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Title: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Skewbrow on 16 Feb 2013, 13:16: When I last had a birthday, it lead to a system of Diophantine equations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine_equation) and also to a (gentle and polite) remark that my avatar doesn't really match my chronological age. So I've been looking for a new one. There aren't too many characters obviously in their late forties (or thereabouts), but MariDad might fit the bill (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2198). I am much taller (and more handsome :angel:) than Mr Farmer, as shown by this image of
(http://users.utu.fi/lahtonen/CFT.JPG)
yours truly trying to teach some class field theory to himself as well as a few fellow enthusiasts.

But did somebody already stake a claim to MariDad? If not, then I might just apply the principle of "if the Farmer shoe fits ..."

And lookit the formidable forehead radiating the accumulated knowledge!
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 17 Feb 2013, 00:50: It does not ring a bell offhand.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Method of Madness on 17 Feb 2013, 05:51: I'm not the only Pintsize. I qwouldn't worry.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: pwhodges on 17 Feb 2013, 14:07: I have not experienced avatar wars!
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Skewbrow on 17 Feb 2013, 14:28: IIRC many posters wanted to use the pic of young Marten wearing a Dino costume. The priority was resolved without a war, so you're right. Thanks for the clearance.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Carl-E on 17 Feb 2013, 14:54: Worst that can happen is that you'd be mistaken for someone else on the forum.

And there are many worse things.

Also, if anyone else has it already, a) they may soon change anyway if they haven't already (after all, you're abandoning a good Angus for this), and b) you haven't seen it recently, so any user may not actually be active at the moment.

In other words, use what you want!

BTW, I chose mine based on attitude, not age. Though you could easily imagine my balding head under that cap...
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Welu on 17 Feb 2013, 16:20: If I had a character as an avatar it would either be Sven, just cause, or the Toaster in the last panel (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1999).
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 Feb 2013, 14:09: Mustang and I are both Pintsize and both start with M. It amuses me when we have posts in a row.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: cesium133 on 18 Feb 2013, 14:26: Dr. Nervioso's Charmander chasing its tail avatar is mesmerizing. If he changes it, I may be tempted to steal it for myself. :psyduck:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Akima on 18 Feb 2013, 19:50: I've never felt that any of the QC characters were "me" enough to adopt one. The closest I've come was when Hannelore got that deep Tan. :angel:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: celticgeek on 18 Feb 2013, 19:55: Clann Mhic Leòid - Hold Fast
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 18 Feb 2013, 20:16: I'm too sexy for this thread to sexy for this thread what the hell is on my head
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Method of Madness on 18 Feb 2013, 20:34: MDBS I don't remember what your old avatar was but I liked it. Could you remind me or is it not easy to link to now?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 18 Feb 2013, 20:40: Quote from: Method of Madness on 18 Feb 2013, 20:34
MDBS I don't remember what your old avatar was but I liked it. Could you remind me or is it not easy to link to now?

I believe it may be gone forever. I was sitting in front of one of my machines next to a laptop, the way the webcam was set I ended up with a rather cool effect on the screen.

Lemme check photobucket.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Redball on 18 Feb 2013, 23:34: If I had my druthers, the scripting ability and a server, I'd use PWHodges' method of changing avatars, rotating among the bottoms of the QC women. I don't suppose Dropbox would work.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: jwhouk on 19 Feb 2013, 06:10: <=== May and Redball can attest that this doesn't look like me at all. However, it's a more imagined version of me when I was of QC-age.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Carl-E on 19 Feb 2013, 08:31: My old avatars;

My own eye

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6434380609_6d51de2325_q.jpg)

Humphrey

(http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/29500000/Bogie-humphrey-bogart-29562968-510-768.jpg)

Hannerzombie

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6149/5938931215_7ee526456b_q.jpg)

And the current one.

I also made this intending to use it as an avatar, but I don't think I ever did;

(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4124/5084010071_709880d95c_q.jpg)
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Bluesummers on 19 Feb 2013, 18:50: Quote from: pwhodges on 17 Feb 2013, 14:07
I have not experienced avatar wars!

I think we're all (mostly) civilized enough to share characters as avatars without getting all fussy about it...we're still ourselves, after all. In fact, I reference the Username more often, especially with people who change their avatar frequently (I'm looking at you, Paul ;D )...I've always used my avatar for every forum I've been on.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Thrudd on 20 Feb 2013, 12:26: I don't know why I haven't done it yet after so long but you have prompted me to update mine.
I miss having fuller/longer hair but I still have a ponytail IRL.
I would love to have a head of hair like hers. *sigh* frizz notwithstanding.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: reicreature on 20 Feb 2013, 21:07: I fell in love with the dream sequence comic and the panel that made me laugh the hardest became my avatar.
I still giggle when I look at it.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: de_la_Nae on 21 Feb 2013, 02:44: Quote from: Thrudd on 20 Feb 2013, 12:26
I don't know why I haven't done it yet after so long but you have prompted me to update mine.
I miss having fuller/longer hair but I still have a ponytail IRL.
I would love to have a head of hair like hers. *sigh* frizz notwithstanding.

