@antimnguyen Devil trigger starts playing

@antimnguyen I was this years old before I realised the pun in the name... 🤣

@antimnguyen ooooh we remember that one!

@antimnguyen Rofl, yes it really was one of the most apt program names I think I've ever seen. Kudos to whoever made the decision to call it that.

@antimnguyen Holy shit, I get it.

@antimnguyen the joke works best in German, though, because Rome is literally spelled as Rom in that language. It's no surprise the creators were German 🙂

@antimnguyen

#BashBurn

Via @Cheatha

@antimnguyen Also regarding the Icon :)

@antimnguyen the application icon complemented it nicely…

@antimnguyen

For sure!

@antimnguyen oh.
Oh I get it now.

Also, was that program deliberately fiddly?

@antimnguyen I've to disappoint you...

#LOIC is better!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Orbit_Ion_Cannon

@antimnguyen it fits so well too

@antimnguyen when I was a kid I thought it was pronounced "Nero Burning Room" and then I literally never thought about that name again until now when I realized it's supposed to be "Nero burning Rome".

It's been 20 years in between.

@antimnguyen @hansaplast42 i was JUST thinking this exact thought

@antimnguyen I posted this, recently:

https://ciberlandia.pt/@madcap/110617591154305056

@antimnguyen Jack the Ripper is a pretty close second.

@antimnguyen
I used that product for literally years and never made that connection. 🤯
@emilygorcenski

@antimnguyen I always have to think about the software when I use these stove lighters.

@antimnguyen The #tidyverse people strive to invent catchy names for their packages, I like #lubridate best, which simplifies arithmetics with date and time.

@antimnguyen holy shit I never made that connection

@antimnguyen or having the fall of rome as your software icon

@antimnguyen never realised that.... good one

@antimnguyen until someone releases "Brutus v 2?"

@antimnguyen
What about "DAEMON tools" ? 🤔

@antimnguyen my astronomical polar alignment program is called "poledancer".

@antimnguyen oh my lord I just got it 😳

@antimnguyen until you posted this, I had missed the pun - silly me! Thank you!

@antimnguyen
It was a German company. In German Rome is called "Rom". So for us it was always evident.

@antimnguyen I've know this software for I guess more than twenty years and only realized how clever the name was two or three weeks ago when talking about it with coworkers. Sure emperor Nero, but I never made the ROM / Rome connection. 😆​ I felt kind of dumb for not getting it for that long.

@antimnguyen
I only *just*, after all these years, realized the pun that ROM in this is similar sounding to "Rome" (although I always got that Nero was famous for burning)... :blobcatsurprised:
@briankrebs

@antimnguyen Hm... :thinking_rms: Let AUR helper search:

$ yay nero-burning-rom

:archlinux: #ArchLinux

@antimnguyen .......how did I literally never get that until just now, wow

@antimnguyen @briankrebs and with a fitting icon even! https://www.wizcase.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Nero-Burning-ROM-Logo.jpg

@antimnguyen 😂 I never noticed that

@antimnguyen That's very good, and brought a smile to my face.

However, I put forward a linter program for #clojure, (file extension .clj), named Eastwood.

@antimnguyen
🥥 #LeisureSuitLarry wasn't a bad software name either.
Just saying. -Random Guy Named Larry 🥥

@antimnguyen
and the best acronym was for PCMCIA cards - "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms."

@antimnguyen I never got it until just now.

@antimnguyen nice icon too, btw.

@antimnguyen … omfg I JUST GOT IT

I knew of that program as a kid and … I never put it together. Lol.

@antimnguyen

My heart belongs to the Bouncy Castle encryption API

https://www.bouncycastle.org

@antimnguyen and the pun literally just clicked for me. I knew about Nero and burning Rome etc. (vaguely), but I literally just made the connection between ROM and Rome 🤦

@antimnguyen @j How about Alcohol 120%?

http://www.alcohol-soft.com

@antimnguyen I always found installing it to be... a tad fiddly.

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YEEEEEAAAAHHH!!!

@antimnguyen It took me _years_ to get the joke though.

@antimnguyen oh my god. I used it so much and never put it together

@antimnguyen May be true, but this looks like a self- fulfilling prophecy to me."I won't think about a brilliant name for my software because it won't be anywhere near that amount of brilliance"

@antimnguyen The rival will be in Honnoji, I guess.

BTW there's a Taiwanese software called "非常好色". The official meaning is closed to "very fine colour". But, since the word "好色" can also means "horny", lots of folks will speak some "very horny" jokes when they mention the software.

@antimnguyen I must confess that right up until reading this toot I didn't get how incredibly good of a bad dadjoke this name is.

@antimnguyen You sir are correct.

@antimnguyen

You don't want to miss the "Burning ROM" festival!!!

@antimnguyen it was *this summer* when the pun actually clicked for me--and probably only because i was listening to lectures on Roman history while ripping DVDs. 😂

just brilliant.

@antimnguyen Speaking of CD burning, I loved the naming and icons of Roxio Toast too. The CDs inside a literal toaster is chef's kiss, and its audio CD sister application Jam has a really nice name for an audio app, especially when it's sold as Toast with Jam). Not as funny as Nero, though.

@antimnguyen@mastodon.gamedev.place nope. Team #TotalCommander

@antimnguyen @uedio

And it took me embarrassingly many years until I understood that joke… 🙈🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

@antimnguyen Never got that at the time :)

@antimnguyen Oh. My. God. :pika:

@antimnguyen @Gargron

@antimnguyen Someone saw their chance and grasped it with both hands.

@antimnguyen #k3b :)

https://apps.kde.org/k3b/