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Charlie Dayman · Oct 31, 2010, 05:38 PM // 17:38

I don't know why so many people are associating the cat ears with weaboos and Japanophiles. The new mask was always a popular costume during Halloween. Girls dress up in black spandex, paint their face, and wear that headband. This is a frequent costume I see at Halloween parties - and regular costume parties for that matter. Have you guys really not seen this before?

As for the goggles, I think they're pretty damn awesome. They look good on caster classes. Just wish there was an option to put them over your eyes.

Faowri · Oct 31, 2010, 05:41 PM // 17:41

I actually quite like the goggles, but then steampunk = win. I'm now torn between wearing my specs and wearing my goggles

Stolen Souls · Oct 31, 2010, 05:41 PM // 17:41

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Originally Posted by Charlie Dayman

I don't know why so many people are associating the cat ears with weaboos and Japanophiles. The new mask was always a popular costume during Halloween. Girls dress up in black spandex, paint their face, and wear that headband. This is a frequent costume I see at Halloween parties - and regular costume parties for that matter. Have you guys really not seen this before?

I was gonna say it but you beat me to it. I dont understand why people are yelling "omg anime!!". Cats/cat costumes/cat ears have been a halloween staple for how many years now? o_O

They still look odd on many characters, though...like mine, for example. :/

Dunno what it is. To me the just look strange on any hairstyle that has buns/tails, etc...

Charlie Dayman · Oct 31, 2010, 05:44 PM // 17:44

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Originally Posted by Stolen Souls

I was gonna say it but you beat me to it. I dont understand why people are yelling "omg anime!!". Cats/cat costumes/cat ears have been a halloween staple for how many years now? o_O

It's probably just because it's the internet. If they see anything animal related, they automatically scream "FURRIES"!

And for the record, these ears look hilariously ridiculous on my main War.

A11Eur0 · Oct 31, 2010, 05:46 PM // 17:46

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Originally Posted by Charlie Dayman

I don't know why so many people are associating the cat ears with weaboos and Japanophiles. The new mask was always a popular costume during Halloween. Girls dress up in black spandex, paint their face, and wear that headband. This is a frequent costume I see at Halloween parties - and regular costume parties for that matter. Have you guys really not seen this before?

As for the goggles, I think they're pretty damn awesome. They look good on caster classes. Just wish there was an option to put them over your eyes.

yeah but this being a VIDEO GAME, there's the instant association with popular MEDIA, rather than costume parties.

I also don't see full catwoman suits being made in this game. Closest would probably be sin obsidian dyed black. Even then, there's no facepaint. So in the end, it comes down to the media source that most prominently portrays regularly-dressed characters with various animal features. Anime. Let's not forget the goggles which are also prominently displayed on anime characters. If they were displayed as worn on the face, I'd give it a pass because that would shift it strongly towards classic steampunk (although that's also a common Anime theme. Trigun anyone?). But the two of these common anime accessory themes introduced at the same time is overwhelming evidence that they did it simply to appease the manga/anime weeaboos and narutards.

If only I could make a male paragon that doesn't wear a skirt or anything remotely resembling Roman armor.

HawkofStorms · Oct 31, 2010, 05:56 PM // 17:56

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Originally Posted by Grim Aragorn

too bad u cant actually wear the goggles

No one ever WEARS goggles. They just have them on their head for no explained reason.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...gglesDoNothing

Deviant Angel · Oct 31, 2010, 06:19 PM // 18:19

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Originally Posted by Lourens

anyone mentioned it has nothing to do with haloween??

Inorite? Black cats don't have anything to do with Halloween. This was obviously done to appease the anime kiddies! Why couldn't they do another charr mask or something? One of the first things I think of when someone says "Halloween" is definitely a charr!

Maybe it's a generation or regional thing, but I always thought black cats were as universal as jack-o-lanterns and ghosts. I have to wonder if some of you ever venture more than a few feet away from the keyboard. I can't really walk into a store right now and not see at least one Halloween item involving a black cat.

Maybe looking up why they are considered a Halloween thing would help you guys? Then again, you will probably continue to accuse those of us that like the hat of being anime fans, furries, narutards, or weeaboos. For the record, I'm none of the above and I think some of you sound really ignorant.

