The official name change announcement thread

NSY said:
28th October. Which is in 9 days.
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Woah. How did you figure that one out?
 
Politoed said:
NSY said:
Politoed said:
NSY said:
Another pokémon fad then.
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Not really. A few of us simply wanted to do a group thing. No need for the entire forum to go ahead and do it.
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They are 6 people following it though.
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Uh, ok. I'm not sure what that has to do with it. Point being, it's not a "fad", so there's no need for other people to feel like they have to change their nicks to pokemon, too. In fact, I'd greatly prefer if that didn't happen.
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Not trying to get too off-topic here, but I essentially agree with Anton's entire post there, specifically the bolded part of it.
 
Damn you guys, now I want a Rattata name change but it hasn't been a month yet!
 
I actually have a name in mind that goes with just about all of my interests when my month is up. It's a secret!
 
Politoed said:
Not really. A few of us simply wanted to do a group thing. No need for the entire forum to go ahead and do it.
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Have you heard of conformity? It's a psychological phenomena that would want people to be in groups. People just want to fit in, I guess.
 
Baby Luigi said:
Politoed said:
Not really. A few of us simply wanted to do a group thing. No need for the entire forum to go ahead and do it.
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Have you heard of conformity? It's a psychological phenomena that would want people to be in groups. People just want to fit in, I guess.
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Now now, a psychological phenomena is not a sentient entity and therefore unable to express desire in anything. The correct phrasing here would be "It's a psychological phenomenon responsible for people's want of being in groups". ;)

Anyway, personally, I don't really mind if more people want to participate. It's just some thing done for fun, after all.