*eyes Thrudd's avatar*

...!

TO THE DEATH! *attacks!*

(the dramatic reenactment of the battle: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1731 )
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Soulsynger on 21 Feb 2013, 03:24: Hey Skew, I once used this avatar for a short time:
(http://i.imgur.com/gXuRMmy.png)

But I stake no claim for it.

My current avatar is Marigold's foot. Guess from where.
The one before that was a drunkface of Station.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Skewbrow on 21 Feb 2013, 04:52: So it was you! I had a vague recollection that somebody had used it (which is why I started this thread). Sounds like you're cool with me using it, so I will stick to it for now.

That pic of Angus pondering "to kiss or not to kiss" (my old avatar) did appeal to me. The artwork is really great. And may be I just sympathize with Angus as a character because Mrs Skew also needed a longish persuasion? But I'm also a bit tired of it.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: slydon on 21 Feb 2013, 05:40: I can't post my old avatar. :roll:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: jwhouk on 21 Feb 2013, 05:56: Was that because you were damned for telling too many fart jokes? ;)
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: slydon on 21 Feb 2013, 06:02: If that were the case, I'd be double-damned already. :evil: :-o :evil:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: TimO on 21 Feb 2013, 07:20: I'm not sure I'd have the nerve to use a character from a comic that the forum is discussing, in that forum (iyswim). It also tends to confuse me when people use a character whose gender and/or mannerisms are at odds with their own.

I've variously used Bob from Rex The Runt, a headshot of me in a red Santa hat at Christmas, a South Park version of me in front of a Buck Rogers style cartoon rocketship, and the current socks from a group bicycle ride a few years back (where we were missing a cyclist who had previously worn some very striped stockings). I can't remember why I picked Bob, other than I like him. I'm not a dog with a big gun, or very enthusiastic about sausages, and I'm certainly not a "Big, fat, jelly-wobbly, fat bastard", although arguably I am a bit of a slob.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Feb 2013, 08:09: I'm not sure why that would take any amount of nerve.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Thrudd on 21 Feb 2013, 08:57: Quote from: de_la_Nae on 21 Feb 2013, 02:44
*eyes Thrudd's avatar*

...!

TO THE DEATH! *attacks!*

(http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=8242;type=avatar) ...... (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=8241;type=avatar) ... Eeep!
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Zebediah on 21 Feb 2013, 11:36: Quote from: Thrudd on 21 Feb 2013, 08:57
(http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=8242;type=avatar) ...... (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=8241;type=avatar) ... Eeep!

The victor shall be whoever can blush the most. :laugh:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: TimO on 21 Feb 2013, 12:20: Quote from: Method of Madness on 21 Feb 2013, 08:09
I'm not sure why that would take any amount of nerve.

It would just seem a bit presumptuous to feel I could associate myself with a character, in an environment where there are a lot of people who feel that they know how that character should behave, and for that matter the author, whose opinion is pretty much definitive by definition.

I'd feel uncomfortable doing it.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 21 Feb 2013, 12:25: Just use a photo of yourself like I do :-)
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Method of Madness on 21 Feb 2013, 12:28: I disagree on two levels. I don't think my avatar represents me at all, I just like it. And I wouldn't say that the author's view on how a character should behave is necessarily definitive, only how a character does behave. Why would it take any less nerve to use a Pintsize avatar on the Qwantz forum and a T-Rex avatar here?

But mostly I'm curious how one associates themselves with a pair of sneakers.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Carl-E on 21 Feb 2013, 12:50: I think some of us are reading a bit too much into this...

Remember, sometimes an avatar is just an avatar...

:angel:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Redball on 21 Feb 2013, 12:53: And other times ... well, I notice her bottom after her face, unless I'm walking up behind her. Then, I often know who she is, but I think we've already had this conversation.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Bluesummers on 21 Feb 2013, 15:33: Quote from: Carl-E on 21 Feb 2013, 12:50
Remember, sometimes an avatar is just an avatar...

And sometimes an avatar is The Avatar. I've got a whole directory, she's just beggin' to come out!

