How come all the Avatars suck?

wayfarer

Why are most of them from computer games that are made for anoraks and in general, games/films etc. that appeal to trainspotters (LOTR, Dune...). Not all of us jerk off while playing Tomb Raider!

I had to settle for a ubiquitous simpsons one

CuLT

They're avatars...

Get a sig or a personality if you feel they're not expressive enough.

aidan_walsh

wayfarer wrote:

Not all of us jerk off while playing Tomb Raider!

Now thats just bad for gameplay... That said, mmmm DualShock...

garthv

Pay subscription and you can customise your avatar

wayfarer

CuLT wrote:

They're avatars...

What, so theyre meant to suck?

There seem to be over 2600 and theyre all more or less on the same theme. Is there any chance of a bit of variety?

stereo_steve

1. I have a very funky cow from southpark!

2. i don't **** to it.

3. Unless your american don't say jerk off.

4. Your an idiot.

Amz

Don't use a friggin' avatar if you've a problem with them and don't want to pay subscription.

Nevyn

wayfarer wrote:

Why are most of them from computer games that are made for anoraks and in general, games/films etc. that appeal to trainspotters (LOTR, Dune...).

That is who boards.ie was orginally made for the nerds, geeks and gamers.

wayfarer

Thaed wrote:

That is who boards.ie was orginally made for the nerds, geeks and gamers.

I thought so but its moved on from that now Id have thought.

aidan_walsh

So what do you want?

garthv

/me hands wayfarer a blue peter badge

tba

doodle_sketch wrote:

So what do you want?

what everyone wants... world peace and custom avatars.... which is more likely?

Amz

It's already possible to have custom avatars.

€5 a month is hardly going to break the bank. It's not like most of you have lives and would be spending it outside now is it?

Cloud

Please go away and don't be annoying me.

mycroft

wayfarer wrote:

Why are most of them from computer games that are made for anoraks and in general, games/films etc. that appeal to trainspotters (LOTR, Dune...). Not all of us jerk off while playing Tomb Raider!

I had to settle for a ubiquitous simpsons one

Wow, you're obnoxious dull and whingy, what a splendid and heady mix.

jesus_thats_gre

What are ye bitching at him for??? The Avatars are **** and he is entitled to say so...

Knowing this place, if the first reply agreed with his point, the rest of the muppets who posted would have too..

Fall into line children!!

Boston

Daddy clouds going to hairy ape you!

mycroft

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

What are ye bitching at him for??? The Avatars are **** and he is entitled to say so...

Knowing this place, if the first reply agreed with his point, the rest of the muppets who posted would have too..

Fall into line children!!

Oh screw you. The guy is wandering on a free board run gratis by volunteers and he's whinging that they don't have the exact avatar to suite his whimisical nature, avatars that the admins stuck up because they like them.

And hey theres a solution he could cough up a few quid and be able to create his own avatar to suit the unqiue snowflake like nature of his soul. But no he wants to continue bellyaching until cloud commisions a graphic designer to capture his true likeness.

A Dub in Glasgo

I agree they are not very good avatars hence the reason I did not pick one. I have not looked at the sub yet.

Zaph

Originally posted by mycroft

But no he wants to continue bellyaching until cloud commisions a graphic designer to capture his true likeness.

Do you really think Cloud will do that for us? I'm really not sure that my chin is just right on my avatar

Crucifix

wayfarer wrote:

I thought so but its moved on from that now Id have thought.

Nope still a wonderful safe haven for nerds from all walks of life.

koneko

wayfarer,
Click here

Take the hint

wayfarer

The ignorant and flippant personal attacks aside...

mycroft wrote:

The guy is wandering on a free board run gratis by volunteers and he's whinging that they don't have the exact avatar to suite his whimisical nature, avatars that the admins stuck up because they like them.

You look for feedback and then attack me just because I have an idea on how to improve the site. I know its a minor detail but you can see from above posts that people agree with me.

