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Title: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 03:10:06 AM

With Gamera running around my forum drunk half the time and resurrecting the zombies of old threads from the Pond, I figure, in light of Valka getting me to increase the size limits of avatars, I oughta dust off the ol' Custom Avatar Project.

Below's what I made for myself today for when I get tired of my five-year mission.

This is the place for people (Valka) to post from their own avatar collections, Valka, or creations, Valka.  -And maybe tell a story if they like or ask for help or critiques or whatever.

Requests taken and usually turned around and posted quick.  Getting me to teach you what I can instead a plus, even if that's more trouble the first time.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on June 26, 2015, 03:39:51 AM

What's wrong with Drunken Necromancy?

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 03:52:06 AM

Did I say anything was wrong?

I need to buzz Green1 again to come get his beer on and talk crap with you whenever y'all can sync drank rampages - stories about gaming culture w/ some (wrong) conspiracy theory stuff for occasional spice.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on June 26, 2015, 03:56:05 AM

Avatars are fun. It's strange to think that just 11 years ago I didn't even know what they were, and had a heck of a challenging time to figure out what to use and how to upload it.

During the past while, though, I've been entering a lot of avatar contests at TrekBBS, and getting a bit more inventive (still amateur compared to other people, but I'm happy with my efforts so far).

I'm running a Doctor Who avatar contest there now - voting phase is still going on until early tomorrow morning (MDT). The results so far are not at all what I would have thought they'd be...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on June 26, 2015, 04:01:31 AM

Can't wait to see people's work :)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 04:05:49 AM

Can't wait to do some lessons.  What do you not know how to do that you'd like to, Val?  I'm considered an ascended master of avatars, as Gamera will confirm.

Dumb-dum de-stickied the Custom Avatar Project years ago, BTW, Jokemonkey - no hesitation about using his powers in personal matters.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Unorthodox on June 26, 2015, 04:09:24 AM

suppose I should update for the new size...

work yer magic.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oHMSQbBT7as/VOvb7ssvmgI/AAAAAAAAdAQ/m2AAScd3TM4/s800/megamind-splsh.jpg)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on June 26, 2015, 04:09:38 AM

the guy still wearing the avatar you made for him?  He was sitting under a Ban Hammer...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 04:12:24 AM

Who do you think?  This is not a trick question - try to post his name.

Quote from: Unorthodox on June 26, 2015, 04:09:24 AM

suppose I should update for the new size...

work yer magic.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-oHMSQbBT7as/VOvb7ssvmgI/AAAAAAAAdAQ/m2AAScd3TM4/s800/megamind-splsh.jpg)

Too late for tonight - and I chose the shot you're wearing because -also cool, and a fraction of the work because of angle.  That one maybe?

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on June 26, 2015, 04:13:34 AM

Lancer

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 04:20:15 AM

EDIT when the filter fails.  Please do not circumvent.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on June 26, 2015, 05:11:31 AM

Quote from: BUncle on June 26, 2015, 04:05:49 AM

Can't wait to do some lessons.  What do you not know how to do that you'd like to, Val?  I'm considered an ascended master of avatars, as Gamera will confirm.

Among other things, things to do with animation and how to excise one part of a picture and make it available to use in others. An example would be the Lake Minnewanka Squirrel. The original photo was of a honeymoon couple whose photo at Lake Minnewanka got upstaged by a squirrel who popped into the frame at the last minute. The photo was posted on the National Geographic site and later went viral. At some point later, someone made a "squirrel generator" site and I was able to use that... but it's defunct now.

I'll post some of what I was able to do with it, though. That squirrel sure gets around, not only for avatars but also for lolpics.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 05:16:50 AM

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=articles (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=articles)

Nothing there but smilie how-to instructions, actually, but a pretty complete course and all the technique scales up.  Questions welcome.

Show me a specific copy/paste job that vexes you, and we'll see what I can add.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 11:28:08 AM

W/ the squirrel, it sounds like you need a transparent background copy for ease of juxtaposition.  I can help you with that, if the smilie tutorials don't teach you how...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 26, 2015, 12:02:57 PM

As a historical curiosity, attached is my first avatar - for a state chess association website.  I did not know how to do much back then...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on June 28, 2015, 04:02:02 PM

Quote from: BUncle on June 26, 2015, 11:28:08 AM

W/ the squirrel, it sounds like you need a transparent background copy for ease of juxtaposition.  I can help you with that, if the smilie tutorials don't teach you how...

Thanks. :) I still need to find my squirrel pictures - Photobucket is a mess right now, and I need to do some serious reorganization.

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the photo, here it is:

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on June 28, 2015, 05:18:15 PM

Shouldn't this thread be stickied?

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 28, 2015, 06:08:05 PM

Dunno.  Should it?

Valka, that squirrel does look familiar.  Would he happen to be the one with the testicles, cropped for propriety, if you know?