(http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/185/e/6/korra_icon_by_yerginsnurf-d55z8nv.png)

I had to.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: DSL on 21 Feb 2013, 19:51: I like my avatar to represent me IRL at least somewhat.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: cesium133 on 21 Feb 2013, 19:57: You've got a cannon on your head?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: DSL on 21 Feb 2013, 19:59: I wear eyeglasses.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: TimO on 22 Feb 2013, 01:59: Quote from: cesium133 on 21 Feb 2013, 19:57
You've got a cannon on your head?

DSL is Bud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Characters) from Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, and I claim my five pounds. :-D
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Carl-E on 22 Feb 2013, 03:03: Quote from: TimO on 22 Feb 2013, 01:59
...and I claim my five pounds. :-D

Nearest the heart? Or just a little off the top...?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Akima on 22 Feb 2013, 03:18: Five pounds? Inflation in the Venetian florin, I suppose.

I like my avatar as a "cartoon me", even if I'm not dating Batman.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Zebediah on 22 Feb 2013, 04:21: My avatar represents me perfectly. I really am an eternal bandicoot. :-D
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Barmymoo on 22 Feb 2013, 05:30: My avatar is from ages and ages ago when someone posted a whole load of similar pictures (the premise was superheroes' secret desires) and this one just sort of sums me up I guess. Not that I go round saving people's lives or whatever Wonder Woman does, but because I'm very busy and pretty successful but really all I want is to live in a nice little house with some babies and cats.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Bluesummers on 22 Feb 2013, 06:18: Quote from: Akima on 22 Feb 2013, 03:18
I like my avatar as a "cartoon me", even if I'm not dating Batman.

Terry McGuinness will never be Batman, in my eyes. Sorry, personal preference to the Bruce-ster. :emotrex:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Thrudd on 22 Feb 2013, 07:14: I agree that Terry will never be the Bruce-ster but you have to look at the people and times they represent.
At what age did Bruce seriously start out as Batman? As far as I can figure out [weak google fu] he was in his mid to late twenties if not older after all that training and world wandering.
Terry was recruited while still in high-school. Terry was way more socialized than Bruce ever was as a kid and grew up in a much less rarefied social climate.
I like Bruce as a character but I am not so sure about wanting the big faker as a friend. He IS BATMAN and Bruce is just a character he plays in common society.
With Terry we could sit down at a club and talk about the indie rock scene. :lol:
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Carl-E on 22 Feb 2013, 08:06: How do you know that what you think is Terry McGuinness isn't just a character he plays in common society?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 22 Feb 2013, 09:28: Quote from: Carl-E on 22 Feb 2013, 08:06
How do you know that what you think is Terry McGuinness isn't just a character he plays in common society?
Because in his head he still calls himself Terry.
Batman stopped calling himself Bruce long, long ago. It's how he defeated a psychological attack once; the voices in his head kept using the wrong name therefore they clearly couldn't originate there…
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Zebediah on 22 Feb 2013, 09:52: I recall a Batman comic some years back where Robin pointed out that Batman doesn't even like Bruce Wayne.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Mr_Rose on 22 Feb 2013, 11:17: Not that surprising really; Bruce is a lazy, ignorant playboy who rides his dead father's coattails to work out deals and seems to rely on luck more than judgement in his investing policies.
Basically a complete arse.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: de_la_Nae on 22 Feb 2013, 21:00: Batman is so...interesting.

Partially because he's soooo broken and wrong as a person, but the universe keeps rewarding him for it. Sort of. And I mean, hey, there's a lot worse ways he could be broken.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Kixie on 23 Feb 2013, 15:15: Hmm. This thread gives me the idea to find the most awesome Meiville appearance evar[!]and totally abuse his awesomeness. I'm thinking terrifying Mieville! Woo ideas! Thanks ^.^
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 23 Feb 2013, 15:36: Where would you place his riding the Roomba on the scale of awesomeness?
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Post by: Loki on 23 Feb 2013, 15:41: And the "heroically protecting Tai's modesty" act?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: celticgeek on 23 Feb 2013, 15:49: Mieville meeting Pintsize? (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1584)
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Sidhekin on 23 Feb 2013, 16:22: From now on I'll think of that one as the "We can haz an understanding?"-Mieville.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Kixie on 23 Feb 2013, 17:34: Those and the catnipped Mieville comic are all 11s on the 1-10 scale in my book! As a matter of fact, I attempted to draw a graph of Mieville's awesomeness thoughout the comic, and it ended up just being a horizontal line... :-D
_{"No, murder is not the answer. You always suggest that" (to Mieville)}
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: foolsguinea on 23 Feb 2013, 22:30: Dibs on an avatar? People do that?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: pwhodges on 24 Feb 2013, 02:42: Not really; people who are active on the forum might choose to avoid having an avatar that could be too readily confused with someone else's, is all.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Barmymoo on 24 Feb 2013, 05:17: I tend to identify people by their signature quotes, to be honest (which is harder when people don't have one). Actually, if you don't have a sig or an avatar, I will have difficulty remembering who you are unless you have a distinctive writing style, because I am awful with names. I genuinely have been known to forget my boyfriend's name before.
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Post by: jwhouk on 24 Feb 2013, 05:46: That explains the "Barmy" part? ;)
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Is it cold in here? on 24 Feb 2013, 08:20: http://xkcd.com/302/
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Redball on 24 Feb 2013, 08:43: Confession: When I first saw the name, I thought "mad cow." That wasn't what she'd had in mind, she later said.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Method of Madness on 24 Feb 2013, 09:04: I just realized, I always read it as two words, "Barmy Moo", is it three? Bar my moo...milk bar...A Clockwork Orange? Or maybe bar as in ban...are you lactose intolerant?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Feb 2013, 12:35: You're overthinking again.

