Couple names baby born on 11/11/11 "Dovahkiin," wins free Bethesda games for life
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http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/parents-name-child-skyrim-character-195904653.html
Seeing as hpw this has to do with the bethesda company also I made it its own thread, hope thats no problem :S
Seeing as hpw this has to do with the bethesda company also I made it its own thread, hope thats no problem :S
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game over bully!
But good for them and all that.
You shut your whore mouth.
Practice saying it again, from the bottom of your heart and using the very soul of the dragon language, only then will you master the Thu'um of SHUT YO MOUTH
It's like getting a full sleeve tattoo, shouldn't it mean something more then "I luves your branding!"
Poor kid. Give him a strong name before he's able to remember anything. :P
...not to mention, this kid is pretty much guaranteed friends with our generation so long as he doesn't grow up to be a total douche. And we're surely better than the generation he'll be a part of.
Also might sound weird, but they said they'd have named him that regardless of reward from Bethesda. In a weird way, that tells me they actually care enough to name their kid something unique, from something they're passionate about. The kid's got gamer parents, he may just be luckier than most people ever.
Zelda was a name before the games came out, although the games were the reason she was so named.
My name "Jonatan" is pretty biblical, but my name was actually taken from one of the astrid lindgren stories about the lionheart brothers, which now that I think of it, actually involves a nordic fantasy world and a dragon, holy shit.
ALL MAKT
Also couldn't you totally compose your own theme song? :P
Though in full my initials are, C P S M B. Irish for yea~
Thing is, Mario is an actual name. Very common. Dovahkiin is not. :P
personally id be happy buying the games if it saved my kids from 18 years of bullying.
wtf is an "actual" name? Dovahkiin makes as much sense to me as Mario, or John, or Barrack Hussein Obama...
They're just words. Mario is derived from Marius, which the Romans used as a name connoting Mars, the god of war. It literally means Martian I suppose, but again, in the sense of a very much fictional character. Praising Mars, the god of war, makes about as much sense as to praise the Dragonborn from Skyrim. Both are works of fiction, only one is classic and the other modern.
It's all about as valid as anything.
Having loving parents that named you after a made up name will give you a much brighter future than one where you have bad parents who just name you bob.
They didn't do it for the games, when you're passionate about something and your child suddenly being born on such a hard to hit date, then I guess it would just feel right, be it zelda or dovakhiin.
Not being from an english speaking country and having a different name from you guys doesn't automatically make us open minded. People can be just as thick-minded in any country. From what I've read in the thread it's the reason for having the name that's bothering some people, it being something from a video game and for some contest(which has been cleared up by the parents now). It's apparently not just because it's weird, it's because they see a risk in the kid being bullied and what not in the future. However bullying kids can be somewhat unpredictable, there's usually more reasons than just a weird sounding name that encourages them to bully you. For this a kid by the name "Bart" could be more bullied for his name than a "Jar Jar".
Its not the loving parents that I would expect to be doing the bullying, the kid could have a great home life, It's the rest of world that's the problem.
I was bullied on and off about my accent for nearly 16 years, it changes you and sticks with you. It seems short sighted and irresponsible for someone to name their kid something like that.
I bet by age 13 he just calls himself Dave
I bet by age 13 he's wondering what's so awesome about a 13 year old game, while he plays Gears of War 9
If kids want to find a reason to bully you for being named bob, they will, but you are generally going to have a hard time if your home is not a good place.
All it takes to get a kid bullied is for everyone who is not a bully to insist that his name is not normal, and should not have been given to the kid, which is a really bad mindset generally.
You've, uhm... You've been here before right? Polycount may be the greatest place online but I don't think it's unfair to say that there's some pretty opinionated and vocal members.
but yeah, what Goraz said
In other news. Horrible names for kids. A couple in New Jersey named their son Adolf Hitler redneck or whatever their last name was. They were in the news for it bc a store declined to put the kids name on the birthday cake..
These parents did actually lose their kids recentely but not because of the name. Turns out they weren't good people or something. Hmmm who would have thought?
I'd go with the Dane Cook names...
Megatron
Optimus Prime
Cobra Commander
Blurrrrreeeeyyyaaa (or whatever it was haha)
But Dovahkiin? My surname is Kavijian, so I think it's best to say I didn't find the names very 'exotic' as some people might think.
But I can see how those have gone the way of the swastika.
Dovah seems to be a genuine name though, with Hebrew origins (like many names)
Seems to be inevitable doesnt it