Can we all use our real avatars for a week? with so many strange new names I feel a little lost...
#2
Hailey Knight
Real Avatar Week
Do you mean real as in ones we've used often or real as in of our real faces?
#3
Bubble181
Real Avatar Week
What Escushion said...Do you mean our real faces, or the avatars we're all best known with?
#4
Andromache
Real Avatar Week
real faces. Nothing else.
#5
Bubble181
Real Avatar Week
Ah. Well, I don't really care either way, if we do this I'll go along with it; nothing to hide - I'm not a cute girl so I don't have to fear stalking :-P
#6
Cat
Real Avatar Week
I'm a cute girl that does fear stalking.
#7
North_Ranger
Real Avatar Week
Only if someone can crop down an image of yours truly
#8
CynicismKills
Real Avatar Week
I'd have to get a newer picture of me, but otherwise I don't have a problem with it.
For some reason I am really skeptical about the seriousness of this request. But since everyone else is taking it at face value, I will too... and say sure, I'd do it.
#21
Espy
Real Avatar Week
Eh, I think we did it a few times on the last few boards. It was... what it was.
Look upon my goggle-clad face, ye mighty, and despair.
#25
Terrik
Real Avatar Week
Your goggles, they do nothing?
#26
Bubble181
Real Avatar Week
I think he's anticipating a meeting with Calleja. :-P
#27
Espy
Real Avatar Week
...and now I'm creeped out.
#28
Wasabi Poptart
Real Avatar Week
Starting when?
#29
Hailey Knight
Real Avatar Week
I'll start sometime this weekend myself; it's too late to go cruising for a decent picture of myself tonight.
#30
AshburnerX
Real Avatar Week
Shego does it, I'll crop something together... though technically, my Avatar is ALREADY my face. It's just been comic book stylized by D-MAC (He did a bunch of the guys at Etoychest one year for E3 swag.) I just wish I had the original image still so I could make a bigger, cleaner image. Alas, it was lost in a virus infection years ago. I really need to ask him for it again.
#31
doomdragon6
Real Avatar Week
God dammit, I really, really hate seeing what you people actually look like. You're destroying my images of you. :bush:
Actually, I was Matt Damon's Body-double in "The Bourne Identity"...
#75
HCGLNS
Real Avatar Week
I'll play along for a week.
#76
fade
Real Avatar Week
I'm not playing along because some small group of people on the internet might possibly maybe think I'm important enough to stalk for some inexplicable reason, because they all think about me that much.
I'm not playing along because some small group of people on the internet might possibly maybe think I'm important enough to stalk for some inexplicable reason, because they all think about me that much.
frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn if you shop my face, but it might offput some more thin skinned but still nice people who might be upset to have themselves shopped. I was trying to coax some of the newbies out.
frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn if you shop my face, but it might offput some more thin skinned but still nice people who might be upset to have themselves shopped. I was trying to coax some of the newbies out.
I'm not playing along because some small group of people on the internet might possibly maybe think I'm important enough to stalk for some inexplicable reason, because they all think about me that much.
I'm not playing along because some small group of people on the internet might possibly maybe think I'm important enough to stalk for some inexplicable reason, because they all think about me that much.
I'm so vain I probably think this thread is about me...
#140
Shannow
Real Avatar Week
Uploaded with a pic taken today form the great state fair..soaked form the hour long rain. Awesome.
Also..pose as a team, cuz shit just got real.
#141
Frankie Williamson
Real Avatar Week
Hrmf
#142
Bubble181
Real Avatar Week
For the record, I considered making the same comment N_R did, but I tohught it'd be misinterpreted coming from me.
Still, it's true - all the women in this thread so far look great, and I have to say quite a few of the guys have surprised me too. You're not as nerdy as you think you are! You look cool! Go! :-D
Oh, and Satori looks like I'd just want to sort of lay my head on top of her and doze off, lying like that. Hmm.
I have to admit that I like real photos much better than cartoons or symbols as avatars. If I were king of the world, every week would be real avatar week.
I have to admit that I like real photos much better than cartoons or symbols as avatars. If I were king of the world, every week would be real avatar week.
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Oh. And I changed my Avatar. Don't know if it's more or less sensible than the previous one, but I had to dredge deep into Facebook for it.
I don't have many photos of myself, so after looking through like ... 400 pictures that my friends have tagged me in, I settled on something taken two years ago at 3 a.m. in my dining room with the webcam of my macbook while I was holding it sideways.
This reminds me that I need to get decent photos of myself taken.
Sure; why not? I doubt I have any stalkers, but maybe this will make them reconsider.
