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GenesisCorrupted
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Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar
#28601636 - 12/28/23 10:33 PM (30 days, 16 hours ago) |
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Why?
Edited by GenesisCorrupted (12/28/23 10:58 PM)
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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Because I'm in my cacoon. I'm going to burst out into a beautiful butterfly probably any day with a sweet avatar and it'll shock you so hard, dawg
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Really? It’ll be so glorious that I’ll just perish from its beauty? I would like to see that.
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Edited by GenesisCorrupted (12/28/23 10:50 PM)
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TheStallionMang
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Why ask why? It was alright to dream…on Buckingham Green https://on.soundcloud.com/nwgZqwC3LSzzENrW9
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TheStallionMang
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Hey GC, you seem to know a lot about how stuff works here. Why doesn’t that link let you play it on the page anymore? I think there used to be an embed feature or something
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GenesisCorrupted
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There’s still a lot of stuff I don’t know. If there was something that used to allow you to embed that in there and it can’t anymore. Maybe it updated and it’s not supported currently. I tried using the button next to the picture symbol. But this would be something to ask Ythan.
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TheStallionMang
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Ah ok. Thought maybe I was missing something. Thanks
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GenesisCorrupted
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I wanted to know the same thing. That’s actually the last buttons for me to figure out. I still don’t know how to use it.
Edited by GenesisCorrupted (12/29/23 01:22 AM)
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To the original question...
If someone thinks that there's no permanent self it's hard to pick an image to represent your "self". A name is necessary to use the forum. An image is extra self.
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: Ditchdude]
#28601672 - 12/28/23 11:39 PM (30 days, 15 hours ago) |
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As your image of yourself, evolves or changes. There’s no reason why your avatar can’t as well. That’s a very valid reason for not having one. But I’m sure you see yourself as something or someone.
Edited by GenesisCorrupted (12/29/23 01:23 AM)
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: Ditchdude] 1
#28601673 - 12/28/23 11:39 PM (30 days, 15 hours ago) |
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I get that but I need more than a username to help remember who people are.
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I don't have a call sign, I'm a convicted axe murderer.
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: Yokal]
#28601689 - 12/29/23 12:16 AM (30 days, 14 hours ago) |
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 I just thought of one for you…
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I don't wear jewelry or a watch, I won't wear a wedding ring, I don't have any tattoos - and I don't have an avatar.
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: koraks]
#28601766 - 12/29/23 03:27 AM (30 days, 11 hours ago) |
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It feels the same as those music videos where it’s just a blurry out of focus shot. In a completely white room, just playing instruments. When all the rest of the music videos are really awesome that they make. It doesn’t really detract from how awesome all of their music videos are. It’s just very boring for someone so cool.
That’s how I feel when people don’t have avatars.
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koraks
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Well, I don't see people as music videos. Perhaps that's part of it.
Avatars are kind of nice in the sense that they make someone quickly recognizable. However, especially on forums like this one, the excess of animated avatars is distracting and the overall effect is counterproductive. I also think it's kind of camp; people trying to look cool by having a couple of pixels suspended below their nickname. I don't like to present myself that way. To each their own.
Don't get me wrong; if you like your avatar, enjoy it. It's nice to have the choice.
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There is also the mood indicator, but the use of it changes the mood. Chameleon avatar maybe, but it would need to be always changing. The self-non-self center is non-avatarish. A yantra or something psychedelic is cool. Maybe the lensing filosof. I thought I saw someone with a gravitational lensing avatar.
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: syncro]
#28601808 - 12/29/23 05:31 AM (30 days, 9 hours ago) |
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I agree with the animated avatars, I can't freaking read with the stuff going on, cool as they may be.
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Quote:
GenesisCorrupted said: As your image of yourself, evolves or changes. There’s no reason why your avatar can’t as well. That’s a very valid reason for not having one. But I’m sure you see yourself as something or someone.
The less I identify with any of my many versions of self the easier life is.
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Quote:
TheStallionMang said: I get that but I need more than a username to help remember who people are.
I appreciate that and understand that I might not be memorable.
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I almost went the no avatar route, didn't know what to choose.
