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-cypher.livejournal.com]

lolwut?

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

Hit it with a hammer?

I've never been very good with computers.

[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-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-wildchild.livejournal.com]

Wait, are we on speaking terms now?

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

No. I was just maintaining the flow of conversation, since my comment would have appeared out of place in response to Forge.

[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-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-wasp.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

TMI, TMI!!!

[x-wasp.livejournal.com]

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

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

That would be "in me" in the sense that she was generous enough to supply the regenerative marrow which has since curbed the rather irritating tendency to shed my skin, develop non-oxygen-complient lungs, and basically evolve myself all the way into a pine box.

Such filthy minds amongst you lot.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

I like being bewildering.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

Now that you say it, the possibility grows in appeal. "Appealing" in the sense that I have no better ideas nor any idea how to correct the database error, at any rate.

In fact, I think I rather fancy making the preceeding _ a mandatory part of its pronounciation -- that is, "_Emplate". Perhaps representative of some manner of click or glottal stop . . .

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

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

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Sweetheart, please, for the love of all that is good and holy think about how you word things. I was checking this from my phone and my horrified shriek could be heard all the way to the flamenco rooms.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry.

[x-emplate.livejournal.com]

As I said: filthy.

For shame, Jen. And you even there for the unveiling.

[x-roulette.livejournal.com]

Well, Emplate is easier to say than my original suggestion, which was "The Unintelligible Foreign Boy What Takes Your Powers For His Own"

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

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

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

Sorry for?

[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.