Why'd you use this avatar? Psychological, in-depth thread.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:16 pm

So, the question is simple. Why did you use your current/older avatar? Just because it's nice? Does it mean something to you? Is there a story behind it? Does it express something special?

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:30 pm

I made this icon for a dream game of mine (Khemet: the black lands). Since then I think it's associated with me- so I made a couple varients of it- but the wedjet will remain in one form or another.

It will always serve as a reminder of the idea for the game, and maybe someday I'll get to make it real.

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:33 pm

Which one?

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:36 pm

This thread is meant for all but Sload (your case is obvious, you suffer from total identity confusion!).
Kidding, whichever you want to talk about.

sirwootalot123 · Post by **sirwootalot123** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:55 am

I change my avatar either whenever I get sick of the current one or when I find another that's better. This one was generously shown to me by a good friend who joined TR but then never actually posted; I laughed so hard at first that I pretty much couldn't breathe. It's gonna stay for a while.

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:59 am

Turelio drew a picture back when I was lit mod for special use and it clicked.

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:36 am

I'll just list all the ones I can remember:

Wierd Al Yankovic
A Sload
A big white eye
A guy in a straight jacket
(I get fuzzy here, so these'll be out of order and very incomplete)
Adrian Monk
Cosmo Kramer
Bill O'Reilly
this guy that Dexter drew
George Costanza
Sherlock Holmes Sload
the Architect
Che
the Walrus from Walrus and the Carpenter
Mr. Quimper
Ragged Robin (I think)
eBay's it thing
Fozzy the Bear
Wierd Al again
A third Wierd Al avatar
a really sucky fake pop-up box
Morpheus
(Okay, here we get back into relative order)
Sloadium
John Lennon
Oprah Winfrey
Bob Ross
Marey Carey
Abbie Hoffman

Any you can remember would be appreciated.

Lutemoth · Post by **Lutemoth** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:07 am

Easy question. Lutemoth is my avatar is my character is my webname is myself. Lute's been a long-running character I used in travels since the warp of the west, and everyone's come to associate the Dark elf burglar with me.

By the way, that's an impressive list, Sload

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:08 am

I wanted an avatar, saw this and picked it.

Macar wrote:I made this icon for a dream game of mine (Khemet: the black lands). Since then I think it's associated with me- so I made a couple varients of it- but the wedjet will remain in one form or another.

It will always serve as a reminder of the idea for the game, and maybe someday I'll get to make it real.

I have a dream game too, it's (temp) ane is Cows: Udders of Steel.

NEENJA · Post by **NEENJA** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:22 am

I wanted to make an avatar that fits ninjas (NEENJA=ninja, get it?) I whipped something up quick in photoshop, and I prefer to stay with one avatar, as I view it kind of as my face: I'll always use the name NEENJA when I can, but when it's taken, I'll just use this avatar so I'm easy to recognize on the web.

(I think I joined TR during Sload's Sloadinium phase. I do miss the Marey Carey one, though, and I would have liked to see a weird al one, too. Eat it.)

--the NEENJA

lb003g0676 · Post by **lb003g0676** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:05 am

I joined when Sload has his second Weird Al avatar, becuase I remeber Jale bitching to me how it reminded him of his shit female maths teacher. Fair enoghu to him, she must be pretty shit if she looks like Weird Al. On account of her being a woman.... and .. that.

I took part both in the periodic table avatar craze and the Beatles craze where Paul McCartney was left out in the cold. As the 3 others partied on TR.

My avatars always ahve my name on them... apart from the beathles one, or indicate my name. becuase neitehr this current one, nor the Poundinium actually said my name.

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 5:37 am

I have had six avatars.

- Original Morgoth
- Original Morgoth with Santa hat. (Soon to make a reappearance.)
- Morgoth with Daedric "Morgoth", no flames.
- Morgoth with Daedric "Morgoth", animated flames.
- Morgothinium or whatever the hell my element turned out to be.
- Johnny Carson. Current.

And the Signature/avatar: "Join the dark side, we have cookies."