Considering the infrequency of my posting here, I'll probably just stay with this one. Otherwise this post would likely be the only place it shows up.
Also, to veer off-topic, JCM, what is that GIF in your sig from? It's one of the few animated ones I haven't blocked because it makes me laugh so much.
Actually yes, it is. To me, it seems to slightly change the context of online discussion. Feels less disconnected and more like your talking to real people and not just digital personalities that may or may not be artificial constructs designed to test out temperamental human interaction protocols by our evil robot overlords.
Actually yes, it is. To me, it seems to slightly change the context of online discussion. Feels less disconnected and more like your talking to real people and not just digital personalities that may or may not be artificial constructs designed to test out temperamental human interaction protocols by our evil robot overlords.
No kidding! Green is your color, Shego, my little sausage!
#202
Catafish
Real Avatar Week
This thread scares me in ways I never thought possible. . .
#203
Philosopher B.
Real Avatar Week
Holy ballsacks, this forum has changed. I stay off forums for a week and y'alls got extra letters and are a-showin' your faces and whatnot. This is madness.
Holy ballsacks, this forum has changed. I stay off forums for a week and y'alls got extra letters and are a-showin' your faces and whatnot. This is madness.
I have to admit that I like real photos much better than cartoons or symbols as avatars. If I were king of the world, every week would be real avatar week.
Man, Phil! You should really use the photo and not the drawing, for the latter does you no justice! It made you seem you had Kurtz-like dumpiness, while in reality you look like a total badass!
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Chronos[Ha-G];243695 said:
I would've joined in if...
A) I had been around and noticed this earlier.
B) I had a picture of myself to actually use on this, and
You have no idea how disappointed I am that you don't look like Picard.
#210
Covar
Real Avatar Week
It is done.
#211
jaythen
Real Avatar Week
I am getting it at the end of the week, but oh well.
#212
fade
Real Avatar Week
You all look approximately the same.
#213
jaythen
Real Avatar Week
Would you prefer toast instead? Keeps things different.
(don't have the beard anymore)
#214
Andromache
Real Avatar Week
many new faces Ive never seen before.
and chakz is right, I find it harder to be mean to people who look like real people.
#215
Hylian
Real Avatar Week
A lot of you look different than I had imagined you would look like.
#216
Shannow
Real Avatar Week
Meh, they seem about right.
#217
Le Quack
Real Avatar Week
This is a nice experiment.
#218
Hailey Knight
Real Avatar Week
I think it will be interesting to see how the week goes by when the usual arguing pops up; see if it really makes a difference when opinions clash.
#219
Andromache
Real Avatar Week
I cannot shake how much you look like Jake Busey. Not look, exactly, But feel like you echo him. Of the woman in that pic, she looks like she has laser eyes.
I've been thinking of doing that as well, especially after the last couple of "Thanks, man!"-type responses I've gotten from people. Of course then it will be "ma'am" but oh well.
#234
Espy
Real Avatar Week
I have a real pic of me on twitter... but it's so little and blue I don't know if it looks like a real person at all...
You're pretty hard to make out in it, yeah. But it's a cool pic nonetheless.
I'd have to find something more flattering than this; it's just a Photo Booth bedhead shot I took to show Mr. ZM how cute Satori was being. But I kinda can't be bothered and Magritte is my thing anyway.
You're pretty hard to make out in it, yeah. But it's a cool pic nonetheless.
I'd have to find something more flattering than this; it's just a Photo Booth bedhead shot I took to show Mr. ZM how cute Satori was being. But I kinda can't be bothered and Magritte is my thing anyway.
Besides, you haven't seen a bedhead until you've seen yours truly with a bed head... on a lazy day... when I've let my hair grow. I swear, I have used that to make little children cry.
Nah, really, here among y'all I can show you my bedhead and "fine" is fine. But I'd like to be a tad more glamorous in a Twitter icon. Because, you know, that's me. Glamorous.
Nah, really, here among y'all I can show you my bedhead and "fine" is fine. But I'd like to be a tad more glamorous in a Twitter icon. Because, you know, that's me. Glamorous.
The only bedhair I've seen and not liked was the one I was sporting one morning a month ago, back in Spain. Incidentally I buzzcut my hair a pair of hours afterwards, growing it out again ~_~
There are some compatibility issues with my tardis avatar dave is helping me with.
I like anonymity.
#246
fade
Real Avatar Week
Shrug. My old one was just a self-portrait of me, so it's six on one half a dozen on the other for me. I don't give a rat's ass if anyone knows what my face looks like. A) the chances of anything happening because of it are slim to none and B) it's not like it really makes me much less anonymous.
aaaaw come on I even put my real face up for all to see. And if I had to you should have to as well.
