Was the name "Cuisinart" an inside joke or developer prank?

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Was the name "Cuisinart" an inside joke or developer prank?

Unread postby Xfing » 23 Jun 2017, 01:18

To be fair, when you hear "cuisinart", you think more of a kitchen-savvy chef than an undead knight. Turns out that when you google it, it's a name of an American kitchen appliance brand. Do you think the developers snuck this name in as a joke and it was meant to be something else in the beginning?

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Re: Was the name "Cuisinart" an inside joke or developer prank?

Unread postby Avonu » 23 Jun 2017, 06:36

Yes

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Re: Was the name "Cuisinart" an inside joke or developer prank?

Unread postby Macros the Black » 23 Jun 2017, 21:07

If you imagine your party members as vegetables, and the Cuisinarts as slicing and dicing you, then you kinda get the joke they were going for I think.
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Re: Was the name "Cuisinart" an inside joke or developer prank?

Unread postby Anubis » 26 Jun 2017, 23:02

I didn't like some of the creature names in my games, so I personally edited them to my liking. For example: "Twister", "Dust Devil", and the third one to: "Lesser Sky Wraith", "Sky Wraith", and "Greater Sky Wraith". I think I renamed "Cuisinart" to "Infernal Knight".

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Re: Was the name "Cuisinart" an inside joke or developer prank?

Unread postby Xfing » 28 Jun 2017, 11:46

Macros the Black wrote:If you imagine your party members as vegetables, and the Cuisinarts as slicing and dicing you, then you kinda get the joke they were going for I think.
Shoulda called them "Blendtec" then, the joke would have been much more obvious :D


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