Adair wrote:
Also had to say Hober's avatar makes me think of Max Payne, not sure if that was intentional, but its a cool avatar regardless.

It's is a 100% direct rip-off. The two MP games are some of my favorite games of all time.

Mapster wrote:
Duke Nukem would never say that.

Haha, Bad Dudes was an awesome game!

As for Hober's avatar...that V and Needle. It actually reminds me of a Star Trek design as well as a hypodermic needle.

7/10, because it has to do with Max Payne.

Mapster wrote:
5/10, havn't played megaman before?

OH MY GOD. You kids today. Please, Mapster, do us both a favor. Right now:

1. Google "NESticle" (download and install). [This is the program I like, but there are others. Search for "NES emulator" to see other options.]
2. Then Google "Mega Man ROM" (download and put in NESticle/ROMs, or maybe NESticle/games).
3. FOR FUCK'S SAKE, PLAY MEGA MAN. Or better yet, Mega Man 2.

You will enjoy it a lot more if you do not use the mouse/keyboard. Get a controller that you can plug into your USB. (An Xbox 360 controller will work, or you can get a cheap adapter for PS2 controllers for like $5 at Radio Shack.)

@ Mr.2VC: You know your game lore. Props!

On a related note, who here remembers River City Ransom, also on NES? That game was so damn awesome I can hardly stand it. It puts a smile on my face every time I play it, even after 15 years. Now that's a game.

Crooked Paul wrote:
On a related note, who here remembers River City Ransom, also on NES?

Hell yeah! BARF!

hamsteralliance wrote:
Hell yeah! BARF!

Epic!

The kanye west version of this song sucks.

I like the teeth though. And the umbrellas!

youme wrote:
make sure you are saving it at the same size it will appear online. Also try .GIF instead of .JPG because jpegs compress images really horribly, or save the jpeg with a higher quality

Save it as a PNG (portable network graphic). PNGs use lossless compression, unlike JPEGs (lossy compression) and GIFs (no compression). Any browser released in the last 5 years can display PNGs, or else you really shouldn't be using it.

Edit: Back on topic, Player1's image looks like it ain't an avatar but a photograph. For reasons of heterosexuality I dunno how to give it a fair rating. I guess it is in focus and he's not making an obnoxious face or anything, so I give it a 7.

I've tried blurring before to make jagged edges look smooth but it rarely works out as well as hoped.

The make-espen180's-avatar-smooth wars.

Lorithad wrote:
7/10. Unique to the point where I'm not sure exactly what it is.

well... its a fractal! one that happens to look slightly like a companion cube.

if you want to see a little more of the mandelbrot fractal, then here's a video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1619313842463920970

thing is, it goes on forever. there will never be a computer that can ever totally explore its infinite complexity. oddly, unlike many things we are familiar with, the further you go into the mandelbrot fractal, the more complicated it gets, the longer it takes to calculate, and the more interesting it is.

EDIT: Looks like a Weighted Cube to me, after further examination.

Some stuff about mah avatar: Bonus Stage is an awesome webtoon about jerks.

hamsteralliance wrote:
Hell yeah! BARF!

Dude, epic link! Thanks! I'm proud to say I recognized all the sprites:

1. Main guy: Alex from River City Ransom
2. Leggy blondes: background girls from California Games
3. Blue riot cop: NARC. duh.
4. Kid w/ backpack and kneeless Gumby legs: Boy from A Boy and His Blob. His backpack is for jelly beans. He would feed his pet blob different flavored jelly beans to make him transform into a trampoline or an umbrella or what have you. Great game. I gotta download that shit.

And I'm starting a Classic Games thread. Join the party.

BTW, Hamster, I like the clean lines of your avatar, and it's clearly a music-loving hamster. The black box looks kinda wonky, though. 7/10. Maybe some of these avatar wizards can do a negative of your pic, making the lines black and the background white, and then set all the "outside" parts of the background transparent. That would be a 9 in my book.

Edit: Oops. A post slipped in. I really like Bonus Stage. "Why do I have to be so meta?!" You should make your avatar bigger so it would be easy to read, give more kids the tip. 7/10.