Many of you are new to the TWG forums, having just arrived because you heard about some dude name Brandon. Being new, you may not notice that many of the forum regulars are changing their names, though you are likely to notice that many of the forum names are holiday-themed. This is because we are weird. Let me explain.
We have a weird tradition on these forums--every December we change our forum names into something holiday-esque, just for fun. This became so popular we've actually started a contest around it (
http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=5602.new). We used to do this for every major (and some non-major) holidays throughout the year, but it got so confusing that no one could ever tell who was who, so we cut back to just christmas/hanukkah/new year's. The actual contest is only winnable by forum members of at least level 3 (another quirk of the forums: you gain xp as you post, and level up like in a video game), but we encourage everyone to join in the merriment. Even that dude named Brandon, known here as EUOL, tends to do it, but nobody ever gets the joke because it's hard to guess from reading it that EUOL is pronounced "Yule," so unless they've met him in person and for some reason called him by his forum name (which happens more often than you'd think), and then get corrected on the pronunciation, they just think he couldn't think of anything good.
But whatever. Long story short: we change our forum names during December, and it's confusing but fun, and you're welcome to join us or ignore us at your leisure.