#251
ElJuski
Real Avatar Week
You are all less than sexy than me. It is okay. Not everyone can look like what happened if Collin Ferrel, Brad Pitt, and the Holy Ghost straight up fucked.
You are all less than sexy than me. It is okay. Not everyone can look like what happened if Collin Ferrel, Brad Pitt, and the Holy Ghost straight up fucked.
And also, I will try to join in. The only picture I have of my also have my girlfriend in it, and I don't think she'd be cool with that. I will try to find something else to horrify you all.
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If it wasn't for all of us incredibly good looking moderators I would call it out of hand.
#263
callistarya
Real Avatar Week
mmmm yummmm
#264
Bubble181
Real Avatar Week
Okay...
a) Espy, you look way too cool to be on a board like this.
b) phil, that picture just plain out rocks
c) it is now abundantly clear our mods were, in fact, picked based on their looks, and nothing else.
d) Debrought looks like I imagine a male version of Shego might. Oh dear.
e) I know the real life avatars do make me behave differently; don't know about others.
That's how my hair looks (or rather looked, cut it out and growing it again) when it's not combed (so always). It wasn't intended >_>
Further proof:
#281
fade
Real Avatar Week
Can't believe I'm saying this, but I know he's a dude. Just playin'. Don't worry, when I was in my 20s I got it all the time. I was working the front desk at a dorm when I was 19, and an older woman comes up to me when my back was turned, and says, "Excuse me, miss?" I never lived that one down, because unfortunately, one of my best friends was there.
#282
Bellygrub
Real Avatar Week
I feel so exposed.
#283
Green_Lantern
Real Avatar Week
Den: If makes you feel better, I want to touch your hair
This was taken last year in the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in Dublin. There's far too much adoration in my eyes for that pint than is healthy...
I want to personally thank everyone who agreed to do this. You probably didnt mean it just for me, but thanks nonetheless. It's nice seeing everyone here. And everyone has been so far, very very cute.
#293
Dave
Real Avatar Week
And here I am late to the party as usual. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures handy of myself. *le sigh*
Get the one from the Picture thread, or from the photoshop contest? Both are on this very forum, senile old fart. The board even auto-resizes avatars, so no excuses.
Get the one from the Picture thread, or from the photoshop contest? Both are on this very forum, senile old fart. The board even auto-resizes avatars, so no excuses.
Oh, the questions of life. To post the standard so-called obligatory crap, or not to do so.
Y'know what, let's not, for a refreshing change of pace. Hi netsirk, glad to see you
#301
sixpackshaker
Real Avatar Week
I refuse to play along.
#302
bhamv3
Real Avatar Week
Hmm, netsirk reminds me of... someone... can't quite think of who...
I find it quite amusing that two of the resident board black guys decided not to post their mugs. Not that it's meant to be racist, just very interesting that they didn't.
#311
Krisken
Real Avatar Week
I'm surprised at how many people posted their mugs. Very cool.
#312
TwoBit
Real Avatar Week
Here's me mug.
#313
Philosopher B.
Real Avatar Week
Zomg Beardy-face has joined us.
#314
TwoBit
Real Avatar Week
You're just jealous 'cause you can't grow anything worthwhile on yer face.
#315
Philosopher B.
Real Avatar Week
Silence, knave, or I shall run thee through with the pencil behind my ear. I'll do it, too. It will have been gotten done.
I find it quite amusing that two of the resident board black guys decided not to post their mugs. Not that it's meant to be racist, just very interesting that they didn't.
I actually spent a lot of yesterday afternoon trying to take pictures to gif myself, but it never looked right. So I guess I'll swallow my pride and put up a normal picture with my new glasses FINE
I find it quite amusing that two of the resident board black guys decided not to post their mugs. Not that it's meant to be racist, just very interesting that they didn't.
hmm... apparantly my avatar still hasn't shown, I figured it would just take a while to pop up there. What gives? It shows up in my profile
#343
Wasabi Poptart
Real Avatar Week
Did you upload it as your profile picture instead maybe?
#344
Adammon
Real Avatar Week
Yeah, I just figured that out too. There's your 'profile picture' which is the picture that appears on your profile, and then your Avatar picture, which is what shows up on the left hand side of your post.
I figured it out, finally, so I am happy.
#345
Gusto
Real Avatar Week
I think Neon was black too but I may be remembering wrong...
#346
Dave
Real Avatar Week
You remembered wrong.
And who cares about the color? Why the surprise?
#347
North_Ranger
Real Avatar Week
Finland.
We make Conan O'Brien look like a bronzen beach boy.
