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There's been some people MIA lately. Veector kind of came back, but where's HoustonDerek?
When Hugo comes back, I promise not to bug him about a certain illustration...much...if he comes back sooner than later.
I'm here, kind of lurking.
I am in a Pbp with Davi, but things have been rather chaotic here of late, so I've kind of just been lurking and sporadically posting, and I just can't get into my Rick character for some reason. Figure Tarlane can keep him warm until things get settled...
I wonder what my avater says about me? He neither wears plate armor nor dons a helmet, yet I'm old school and conservative on some issues...
Meh.
;)
Hugo has been a busy little frog lately, and I could have sworn I derek on today.There's been some people MIA lately. Veector kind of came back, but where's HoustonDerek?
When Hugo comes back, I promise not to bug him about a certain illustration...much...if he comes back sooner than later.
I think I'm down to one or two posts a day right now.
Pitiful output, I know...
:)
My first avatar was a miniature of a troll, but then I realized it was a miniature of a troll I don't own. I tried to find another image of a troll I liked, but I wasn't satisfied with the ones I saw.
I went with the ghoul from The Skinsaw Murders. I like him. He's voracious and I have a big mouth.
I would change my avatar occasionally but I also came to realize that people sometimes recognize posters by their avatars. I've found I usually look at avatars first and names second, but there's enough doubling up on the avatars that looking at the names is still necessary.
One thing I tried to do when picking my avatar was pick one that had a low number of people using it.
Seriously, the ninja miniature avatar? I think 35 people had it or something. At the time that I got this one, it was in use by about seven.
Well, since my alias Gworeth comes from an old ad&d character I once played and since he was/is a half-orc, i just found the closetst thing to what would look like him. I really needed that avatar looking like a full-plate wearing fighter/cleric half-orc kinda guy, but... I wasn't that lucky... ;-)
How old do you have to be old school though? I've played for something like 20 years (Oh my GAWD!) but does that make me old school?
But I must say that it is an interesting observation OP made :-)
I have a full helm avatar and I wouldn't saw I'm conservative or oldschool (even though I've been playing since the early 80's).
Your original idea is an interesting thought, though like most generalizations not always correct.
Avatar discrimination! Avatar discrimination!
Don't hate me because I'm armored!
Yeah, and every time I look at that [frog] avatar I think of Hugo Solis. Man, it's weird having an avatar forever linked with a poster that doesn't post that often anymore.
Heh, I am going to date myself here, but every time I see the frog icon I still think of the Wereplatypus, but you young'ns would not recall him.
I'd have to say that my views have nothing to do with my avatar picture. This is my second avatar, and there are two reasons I picked it:
(1) Undead
(2) At the time I switched, it was brand new and no one else had picked it, so I was the first.
Reason two is the reason I ended up with this guy. Now I'm too lazy to change it. As for what it says about me: It's an albino Cookie Monster, so there's only one thing it can say "Me like cookies! Nom nom nom!"
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Reason two is the reason I ended up with this guy. Now I'm too lazy to change it. As for what it says about me: It's an albino Cookie Monster, so there's only one thing it can say "Me like cookies! Nom nom nom!"I always thought you looked like an evil Michelin Man.
Well, I can see that, but, well, "Me like cookies!"
Just an observation.
It's reached the point where I don't even look at screen names. If it's a guy with a helmet, I automatically expect to read a pro-oldschool/anti-radical-changes point of view.
What's up with that, anyway?
I would say that donning the armor and helmet is a symbolic phallicization of the body (perhaps in response to fear of female control).
Well, before this one I had like five other avatars, all hot redheads. This one I just sort of picked as a joke, and it stuck. The fact that it bears more than a passing resemblance to what I looked like at age eighteen is just a little extra fun. It's probably why this one stuck. It suits me. :)
One thing I had noticed while I was searching for just the right avatar is that people react to posts differently based on the avatar. Weird but true. Maybe all the closed helmet dudes are coming across as conservative because that's what you think of when you see the avatar?
Or maybe because some of us are old school, very conservative, and more then a little vocal about changes we dislike. My first presidential election that I could vote in I did through absentee ballet while attending a religious college in western PA. For the record I voted for Bush, the father.
I would say that donning the armor and helmet is a symbolic phallicization of the body (perhaps in response to fear of female control).Just an observation.
It's reached the point where I don't even look at screen names. If it's a guy with a helmet, I automatically expect to read a pro-oldschool/anti-radical-changes point of view.
What's up with that, anyway?
That's a little harsh don't you think?
That's a little harsh don't you think?I would say that donning the armor and helmet is a symbolic phallicization of the body (perhaps in response to fear of female control).Just an observation.
