Avatars Archives.

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:30 am

I noticed many people have great avatars, and some people change their avatars like crazy, and some have great avatars they change like crazy.

So I thought it would be cool if everybody posted their avatar collections.
And I also went to make a collection of my sigs:

1.The Sparkling Eye avatar (use the link if the image doesn't show)

I made it before I even posted in GD, I really wanted something good, so i spend 2 days on it.
I was using no sig at that time.

1.5. A couple of months later, when I realized people don't know about the "www" button, I upgraded my sig to have a banner of my comic:

And for a long time I was going not to change anything.

2.But the last christmass I used this:

It induced a nice comment, and I allowed to include it in my sig:

sig wrote: And you all best listen to the man with the glowing eyes, fo'! Yarps is mighty!

3.Of course, nobody can forget the excellent battle royalle pic by mr.Bob.
Everyone that got killed used parts of it as their avatars, but I have a rule against that, su I had to make my own. And also, I wasn't dead.

4.Then there was the underwear on the head trend... I skipped that one, and reverted to the sparkling eye.

5.Then came the gender-confusing avatars trend:

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^_^

Meanwhile I was experimenting with my sig.
When I was made a mod, I used this:

YarpsDat: I hope to use my moderating powers for good, not for awesome.

Later I removed my banner and went with this

Did you know that if you enter your website url in your forum profile, it will display a "www" button with a link to it under each of your posts?
BTW, general discussion is meant for discussion.
Chatroom is meant for chatting.

unfortunately, there were still people that didn't know about the www button, and I was still getting refferals from forums.keenspace.com/viewprofile.php , and I don't like these.

Finally I devised the ultimate way to avoid them: I removed the url from the profile and used this sig:

my Website, my "YarpsDat talks to himself" forum
Now playing:Go
BTW, General Discussion is meant for discussion, Keenspace Chatroom is meant for chatting!

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BTW, these are my sigs from other forums

Iou ahr ey dough!

What is belief, if not the doubt if the obvious is possible?

I bought a pencil.
I don't know why I did that.
I paid 30 cents.

All use the sparkling eye as the avatar.
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And finally:

Currently, I'm using this sig:

I'm the Leader of CareBears(tm) Invasion project
Apart from that I have a forum, where I talk with mcDuffies and myself, and a webcomic I don't update. And currently I'm obsessed with Go
And as a General Discussion's moderator, I reccomend the Keenspace Chatroom for all your chatting needs.

And the sparkling eye as the avatar,

but I'm about to switch to this:

my all new "go" avatar..
(if you don't get the joke... the shape the black stones form in the picture is called "eye" ^_~)

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:59 am

I'd love to give you a list, but the one I'm using is the only one I've ever used. Saves people the trouble of reading my name over and over again.

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 11:59 am

Okay, lets see what I can find here...
Okay, some of these were also used on other forums, but not this one! So if you've never seen them before, uh, today is your lucky day!

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:06 pm

Evil Jamie! wrote:**place holder OMG**

Yay! I love your avatars!

Here's hoping mr.Bob joins too!

War · Post by **War** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:22 pm

http://students.bath.ac.uk/en3elb/avatars/

Not put the gender crossover one on there yet.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:22 pm

[Edit:] Okay, I think this is the complete list now.

By the way, if anyone's been wondering who that is in my current avatar, that is the 40-foot tall gold-plated statue of Turkmenbashi, President-for-life of Turkmenistan, which rotates so that it is perpetualy facing the sun.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:25 pm

I'd have to dig them up and actually upload them. But I felt it was appropriate to post, since I just changed mine again. New style! Nyo!

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:33 pm

Psiogen wrote: ...and now my current one. I'm probably missing one or two, but those are all the ones I've used here that I can find.

You're missing the BW made of processed pictures of yourself.
And I'm not sure but I think you had an not blurred picture at some point.
(I might be mistaking it with the 3rd one though..., but I think it had more blue/green... erm)

RLC Davidson · Post by **RLC Davidson** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:30 pm

Damn, this'll take a while. Lessee....

These three were made before I had developed the RLC character, but the one in the middle soon became the RLC prototype...

