The thread of codename suggestions

[FnrrfYgmSchnish]

Klabautermann -- Dutch/German spirit or goblin that helps out with various things on ships, usually unseen unless the ship is doomed to sink soon.
Kanabo -- Japanese samurai spiked club/mace weapon that I've always thought looked kinda neat.
Khnum -- Egyptian god associated with the source of the Nile, said to create people's bodies from clay and place them in the mother's womb.
Kiribati -- Small island nation in the Pacific. Pronounced more like "keer-ih-bass," it's actually "Gilberts" transliterated into their language.

[Hollyhart1]

Kalimba - A musical instrument
Kenya - A country in Africa
Kali - Goddess of death and destruction in Hinduism
Kalki - The last Avatar, a.k.a. The magic boy who defeats Kali in Hinduism

That's all I got for now.

[Bob the Hamster]

Here is the official list of suggestions. I added descriptions for the ones that were lacking.

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krunkle - At least one indie band, a Boov from the cartoon "Home", and a commom misspelling of Crunkle, which might also be a made up word
kramer - A not even slightly obscure character from the hit show "Seinfeld". Possibly also 50% of a Dustin Hoffman film.
kaleidophone - a device for visualizing sound waves with light
katabothron - an underground channel of water
kenodoxy - the study of the vainglorious
keraunoscopia - divination by means of thunder
kilfud-yoking - a dispute around the fireside
kitthoge - awkwardly left handed
klabautermann -- Dutch/German spirit or goblin that helps out with various things on ships, usually unseen unless the ship is doomed to sink soon.
kanabo -- Japanese samurai spiked club/mace weapon that I've always thought looked kinda neat.
khnum -- Egyptian god associated with the source of the Nile, said to create people's bodies from clay and place them in the mother's womb.
kiribati -- Small island nation in the Pacific. Pronounced more like "keer-ih-bass," it's actually "Gilberts" transliterated into their language.
kalimba - A musical instrument
kenya - A country in Africa
kali - Goddess of death and destruction in Hinduism
kalki - The last Avatar, a.k.a. The magic boy who defeats Kali in Hinduism

Submissions are now closed. go ahead and suggest more if you want

Next steps:

I will pick my 3 favorites, and they will be assigned numbers ⚀ ⚁ ⚂

TMC will pick his 3 favorites and they will be assigned numbers ⚃ ⚄ ⚅

Votes are cast by posting a view of yourself rolling a d6. Anyone who can be bothered to upload a video and link it here is eligible to vote. One vote per person

[Bob the Hamster]

⚀katabothron
⚁kilfud-yoking keer-ih-bass
⚂keraunoscopia


Oh man, now I feel bad picking only my own-- I went through all the non-me suggestions carefully, and every single one failed the obscurity test. If if produces 10 or more pages of google results, it can't be obscure in my book

If somebody suggests something obscure that I like better before the first vote video gets posted, maybe I'll change one or two of them.

EDIT: okay, actually, "keer-ih-bass", the phonetic approximation of kiribati is legit obscure and i like it. Switching ⚁ to that.

EDIT: I thought about this further and decided I was being an obscurity snob

[Bob the Hamster]

I think I came up with a voting system that was fun for me, and un-fun for everyone else, so I am sorry.

Let's keep this one simple.

"K" nominations thus far can be voted upon here: https://star.vote/23yhza92/

(Yes its super easy to cheat with a private window or another browser. Please don't Let's just give it a try)

[RMZ]

I kinda love this and I laughed pretty hard at my suggestion making it onto the list. Thanks for putting this together.

[Bob the Hamster]

Your suggestion is the worst, but I am glad I made you laugh

[Bob the Hamster]

The winner is kaleidophone!

That was a close call

Jocoserious should release later this week. Kaleidophone should release in late May or early June.

Y'all can start nominating "L" words if you wish.

[Fenrir-Lunaris]

It's an OBSCURE reference, but...

~LELELELELE

[Bluefeather42]

L'Ollonais - the infamous pirate
Locke - the philosopher
Lilliputian
L'Aquila - the Italian province
Loggerheads
Larus - part of the scientific name for gulls.
Les Paul - I like Les Pauls. Well, Les Paul knockoffs. Probably a trademark issue
Lusty - the archaic definition, "full of strength and vitality"
Lynchian - in honor of the late great David Lynch
Larsonian - in honor of the greatest artist of all time.
Lovecraftian
Lupine/Lupus(as in Canis Lupus)/Loup - Apparently people here like wolf girls, so why not?
Luna/Lunar/Lunacy/Lunatic
or, hear me out...
Lunaris - Hey, Fenrir made the official example game. Maybe he deserves to have a release named after him.

[kylekrack]

seconding Lynchian