New Coral Named After Call of Duty: Black Ops

dotarray writes "An American aquarium supplier obviously has a gamer on the payroll, after naming two new forms of Acanthastrea coral after Activision's shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops. From the article: 'The Facebook post announcing the two new forms openly admits to the video gaming influence – and it’s not the first time a video game has inspired the Quality Marine coral namer – One of Swords points out that earlier this month, The Master Chief made its glorious pink-and-purple debut.'"

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[Mr. Freeman]

Just to reemphasize a point here: this is not any kind of scientific organization doing any kind of official naming. This is a thinly-veiled advertisement for an aquarium supplier which named two colors of coral some gamer-related terms. They aren't even named after call of duty specifically, they could refer to about 70% of games on the market.

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[TangoMargarine]

...says the guy who still fails to mention these things are called "noob tube" and "nuketown."

TFS

[mwvdlee]

Just a minor nit-pick; TFS is about the naming of corals yet TFS fails to mention the names. Would it really have been so hard to mention the names?

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[notmyusualnickname]

'n00b tube' and 'Nuketown'.

Both named after black ops?

[flimflammer]

Article seems to imply only Nuketown is named after Black Ops, while n00b tube seems to be one of the nicknames for YouTube.

(but why on earth you name coral 'n00b tube' is beyond me)

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[notmyusualnickname]

(that'll teach me to refresh before posting...)

the 'noob tube' is a reference to Halo's sniper rifle.

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[Talderas]

The n00b tube was a reference to the M2 Carl Gustav from Battlefield Bad Company 2. That thing was such a n00b tube that they ended up nerfing it.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I have to agree. These console kiddies didn't invent a lot of these terms. They were borrowed from the PC gaming community that was using them long before... I remember the Q1 grenade launcher being a n00b / newb weapon because new players would generally just run around spamming grenades with no regard for themselves hoping that some poor schmuck would get hit and die.

I would also contend that such terms probably began before Quake, maybe even during the four player LAN days of Doom. BFG 9000 = newb tu

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[Narishma]

Noob tubes generally refers to all kinds grenade launchers and RPGs found in most first person shooters because they deal a lot of damage and don't require much aiming skill.

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[flimflammer]

Ah, that explains it well. Thanks.

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[TehNoobTrumpet]

Also, they're tubes.

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[djdanlib]

Like the Internet?

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[TehNoobTrumpet]

Well, it certainly isn't a big truck.

Sonic Hedgehog

[joocemann]

... is still my favorite science from gaming term.