>"it isn't on-topic here"

How?

>"its official art for doom eternal rather than fan-art."

Okay first off, it practically IS fan art. It's fan art of Final Fantasy AND Doom drawn by the official Doom Twitter. Secondly, why would it being official art make it ineligible for approval? There's a crap ton of "official art" on danbooru.

Saladofstones said:

and its official art

Wat

So you're telling me that official_art tag with 136,000 entries here in danbooru is a lie?

Was it really that hard for people to recognize one of the most iconic images in gaming history, that it needed to be pointed out that it was an FF7 homage?

Kahvro said:

>"it isn't on-topic here"

How?

>"its official art for doom eternal rather than fan-art."

Okay first off, it practically IS fan art. It's fan art of Final Fantasy AND Doom drawn by the official Doom Twitter. Secondly, why would it being official art make it ineligible for approval? There's a crap ton of "official art" on danbooru.

LoweGear said:

Wat

So you're telling me that official_art tag with 136,000 entries here in danbooru is a lie?

Could ya'll not cherry pick words?

It's "official" art for DOOM ETERNAL. If it wasn't also an FF7 homage, then it would have been official art of a western IP done in a distinctly non-anime style, possibly by a western artist. That is basically the very definition of off-topic for this site.

blindVigil said:

Was it really that hard for people to recognize one of the most iconic images in gaming history, that it needed to be pointed out that it was an FF7 homage?

Could ya'll not cherry pick words?

It's "official" art for DOOM ETERNAL. If it wasn't also an FF7 homage, then it would have been official art of a western IP done in a distinctly non-anime style, possibly by a western artist. That is basically the very definition of off-topic for this site.

Odd... when I look at off-topic I see.

off-topic

From the Terms of Service

Prohibited and Restricted Content
You may not upload any of the following:

Non-anime: Photographs of American porn actresses, for example, are prohibited. Photographs of cosplayers, figures, or prominent figures in the industry are acceptable.

Use this tag when an image breaks the above rules.

The following tags are aliased to this tag: non-anime_related (learn more).

Edit: If this comes off as somewhat snarky my apologies but I am serious here. Western art on this site generally tends to be held to a higher standered then none but that doesn't mean there is no place for it.

cokerpilot said:

Odd... when I look at off-topic I see.

off-topic

From the Terms of Service

Prohibited and Restricted Content
You may not upload any of the following:

Non-anime: Photographs of American porn actresses, for example, are prohibited. Photographs of cosplayers, figures, or prominent figures in the industry are acceptable.

Use this tag when an image breaks the above rules.

The following tags are aliased to this tag: non-anime_related (learn more).

Edit: If this comes off as somewhat snarky my apologies but I am serious here. Western art on this site generally tends to be held to a higher standered then none but that doesn't mean there is no place for it.

See, this creates a weird situation. There is, to my knowledge, only one example of Western IP official art on this site besides this one, and it's also for Doom Eternal. As far as I can recall, it has always been considered by most active users of this site preferable to avoid uploading official art of Western IPs, primarily because there's just no real point to it. The site exists as an archive for "anime" related fanart, because artists have a habit of just suddenly deleting their accounts and sending all of their art to the abyss. Eastern IP official art is also featured here to make it easier for English speakers to find. Neither of these concerns are really relevant to Western IP official art, it's easy to find and not very likely to just vanish from the face of the internet completely out of nowhere.

This discussion is about official art of a western IP of an unknown artist. The only thing that makes it "anime" related is that it's a recreation of an iconic image of a JRPG. I don't particularly care whether or not this image is off-topic, I don't really think it is either. My point was not that western art is unacceptable, nor that art of western IPs is unacceptable, but that official art of western IPs is not "anime related" and isn't really in need of being preserved. Plus, a couple people took issue with the idea that official art isn't allowed here, despite that not being what was said at all, and that bugged me.

Also, as far as off-topic is concerned, it was formerly named non-anime_related and a user that, like, literally made their account five days ago, took the liberty of adding in that bit from the ToS, and for whatever reason specifically highlighted the line about porn actresses. This by itself would already have marked anything tagged with it as being wrong for the site thanks to the line, "Use this tag when an image breaks the above rules." Despite plenty of things tagged with it not being considered a problem by most users. And then non-anime_related got aliased to off-topic, so now a bunch of western artstyle fanart of western IPs is tagged as off-topic because they were previously tagged as non-anime_related, with the implication of off-topic being that it should only be used for things that shouldn't be on the site. So that got messy.

This comment section is basically going to turn into this again, isn't it?

That RO tho, she seems doesn't mind that her dorm have essentially become East Germany.

KingsleyDawson said:

That RO tho, she seems doesn't mind that her dorm have essentially become East Germany.

Ido's Ro doesn't mind a lot of things, as long as she has a popsicle or is sleeping.

Emerald_Acid said:

Ido's Ro doesn't mind a lot of things, as long as she has a popsicle or is sleeping.

Nonco's would probably just try to eat communism.

ithekro said:

Nonco's would probably just try to eat communism.

She could somehow do it too.

Also, is there a tag for stielhandgranates? It looks like Maass is holding one in panel 2.

Prinz Eugen said:

THE TATAMIIIII!!!

Prinz, whats more important: holding onto your rooms, or the rug in one of them. And while Bismarck might get upset over the floor, just think about how heartbroken she’d be if she came back to find the Soviets in her quarters.

A_Lurker said:

Also, is there a tag for stielhandgranates? It looks like Maass is holding one in panel 2.

Yes, it's stielhandgranate.

What kind of new torture method is this?

If Cloud was a security guard, how did he get so shredded? did he just imagine the moves a SOLDIER would use, or is he just copying Zack's moves?

Selvokaz said:

If Cloud was a security guard, how did he get so shredded? did he just imagine the moves a SOLDIER would use, or is he just copying Zack's moves?

He was a security guard who was 210 percent committed.

Cloud shouldn't be shredded. He should be skinny to the point of sickly. He wasn't that big to begin with, and then he went on without eating anything for 5 years. Cloud's power doesn't come from his body, and that's supposed to be one of the freaky things about him.

Steak said:

Cloud shouldn't be shredded. He should be skinny to the point of sickly. He wasn't that big to begin with, and then he went on without eating anything for 5 years. Cloud's power doesn't come from his body, and that's supposed to be one of the freaky things about him.

As far as I remember it's the Mako that's making him stronger. He and Zack went through the same treatment, but Cloud took it better than him (in the long run). And he takes a "second" treatment when he falls into the lifestream later on, so yeah, Cloud is ridiculously strong without being buff.

Serrag said:

As far as I remember it's the Mako that's making him stronger. He and Zack went through the same treatment, but Cloud took it better than him (in the long run). And he takes a "second" treatment when he falls into the lifestream later on, so yeah, Cloud is ridiculously strong without being buff.

Not to mention it’s not like normal human world logic and strength matter in their world of magic science. Reminder that Tifa can punch nuclear explosions and suplex creatures 10x her size, despite being pretty much a stick. If anything, the Materia gives more power than just normal human power.

But I also will find it weird that Cloud would NOT be at least somewhat muscular, given the weapon and his occupation as a “mercenary”.

Not to mention, I’m pretty sure time passed after his incident with Zack so he surely had time to recover, even for a bit. From what I remembered, when he was experimented on, it didn’t look like his body had completely atrophied either. It was more of a mental than a physical problem, and as you said, Mako magic.