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-1

[(Anonymous)]

While I don't quite agree that every game outside of those examples is "LA heavy" most of the newer test drives tend to be dominated by that crowd. So much so that there have been multiple complaints, justified or otherwise, on anoncomms about it. It's definitely a thing.

And since you wanted an example, my primary game has about 110 characters, give or take. Out of those 110, around 75 are either live action characters or are using live action PBs. So there you go, there's your real world example. I'm sure there's more, but again, they exist.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

one example and some test drives of games that have not got off the ground because the mods wanted anime/vidya and got las and then didn't open

ok

[(Anonymous)]

some test drives of games that have not got off the ground because the mods wanted anime/vidya and got las and then didn't open

yeah i'm calling a [citation needed] here. when and where did that happen, exactly? because that sounds like some weirdass speculation.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

does someone using an LA PB count as an LA character though?

discuss, rpa

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

here i'll save you some time!

la players: not really

anime players: YES and they're ONLY doing it to get la dick. if you don't draw every icon by hand or spend hundreds of dollars commissioning art you're la cockhopping SCUM

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

for the people that only play from LA? yes.

i've said this a million times: medium divide is just icon wank wearing a glamour. people ask why we hate each other's preferences and the truth is, this isn't about media preferences. it's a lie. we hate medium divide because we hate people who choose who to tag depending on their icons.

i've played from books and podcasts and my PB of choice would make a world of difference of who would tag me back. "i just want to tag media i'm familiar with" LIES. if you play a super obscure character from medium 1, medium-divide people that play from that medium will tag you back even if they have zero familiarity.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

fwiw if you have ugly or bad art icons the animes won't tag you either, i know that from experience. they are just as snobby about icons. we are all the same.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

please notice how i said media in general on most of my comment because yes, both sides do it. i only mentioned LA on my first sentence to answer airt's question

[(Anonymous)]

Animus with really basic screencaps or black and white manga icons will get tags. Badly drawn icons are usually OCs (probably an anime-trope-inspired OC), and anime players seem more averse to tagging OCs. Even good commissioned icons that are obviously for an OC won't attract a lot of tags.

[(Anonymous)]

personally i'm wary of tagging ocs with badly drawn icons because all of my experiences with them have been either creepy neckbeards or people using the character as fetish fuel. my aversion isn't to the icons themselves but rather to the type of people who tend to use them.

[(Anonymous)]

i wonder if we're thinking of the same OC with those awful anime icons. i don't know who they paid for them but damn they got ripped off. which would've been fine, "bad art" is admittedly subjective, but their neckbeardy attitude/obsession with NSFW commissions is too much.

[(Anonymous)]

does the oc come from a ttrpg setting?

+100

[(Anonymous)]

we've already had this discussion. it boils down to icon snobbery, plain and simple, so whether or not it's an LA canon frankly doesn't matter.

also laughing at anon who shouted "name ONE game!" and then when someone actually took them up on it and cited numbers, the goalposts immediately got moved to B-B-BUT LA PBs DON'T COUNT! IT'S STILL MOSTLY ANIMU! like ffs, you can practically time your watch to this shit.

Re: +100

[(Anonymous)]

it's bad terminology to be honest, because there's a different between "live action character taken from a real, live action media" and "real human face, called live action for shorthand, being used for a pb for a character from a media that is not live action"

i think la people ONLY mean the former and everyone else thinks it means both

Re: +100

[(Anonymous)]

la-only people SAY it's the former, but as i've already established, that's a lie. they'll tag anything with a real human face on the icons. and the same goes for animation-only players.

that's why the terminology gets watered down during the discussion

Re: +100

[(Anonymous)]

i play from both la/animu but i gotta side with the animus here. i've seen a LOT more snobbery from las towards animanga than vice versa. which isn't to say it never happens, but medium snobbery honestly is absurd when we're all playing from stupid shit, just different flavors.

bottom line, we're all just smashing barbies together. you have not ascended as a Mature Adult just because yours is "realer" than the rest.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

oh yes, it happens more with LA, i don't deny that. and the explanation behind that is simple: like i said in another comment, most animation-only players still watch LA even if they aren't in the fandom, but the same doesn't work in reverse. it is just a question of numbers.

but saying the animation team doesn't do it at all would be incorrect, and i've gained the habit to add "yes both sides do it" to my comments because there's always some butthurt anon that comes with BUT THE OTHER SIDE DOES IT TOO so better safe than sorry

anyway this is why i'd app a LA to an animation-heavy game but i wouldn't app drawn icons to a LA heavy game

Re: +100

[(Anonymous)]

as someone that's strictly anime, it has nothing to do with being realer or more mature or anything like that. not for me, anyway. it all boils down to what i like versus what i don't. i don't like anime. i haven't seen/watched/read any that's been something i've enjoyed or want to play with/against. that said, it's not like i like all la, either. there's plenty of la that i flat out do not want to play against or with. i like what i'm familiar with, and that's what i'm snobby about. it's certainly not about feeling superior or better. it's about playing against what i like/what i want to play against. there's nothing moral or 'more mature adulty in the world of actual adults doing adult things that are above your paygrade' about it.

that might not (and probably isn't) the case for everyone, but it's always just burned my biscuit to see it generalized as if it's only about snobbery and maturity and not just because maybe some people don't like a thing and that's okay.

Re: +100

[(Anonymous)]

it's not helpful to continue to "side with the animus" when basically every comment in here is pointing out that anime players do the exact same thing. las simply are not worse. they are THE SAME. anime players just complain here more often because there are more anime players in dwrp, and because the water keeps getting muddied with people who play from books and whatever who get shit on by both sides in the crossfire.

if it's easier to get a la pb for your book/oc/whatever character than find a drawn one, and then you get tags from las and not from animes, what are people supposed to do? lol

da

[(Anonymous)]

la player here and i don't tag all the sameface kpop ocs that are thinly veined rpf and i do tag cross medium.

some of us have standards.

Re: +100

[(Anonymous)]

They gave numbers but not the name. I can make up statistics without facts too.

Re: +100

[(Anonymous)]

except it wouldn't have mattered, they'd name a game and you'd just move the goalposts again and come up with some other excuse how it totally doesn't count. if you want to argue in bad faith, you do you, but people are calling it out and rightfully so. it's really fucking obvious.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

for the purposes of being snubbed for tags, yes. we've discussed this already. you use LA icons you get considered an LA as far as medium divide bias goes regardless of canon original source material, or lack thereof.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

um... la pb isn't la. a lot of book chars and ocs borrow la faces because they need a medium for icons. that's not the same as la. it'd be like calling supernatural anime because one person one time used icons from the animation version.

Re: -1

[(Anonymous)]

you get more tags from las if you use an la pb though, this is just objective fact. i know, i've tested it out with ocs.