Hall of the Avatars

[Claverhouse]

Since some of us change avatars and sigs frequently ( not me, why change perfection ? ) how about a sticky, akin to the 'What We Look Like' thread, on which all users could post their avatars and signatures; and edit it to add the changes to either, so there would be a record ?

Some comments on posters are going to be incomprehensible to future generations otherwise. ( Generally, I remember members' first avatars, and rearrange the change backwards to identify them, unless they are already prominent enough to be identified by name alone ).



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[melancholeric]

60 % of the posts would be by mgbradsh, 30 % by me, and 10 % by the rest ~800 members we have.

[Star]

60 % of the posts would be by mgbradsh, 30 % by me, and 10 % by the rest ~800 members we have.

Fine by me. And I might actually read your sig if it was in a font size > .000006 =)

[mgb]

60 % of the posts would be by mgbradsh, 30 % by me, and 10 % by the rest ~800 members we have.

I object, I've really only had like 4 avatars. Deepsky probably has more avatars per day than me :p

[melancholeric]

It seems you're not very good at math. Nothing to worry about though, we all have our weaknesses. For instance, I still don't quite comprehend all the details about string theory formulas.

[Star]

Deepsky probably has more avatars per day than me

Lies.


It seems you're not very good at math.

Truth. :(

[Clara]

Nevermind, Claverhouse... I know what you mean. ( These three - somehow - seem to think they're the ones being referred to *"how odd"* ... because they've been changing often, lately... )

I also notice avatars... so I do know that there have been others who've changed their avatars along the way. And, as Promo pointed out, in some thread, there are some avatars which influence our feelings about the person who uses them.
I hope, for instance, that Shaytana, and others with motion gifs for avatars, post them here, if they decide to change ( though, guys : thnk about what Claver said, "why mess about, when you already have such "perfect" choices ?" ;) )

[CreativeChaos]

Yeayyyyyy!!!!! It's about time someone started this!!!! :D

I want to see MGs old one that he had when I first came here. The one with the sandy dude shaking something.

AND EZ cannot leave without putting his/her (Boo?) old avatar up. I still am not used to the new one.

[Shai Gar]

ive only had two, the albert einstein and the raven, but i have been thinking about Odin with his two ravens so this mightn't be a bad idea

[Claverhouse]

You called, oh son of man ?

[ Huginn told me ]



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[mgb]

Nevermind, Claverhouse... I know what you mean. ( These three - somehow - seem to think they're the ones being referred to *"how odd"* ... because they've been changing often, lately... )

I also notice avatars... so I do know that there have been others who've changed their avatars along the way. And, as Promo pointed out, in some thread, there are some avatars which influence our feelings about the person who uses them.
I hope, for instance, that Shaytana, and others with motion gifs for avatars, post them here, if they decide to change ( though, guys : thnk about what Claver said, "why mess about, when you already have such "perfect" choices ?" ;) )

I object.

":lol:"

[Solo]

I really like the idea. I wouldn't mind seeing all the avatars members have had. Maybe we could vote on the one we like the best.

[Helios]

I had thought about this before too, but from a differnt point of view. I would think if it was possible to have the avatar and signature remains as it was at the time of the post, verse the current retrofitting all past posts when you change.

[jimkopelli]

This would barely affect me... the only changes to mine have been mere cosmetics.

[YardGnome]

People changing avatars so frequently is very frustrating. I associate a person with their avatar and everytime someone changes their avatar I don't recognize who is posting. It's quite frustrating. How about an avatar enforcement policy which makes you keep your avatar for a certain (read long) period of time before you can change it again. This would certainly avoid confusion and give others a more permanent sense of your online identity rather than the multiple identity crises on this forum each week...

[melancholeric]

NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of us just like variety and get bored quickly. If you confuse people because of frequent avatar changes, here's a hint: below the avatar, you see this thing called username. That should clear confusion, as most of us don't change that very frequently.

( I'd change it everyday, if I could figure out how. )

[YardGnome]

I find pictures more easily recognizable than words...

:cry:

[ohnoaninfp]

Sweet! I always miss the old avatars I replace, it would be nice to see them.

[YardGnome]

One more thing... One person should not be able to have the same avatar as someone else... I'm not going to name any names

*Cough Shai Cough Gar Cough*

[nBT]

ooh you are the visually gifted and you cant seperate clara and shai gar's avatar? shai gar should get rid of the blue haze over his avatar to make it resemblemble clara's raven more.

[YardGnome]

They are noticeably different, just extremely similiar. It's like if someone else decided to have a Yard Gnome avatar but with a slightly different yard gnome on it...

If he wants to make it more like Clara's he should just steal Clara's entirely and have the EXACT same one...