Lihinel · Oct 31, 2010, 06:48 PM // 18:48

Anyone older then 10 who cries "Furries!" when he sees Catears but kept silent during the release of 09s Charr Hat ought to be stabbed to death with a spoon.

rohara · Oct 31, 2010, 07:25 PM // 19:25

love the cat ears! yeah, black cats have nothing to do with halloween. at all. ever. /eyeroll

also loving the goggles. first thing they made me think of is:

-Makai- · Oct 31, 2010, 07:36 PM // 19:36

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Originally Posted by Charlie Dayman

I don't know why so many people are associating the cat ears with weaboos and Japanophiles. The new mask was always a popular costume during Halloween. Girls dress up in black spandex, paint their face, and wear that headband. This is a frequent costume I see at Halloween parties - and regular costume parties for that matter. Have you guys really not seen this before?

As for the goggles, I think they're pretty damn awesome. They look good on caster classes. Just wish there was an option to put them over your eyes.

Everything in this post is pure, unadulterated truth. Can't help but wonder if there is an age/region filter going on here; I saw that costume all the freakin' time during the 80s.

As for the spectercles being related to anime...

Might be a stretch, as Ray's goggles (dubbed Ectogoggles, Paragoggles, or Spectro-Visors depending on medium) look much different, but the name does begin with specter, so...

A11Eur0 · Oct 31, 2010, 07:47 PM // 19:47

Again...if there was more to this "costume" than just the ears, I'd go with you. But it's just the ears. if they were to add in some cat face paint to the ears I'd be 100% in agreement. But that's not the case. And as I said in my previous post...the ALTERNATIVE goggles only solidify the idea that it's an anime thing more than a simple costume thing. I don't recall ever seeing someone wearing WW1-vintage flight goggles for a costume unless they're portraying Amelia Earhart, and I'm pretty sure one doesn't think of Amelia Earhart or the Tuskegee Airmen when they think of common halloween costumes. One item alone doesn't signify an appeasement to anime fankiddies. But when you have multiple things added at the same time, and no other addition to that "costume", it obviously raises questions.

It wouldn't have been all that hard to apply a facepaint to the ears and remove all doubt to its intentions...not like they've never had a facepaint halloween "mask" before.

Jack-O-Lanterns, lupine mask, mummy mask, zombie facepaint, witch's hats, even the Scarecrow hat all had direct obvious ties to Halloween and have very little obvious ties to other media genres. Cat ears and flight goggles...totally different situation.

Faowri · Oct 31, 2010, 07:54 PM // 19:54

Anime didn't invent goggles. Likewise, cat-ear headbands have been around long before the "furry" fandom ever appeared.

And if the items are something that fits in with traditional Halloween items AND happen to cater to other fandoms too, why is this is a problem? I guess I missed the rule in the EULA that said you can't like anime if you want to play this game.

The irony is that if we'd got another pumpkin/standard halloween mask, everyone would be whining that the masks were never different. The fact that the items are accessories this time and can be used feasibly outside of festivals appeals to me! I never even wear my festival hats outside of the festivals themselves usually.

Lord Dagon · Oct 31, 2010, 07:54 PM // 19:54

i like them.. but then again.. its kind of like the wintersday hats we got(2 small specs of ice FTW /eyeroll) and if your not looking for them.. you wont see them.

wish we could get witches hats agian.. one of the only hats i dont have.. and like the only one i really want...

Bellatrixa · Oct 31, 2010, 07:56 PM // 19:56

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Originally Posted by Sante_Kelm

Everything in this post is pure, unadulterated truth. Can't help but wonder if there is an age/region filter going on here; I saw that costume all the freakin' time during the 80s.

I wouldn't say age... I'm 25, have full knowledge of what a furry is and as for the 80s? I was born in em so I don't remember much lol. It's more the fact that most people who use the internet these days like grasping onto what's cool (invariably bandwagoning whatever 4chan etc dictates), which has been slating furries. Now at the slightest hint of animal in a costume it's "ZOMFG FURRY@@@" -_-; One of the main reasons I went out last night as a Catholic Schoolgirl instead of donning my cat outfit. And I agree that a full face Charr mask is more "furry" than a pair of cat ears. Heck, a friend of mine has cat ears on her hoodie, is SHE a furry? :O

Meh, I'm happy with them myself and I know a couple of my chars will look so cute with them. They don't really suit my necro. The goggles... I'm sure I'll be able to use them. Probably on my male Para ;D

-Makai- · Oct 31, 2010, 07:56 PM // 19:56

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Originally Posted by Faowri

Anime didn't invent goggles. Likewise, cat-ear headbands have been around long before the "furry" fandom ever appeared.

