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Topic Title: Your Past...Avatars! Topic Summary: Post all the avatars you've had! Created On: Oct-26-2007 06:57 PM Status: Post and Reply |
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#1252944
Oct-26-2007 06:57 PM
| Okay, I was curious, how often do people change their avatars? And what were their past ones? So here, post the avatars you've used on Simtropolis by date to show us all!  Here are my old avatars: 1. 
"The Used"May 2006 - October 2006 2. 
"Default Simtropolis Apple"October 2006 - the next week  3. <Since Been Deleted> "Get this Box of my Head!" October 2006 - March 2007 4. 
"My Mind in Text"March 2007 - May 2007 5.  "I Love Chadam"May 2007 - July 2007 6. 
"Alone"July 2007 - October 2007 7. 
"Chadam Lives"October 2007 - Present Don't ask about all the Chadams...he's The Used's mascot <3 Now show us yours!  |
#1252965
Oct-26-2007 07:27 PM
| I can't really show you any of them, but nearly all of them featured a llama in some way. |
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#1252992
Oct-26-2007 07:55 PM
| Yeah, I also had way too many of them, but they all had to do with Lexus, Get Fuzzy, or NASCAR. |
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#1252995
Oct-26-2007 08:01 PM
My first one didn't make the transion to 4.0, but this approximates it.
This was my next one, it's an F-Market PCC painted for the greates streetcar system in the world, the B&QT. 
I had this one for "change your avatar" day. 
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Edited: 10/26/2007 at 08:04 PM by screamingman12
#1253002
Oct-26-2007 08:04 PM
| Oh, all of mine are scattered across different computers. Recently, they've involved Calvin & Hobbes quite a bit. I also had a few Sacramento landmarks, some animated ones (Agent Smith my most famous), and that's all I can remember. I'll track them down and post them here, all right? |
#1253011
Oct-26-2007 08:15 PM
| I can honestly say I have never changed my avatar. I did have the ST Blue Head for a couple of weeks, when I first joined, though. Barbarossa |
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#1253015
Oct-26-2007 08:24 PM
the first one I had was the SC4 orange icon that they had for ST before the major upgrade then it got changed to this one:  and finally to my current one: my beloved San Diego icon:  |
A new CJ is in the works....
ETA: unknown
City Journals that should be looked at:
Nyhaven, ,Revelstoke, Seto, Parkland, Haven Cove, Paranor Island, La Ciudad
Alton/Upton, Nemonos, Lloyd, Eureka, Kilkenny, Fairbanks, Springhurst, Virgin Shores, Flintsky, Greater Terran Region, HAC, SAC, EYECANDY, Ampton County, San Diego, Edmonton, Fortune, Lorreto Valley, Genevra, Dutch Columbia, Casa Grande GM Enterprises: Proudly Creating City Journals since 2007! Chula Vista, National City, Glendale, Victoria, Halifax, Cardiff 6 great CJs and still counting! |
Edited: 10/26/2007 at 08:24 PM by GreekMan
#1253016
Oct-26-2007 08:26 PM
| wow, this is the thread for me: The very original was a Dassault Mirage (deleted before retirement) Next one was the Lockheed f-35 (deleted before retirement) The UN flag (retired & deleted)  then came this (now retired)One or two forgotten ones  then the toxic kiwi (retired)breifly a black hole (retired & deleted)  Then Uranus for a brief time (retired) The German eagle for a couple days (retirement unconfirmed) The Slovenian coat of arms for about 24 hours (retirement unconfirmed) And the Albanian emblem (current: will probably stay in service)You may ask, why the Albanian one? I tell you: because it's cool! And I like it! |
Some good SC4 sites to visit: |
#1253018
Oct-26-2007 08:30 PM
| Zach, about half of those I've seen in one day. You change too quickly. Avatars are like rental cars. You test them out, and if you like the feel of it, keep it for a while. If it's bad, trade it up. If you get in trouble, get a different one and never speak of it again. I think . . . |
#1253025
Oct-26-2007 08:42 PM
| That's what I do, but I never really ''like the feel of them.'' Chances are, I'll keep this one for a while.... |
Some good SC4 sites to visit: |
#1253124
Oct-27-2007 12:20 AM
| I've been pazu since forever, save for a short south park phase
keeping the same image makes you more recognizable in long threads and increases the odds of having your thoughts read. At least that's my guess |
| In the game of chess, you must never let your opponents see your pieces. The rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards.... Checkmate. -Zapp Brannigan |
#1253255
Oct-27-2007 09:01 AM
| <---- Always had that... i've contimplated changing it a few times but I usually hate it myself when people change avatars because they seem to lose thier Identity, especially in Forums such as this. The one i've contemplated changing it to is this Boris one from my MSN, but I doubt I will-  |
'War is when the Government tells you who the enemy is; Revolution is when you decide that for yourself' |
#1253669
Oct-27-2007 10:07 PM
| yuri's revenge! a good icon! |
A new CJ is in the works....
