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[Siansonea]

Hmmmmm. I think the OP knows full well what a Talimancer is. I think this is a—

—AAAAAH! TROLL THREAD!!!! EVERYBODY RUN!!!!!

[Blitzkrieg0811]

Warheadz wrote...

A Talimancer is a wild, rabid beast which is commonly encountered on the Bioware Social Network. They are unique animals since they are the result of an unfortunate occurence where a perfectly logical male gets infected by the Talimancus Romancus virus. This turns the human being to a drooling beast which crusades against everyone and everything who doesn't want to **** Tali, or find out what her sweat smells like. Talimancers are pack animals who group together, and they prey on anyone who doesn't like Tali.

If you encounter one in the wilds, the best course of action is to ignore it. However, if it is aggressive and tries to come at you, play dead. If you fight back, the beast will call it's pack to help him, and then you are ****ed.

Fvck you too, sir.

[kglaser]

Ghost Lightning wrote...

By definition a Talimancer is someone who chooses to romance Tali in Mass Effect 2. But, the term is usually used to describe people who are overly obsessed with Tali...like te ppl in the groups, threads, other groups, etc.

The term "Talimancer" far predates the release of ME2, I believe.

[Siansonea]

Seriously, people need to find a new favorite punching bag, it's just sad at this point. Talimancers aren't hurting anybody, and every Mass Effect character has a few fans that make the rest of us shake our heads. Some Tali fans are perfectly nice people, I've learned.

It's time to move on, baiting Talimancers is So Last Year. It's time for us to rise to the challenge, and try to be much more imaginative in creating troll threads. Rise to the challenge, BSN, rise to the challenge.

[Inquisitor Recon]

Today's Talimancer scourge is a shadow of what they once were. In ye olden days, they filled the general forum with countless topics about weddings or "hybrid" children. Entering their primary topic would drive most people insane. Their secret police squads roamed the forums ready to attack the dissenters, and they would spam any polls that mentioned Tali. Questions like "what does Tali's sweat taste like" were just the tip of the iceberg.

Their main topics would go into many hundreds of pages, and when they were closed (to avoid breaking the forums?) there was a state of pure anarchy. Guns, knifes, chains, hammers, fists, it was bloody. Eventually their topic would be reestablished and things would return to normal.

Yet one day Stanly Woo announced the End of Line, and they never recovered from this purge. It became less of a problem when said topics were moved to the character forum too. Today they mostly keep to their group, which works in everybody's favor.

Yet while old fanatics may disappear, new ones always emerge. You know of whom I speak.

Modifié par ReconTeam, 06 juillet 2011 - 01:02 .

[slimgrin]

Siansonea II wrote...

Seriously, people need to find a new favorite punching bag, it's just sad at this point. Talimancers aren't hurting anybody, and every Mass Effect character has a few fans that make the rest of us shake our heads. Some Tali fans are perfectly nice people, I've learned.

It's time to move on, baiting Talimancers is So Last Year. It's time for us to rise to the challenge, and try to be much more imaginative in creating troll threads. Rise to the challenge, BSN, rise to the challenge.

Besides, I'm the one with a Samara blow-up doll in the closet.

[Siansonea]

slimgrin wrote...

Siansonea II wrote...

Seriously, people need to find a new favorite punching bag, it's just sad at this point. Talimancers aren't hurting anybody, and every Mass Effect character has a few fans that make the rest of us shake our heads. Some Tali fans are perfectly nice people, I've learned.

It's time to move on, baiting Talimancers is So Last Year. It's time for us to rise to the challenge, and try to be much more imaginative in creating troll threads. Rise to the challenge, BSN, rise to the challenge.

Besides, I'm the one with a Samara blow-up doll in the closet.

She's a person, Slimmie. Just because she's inflatable doesn't mean you should call her a blowup doll. You know that hurts her feelings.

[Chuvvy]

slimgrin wrote...

Siansonea II wrote...

Seriously, people need to find a new favorite punching bag, it's just sad at this point. Talimancers aren't hurting anybody, and every Mass Effect character has a few fans that make the rest of us shake our heads. Some Tali fans are perfectly nice people, I've learned.

It's time to move on, baiting Talimancers is So Last Year. It's time for us to rise to the challenge, and try to be much more imaginative in creating troll threads. Rise to the challenge, BSN, rise to the challenge.