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: JonBongGroovy]
#28602150 - 12/29/23 11:39 AM (30 days, 3 hours ago) |
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But that’s just it. It could be anything. Even if it’s just a Riverstone on a log. That’s some thing. I don’t disparage anyone who doesn’t have an avatar. It just feels like why have nothing? When you could have anything?
There is a setting to turn off animated avatars. Because if it does make it hard for you to read, that is completely understandable.
Edited by GenesisCorrupted (12/29/23 11:49 AM)
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I get it, I actually enjoy many of the avatars, just not my thing.
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Quote:
GenesisCorrupted said:It just feels like why have nothing? When you could have anything?
You probably could have used a few more characters in your name to max the length but you didn't, why not?
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Because that is my name.
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You can make your name longer, though, if you wanted to.
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An avatar is a chance to make a statement about who you are. I guess your statement is nothing. Which is a statement in of itself.
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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Well, I reckon my signature speaks louder than any avatar ever could.
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Why isn’t the album cover your avatar?
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That's a good question. My last few tracks I have done that, but for some reason haven't for this one. IDK, I kind of like being mysterious recently with no avatar.
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To be frank, I have no idea how/where/what to do. The same for posting images. I’m not entirely technologically daft, I just can’t figure out how to do either (do I need to link to some iCloud or do I just copy a link from some pic I find online?) how do I ensure it fits pixel limits?
Meh and it really doesn’t bother me. But there’s your answer.
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: Milleresque]
#28602369 - 12/29/23 02:41 PM (30 days, 6 minutes ago) |
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Uploading images is easy here. Click "image" icon. Then click "browse" and select the file. If the file is too big then make sure isn't a .PNG. .JPG is smaller size and probably will work.
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I can teach you how to make an avatar. Here’s a link. Basically you can make anything the right size if you just make it smaller. But you can still upload a nice picture.
Edited by GenesisCorrupted (12/29/23 03:03 PM)
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Nice!
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: Milleresque] 1
#28602514 - 12/29/23 05:53 PM (29 days, 20 hours ago) |
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Milleresque said: To be frank, I have no idea how/where/what to do. The same for posting images. I’m not entirely technologically daft, I just can’t figure out how to do either.
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GenesisCorrupted said: I can teach you how to make an avatar. Here’s a link. Basically you can make anything the right size if you just make it smaller. But you can still upload a nice picture.
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 Great avatar btw.
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Do yu know who She is?
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Go ahead yu can guess
W/o using google tell me who She is 🙂
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: koraks] 1
#28602575 - 12/29/23 06:46 PM (29 days, 20 hours ago) |
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Quote:
koraks said: Well, I don't see people as music videos. Perhaps that's part of it.
Avatars are kind of nice in the sense that they make someone quickly recognizable. However, especially on forums like this one, the excess of animated avatars is distracting and the overall effect is counterproductive. I also think it's kind of camp; people trying to look cool by having a couple of pixels suspended below their nickname. I don't like to present myself that way. To each their own.
Don't get me wrong; if you like your avatar, enjoy it. It's nice to have the choice.
I rather like the mix of avatar/no avatar. The fact that you don't have one, but are in a sea of people who do, actually makes you instantly recognizable. I also take in the entire name/avatar complex when looking at a post. So by now, the spelling of your name in all lowercase, with no avatar, is effectively burned into my mind as an image. But by the same token, like you said, these are just pixels on the screen to aid reading comprehension. I know there's a person behind that who has nothing to do with it. Just like I'm not really the stateless fugitive who wrote Treasure of The Sierra Madre and carefully guarded his true identity until death.
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No clue.Quote:
oursoulsinmotion said: Go ahead yu can guess
W/o using google tell me who She is 🙂
IDK🙃
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I generally have the "view avatar setting off". And I also have the "view signature" setting off also
I prefer my screen real estate to mainly be text. The signatures really take up a lot of space
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Re: Everyone who doesn’t have an avatar [Re: Big_Dub]
#28602889 - 12/30/23 02:35 AM (29 days, 12 hours ago) |
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The three blank lines in your signature. When I read this comment, they really bother me now.
 A suggestion. Put your favorite piece of art down there or some thing. I think those are some of my favorite signatures around here. The people that have something deeply meaningful or educational that they put down in the signature. That always seems really cool to me also.
Edited by GenesisCorrupted (12/30/23 12:03 PM)
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