ETA: unknown
City Journals that should be looked at:
Nyhaven, ,Revelstoke, Seto, Parkland, Haven Cove, Paranor Island, La Ciudad
Alton/Upton, Nemonos, Lloyd, Eureka, Kilkenny, Fairbanks, Springhurst, Virgin Shores, Flintsky, Greater Terran Region, HAC, SAC, EYECANDY, Ampton County, San Diego, Edmonton, Fortune, Lorreto Valley, Genevra, Dutch Columbia, Casa Grande GM Enterprises: Proudly Creating City Journals since 2007! Chula Vista, National City, Glendale, Victoria, Halifax, Cardiff 6 great CJs and still counting! |
#1253678
Oct-27-2007 10:19 PM
| I used to have multiple variations of a maple leaf, with images 'inscribed', I guess you could say, inside of them. Since that computer died, I've had to resort to little characters I've found in Coca-Cola ads. I'll see if I can dig up some of my leafs.. Edit: Success!  Mid 2006.  Sometime after the previous.  Sometime after the previous.  Dunno if I ever used this one.  I used this here at some point. Might have been ST 4.0.  Used this during the NHL Playoffs in '06. Go Oilers!  There's dozens of others. If I dig any more up, I'll post them. |
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Edited: 10/27/2007 at 10:51 PM by beebs
#1253762
Oct-28-2007 12:53 AM
Okay... well I haven't been here long, but here are the avatars I've had... I believe this is what I had for my first few weeks or something... not sure though...  Then I had this one for about 10 minutes...  Then this one for a while...  And now this one. I plan on changing it soon thanks to some of Leo's... immature comments about it... |
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#1253841
Oct-28-2007 05:11 AM
Well first there was the standard office building thingy... cos it kind of looked like a hospital... then I might have used this one from my msn... not sure... to be sure...  had this one in honour of Brad for a while... have to ask him about the significance of the toaster...  Had this one for ages...  And now I have the Nursinator subway sign.... (courtesy of The Schulmanator...)  And I also like to bold my posts with a combination of orange and navy.... |
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#1253845
Oct-28-2007 05:36 AM
 Yeah, its Serj Tankian... he did that massive grin during a Kerrang! photoshoot, i loved it so much I had scan the page onto my PC and make an Avatar out of it... acctually, it started life as a SIG for another forum I was part of and I shrunk it down to an Avatar later on. |
'War is when the Government tells you who the enemy is; Revolution is when you decide that for yourself' |
#1254093
Oct-28-2007 03:48 PM
| Let's see, I had the basic head for a while waaay back, which of course is no longer available because that was way back at 3.0 or 4.0 or something! Then I remember once I had a courthouse from my town. I had a flag for the 4th of July. A 4 leaf clover for St. Patty's. I've had others but I don't remember. And of course my famous pop tarts, which I may or may not change. |
It's a-me...a-WeeGee! Watch yourself..he'll eat your soul. |
#1254252
Oct-28-2007 08:22 PM
| http://jaquetteworld.chez-alice.fr/images/cd_audio/metallica_kill_em_all-front.jpg
^This was my fisrt avater from December 2003-Jan 2004. than every Metallica Album until the Black Album from Jan '04 to about June '04. A few more metal related pictures. some terminator related Pictures (of course), lots of Iron Maiden avatars and than a bunch of Choking Victim pics around September 05. from than to now I have gone through random images that I find on my Computer. |
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#1254682
Oct-29-2007 04:51 PM
