How do you picture people on PC?

[Megan]

Forum posts are kind of like role playing. You put up an avatar and (subconsciously) start acting more like that character. That also makes it easier for someone else to get the impression that they're talking to the character instead the actual person behind the screen.

People with non-human(-oid)/"living being-like" avatars seem more like unknown forces that are hard to gauge.

People without avatars seem more like NPCs in a JRPG. You know how in those types of games whenever you talk to an important character you get some artwork alsongside their textbox; and how every not-important character (NPC), while getting their textbox, they don't get their own artwork shown?

 

[budube]

If you're not a videogame or anime character irl don't talk to me

 

[Ivysaur]

You're telling me some people in here aren't just their avatars? Angie looked pretty much like a Skymin so don't go telling we're the only ones.

 

[moon]

You're telling me some people in here aren't just their avatars? Angie looked pretty much like a Skymin so don't go telling we're the only ones.

Hmmmmmmmm

You really do look like Ivysaur holy sh

 

[Tsutarja]

avatars maybe? but also posting style and punctuation/emoji/emoticons :p

also voice if I know what you sound like

 

[Hermione Granger]

I wonder how people picture me when my avi and username are based on my favorite wrestlers lol.

If I see plenty of posts of a person and they are respectful I picture them as a face talent in the wrestling business.

 

[moon]

I wonder how people picture me when my avi and username are based on my favorite wrestlers lol.

If I see plenty of posts of a person and they are respectful I picture them as a face talent in the wrestling business.

So I'd be...

 

[EmTheGhost]

What if they're abstract like mine?

I picture an abstract-patterned square floating around talking to people, of course

Also I'm completely okay with being seen as a Necrozma at a keyboard

 

[Sheep]

i usually don't picture anything! used to be avatars but now it's just blank with no defining voice/features or anything most of the time haha. not sure why, but that's how it is for me?

 

[Kuzehiko]

To make it simple: avatars and avatars. That and what Seliph said, I kind of see everyone as RPG characters until I get to befriend anybody at least. When you befriend said person and get to know its personality, tastes, etc then on your mind you certainly keep an idea of how that person is and you imagine how he/she would look like I guess? Pretty much like this.

 

[Kitty]

if i managed to draw u once that's how ur envisioned in my head

everyone else is just a random voice (unless ur avatar is iconic) tbh until we get close and i can associate u with a mental image