I just changed my avatar and it made me curious about where other people's avatars came from, and why they chose it.

I already know where Nickelplate's came from :smile:

Anyway, my new avatar comes from an old WWII (or WWI, not sure) poster bearing the slogan "Loose Lips might Sink Ships." At the risk of starting an emo-bash-fest, the reason I discovered the poster was because I loved how the line was used in 'XO' by Fall Out Boy.

My old avatar was taken from a digital blasphemy image that was the closest thing I could find to a cool representation of a neuron. I wanted something that would go well with my online handle. It worked well for almost a year and a half, but I wanted a change.

So... where'd your avatar come from? Why'd you choose it?

Ah, well, I made my avatar in paint one day because I simply wanted a radioactive mutated smiley. Don't ask me why.

Mine is St Christopher, patron saint of Travellers. Although i'm not
religious, i'll wear him in honour of my previous and future travels.
Still struggling to find a good representation I can have tattooed on
my back, though.

I always had a picture of Borat as an avatar because he's the single most amazing character I've seen in years. I really dig this kind of humor. Now that you mention it I should update my snarkpit avatar. Maybe something new... hmm...

Mine is Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. Best cartoon ever.

It's me.

'nuff said.

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one of many examples that i haxed together from parts of other existing models.

it used to fly around on the old Esporthalle TFC skills server.

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My avatar is Rock Lee from the Naruto anime series. He had the most awesome fight in the entire series around episode 50, then he was hurt and couldn't fight. When he finally could, around 60 episodes later, I was so happy I decided to make him my avatar.

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"panic" animation for the HL1 scientist. Scientists win.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

I just thought it was funny ^^

It's me.

'nuff said.

On the left or the right sn***rs*

My avatar is my own doing and I chose it since it describes my
personality quite well... Slowly ticking nuclear bomb. :biggrin: That means
that I'm slow to anger, but when I do it's short, but extremely
destructive situation.

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

My old one was something I drew years ago, this new one though is a just a picture that I cropped from an artist that I've talked to on DeviantArt.

Mine is from Magical Trevor. Im supprised at how may adore my avatar, I have had so many people at other forums compliment me on how much they like my avatar! :smile:

I found a cool picture on the internet, sized it down and stuck my name on it.

For ages I had the Gargantua pic from the old Worldcraft entity guide. the one where it depicts a garg doing the shootflame(or whatever its called) animation

then I switched to a pic of a garg swinging its arm beacause it was a little more, active, of an avatar

then I moved to a VG cats frame heavily modifed to include the american flag and a Garg.

those were all based on my name, which is a story unto itself

now I just use the laughing man logo on most sites. I just love the character of the Laughing man from Ghost in the Shell: Stand alone complex. he was just such a perfect geek, a moral superhacker. and the quote "What I thought i'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes" that circled around his logo struck me as fitting. saying, I did what I came to do then I fled into the depths of the net to watch and see if I must intervene again.

and while im not a superhacker nor have I fled into the depths of the internet, I identify with his character. so I have a stylised version of the logo as my avatar now.

Guts, probably the best representation of resolve, determination, and will to live that I've ever seen. For those of you that havent read the Berserk manga or watched the anime series, Guts is forced to watch his best friend rape Caska, Guts' one and only love. In a rage to break free and save her, he severs his own arm with a broken sword, only to be pinned once again.. losing an eye. The face in my avater is his reaction to the situation. =D

Visual aid:

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the players tried to take the field
the marching band refused to yield

Mine is a lego doctor, I even put the word (Doctor) under it. It used to be blue but someone on this forum said the blue (0 0 255) killed their eyes so I made it this nice red (#240000) which I also use on my website. I like this red.

The other icon I use is a face half submerged in water.

French Toast said:
Mine is Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. Best cartoon ever.

Except mine is one of his many alter-egos. I'm always Tracer Bullet When I play FPS games, Space Man Spiff for starcraft and other space-themed games, and Stupendous Man for all else.

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Some people are like slinkys...

They aren?t really good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one tumbles down the stairs.

My av... well, let's just say it fits my nickname... :wink:

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Quaker Oatmeal Man Nuff Said

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Mine is Spiderman... dancing. I use it because I find it amusing. I actually spent something like an hour fumbling through Adobe Image Ready removing every other frame, cropping part of it off, and resizing it, just to get it under 50KB so I could use it on this site.

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rofl Baron von Snickers! that sound'd funny.

and my avatar is from Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu. that's a bonta... oh well.

It used to be from kids next door though :evilgrin: .

My avitar is a statue of Grenth, the god of death in Guild Wars.

I use it because it looks cool, and gets people guessing just what it is.

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I feel that this avatar is a pretty decent representation of my personality

:evilgrin:

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/274256

I love that one part of the video so much that I trimmed it. Also I know that a basic and colourful avatar is more memorable to other people, hence the previous monkee image in orange.

