There’s a contact roller skate sport called roller derby where participants use pseudonyms when they play – and the rules state that each name must be unique. There are online databases of derby names so players can make sure their chosen name hasn’t been taken. Derby names are often mock-violent and/or sexy, but their most distinguishing feature is that most are based on puns. (The Wikipedia page has examples with the puns excruciatingly explained)
I learned all this when Lauren Barmore (aka Z Machine) sent me the full dataset of names from twoevils.org and derbyrollcall.com. She was one of several people who suggested I train a neural network on derby names. As with craft beers, coming up with a unique but clever name has become a challenge (there were more than 66k in the dataset she sent me), and she wondered if a neural network would be able to help generate new names.
The neural networks I train learn by example, and are good at mimicking the sounds and rhythms and common words of their input datasets (here, I used textgenrnn). With the derby names, it was the best at the “violence” category, although it sometimes forgot about the “playful” part.
Blood-Slug Shady Bruise Miss Carnage Darth Death Spank Bomb Vicious Killer Lil Hunter Fun Stabs Pain Pain The Danger Boom Storm Princess Damage Shredda Gore Fatal Strike Gore Storm Bruise Bruiser Rage Hatchet Battle of Bop Destroyer Smash JoJo The Murder Zog Mangler Bonnie Skullmall Princess Morgue Hey Pain Bear Rage Danger Boom Box The Fight Eye Command Screaming Boom Chaos
Most of the time, I couldn’t tell what category it was going for. At least these names aren’t taken.
The Comma Rude Professor Lox O’Horror Mayhem Chicken Triple Cookie Snow Warn Badger Bambi Eat-A-Skate Moon Mage Bruised Toast Show Cat Emma Sand Chaos Hubbles Lil Panter Duck Chains Shell Piper Secret Booty Cat Hand Stomps Scream Ass Ele Strawberry Pusher Butter Mack Dash Rumble Floobie Sauce Bang Whip Short Maim Shellbull Damage Bunny Farm Slayer Pug Mile Peach Atom Bog Quad It The Skater Slurrs. Buggg The Fusty Eyes Flubblestrack Nurfie Boops of Jenni Morgunn Grace Shrimp
It also generated some horrible names I would not recommend. (Unless, perhaps, you are a bombardier beetle.) These are the printable ones.
Butty Destroy Anus Attack Booty Butter Colon Boom Skillz Bud Crack Hell Poo Drop Nightmare Lump
You’ll notice I have not gotten to the largest category of derby names: the puns. It turns out this neural network does not understand puns AT ALL, and it’s incredibly painful when it tries.
Kim Stroyer Mary Splockings Ikra B. Up Aana Dastrophe Burning Sweet C. Bang Lucious Ally Mo Alotiboot Cheesella Anita WreckPIED Miss A. It Menace Ace ‘N’ Hardy Pan De Lucious Pitty Tea N. Little Shota Monster Dizard Danky Maul Frankin De Fight Silence Stroye La Vandastrophe Harry Stabble Sugar & Stranger Slamm-Tonic
It’s positively weird. They’re pun-shaped objects that contain no actual puns. Occasionally one of its puns alllmost works and I think that’s somehow even worse.
Prince Slam Lot Booty Count Dawn Pain Ferri Punchlime Boot Skateer The Sweet Roll Bone Damned Killer Strongulate
It also tried to do the “sexy” category, but it was pretty bad at it. From what I can tell, text-generating neural networks do not understand what humans find sexy. Again, these are the printable ones.
Body Sparkly Death Hot Sporty Darth Sugar Sanderwear Rotten Sassy Booty-Slammer Big Mighty Danger Sass Dirty Scream!
For the UNprintable ones, as well as a huge list of >500 unsorted derby names (most of which are terrible not-puns), enter your email here.
OK dinguses, here’s something that’s gonna make your life and the lives of everyone who sees you at the con so much better.
This is called a Men’s Dance Belt.
It’s for male ballet dancers to wear under their tights. Its purpose?
TO MAKE SURE NOBODY SEES THEIR BULGE.
when I’m at a con, nothing kills a potential good superhero costume more than seeing the cosplayer’s friendly neighborhood spider-cock through the costume.
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO THIS. I SEE TO MANY PEOPLE WHO DON’T AND I’M JUST LIKE “YO COME ON…”
people are saying this happens because Sparkling Aria cures burns, so if your Pokémon has a burn he will try to heal it and make that heal extra good by doing a z-move instead of a normal one
and if that’s not fitting for him then i don’t know what is
everyone loves to shit on david cage for making his games so heavily prompt based but let me tell you it’s the prompts specifically that elevate his work to the level of modern masterpieces
wheres the one where the player fails every prompt in a chase scene and it turns a dramatic pursuit into a mr bean movie
Hope this will spread as much as save net neutrality posts
it’s way worse than that law actually, in US they “just” wanted your money, here the EU goverment wants to take our freedom without even giving a choice
SPREAD THIS
I’m just speechless. Dudes, this is wayyyy worse then The Net Neutrality bullshit in the US. Spread this like a wildfire! I don’t wanna lose everything I have thanks to this law!
Oh my gosh why am I only hearing about this now? Please everyone, spread this! Most of the time we talk about problems that are happening in the US but this time it’s in the EU and we need to stand against it!!
Please help if you can it’s going to make so much damage! Just for an example, both of my blogs will disappear if it isn’t stopped, ao3 will also disappear for european countries just like every website like these ones.
So please, help!!
Actually reblogging that one because 1) I checked the original poster and 2) I felt doubt when no french media outlet that wasn’t obviously alt-right dwelved on the subject, so here I go with a list of reasons this post is dead wrong.
1) made by a self-proclaimed fascist with a blog called “Think-critically” whose blog is full of racist, transphobic, fascistic, mysoginist content. Allow me to doubt.
2) the guy in the video is a friend of the EDL. You can see another of his videos from 2 days ago where Tommy Robinson, leader of this islamophobic group which is on numerous hate watch list, supports this channel’s messages.
3) EDRI and Techdirt are also websites associated with the alt-right.
4) From everything I’ve gathered about said article 13. It’s actually meant to stop, block and disable fake news campaigns. Like the ones Russia did in France in 2017, the UK during brexit, Italy, Germany, Poland, etc…. It’s a way to also put responsability on websites that host the information (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook. All 3 having a pretty tulmutuous relationship with European countries (Read: don’t comply with the law and refuse to pay taxes)) as a deterrent to make sure they’re careful during election season (Which, to their credit, they were during the Irish referendum, blocking foreign media outlets). That means
5) The alt-right just got 30k Tumblr users to sign a petition against blocking Russia’s interference in our elections, dressed it up as a brave struggle for freedom (This will END the internet guys. Trust me on this one. They want to destroy it because….. BAD. Not GOOD.) And y’all not checking your damn sources played right into their hands.
In conclusion: Fuck Putin and fuck the Alt-right, go out and vote, check your sources.
I reblogged this without that knowledge, having read two of the sources, and I apologise.