I never asked for my exact avatar or anything like that, If you can only think of a reply by twisting my words then why bother.

wayfarer wrote:

Not all of us jerk off while playing Tomb Raider!

was meant as a joke but I can see I touched a nerve

Whats your point about volunteerism btw

Ali Cat

I think the problem is that you weren't giving a suggestion on how to improve the site, you were just whinning, and as has been pointed out it is already possible to get just what you want by subscribing, little more needs to be said....especially by you, wayfarer.

CuLT

wayfarer wrote:

Whats your point about volunteerism btw

boards.ie doesn't make profit.
People aren't charged for the privilege to post, there are some discreet google ads in the top right hand corner that people rarely look at anyway, and all the cash from that goes towards maintaining the servers.

Thus, the admins aren't paid and the mods aren't paid; volunteers.

wayfarer

I appreciate that and fair play to all involved, doin a bang up job, I just didnt understand what mycroft was trying to say

Mimikyu

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wayfarer

Im not that pushed about custom avatars.

I just think that there should be more avatars which are devoid of allusions, something simple and unsuggestive (smilie faces etc.) because at the moment there are very few

ecksor

wayfarer wrote:

You look for feedback and then attack me just because I have an idea on how to improve the site. I know its a minor detail but you can see from above posts that people agree with me.

Well, perhaps it's just me, but I can't actually tell from your posts what precisely you would see as an improvement.

Ste-

wayfarer wrote:

Im not that pushed about custom avatars.

I just think that there should be more avatars which are devoid of allusions, something simple and unsuggestive (smilie faces etc.) because at the moment there are very few

There have been times in the past were people created avatar packs and have gotten them included. Maybe just maybe you could show us all what you had in mind and maybe an admin might include them.


That's a lot of maybe's tho.

Cloud

Now that's a load of rubbish - there's tens if not hundreds of generic avatars - all the ones called Gort... for example. Do some proper research first, it's easy to give out when you don't have all the facts.

wayfarer

ecksor wrote:

Well, perhaps it's just me, but I can't actually tell from your posts what precisely you would see as an improvement.

If you dont think a better choice of avatars is an improvement then it does matter. But I do (and I did say it was a minor detail)

Cloud

mysql> select count(*) from avatar where locate("Gort", title) > 0;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|      174 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> select count(*) from avatar where 1;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|     2801 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

But point taken, you can never have enough avatars for some people (/me points at wayfarer!). However, I do resolve to add some more generic ones in the short term (I was going to do some more for boards.us anyway).

ecksor

wayfarer wrote:

If you dont think a better choice of avatars is an improvement then it does matter. But I do (and I did say it was a minor detail)

Here's a tip, when you're being dense and I'm being polite, don't act as if it's the other way around.

Let me break this down for you into simple terms.

You complain that all the avatars suck. That's a complaint, not a suggestion of how to improve things. I'm very sorry that you couldn't find an avatar to suit you, but how exactly do you suggest that we remedy the situation? Saying "I just think that there should be more avatars which are devoid of allusions, something simple and unsuggestive (smilie faces etc.) because at the moment there are very few" is too vague to actually give anybody any idea as to what exactly would satisfy you (and is probably inaccurate anyway I suspect, see Cloud's posts).

seamus

If you want, I could go into a 3-page explanation of why there's no such thing as a "generic" avatar, and why it would be possible to classify any avatar, no matter what the image.

People are giving you weird replies, because it's like going into the McDonalds drive-thru, saying "Y'know, your menu could be different", and then driving off.

wayfarer

Cloud - I thought the gort ones were from another game, they are quite similar (I went back and double-checked. The first to I saw were a knight and what I think was a gauntlet. It does contain the same elements of fantasy as the rest)

wayfarer

Off the top of my head -
Cute pics of animals
Crests of football teams
geometric shapes of all shapes and colours
county colours or crests
everyday symbol, logos and the likes (star signs...)
or pics with allusions to stuff other than games/films/cartoons eg guitars, records mics
sports equipments.