This is over a year-and-four month period, so I'm not too eclectic yet. The ones depicting Morgoth are obvious. The one with the radioactive symbol was peer pressure. (Just say no!) The Johnny Carson one is awesome, and shows the expression I always have when I'm on TR. (Which may in fact be frightening.)

I may or may not have used one of an elf I drew here. I don't recall it. And Sload, I joined during the "guy in the straight jacket" phase, and for old-times sake I want you to bring it back (Along with the "Ers hng lo" signature.)

CleverClothe · Post by **CleverClothe** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:04 am

I needed an avatar, so I used a picture of my character that I use for a save game manager for Oblivion (and it fits Hammerfell!).

I will probably change it (and write a signature).

Orix · Post by **Orix** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:51 pm

My avatar is my Starwars Galaxies character, which is where I used the name Orix for the first time too. I took a screenie in game and my good friend in the guild photoshopped it into an avatar for me. I guess I always use that one because I always call myself Orix, and the avatar is his first ever incarnation.

I only have one other avatar (on forums) and thats a white chinese dragon style oroborus with a red background.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:05 pm

well, at first i had a walking frog from some anime (hello kitty maybe?) cause it was cute. there are few old enough to rember that phase

(heh, there was even a segment about it towards the end of the great story thread). after a while yinnie PMed me saying that it was too big (probably cause it was animated) and i had to take it down. i went thorough several avatars wich were small and insignificant (the only one i can rember is a daedric D). then one day i got a G4 newsletter saying that their site was having technical difficulties. the newsletter was acompanied by a picture of a squirrel sitting on an electrical outlet with chewed wires around it. i realy loved the picture, so i croped it to include only the squirrles head and colored the eyes red. its been my avatar ever since (i did have a elemt av for a while, but that had the squirrel in the background). the eyes acutaly blinked for a while, but then the site that i had it hosted on went down and i couldnt find the file on my computer.

Post by **Gnomey** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:34 pm

When I joined this forum and saw everyone with an avatar, I decided to jump onto the bandwagon and drew the pic. to the left.

I don't even need to explain the rest.

And as everyone seems to be posting what Sload's avatar was when they joined, it was "the Walrus from Walrus and the Carpenter" with me, and I can't believe that there were so many avatars since then.

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:06 pm

My avatar? It goes without saying, I guess...

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:31 am

Viewed from a purely artistic and aesthetic perspective, I believe Nemon's avatar rocks awesomely too much. That soft blue light is pure magic. I admit though that I expected more people to be bound to their avatar, as if seeing their reflection in it.

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:39 am

You just look too much into pretty pictures.

Though I tend to associate other people to their avatars, if you find that more philosophical and deep. For example, whenever I think of Lady N, I envisage a blue satanic squirrel (and vice versa

). Swifty: a red-orange squirrel. Dexter: a white skull on black. Jale: black and white photo of his (?) face. Lutemoth: the purple Dunmer with green hair. Morgoth: Morgoth from the Silmarillion. Sload: an eyeball. I know some of those avatars have changed, but I don't associate their new avatars with them.

El Scumbago · Post by **El Scumbago** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:49 am

Indeed. I always tend to associate Sload with that slimy avatar he had when I first joined (the Sload), and Dexter with that muscled guy that once was his avatar.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:44 pm

Here's the avatar I usually use:
[img]http://gez117.free.fr/Avatars/error404.jpg[/img]

Okay. More seriously, I don't bother much with avatars, actually. I think the cat taking the "missing image" icon away is the only one I used there.

Nomadic1 wrote:Though I tend to associate other people to their avatars

I associate you with the

smiley. It's your favorite.

Sload · Post by **Sload** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:50 pm

I thought it was a polar bear.

Post by **Gnomey** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:06 pm

It looked like a monkey to me.

Anyway, I associate Nomadic with the dog and the smiley, but usually the way I view people changes with their avatars. (By the way, this means that at one point Sload did indeed take on the character of Opra in my mind, that was strange...)

Nomadic1 · Post by **Nomadic1** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:46 pm

Gez wrote:
Nomadic1 wrote:Though I tend to associate other people to their avatars
I associate you with the smiley. It's your favorite.

