Delete or Rename: Austin Powers Golf Cart
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I approved it in the queue but it was definitely borderline. The original name was just "Austin Powers" but clearly people wouldn't think of a car getting stuck if that was the only name, so I changed it slightly before hitting Approve.
i'm not saying its validity (or the name) shouldn't be debated though.
Here's the scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKR9tCiwvA
" @Hailinel: If you've seen the movie, you would know. Again, I'm not really defending it, but it is a thing that happens. "Yes, I've seen the scene as linked by Not_Rage, and it still seems absurd that the concept is named as such because it's not a reference that everyone would immediately get, and as others have noted, that's not a golf cart.
" @Hailinel: Yeah, I realize it's not a golf cart now. I hadn't seen the movie in 10 years. But it was better than just leaving it as "Austin Powers" alone. And I did immediately realize what he was talking about, which is why I approved it. Of course I expected it to come up for debate. "You approved it because you yourself got the reference even though you had no idea how widespread knowledge of the reference was and that you knew it would come up for debate? That's shaky reasoning for approving the concept. I've seen Austin Powers before, a long time ago, and I completely forgot about that bit of the movie before that Youtube clip was posted. I'm sure that I'm not the only person that would react the same way. Is there honestly no better name that you could think of that did not depend on the Austin Powers reference?
I'm going to agree the name is pretty bad in terms of describing what it is.
I think the reason it got submitted was cause someone in a quick look said something along the lines of 'Austin Powering' while this was happening.
Also, does there really need to be a concept for this?
Seriously, as I said before, I thought it was borderline, so I gave it the okay knowing full well that it would most likely end up here. Essentially I was sending it to the D&C forum for review by you guys. How is that bad? So the guy got like 3 points for something that may get deleted. OH NO! And as for the name, again, yeah I fucked up by calling it a golf cart. So let's rename it.
" @Marino: You're basically saying that as submitted, the concept wasn't good enough, so you changed the title without decreasing the level of ambiguity and then posted it anyway. You honestly couldn't think of anything better, like Environmental Vehicular Entrapment? "I'm saying the name wasn't good enough and I didn't take the time to think of a significantly better name. Could I have taken more time on it? Sure. Should I have? Maybe. I honestly believe that no matter what I decided to name it, it was going to end up here in the D&C forum because, as I've said numerous times, I believed the concept to be borderline. I don't know how many times I can explain my thought process on this issue. What do you want from me? To promise I'll do better in the future?
@Unknown_Pleasures said:
" @Marino: This is why I think all concept should have to go through the discussion board before being excepted. "While sending ALL of them is probably overkill, I agree with you in principle. Even before I was a mod I would often monitor the "newest additions" tab on each of the categories looking for debatable submissions. I'm sure you can see that from my previous posts in this forum. So while having every new concept be discussed here probably isn't feasible, I think there's enough of us monitoring it to catch the extraneous stuff.
As this has happened to me on occasion, I don't see any reason to not have it here. However, it's suggested that this phenomenon is exclusive to multiplayer, which it is not. It can happen in pretty much any game with vehicular gameplay, and when it's happened to me it's mostly in games like GTA.
As for the name, it's referencing pop culture, in this case a fairly popular movie. I think the reference is fine, though the name is not.
I feel like the concept's name should be changed, as it's not really something it's referenced to commonly. In fact, this is probably covered by the "Getting Stuck in Geometry" concept, from what it looks like. It's really not all that different.
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