This was my first avatar to show the "finished" Davidson character, and was the base for the underwear fad (middle). The idea for the one on the right was suggested by Orion.

This avatar is from Mr. Bob's "Waiting for War," which ended Battle Royale 3.

The av I used for the opposite gender fad.

These avatars came from what was supposed to be my fight with Nantuko (I swear I'll do something about that someday); the Russian hat is the by-product of a long-standing joke between the two of us (a story for another day, I'm afraid). The one on the right is the result of this thread.

These avatars came from my RCL vs RLC picture; the result of mutiple name typos. The second one from the left was used in the ninja/pirate avatar trend.

Another avatar I used during the ninja/pirate trend, this one came from the "Yourself as a Daemon" thread.

The avatar I used last Easter.

Talon_Leuco decided that RLC stood for "Rather Large Chicken" and spawned the idea for this avatar.

The cicada avatar I used when the 17-year cicadas started coming out here in Maryland. It coincidentally coincided (if that's a redundancy, bite me) with the "disturbing avatars" trend.

I think this was the result of the opposite gender av trend, but I'm not sure.

This is one of Treize Fennin, from my comic. I can't find my Tycho av, though....

Other random avatars I've used over the five months I've been here. I'm not even going to try and do my signatures.

Van Douchebag · Post by **Van Douchebag** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:38 pm

Victory!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:02 pm

I just happened to have a full gallery I made some time ago. Most of it is there:

Let me see if I can dig up all avas from then:

* * *

It's been a while since I made a collection of avatars based on imitating popular painter's art styles. It just came to my mind that apart from several that Bob, Devo-bot and Brockway guessed, I never actually named which artists were those. So you can still try and guess:
http://mcduffies.keenspace.com/wallpicons.html

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:28 pm

mcDuffies wrote:It's been a while since I made a collection of avatars based on imitating popular painter's art styles. It just came to my mind that apart from several that Bob, Devo-bot and Brockway guessed, I never actually named which artists were those. So you can still try and guess:
http://mcduffies.keenspace.com/wallpicons.html

Let's see...I can pick out Vincent Van Gogh, Keith Haring, Piet Mondrian, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro...the rest are tough.

TheGoobla · Post by **TheGoobla** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:33 pm

* feels so uncultured *

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:35 pm

These are for a chap named Ganthorian who hangs out at the College Roomies From Hell board. He's a superhero fan.

In return, he took this...

....and added my hat from a photo.

Which I later tidied up and cartooned.

- Joel Fagin

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 6:10 pm

Clicky!

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:29 pm

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:00 pm

Warren wrote:Clicky!

Oh, yeah, I totally forgot it when we were mentioning cool avatars, but "crazy" avatar of yours wes maybe the coolest thing used as ava around here.

Let's see...I can pick out Vincent Van Gogh, Keith Haring, Piet Mondrian, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro...the rest are tough.

They're all there. Sadly, the same who were guessed the first time.

Psiogen · Post by **Psiogen** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:20 pm

mcDuffies wrote:
Let's see...I can pick out Vincent Van Gogh, Keith Haring, Piet Mondrian, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro...the rest are tough.
They're all there. Sadly, the same who were guessed the first time.

So...the rest are either super-obscure artists or very poor impressions.

MariaAndMichelle · Post by **MariaAndMichelle** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:46 pm

Ugh... the horrid first avatar... >_____<

Then came the one that we use now...

The broken image period...

The Christmas one...

And, of course, the opposite gender fad... One which we had to get in on...

Superlance · Post by **Superlance** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 9:39 pm

There are so many that I have deleted!

The visual forum history of FireBird:

I probaly could've made that smaller, but it's a year of my life, people!
Lot's of blank spaces, too.
My life seems to be very unfufilled.

"...Me life flashed flashed before me eyes!!
...It was very boring."
-Chicken Run

The only previous sigs I remember were:

1. Failure is not an option.
It comes standard with your Apple product.

2. You do not have a War to obtain Peace,
You have a War to obtain Victory.
And only after Victory is Obtained,
Can Peace be achieved.

And:

3. Without War, there is no Peace.
And with War, Peace does not exist either.
You must only realize the truth:
There is no Peace.