What conclusions do you reach from avatars?
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Bluefusion
Into the Breach
gamedog, i know where the car comes from... the opening of GTA3 for PS2 has a shot of a car's engine from inside and it looks very similar to that.. remember?
Bluefusion
Into the Breach
It reminds me of the dropship in Halo for some reason... dunno why... but i like how it can become different things if you look at it in different ways
AdmiralAK
Simply Daemonic
Wow this thread has taken off while I have been busy at work
Well I decided to have a BSd daemon on my 666th post (devil, deamon lol) -- then I liked it so much I decided to keep it and make it my avatar for all the forums I visit (and have custom avatars). Before that I am not sure what I had
--- It was only a few months till I reached 666. Back in the public beta days we had a lot of "on topic" activity here 
scruffy
Notorious Olive Counter
Ulrik - zen. very zen.
Hervé - Well, I already suspected he was a Yeti but that makes it conclusive.
Zaphod - an eerily glowing eater of cinnamon sticks.
nkuvu - a respected grandfather spirit in an animist religion, considered to be nearly insignificant today, but we'll all feel stupid when we die, and they turn out to have been right all along.
unlearnthetruth - wears black nail polish and communes with the spirits of dead houseplants at the solstices.
tismey - aristocrat in the kingdom of the bat
Hervé - Well, I already suspected he was a Yeti but that makes it conclusive.
Zaphod - an eerily glowing eater of cinnamon sticks.
nkuvu - a respected grandfather spirit in an animist religion, considered to be nearly insignificant today, but we'll all feel stupid when we die, and they turn out to have been right all along.
unlearnthetruth - wears black nail polish and communes with the spirits of dead houseplants at the solstices.
tismey - aristocrat in the kingdom of the bat
bighairydog
tail-wagging member
From Builder to Builder's pin-up girl ;o)
Bernie
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bighairydog
tail-wagging member
Wow, this thread really took off (I just read the last two pages).
Bluefusion - I like your new avatar...
Lets see how many more avatar changes I/We can precipitate with comments like "Your avatar makes me think of dyslexic cult leaders who strangle small furry animals and brainwash vulnerables into the ultra-hardline right wing stance that all people should donate one of their children to the government for formation of a world-domination army".
When it comes down to it, People look at the content not the avatar, but I do really think having a distinctive avatar makes it an easier process to get to know somebody. I think the human brain instinctively wants to have some easily to remember representation of a person it interacts with. Who can honestly say that they didn't get a feeling of what AdmiralAK and Ed were like much faster than most of the others (and I'm sure it wasn't just their insane post counts)
Bernie)
Bluefusion - I like your new avatar...
Lets see how many more avatar changes I/We can precipitate with comments like "Your avatar makes me think of dyslexic cult leaders who strangle small furry animals and brainwash vulnerables into the ultra-hardline right wing stance that all people should donate one of their children to the government for formation of a world-domination army".
When it comes down to it, People look at the content not the avatar, but I do really think having a distinctive avatar makes it an easier process to get to know somebody. I think the human brain instinctively wants to have some easily to remember representation of a person it interacts with. Who can honestly say that they didn't get a feeling of what AdmiralAK and Ed were like much faster than most of the others (and I'm sure it wasn't just their insane post counts)
Bernie
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edX
mac shaman
gosh, so many people talking about me
now cmon Bernie, some of that was based on interaction.
truth is - I was only indirectly in the music biz for 7 years, now live in a small house painted blue with a cut up jacuzzi that i finally made into a pond in the back garden. but i do like psychedelic colors.
sithious - your icon always reminds me of Jesus. It always seems so incongruent with the Jedi Knight thing. (but it is likable )
symphonix - yes, my avatar was done on my graphire2.
Tismey - i assume your avatar is a beer bottle cap but it always reminds me of something military or governmental. it takes a close look to see that it is a bat.