What have you got to do the graphics on?  I still remember a lot of how-to on the shoop, but I very much prefer GIMP these days for most things - it's a free download...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on June 28, 2015, 06:38:50 PM

Quote from: BUncle on June 28, 2015, 06:08:05 PM

Dunno.  Should it?

Valka, that squirrel does look familiar.  Would he happen to be the one with the testicles, cropped for propriety, if you know?

What have you got to do the graphics on?  I still remember a lot of how-to on the shoop, but I very much prefer GIMP these days for most things - it's a free download...

This is the version of the photo I've seen most often, although I did see the other. And yeah, it's better that the picture was cropped, because TMI also applies to squirrels...  :-[

I've got several squirrel lols in my closet over at ICHC, but it's going to take time to find them. I've got many, many thousands of pictures and relatively few have been sorted. I've been suggesting to TPTB there for years that we be allowed to tag our own pictures so we can find them more easily (they only get tagged now if they make the front page and it's staff that chooses the tags).

I use http://www.online-image-editor.com/ (http://www.online-image-editor.com/) for the most part, though I've tried others.

I have tried to understand GIMP. So far I have not succeeded.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 28, 2015, 06:49:25 PM

The controls are an aircraft panel - all powerful graphics editors are, I think.  I can teach you GIMP, as much as I know, one function at a time.  That's how I learned it myself.  The smilie tutorials are heavily screenshotted, which should make them easier and teach a lot of the skills you want...

Actually, if you wanted to track down the full-body shot of Mr. Squirrel, we could neuter the TMI, and you'd have more options.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 08, 2015, 04:30:31 AM

Anyone?

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on July 08, 2015, 04:40:26 AM

too much time commitment not enough interest although appreciative of what you do.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 08, 2015, 04:50:50 AM

Anyone else?

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 08, 2015, 05:05:46 AM

I just did my latest submission to the Miscellaneous Avatar Contest at TrekBBS. The theme was "a celebration of your country" - anything that says "my country" to you. So I chose a photo of The Three Sisters, an iconic mountain in Banff National Park, and one which my grandmother used several times in paintings she did.

(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/vox_stellaris/Avatars/TrekBBS%20Avatar%20Contests/three-sisters-av2_zpsbuncdunv.jpg)


There were other things I could have used - recognizable Canadian things like beavers, moose, etc. But this is something that has more personal meaning. Those mountains are like old friends, in a way.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 08, 2015, 05:07:47 AM

Nice. ;nod

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on July 08, 2015, 05:16:09 AM

Is that a golf course in the foreground?

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 08, 2015, 06:05:16 AM

Probably. This isn't the view I'm used to of this mountain, since I always saw it either from the Trans-Canada Highway or a nearby campground. They're much closer there.

There are many photos of this mountain online, from various angles, but I needed one that a) wasn't watermarked; and b) wasn't so widespread that I couldn't easily crop and reduce it down to a good picture that's 150x150 pixels, which is the maximum size for an avatar on that site.

Here are some other photos (and probably a few paintings, as well): The Three Sisters (https://www.google.ca/search?newwindow=1&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1067&bih=493&q=the+three+sisters+transcanada+highway&oq=the+three+sisters+transcanada+highway&gs_l=img.3...1584.14352.0.15313.41.17.2.20.20.0.604.2677.0j7j2j1j0j1.11.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..24.17.2699.rMp2Yo2nfqs)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 09, 2015, 02:09:19 PM

Quote from: BUncle on July 08, 2015, 05:07:47 AM

Nice. ;nod

Thanks. :)

To my great surprise, I was tied for first place for awhile, but the avatar of the Apollo astronaut with the flag on the Moon has pulled ahead by one.

Here's the voting thread: http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=274337 (http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=274337)

If you click on the "Show all votes" link in the lower right-hand corner you can see the voting results without having to vote (not that non-members can anyway), but that's one of the quirks of vBulletin.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 09, 2015, 02:11:47 PM

Buzz Aldrin is powerful with the MTV behind him...

(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g112/auntiehill/contest/man-moon-flag_0_zpsf3086648.jpg)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 09, 2015, 03:02:29 PM

I voted for the Canadarm and the inukshuk, as both are good Canadian images. My grandmother knew one of the people who worked on the original Canadarm.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 09, 2015, 03:32:43 PM

I endorse love/pride in your land and your people.  Everyone should have that.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Geo on July 10, 2015, 12:01:18 PM

Quote from: Valka on July 08, 2015, 05:05:46 AM

(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/vox_stellaris/Avatars/TrekBBS%20Avatar%20Contests/three-sisters-av2_zpsbuncdunv.jpg)

Beautiful mountains.
Reminds me of the view of the surrounding mountains as seen from the Grindelwald valley floor, in the Swiss Alps.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 10, 2015, 12:16:32 PM

I had a really strange dream a few years ago, in which my grandparents and I were stopped at our usual place in the campground across the highway from these mountains... and next thing I know, I'm climbing up toward them (the one on the left and the one in the middle) with a picnic lunch, and sitting down to eat! Somehow a clover and grass-filled valley appeared between them, and it was all so perfect.

