Is it shallow, or petty, to decide based on name alone? Yeah, pretty much, but there’s probably something, a product or service or site, that the name has made you gloss right over it or jump to it ASAP.
What are some examples that spring to mind for you?
I actively avoid Fedora Linux.
I feel like that’s the worst name of any brand ever.tips distro m’linux
m’Distro
Ah, another Hannah Montana Linux user, I presume.
Same, I just can’t get over that name. I’m not sure if that’s because of or in spite of the fact that I had a fedora phase when I was younger…
It was originally developed in 2003, just as the hat started to come back. The neck beard meme seems to have come about later in the 2000’s (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fedora-shaming).
I avoided the Instant Pot for a long time because it sounded cheap and all those functions couldn’t possibly work well.
I was wrong. I was so wrong.
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Mine makes yogurt from milk and yogurt.
It’s a perpetual yogurt machine.
And it makes chili!
Let me get this straight, this machine makes yogurt but one of the ingredients required is yogurt? That’s revolutionary.
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Warby Parker. Something about the name just completely frosts me. I know I should grow up and give them a chance (because Luxotica is fucking evil). But it really turns me off. “Warby Parker”…sounds like the name of some kid who’s dad owns racehorses.
I think part of the reason I use Zenni Optical online is because Warby Parker sounds like a place that’ll offer grandma glasses for stupid-expensive prices.
I tried Zenni a couple of times. Really wanted to like them. But the glasses they sent me were horrible. I do have a somewhat complex prescription, though. I suspect for basic prescriptions they are OK.
Mine are basic and yes, zenni crushes it every time. I even get my phone number lazered into the ear thingies so that people can call me if I lose them.
That’s because Warby Parker is a place that’ll offer grandma glasses for stupid-expensive prices.
This is hilarious because it invokes same exact feeling for me when I hear the name. It just screams “New York socialite.”
Glad I’m not the only one. I am highly averse to anything that sounds like a “lifestyle brand”. Hollister and such. I’ll never understand people who wear expensive brand name t-shirts and provide free advertising for giant corporations. Ryan George made a pretty funny YouTube video about this strange phenomenon.
I lived in a city, had occasional need for a car. A car club would have been ideal. Don’t need to spend thousands on a car upfront, don’t need to deal with maintenance, don’t need to secure parking.
Problem? The only car club in town was called whizzgo. Like, a toddler word for urination. Written on all the cars in big colourful letters. No thanks.
Can’t hear Uber without hearing Nazis prattle about ubermensch.
…Are you aware that “über” is a normal German word meaning “over”?
Yes, ubermensch is a loanword in English, favored by cringy edgelords like the founder of Uber.
Do you have a source for your claim that Uber is named after “übermensch”? I couldn’t find it anywhere. Some webpages say that it’s just named after the prefix „über-“.
Hmm I always thought über meant “very.” Oops.
Do you know most non German speaking people have heard the word übermench ;-) ?
Yes. Doesn’t mean that anyone who uses the word „über“ is a Nazi.
When I shop on Amazon and see the obvious China companies that sell the same product but have the strangest names. Definitely avoid those products. If I see a.company only ships via fedex, I avoid doing business with that company. Dang, I know I have more just can’t think of them right now with morning brain.
Edit: I avoid many major brands too. I belive them to be selling because of the name alone rather than having a quality product anymore. Dr Scholls is one of those,
They’re all random names consisting of 7 capital letters too DINGBAO, VXSUFEN, WEGTHOS, etc.
At least “dingbao” can be pronounced. Some of the others sound like names for elder gods in bad Lovecraftian fanfic.
Love it when they consist only of consonants. Saw something along the lines of XYGDLFW the other day
yeah, I do still buy from Chinese companies sometimes, but only if they are smart enough to use a name that doesn’t sound like someone just used a random password generator and said “good enough”… or … whatever the Cantonese equivalent of “good enough” is, I suppose.
I thought Fight Club was a boxing movie and had no interest in seeing it. I only saw it because I tried downloading Jackass on Kazaa and it ended up being Fight Club. The intro had me hooked.
I thought you werent supposed to talk about it?
Wait… It’s not a boxing movie? Haven’t seen it yet for the same reason.
You’re lucky it wasn’t Bill Clinton “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” instead.
This very Lemmy account is from embracing its domain name.
How do you know someone uses Arch?
Don’t worry; they’ll tell you.
Ironically, I believe the server for this instance runs Ubuntu.
I mean, probably for the best. You think "Personal workstation’ when you hear Arch, not a public server
lmao
Any product name which starts with “smart” or ends with “maker”.
Both are just e-waste OOTB.
pacemaker
Smartphone
If it wasn’t for the 5 ish messaging apps I have to maintain and my recent move to a new city (need maps), I’d try to avoid that one too.
Yep, that and also words that start with i…
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I’ve made a game titled Diarrhea 4 because someone mentioned that as a potential game name. Does that count?
What happened to Diarrhea 1-3?
Don’t worry, they were shitty games.
goddamn, yeup fits the bill.
Squirt, the soda.
Squirt, the act.
Does judging books by their cover count? Seems like in the same vein…
In the 90s, I avoided Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series books because the Baen covers were awful, and at the time she hadn’t written books for any other publisher so I didn’t get introduced to her via that route. In the 2010s I finally read her books…and I was mad as hell that they’d put such ugly covers on them back in the day, because I would’ve been crazy about this series in the 90s!
in the same vein, I’m so glad they reprinted Glen Cook’s Black Company books, because no one I tried to get interested in them would read them with the old covers. I’m not sure even I did. I certainly can’t imagine I deliberately chose to pick up a book with this cover.
I’ve got that paperback.
I used to! I picked up a set of Black Co at a used book store to try and loan out. finally didn’t come back after I “lost” the cover and apologized for the state of the book I was loaning. but got another convert, so a win in my book.
For 3 or 4 seasons I completely ignored Game of Thrones - the name just threw me off. To some extend I’m happy I did - there was a lot of content to catch up to when I finally did give the first episode a shot :)
How’d that turn out?
shh, they’re still on season 4. Don’t spoil the ending.
It ended up in my top of all time :) Next to
The WireandBreaking Bad.It ENDED in your top of all time?
Well done for not letting the end ruin the beginning, I’ll rewatch it every so often but my god it leaves a sour taste these days. The last season is enough to undo all the good work they’d done to that point, it’s such a shame :(
The ending is not great, but it definitely was an ending. Some shows can’t even manage that. And to me it hasn’t spoilt all the previous seasons - those were solid.
Yeah I still rewatch and enjoy the heck out of it, but then the choice is either an incomplete story or a godawful ending with characters that barely resemble the ones I enjoyed initially.
I don’t hate the show as a whole but it doesn’t get near my top 10, yet it could’ve been my number 1 of all time if they turned the last 2 seasons into 4 or 5 with the same quality as the first 4 or 5.
I honestly don’t even hate the final picture, it’s just the complete lack of justification to get us there I can’t stand, and the embarrassing endings of some characters who deserved more (or should have died sooner).
So easy! Whatsapp!
Dumbest. Name. Ever.
So hopelessly of its time, namely that moment when the word “app” was the coolest thing ever among normies because iPhone.
And, cherry on the top, coined by geeks with language skills so poor that they thought “app” rhymes with “up”, which it absolutely does not to anyone who speaks English properly.
What an embarrassingly dumb name.
I appreciate what you’re saying, but given the literal billions of users I’d say they absolutely nailed it.
If you want to make money hand-over-fist , you can’t shy away from the “normies.” IMO, using “normies” unironically is way more cringe.
