Do you ever feel intimidated by someone else's avatar?

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gneiss
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15 Mar 2008, 10:12 pm

My past avatar feaked me out so much I decided to change it yesterday. I would like a more unique one, but Dino will do for now.

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16 Mar 2008, 12:16 am

yup...recognized the 1st one on page 1 as from 2112...
The rabbit/rodent in the top hat reminds me of Mr Peanut...
none have scared me any so far...

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16 Mar 2008, 6:37 am

an avatar's a indication of likes, if not personality. the same with sig, I reckon. maybe it's the 'clothing of the internet' whereby we can gage someone else's demeanor, if not personalty.

Mine are the 'philisophic flavour of the month' avatars, always done in paint. unless you seriously hate skewered logic you probably have no beef with mine. :wink:

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16 Mar 2008, 10:21 am

I recognize posters by their avatars first, and so people who change their avatar a lot kinda bothers me, I have never been scared of someones avatar though.

My own avatar has a long history behind it; he is a character I made for a comic years ago. His personality is much like my own (And he too only looks tough/evil on the outside, while being a lovable pile of fluff on the inside) Ofcourse, like in real life, people don't see personality when they look at someone. What might people think seeing my avatar for the first time? I don't know, but I sure hope they aren't intimidated by him.

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16 Mar 2008, 10:25 am

Yes! Ebec's avatar reminds me of the flower from "The Wall".

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16 Mar 2008, 10:32 am

I wonder if ppl would get treated even more differently if all of us had our pics on our avatars. I would be like, OMG I'm really conversing with a real person. I don't know if that would be good or bad. I guess it would depend on the jerk or nice person.

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16 Mar 2008, 4:32 pm

I chose my avatar in order to intimidate people and strike terror into their hearts. Mwahaha!!

The only one that freaked me out was this guy had one that was of an anime girl morphing into a monster that ate another guy's head. Kinda weird and fascinating at the same time.

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16 Mar 2008, 4:38 pm

Lene wrote:

Hey I know that one! I've seen more than one person use that image as their avatar or profile picture. I wonder if it was first posted in 4chan.

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16 Mar 2008, 6:05 pm

ebec11 wrote:

SilverProteus wrote:

Your new avatar reminds me of the books I would read in my childhood, Arbie!

What books did you like to read? *Has a random image of Peter Pan

Every book and especially graphic novel and comic in the house.

I mentioned Arbie's avatar because I had an old illustrated children's book with personified animals as characters.

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16 Mar 2008, 6:12 pm

AndersTheAspie avatar is very effective. If I'm scrolling down a page and I come across with the "Pay Attention Damnit!" I have to stop and read whatever he wrote.

Lene wrote:

The only one that freaked me out was this guy had one that was of an anime girl morphing into a monster that ate another guy's head. Kinda weird and fascinating at the same time.

I've seen this one too. I didn't like it but I had to look at it several times. It gave me a pleasant creepy feeling (if that makes sense).

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16 Mar 2008, 6:12 pm

Kalister1 wrote:

Yes! Ebec's avatar reminds me of the flower from "The Wall".

Thanks

I love orange lilies

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16 Mar 2008, 6:22 pm

Lene wrote:

The only one that freaked me out was this guy had one that was of an anime girl morphing into a monster that ate another guy's head. Kinda weird and fascinating at the same time.

This one?

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16 Mar 2008, 6:23 pm

That's the one I was thinking of

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16 Mar 2008, 6:41 pm

Yeah, that's the one! *shudders*

I can't help staring... it's so.. hypnotising....

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16 Mar 2008, 6:42 pm

SilverProteus wrote:

Lene wrote:

The only one that freaked me out was this guy had one that was of an anime girl morphing into a monster that ate another guy's head. Kinda weird and fascinating at the same time.

This one?

Eeeeek!! !

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16 Mar 2008, 6:43 pm

I find myself staring at it...

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