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Axiom
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Where is your avatar from?

Postby Axiom » Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:39 am

I'm curious how other people pick their avatars. Mine is from a painting I did of the protagonist of a video game I'm working on. I usually use my own art for avatars, but I've also been known to be partial to silly pictures of cats in formal wear.
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iavatus
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby iavatus » Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:55 am

I did get confused for a bit, when you changed the avatar in the middle of a discussion.

Mine is Hunter S Thompson. Carefully cropped to appear cool, used it in most forums.

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Somewhat less cool. I respect Hunter's work, introduced to him mostly from Transmetropolitan (awesome comic, read if you haven't), and Fear and Loathing. I use it, simply because it's what I have used for a long time, and I don't feel any need to change it.
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby destinysWalrus » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:01 am

I made mine. I think my logic for doing so was that I was bored, wanted a new avatar, and had recently discovered pixel art.

I would have liked to have made it solving a cube from fully scrambled to completely solved, but that probably would have made the file size a bit big for an avatar. So instead it just repeats the move for the final step, over and over.
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Axiom
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Axiom » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:02 am

Oh, neat. And yes, I changed it in the middle of a discussion because I noticed someone else had a picture of a cat with a hat and a monocle. It's like showing up to a party in the same dress as someone else, right? :lol:
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Kyriel » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:12 am

Oldschool Magic: The Gathering card art, "Serra Angel". Because I'm a nerd.
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Friar Briar » Tue Jul 21, 2015 3:23 am

Axiom wrote:Oh, neat. And yes, I changed it in the middle of a discussion because I noticed someone else had a picture of a cat with a hat and a monocle. It's like showing up to a party in the same dress as someone else, right? :lol:

But imagine if we all changed our avatars to cats with a hat and a monocle. Now that would be some party! :lol: (It would also make for a really weird forum.)

Mine is Tomoe Ame from the Usagi Yojimbo comics. Like me, she is strong, smart, and Asian. :wink:

Also, she knows kung-fu.
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Lapallanch » Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:19 am

My avatars vary depending on where they are used. For example, you won't see me with this avatar in a Star Wars game. It would probably be a picture of a Zabrak (Darth Maul).

As for my current avatar, anyway, I found it on Google by googling 'young elven prince'. :mrgreen: I've always been a fan of elves.
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*-1.06: You turned around.
*-1.06: You turned around.
*-1.06: - says: "I give you last warning, turn around "
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Tiamo » Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:40 am

Mine is self-explanatory ... i think.
I think ...
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Undine » Tue Jul 21, 2015 12:42 pm

Mine is a picture that a friend took of me while we were in Canada with my college's tour choir. We found the cutest little coffee shop! I think it's a pretty silly picture.
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby cutecuddlydirewolf » Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:22 pm

Drew mine. Because the cute, cuddwy widdle dire wolves want to dismember and eat you. But they're cute! :lol:
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Optimus Christ » Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:44 pm

Mine, is a picture of myself. Was actually caught off guard by a friend. Figured it couldn't hurt.
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Vega » Thu Dec 31, 2015 8:21 am

Mine is a picture a friend sent me saying "you are going to like this."
I did. But I'm afraid I cannot thank the author because I don't know who is.
It was the first nice picture I found in my computer when I made my forum account and, well, after all these years, why change it?
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby ObsessedWithCats » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:25 pm

Darker than Black, my favourite anime.

I turned it green before I knew of Cantr in an attempt to improve the contrast, and it seems fitting ^_^ Often I use the main character instead but I think between the colour and the size limitations of the board it wasn't a tricky choice.
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Bmot » Mon Jan 04, 2016 6:10 pm

I like boats :)

This seemed like quite a good picture, not too different from my old one.

Maybe I'll get a new one though...
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Re: Where is your avatar from?

Postby Crownless » Wed Jan 06, 2016 3:53 am

It's the most flattering picture of myself that I could find.
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