It's reached the point where I don't even look at screen names. If it's a guy with a helmet, I automatically expect to read a pro-oldschool/anti-radical-changes point of view.
What's up with that, anyway?
He's called Jocundthejolly: he doesn't need to put a smiley after his jokes...
I have no idea what my avatar says about me, I picked it unthinkingly.
Perhaps it means I am thoughtless?
I don't think so in this case, though. I first picked up on this when I noticed that the three main guys arguing for heavy armor in the 900-post "cleric lost heavy armor" thread appeared to be fullplaters themselves.
I don't know how the Fire Giant works its way into "full-plated, and helmeted..."
But I don't feel singled out.
That's a little harsh don't you think?I would say that donning the armor and helmet is a symbolic phallicization of the body (perhaps in response to fear of female control).Just an observation.
It's reached the point where I don't even look at screen names. If it's a guy with a helmet, I automatically expect to read a pro-oldschool/anti-radical-changes point of view.
What's up with that, anyway?
He's called Jocundthejolly: he doesn't need to put a smiley after his jokes...
I have no idea what my avatar says about me, I picked it unthinkingly.
Perhaps it means I am thoughtless?
Or, given the relative size and positioning of the weapon ...
That's a little harsh don't you think?I would say that donning the armor and helmet is a symbolic phallicization of the body (perhaps in response to fear of female control).Just an observation.
It's reached the point where I don't even look at screen names. If it's a guy with a helmet, I automatically expect to read a pro-oldschool/anti-radical-changes point of view.
What's up with that, anyway?
He's called Jocundthejolly: he doesn't need to put a smiley after his jokes...
I used to think I had to put [sarcasm] around my sarcastic remarks either. Usually people just assume I'm being sarcastic unless I say I'm not. :)
I don't think so in this case, though. I first picked up on this when I noticed that the three main guys arguing for heavy armor in the 900-post "cleric lost heavy armor" thread appeared to be fullplaters themselves.I don't know how the Fire Giant works its way into "full-plated, and helmeted..."
But I don't feel singled out.
I'm who I am. I make no excuses about being passionate about the game I have played for over 30 years. I met my even more conservative wife through it and most of my friends. Honestly I find it neat to be thought of as conservative; in my circle I am somewhat liberal. Honestly I chose the image because it screamed cleric to me and that was the class of my favorite character whose name I post under. Brother (later Bishop) Thurgon, half-orc cleric.
It's always a female avatar for me. I mean, I'm going to be seeing my own posts on a regular basis, might as well see a babe, right?
Besides, I still find it funny when someone assumes I'm female.
Otherwise, I always read the name, after seeing Hydro and Hugo in different threads it's kinda become mandatory.
Genderbending avatars always throw me off. I have no way of knowing the gender of a poster, so I tend to use the avatar as a clue.
What's odd is that even after I've been informed that someone with a female avatar is male, or vice versa, I will continue to use the wrong pronouns.
Have a good day, ma'am.
I don't think so in this case, though. I first picked up on this when I noticed that the three main guys arguing for heavy armor in the 900-post "cleric lost heavy armor" thread appeared to be fullplaters themselves.I don't know how the Fire Giant works its way into "full-plated, and helmeted..."
But I don't feel singled out.
Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have said "the main guys" (like it was a definitive list).
But I meant Beckett, Thurgon and Lordzack.
It's always a female avatar for me. I mean, I'm going to be seeing my own posts on a regular basis, might as well see a babe, right?
Besides, I still find it funny when someone assumes I'm female.
Otherwise, I always read the name, after seeing Hydro and Hugo in different threads it's kinda become mandatory.
I just today noticed that guy.
But I think I may have reached the point now where an avatar-switch would do more harm than good.
I don't think so in this case, though. I first picked up on this when I noticed that the three main guys arguing for heavy armor in the 900-post "cleric lost heavy armor" thread appeared to be fullplaters themselves.I don't know how the Fire Giant works its way into "full-plated, and helmeted..."
But I don't feel singled out.
Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have said "the main guys" (like it was a definitive list).
But I meant Beckett, Thurgon and Lordzack.
Ha! NOW I feel singled out. :-P
Ha! NOW I feel singled out. :-PI don't think so in this case, though. I first picked up on this when I noticed that the three main guys arguing for heavy armor in the 900-post "cleric lost heavy armor" thread appeared to be fullplaters themselves.I don't know how the Fire Giant works its way into "full-plated, and helmeted..."
But I don't feel singled out.
Sorry, I guess I shouldn't have said "the main guys" (like it was a definitive list).
But I meant Beckett, Thurgon and Lordzack.
Liberal new age hippy... I do live near Woodstock so I know a hippy when I see one.
