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What do you think of IntelliHeath's Halloween avatar?

  • Great choice! Duck Season ftw!

    Votes: 106 24.6%
  • Creepy! Remove it ASAP!

    Votes: 97 22.5%
  • Don't Care...

    Votes: 228 52.9%

  • Total voters
    431
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ResetGreyWolf

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Oct 27, 2017
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haha is he an era member? There's some stupid anime avatar meme on here I swear. I've been called out on some of mine before and it had nothing to do with the topic.

That's a thing everywhere on the internet, unfortunately. People judge others based on their choice of avatar. Not even exclusively an anime thing either, if you walk into a Nintendo-thread with a Playstation avatar (or vice versa) some people might take you less seriously. It's really dumb and messed up but that's just how some (a minority of) people are
 
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That's a thing everywhere on the internet, unfortunately. People judge others based on their choice of avatar. Not even exclusively an anime thing either, if you walk into a Nintendo-thread with a Playstation avatar (or vice versa) some people might take you less seriously. It's really dumb and messed up but that's just how some (a minority of) people are
It's definitely a Gaf/Era meme though with the Anime Avatar meme, I've noticed. There's even a thread on it in EcetEra right now!
 

Yavga

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Well with the amount of leaks that have been going around for the past few hours and the way we're possibly burned out on it... I really wonder if Nintendo will somehow address it in a way, probably they won't but it would be kinda fun if they commented on it.
 

NotLiquid

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I think at this point we're going to get the Direct next week.

They're starting to show more b-roll footage from the full game itself. While this is easily controllable, it feels tantalizingly possible that something might just slip soon, and the sooner they can get it out of the way the better.

I'm legitimately curious how much they've tried to kept every aspect about the game limited to NoJ's ranks. They likely tailor made some of these clips themselves.
 

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It's definitely a Gaf/Era meme though with the Anime Avatar meme, I've noticed. There's even a thread on it in EcetEra right now!
anime avatars are a worldwide phenomenon. I remember back when I used to have a Twitter I said something bad about Bernie sanders and my mentions were full of angry anime.

i had like 100 followers I don't know what happened
 

ned_ballad

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I think at this point we're going to get the Direct next week.

They're starting to show more b-roll footage from the full game itself. While this is easily controllable, it feels tantalizingly possible that something might just slip soon, and the sooner they can get it out of the way the better.
Yea, the last day or two has had a bunch of new footage. Not showing anything important, but still, it's way more footage than we've gotten in months.
 

Neiteio

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's only OK to harass Andre when you're low-key passive-aggressively pushing for him to re-review Kid Icarus Uprising and give it a higher score
 

DFElias

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Also, the game looks a lot more vibrant in the new footage. (I doubt it is because of the video's editing.)
 

Metto

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Indeed and a correction was already posted before your comment
That is true. With that said NotLiquid has been pushing another discrepancy about that blank Battefield picture so if you guys want to do another update video on the leak (which I don't blame you guys for not wanting to do unless something more tangible pops up).

Also sorry for the harassment you guys got for challenging the leak. That sucks and no one should should have that happen to them. Let's just hope that even if the leak is fake we can get something better than just Incineroar and Ken
 

NotLiquid

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Ness' back throw still kills at sub-110% lol

Also it might just be me but Rosalina's dash attack seems to have had it's active frames lowered. It looks like Toon Link's recovery animation stops once the dash attack is thrown out. That would be a pretty notable nerf.
 

brinstar

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It's definitely a Gaf/Era meme though with the Anime Avatar meme, I've noticed. There's even a thread on it in EcetEra right now!
It's not just GAF/Era, it's a thing in a lot of larger twitter spaces, especially in more progressive ones.

The thing is, it was originally supposed to refer to little moe girl anime avatars, which are usually adopted by people online with uh, pretty questionable views. Just like the Pepe shit. You would usually see these guys popping in social media threads saying the most vile shit, which is where the stereotype comes from.

But yeah now it's spiraled out of control to the point where people are ready to go off on anyone with a character even vaguely reminiscent of the style, which is stupid. Kind of like how the word anime has lost all meaning on this board.
 

Hailinel

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There's nothing like being called an anime avatar when your avatar isn't from an anime.
 

L Thammy

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It's not just GAF/Era, it's a thing in a lot of larger twitter spaces, especially in more progressive ones.

The thing is, it was originally supposed to refer to little moe girl anime avatars, which are usually adopted by people online with uh, pretty questionable views. Just like the Pepe shit. You would usually see these guys popping in social media threads saying the most vile shit, which is where the stereotype comes from.

But yeah now it's spiraled out of control to the point where people are ready to go off on anyone with a character even vaguely reminiscent of the style, which is stupid. Kind of like how the word anime has lost all meaning on this board.

To elaborate on this a little. If I recall, some women who were harassed during Gamergate noted that people with anime girl avatars were extremely common on the messages they were being bombarded with. Probably because 4chan has such a large anime community and the two were tied together; Gamergate's mascots are styled like cute anime girls. So I think that's part of why some people are especially hostile to people with anime avatars.

Of course, liking anime is hardly exclusive to any online group, and there is certainly no shortage women who like anime, so I don't think it makes sense to treat it as a red flag.
 
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