[Warrior413]

People changing avatars so frequently is very frustrating. I associate a person with their avatar and everytime someone changes their avatar I don't recognize who is posting. It's quite frustrating. How about an avatar enforcement policy which makes you keep your avatar for a certain (read long) period of time before you can change it again. This would certainly avoid confusion and give others a more permanent sense of your online identity rather than the multiple identity crises on this forum each week...
I've pretty much used the same thing this whole time but I like having the option of changing whenever I want to. I also recognize people more by avatars than usernames, but change is good and it's always interesting to see what that crazy mgbradsh went and did today.

[mgb]

One more thing... One person should not be able to have the same avatar as someone else... I'm not going to name any names

*Cough Shai Cough Gar Cough*

I couldn't resist the opportunity to confuse people.

Plus, this one is great.

edit: It even works with YardGnome's "cough cough"

[Dman]

Zedo's change had a hand in causing me to change mine back. Although I WAS getting tired of mine (not to mention every time someone comes to my desk and sees homer on my screen – instant tip-off that I’m goofing off)… so I changed it for a while.

But when I saw Zedo’s, it threw me, and I realized mine may have had the same effect. We’ve just had ours too long to change now, unlike mgbradsh and others with whom we’re accustomed to frequent changing. So we’re back to Homer. D’oh!

[athman]

shai gar should get rid of the blue haze over his avatar to make it resemblemble clara's raven more.
useful chants for raven control ...

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend! - I shrieked upstarting -
'Get thee back into the tempest and the night's plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my lonelines unbroken! - quit the bust above the door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'

Edgar Allan Poe - the Raven

[nBT]

so cant we have an avatar thread same style garak did for the mugshots?

[Clara]

They are noticeably different, just extremely similiar...
If he wants to make it more like Clara's
I'm starting to wonder what similarities there are, among INTPs as a whole. ;)
( YardGnome, I'm guessing, now, that it might *really* be something else that's bothering you - ? Please know : I'm writing this to address the debate, more than this post of yours. )

But, come on... you don't know what you're talking about. Even if -- and that is an if -- Shai Gar chose his avatar to reflect how much we have in common... except :rolleyes: "... bigger, smarter, younger" <_< *oh. ha. ha.* ;) ... why would that bother anyone ? Besides, I very stongly suspect that this is only one -- minor, and by the way, funny -- part of "why" this choice of avatar.

As melancholeric pointed out : there is a feature, under the avatar, called a Username. ( And thinking of that... don't you notice, that besides avatars, besides usernames, besides writing styles... that those who change their avatars are using style in an expressive way ? )

[jimkopelli]

so cant we have an avatar thread same style garak did for the mugshots?

That just might do it.

[YardGnome]

( And thinking of that... don't you notice, that besides avatars, besides usernames, besides writing styles... that those who change their avatars are using style in an expressive way ? )

Heh, yes yes, I am just throwing fuel on the fire and arguing for the sake of arguing. For one reason or another I enjoy doing this...

[YardGnome]

I couldn't resist the opportunity to confuse people.

Plus, this one is great.

edit: It even works with YardGnome's "cough cough"

Touché...

[Dman]

I was watching "Family Guy" last night (for only the second time ever) & saw the episode with the evil monkey...I immediately thought of mgbradsh's old avatar featuring that very monkey...

does it mean you've been spending too much time here when you're thinking about people on this board irl? I admit Shai Gar came to mind when I ate at the outback the other night as well -

Sorry for the divergent topic. But does anyone else do that when you see something that references one of our avatars?

[mgb]

I was watching "Family Guy" last night (for only the second time ever) & saw the episode with the evil monkey...I immediately thought of mgbradsh's old avatar featuring that very monkey...

does it mean you've been spending too much time here when you're thinking about people on this board irl? I admit Shai Gar came to mind when I ate at the outback the other night as well -

Sorry for the divergent topic. But does anyone else do that when you see something that references one of our avatars?

Yes.

[indie]

Funny you should mention that, Dman. . .

I drove out to the coast over the weekend (Tillamook) and, being struck by a particular brand of funny, snapped this photo as I was driving by.

*I also got a photo of the cheese factory, for those who are interested.

[Clara]

That is funny, indiejade :)

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Under the category "Ask; don't guess" : I found out, from Shai Gar, that his choice of avatar ... has nothing -- at all -- to do with mine. :rofl:
( I won't repeat his uncomplimentary opinion of crows, because :rant: he's wrong ! *dammit* ;) )
See ? Many things are plausible; this can have nothing to do with their being true -- or not. ( And probably everyone can think of an example of something that was highly implausible, and yet, verifiable fact... bumble bees, e.g. )
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edt : Deepsky, I've been enjoying your avatar-series, too :)

[Star]

I wish I could stick with just one avatar, but I've been having too much fun at the Female Celebrity Smoking List (http://www.smokingsides.com/asfs/). Sorry. =)

I don't do it to annoy.