Now obviously that's not possible in RL, but I think I was just really missing my grandparents and the trips we used to take every year between Red Deer and the Okanagan, in British Columbia.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 11, 2015, 05:48:24 AM

Does what I threw on last night please anyone?
I've already gotten a comPLAINT... ;shake

I think she's pretty.  Maybe this is the no-longer-watching-much-TV and being out of touch with popular culture, but I don't really get it...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 11, 2015, 06:03:49 AM

Well, it's definitely a new look for you... much different from what I'm used to.  ;)

But until watching the video, I'd never heard a Taylor Swift song before in my life.

The smiley's cute, though.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 11, 2015, 06:06:18 AM

;) That sounds diplomatically phrased...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 11, 2015, 06:22:18 AM

Then I'm not sure what you're getting at. Taylor Swift is a pretty woman. I can understand why other people would find her attractive.

All I meant was that when you're used to seeing someone using masculine avatars, it's a little strange at first to see them using a different kind of avatar. No inappropriate connotations intended whatsoever, just that it's a very different kind of avatar from those I'm used to seeing you use.

Some people at CFC got confused when I changed from cats to Carl Sagan while the nuCosmos series was airing; someone obviously too young to have seen the original series asked if that was a picture of me sitting in front of the radio telescope!  :o


Then there was the time on one of my gaming forums when I decided to hell with it, live daringly for a change, and used a "Venus rising" avatar I made on the Doll Palace site (everything was covered that legally needed to be... barely). It shocked one of the guys, though, so I took it down. My current avatar there is quite modestly dressed.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 11, 2015, 06:51:08 AM

:D

Okay - it's cool, but I AM happier with that answer. ;)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 12, 2015, 07:59:07 AM

I see that Taylor Swift has become Orion...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 12, 2015, 12:46:29 PM

:D

That was a lot of work -hours- but still nice to look at, still shakin it off, and Vidsek less annoyed by looking at pop princess..

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 15, 2015, 08:23:15 PM

I do not promise to spare everyone by never throwing on either version of Ms. Swift again, but they are uploaded to appropriate places in the user galley now.

---

I just created an Astronomy folder and uploaded six newly-created (150x!) Pluto/New Horizons avatars, with more to come very soon.  Running down all the space stuff in miscellaneous and moving will take a little longer.

Check it out. ;nod

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 15, 2015, 10:59:38 PM

Make that [Astronomy & Spaceflight] - 80 avatars in there now, which took a while to sort and move out of miscellaneous.  I threw in Einstein, Hubble and Newton for good measure.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 16, 2015, 10:03:37 PM

Just uploaded the attached .gif animation to the User Gallery...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 17, 2015, 04:38:44 AM

...I have to say that putting on the giant Adaman Haj avatar -which ought to stir flashbacks for youse Frogs what was there with me in the Pond for so long- and getting no reaction from anyone at all, puts me out a little...


At this size, I really notice the inadvertent 3D effect that all my fiddling with the background to make it not-Belgium created.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Rusty Edge on July 17, 2015, 05:03:20 AM

I certainly recognize it as one of your former avatars, but I never understood who it was or what it meant.

Sometimes I can read a person's mood by their avatar changes, same as some people's clothes will reveal their mood, IF I pay attention and IF I can remember what they were like the last 3 times they wore the same outfit, color, whatever.

You're not one of them Buncle. I'm blanking. I find posts per day to be a better indicator for you.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 17, 2015, 05:17:26 AM

It is, it is.

He's an early custom SMAXC faction leader.  I started with a 40s  Time Magazine cover painitng of a white Canadian WWII general, and make him brownish/Afghani, and his hat a compromise between traditional officers' dress hat and an Afghan pawkul...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 18, 2015, 03:29:59 PM

@Mr. Modder:

;lol  -Should I give her glasses for you?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 18, 2015, 03:46:47 PM

:D

Also enlarged.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Geo on July 18, 2015, 04:00:28 PM

Quote from: BUncle on July 18, 2015, 03:46:47 PM

:D

Also enlarged.

Mmm. the original size with glasses would be better. This bigger one is a bit unsharp.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 18, 2015, 04:02:05 PM

Picky, picky.

Now I wish I hadn't already closed it.  Hold on a minute...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 18, 2015, 04:05:37 PM

?

My aging eyesight is a problem for spotting fuzziness sometimes.  I can redo the glasses again on the original in a few minutes if this won't do.