| Not counting the generic avatar that I (like everyone else) started with, and the ones that got defaulted back to when forum upgrades meant resetting all the avatars, my current avatar is # 1) Promotional art from Rockman 2 2) Random image of Kim Possible from Google 3) Pixel art of Lucy and Maureen from A Modest Destiny 4) Artist's rendition of a visionary skyscraper known as "Aeropolis 2001" 5) AIM Icon of Kim Possible, from Google, color inverted. 6) AIM icon of Missy from Mall Monkeys, a webcomic which has been defunct for quite some time now and does not, to my knowledge, exist anywhere on the internet anymore. 7) Mugshot of Air Man from Megaman 2, taken from The Megaman Homepage. 8) Animated GIF of Megaman running (SNES sprites), from Google 9) Random image of Kim Possible from Google (no relation to #2) 10) Animated GIF of Susan from El Goonish Shive, one of a few avatars made by the comic's author for general use. 11) Random Image of Kim Possible, Cropped and resized from a larger image from google 12) AIM Icon of Kim Possible from Google (no relation to #5) 13) AIM Icon of Kim Possible from Google (no relation to #5 or #12) 14) Avatar of Kim Possible from some random fansite. 15) Cropped from a screenshot from a Kim Possible episode (it's been too long, I forget which, or even what's going on in the screenshot) 16) Cropped from a fanart of Kim Possible 17) Cropped from a (adult) fanart of Kim Possible 18) Animated GIF of Megaman's charge shot effect from Megaman 8 19) Cropped from a fanart of Megaman 20) Cropped from a fanmade desktop image of Duke Nukem 21) Cropped from a fanart of Sam from Totally Spies 22) Cropped from an El Goonish Shive comic 23) Cropped from an El Goonish Shive desktop 23) Cropped from another El Goonish Shive desktop 25) Cropped from a random anime girl pic 26) Cropped from another random anime girl pic 27) Cropped from yet another random anime girl pic 28) Sprite of Megaman Sticking his tongue out from Marvel vs. Capcom 29) Sprite of Megaman landing from a handstand from Marvel vs. Capacom 30) Sprite of Megaman getting knocked back after being hit from Marvel vs. Capcom 31) Spite of the graphics from Megaman 8 which cue you when to jump during the auto-scrolling jetboard sections 32) Quick image created in MS paint that's just a gray background with the text "by the time you finish reading this you'll have wasted 5 seconds of your life" 33) Cropped from officical artwork of Roll.EXE 34) The previous image, flipped upside down for Upside down avatar day. 35) Animated GIF of Megaman.EXE slicing with a sword 36) Cropping of Dark Megaman's (EXE) eye from a fanart. 37) The previous image, color inverted fro inverted avatar day 38) Cropped from a fanart of Roll.EXE 39) Cropped from a fanmade desktop of Protoman.EXE 40) Cropped from a fanart of Leviathan from Megaman Zero 41) Rather disturbing image of a newborn baby suffering from Harlequin Fetus Syndrome (this one was removed by an admin within a few hours) 42) Animated GIF of a traffic light, created from scratch in MS paint. 43) The previous image flipped upside down for the second upside down avatar day 44) Cropped from a fanart of Haruka Hikari from Megaman Battle Network 45) Animated GIF of 8 bit Megaman slicng with a sword, sprites customized myself. 46) The previosu image, with an aditiona animation of Megaman |
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Edited: 10/29/2007 at 11:37 PM by Duke87
#1255127
Oct-30-2007 01:01 AM
Since I have a bunch of past avatars, I just photoshop all of them together. So, here is it:  |
Edited: 10/30/2007 at 01:06 AM by M-SIL
#1255627
Oct-30-2007 07:49 PM
| i have always had the defalt one! |
Favorite cj's |
#1257310
Nov-02-2007 05:09 AM
| Crikey Duke that is one heck of a list... |
Moderating the CXL forum is not an exact science. However we can have fun experimenting. |
#1257494
Nov-02-2007 01:43 PM
| well, suprisingly i don't go through as many avatars as i do CJs i'm pretty sure i've only ever had 3 here on simtropolis the (hideous) default nerd  my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs  annnnnnd finally my current one....a 3d version of the Canadian flag  |
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#1257873
Nov-02-2007 10:17 PM