Besides, I'm the one with a Samara blow-up doll in the closet.

Pics.

[Han Shot First]

By definition anyone that romanced Tali on their canon playthrough.

But usually when someone is called a Talimancer, it has a derogatory meaning. Talimancer is generally used as being synonumous with creepy fan obsession.
 
The origins go back to after the release of Mass Effect 1, where Tali was not a romance option. For whatever reason she developed a very vocal fanbase that wanted her to be a romance option in Mass Effect 2. Just about every day there will multiple threads created demanding  Tali be romanceable or raving about her hips or voice acting. To make matters worse, threads totally unrelated to Tali frequently got derailed by obsessed fans who went off on unrelated and sometimes creepy Tali tangents. (similar to the Tali sweat thread) It wasn't that her fans wanted her to be romanceable, as that is nothing new. You can find similar threads for many different characters who aren't LIs. It was just that some were so obnoxious about it, and were flooding the boards with it.

Needless to say this rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, and so the negative stereotype of the Talimancer was born.

They are a lot more tame now than they used to be. Bioware making Tali romanceable in Mass Effect 2 quieted a lot of them down. Or at least it confined their obsession to the official Tali fan thread.

Modifié par Han Shot First, 06 juillet 2011 - 10:25 .

[Dreadstruck]

I think Talimancesr is a pretty cool guy. Eh, freakishly and obsessively loves Tali and doesn't afraid of anything...

[CroGamer002]

Hardcore Tali fans.

Same for Mirimances and Liaramancers.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Avalla'ch wrote...

I think Talimancesr is a pretty cool guy. Eh, freakishly and obsessively loves Tali and doesn't afraid of anything...

[Deanooo]

Elton John is dead wrote...

I hate Tali. I let her die in my playthrough. We all know that behind that mask, is a butt ugly alien.

*Waits to see if Warheadz's statement comes true*

Not off topic at all.

I guess too answer it, someone who likes tali and her romance.

[Thundertactics]

Slidell505 wrote...

People that are so opposed with Tali that they come up with a chemical analysis of her sweat trying to find out what it would smell like. People that make me not just hate Tali, but the Quarians as a whole, people who make me hate my self for being a fan of the same game they are a fan of. Right click, view image for a bigger version.

[Someone With Mass]

Someone who likes to romance Tali. Simple.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

Quarians gonna Quar.

[Cutlass Jack]

slimgrin wrote...

Besides, I'm the one with a Samara blow-up doll in the closet.

Just don't get the Morinth version. When I tried to blow it up it nearly sucked the breath out of me instead.

[GodWood]

It saddens me the label "Taliban" didn't become as popular as "Talimancers".

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

GodWood wrote...

It saddens me the label "Taliban" didn't become as popular as "Talimancers".

Now, why did I get the urge to photoshop Tali's head onto a picture of Osama Bin Laden when I read that?

[GodWood]

Do it lad !

[HoonDing]

Avalla'ch wrote...

I think Talimancesr is a pretty cool guy. Eh, freakishly and obsessively loves Tali and doesn't afraid of anything...

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Modifié par virumor, 06 juillet 2011 - 12:01 .

[Alienmorph]

Ohh, good, I was missing a nice load of "Talimancers are the scourge of existence" crap. Special thanks to ReconTeam, and all the jerks who are unable to understand that the blog entry of TT was a joke stuff, and also are unable to find something new and moar creepy (guess why? Because we don't talk of quarian fluids every day. In fact we don't do it at all). Keep 'on rockin!

From what I know, the name was made to point at the most hardcore Tali's fans, but then the amount of haters and jerky users of this SN, that's one of the hightest I've ever seen, in almost 10 years of forum attendance, gradually extended it to everyone who likes and romance the character. Her fans, normally, don't give a damn of the reasonof why that name was made and they use the term them too, for the lulz, or for troll back who invented it.

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

A Talimancer is someone who romanced Tali in ME2.
Which in and of itself is not a bad thing or a good thing.
There are a few (Very few) Overly fanatic fans who gave them a bad reputation.

And BSN being...well you know BSN the more popular characters get the most hate.
A good example is the hate being thrown at Ashley or Garrus now.
Because hating on Talimancers is soooooo last year, and the hipster trolls can't stand to miss out on the latest hatefest.