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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
We had one of these before, but it's been a while! A lot of folks making posts out here with newbie avatars or blank avatars and that just aint right. Lets fix that.

If you have a Stupid Newbie Avatar or your avatar is blank, post in this thread. People will draw you something of their choosing.

Artists will use your username as a basis, and/or the Newbie can drop a few words in their post, or maybe they've been playing Titan Quest on their steam deck and are really into that vibe and want to draw something related to that. The choice is up to the artist.

I set that picture as your new avatar for free because that's part of my admin salary and I have a quota to meet or they reduce my budget next quarter. Normal avatar rules apply: "Must be smaller than 180x180 pixels and no larger than 150kB. Only GIF, PNG, and JPG images are allowed. Images should be 'work-safe'."

Creators can get real fancy if they want, MSPaint or notebook doodle are fine too. Those AI things are popular I guess too. Make it creative...or don't, I'm not your mom. I reserve the right to pick ones I like more or the thread thinks is cooler than just first dibs.

Here is the previous thread for reference:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3971041

This thread will be open till it is closed. Enjoy!

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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
First two entries uploaded!


This is cool. I don't know what it is, but I know I like it.


DNE posted:

I would like a bland avatar please, like a graphic for a forgettable B2B company.

I hope it's bland enough for you. I also added archives and plat to your SA account as a thanks for volunteering to be avatar'd. (Archives also for pocky)

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Tree Bucket posted:

It is, in fact, a lifetime supply of pocky

Oh well this is awkward

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Tree Bucket posted:

It is, in fact, a lifetime supply of pocky

:tinfoil:

I'd also like to congratulate pocky on having a newbie avatar so old it had HTML in it which hasn't been a thing since the radium days.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Pladdicus posted:

out of curiosity what makes someone have a stupid newbie avatar vs a blank avatar?

Use to be you could sign up and it would offer you a text box you could put stuff in. If you didn't you got a newbie avatar. You could put a space there and have a blank one.

Also maybe your old avatar got blanked for some reason, or a mod just cleared the newbie, or you bought a newbie clear but didn't want an avatar.

Sometimes when I see newbie avatars I just click delete.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Everyone in this thread now has archives access...being cheap is working out for you. (Thanks for contributing)

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

did i get the transparency on this right

Big fan of circle avatars.

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Youremother posted:

Please give McDutchy this one, thank you.

Good idea!


MrDizzystick posted:

Apparently I have some sort of auto-generated Identicon or Gravatar or whatever as my avatar, but I have no idea how it got like that or when it happened... it used to be the stupid newbie. Probably more Radium tomfoolery.

Looks like you posted in D&D and came away with politics marks.

If we have plenty of art to go around I'll add you one!

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Tree Bucket you are awesome, I've applied archives and no ads (I don't think no ads does anything currently?) to your account as a thanks!

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Potrzebie posted:

Perhaps something complementing my fancy red text? Or not, I'm hardly even an ideas guy.

Dredge posted:

I'm game!

I have the most generic of usernames though. If I remember right, it was the name of my Undead Rogue in WoW back in the day I used to browse the game forums.
But considering my reg date was like 15 years ago or something, and my post count must be still in the low double digits, I'm probably still considered a stupid newbie.

EDIT: Seems I already have one and had it turned off. No idea when I got this one. Oh well.

OpenlyEvilJello posted:

If I remember correctly, I got this username by randomly generating a few and picking the most incongruous combination of words. I am bad at names, you see.

Later I realized it makes a decent synonym for ye olde gelatinous cube, which is a bit ironic since I got linked here from Trad Games. Curious to see what it might inspire.

OB-GYN Kenobi posted:

Where do I apply?


Yesterdays Latte posted:

Sure, why not, I'll let the forums decide what I have over there :)

I used to be a barista and liked the cadence of it, so it stuck even without the apostrophe between y and s there.

These are the folks who could still use art if anyone wants to take a crack at it. All artist types welcome! You don't need that wonderful thing called skill, just creativity and MS Paint if you so desire. I'll be back in a bunch of hours to update avatars.

Edit: And the people who post after this too

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
I am caught up on the overnight additions of art. These fine folks are still looking for art!



Borscht posted:

One avatar please. I'm finally giving in


Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Haschel Cedricson posted:

Since The Fattest PI got a different avatar I release the Raymond J. Johnson avatar I made to be claimed by anybody.

I applied it to Potrzebie. Couldn't go unused!

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

lol dammit this is funny because it fits the name perfectly

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967

Minotaurus Rex posted:

I’d like an avatar that relates to my username pretty please and thank you!

Your avatar space still had radium code in it too. I'm assuming your text you have was what you entered when you signed up your account. I didn't know the free avatar text was still going in 2007.


Everyone is caught up besides these 2:

Borscht posted:

One avatar please. I'm finally giving in

SnowblindFatal posted:

Hello! I am enthusiastic about eastern philosophies and critique of capitalism and I picked my nickname about 20 years ago as a youngster because Fatal was already taken tyia. Snowblind is from BLACK SABBATH yeah? Fatal was just a cool word I learned when I was EVEN YOUNGER.

Edit: and anyone who posts after this

Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
Going to be winding this down in the next few hours. Get in soon if you want in!

This fine poster needs someone to contribute something cool, then we'll be caught up:

Jellyko posted:

I haven't had an avatar (or a personality) for over 10 years now so uh what the hell, why not? Jellyko is some kind of old medicine from a bottle I dug up, but who knows what else it could mean...


Space Kablooey posted:

is it because it's the shape of the permabanned avatar

Love2Perma
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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Est. 1967
And with that, I think everyone is caught up. We are closing up shop.

I appreciate everyone who stopped by to request and all the fantastic talented people who submitted things. Enjoy your avatars and archives and whatever else I randomly clicked when I was in your profile.

Thanks to everyone posting here, submitting, lurking, voting, etc for making these forums worth a poo poo, and everyone who got a cool new avatar should post more and show off.

Don't forget to love each other, be well.

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