No refunds. ;)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Geo on July 18, 2015, 04:26:48 PM

 ;b;

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 18, 2015, 04:30:38 PM

;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol ;lol

I nearly choked laughing at that. ;b;

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Geo on July 18, 2015, 06:51:15 PM

Hey, I'm still movin' beyond Chiron! Especially after the work I did on it today! :stickpoke:

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 18, 2015, 06:54:04 PM

Hey, you can change that back yourself, and I know you know how.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Geo on July 18, 2015, 06:58:55 PM

Keep going like that, and I'll post stuff about you in my signature, title, or whatever, just for my laughs of it. Things are only funny up to a point, you know.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 18, 2015, 07:01:29 PM

;lol

Okay.  Point taken.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 19, 2015, 07:13:42 AM

I could probably fix this more -there's light pixels around her hair in the original that I'm sure look terrible in dark themes- but not tonight.

And so to bed.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 19, 2015, 03:18:58 PM

She's got pixels all around her, not just her hair. And yeah, it doesn't look very good.

Otherwise, she's kinda cute.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 19, 2015, 03:22:03 PM

I'll do a cleaup today.

A teeny bit busy yesterday. ;nod  And it's 10 frames a lot of halo pixels and it was late...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Geo on July 19, 2015, 07:57:55 PM

There's no need to tinker more on it on my account. I'm happy with my avatar's current size.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 19, 2015, 08:45:50 PM

You don't like really big avatars either, do you?  I'm really only wearing General Haj so big as advertising.  I prefer closer to 100x...

I've done some fixing up already, and now I'm doing it for me, the artist.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on July 19, 2015, 11:39:54 PM

I like Geo's bouncy avatar

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 19, 2015, 11:48:52 PM

An improved Librarian is in the works.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 12:39:02 AM

Just uploaded a special treat for th' Rusty Edge to the User Gallery...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 02:46:09 AM

Well; now I can get back to doing some real work.

-I think this is better, and also, improved.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Valka on July 20, 2015, 10:30:41 AM

I see some odd pink pixels in her hair, and the upper left quadrant still needs work.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 12:18:34 PM

Naw; you realize the purple is jewels on her hair and wish to congratulate me on very much improving the original with much tedious, nit-picking, work.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Unorthodox on July 20, 2015, 02:17:42 PM

If you can find a good source (and this may be difficult, a cursory search yields bad animation and fanboy fantasies), a good Teela (he-man in case you don't know) avatar might please hEt.  I know she's been wondering what to use, but also know she is a Teela fan. 

Backup might be the lady from heavenly sword.  Don't recall her name.  But chances of non-sexualized source material on that might be even more difficult than Teela. 

Tertiary backup would be Leelu.  (would imagine simple enough to find, but haven't gone looking.  Spelling?  5th element)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 02:26:30 PM

I am familiar with those, save She-Ra.

On it.  Gonna try to catch up on sleep first, but today.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Unorthodox on July 20, 2015, 02:37:12 PM

Quote from: BUncle on July 20, 2015, 02:26:30 PM

I am familiar with those, save She-Ra.

Teela =/= She Ra. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 02:38:48 PM

I know my He-Man, sir.  It was the sword reference that threw me.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Unorthodox on July 20, 2015, 02:45:52 PM

Oh, Heavenly Sword is a video game title.  And apparantly a movie ripoff of the cinematics from the game.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oovoY1mG_Z4#)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Unorthodox on July 20, 2015, 03:01:02 PM

Probably going to be the best Nariko (Heavenly Sword) source
(hotlinking was ugly, can't upload from here)
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/theheavenlysword/images/b/b6/Nariko_Power_Stance.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140308000854 (http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/theheavenlysword/images/b/b6/Nariko_Power_Stance.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140308000854)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 05:23:44 PM

I sense a hot redheads theme emerging - and I approve.

Shall we surprise her then?  She seems to only read your thread and Star Trek...

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Unorthodox on July 20, 2015, 05:49:31 PM

Quote from: BUncle on July 20, 2015, 05:23:44 PM

I sense a hot STRONG redheads theme emerging

Fixed. 

Yeah, surprise her, we'll fix it later if she don't like it.  She mostly posts from the phone, and I'm guessing fiddling with settings or trying to upload for herself would be unpleasant there. 

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 05:50:49 PM

Also hot. ;nod

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Unorthodox on July 20, 2015, 05:53:18 PM

Teela would likely be the most amuzing to her.  She'll probably come back and want some yoga symbol or something, though. 

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 05:55:12 PM

I was definitely looking up Teela first, anyway.  Trying to wrap up at a site I haven't browsed all weekend, and then I do this first.

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 06:35:38 PM

We have a WinRAR, I reckon.

(I'm sure you like the custom title I put on her the day she joined - but how does SHE like?)