Bluefusion - i see a dolphin head in your new logo. which i thought was cool when you revealed it was a distorted wave.
perhaps i should post my old avatar up for awhile for the new folks. it was a classic mac icon from an old macintalk app from about 1986 that i colorized. all my friends here laughed at it. It was much more about my mac history than about me.
Ulrik - i could have sworn that you designed your logo to make me dizzy. that way every time i laugh at one of your posts, i fall out of my chair.
(and i did not tell that particular secret. i suggest you turn that inscreen cam off, perhaps that will increase your security )
rick - your new avatar says that you are a bit too quick in bed or else you are just new to the concept. girls that bump and grind that fast will never develop a satisfying, natural rythm with you.
i will say in general i like original and personal picture avatars better than ones that use logos, comic or game characters, or famous people. But that is the creative part of me that symphonix talked about. Also a belief that you should cast your own shadow and not try to immitate anyone else. Some of my favorites are Symphonix, nkuvu, Tom, and Lonnie. herve and matrix agent also keep me amused with their changes.
now cmon Bernie, some of that was based on interaction.
truth is - I was only indirectly in the music biz for 7 years, now live in a small house painted blue with a cut up jacuzzi that i finally made into a pond in the back garden. but i do like psychedelic colors.
sithious - your icon always reminds me of Jesus. It always seems so incongruent with the Jedi Knight thing.
(but it is likable )symphonix - yes, my avatar was done on my graphire2.
Tismey - i assume your avatar is a beer bottle cap but it always reminds me of something military or governmental. it takes a close look to see that it is a bat.
Bluefusion - i see a dolphin head in your new logo. which i thought was cool when you revealed it was a distorted wave.
perhaps i should post my old avatar up for awhile for the new folks. it was a classic mac icon from an old macintalk app from about 1986 that i colorized. all my friends here laughed at it.
It was much more about my mac history than about me.Ulrik - i could have sworn that you designed your logo to make me dizzy. that way every time i laugh at one of your posts, i fall out of my chair.
(and i did not tell that particular secret. i suggest you turn that inscreen cam off, perhaps that will increase your security
)rick - your new avatar says that you are a bit too quick in bed or else you are just new to the concept. girls that bump and grind that fast will never develop a satisfying, natural rythm with you.
i will say in general i like original and personal picture avatars better than ones that use logos, comic or game characters, or famous people. But that is the creative part of me that symphonix talked about. Also a belief that you should cast your own shadow and not try to immitate anyone else. Some of my favorites are Symphonix, nkuvu, Tom, and Lonnie. herve and matrix agent also keep me amused with their changes.
bighairydog
tail-wagging member
Really? I seriously was only guessing from the avatar (I havn't spent much time in the congrats threads or the B&G, so never found out about your living arrangements...)Originally posted by Ed Spruiell
now cmon Bernie, some of that was based on interaction.
truth is - I was only indirectly in the music biz for 7 years, now live in a small house painted blue with a cut up jacuzzi that i finally made into a pond in the back garden. but i do like psychedelic colors.
Now I agree more with you about the whole personal avatar thing Ed. Thats the good thing about personal avatars - by designing them yourself, you inject some of your life into it, and hence I managed to guess your profile quite well (I'm still chuffed about doing that!).
Sometime I'd better get around to redesigning mine (not that I designed my current one of course), when I get a graphics tablet... I see Wacom have released drivers for their tablets in OSX, so sometime soon I'll buy that tablet I've been promising myself and make me a nice avatar.
Bernie
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tismey
Official Bartender
It's actually the Alternative Tentacles record label ('Giving art a bad name since 1979') logo. The government/military thing is interesting though, because the bat is actually holding a missile in one claw, and a broken cross with a dollar sign on it in the other, so I guess there's a link there.
The picture I used was originally a picture of a badge from the AT online store. It had a bit of a light-flare across it because of the shininess of the badge, so when I made it transparent it gave it the roughed-up edges. I guess it does look a bit like a beer bottle cap.
unlearnthetruth
Recycle Me!
LOL
That's the funniest description of me i've ever heard - thank you scruffy
I only wear black nailpolish when it's called for!