Your Favorite(Current) Avatars in the TrekBBS

[cooleddie74]

Just thought it might be fun to start up an innocent, relaxing little thread so we can talk about the plethora of interesting, impressive, funny and thought-provoking avatars currently in use and widely seen throughout the different forums of the TrekBBS. What are the avatars you personally find the most amusing or downright funny? Which ones spark conversations with their owners? Do any of them actually make you think? And while this thread is focused on avatars that are currently in use and not those discarded and changed long ago, what in your opinion has been the most memorable avatar that you can remember from your time on the boards, whether it be twelve days or twelve years?

My picks, in no particular order of preference, of the Top 25 that most amuse and/or impress me are those currently possessed by the following posters:

Awesome Possum, Isitnotlogical, Kira's Mom, Sci, trekkiedane, Squiggyfm, J. Allen, Shaytan, Chemahkuu, Alidar Jarok, auntiehill, Locutus of Bored, Flukie, Count Zero, cultcross, macloudt, od0_ital, Emher, Deranged Nasat, ITL, Jenee, teacake, Kirby, OdoWanKenobi and the 4th hanson bro.


Greatest all-time, as of April 2012? Hmmmm. A real difficult head scratcher, and I'm going to need some time to mull that one over seeing as I've witnessed a buttload of great ones come and go in my eleven years here. I'll have to post it later on.


There are plenty of others that are great as well but if I had to narrow it down to just 25 for my own personal list it'd be these avatars you see above. What would your personal picks be? Make your list as small or as expansive as you like...whatever floats your boat. Have at it, guys!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I miss your Spock-fro. You should depose that dude you have now and bring the Spock-fro back.

Oh and let me say that I have always admired Ethros 's avatar. Ethros post so everyone can admire it with me.

 

[sojourner]

<----How can one not bow before the greatness of Duck Dodgers?

 

[Amaris]

Yeah, there are a lot of great avatars to choose from. Some of them I identify immediately with the poster. For example, Awesome Possum's Jewel Staite avatar will always be ingrained in my subconscious. Your Burger King avatars, though, will forever stay in my nightmares, cooleddie, and I mean that as the highest compliment.

 

[RyanKCR]

I don't remember the posters' names but two that I like were animated. One was a starfield and the other was the launch sequence from TMP.

 

[M'Sharak]

^ The star field is probably captrek's.

Not a complete list, by any means, but a few I like belong to:

Captain Canada, Count Zero, Joker, Shaytan, Brutal Strudel, Bears, Lapis, Hopeful Romantic, Isis, { Emilia }, Me-Ike, splodenode, Sandoval, SiorX...

I'm no doubt missing a few, but I have to get up from the computer for a bit, so...

 

[Amaris]

were the size increased I have no doubt the standard of avatars would improve

Actually, 150x150 is almost double what it was a number of years ago. When the board first started, there were no avatars, then it was 80x80. Since then, I believe we've upsized about 4 times. Too much bigger, and the avatar starts to drown out the posts, really. As for file size, 140KB is plenty, unless the lower rankings have lower file size limits. I don't know that one. Your 150x150 jpg is almost 50KB by itself. My animated avatar, with multiple frames, is only 78KB.

Here, I've reduced your file size without reducing much in the way of quality. Your avatar is now 20KB.

 

[auntiehill]

^ I agree. I like the size we now. It's big enough to really see but small enough to force a little creativity.

 

[Amaris]

^ I agree. I like the size we now. It's big enough to really see but small enough to force a little creativity.

By creativity, do you mean "come on! I can force these 60 frames into 140KB! /cram /cram"? Because that's probably me.

 

[auntiehill]

Heh. Define it as you will.

 

[Amaris]

Heh. Define it as you will.

It's like when I tried to put on those jeans I found from back when I was in high school. Theoretically, I was going to make it work. When that theory was applied, however, um, well, it's essentially the avatar issue, just with pants.

 

[M'Sharak]

were the size increased I have no doubt the standard of avatars would improve

There were people here producing some pretty amazing static and animated avatar images at dimensions 120x120 and 140x140, with filesize half the current limit, which pretty much says that increasing the size limit now will guarantee only that the size limit will have increased, and nothing more. An "improved standard" (as you put it) is much more dependent upon imagination and creative image editing than it is the amount of headroom available.

 

[captcalhoun]

the one i always remember and love is the Picard Four Lights/Sprite one. cracks me up every time.

 

[cooleddie74]

Shatmandu's never failed to be memorable and easily identifiable with the poster, and Samuel T. Cogley's were and remain instantly recognizable and bring a wide smile. Crusher Disciple. Can't forget our favorite bunny over the years! Love that woman. But if I had to go for all-time greatest that I can actually remember with my disjointed memory and after well over a decade in the forums I guess I'd have to go with the one. The only. The dearly departed but never, ever forgotten Mallory.

The senior officers of TOS in WWII Army Ranger fatigues overlooking famous redshirt Ensign Mallory as he stands alone in silhouette atop a lonely hill? It might not seem like the obvious choice because it's not the funniest, the most amusing, the most original really or even the one other posters at the time got into conversations with ol' Mallory about...but it was one of the most personally and easily identifiable with its creator, it was a well made Photoshop and pleasant on the eyes, dealt indirectly with one of my favorite films of the past twenty years and perhaps the greatest WWII movie ever filmed and always reminds me of one of the best damn posters that the boards will ever, ever have. I still have to remind myself from time to time that Mallory's no longer with us...his presence for so many years was a constant pleasure. Though the boards have grown and prospered without him, this place still isn't quite the same without his regular presence and interesting input.

Cheers, Mallory. We still love you, old friend. And wherever you are, thanks for the great times.

 

[Kemaiku]

But each persons computers will be loading the page, complete with all the avatars each time. Making the avatars larger makes the page slower to respond and load.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

My favorite one right now is Locutus of Bored's kitty.

 

[1001001]

My favorite one right now is Locutus of Bored's kitty.

I loved his Darth Vader "The Circle is now Complete" one. I laughed every time I saw it.

There are lots of good avatars on this board.

 

[Agent Richard07]

If we were able to use flash avatars, that would be great. The file size would be smaller and the quality would be sharper. Of course, flash would create other problems, like people being able to add sound.

 

[Kemaiku]

Chemahkuu

I don't know who to choose, most people on the board have funny, witty, well made avatar's or at least something pretty interesting.

 

[Count Zero]

I was thinking of changing my av but now that it's been mentioned here twice I'd feel bad about it.