Title: Re: Avatars, avatars, AVATARS!
Post by: Metaliturtle on July 20, 2015, 06:38:06 PM

Leela?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 06:39:08 PM

Purple hair.  (There IS a Leela under [SF and Cartoons] but she's pretty small...)



The Boss is now tEElA...

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Post by: Unorthodox on July 20, 2015, 08:16:54 PM

Quote from: BUncle on July 20, 2015, 06:35:38 PM

(I'm sure you like the custom title I put on her the day she joined - but how does SHE like?)

I'm not sure when I started calling her boss, but it's been prolific, and in public, for years, and never has bothered her before.  I know a lot of married men use the term as a pejorative, but that's never been my game.  I'm sure it confuses people, and they're probably not sure what to think. 

Most pet names are too common, and her given name will get 20 people in public looking at you too.  Not many people answer to 'boss' for some reason. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 08:21:44 PM

Shall I take a run at the other two you suggested?

I think I will as soon as I get the next Shop item up; I can easily add them to the User Gallery, since FIleZilla is already up and logged onto the server...

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Post by: Geo on July 20, 2015, 09:41:40 PM

Quote from: BUncle on July 19, 2015, 08:45:50 PM

You don't like really big avatars either, do you?

Modesty becomes me. ;cute

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 20, 2015, 09:42:33 PM

:D ;b;

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 21, 2015, 02:33:23 AM

?

I reckon I'll upload a few new avies to the gallery before I go to bed.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 21, 2015, 04:35:04 AM

I uploaded six new avatars to miscelaneous about an hour ago, and Teela to SF TV & Cartoons.  Both Leeloos, and 110x versions of the thyrsus, soda bottle and cup icons I was making for the Shop anyway.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 21, 2015, 04:50:49 AM

Lessee...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 21, 2015, 06:21:11 AM

Also added to the gallery.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 25, 2015, 03:56:42 AM

Lesse.  Added to the User Gallery, in order:

(Also the same Pluto against a square black background.)

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Post by: Dio on July 26, 2015, 01:22:22 AM

Quote from: BUncle on July 25, 2015, 03:56:42 AM

Lesse.  Added to the User Gallery, in order:

(Also the same Pluto against a square black background.)

I am surprised about the lack of cut outs for the official faction leaders in the gallery. They could look similiar to the Spock head in the previous post . . .

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 26, 2015, 04:50:22 AM

We should do something about that, shouldn't we?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 29, 2015, 06:18:04 AM

Added to the AC Leaders folder in the avatar gallery, along with another version:

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 29, 2015, 02:15:12 PM

To be added to Astronomy & Space Travel once the &^%$#@! permissions are unborked.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 29, 2015, 08:04:46 PM

^That's taken care of now.

As is not unusual at all, here's an avatar that's a spinoff from something else I'm working on.  Added to the miscellaneous root gallery.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 04, 2015, 04:51:12 PM

Added Darwin to the root of the User Gallery...

(http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1316.0;attach=16514;image)



-Have I mentioned how much I dislike having people running around AC2 nekkid?  Put on an avatar, and seem like a real person. ;nod

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Post by: benschwab on September 04, 2015, 05:06:08 PM

Quote from: BUncle on September 04, 2015, 04:51:12 PM

-Have I mentioned how much I dislike having people running around AC2 nekkid?  Put on an avatar, and seem like a real person. ;nod

Is there an avatar someone can use to seem like an imaginary person?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 04, 2015, 05:31:06 PM

...You want a Barack Obama avatar?

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Post by: Dio on September 05, 2015, 12:47:24 AM

Quote from: BUncle on September 04, 2015, 04:51:12 PM

Added Darwin to the root of the User Gallery...

(http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1316.0;attach=16514;image)



-Have I mentioned how much I dislike having people running around AC2 nekkid?  Put on an avatar, and seem like a real person. ;nod

Deidre does it twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Why would you not complain about her behavior ;) :)? ;hippy

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 05, 2015, 01:14:20 AM

It just wouldn't be --- the same, if you did it...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 01:10:34 AM

One of the best things I've ever seen in the history of ever, when you think of it as Uno.  I don't throw out 150x 'tars on spec much - this is that awesome.

Not going in the Gallery.  It's for Uno - or hEt, who may be the one catching him just the other day.

Thanks to Draz for finding.

;lol

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Post by: Unorthodox on September 09, 2015, 03:30:16 AM

Any chance the static one could be good ole eartholantern?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 03:41:09 AM

Ooh!

Probably not tonight -I'm way behind on getting a lick of the work I intended done today- but definitely in the next 24.  You know not what you ask, but I'll make it work.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 02:34:17 PM

...Lordy, the EarthO'Lantern is lit from the wrong side (and can't be flipped w/o reversing the continents), it's the wrong shape, it's the wrong angle straight-on, and it has to be rotated right on the stem axis (and not like it's a 3d model or anything where I can just rotate it.).  It has to be angled, positioned and lit just so to look like it belongs in the picture and the smallest size possible that covers what it's replacing w/o crowding the pumpkin kid out.  This is even trickier than the moon project.  I've been working on this for over an hour 1/2, but I'm finally in the home stretch...

