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[Rabbi_Vole]

I'm an octogenarian albino Cambodian dwarf with a wooden leg and false eye.

 

[Azalean]

The only thing I get from people's avatars are their interests. Never tried to judge someone or try to figure out their gender based on their avatar.

 

[AzureSkies]

Weird, I thought your avatar was James Franco this entire time!

Well now you've learned otherwise!

As a reward, here's a MS Paint version of my avatar a gaffer made a year ago, I use it on Steam:

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I wish I could remember who made it.

 

[foxuzamaki]

I think it's pretty easy to guess everything about me based solely on my avatar.

We all know you actually are quite moe irl aaron

 

[AzureSkies]

Emilie Dolan Davies is my flavour of the month, and I'm forever mourning her loss from the Darkness.

Both Ed and Rupert are way better tho

 

[OnettHansen]

Both Ed and Rupert are way better tho

Those losers could never drum for Sher Lloyd

 

[Toxi]

Wait, there are people on GAF who don't look like their avatars?

 

[pharmx]

If it's optional, i guess any people opting to use it is because they would like to be adressed by their preferred pronouns, so at least there is the chance that people would be treating them better by virtue of adressing them by their chosen identity.

I mean, that's just a perspective to take in concideration as a pro for it, i personally also think it's a bad idea, even if neogaf is pretty progressive about gender issues.

I wouldn't treat posters differently based on their gender. I just don't want to offend someone by calling them the wrong one if I ever refer to them in the third-person. Especially if they're transgender, because I know it's particularly insulting to call a transgender person by the wrong pronoun.

Ah ok, I see what you mean now. Still don't think it's a good idea, but if it's optional like you say, it would be interesting to see how many people would consider it.

 

[Nickle]

If you have or have had a Chris Pratt avatar then I assume you are an annoying 20 year old white male who likes British things.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Wait, there are people on GAF who don't look like their avatars?

Well I am black, Thad one in common with my a avi.

 

[akira28]

Well I am black, Thad one in common with my a avi.

your avi isn't black.

your avi does look blind though.

 

[PSqueak]

Wait, there are people on GAF who don't look like their avatars?

We're not all as brave as you, i admire your honesty for revealing your identity as a skin stealing spider.

 

[Kriken]

Wait, there are people on GAF who don't look like their avatars?

I knew you were a tarantula behind a keyboard

 

[>:)]

Looking at my name/avatar, I know what you're all thinking. That guy is TOTALLY into Coke on Pepsi can porn. I just had to make it obvious didn't I?

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Looking at my name/avatar, I know what you're all thinking. That guy is TOTALLY into Coke on Pepsi can porn. I just had to make it obvious didn't I?

 

[Trojita]

What if everyone on the internet was a dog?

 

[RM8]

I mean, I'm not sure my avatar says much about anything other than liking indie games?

 

[chaosblade]

I'm not good at avatars. I don't think mine represents me very well and I've had it long enough that I don't feel comfortable changing it.

 

[PSqueak]

What if everyone on the internet was a dog?

Don't be silly, we all know the internet is the domain of cats.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

You would say that, you handsome piece of shit.

Is that Lucy in the Sky?

 

[Baroquemantic]

What if everyone on the internet was a dog?

I know for a fact this is true. Everyone certainly aren't cats.

 

[Buddha Beam]

I wonder if anybody has ever made a moe Moe. It must exist, right?

 

[Pau]

What if everyone on the internet was a dog?

I'd have to rethink my love for dogs.

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

I wonder if anybody has ever made a moe Moe. It must exist, right?

 

[Buddha Beam]

We need a series ordered. Stat.

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It saddens me that so few people know the 3 Stooges any more. Someone should make a Stooges GAF thread.

 

[Reverend Funk]

people without avatars aren't even people at all

 

[pixelation]

So I can judge you on your misused apostrophe? >.>
:þ

lol!, gotta love this guy!!!

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

We need a series ordered. Stat.

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It saddens me that so few people know the 3 Stooges any more. Someone should make a Stooges GAF thread.

It'd be three small anime girls... And honestly I'm fine with that.

 

[blame space]

it's just an image file anyone can pick one

 

[Not]

If you have or have had a Chris Pratt avatar then I assume you are an annoying 20 year old white male who likes British things.

Actually, I don't think any of the Chris Pratt trio are white

 

[pixelation]

Actually, no, I do judge people if there avatar is lazy. i.e., no/poor cropping, no transparency when it would be easy/make sense to add, nonstandard size, general ugliness, etc.
The actual content of avatars doesn't ever offend me as long as the user clearly put work into it.

Judge mine pretty please, i'd appreciate it!

 

[bobawesome]

Scantily clad female anime character: there's a 99% chance it's a dude.

 

[LUFTRAUSER]

Judge mine pretty please, i'd appreciate it!

Well, if you insist...

The coloration is off. The rotation blur effect is kind of weird. The background is lazy and should probably cropped out. The person is way off center, and the weight isn't balanced to accommodate this like in, say, Not's avatar.

I recommend that you take the source picture, crop yourself (?) out, center yourself on a transparent background, then apply the blur effect (if you want), and finally, desaturate it slightly. Then, just resize it into a 120x100 image suitable for transparent GAF avatars.

 

[braves01]

I'm actually a 1000 year old dragon

 

[Hugstable]

I got a question for y'all people of GAF.

Do you try to guess a user's personality based on their avatar? .

You can guess, but you'd probably be pretty wrong

 

[Chie Satonaka]

Yeah, I do, I know I probably shouldn't, but hey, look at my avatar. This picture made me laugh really hard for some reason, if you were to see that stupid thing and come to the conclusion that I'm a really silly stupid guy, you'd be right. I think there's often a reflection of the user in their avatar.

I only wish I could beat up gods with laptops.

 

[Naughty_Doge]

My avatar is lazy because I'm a lazy person in real life.

 

[Currygan]

damn blame space laying truthbombs like it's fucking Dresden

 

[Anura]

My old avatar made people think I was a guy and obessed with anime waifus. Now I'm not sure what people guess.

Anyways I've stopped guessing people's genders based in avatars. You're never right times enough to justify doing it, lol.

 

[HabeeNo]

Well I really like Kuroko no Basket, and I like GAF. So there's that.

 

[chaobreaker]

Back-air is love

Down-B is life

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

Pretty sure people assume I'm a girl by my avatar. I'm probably going to change both avatar and name at some point.

 

[HORRORSHØW]

alphabet soup

 

[Ganzlinger]

Pretty sure people assume I'm a girl by my avatar. I'm probably going to change both avatar and name at some point.

By your (violent) avatar I'd assume you are a guy lol

I think everyone is a guy on GAF. I eventually had to ask a user whose user name was literally a girl name if she was a girl. She was a girl.

 

[chaobreaker]

Pretty sure people assume I'm a girl by my avatar. I'm probably going to change both avatar and name at some point.

You can change your GAF name?

 

[Dennis]

You can change your GAF name?

PM a mod and request a name change.

 

[Zona]

What does one think when they gaze upon my avatar? How I wonder.

Civ, or sometimes CK2.

My avatar tells you I like Discworld and am fond of the character Death. I guess you can draw conclusions from that.

 

[Rentahamster]

 

[Crayons]

I assume that all the pretty girl avatars are pretty girls

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

You can change your GAF name?

If you have GAF Gold.