Things that people might feel would represent them better

wayfarer

Pics of filmstars, rockstars tv stars, big brother stars...

mycroft

wayfarer wrote:

geometric shapes of all shapes and colours

Things that people might feel would represent them better

You'd feel a purple quadrangle would represent you and say something about your personality?

Oh for a world class psychologist round about now.......

big brother stars...

So essentially a picture of Jade "Am I minging" Goodie is something you feel would be a valuable addition and add something to the site?

Okay, right my ignore list just gets a little bit bigger.

Chong

wayfarer wrote:

Pics of filmstars, rockstars tv stars, big brother stars...

What drugs is this guy possibly on, wants avatars of Big Brother prats. He is was the one who said he was not a person whom of which jerks off to Tomb Raider, but obviously he must jerk off to visions of Brian "you know the Irish fella who won it".

wayfarer

You two are fcuking incredible

This has nothing to do with my tastes, but if enough people want these as their avatars, why shouldnt they be allowed. Thats my point. If its beyond your comprehension, Im sorry but I cant make it any simpler than that.

as I said before

wayfarer wrote:

If you can only think of a reply by twisting my words then why bother.

Did I ever say I wanted someone from big brother as my avatar

jesus_thats_gre

This link pretty much sums up what you are dealing with her wayfarer:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=212465


I am a regular user of boards and have meant to subscribe on a number of occassions but for some of these people, its actually life... They depend on it, its like a little social circle. It wouldnt surprise me if they all PM'd each other before replying on this thread in order to get a general concensus on how to approach the "newbie" who suggests the dreaded "change"

Mimikyu

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ecksor

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

This link pretty much sums up what you are dealing with her wayfarer:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=212465

Thanks for the link.

I am a regular user of boards and have meant to subscribe on a number of occassions but for some of these people, its actually life...

And you're dead when you use boards?

They depend on it, its like a little social circle.

boards is a social circle. Actually, it isn't. It's a lot of social circles. What's your point?

It wouldnt surprise me if they all PM'd each other before replying on this thread in order to get a general concensus on how to approach the "newbie" who suggests the dreaded "change"

Firstly, that doesn't happen and you're making yourself look uninformed and silly by suggesting it. Secondly, you're confusing parochialism (which boards can suffer from from time to time) with attitudes towards online interaction. Thirdly, you seem to be missing the little detail that wayfarer waded into here and made a non-suggestion with all the tact of a bull in a china shop and the smell of troll reeking off of him. Nevertheless, I've tried to get clear suggestions from him and Cloud has even said that he will work on addressing his concerns. Obviously others are quicker to point out that his suggestions have more than a tiny amount of unintentional humour about them and even more irony attached to them considering the big brush he was painting a lot of this site's longtime users with.

BuffyBot

I am a regular user of boards and have meant to subscribe on a number of occassions but for some of these people, its actually life... They depend on it, its like a little social circle. It wouldnt surprise me if they all PM'd each other before replying on this thread in order to get a general concensus on how to approach the "newbie" who suggests the dreaded "change"

There, there. Did someone crap in your sandbox?

wayfarer

ecksor wrote:

Obviously others are quicker to point out that his suggestions have more than a tiny amount of unintentional humour about them and even more irony attached to them considering the big brush he was painting a lot of this site's longtime users with.

Just because I dont have smilies with big grins and roll eyes after what Im saying doesnt mean I wasnt intentionally being ironic, but Ill know better than to do that in future

As you said

ecksor wrote:

boards is a social circle. Actually, it isn't. It's a lot of social circles.

That sums it all up. Its not just a gaming community any more, If thats what it was so now there should be avatars to show that. My suggestions were just random ideas of what could be used, but that seemed to be just too much for some people to follow

logic1

koneko wrote:

wayfarer,
Click here

Take the hint

You're the worst nerd ever.