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Post by: Unorthodox on September 09, 2015, 03:27:55 PM

Don't stress.  Can't have animated avatars at the other place and this one is too awesome to change anyway. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 03:30:20 PM

Already finished.

A little payback if you use any of this on your site, or elsewhere where crediting would fit/be non-akward?  Gimme a linkback to the forum index.

-I got an idea for a variation.  It'll take a few minutes...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 04:17:03 PM

I like the 3 second freeze at the end.  Apply to the previous large version?  Do a centered crop like the last below?

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Post by: Unorthodox on September 09, 2015, 06:26:48 PM

Quote from: BUncle on September 09, 2015, 03:30:20 PM

Already finished.

A little payback if you use any of this on your site, or elsewhere where crediting would fit/be non-akward?  Gimme a linkback to the forum index.

-I got an idea for a variation.  It'll take a few minutes...

That's some quality work right there. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 06:31:00 PM

It ought to be - it took long enough. ;)

Any revisions you'd like while I've still got all the relevant files sitting open?  Limited-time offer...

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Post by: Unorthodox on September 09, 2015, 06:44:04 PM

How bout a static one at 100px.  This one didn't shrink so good, then I can use it at the other place. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 06:51:21 PM

Collapse it to just the last frame and reduce.  Easy.  Gimme a minute.

Other place Halloween forum?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 07:06:54 PM

This still cracks me up.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 09, 2015, 08:36:37 PM

I didn't like that the fade-in turned out not to begin until his head has already come to rest.  Thing has too many frames, honestly.  And the quality of the EOL sucked on that set, too.  So here.


I once had to troubleshoot an animated .gif avatar for Zoid at the Pond; it was legal limit size and should have worked -the forum resizing at all breaks animations and transparent backgrounds- but for some reason, reducing it by 1x fixed it.

Are you sure animated .gifs don't work at the other place?  Are you sure you've tried to put one on that was size/cropped to legal limit or under?  I did the last attached just in case - if that don't work, try cropping 1x before you give up - then try to talk an admin into enabling.  I've got a vague idea that these only work here if from the gallery or I install for you.

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Post by: Unorthodox on September 10, 2015, 04:18:50 AM

They WORK, they is against TEH RULES. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 10, 2015, 04:48:07 AM

An argument of "look at this" is probably plenty to win an exception because, awesome...

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Post by: Unorthodox on September 10, 2015, 01:32:01 PM

No tolerance, nuke them from orbit, remember?

It's an issue with volume over there.  We have several thousand online at any given time, and if you let everyone have animations, it'd bog things down in a jiffy. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 10, 2015, 01:42:42 PM

THAT's a lot of ghouls and goths and sickos.  Okay, I can't speak to problems of scale in forum management.  I'll shut up.

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Post by: Unorthodox on September 10, 2015, 02:18:29 PM

Quote

There are currently 1701 users online.
Most users ever online was 19,062, 04-20-2014 at 08:51 AM.
Threads 91,301 Posts 1,624,464 Members 47,829
Welcome to our newest member, Kelly Fisher

Yeah, there's a LOT.  Gets overwhelming at times with the moderating, that's why the whole no tolerance nuke from orbit.

It's also why you could sell some masks over there...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 10, 2015, 02:26:44 PM

There's a thread.  It has a URL.

I'll take more pictures.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 20, 2015, 02:22:55 AM

-No I won't until some key stuff shows up - and I've posted all the finished masks I can lay hands on.

HowEVER?  Much more for Mylochka's finances than mine, now is the time and that mask thread URL is http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=16613.0 (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=16613.0)  -We might be open to requests, though that's up to her finding some stuff and wanting to paint - but the money would be nice, and she'll want to make arrangements and do that.  Bills to pay.

---

-Came in here to preen and fish for compliments on my latest avi whim...

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Post by: Dio on September 22, 2015, 01:30:07 AM

Quote from: BUncle on September 20, 2015, 02:22:55 AM

-No I won't until some key stuff shows up - and I've posted all the finished masks I can lay hands on.

HowEVER?  Much more for Mylochka's finances than mine, now is the time and that mask thread URL is http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=16613.0 (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=16613.0)  -We might be open to requests, though that's up to her finding some stuff and wanting to paint - but the money would be nice, and she'll want to make arrangements and do that.  Bills to pay.

---

-Came in here to preen and fish for compliments on my latest avi whim...