Sure, why not. A picture of me from about three weeks ago when one of my college friends returned from being out at sea for 6 months, another was in town for buisness, and a third flew up from San Diego. Great weekend.
Anyone who would like to "shoop" my picture's backround is more than welcome. If it's interesting or to my liking enough, I'll change my avatar to their version.
Anyone who would like to "shoop" my picture's backround is more than welcome. If it's interesting or to my liking enough, I'll change my avatar to their version.
Although, you should all know, I'm currently trying to get some t-shirt designs a-flowin', just for a quick couple of bucks. Maybe I should start doodling for you guys again too...
I actually spent a lot of yesterday afternoon trying to take pictures to gif myself, but it never looked right. So I guess I'll swallow my pride and put up a normal picture with my new glasses FINE
I actually spent a lot of yesterday afternoon trying to take pictures to gif myself, but it never looked right. So I guess I'll swallow my pride and put up a normal picture with my new glasses FINE
What I (also) meant by that is that the last option is (almost) always the grue option and there is always someone who votes that. Therefore, you were bound to get some votes there.
Soooo, maybe it's only 1 or two people?
#402
Piotyr
this was the old real avatar thread.
Plus, I mean, it's only like 6%. If only 6% of the world wants you dead, that's got to be pretty good odds...right?
Anyone who would like to "shoop" my picture's backround is more than welcome. If it's interesting or to my liking enough, I'll change my avatar to their version.
I may be wrong, but maybe she saw I was linking peoples avatars to the wiki and decided she didn0t want her face to be there (as she doesn't like to show it on these forums)?
EDIT:
Now I switched to a better look of my face for this real avatar week thing.
#414
ZenMonkey
this was the old real avatar thread.
WTF Crone?
Put your face back.
unibrow
#415
The Lovely Boehner
this was the old real avatar thread.
I get the Elvis Costello thing a lot! And these were $10 Wal-Mart frames
Begorrah, me laddie! They be after me crock o' gold... coloured Smithwick's and me sauna! I be most tempt'd ta take tha' picture an' use it as me regular avatar.
Yeah, I get the same thing. My hair (on my head) is dark brown, and my beard is quite light. I was red-headed when I was a kid though. My beard didn't make the same transition.
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Science to prove how cool we are? We already have the proof in our illustrious hirsuteness.
#427
fade
this was the old real avatar thread.
And apparently you're a newsie from the 1920s.
#428
North_Ranger
this was the old real avatar thread.
I was a red-head when I was a baby (my parents have a huge portrait of me and my siblings on their wall to show that). I then turned pale blonde, but around now I'm kind of... I don't know, sand-coloured. And my beard always turns red... and people keep asking why I've dyed it
Yeah, I get the same thing. My hair (on my head) is dark brown, and my beard is quite light. I was red-headed when I was a kid though. My beard didn't make the same transition.
It's apparently a genetic trait in my family tree. I'm told my grandfather on my dad's side had a very red beard, while mine is simply red tinged (it gets redder when I get more sun, though). I don't think I've ever seen either my dad or my grandfather with a beard, though. My grandfather grew his out for some sort of town festival before I was born, and I don't know if my dad ever grew his out at all.
You insensitive clod! I grew mine to console myself in my sad and lonely existence without a girlfriend! :waah: Then you come in here with your avatar and pretend like a beard can make up for anything!
*strokes his beard* Shhh! That's right, it'll be okay. It'll all be okay.
#438
CynicismKills
this was the old real avatar thread.
Action Hank always told me it's not the beard on the outside, but the beard on the inside that counts.
#439
Gusto
this was the old real avatar thread.
That's not my girlfriend.
I actually don't have any pics with her yet. Hmmmm...
If there were a God I would be able to grow facial hair.
There's a reason I only have the goatee. If I could, I'd have a full-on Billy Mays style beard. But it doesn't fill up anything but my chin, upper lip, and neck. I can't even connect a mustache to my goatee to make a Vandyke.
I sometimes miss my mullet. But any time I feel that way, I remind myself that it is simply a lapse of judgment, and that our love is forbidden by the deep magic.
I sometimes miss my mullet. But any time I feel that way, I remind myself that it is simply a lapse of judgment, and that our love is forbidden by the deep magic.
I sometimes miss my mullet. But any time I feel that way, I remind myself that it is simply a lapse of judgment, and that our love is forbidden by the deep magic.
I sort of went for that ... but mine comes out too curly to not look messy, and I didn't want to be that guy who bought a straightener for his beard ...
There's a reason I only have the goatee. If I could, I'd have a full-on Billy Mays style beard. But it doesn't fill up anything but my chin, upper lip, and neck. I can't even connect a mustache to my goatee to make a Vandyke.
