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One of my friends in high school changed his named as soon as he turned 18, so that the ethnic name his family gave him was finally the name reflected on all of his paperwork. He told me that he understood why his parents had given him an “English” name, but that he felt that if he needed to assimilate in order to succeed, then that was a type of success that he didn’t want.

When I was on my way home from the courthouse after changing my own name, I got into a conversation with my rideshare driver, who was extremely interested once I told him what I was in court for, and wanted to know how I’d done it, how much it cost, was it difficult, etc. It turned out that his girlfriend had chosen the name “Yo-yo” when she came to the United States, unaware of how rare that was as a name, and that she was frequently made fun of because of it. Neither one of them had realized that a name change was so easy, and he told me he was excited to let her know that she had options.

There was an intern at a summer job I had once, who changed her name to be the same name, but a different spelling. She said that she had no idea why her parents had spelled her name so oddly to begin with, and suspected that it was just an honest mistake either by them or by some nurse, but it had been a headache for her entire life, and it was a huge relief to not need to be correcting people’s spelling on important documents anymore.

One of my exes legally changed his name to have an exclamation point, because he liked to sign his name with an exclamation point.

One of the more common examples I run into is keeping track of bullets or arrows or whatever. You’ll see all sorts of thinkpieces on RPG design blogs about how keeping track of expendable resources in a fine-grained and concrete way is never useful or necessary in a tabletop roleplaying game, and anybody who does is either a creepy math fetishist, or else simply too stupid to realise that they’re doing pointless busy-work – like, have y’all literally never heard of survival horror as a genre?

If you’re running the sort of game where resource starvation is meant to be a constant threat and being able to keep your distance from the baddies is an overwhelming advantage, making ammunition into a scare and countable resource is a pretty obvious piece of game-mechanical genre emulation. Yes, there are more abstract and arguably more “elegant” ways to handle it, but keeping track of individual arrows or bullets has the virtue that it’s intuitively obvious to everyone and doesn’t create any weird edge cases that need to be reasoned around. This isn’t rocket science.

- Mostly cigender men

- Mostly cisgender women

- Mostly transgender men/transmasculine people

- Mostly transgender women/transfeminine people

- Mostly non binary people

- Mostly mixed group of transgender people of any gender

- Mostly mixed group of cis people of any gender

- Perfectly even mix of people of any gender, cis and trans alike

The first one sounds so sad and “broken”, (in the sense of having vibes of brokenness as an intentional design thing). Is great

And the third one sounds like an original battle theme! So good

At launch, they are all alike. As they mature, they develop personalities.

"I need to visit the docks at the next stop," the ship said.

"Is there a problem?"