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Mine is my first atempt at creating abstract art in Cinema4D. (Not to mention that this was the best abstract I ever made.)

The one before that (which sadly I have lost) was a space marine I modeled years ago for a high school dga class. But, most of ya'll would remember that because that avatar was changed long before I became a lot more active on forums.

note: I know I haven't been as active on these forums any more, I've been over at the onrpg and enb-emu (which EA acknowledges its existance) forums, might be gone long after this post too.

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You know, I've actually got nothing to say

Mine is a self portrait.... remember kids, just say no.

Yeah, Finger, yours is pretty creepy, no offense :smile:

I have to say I love calvin and hobbes. I wouldn't mind picking a lesser known character to be my avatar/alter ego. Perhaps Lockjaw or Mr. Bun :biggrin:

Anywho, Mr. Insane, why'd you choose the quaker oatmeal guy?

Myrk- said:
Also I know that a basic and colourful avatar is more memorable to other people

In that case, I'm glad I changed mine.

That's actually quite an awesome av gwil , mine is a picture of Shooting Star for Record of lodoss war

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Andrei said:
It used to be from kids next door though :evilgrin: .

yes.

that was before i discovered ANIMES. they are way much better than some CartoonNetwork cartoons... like KND.

Mine is something I did for a piece of work for college. It is Lion-O from Thundercats drawn in the style of Goku from DragonBall (the original not Z or GT)

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Human knowledge belongs to the world

Nuclear explosion because nuclear explosions are cool (figuratively speaking).
Fox because foxes are sexy.
"Sunglasses for protection." - Famous last words, Los Alamos atomic bomb test.

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Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

I bet that I am one of the few here, who once I found the appropriate image, have kept it the longest.

Some people here change theirs more often than socks.

My avatar suits me. It can be however "you" view me. Be it positive (a fountain of info) or negative (a broken old pipe fixture) in nature, your view of me is most likely accurate enough.

My view however, is someone who parcels out bits of knowledge/experience to those who need it... I just hope the water never stops flowing. :smile:

Like a drippy faucet however, I suspect most here are tired of the noise by now.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I find that I "see" people as their avitars, so when they change I sometimes think they are someone else (thats why i keep mine the same).

I associate names more so than avatars, but yeah, I know how you feel.

I sometimes completely bypass a reply because the name, or avatar is unfamiliar.

I feel that if people would be more picky before deciding on one, that they'd be more apt to keep it. Orpheus has been my game name for a couple decades now. My avatar... about.. I dunno.. 3 years?

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I usually keep mine as long as I'm feeling what the avatar expresses. Methinks this one will be kept for awhile though, 'cause it's t3h sex.

As far as "names" go, G.Ballblue has been my psuedonym for... since, what, 2000? Long before I joined the Snarkpit.

I generally see "changing avatars" as more of a hunt to find the perfect one :smile: I'm quite pleased with the one I have now, and SvenCoop avatar is very nice is well, and I'm hoping to hold on to both of them for quite some time.

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

now that you're talking 'bout names...

my "internet life" started with this name (on 2002 or 2003) and i like it and i'll use it foreva!.....

but if you ask about avatars, i change them a lot, also MSN names. ask Orpheus :biggrin: .

I'll probably keep mine for a long time...

I guess it just suits me.

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Ha, I don't even use a pseudonym! Also, my old name was Andy because I was a sort of
mini-Andrei (hence the diminutive form) when I started my online
activity (read "spamming", but I was only 12 and could barley speak
english).

I often play as ComradeJoe though.

I was ()))Crayola))_> and ShootTheChicken for awhile, when I played TFC, and then when I signed up for Snarkpit I went with FrenchToast instead, because I'd had some that morning. Now I stick to it, or variations. I'm FrenchToast, French Toast, FrenchandToasted etc.

i used to be spectre, but then my friends called me fatstrings because i played the bass for a short time so i jokingly switched to that and now i'm stuck with it

the original pic from my avatar was given to me by a member of this site (can't remember who)

then nickel messed with it an i use it because it works and like you guys said, changing avatars mess with my mind and i don't want to cause any confusion

Mine because I made it myself. :smile: Just chose something I'd made recently and put it up.

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Heh, I also see avatars as a representation, I usually associate the name with the avatar rather than the other way around.
But I guess a system that allowed you to upload an av at sign-up and then no more wouldn't be too appreciated... :wink:

I've thought about changing my nickname, and I'm now using Create-ivity on my gamedev blog, but I'm not really happy with that name either... anyone got an idea?

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I don't know, it's hard to come up with a name for other people, since I feel like an online handle has to have some strong personal tie to make you truly want to stick with it.

In other words, I don't think I could come up with anything you would find fitting :smile:

I understand - on the other hand, others can inspire me, and others. :smile:

Oh well, I guess Isaac Imaginov sounds just fine... albeit a little old and weird... :razz:

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