GOOD ANIMES WITH GOOD CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
sword art online

Re: GUIDE TO WEEABOOS AND THEIR CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 07:43 am (UTC)(link)
good job getting mad at someone who was intentionally trying to get you mad.

Re: GUIDE TO WEEABOOS AND THEIR CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
you can't classify shit as "good" or "bad" like this cos it's entirely subjective

ppl will piss their pants over evangelion but i cannot give two shits about it or its characters

it's almost like ppl have different tastes or something

if an LA character doesn't want to tag animu, they're not going to. period.

Re: GOOD ANIMES WITH GOOD CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
nice try plankton

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
since we're shitposting about anime tonight, can someone tell me why people who play the protagonist from one punch man are so obnoxious? every time i've seen one in a game there's always been a permissions post that was just an excuse to masturbate over how unbeatable he is and how that's soooo important to his character you guys.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Saitama's personality is entirely defined by the fact that he can't find a challenge anywhere, if he were to actually beat someone he would go completely in another direction from canon in a way that makes him impossible to bring back and sort of changes the law of how his power works. If you're canon blind that probably sounds really masturbatory and smug but it's the whole setup for the manga, and without that consistency Saitama doesn't exist in the same way and everything that happens in the manga is rendered irrelevant.

It also raises difficult questions and bullshit about power levels if someone is allowed to beat him, because if X beats him surely Y can too, etc, and soon you're not playing One Punch Man as One Punch Man. The best way to avoid it is to make clear that Saitama's beyond power levels and he's an unwinnable fight by his canon's logic.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:11 am (UTC)(link)

canonblind

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
getting him beaten sounds kind of fun

but then i enjoy playing out characters' reactions to completely foreign-to-them situations and developing from there

sorry canon logic, we're not in your canon any more

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
his power set IS really important to his character, but tbqh that's exactly why he doesn't belong in games and i wish more people would realize this. some characters are just not a good fit for dwrp and he's one of them. i enjoy the series but it's only ever played from for the sake of stupid one-sided yaoi anyway so i fail to even see the point of doing so.

Re: GOOD ANIMES WITH GOOD CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
some of those need to be replaced with Gintama and this'll be correct

+100

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
I've never been made to feel more isolated or disliked than when I played in a mostly LA and LAPB game even though my character was mellow and friendly. I don't know if that's just the media divide manifesting in some other form tbh, rather than any evidence of difference in approach.

If I observe other people's threads on bakerstreet the only difference I'd identify is weeaboo canons are more energetic and LA canons are more melodramatic. They're both still exaggerated theatrical versions of reality.

aryt

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be tempting as fuck to musebox if I played him tbh. Throw him up against someone even more unwinnable and watch him get excited, then frustrated, then fucked up about it. :)

Re: PLURK PET PEEVES

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
friend, i like and enjoy you for the most part, but i'm getting tired of you doing things you complain about others doing to you, claiming you know you're doing it and it's bad, and then continuing to do it.

this is the sort of thing that makes me stop rping with someone altogether. if you know it's bad and keep doing it, then you clearly don't give a shit about the people you're doing it to and are no different than the people you complain about.

Re: GUIDE TO WEEABOOS AND THEIR CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
LA players are such fucking babies, my god

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
sounds like you're not familiar with OPM at all lol

Re: aryt

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
and then have him go off to fight someone else to check if he's still got it?

Re: GOOD ANIMES WITH GOOD CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
anon the rest of us dtb players don't talk about him unless it's "hey avoid _____" and dear god please avoid final

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
sometimes i wish there was a subset of DWRP that wasn't so concerned with the morals of fictional characters or the series they belong to. it's kind of a bummer having to stick with likeminded psl partners because the larger group of people don't have a 100% solid reality/fiction divide.

i don't mind that there are guidelines and etiquette in place to benefit players who tend to be more sensitive. i just wish the hobby was big enough for a group alongside that one, so people who don't give a fuck could have their gross/disgusting/problematic/etc fun without worrying.

Re: GOOD ANIMES WITH GOOD CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
darker than black honestly isn't that great though. it's remarkably average and i'd hesitate to call any of the characters good.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
tbh i think this could go for any main character similar to this? think of any naruto, goku, winchesters, buffy, so on. any character that is in their universe the coolest and strongest tends to attract those kinds of players, even if the characters themselves wouldn't be butt mad or would enjoy a challenge. just look at all the screaming about nerfing powers or even cutting back on them. you can make a character that's all about powers interesting, but what attracts most of the people who play them are their status and not the potential otherwise.

Re: aryt

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, go frustratedly explode some shit tier baddies to check he didn't get nerfed or something. :)

Since all he wants is a challenge I think it'd really burn his tv dinner if he met someone he absolutely can't win against the same way other people absolutely can't win against him, just zero middle ground where it's not a challenge on either end of the spectrum so he's still unsatisfied but now he also knows there's another tier above him that he can't attain.

Re: ayrt

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
i liked ghost in the shell well enough...

Re: shitty sock stories

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
How can you tell it's gonsai?

+1

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
'Can I bum a fag off you' is still perfectly understood by anyone.

If it's less common it's because people smoke less now than they used to rather than the slang changing.

Re: GOOD ANIMES WITH GOOD CHARACTERS

(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
i'm actually bored enough to respond to this in earnest. of the ones i've seen/cared about even remotely:

>NGE
no not really. there's no arguing that it's influential but it aged like milk. the characterization is painfully unsubtle. with that said, i still sorta like shinji.

>gankutsuou
correct actually, good job

>darker than black
it doesn't get more forgettable than dtb but sometimes i rub one out to hei's s2 design

>baccano!
correct, but the love for the series is a little overmuch. it's got a few really enjoyable characters.

>durarara!!
correct, but it's rare to see people playing DRRRs well. not that i blame them, since the series can be pretty intimidating depending on how much information your character of choice has to manage (which can be a fuck of a lot).

>t&b
lol

>utena
i mean, i liked it well enough but ikuhara operates on alien logic so i don't bother trying to judge his anime as good or bad

>gangsta
possibly the randomest fucking example you could've thrown in here. it's gangsta. the cast is okay but they're not stand-out. i honestly have no idea what the fuck this is doing here