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[Spiffycat]

That is very fitting for a Atlas.

[Sgt Dopey]

Honk if you love Dredmor!

[Gothic]

my 2 favorite things combined in 1 image

[Clownman]

Vanellope Von Schweetz!

[StrangeEnigma]

The album cover to one of my favorite albums. Also, it simply looks cool.

[Abba Zabba]

Found a neat little website that allows you to have random avatars provided your forum allows off-site uploads.

You can find it here.

[NeuralStunner]

Avatar randomizers are pretty terrible. (Unless you're actually using a set of very similar pics.)

[Abba Zabba]

Avatar randomizers are pretty terrible. (Unless you're actually using a set of very similar pics.)

What's so bad about it? I like how it eliminates the decision of picking just one thing to use.

[Project Shadowcat]

It mostly has to do with identifying other users on the boards. I'm sure I drive a lot of people crazy with how frequently I change avatars as it is.

[twinkieman93]

It mostly has to do with identifying other users on the boards. I'm sure I drive a lot of people crazy with how frequently I change avatars as it is.

Huh... honestly, half the time I don't even notice it.
I don't have an avatar. I'd like to say that this is an extremely sophisticated joke about how twinkies are non-existant like my avatar, but it's because I'm lazy.

[Xaser]

It mostly has to do with identifying other users on the boards. I'm sure I drive a lot of people crazy with how frequently I change avatars as it is.

Mostly this. Change is fine, but having it change every time I view a thread (or even switch pages) is highly disruptive to the Xaserbrain. I ended up having to "solve" the problem by adblocking the random-avatar.

[Enjay]

Avatar randomisers are bad because:

a) As has been said, it confuses people. Yes, people do look at your avatar and start to associate it with you. I rarely look at the small name text when there's a nice clear picture above it that tell's me who is posting. It's a fairly subconscious thing - I don't intentionally avoid reading the names but on forums like Doomworld where a few people use the same avatar, it frequently confuses me. Someone like PDF and a few others are fine when they change their avatars because they keep a theme or character even if the actual picture changes.

b) They can slow down page loading. Believe me, on a slow connection everything counts and another user on here a while back used a randomiser that could slow page loading significantly to the point where it became awkward to navigate the forum.

c) Related to point b, they can break the forum rules about how big file-size-wise an avatar is.

[Abba Zabba]

Well Jesus crimeney, didn't know I was breaking a damned law.

I guess I'm the only one who really checks for usernames. But whatever, I've made it static. Hopefully it eases your brain, Xaser. Everyone chill now?

[wildweasel]

Well Jesus crimeney, didn't know I was breaking a damned law.

Well, the thing is, some people have complained about that sort of thing before, especially if the randomizer script happens to "cache" all the possible picks before showing one. Remember that not everybody on the forums has (or can get) a blazing fast internet connection.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

figured that, since it's the 6th January now, that it was time to get rid of the holladay seasons for now. and i also decided to flip her, so she looks in the correct way on the forums (for my layout, that is).