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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby CarrieVS » Fri Nov 04, 2016 10:43 pm

This one's just for bonfire night; I'll be changing it back to the usual on Sunday.

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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:47 pm

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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby DanteHoratio » Fri Nov 11, 2016 7:00 pm

It's Arturia Pendragon(King Arthur), also known as Saber, as well as King of Knights. She is from the Fate/Stay Night and the rest of the Fate series.
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby iMURDAu » Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:24 am

2016 Thanksgiving avatar time!
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby BROWNRECLUSE » Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:30 am

iMURDAu wrote:2016 Thanksgiving avatar time!
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby mancityfooty » Sun Nov 20, 2016 3:28 am

It's after Halloween so I'm going straight to christmas.
Just like all the stores around me.
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby blehblah » Thu Nov 24, 2016 11:22 pm

My avatar is over there ----------------------------------->

Technically, it's the Facebook question mark thingy, reversed, with a beanie propeller hat on it.

And... yeah... that's it, explained. Sorry to underwhelm.



Does anyone have any questions?
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby iMURDAu » Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:42 pm

Yes.

How can the executive producers of Preacher work John Wayne into the show?
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby blehblah » Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:49 pm

iMURDAu wrote:Yes.

How can the executive producers of Preacher work John Wayne into the show?


They have several options. CGI would be the lazy way. Voodoo could work, but it involves killing chickens, which apparently is a problem in Hollywood.

Waiting for the zombie apocalypse could fuck-up some deadlines, though Wayne's gait has been cited as the inspiration behind many a zombie. "Bllllaaaarrru hhhmmmmn yaaaaaaaa hhhhhhhhharglebarlge", noted one famously reanimated corpse. It's the one on the left... no, not that one, the right of the left... why are you making this political? STOP IT, ZOMBIES! JUST... grrrrarrrgh, already!

While multiple producers have suggested dumping tons of cocaine on John Wayne's corpse, everyone knows such an approach works only on dead hookers (aka - escorts, after they're dead), and even then, only sometimes, and not usually after they've rotted a bit.

Hiring a real vampire to re-animate Mr. Wayne has been, reportedly, on the table, but coke-addled producers consider vampires unreliable, and when coke-addled producers nix something based on objections about 'reliability', you know it's real. They also thought the conversation was about Batman's alter-ego, which led to a focus-group protocol, which in-turn led to a coke binge, which led to nobody remembering what the whole thing was about, aside from remembering they were out of cocaine.

In the end, there are a few ways to go-about bringing John Wayne's corpse into the show. Everyone knows where he's buried, so it's just a matter of putting the proper thinking into the project.
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby Albatross727 » Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:55 pm

It's a few lines from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, including one that mentions the albatross...go figure.
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby iMURDAu » Fri Nov 25, 2016 11:16 pm

I kind of meant how they could have him as a character without having to pay his heirs for his likeness. Licensing and all that jazz. I'm accepting your answer though as it was quite comprehensive. Thank you.
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby IamNotCreepy » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:03 pm

Alright, I finally did it. I got myself an avatar. I was originally holding out for some divine inspiration for something clever or funny, but I decided to opt for cool.

My avatar is a depiction of Edward, the Black Prince. It comes from a painting called "The Black Prince At Crecy" by Julian Russell Story:

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I saw the painting when visiting the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia. What makes this painting so cool is its sheer size. Here is a picture of me in front of it:

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It is quite amazing to see. I also thought the backstory was pretty interesting:

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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby Anglerphobe » Fri Dec 23, 2016 6:29 pm

I'm glad I'm not the servant in charge of looking after the Prince's sword. Poking it into the mud like that.
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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby SilverMaple » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:11 am

Because I can't sleep and am easily distracted from studying, my avatar is now Garrus Vakarian from Mass Effect (to be all matchy-matchy with my Discord avatar). Not sure how well this picture translates into a very tiny avatar, but I'm going to give it a try.

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We all need more calibrations in our lives, after all.

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Re: Explain Your Avatar

Postby Anglerphobe » Fri Feb 17, 2017 10:44 pm

Oh yeah,

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This is a figure from the Gran Simulacro dell'arte e dell'uso della Scherma (usually shortened to the Gran Simulacro or just Capoferro in discussions) by Italian sword master Ridolfo Capo Ferro. It's one of the best illustrated and widely used manuals on Renaissance Italian rapier fencing.

I chose it because it a) looks cool as fuck, and b) has a nice connection with one of my biggest hobbies. Rapier isn't exactly my forte (pun absolutely intended) but I do study and practice this treatise. Sadly, I don't yet look as cool as historical swordsmen did.
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