Love Stonewall Union, but its a record company. I hate Stonewall Gaming Community we're more then that. Maybe Stonewall League or Stonewall Confederation. The Stonewall Hegemony has a nice ring to it. We aren't Gorn!
Didn't think of that. Who dosen't want to be a big green lizie thing?
I'll be honest - this is something I just don't feel all that strongly about. That being said, I really like the sound of Stonewall United. Cheers, Dakon.
Might be a little odd coming from a "Yank" for all of our British Invasion brethren, but I think Stonewall United might say it all succinctly. Sounds a bit like a British Soccer team, but it keeps the name from being pigeonholed into gaming while speaking exactly to what (at least to me) the guild(s) are about.
I've updated the list of options. Take a gander and feel free to update your vote to your new favorite. :) *cough* Not Stonewall Gaming Community *cough*
There's no reason why Stonewall Fleet and Knights of Stonewall can't be offshoots of the "NicholasJohn Network" (I like that, lol) and this would allow us a certain amount of freedom when it comes to create future homes in other games.
The Nick Network crossed my mind a couple times, but seemed way to conceded to use. :)
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Of those three poll-choices i prefer 'Stonewall Network'. But when you do a Google search, you find a small American software company. American companies like to sue, especially if someone else uses their name.
Even if they were to sue, we're in a completely field than them and non-for profit. They wouldn't have much of a case for us infringing on their name.
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I like 'Stonewall Guilds' too. When you do a search for it on google, you find a link to the Stonewall Family. Their a guild and they are called Stonewall too. I remember a few people here or on the swtor chat asking if we where the same people as that guild. I don't think the Stonewall Family will like it very much if we call ourselves 'Stonewall Guilds'.
Actually, the guild leader of the Stonewall Family and I have chatted at great lengths about our respective guilds. Our three guilds, Stonewall Fleet, Knights of Stonewall and the Stonewall Family are in a sort of alliance were we are the primary guild for each game. Its called the Stonewall Gamers Alliance. Basically, if any of the Stonewall Familiy's members want to play STO or TOR, they direct them to us and we direct any people interested in WOW to them. I don't think they'd mind at all, tbh. :) Although, there is the Stonewall Champions in WOW that we aren't associated with.
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I'd also like to suggest we step away from mentioning "gaming" in the title. I don't think we are just a gaming community at the moment, we have people discussing TV shows, movies, art and all hosts of stuff they find on the internet.
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I assume that all our members are playing SWTOR or STO. I don't know what future plans you guys have, but currently we are a scifi mmorpg community. What kind of expansions are you considering? More importantly what kind of things do you consider as never going to be something you allow under the flag of this community. For instance if a few people here asked to start a real life roleplaying group using the name of this community, would you go along with it? If a few people here asked to start a dating service using the name of this community, would you go along with it?
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People are going to have more interests and discuss more than just gaming, but that does not change the fact that gaming is the main focus and the main attraction.
You never know where we'll be in the years to come or how we'll continue to define ourselves. Who knows, maybe we'll start our own MMO one day. I think IRL meetings would be a fantastic part of our community. As we continue to grow and we have more members in more places, it'll become easier for people to meet other Stonewall gaymers in there area. If great relationships come out of that, that's fantastic! If I'm not mistaken, a few people have met their significant other through Stonewall already.
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Who knows what we'll be doing in another 10 years (hopefully we'll be Facebook size and we all will have produced a movie about how Nick stole the Stonewall idea from us :p).
This is the secret to my success, my special power. I steal other people's ideas and use them as my own without them even noticing. :P Or at least, they do notice but don't care cause they like me so much.
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The Nicholas John Stonewall Memorial Allied Group of Fleets and Guilds for Gaming and Social Interaction on the Internet or NJSMAGOFAGFGASIOTI for short.
or
United Stonewall Families.
OMG that's one hell of an acronym. I do like how FAG is in there though. :)
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A few more that popped up after reading these last posts:
Stonewall Union (STUN for short)
United Stonewall
St.United Gamers (STUNG for short)
The NJ Gayming Comm.
What does the "St." Stand for? Stonewall?
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Love Stonewall Union, but its a record company. I hate Stonewall Gaming Community we're more then that. Maybe Stonewall League or Stonewall Confederation. The Stonewall Hegemony has a nice ring to it.
We aren't Gorn!
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What about The Stonewall Universe. It has a kind of all-encompassing feel to it. A google search didn't reveal any major conflicts.
Hmm, sounds very Linux! I'll add it.
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We are now! Besides, everything Star Gate is canceled, they are not using it anymore.
I know. :( It makes me sad. I want Stargate Universe back.
Stonewall Universe seems to fit. It simultaneously acknowledges the sci-fi factor whilst at the same time, by the very definition of the word, gives us room to explore more.
things to do with your money (and you don't feel like being charitable or maybe even dropping me an easy mil that would take care of me for the next 15 years. :p)
There's eyeball jewelry:
Want to make your eyes really sparkle? A company is offering contact lenses fitted with real diamonds and gold. Dubbed 'eye jewellery', the bling eyewear sees 18 diamonds studded onto an 18-carat gold plate on a special lens. Created by Shekhar Eye Research in Mumbai, the 'La SER' brand lenses can be custom-made at a cost of $15,000 a pair in four designs of diamonds on white gold, diamonds on yellow gold, or just gold or yellow gold.
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Intel(R)Core(TM) i7 CPU 860@2.80 ghz 6 GB ram Nvidia geforce gts 240
Oh here, since i've run it a couple times already for a posting, dxdiag in spoiler
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