Brutkey

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Like in the pub you might overhear

🐴🐴 You thought of a better name for your handyman business yet
🦊🦊 Well, you didn't like Mister Fingers so,
🐴🐴 Aye I didn't
🦊🦊 It suggested DEXTEROUS and NIMBLE
🐴🐴 No it didn't
🦊🦊 Alright so I had a think, thought "Age, continuity, experience, competence, reassurance,"
🐴🐴 Good, so...
🦊🦊 Daddy Fingers
🐴🐴 No
🦊🦊 ...BIG Daddy Fingers
🐴🐴 No,
🦊🦊 Fat Daddy Slickfingers

But with computers it's just you, alone and naked at 2am, just you and the rubber duck you're holding up like Hamlet with poor Yorick's skull and asking

🐺🐺 Should I name my calculator app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆🦆 no response
🐺🐺 ...do you have any objection to my naming this app Fat Daddy Slickfingers
🦆🦆 ...
🐺🐺 Then it's settled

There's nobody there to tell you no, just the rubber duck and he can't talk, only weep, weep for daddy fingers

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Programmer Art: crude, crappy temporary graphics that you put in a game while you figure out if the mechanics are fun enough to bother finishing it and sorting out a proper artist before release

Programmer Naming: a crude, crappy temporary name that you keep forever and ever amen, twenty years later the top question on your FAQ page is NO, we will NOT change the name, in fact we consider that it is YOU SIR who art being CRINGE,

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

Now obviously if you write software that you want to change the world, if you want it to be liberating and transformative and affirming and empowering, then you want LOTS of people to be liberated and transformed and affirmed and empowered, so you should name your software something that's ideally inspiring but at the very least not horrifically off-putting

But if you want to make a calculator app called Fat Daddy Slickfingers for a laugh then absolutely go for it lol

scarlett
@scarlett@gamepad.club

@ifixcoinops@retro.social it took all of my mental effort to not laugh at this out loud while tipsy on a bus.

I just felt like you should know that I appreciate your posts