Characters or Toons

[Escalith]

I generally call them chars, cause I'm used to it.

However when I see people that get annoyed by the word toon I switch to that.

May be somewhat troll'ish? I guess, but if you get annoyed by something as little as a different name for the same thing, I can't help but enjoy poking fun at that.

[mbncd]

I've always used the term "character", even when referring to cartoon characters. To me, cartoon is the medium in which you may find a character but it is not the character itself. It's no different from calling you character a game, a movie or a book; it'll never make sense to me...

I don't find the term anywhere near as offensive as those who use it for the sole purpose of trying to be offensive however. It's just a word but trolls are so much worse ~_~ Maybe I'm naive but I believe in respecting others unless they earn disrespect and I don't think much earns disrespect more than disrespecting others. Most people are just doing the best they can with what they've got.

[Jinzuki]

personally I call them characters. toon to me sounds like a term with less meaning (and it also sounds like it came from WoW which sounds stupid as well). ain't hating but if you call your char a toon i'd automatically assume you came from WoW and don't care much about story or PvE and just want to DPS and endgame 24/7

[Acyd]

Characters for me as well.

Hell, it used to be paper doll back in the day.

[Tarantula]

Henceforth, I shall refer to them as Toonacters.

[Archellion]

Henceforth, I shall refer to them as Toonacters.

Why not Charactoons?

[Nevrath]

If i use any term for my character i mostly use toon and char or character only if the person im talking to doesnt understand what i mean by toon.
It has nothing to do with some hating or stuff i just dont think of toon as something even remotely offending.
Its easyer to write when typing at lightning speed too. I dont understand the fuss. Amazing how some people lash out with words like retard, blacklisting threats and so on, its actually a quite cartoonish (oversubscribed (not sure if thats the right term), exeggerated) response.
And no its not from WoW as some ppl in this thread already stated.

[Pyrix]

My character is not a cartoon. Toon doesn't make sense.

[BlazeChronic]

If people say toon I think it is worthy of a blacklist, actually.

If they say that, you basically know they are coming from WoW. I don't get along with most of the people who come from WoW, because most of the ones I've met were immature, obnoxious, and basically don't understand basic concepts of party play. Note that I mean "basing on my previous experiences!"

I don't want to generalize and say they are all bad, I just feel like the ones I have met are bad at grasping simple party mechanics. (letting the tank accumulate hate before starting their 'rotations' they are so fond of, etc...)

Therefore, if someone uses the word 'toon', I am conditioned to assume they are coming in from an MMO where party mechanics don't really matter, and I would prefer not to play with them. They may not end up on blist, but they won't end up in my party, either. This is just a matter of preference, but I'm coming in from a solid XI background and I would just rather play with XI vets. They are just more my style of people.

EDIT:
I'm just going to leave this here ....

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/23/tech/g...osing-toontown

[Capita]

I say toon, because I can, and "char" snobs are idiots.

Blacklist me, because I don't wanna play with people anal enough to bitch about what their character in a video game is called.

I also ignore (or send messages to) people who say PST, because 'please say tell' sounds like they dont know english. Dont mind it at all if they say send tell or anything along those lines.

PST is actually "Please Send Tell," which makes perfect sense, so those people should ignore you for being stupid.