.logic.

CuLT

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

This link pretty much sums up what you are dealing with her wayfarer:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=212465


I am a regular user of boards and have meant to subscribe on a number of occassions but for some of these people, its actually life... They depend on it, its like a little social circle. It wouldnt surprise me if they all PM'd each other before replying on this thread in order to get a general concensus on how to approach the "newbie" who suggests the dreaded "change"

Thumb. Ass. Remove.

mycroft

wayfarer wrote:

You two are fcuking incredible

This has nothing to do with my tastes, but if enough people want these as their avatars, why shouldnt they be allowed. Thats my point. If its beyond your comprehension, Im sorry but I cant make it any simpler than that.

as I said before

Did I ever say I wanted someone from big brother as my avatar

Okay so let me get this straight you are to mind the first person who's suggested that a Brian Dowdell av should exist though now you're claiming "if enough people want a BB av it should happen" now seeing you're the first person to suggest such a cululthicial monstrositity it's not like theres a dirth of people doing a "I am Kirk Doughlas" to support your viewpoint and therefore that mods n admins should spend their free time providing you with killkenny county colours or a bon jovi av.

So to summerise frankly the mods have given you free options to increase your av options, so you have the potential to pay a piddling fiver to support a service you think is great, or you could accept the several thousand options available for free and at ease and shut the hell up.

mycroft

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

I am a regular user of boards and have meant to subscribe on a number of occassions but for some of these people, its actually life... They depend on it, its like a little social circle. It wouldnt surprise me if they all PM'd each other before replying on this thread in order to get a general concensus on how to approach the "newbie" who suggests the dreaded "change"

So let me get this straight youve been on boards about the same time as me and your post count is four times mine and you're lecturing me on my lack of life and sheep like behaviour.

God you're such an iconcalist, i feel this profound urge to cast my nets aside and follow you.

billy the squid

wayfarer wrote:

Why are most of them from computer games that are made for anoraks and in general, games/films etc. that appeal to trainspotters (LOTR, Dune...). Not all of us jerk off while playing Tomb Raider!

I had to settle for a ubiquitous simpsons one

Ok there was a post further down this thread that said that boards was all that people lived for well I am afraid your wrong but I will deal with that in a minute

Why are the avatars all got to do with computer games and cult movies etc.

If you have a suggestion as to what avatars should be included in the list then If you put it in a more polite manner then I am sure that the administrators would give your suggestion some consideration.

The admins are the ones who pump money into this site and are the ones who will face the legal ramafications if someone posts something that might be libelous or illegal in some way, they are the ones who are putting them selves at risk for your benefit. They run this site as running this site is like a hobby for them, I doubt that they make a lot if any money off of boards.ie so consider yourself lucky that there are a group of irish people providing the site for irish users, when you think of how low the quality of the american ****e that is on the internet, an irish website like this one is a breath of fresh air and it has some relevence to the irish internet community.

Now as for boards being all that people lived for, well I will say this

I look forward to visiting this site when I go online. I like to read the threads and yes I have had cordial interactions with other people. I have even met people from boards. because I have spoken to them via the message boards already I got to know a little about them before I actually met them for the first time. I have to say that the ones that I did meet in November in Dublin last year, you couldnt have met the nicest group of people. I remember being in a city 120 miles from where I lived in a pub full of people that I had never met before and feeling like I knew them for years. That is what I love about this website.

Now is it the be all and end all of my life. no I have a life in the real world but this is where I like to pass an hour or two. and nowin answer to Jesus thats gre's post, I have never received PMs from people asking my opinion on peoples posts before they posted them.

Jesus thats gre, if you are feeling left out it is because you havent gotten involved in the spirit of boards.ie they might disagree with your viewpoints on posts but for **** sake they are not going to eat your children, they are nice and well rounded people in real life.