| <This avatar actually just got me in a bit of trouble at another forum. See, one of the administrators at the site had used a similar image in his sig a while back, and didn't take too kindly to his idea being "stolen". Of course, I wasn't even a member of that site yet at the time, and was completely unaware that the idea had been used before. Now, you ask, why would I get in trouble for that? Nobody ever gets in trouble here for using someone else's idea in an av/sig/whatever. Well, see, we're different. Many people who partake in online Megaman communities are also artists (meaning they create fan art), and as such those communities are generally very fussy about "thievery" of artwork, even if someone is only using an idea someone else already had in their own work. You often hear people citing copyright issues in such complaints. But there's a high level of hypocrisy involved there, since those same people are very open about the usage of ROMs and other forms of pirated material, and accepting of it. So if you venture into the online Megaman community, be careful with your usage of images. Also, watch out for the Japanophiles.  |
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#1257915
Nov-02-2007 11:04 PM
| Well, aside from holiday versions of my current avatar, I have had this thing since 2005. |
#1265231
Nov-12-2007 02:39 PM
| I think I'm going to bite on this one... I change mine every so often. ( But b/c of some earlier computer crashes and a middle-age memory there won't be pictures.) My first when I joined was Reggie Miller of The Indiana Pacers ( before the Detroit brawl a few years back) after he hit a three pointer. I then flirted w/ avatars that suggested work, such as briefcases, filing cabinets, and clocks. I then experimented w/ some religious themed avatars. I also experimented w/ social work themes and w/ family themes. My favorite was of a silhouette of a businessman waving to his family. When I became a staff member I mimicked SkiGeek's blue "Mama's Family" picture w/ an avatar of "Uncle Joe" of Petticoat Junction which I tinted green. I later tried a couple llamas and alpacas fr pictures I took during outings w/ my kiddoes. To impress my wife, I attempted to make an anime picture of her. That was until some smartaleck asked me why my avatar resembled Michael Jackson! I later found an animation that actually did resemble her. I tried to impress her on events like her birthday and our anniversary. I told her that I got the idea fr our male yutes who would often use avatars featuring beautiful women they appeared to have crushes on. It worked!  Last year to commemorate my son I did a few months with an avatar of bright red James, my son's favorite character from Thomas the Tank Engine. Earlier this year I did avatars based on my dad's woodworking. He passed away in December. Since the spring my son's latest obsession has been geese. Like his autism itself, I have no explanation for it and I have no idea if it his fascination is related to his autism or not. But he constantly begs me to take him to various ponds and creeks to see geese. He also scans for pictures of geese on the Internet. For whatever reason, our outdoor searches have been relaxing, if somewhat silly, and maybe even therapeutic coming off of recent heart problems I suffered this summer. I don't understand geese but I respect them and pretty much anything else my family is into. My current avatar is from one of our recent outings to see geese. Outside of SimTropolis I have avatars of my daughter's interests in butterflies and seashells. I haven't developed the nerve to do any of the Disney princesses. And the idea of a Hannah Montana avatar is absolutely creepy!!! The Magistrate has never asked, but I probably wouldn't any of her forensics oriented themes, either. (She has a cool one of a magnifying glass and adopted mine on my birthday.  ) |
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Edited: 11/12/2007 at 11:39 PM by Joesocwork
#1265672
Nov-12-2007 10:18 PM
Most of mine have been Iron Maiden related. There's also my infamous triple six avatar, which I'm sure some people might remember.  |
#1265703
Nov-12-2007 10:46 PM
just a few, mostly used other places.               |
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Edited: 11/12/2007 at 10:56 PM by manticorefan
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