Man, I wish I could do a mustache. I just feel sketchy growing one. I've been considering growing one this November, under the cover of Movember (some Prostate Cancer research fund raising effort where participants grow mustaches).
#446
CynicismKills
this was the old real avatar thread.
Yeah, mine starts out curling back towards my neck, but after a few months it starts growing normally.
#447
Cheesy1
this was the old real avatar thread.
If I let my beard grow out too much, I start to look like this guy:
#448
Rob King
this was the old real avatar thread.
All the talk of beards reminded me of this.
#449
CynicismKills
this was the old real avatar thread.
I love Picnicface. They're so much more than Powerthirst.
#450
Rob King
this was the old real avatar thread.
To have a beard is to rehearse a battle with the universe!
They are pretty good, I must say.
#451
Bubble181
this was the old real avatar thread.
When I gre out my beard, I got stopped by the police every other day, almost. Seriously, I have a Muhammed Ali Jabar Osama Bin Laden Terrorist Style beard, with extra racism causing ability thrown in.
That said, if I get lots of sun, mine's red too. Now, it's just dark brown with tinges of copper.
Also, balding (red-) bearded guys (often with glasses) seem to be the coolest guys here. Excellent.
Yeah, I get the same thing. My hair (on my head) is dark brown, and my beard is quite light. I was red-headed when I was a kid though. My beard didn't make the same transition.
It's apparently a genetic trait in my family tree. I'm told my grandfather on my dad's side had a very red beard, while mine is simply red tinged (it gets redder when I get more sun, though). I don't think I've ever seen either my dad or my grandfather with a beard, though. My grandfather grew his out for some sort of town festival before I was born, and I don't know if my dad ever grew his out at all.[/QUOTE]
When I gre out my beard, I got stopped by the police every other day, almost. Seriously, I have a Muhammed Ali Jabar Osama Bin Laden Terrorist Style beard, with extra racism causing ability thrown in.
That said, if I get lots of sun, mine's red too. Now, it's just dark brown with tinges of copper.
Also, balding (red-) bearded guys (often with glasses) seem to be the coolest guys here. Excellent.
Well, I can't say my beard is red, but when it gets some sun, it has some red hairs (and also some blond and white ones)...
Sadly, no amount of red beard, even with a balding head and some nice glasses, would make me look cool around here...
#454
tegid
this was the old real avatar thread.
I've also been asked if I dye it, since the beard on my chin becomes red when left to grow for some time. It's red mixed with black though, so I'm not so cool.
SJ you should totally get a moustache. It would look artisty on you.
I've also been asked if I dye it, since the beard on my chin becomes red when left to grow for some time. It's red mixed with black though, so I'm not so cool.
SJ you should totally get a moustache. It would look artisty on you.
My red beard does not match my hair color nor my moustache color, which makes me look odd when I grow it out. My facial hair almost reaches glow-in-the-dark red if it is exposed to a lot of sun.
Edit: Wouldn't it be funny if facial hair worked like mood rings?
As long as I don't have to take over for what Messiah was doing on the last forum, I'm okay with that!
#464
Gusto
this was the old real avatar thread.
Up the nose picture!
#465
Jake
this was the old real avatar thread.
I have a beard and an up the nose picture!
My beard used to be fairly red, but now it's turning a mix of dark and gray.
#466
Bonhomme Richard
this was the old real avatar thread.
Speaking of beards, here's an old college ID picture when I had my beard.
It was senior year just after fall finals (studying for Biochem finals tend to take priority over small things like shaving). I decided to keep it, but after this picture was taken, figured I looked like I should be living in a shack making bombs and promptly shaved it that night. Wouldn't mind growing it again, but would like to kiss my toddler son's cheek without hurting him.
#467
GasBandit
this was the old real avatar thread.
#468
Bonhomme Richard
this was the old real avatar thread.
Hard to beat the hoard.
#469
SeraRelm
this was the old real avatar thread.
So this is now the "Look at my face pubes!" thread?
#470
Andromache
as of now, sure, yes
#471
Shegokigo
Not fair.... I don't have any. :humph:
#472
SeraRelm
Oh my goodness... When I saw the thread title change I just started laughing and have yet to finish.
Go spend a little quality time with your girlfriend, then come back. Problem solved![/QUOTE]
Like.... I think I know what you're getting at, but not exactly.
you fail the internet forever[/QUOTE]
I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean by that. I was just referring to the fact that this pic
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is a full year old.
#493
Shegokigo
Pssst, he was making fun of you, it had nothing to do with the picture.