Congratulations.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: TimO on 24 Feb 2013, 12:54: Quote from: Carl-E on 22 Feb 2013, 03:03
Quote from: TimO on 22 Feb 2013, 01:59
...and I claim my five pounds. :-D

Nearest the heart? Or just a little off the top...?

It's a bit of an Internet Meme, so I assumed Lobby Lud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobby_Lud), and the ""You are X and I claim my five pounds" phrase was fairly commonly understood.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Akima on 24 Feb 2013, 13:22: It is a strictly a UK thing, I think.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Loki on 24 Feb 2013, 13:28: Quote from: Carl-E on 24 Feb 2013, 12:35
You're overthinking again.

Congratulations.

Reminds me of some D&D-themed comic where there is a warning on the wall saying "Don't overthink". The characters start pondering what the actual trap may be, overthinking in the process and eventually die from hunger and thirst.

Funny thing is, the first time I played an RPG, the GM put our party in a room with a small altar-ish stone and the same words on the far wall. We needed to proceed to the next room. Of course, we tried doing all kinds of things with the altar, until we eventually realized that we could actually...
(click to show/hide)
just walk through the *ucking wall (http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Illusory_Wall).
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Barmymoo on 24 Feb 2013, 14:13: It is intended to be barmy moo, but not because I consider myself to be a mad cow - a friend told me I was in a barmy mood one day, and I misheard.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Welu on 24 Feb 2013, 14:32: Quote from: Loki on 24 Feb 2013, 13:28
Reminds me of some D&D-themed comic where there is a warning on the wall saying "Don't overthink". The characters start pondering what the actual trap may be, overthinking in the process and eventually die from hunger and thirst.

Oglaf has something similar.
(http://oglaf.com/trapmaster/)
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(http://oglaf.com/media/comic/trapmaster.jpg)[/url]
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Method of Madness on 24 Feb 2013, 14:42: Quote from: Barmymoo on 24 Feb 2013, 14:13
barmy
I didn't realize this wasn't a proper noun. I have never heard this word. UD says it means silly.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Carl-E on 24 Feb 2013, 14:51: From balmy = insane or crazy (mostly harmless)
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: pwhodges on 24 Feb 2013, 15:21: Actually, no. Barm=>barmy (froth on fermenting malt liquor=>frothy, slang: daft, crazy) and balm=>balmy (fragrant oil=>soothing, pleasant) are different words; however, the second spelling is now also a recognised variant for the first (both noun and adjective), which arose through confusion.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Kixie on 24 Feb 2013, 15:29: Quote
Funny thing is, the first time I played an RPG, the GM put our party in a room with a small altar-ish stone and the same words on the far wall. We needed to proceed to the next room. Of course, we tried doing all kinds of things with the altar, until we eventually realized that we could actually... [spoilerthinger]
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WALLHAX!!
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Pilchard123 on 25 Feb 2013, 11:43: Quote from: Welu on 24 Feb 2013, 14:32
Oglaf has something similar.

See also my signature.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Halloween Jack on 25 Feb 2013, 17:50: If you whittled away enough of me, in the right places, you might get something like Bowie. More likely, though, you'd get a screaming, bloody skull.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: catflea on 11 Mar 2013, 03:44: I'm naughty, my avvy is from another webcomic :-P
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Aethien on 11 Mar 2013, 03:50: If that's naughty than what's my avatar?
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Soulsynger on 11 Mar 2013, 04:00: Tasty.
Title: Re: Calling the dibs on a QC avatar?
Post by: Welu on 11 Mar 2013, 06:50: I think if I was to have a Sven avatar, it may be him in the first panel of this. (http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=940)