The thread in which we talk about our usernames and avatars

[Monotremeancer]

I like monotremes.

That pretty much sums it up.

[Tshern]

Heath Ledger's Joker is probably the best character i've ever seen.

Even the 'new' joker it's based on pales in comparison.

I disagree. My opinion is that the comic book renditions have been better. The Killing Joke, Death in the Family and Knightfall alone made the Joker too awesome for the movies. Then again, comic books have had more chances to get him right than the movie franchise, although I liked both Nicholson and Ledger...

[Monotremeancer]

Heath Ledger's Joker is probably the best character i've ever seen.

Even the 'new' joker it's based on pales in comparison.

I disagree. My opinion is that the comic book renditions have been better. The Killing Joke, Death in the Family and Knightfall alone made the Joker too awesome for the movies. Then again, comic books have had more chances to get him right than the movie franchise, although I liked both Nicholson and Ledger...

I will never forgive Ledger for dying. Since everyone loved him (and I can see why, he did a good Joker) he will not be replaced in this continuity and because of this, Harley Quinn will not be introduced. 

Also: The Killing Joke and Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader are probably my fav Batman stories, the former portrays the Joker in the best way possible and earns him the title of "Best nemesis ever"

[wotmaniac]

Name:
I'm a Wheel of Time fanboy. 
I'm also known as Jgumbyrx elsewhere; but I got kinda tired of that name, so opted for a change a few years back.

Avatar:
None of my online accounts use the same avatar.  However, all of my gaming forum accounts depict Domo Kun in some form or another (all of my non-gaming accounts use Butters from South Park).  I was first introduced to Domo via that "god kills a kitten" pic.  I later discovered where he actually came from, and have been a fan ever since.

[123456789blaaa]

Dead thread, would you mind rising?  .

My username was from a little after I first got on the internet. Now I have a very bad memory and so I couldn't really remember any of my usernames or passwords. I made dozens and dozens of accounts for the same website/game/etc. I couldn't write the names down because i kept losing the papers.

Then, one day, after I decided to make a youtube account, I decided to create a username that I could easily remember. Being young (and uncreative) I decided to call myself 12345678910. Luckily my dad was walking by the computer at that moment and tried to convince me to change it. I was stubborn though and wouldn't budge. After a while I got sick of arguing and slapped down a blaaa at the end just to shut him up. I continue to use it out of nostalgia.

My avatar is quite a bit more recent. It's actually my first avatar ever. Previously I just couldn't decide on a good one. So many choices and none really seemed to fit. I decided to just ignore it and wait for an avatar to come to me. As it turned out that wasn't actually a bad choice  .

A few weeks ago I was busily replying to one of my threads on the Dresden Files forum. I was aware that 123456789blaaa doesn't exactly roll of the keyboard and so frequently told people to "just call me 123" (I didn't have enough posts to make a signature). Most poster's just called me Numbers Guy. After yet another instance of someone calling me that I (jokingly) said:

123 darn it, call me 123! (How many more useful posts do I have to make to get a signature around here  ?).

   

Then a well known poster known as Shecky said:

123, eh? Can't I just call you Count?

Right below another profilic and well known poster known as Serack said:

123, eh? Can't I just call you Count?

HAHAHAHA.  I had to elucidate Mrs Serack on who "the count" is yesterday. 

BTW 123, a couple years ago a lot of us were using Muppets for our avatar.  I think I put mine as the "Muppet news flash" guy.  Shecky was Waldorf.  Ms Duck was Ms Piggy I think.  Several people were using Crazy Harry

So in this block of the internet, you being "The Count" works really well.  You should be able to put up a custom avatar now that you have over 100 posts, I highly recommend you take this and run with it.

In fact.  *ambles off, fiddles with something and comes back*

Here, cropped and hosted properly and everything.  Tada!



http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z433/serack/count1.jpg

I liked their suggestions so much that I decided to use them for all of my internet homes.

The End (and wow I didn't expect this post to be so long  )

[FlaminCows]

My username started off in Diablo 2. On my first playthrough I played a sorceress, and in the Secret Cow Level one person said "Look at all those flaming cows!" Years later I reinstalled D2 and with my username forgotten I wrote up a new one, and for some reason that one time in the Secret Cow Level was the first thing that popped into my head. Since then I've used FlaminCows as a username all over the internet.

My current avatar is just a black-and-white cow skull, there mostly because I felt that it was time to get an avatar. When I can find a picture of a flaming cow skull, it will be upgraded. Preferably with glowing eyes, too.

[phaedrusxy]

My username started off in Diablo 2. On my first playthrough I played a sorceress, and in the Secret Cow Level one person said "Look at all those flaming cows!" Years later I reinstalled D2 and with my username forgotten I wrote up a new one, and for some reason that one time in the Secret Cow Level was the first thing that popped into my head. Since then I've used FlaminCows as a username all over the internet.