Yeah, that smiley is my personal trademark copyrighted property

Gnomey wrote:(By the way, this means that at one point Sload did indeed take on the character of Opra in my mind, that was strange...)

Sload's weight cycled between thin and morbidly obese with ridiculous speed?

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:45 pm

I started out with a cliche daedric "O". Moved on to the Lannister coat of arms. I had an element avatar, I think mine was Tyrionium Lannistite or something like that, when element avatars were all the rage. Went back to the coat of arms, and then I'm not sure if I went straight to my Link avatar or if there was something else in between.

Nemon · Post by **Nemon** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:21 pm

El Scumbago wrote:Viewed from a purely artistic and aesthetic perspective, I believe Nemon's avatar rocks awesomely too much. That soft blue light is pure magic...

Heh, photographed with my Samsung E700 in a Mitshubishi Lancer, two minutes after hearing "yes". Unedited, exept for size.

Eyeball88 · Post by **Eyeball88** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:33 pm

Raistlin Majere. Master of Past and Present. He's always been one of my favourite fantasy characters. This has always been my favourite picture of him; some of them show him as very soft-skinned, or too golden so that he almost looks flamboyant.

Nanu · Post by **Nanu** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:51 pm

Heh, photographed with my Samsung E700 in a Mitshubishi Lancer, two minutes after hearing "yes". Unedited, exept for size.

I thought that was stock photography. Nice job!

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:10 pm

Eyeball's avvy ftw

Rockwell · Post by **Rockwell** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:39 pm

I chose Mario because I hail from the dawn of the popular gaming era (Also known as the 'Third generation of video game history' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_%28third_generation%29) . I say popular, because there were of course, many other consoles and video games before the NES came around, but video games didn't really become mainstream until NES and onward. So, I feel that mario is pretty representitive of the era of computer/video games that I grew up with and my experience with them, as well as how old I am. I was raised on the NES.

I believe I joined when Sload had some kind of buger looking avatar that was supposed to be a sload.

matts05 · Post by **matts05** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:36 am

Meerkats rock.

I change my avatar every couple months to give it freshness (along with a matching sig, of course). I think I first had the guy from the simpsons that always said "Yessssssss?", then I had Mrs. Doubtfire.

The Old Ye Bard · Post by **The Old Ye Bard** » Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:20 pm

I usually use the bard looking character, with the crazy hat that has bat wings (The one I used for the time I first began). Then I used an old dude with half his face darkened (In PS), then I went back to my first Avatar, then I gave it a back ground with grass and sky, then I've moved to this one of a log cabin with a Christmas tree in it (I have a version without it to). Tomorrow I will go back to my first Avatar, but with a Christmas hat on it.

-Saddistic_Angel- · Post by **-Saddistic_Angel-** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:05 pm

Dimmu Borgir are awesome && they have spiky boots.

Upsilon · Post by **Upsilon** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:47 pm

This little chair is the logo of Eighteenth Street Lounge, a record label which I particularly like (thievery corporation, all that stuff). Very very good music!

Orix · Post by **Orix** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:53 pm

Say, wasn't there a thread about why people chose the name they use? I'd like to read that again, but I couldn't find it... any clues as to it's location?

Andres Indoril · Post by **Andres Indoril** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 4:51 pm

The archives!

-Saddistic_Angel- · Post by **-Saddistic_Angel-** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:41 pm

o.O There are archives?

Post by **Haplo** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:48 pm

There was a thread about how old people were, or when they joined the project, which was kind of pointless pretty soon because the only people posting in it were people who joined after these forums were created. So we archived it.

theviking · Post by **theviking** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:36 am

I just really like this picture with the axe and the red. It fits me well because i somewhat look like a viking (blond hair, blue eyes and about as tall as one should have been) and I like to go woodcutting. And red and green are my favorite colours.

Morgoth Bauglir · Post by **Morgoth Bauglir** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:43 am

Easy, It's Morgoth and Ungoliath. My avatar before this one was Garet (or something like that) from Thief, but a bit changed to make it evil, like morgoth.

Ungoliath has nothing to do with it though.