Explain Your Avatar Image Here

Dualnames · Sat 01/12/2007 21:22:23

Well, self explanatory.. I 've always seen weird images for avatars.. As for mine it's an inventory item from CMI.. It's a cup o Joe.. And the cup is decorated by the lucas arts logo..

ManicMatt · Sat 01/12/2007 21:27:00

Mine is the answer to every question ever posed by mankind.

Radiant · Sat 01/12/2007 21:34:14

Mine? I'm surprised you don't know by now

LimpingFish · Sat 01/12/2007 21:35:55

My avatar (which is about to be updated) is a hairless hamster.

The hairless hamster is not actually a breed of hamster, but rather a mutation. They have lower immune systems than regular hamsters, and shorter life expendencies.

For more on hairless hamsters, send a SAE to:

Mr Huh?
123 Idontcare St.
Nowhere.

Please allow 28 days for your letter to be crumpled up and thrown in the bin.

OneDollar · Sat 01/12/2007 21:37:44

Mine is Dollar the monkey who has been my character for many years. First started when a friend and I were playing with toys (as opposed to on computers or consoles, this was a long time ago), and we had a monkey puppet running an airline business that only cost $1 to fly on, but would take you to some country you didn't want to go to where you would have to pay one unit of another currency to another similar monkey to fly somewhere else. I'm British but one dollar had a nicer ring to it than one pound.

Then I was introduced (by the same friend) to a game maker called O.H.R.R.P.G.C.E. and I made my very first game staring Dollar in "Dollar's Quest" - I knew nothing of the Sierra games back then. Since then I've tried out lots of game making programs and Dollar has stuck with me, although only making it into one other finished game (and several games which were mostly finished).

More recently I've tried my hand at Flash animating, and have 95% finished one with Dollar in it. The picture in my avatar is taken from that animation.

There you go, my forum name and avatar for the price of one. (Avoiding the ridiculously obvious pun)

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 01/12/2007 21:42:44

If you don't know, get the hell out.

Lionmonkey · Sat 01/12/2007 22:11:57

Umm, I think, I can provide a long story about my avatar too.

Firstly, I'd like to say that I'm annoyed, because some lazy people use random pictures and animations from the Web as their avatars, instead of making them by themselves. There are even sites, providing free avatars! Can you believe this? So, I always make my avatars by myself, in Paint.net and UNFreez as far as I can remember.

Anyway, back to the business. The picture, I use as my avatar is more complex, than you may have thought. Look at the background. You can see something red and green over there. This in fact is my old, first ever avatar, multiplied and squeezed all over the screen a bit:

I made it the same day, I've discovered layers. Ah, the nostalgia.

Now the foreground. You may or may not recognise a shape of Skype logo. You see, Skype lets it's users pick one of it's own pre-made avatars, which are all in the shape of Skype logo, like this one:

I, of course didn't like it and decided to have a little revenge. I cut the shape, filled it with the evil gradient and even typed my name on top!

Now the animation. I just made some effects with my beloved Paint.net and looped them together. And since I had a headache at that time, I decided that my avatar will give anybody who sees it a headache too. That must be the reason, why everybody around hates me.

Indie Boy · Sat 01/12/2007 22:33:17

This explains my avatar. It is such a good song

EldKatt · Sat 01/12/2007 22:39:52

It's a soapstone carving of an elephant (with a tiny elephant inside of it) made by some poor guy in India. I like it, it sits on my living room windowsill, and I took a photo of it and used as my avatar because having an avatar that means something is a waste of effort.

Nikolas · Sat 01/12/2007 22:55:37

Quote from: Radiant on Sat 01/12/2007 21:34:14
Mine? I'm surprised you don't know by now

+1 and I guess Fizzi should post as well!

Tuomas · Sat 01/12/2007 23:23:45

I've had quite a few, the Itcotck cover by king crimson, a diseased liver, which I had to remove, Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb. Now, I just wanted to get the picture from one of the best games ever made, that would be Lord British from Ultima 6, though I bet you knew that already

vict0r · Sat 01/12/2007 23:33:04

Mine is an animated view of the THC molecule... No big secret meaning behind it..

LUniqueDan · Sat 01/12/2007 23:54:16

@ Radiant Yeah but what your other avatar is? I was somewhat sure that I'm was going to find that in Atotk.
EDIT : (for Lion Monkey) : The one with a Feathered Serpent.

My avatar is Cyrano the Bergerac, shamelessly taken from a poster.

Lionmonkey · Sun 02/12/2007 00:20:59

Quote from: LUniqueDan on Sat 01/12/2007 23:54:16
@ Radiant Yeah but what your other avatar is? I was somewhat sure that I'm was going to find that in Atotk.

My avatar is Cyrano the Bergerac, shamelessly taken from a poster.

He's the wussy guy who can play a flute, at the tent park, where the protagonist's friends live.

voh · Sun 02/12/2007 01:11:18

My avatar is me, and I am my avatar.

Da_Elf · Sun 02/12/2007 01:56:08

i belive mine explains itself too

Dualnames · Sun 02/12/2007 02:02:16

Quote from: vict0r on Sat 01/12/2007 23:33:04
Mine is an animated view of the THC molecule... No big secret meaning behind it..

Shit. And I thought...well nevermind what I thought.

monkey0506 · Sun 02/12/2007 04:47:06

Quote from: Lionmonkey on Sat 01/12/2007 22:11:57You can see something red and green over there.

I can? Where? I don't see it!

Explaining my three avatars:

1) The "Broken GIF" avatar. I always thought it was funny to intentionally set my avatar to the image of a broken GIF. Even funnier is the fact that it's actually saved as a PNG.

2) The "What if" avatar. It's a bunch of propagandist crap that's full of lies and I love it because it was made by me about a girl and no one gets it.
3) The "monkey Claus" avatar. Simply enough it's there to show off my Santa Claus-esque physique. It started off as an image of me on the ride "it's a small world" at Disney World. Then I applied some prepubescent Photoshopping techniques and ultimately painted over the whole thing to turn it into a Christmas avatar. I hold on to it in the hopes that one day I too can look that shnazzy. On a somewhat related note, the non-Christmas version of this avatar has long-since disappeared and has no intention of ever returning.

Nacho · Sun 02/12/2007 08:39:04

Hehe... I remember asking Tuomas to remove the lived via PM... I actually didn' t, I just asked him if there was a sentimental reason or something, because it was quite disturbing and unappealing. He was kind enough to save me seeing that gore thingie. I now have Dexter, from the TV series, but I don' t really like to keep avatars for too long. I had an ant before, because ants are cool...

Buckethead · Sun 02/12/2007 11:40:49

Well my avantar is a guy with a bucket on his head.