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Migraines are a specific thing that affects actual people in a really devastating way--but which is also often mocked or derided by telling the sufferer to 'get over it' or 'toughen up'. I don't think we need to necessarily rule out every term in SNOMED but replacing Migraine with a less clinical term is probably a good idea. As an analogy, if a powerset had a secondary effect of 'Cancer' it would be deemed instantly inappropriate... it's only the fact that Migraines are frequently misunderstood as 'just bad headaches' that makes this analogy feel odd... actual Migraines can have serious complications including seizures and in some cases brain damage caused by constriction of the blood vessels in the brain. Vertigo is somewhat less fraught because it doesn't have the same connotation or cultural tangles that Migraine does, but I'd put my vote with the person up thread who suggested 'Resonance'. It's a good word, simple, and is maybe even a more accurate way to describe an effect that can impair robots as well as people!

Will there be an effort to remove all names that are copyrighted, even if the character itself is dissimilar to the copyrighted character? I had always assumed that there was a GM-driven fuzzy element to this and a filter wouldn't likely be able to reflect that. For example, if you make a character named Superman you're likely to lose that name regardless of the concept, but a character named Parasite who is a woman in a cape might be allowed to pass. Apologies if this should have gone in another thread, I didn't see one that seemed to fit the 'Other Changes'. Edit: I want to make clear that I'm all about compliance with this rule--my question isn't meant to drive complaints, just to clarify the GM's expectations so that I and my friends in similar situations can start working on new names now, rather than getting surprised later on.

How does this happen and how do I fix it / prevent it?