 :whip: that Mylochka work in an efficient manner :D. Perhaps she could conscript/draft some help.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 01:48:06 AM

Perhaps you could complement my latest avatar whim... ;)

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Post by: Dio on September 22, 2015, 01:52:28 AM

Quote from: BUncle on September 22, 2015, 01:48:06 AM

Perhaps you could complement my latest avatar whim... ;)

The eyes look almost aquamarine ???. The halo, or angelic light, might make a decent bottle opener ;).

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 01:57:28 AM

The armor says a God's-Wrath sort of angel.  Angel says no soul.  The creepy eyes fit both. ;nod

Mine are actually sort of a blue/green/gray depending on the light and your color sense, so not vivid at all, but where's the fun in that?  I'm also about 20 years older and twenty pounds heavier than it looks, but the former was not by design.

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Post by: Dio on September 22, 2015, 02:36:03 AM

Quote from: BUncle on September 22, 2015, 01:57:28 AM

The armor says a God's-Wrath sort of angel.  Angel says no soul.  The creepy eyes fit both. ;nod

Mine are actually sort of a blue/green/gray depending on the light and your color sense, so not vivid at all, but where's the fun in that?  I'm also about 20 years older and twenty pounds heavier than it looks, but the former was not by design.

I recongize the eye color you describe. My father has that type of eye color.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 02:58:41 AM

Mom's are hazel and Daddy's were pale Hitler-blue - I got a mix of both w/ low color saturation.

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Post by: Dio on September 22, 2015, 03:20:54 AM

My eyes and hair are plain, boring, brown  :(.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 02:51:43 AM

The disco treats bag needed to be an avatar.

The chicken's still going to be crying in the shower and doing the walk of shame in the morning, if the cat doesn't just eat her.


I love my forum and my people, so I think I will not add this one to the User Gallery...

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Post by: Rusty Edge on June 01, 2016, 07:47:18 AM

I don't want it, but it really cracked me up!

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Post by: Valka on June 01, 2016, 10:20:50 AM

I don't even understand it.  ???

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 11:38:59 AM

The disco cat and chicken, or my jokes about the chicken being a skank?

No one understands why they put that on a bag of cat treats.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 12:49:56 PM

I believe I will add this one to the gallery...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 01:05:46 PM

...If I had the right photo of Oerdin, I would totally do it up as a young Captain Pike...

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Post by: Unorthodox on June 01, 2016, 01:41:18 PM

Quote from: BUncle on June 01, 2016, 11:38:59 AM

No one understands why they put that on a bag of cat treats.

Truth. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 01:42:13 PM

;nod

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 02:33:55 PM

Would y'all believe these are from a bunch of images loinburger posted at me, and there was only one in there of an anatomically-special young woman, and it was Kim Possible wearing pants?

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Post by: Rusty Edge on June 01, 2016, 05:09:59 PM

Quote from: Valka on June 01, 2016, 10:20:50 AM

I don't even understand it.  ???

You need to spend more time in the Kitty thread, Valka.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 05:55:28 PM

She does; she really does.

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Post by: Valka on June 01, 2016, 07:37:05 PM

Quote from: BUncle on June 01, 2016, 12:49:56 PM

I believe I will add this one to the gallery...

That one was fairly popular on Cheezburger a few years ago.

I don't go there very often anymore. So many things about that site just don't work. I can't even fave (aka save to my own lol closet) my own lols unless someone on my friends list does, and then I can fave it when their post appears on my dashboard. If nobody on my friends list faves it, I'm out of luck.

All they do is push Facebook, and I sent in a support ticket the other day because I wasn't able to post a message to someone who friend-requested me and sent a friendly note after I accepted. I've been feeling annoyed about this, because that person may be feeling snubbed and I completely don't want that. This person has some really cute stuff in his lol collection (I used one of the uncaptioned pictures to make my latest one there).

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 08:40:25 PM

Again - I don't know that my cat pictures in Kittehz! are anything but ordinary cute, but you're welcome to use anything as lol-fodder.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 11:25:45 PM

This I'm sharing for reasons of Uno or something, but no gallery and I ask nobody put the nasty thing on, please.

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Post by: Unorthodox on June 01, 2016, 11:39:34 PM

What is that thing?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 01, 2016, 11:50:32 PM

I don't know, but that's Lincoln to the right of the demon/Cuthulu holding his guts.

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Post by: Valka on June 02, 2016, 12:20:18 AM

Okay, this is just disgusting. I'm serious.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 12:29:02 AM

Yeah.  I'll kill the big attachment when Uno's seen it.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 01:57:14 AM

Thanks to Elok, who went and called me a nerd today...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 01:58:45 AM

That first might suit hEt mighty well...

GURL POWAH!

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 02:26:12 AM

Hmm.

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Post by: Unorthodox on June 02, 2016, 05:00:00 AM

Quote from: BUncle on June 02, 2016, 12:29:02 AM

Yeah.  I'll kill the big attachment when Uno's seen it.