And if the items are something that fits in with traditional Halloween items AND happen to cater to other fandoms too, why is this is a problem? I guess I missed the rule in the EULA that said you can't like anime if you want to play this game.

The irony is that if we'd got another pumpkin/standard halloween mask, everyone would be whining that the masks were never different. The fact that the items are accessories this time and can be used feasibly outside of festivals appeals to me! I never even wear my festival hats outside of the festivals themselves usually.

And this wins the thread. Kudos.

A11Eur0 · Oct 31, 2010, 08:02 PM // 20:02

No, there's nothing that says you can't like Anime to play GW. But GW is not an anime-based game. Mixing of genres only gets so far before it becomes ridiculous. And when the ears don't fit very much at all in the game, and THEY DON'T, the whole mixing of genres excuse goes out the window. You can claim that it's a halloween staple, but they didn't include the facepaint that is required to pull off a convincing cat costume. You can't dismiss the anime/weeaboo connection completely, just like I can't dismiss the halloween black cat staple completely. But which weighs more? That's the question, and it's at the heart of the complaints about it. If it wasn't an issue, there would be no complaints. The presence of valid complaints makes the argument valid and worthy of serious consideration, instead of just insulting the complainers saying they're "never happy". I was happy with the scarecrow mask when everyone else said it was lame. Same with the Lupine mask. I still have my Lupine mask on my warrior for her werewolf costume. (Primeval warrior armor lupine mask FTMFW. I might even dye the gloves red.)

Whiplashr · Oct 31, 2010, 08:07 PM // 20:07

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Originally Posted by Xsiriss

The first pumpkin crown is still the best.

You know what irritates me. I bought this game in Sept of the year it was released. I owned the game for both the first Halloween and Wintersday celebrations.

Yet I never got those hats. I was so noob, I had no idea about such things really until the first Dragon Festival. I mean I knew about the events, but I wasn't only playing GW, and I didn't know about the one time shot at such hats/items. I just missed out.

Oh, am I the only one that mis-read this thread title as "Hurray for cat eaters"?

Faowri · Oct 31, 2010, 08:10 PM // 20:10

So the witch hat doesn't have a place in the game either because it doesn't come with green face paint? As an argument the whole 'it needs facepaint' thing comes across as clutching at straws. And I'm pretty sure a lot of people are glad it doesn't come with facepaint so they can just wear the cat ears on their own.

Cat ears and cat costumes ARE a Halloween staple. GW on the whole is a very westernised game (remember what our elves looked like, haha), so from the context you can easily infer that they are Halloween items. If they also happen to appeal to anime fans, then that just makes them a double-win.

. . . Besides, if they were anime cat ears they'd be three times as big and have excessive fluff coming out of the lugholes XD

Charlie Dayman · Oct 31, 2010, 08:10 PM // 20:10

I'd like to change my vote from: these goggles are great to these goggles are RED ENGINE GORED awesome.

These really give off a mad-scientist/Ghostbusters vibe to them. I'm so glad ANet added something like these instead of another hat/mask that covers your whole head. I don't much care for the Asuran spectacles, so these are a definite improvement. I even went ahead and bought some new mix n' match armor to go with the goggles.

Thanks again for even more free stuff, Anet.

Stolen Souls · Oct 31, 2010, 08:17 PM // 20:17

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Originally Posted by A11Eur0

And when the ears don't fit very much at all in the game

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Originally Posted by A11Eur0

I was happy with the scarecrow mask when everyone else said it was lame. Same with the Lupine mask.

And how do those masks 'fit in the game' any more than the ears do? They are all halloween accessories.... :/

I think it all just comes down to opinion. I personally think the scarecrow mask looked/looks incredibly lame on any character, and would take the ears or goggles over it any second.