Am I the only one who is annoyed by and just doesn’t get the appeal of these “CAF” threads? I feel like they would take so long to complete and I just can’t understand what people find fun about them.
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I can understand that. I have the Baby Name Games category muted because there is just way too much posting on there for my liking. It just isn’t what I come to nameberry for.
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For me - and I don’t mean this to insult the people who make them! - they’re a good wind-down activity I can do whilst listening to a podcast at the end of a stressful day
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Agreed - they’re so fun for me to do kinda mindlessly!!
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I love them doing them because it’s kind of… relaxing. I like doing them whenever I have a few minutes to sit down, and I feel too tired or stressed to pick up a book. I always skip the long generation CAFs though, i prefer the short ones because they take up less time.
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Yeah I just don’t really… get them. I’m not a massive namenerd like a lot of people here so maybe that’s why but I can’t get myself to care enough
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Yes, that’s how I feel. I’m not obsessed with names and I don’t have these lists of them or anything, I mainly just like using this website because I’m obsessed with matching and categorizing things (such as what color would this name be) and because I do find it interesting to see what types of names are more or less popular and what peoples’ opinions are
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I don’t “get” the CAFs with given families where you can only name the same characters from a small name bank, but I like those with story progression or randomness! I just think it’s interesting to watch the families slowly unfold. I can’t help but think about these people’s relationships and what conflicts could arise! The characters I’ve written most about originated as a dice game 
So, name rant: I can’t play long CAFs because of all the plot bunnies (=plot ideas that collect like dust bunnies)
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Funny, I’m the exact opposite! I like working with the options in a CAF’s name banks to come up with what I find the most likable and cohesive sibset possible, whether that be my style or going for a different style or pattern than my own personal names! Meanwhile the random/story progression ones feel too complicated for me. I appreciate the “contained-ness” of individual name bank CAFs.
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I’m the same, their simplicity and it’s like doing a cross word puzzle but with less swearing and throwing the book across the room
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vibe check 
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my caf-related rant (not a name rant but a nameberry one) is that i think four kids, maybe five is the absolute max if you want to call something a “short caf” - like i totally get it as a distinctive from the sprawling generational ones that can have sixty people on them. but when i want to do a “short caf” i don’t want to name nine children !! nine children stress me out on principle !!
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my rant for today is that if i type bridie, i mean bridie, not birdie!!
i do think birdie is a nice name, but it’s not a name i talk about. bridie is, and it just feels like every single time i use or mention her, at least one person just assumes i spelt birdie wrong 
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me too – but with pronouncations, not spelling!
if i say ‘carmilla’, i mean ‘car-mee-ah’
if i say ‘batsheva’, i mean ‘baht-shay-vah’
if i say ‘antigone’, i mean ‘ann-tig-ohn-ee’
so on and so forth!
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i love bridie in theory but will misread her as literally any other name and/or word containing remotely the same letters before deciphering what’s actually written — i don’t think you made a typo my brain just does not like to process that string of letters 
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[name_f]My[/name_f] rant is that even though I prefer the [name_f]Elisabeth[/name_f] spelling, I will probably never realistically use it. 
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it’s such a wild feeling looking back at your combos from a long time ago! i’m going through some old screenshots and wow, i’d completely forgotten that my top girl combo used to be clementine edith pearl !! very pretty, don’t get me wrong, but just not me at all
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this is how I feel whenever I look through my notes app
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So relatable!! Found some of my combos from 6-7 years ago, and I was like “I can’t believe my top sibset used to be [name_f]Clara[/name_f] [name_f]Joy[/name_f] and [name_f]Vivienne[/name_f] Rae” (Still like [name_f]Clara[/name_f] and [name_f]Vivienne[/name_f], just absolutely not my favs anymore, and now my combos are sooo complex in comparison lol)
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so relatable like how and why were my top names adèle, antoine, and alexei? and how did all those french names come?
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