What effects do avatars have on you?

[Claus]

I don't think Goat's avatar would have any significant effect on my impression of him. At least not one that I can immediately identify.

I have however experienced other avatars to have affected my opinion on the players bearing them. And I have had people in many game comment that my avatar had an effect on them (usually they said that it was scary.)

[Claus]

Llama's avatar has an opposite effect for me. I loved "The emperor's new groove", and his initial avatar (and to an extent this one), made me feel more agreeable to him ("this guy has a cool avatar, he must be a fun and reasonable person"). I don't know if it helped, or was helped by the fact that I liked his playstyle.

Cyberbob's and adel's avatars do not influence me that much. Cyberbob because I've known him for a while, and adel because I read her posts a lot. I guess the influence of avatars diminish with time.

I'm a bit surprised that my avatar makes me untrustworthy. This is interesting. The fun thing about Xyl's avatar is that it stays in one picture for just long enough that I register that one picture as static. In my last game with him, it had the effect that I would read two of his posts, and in my head they would be from two different people until I re-read them again carefully.

In other news, I find this topic fascinating.