Poll: Does your avatar affect your words

[Vault101]

Err... what does my avatar tell about me?

you have a pet rat/gerbil thing that may or may not like guns, I can't quite tell if its a gun or not

 

[Mr Fixit]

Whash uup wif ebery on tawkin aboot tha blue peepole movie for. shum budy get me a drink

 

[shadyh8er]

Nah. If my avatar affected what I said, I wouldn't swear at all. I mean, I rarely swear but still, the little I do can be considered excessive for little Alphonse over there.

 

[D Moness]

I dont really look at avatars, its very very rare that i stop reading for that. Only the familiar ones kinda pop out into my eye and then i think "ahh its him/her" well or "oh no not him/her again"

Same here for me avatars stick in my mind easier then names used. Sometimes it is weird when the keep changing avatars. By the way nope my avatar doesn't effect my words been using this one for ages now. Had a better one of them both kissing(to bad i lost that one).

 

[PurplePlatypus]

Words? No.
But I tend to recognise people by their avatar much more than their user name.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm not sure people interpret me because i have a suicidal Tekkaman in my avatar. Could be wrong.

Like at least one guy above me said, I do recognise some people better because of their avatar as opposed to their username.

Pirate Kitty's recent change in avatar screwed me up for a little.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Well, my avatar often puts a smile on my face when I am feeling down, so that would be a plus in that regard. As for Renamon affecting my words in my posts, I would probably say no. I tend to voice my own opinion, while Renamon is there to personify who I am here on the Escapist.

[sub]Isn't that the purpose of an avatar in the first place?[/sub]

 

[Nikokvaj]

Does my avatar affect my posting habits?

No. Yes. It does. The more I know what I mean and what I'm trying to say, the more I can abstract from things like that.

 

[Toriver]

I do think I end up being more verbose in my posts and open up my vocabulary when I have Edgeworth as my avatar. I think it also makes me try to think a bit harder when I am trying to be persuasive in my posts. And of course, it does make me pull out an OBJECTION! once in a great while.

 

[Gigano]

The avatar generally doesn't affect my evaluation or interpretation of a comment, though I have partially chosen mine to convey a certain amount of gentle sternness (but mostly because I'm a fan of the show [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Higurashi-no-Naku-Koro-ni] it's from).

 

[EmzOLV]

I agree to a certain extent. I picked a girlie happy avatar (from Evangelion cos its awesome) but because I am a girl and I am happy and perhaps then people won't take me too seriously

My xbox live tag (which is my username) is deliberately vague and has no leaning to any game or anything because... well multiplayer some names just get picked on and I thought if I made a boring name noone would be bothered

 

[Estocavio]

I agree to a certain extent. I picked a girlie happy avatar (from Evangelion cos its awesome) but because I am a girl and I am happy and perhaps then people won't take me too seriously

Then it does its job well, and it manages to stand out as well

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OT: I picked mine because it depicts what i spend a fair bit of time doing; Though it probably just looks like a green smiley face to anyone not familiar with it, which is probably close enough, in a strange strange way

Does it affect my words?
Not really, but it does inspire me to speak in an extremely formal manner

 

[EmzOLV]

Then it does its job well, and it manages to stand out as well

Aw thanks then superb!
I would hate for people to take me seriously - like from Van Wilder "you shouldn't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive!"

You forgot cute

Yours wins for epic cuteness!
You see, could never respond to your avatar in a mean way at all ^^

 

[SaturdayS]

I do if I see them, but usually I'm reading forums while at work so I have the window really skinny and scrolled all the way to the right so the colorful avatars don't attract my boss's eyes.

 

[mParadox]

Chuck Greene doesn't affect my writing style.

Chuck Greene knows.

Stop staring at me like that.....

 

[Wintermoot]

not that I know BONK!

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

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No.

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Maybe.
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Shouldn't we be saving the world right now, instead of worrying about avatars?
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[[Kira Must Die]]

I just got this avatar not so long ago, but I don't think my avatars affect me in any way (*KIRA~!*)
[sub]Although, I afraid people will mistake me for a girl -.-[/sub]