# Avatar holdouts: going to stick to your guns or eventually get one? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 15, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022 "2021-04-15T01:21:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/203 "2021-04-23T07:45:43Z")
> [@CardboardBoxx](#): > > panache45: some kind of abstract art piece Nope. Its part of an actual photograph I took in Vienna, on June 8, 2004. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/204 "2021-04-23T09:54:09Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Your Heffalump and Roo avatar works very well on my screens. I find it appealing. Thanks for trying it out. Hope you keep it. Thanks! I appreciate it. > [@mordecaiB](#): > > Hope one works out for you. I don’t want you to feel you need to use one just because I worked for hours and hours over a hot Paint app to make them. Avatars should be personal so go for whatever you like best. lol, hope you didn’t hurt yourself. > [@squeegee](#): > > Try this one. It’s a higher resolution version of the same image and it has an alpha channel. Thanks! Done. > [@GreenWyvern](#): > > I liked the previous Heffalump avatar, and I like this one even more. The pink flower avatar not so much. Nice! Thanks! Thanks all, you’ve all made me feel happier about my avatar. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/205 "2021-04-23T13:41:59Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I pretty much see all the avatars. Okay - so what the hell is YOURS? All I see is a circle of differently colored circles. (Of course, I think it was until a puzzle thread that I realized your name was not puzz legal!) > [@GreenWyvern](#): > > I wonder if they haven’t enlarged the text on their computers somehow, without enlarging images. That really gets to one of the things I dislike most about tech. If I DID change some setting, it was unwittingly. At first, I was very frustrated with this new system. Eventually, thru the kindness of strangers, I was able to open some setup that allowed me to participate at my minimal desired level. I made NO conscious attempt to standardize anything. With pretty much all tech, all I want is some minimally functional ability to perform the most basic functions. My preference is to close/hide anything that allows customization or more sophisticated options. Astounds me how frequently I am still able to inadvertently fuck things up. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/206 "2021-04-23T14:04:13Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Okay - so what the hell is YOURS? All I see is a circle of differently colored circles. (Of course, I think it was until a puzzle thread that I realized your name was not puzz legal!) Mine is a photograph of a mechanical puzzle. In my humble opinion, it may be the very best mechanical puzzle in the world, at least to my tastes. The six simple pieces can be assembled in a number of ways. Two of the prettiest are the benzene ring (pictured) and a 3-over-3 close packing of spheres. It was originally designed by Stewart Coffin, and made of wood. He has allowed several other craftsmen to make it, too. [https://johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/puz/peanut.htm](https://johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/puz/peanut.htm) This version was modified to be spheres, made of 3D printed nylon, and due to both the new shape and the slight flexibility of nylon, it’s possible to construct a 3x3 triangle using all six pieces, in addition to all the previously-possible shapes. I believe George Bell came up with the modification. At any rate, I bought the pieces from his shapeways shop and dyed them myself > **[Peanut Deluxe 3cm by gibell on Shapeways](https://www.shapeways.com/product/TEZJ8J246/peanut-deluxe-3cm)** > > Check out Peanut Deluxe 3cm by gibell on Shapeways and discover more 3D printed products in Puzzles. Thanks for asking. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/207 "2021-04-23T15:37:32Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Of course, I think it was until a puzzle thread that I realized your name was not puzz legal!) All the lawyers in the Board seem to have read it that way. I still pronounce it that way in my head. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/208 "2021-04-23T19:30:35Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > All the lawyers in the Board seem to have read it that way. I’ve noticed that, but it would seem to me that puzz would have to have a meaning to lawyers that it doesn’t to anyone else. Maybe it just speaks to the caliber of lawyers on the board. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/209 "2021-04-24T02:52:15Z")
I’ll admit I was also a “puzz legal” parser of @puzzlegal 's name (and had no idea how puzz’s could be legal), but it became clear when she added her mechanical ball puzzle avatar. Another win for avatars! ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2021, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022/210 "2021-04-24T03:12:55Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > June 8, 2004 I had an idea of what it was, but the date narrowed it down for me: Transit of Venus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatar-holdouts-going-to-stick-to-your-guns-or-eventually-get-one/940022.md?page=10)