Yeah, that's almost as bad as my easter pic...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 03:58:29 PM

Okay the question is not whether I run through the headshot set and make avatars of the kittens and their mother and bother, it's whether I make a dedicated cat avatars folder in the user gallery.

Thoughts?

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Post by: Rusty Edge on June 02, 2016, 06:49:29 PM

I'm not a kitten avatar kind of guy.

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Post by: Unorthodox on June 02, 2016, 06:53:23 PM

Quote from: BUncle on June 02, 2016, 01:58:45 AM

That first might suit hEt mighty well...

GURL POWAH!

She probably wouldn't like being compared to Ariel. 

More a Belle person, as far as the princesses go.  Or Mulan, since she was officially deemed a princess at some point.

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Post by: Unorthodox on June 02, 2016, 06:55:52 PM

Apparantly I need to get up a pic of the not so red hair now as well. 

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 07:14:25 PM

Warsuit Belle would be super-easy to redhead, actually - but warsuit Jasmine, the hands-down pic of the lot, not so much...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 07:20:35 PM

At any rate, the standing question is not would you wear one of my kittens, it's do I make them their own gallery category or dump them in the root (where there's already a large version of the kitten Shop item that I'll move if I make a cats folder...)?

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Post by: Dale on June 02, 2016, 10:41:49 PM

Quote from: BUncle on June 01, 2016, 11:25:45 PM

This I'm sharing for reasons of Uno or something, but no gallery and I ask nobody put the nasty thing on, please.

What's wrong with it? Didn't see anything wrong with the big version either.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 02, 2016, 10:42:51 PM

Too bloody bloody, mate...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 03, 2016, 12:36:53 AM

Sorta ceiling cat, only horizontal...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 03, 2016, 12:44:59 AM

Just did a fixup on the Moosh avatar, and wanted to see how it looks now.

Yeah; that's a little better.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 03, 2016, 02:57:57 AM

And that's the family. ;nod

-Anybody want their cats avatared?

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Post by: Unorthodox on June 03, 2016, 03:19:42 AM

Quote from: BUncle on June 02, 2016, 07:14:25 PM

Warsuit Belle would be super-easy to redhead, actually - but warsuit Jasmine, the hands-down pic of the lot, not so much...

but hEt's gone dark lately...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 03, 2016, 03:30:16 AM

Well, the Jasmine is the best-looking, closeup and full-body versions alike...

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Post by: Valka on June 03, 2016, 05:18:39 AM

Quote from: Dale on June 02, 2016, 10:41:49 PM

Quote from: BUncle on June 01, 2016, 11:25:45 PM

This I'm sharing for reasons of Uno or something, but no gallery and I ask nobody put the nasty thing on, please.

What's wrong with it? Didn't see anything wrong with the big version either.

It nearly made me throw up.

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Post by: Dale on June 03, 2016, 06:02:36 AM

I'd say my convict heritage and being a scout leader has desensitized me to such things.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 03, 2016, 01:23:49 PM

Now see, right here is why forums don't work as actual democracies - with luck, everybody has an opinion on the big questions, though I haven't had an awful lot of input even there when I solicit member opinions - but nobody bothers to express an opinion about the mundane calls like making a Cat category in the user gallery, yet those decisions still have to be made, and somebody has to actually do the work, preferably in a timely fashion.

There is indeed a Cats folder now - I, your Benevolent Dictator, have seen to it.

You may rise.

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Post by: Dale on June 03, 2016, 01:57:21 PM

My time is worth too much to be pondering those questions.

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Post by: Valka on June 04, 2016, 12:05:20 AM

Nobody should ever be too busy to ponder cats. Even when they misbehave, as mine did today (upchucking on two sections of floor - tiles, thankfully, not carpet), and then sneaking out into the hallway when the grocery order was delivered.

BUncle, I really like your current ink & quill avatar. Did you make that, or was it snagged from a game?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 04, 2016, 12:09:53 AM

It is a Civ6 avatar I made from a video screencap Sunday - the Writing technology, I think.  There's three different versions in the 6 folder in the user gallery, and I won't hog this one long...

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Post by: Valka on June 04, 2016, 12:58:01 AM

No hurry; you know I'm partial to my Enya avatars here. ;)

I'd been thinking of something I'd like to do regarding Iron Pen, but if this is a copyrighted image, that squashes that idea.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 04, 2016, 12:59:52 AM

'Fraid it is - and my skills are not fantastic for generating original images, but I might be able to help...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 06, 2016, 04:12:08 AM

Added to the Cats folder just now...

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 06, 2016, 06:11:02 AM

?

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 04, 2016, 05:46:38 PM

I saw a neat artist's conception of the Juno probe with a science article I posted, and had to make an avatar - now uploaded to the Astronomy & Space Travel section of the User Gallery.

-It's not quite as big as the attachment...