[Claverhouse]

Why are you so crude and insensitive as to prefer celebrities ?


http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/smoker4.jpg



Claverhouse :ph34r:






http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/smoker7.jpg

[Architectonic]

Perhaps a certain someone should use this avatar.

[Dman]

Funny you should mention that, Dman. . .

I drove out to the coast over the weekend (Tillamook) and, being struck by a particular brand of funny, snapped this photo as I was driving by.

*I also got a photo of the cheese factory, for those who are interested.

Forgive me, but I don't get the reference...?

BTW the Tillamook cheese factory is kind of over-rated, isn't it. I like their deli & ice cream bar though.

[indie]

Oh, mgbradsh's former animated avatar was "Cow Bell" something or the other. I also have a friend in UT who collects everything cowbells . . . (she understands my strange sense of humor)

:lol: an "overrated cheese factory", eh? I wonder if those three words have ever been used in the same sentence ???

[Dman]

Ahh yes, I see!

Hmm…yeah, overrated cheese factory is kind of an interesting phrase – “I was so disappointed at the lack of excitement at the cheese factory, can you believe it?!”

[Star]

Aw, where'd Division56's dancing queen go? Post it here for remembrance?

edit: nm, here (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=81367&postcount=11) it is. :)

[Helios]

I would have a real date, but I don't kow what day it is, and no one really cares anyway, so why bother, in fact this shit is only cause it said my blank post was too short............pissy website :rant:

[J.L. des Alpins]

Since some of us change avatars and sigs frequently ( not me, why change perfection ? )...Only the mediocre limits him/herself at “perfection”. For the more sophisticated INTPs, perfection is just the lowest common denominator.

Above perfect is Grand, Proud, Gorgeous, Splendid, Splendiferous, Superb, Elevated, Exalted, Resplendent, Noble, Stately, Majestic, August, Spiritual, Sacred, Holy, Divine, Transcendental, Ideal, Abstract, Magnificent, and—as it applies to no one but The Empereur—GLORIOUS.

It is in that spirit that I chronicle my avatars in this thread.

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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/JL.Avatar.r5.gif
This avatar represents me as I fee most of the time: small, misunderstood, folded on myself, forever weeping about my misfortune.

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http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/JL.Avatar.r6.jpg
This avatar shows me in a bad mood.

JL

[Claverhouse]

Only the mediocre limits him/herself at “perfection”. For the more sophisticated INTPs, perfection is just the lowest common denominator.


JL
[cough]

Perfection is actually an absolute. No-one or no thing can transcend it in any of it's manifestions save God Almighty, since He is beyond all categorisation.

I'm just an avatar.


Claverhouse :ph34r:

[J.L. des Alpins]

Perfection is actually an absolute. No-one or no thing can transcend it in any of it's manifestions save God Almighty, since He is beyond all categorisation.Perfection is relative.

An example? Imagine a 'perfect' circle. Now look at it at a 45 degree angle. You will see an oval. The circle is only perfect relative to the position of the observer.

Another example? Women's beauty is perfect. Women are all differently beautiful. Their perfect beauty is only their lowest common denominator.

As for your god which is beyond all categorisation: Given the track records of the kings and queens of England, one can categorize that god of yours as senile at best.

For your consideration,

JL

[Architectonic]

The avatars I have used. (part 1)

[Architectonic]

The avatars I have used. (part 2)

[garak]

What kind of a freak would change their avatar?

[jimkopelli]

Yeah, seriously.

[Last Song]

I would. I don't know what kind of freak I am.

[Architectonic]

What kind of a freak would change their avatar?

A highly intelligent, extremely creative one.




















Or me.

[cwazyonyx]

Perfection is relative.

An example? Imagine a 'perfect' circle. Now look at it at a 45 degree angle. You will see an oval. The circle is only perfect relative to the position of the observer.

Another example? Women's beauty is perfect. Women are all differently beautiful. Their perfect beauty is only their lowest common denominator.

As for your god which is beyond all categorisation: Given the track records of the kings and queens of England, one can categorize that god of yours as senile at best.

For your consideration,

JL

the circle would still be perfect - always perfect. it is the perspective that is flawed.

[Crazy]

Perfection is relative.

An example? Imagine a 'perfect' circle. Now look at it at a 45 degree angle. You will see an oval. The circle is only perfect relative to the position of the observer.

Another example? Women's beauty is perfect. Women are all differently beautiful. Their perfect beauty is only their lowest common denominator.

What about a perfect sphere?

[Architectonic]

The avatars I have used. (part 3)

[Dman]

the circle would still be perfect - always perfect. it is the perspective that is flawed.

Funny, that's a "perfect" description of me, and others' perspective of me.

[jetboots]

I think the idea is not the most useful and really is just an excuse to dink around with avatars.

[Architectonic]

I think the idea is not the most useful and really is just an excuse to dink around with avatars.

What on earth are you talking about? :whistle: