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I can't stand the word "toon"

archer01#0741 archer01
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edited October 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
It's a pet peeve of mine. STO isn't some crappy cartoony MMO. It's Star Trek, stop calling your characters toons. That is all lol.
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  • apsciliaraapsciliara Member Posts: 247 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    These are for you, friend.
  • christianmacchristianmac Member Posts: 359 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    dtrekkie wrote: »
    It's a pet peeve of mine. STO isn't some crappy cartoony MMO. It's Star Trek, stop calling your characters toons. That is all lol.

    I like my TOONs......they all have their specialty!!! TOONs rock!!!!
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I don't like it that much myself. But each is to their own. I usually call mine captains or commanders or characters which ever I end up saying.

    Its all preference.
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    apsciliara wrote: »
    These are for you, friend.

    What no chocolate chip? ;)
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  • admiralkristovadmiralkristov Member Posts: 325 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Wonderful first post OP. I look forward to more of your wisdom in the future...
  • rygelx16rygelx16 Member Posts: 161 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    STO isn't cartoony? could have fooled me.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    dtrekkie wrote: »
    STO isn't some crappy cartoony MMO.

    Might want to take a look at some real people for comparison before making such a statement.
  • zarato4218zarato4218 Member Posts: 403 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I've always been partial to "Avatar," but perhaps I just watch The Guild too much.
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  • apsciliaraapsciliara Member Posts: 247 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    farmallm wrote: »
    What no chocolate chip? ;)

    M&M is better than chocolate chip?
  • giotarizgiotariz Member Posts: 652 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    dtrekkie wrote: »
    It's a pet peeve of mine. STO isn't some crappy cartoony MMO. It's Star Trek, stop calling your characters toons. That is all lol.

    http://i.imgur.com/rfzXfDw.jpg
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  • stonewbiestonewbie Member Posts: 1,454 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    zarato4218 wrote: »
    I've always been partial to "Avatar," but perhaps I just watch The Guild too much.

    avatar...character

    All too long...i use toon instead of avatar, instead of character, instead of cartoon for the same reason the OP used "lol" in the last part of his first post instead of "i'm laughing out loud you guys".
  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I just call them player characters, Got used to thinking that way using the foundry, and it stuck
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  • oldkirkfanoldkirkfan Member Posts: 1,263 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    apsciliara wrote: »
    These are for you, friend.

    COOKIES!!!!!!!!

    *Grabs plate and runs off.... "Sorry DTrekkie, but..... cookies...."


    P.S. Toon always bugged me, as well. My character isn't Bugs Bunny. Oh.... Wait... We need a Daffy Duck skin... After all, Trek was going strong in the the 24th and a half century... :P
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  • xaramanxaraman Member Posts: 291 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    In fairness,

    The only thing this game has in common with the actual Star Trek is the trademark and IP.

    It's a bog standard MMO. They're toons, chars etc.
  • thunderfoot#5163 thunderfoot
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    edited October 2014
    In honor of the OP, I am going to create a new Fed toon(There's that word! AGAIN!!) and name him
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  • maxvitormaxvitor Member Posts: 2,213 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    xaraman wrote: »
    In fairness,

    The only thing this game has in common with the actual Star Trek is the trademark and IP.

    It's a bog standard MMO. They're toons, chars etc.
    ^Wut he said.
    Maybe in some universe there is someone who gives a flying **** . My toons are laughing at this thread and did someone say cookies? COOKIES..... Must to have COOKIES....:eek:
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  • strykewolf67strykewolf67 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    Well I can't stand the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

    The sound of that is, really, quite atrocious.
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  • maxvitormaxvitor Member Posts: 2,213 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    Well I can't stand the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
    Say that 3 times fast.
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  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    strykewolf67 wrote: »
    The sound of that is, really, quite atrocious.

    You know I do believe that sounds precocious
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  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    There's already a thread for this. :D
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  • blevokblevok Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    dtrekkie wrote: »
    It's a pet peeve of mine. STO isn't some crappy cartoony MMO. It's Star Trek, stop calling your characters toons. That is all lol.

    indeed. i am not roger rabbit, and have no fear of dip, therefore i am not a toon.

    i am a vulcan/jaffa hybrid living in multiple universes simultaneously. that makes me... a character, or, well i'm not too sure. i guess i'm still fictional, but definitely not a toon.
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  • startrek1234567startrek1234567 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    hypl wrote: »
    There's already a thread for this. :D

    you just won 2 forum points
  • xaramanxaraman Member Posts: 291 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    There's already a thread for this.
    Damn you!

    I just accidentally necro'd a 4 year old thread in 10 forward because of that link. This will be fun :D
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,484 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    sopwithsnipe wrote: »
    Well I can't stand the word supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
    Neither could the woman who wrote Mary Poppins, apparently. (And despite the movie Saving Mr. Banks, the real author was never won over by anything anyone at Disney did. When it was turned into a stage play, her one requirement was that all the Disney touches, particularly the songs, be excised.)
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  • khan5000khan5000 Member Posts: 3,008 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    toon

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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Ahhh man. This takes me way back to my FFXI days. We used to have glorious fights that went on for pages and pages and pages about this. Thread after thread, day in and day out. Fights in /shout when chilling out in Lower Jeuno. Fights in Whitegate while gathering merit parties. Sigh, how nostalgic.

    Thanks for taking me back, if only for a little while. Those were the days.
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Member Posts: 1,606 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I'll always call them "characters." I've never been able to stand the use of "toon" either (as you'll note, Acme is completely absent from our environment and anvils are not falling from the sky). How did that term even get to be used in MMOs anyway?
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I have never cared for the word "toon" either and tend to use the word alt, short of alternate character.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Agreed. I have characters except when I'm really into it.
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