned" is a bit strong. In the case of this appellation, "defaulted" would perhaps be more accurate.

I would request someone with more technical skill than I to see about changing it, but in perfect honesty I was nearing the point of taking a codename based on the grand tradition of "open the dictionary and close your eyes". Once you exclude the undesirable possibilities alluding to my particular method of acquiring powers few options spring to mind.

I suppose I could always take inspiration from $, The Trainee Formerly Known As My Sister . . .

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

You know, it actually kind of fits. I mean, if people see "Cyclops", they probably figure "Hey, he's going to do something with his eyes!". If they hear us yell "Storm, do your thing!" they probably can expect winds and stuff.

I think "Emplate" falls in there with "Cable" for levels of tactical obfuscation.

At least it didn't default to "Dazzler".

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

dude, Marius IS kind of a busted-ass template. I mean, a template is kind of a blank thing you throw specific stuff into, right? How is that NOT MARIUS?

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

Maybe people need to pick codenames that don't reveal what their powers are? Confuse people, you know?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Well, I have technical skill, but I'm a little busy introducing some idiot who named their death knight "Tehpwnerer" to the facts of life in the Wrath beta. Namely that I am, and he isn't.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

lolwut?

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Hit it with a hammer?

I've never been very good with computers.

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

"Emplate"? That's, um, catchy. Yeah, that.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

You just need to pick something other than your trainee name. Which is the worst since Clarice's.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Sorry for?

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

I think I'm actually going to miss "Chupathingy".

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

It violates the Syllabic Law! It must be banished!

[x-sway.livejournal.com]

What was Clarice's?

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

Tinky Winky.

[x-wallflower-.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I still maintain my codename to be the worst of all time.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Hey, my codename was developed by a Toronto market research firm. It can always been worse.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

I admit I had wondered at that. "Dominion" always struck me as having a curiously expansionist ring to it.

Unless, of course, it is meant to imply you bear the sovereignty of your nation wheresoever you go -- similar to an embassy, but portable. A sort of Hamsterball of Authority, if you will.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Nah. It was originally the Dominion of Canada, which has a kind of historic feel to it. Don't get me started about the 'Canadian Shield'

[x-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Dude, seriously? You didn't get a say in it at all? SUCK.