Rename Monster Names

[Holli-Git]

Summary

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Purpose of change

We have a lot of rather forced alliterations, which can both subtract from the experience of playing as you're distracted by the silly names, and confuse people as sometimes to make the alliteration work the name is not descriptive of what the monster is. This PR is also open to change other poorly-named monsters, if you have suggestions please leave them below.

Describe the solution

Renames them.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Not doing this.

Testing

Dawg it's just title changes

Additional context

In case you didn't read this part in the purpose of change, please suggest any other names you'd like changed. Keeping this PR as a draft for suggestions.

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• fursuited zombie
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Hints for adding a new word to the dictionary

• If the word is normally in all lowercase, such as the noun word or the verb does, add it in its lower-case form; if the word is a proper noun, such as the surname George, add it in its initial-caps form; if the word is an acronym or has special letter case, such as the acronym CDDA or the unit mW, add it by preserving the case of all the letters. A word in the dictionary will also match its initial-caps form (if the word is in all lowercase) and all-uppercase form, so a word should be added to the dictionary in its normal letter case even if used in a different letter case in a sentence.
• For a word to be added to the dictionary, it should either be a real, properly-spelled modern American English word, a foreign loan word (including romanized foreign names), or a foreign or made-up word that is used consistently and commonly enough in the game. Intentional misspelling (including eye dialect) of a word should not be added unless it has become a common terminology in the game, because while someone may have a legitimate use for it, another person may spell it that way accidentally.

[Daved27hundred]

I'm guilty of this too:

• Smoldering Stallion, smoker evolution of the zombie horse. I want to suggest "smoldering mule" since just "horse" sounds lame, even though mules are different from horses altogether, but that's just me being picky.
• Pestilent Prancer, the spitter evolution of said horse. Just change it to "pestilent horse" since that was its original name.
• Miracle Lurker, a regenerating zombie medic and a play on "miracle worker." My worst one yet and possibly the worst name in the game ever. I suggest just "regenerating doctor" or "regenerating medic."

[qaziquza]

Personally, I feel like the alliteration adds gameplay flavour. And if they aren't descriptive (which they are, I think, in most cases) then the player can just ; look at them.

[Holli-Git]

I'm guilty of this too:

* Smoldering Stallion, smoker evolution of the zombie horse. I want to suggest "smoldering mule" since just "horse" sounds lame, even though mules are different from horses altogether, but that's just me being picky.

* Pestilent Prancer, the spitter evolution of said horse. Just change it to "pestilent horse" since that was its original name.

* Miracle Lurker, a regenerating zombie medic and a play on "miracle worker." My worst one yet and possibly the worst name in the game ever. I suggest just "regenerating doctor" or "regenerating medic."

Tbh I find smouldering stallion to be like dissoluted devourer. It doesn't feel forced, and it also tells you what the thing is. I'll change miracle lurker though

[Uwuewsky]

Malicious mane sounds pretty cool and clever to me.

please suggest any other names you'd like changed

Here are a couple names that aren't great, though I can't come up with better replacements for them.

Details

zed_amphibian has generally rather odd names.

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Cataclysm-DDA/data/json/monsters/feral_humans.json

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"name": { "str": "well dressed feral" },

Ability is explicitly stated in the name:

Cataclysm-DDA/data/json/monsters/zed_misc.json

Line 522 in 52e013b

"name": { "str": "zombie necromancer" },

Cataclysm-DDA/data/json/monsters/zed_misc.json

Line 549 in 52e013b

"name": { "str": "zombie necro-boomer" },

These ones have names that are too similar:

Cataclysm-DDA/data/json/monsters/zed_misc.json

Line 310 in 52e013b

"name": { "str": "grabber zombie" },

Cataclysm-DDA/data/json/monsters/zed_misc.json

Line 332 in 52e013b

"name": { "str": "grappler zombie" },

Cataclysm-DDA/data/json/monsters/zed_misc.json

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"name": { "str": "screecher zombie" },

Cataclysm-DDA/data/json/monsters/zed_misc.json

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"name": { "str": "shrieker zombie" },

And the names of the zed animals have already been pointed out.

[Holli-Git]

Here are a couple names that aren't great, though I can't come up with better replacements for them.

Tbh I've never had an issue with those names. Though yeah some zombie amphibians I can tackle

[Maarifrah]

Zeindeer. Zombie reindeer.

[Holli-Git]

Zeindeer. Zombie reindeer.

Also changed fungideer

[Zireael07]

No, only some did, not "every single one". Some sounded forced and made things unnecessarily difficult for translators.

[Night-Pryanik]

Should be left as is. We have a set of other zombie animals which names consist of "zom + original animal name", like zombull, zombear, zombeaver.