Who are you?
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In the spirit of the season and of this site, and threads being free, I would like to a offer a big Fuck you! to all of those who change their avatars regularly and in particular to those who did so very recently, thus breaking my visual memory of who is who.
That is all.
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@remi I don't need to put silly hats on my avatar, it's more than furry enough for the season! And anyone feeling a bit cold can come cuddle up in the warm, furry embrace~
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Fear not, for even though I have been offered to be hatted, my Avatar picture has remained the same for almost decades!
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Well now I'm not at all sure whether I should augment mine or not.
Would a hat even fit on that head?
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@kazitor said in Who are you?:
Would a hat even fit on that head?
StackOverflow gave me a box for Christmas, I guess I could balance it on my nose-cone or something.
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@Cursorkeys ooh, that's convex? All this time I'd thought it was some weird hollow tube. This makes much more sense now.
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@kazitor said in Who are you?:
@Cursorkeys ooh, that's convex? All this time I'd thought it was some weird hollow tube. This makes much more sense now.
Interesting! Now that you've said that I can see it too. It's actually the front fan stage from a jet engine:
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@Cursorkeys I think it's because of the shadow on the top of the cone. Since you assume that light comes from above, a shadow on the top of something makes it look hollow. Doesn't help when it's scaled down to 46px.
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I don't recognize myself at this time of year either.
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@boomzilla said in Who are you?:
I don't recognize myself at this time of year either.
I think you need to turn on the light for mirrors to work.
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It's very distressing indeed. If only we had an avatar CDN, with long caching...
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You're welcome!
Although technically it's the same with more color and less "Community Server".
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@remi said in Who are you?:
In the spirit of the season and of this site, and threads being free, I would like to a offer a big Fuck you! to all of those who change their avatars regularly
I feel more in the spirit of the season then, and offer a big Fuck you! to each and every one of you, regardless of the avatar.
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@remi Like you Remy, I have never changed my avatar pic. And this one can't seem to wear a hat
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@KattMan said in Who are you?:
@remi Like you Remy, I have never changed my avatar pic. And this one can't seem to wear a hat
Brb, making a new account whose name starts with 🎩
EDIT: Does not work, pah!
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@KattMan said in Who are you?:
I have never changed my avatar pic.
The drawback of doing so is that you can't use
:@mention:
to get a small inline version of it (e.g. -- does that trigger a mention?). ISTR that some people have an avatar that is a picture of the default one, which would avoid this, but ...The easiest way to avoid this would be to actually have a default avatar rather than doing the stupid thing of having different formatting code for people who have a custom avatar (display the picture) vs. those who have a default one (display the text, styled so that it looks like it's a picture except it isn't).
I guess we can't expect to be actually sensible, can't we?
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@remi said in Who are you?:
@KattMan said in Who are you?:
I have never changed my avatar pic.
The drawback of doing so is that you can't use
:@mention:
to get a small inline version of it (e.g. -- does that trigger a mention?). ISTR that some people have an avatar that is a picture of the default one, which would avoid this, but ...The easiest way to avoid this would be to actually have a default avatar rather than doing the stupid thing of having different formatting code for people who have a custom avatar (display the picture) vs. those who have a default one (display the text, styled so that it looks like it's a picture except it isn't).
I guess we can't expect to be actually sensible, can't we?
Careful... That way leads to Discourse's avatar CDN which has thousands of pre-generated avatar images just so the rendering code can always use images because apparently 1 single default avatar causes more confusion...
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@JBert said in Who are you?:
because apparently 1 single default avatar causes more confusion...
To be fair, letter-on-colored-background instead of generic grey circle on stick was IMO the single biggest usability improvement in forum software of entire decade.
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@remi said in Who are you?:
In the spirit of the season and of this site, and threads being free, I would like to a offer a big Fuck you! to all of those who change their avatars regularly and in particular to those who did so very recently, thus breaking my visual memory of who is who.
And once the season passes, everyone will change their avatar back again.
And you'll be fooled again. You'll be foooled again.
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@Zecc said in Who are you?:
And you'll be fooled again. You'll be foooled again.
I heard that after getting fooled twice, you never get fooled again.
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My current avatar is the most representative avatar I've ever had, so I'm likely to keep it for quite a while.
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@JBert said in Who are you?:
Careful... That way leads to Discourse's avatar CDN which has thousands of pre-generated avatar images just so the rendering code can always use images because apparently 1 single default avatar causes more confusion...
I've heard of a mythical land where developers faced with a problem actually stop for a minute and think, rather than implementing the most brain-dead stupidest possible "solution".
Unfortunately, years of reading TDWTF and using its forums have convinced me that this mythical land will always ever be that, a mythical land.
Maybe in that mythical land, there is a forum software where, upon registration, a small script generates a new avatar picture and sets this as the default avatar for the new user, and all is forever good and simple.
Maybe the developers of that software sometimes playfully joke about complicating things and have invented a set of competitive IOCCC-like forum softwares with as many of those overly-complicated things as possible.
Maybe one of them is called Now-BeBee and another Diksour. And many more exist, all understood to be jokes and nothing more.
One can dream...
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@remi said in Who are you?:
In the spirit of the season and of this site, and threads being free, I would like to a offer a big Fuck you! to all of those who change their avatars regularly and in particular to those who did so very recently, thus breaking my visual memory of who is who.
That is all.
I change mine very rarely, and I will almost certainly change it back after the holidays are over, perhaps after the 12th of the 12 days of Christmas. In general, though, I agree with you. I rely on unchanging avatars to identify not only users; I have visually associated many of the most active topics with the avatar of the topics' long-ago creators. To a significant extent, when I'm looking for a particular topic, I'm looking as much for the avatar as the title of the topic as I scroll.
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@remi said in Who are you?:
@KattMan said in Who are you?:
I have never changed my avatar pic.
The drawback of doing so is that you can't use
:@mention:
to get a small inline version of it (e.g. -- does that trigger a mention?). ISTR that some people have an avatar that is a picture of the default one, which would avoid this, but ...No. The emoji-like mentions don't generate notifications.
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My avatar works for every Canadian seasons, so I'm not changing it
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But...but...the shiiiiiiiiiiiny~
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IIRC, if I change mine I'll never be able to get back that second frame of animation. That's a 50% data loss!
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As one of the guilty, I apologize.
My avatar doesn't just have a silly hat, it is a silly hat.
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@Karla said in Who are you?:
@izzion said in Who are you?:
But...but...the shiiiiiiiiiiiny~
Yours is acceptable.
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@Gąska +ᵛ