My current avatar is just a black-and-white cow skull, there mostly because I felt that it was time to get an avatar. When I can find a picture of a flaming cow skull, it will be upgraded. Preferably with glowing eyes, too.

[FlaminCows]

Thank you, Phaedrus. A definite improvement.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Dead thread, would you mind rising?  .

My username was from a little after I ...

  ... I thought people (not you of course) actually like to talk
about themselves, especially when they have an audience ...  
but clearly it's the case that minmax users are not quite as enamored
with ourselves, as the average interwebs self-esteem class participant.

Hey kitty avatar, keep it down, I'm trying to nap over here.

[Quillwraith]

I typed in Quillwraith as a username at 11:30 at night, so I have no idea what I was thinking at the time, but its stuck now.

[bobthe6th]

Bobthe6th was my user name back when I played runescape... and I liked it enough to use it everywhere. Surprisingly, my name isn't Robbert or anything, and I am not from a long line of Robberts.

The avatar was done as a request on GittP, because a) I enjoy the idea of a necromantic lord(and have yet to play a necromancer in a game...), and b)my user name just seems to demand a noble avatar.

[SneeR]

My avatar is the symbol for the clan of Raziel from the video game Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, my favorite one in existence bar none.
In the game, Raziel is cast into Oblivion for untold millenia, and his rakish good looks are shredded, and his lower jaw is literally torn off. To hide this, he wraps his clan's flag around his face like a scarf. The symbol lines up with his eyes like tear drops, which is ironic because his clan has been demolished--so the symbol itself is like 3 different symbols wrapped within themselves!

(click to show/hide)

My username is actually from playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was sick of being P2 at my friend's house, so I came up with a unique username that matched my fighting stye of griefing with ranged weapons: sneer. To make it look more like a username, I capitalized the first and last letters.

[muktidata]

Mukti in Nepali (or any Sanskrit-derived language) means freedom, liberation, or salvation. Data combined with something else means that something else is "given-by-God." So muktidata means salvation given by God (savior, in the case of Lord Jesus).

My avatar is a picture of the Demon Hunter hero from Warcraft 3. I didn't play muh of the regular game, but I was a huge fan of Magina, the Antimage, from the custom map Defense of the Ancients (now DOTA 2). When I get my computer back, I'll write a better home brew PrC for the Anti-Mage because I've always wanted to play him and could never quite build him through dnd mechanics.

[linklord231]

Linklord:  because I am the Lord of all Links - hyper, chain, Zelda, Lincoln, and otherwise. 
231:  because that number keeps showing up in my life.  It's 3 of the numbers in street address of the house I grew up in, it was the last half of my student ID no. in middle/high school, and has shown up in a couple other places too.  Also when I started using it, I was naively under the impression that all screen names had to have a number tacked on the end. 
Avatar:  to remind myself and everyone else that it's important to not give 2 shits about anything anyone says on the internet.

[Amechra]

My avatar is Ikari Gendo riding Fluttershy. I got it commissioned, and I was the model for Gendo.

My user name... there isn't really any reason behind it; it's what I use for pretty much everything, though.

[Quillwraith]

Old avatar: a blue-jay feather, because I like jays and feathers and I had nothing better around.

Briefly, I used a duplicate of Amechra's avatar, as part of the Hivemind.

My current avatar is actually a cryptic commentary that no-one else will get, about a common trend in forum avatars.

[phaedrusxy]

Old avatar: a blue-jay feather, because I like jays and feathers and I had nothing better around.

Briefly, I used a duplicate of Amechra's avatar, as part of the Hivemind.

My current avatar is actually a cryptic commentary that no-one else will get, about a common trend in forum avatars.

"we're going... plaid!"?

[Nanshork]

Old avatar: a blue-jay feather, because I like jays and feathers and I had nothing better around.

Briefly, I used a duplicate of Amechra's avatar, as part of the Hivemind.

My current avatar is actually a cryptic commentary that no-one else will get, about a common trend in forum avatars.

Are you being a forum avatar hipster?   

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Old avatar: a blue-jay feather, because I like jays and feathers and I had nothing better around.

Briefly, I used a duplicate of Amechra's avatar, as part of the Hivemind.

My current avatar is actually a cryptic commentary that no-one else will get, about a common trend in forum avatars.

PhaeXY's avatar will transcend some day, and explain the cryptic commentary to the rest of us.

[Quillwraith]

Old avatar: a blue-jay feather, because I like jays and feathers and I had nothing better around.

Briefly, I used a duplicate of Amechra's avatar, as part of the Hivemind.

My current avatar is actually a cryptic commentary that no-one else will get, about a common trend in forum avatars.

Are you being a forum avatar hipster?   

No, I am only acting like a forum avatar hipster for ironic purposes.