 MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
Apr 28, 2002 24:20 |
Yeah, Avatar's seem like a good idea (and why the Hel are they called Avatars? Avatars are religiously linked heroes if I recall correctly), but, as we all know, I'm lazy.
Sure, it wouldn't take a lot of just download a lot of stock ones, but I hate all things stock, so I'd never do that, and then having people link them usually just leads to more problems, not to mention the loading time of giant images shrunk into a little icon space. Bah!
I'll just make twenty more smileys. How's that for personality?
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 Ryuujin
Posts: 176
Member #11
Apr 28, 2002 6:35 |
I think they call them avatars because they're like your "embodiment" in the digital "realm", like the hero avatars are a representative of their God in the physical world, your avatar image is a representation of "you" on the net. (Well, more often a representation of your character, people who upload images of themselves and use them as their avatar really havn't a clue about the net)
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 Ash10
Posts: 435
Member #3
Apr 28, 2002 8:40 |
Yeah! More smileys! Hehehe...
Edit: Guess I need to work on my sig...Mabye this will work...
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[Editted by Ash10 on Apr 28, 2002 14:07]
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TheAnaconda
Posts: 57
Member #15
Apr 28, 2002 15:46 |
Just for your refrence, Mintman, the definition of avatar is "the living embodiment of a thought or an idea." As for their meaning in refrence to the internet, it's probably the same as alot of other internet slang. No one could come up with a good description so they just picked a close word and called it good.
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 Ryuujin
Posts: 176
Member #11
Apr 28, 2002 16:18 |
*Kicks Anaconda in the shin for upstaging him*
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 Camo
Posts: 1609
Member #5
Apr 29, 2002 7:48 |
Or even so, since Mintman is such a great almighty programer bloke he could make it so we could upload them to a spot, but the file only be cceptable if there a certain size.....
I am lord of the lair my lair
Owner of the Happy gym
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Ryuujin
Posts: 176
Member #11
Apr 29, 2002 11:27 |
He's also an anally retentive (tight assed) almighty programmer dude, who wouldn't be seen dead, putting aside space on his server, for people to upload their own avatars...
[i]*Gets beaten up for calling Kero names*[/i]
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MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
Apr 29, 2002 23:33 |
*beats up Ryuu, not for calling him names, but rather for using [i] and [/i] as the italicis tags instead of the HTML*
Bad Ryuu! This isn't UBB... although I probably should make something to recognize those fake tags as real tags to prevent such conf00zion.
I dunno about that image thing. It's not so much as I'm against it, but that I would actually have to read up on how to upload files using CGI. I never had to learn that before.
*wonders what his avatar would be*
*thinks of pie*
*does not think his avatar would be pie; just wants some*
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 Ryuujin
Posts: 176
Member #11
Apr 30, 2002 6:21 |
Hmpf, yes it's not like it's hard to put in stuff to recognise the psuedo HTML... and I suppose since this site does recognise HTMl, I may as wel flaunt that, and use my own text, face, color and styling...
*Gets beaten up for messing up Kero's page style*
[Editted by Ryuujin on Apr 30, 2002 11:24]
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MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
May 1, 2002 14:38 |
On Apr 30, 2002 11:22, Ryuujin said:
... and I suppose since this site does recognise HTMl...
My site doesn't recognize HTML? The blutty 'el ya talking about?
The forums allow HTML in them so long as you don't specifically choose to disable it.
You crazy Ryuu. Hey, what if in addition to avatars, members could customize the way they wanted their messages to appear as default (like Ryuu's little job up there), or would people get too carried away with that...
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Camo
Posts: 1609
Member #5
Jul 26, 2002 20:03 |
It would be cool
(Whats with me posting stupid s*** in dead threads? :O)
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 msanis
Posts: 454
Member #7
Jul 27, 2002 13:15 |
*looks at last time something was posted* um camo you took a little too long to reply .
i have an idea u can use to communicate without mailing. why not use a forum type thing.....where u have messages like battle challenges, notices, etc.
it's worth a try since the mail is messed up.
i bet this post was a stupid one....well maybe...
[Editted by msanis on Jul 27, 2002 18:17]
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 Camo
Posts: 1609
Member #5
Jul 27, 2002 22:53 |
Wouldn't that be killer on the server though, obviously not as bad as my cool postage power, but still.....
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MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
Jul 28, 2002 2:42 |
Such a thing would work, Camo, and here's how:
You would want to battle and post yourself on the thing.
You would then have to check periodically for receiving a challenge.
You would accept when you get it.
Thing is, it's called the battle board. No one thinks about using it in that way. I mean, battles still go through if you check them. Methinks little have the patience for it.
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