Creepy New Avatars
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 - 1:54pm
Anyone else a little creeped out by the new "realistic" look of our overlord's new avatars? I am starting to have dreams of a cartoon Stevie Ray Vaughn coming back from the dead to claim my heathen soul.
I long for the days of the Michael Jackson puppet or the galloping green monster (sans boobs).
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Nah, I think they are well done ... but whats up with that hat Fletcher is wearing. Dude, I hope you don't go out in public like that.
I too find them kind of neat, but I still miss the caveman lawyer.
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It's where he hides his seventeen bottles of whiskey.
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Those are made by Sway using an Illustrator plug-in that actually draws the outlines based on real images we sent him. I think they're great!
They're mainly for articles themselves, as you can see, Kat has stuck with Fry for her forum avatar
Yeah, it's scary. I'm staring into the abyss right now, and it's staring into me, which I think is kind of a dick move on the abyss's part. - Nyles
You probably need to get one made for yourself. I'm not sure you want any coffee grinders assuming that you really do look just like your current avatar.
Actually, I switched yesterday. Is it not showing up for you? It looks changed to me.
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Almost completely off-topic: I've seen the picture of Kat that she used, and it's a great picture.
On-topic: I kind of like them, actually. I won't lie; they're still creepy. But fun creepy!
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Mine is an original, I think I might be too invested in it to move on. I'll never leave you, giant nose avatar!
Yeah, it's scary. I'm staring into the abyss right now, and it's staring into me, which I think is kind of a dick move on the abyss's part. - Nyles
Gah! Stupid browser cache.
I see it now, everyone is jealous of that hair. I know I am.
Yeah, it's scary. I'm staring into the abyss right now, and it's staring into me, which I think is kind of a dick move on the abyss's part. - Nyles
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So you mean that Fletcher actually wore that hat?
:shudder:
But I agree, they are kind of cool.
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What'd the cowboy say when he lost his hat?
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"Where's my hat?"
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Kat has red hair?
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Wait, so Fletcher's not a guy then? Boy he fools you with his radio voice.
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Hmm. Just Fletcher's, I think. I was curious as to why the sudden trend came about though. Thanks for raising the topic.
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Well Pyro, I'm glad your feminine cowboy fantasies have found their online outlet, although I'm surprised the site was GWJ.
Same here! Oh, wait....
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Fletcher-
Do the words 'They subpoena me Mr. Hicks, they subpoena me!' have anything to do with your location?
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For some reason, this made me laugh inordinately loud. I scared my puppy out of her nap.
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Am I the only one who thinks of Clockwork Orange when I see Fletcher's avatar?
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Now that someone may have nailed Fletcher's "location", I think this is the inspiration:
"I'm Bill hicks, and I'm dead now."
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Put me in the "Fletcher's new avatar scares me, I miss Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer" camp. Also the "Thrilled that Katerin's avatar is no longer a guy, because I'm slow and was confused way back in the day" camp. Also the "Certis's avatar is too classic to ever change, though I will continue to change mine on a semi-regular basis, unless I find one that's absolutely perfect" camp.
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But... but... it was Fry! With a coffee cup! I mean, who doesn't like strung out Futurama characters? I'll always have a special place in my heart for angry Philip J. and his caffiene.
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Frequent avatar changing confuses me, unless its chumpy, as a result my Sith Ferret avatar is here to stay.
Kat's avatar looks like a yearbook pose.
Fletcher's avatar is indeed scary, but of course he is a Cylon and a Clock Work Orange Cylon at that.
The Holy Avatar of the Great Prophet Certis is perfect and any desecration of the Great Nose shall surely lead to rioting in the streets.
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I thought they reminded me of those illustrated investment commercials that have been on recently. I'm not a big fan of change, so I guess they creep me out a little (mostly The Fly's. Or is that 4tomsm4sher?)
On the subject of avatar change: I wanted to go Firefly back when all the cool kids were doing it, but I didn't want to construe that it was dead to me. Damn my now irrelevant forum tag!
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Hey that was the tag I came up with! It's not irrevelant, do you not still think SW is dead to you?
Besides I don't always take the tag to mean something about the avatar or vice versa.
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Oh, no, let's not get hasty here.
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I've had my avatar since GWJ2.0.
Some of the avatars are such classics that they really shoulsn't change. Certis, Elysium, and Sinatar mostly.
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