You are not allowed to use the slippery slope argument. Some weenie said so.
You! - I’m voting that you get the Buckeye avatar.
Buckeye, buckeye, buckeye.
I do too, but yet I can’t help but wonder if there weren’t a little…something that would spice it up a bit. Something like, oh, I don’t know, maybe…a wee little picture next to the user name, you know? Something with a dream-like quality to it, just to help define the user? It would kind of like be putting a face to a name.
**GSV CoD **would need a massive freaking spaceship avatar.
Yes! That’s the word I was looking for: avatar! Thanks so much for clearing that up. It was right there on the tip of my tongue…man I love the SDMB!
This thread is weird.
The OP was funny. The subsequent ** Buckety ** posts were funny. He even says in the post that it’s not a big deal. But people came in with serious posts? Then even begert takes tibbytoes post seriously? Then there’s the comparisons of people’s arguments for wanting to remain avatar-less with anti-vaxxers or anti-gays. Oh, “we’re just saying they’re just as illogical.” Really? So not wanting avatars for fear of thread hijacks is more illogical than wanting avatars because some people like quick visual references to people? Those both look like reasonable arguments, particularly when we’re talking about personal preferences (which can’t always be supported with reason. You know like, “I hate all jello and refuse to eat any new flavors.” Oh, that’s just like an anti-vaxxer’s argument!")
Or is this whole thread a whoosh and everyone gets it but me? Yeah, I could see that.
Hey, FoieGraslsEvil, I already called the Christ on the floor-mounted dildo avatar! In fact, I want the apostles too arranged like the Last Supper except on the floor, of course.
I’m sure it does seem irrational from the outside. However, when you consider that **bucketybuck **and I and others have been subjected to a decade-long Ludovico technique combining the forced viewing of avatars with induced vomiting using a variety of emetic agents (text-based and otherwise), perhaps our instinctive aversion will be more understandable.
Christ is a manifestation of Yahweh. Wouldn’t a Christ avatar be a meta-avatar?
Can I just go ahead and coin the term “Metavar” now and save time?
OMIGOD. That’s so true. Because if we don’t have avatars, there’s absolutely no conversation ever had about them on this forum. Ever.
Why, I’ve never even said the word avatar. I can’t even spell avatar. Does it have twelve letters? Does it start with K? Those rules against having avatars completely protect me from any and all avatar discussion!
OMG STOP TALKING ABOUT AVATARS! When I joined this message board, I was specifically promised that there would be no avatar discussions! Not in their own threads, not as hijacks of other threads, not as coded messages that require assembling every fifth letter of a post in the thread - no avatar talk whatsoever! If there is going to be avatar talk here, I just… I just don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m going to cry tears of rage into my glitter unicorn puppy poster, that’s what I’m going to do.
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Hey…a glitter unicorn puppy poster would make a GREAT animated .GIF avatar! 
I was commenting on the spaceship, not the word you were looking for, you avatard. 
By the way, I want dibs on the Dalek when the board goes down the drain.
Couldn’t resist:
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/ff4f574e8e.jpg
And the glitter is animated.
For the last fucking time, if you dont want avatar discussion, then you DONT HAVE TO EVEN SEE AVATAR DISCUSSION. You can just turn off avatar discussion at the control panel. Basically you are whinging about something that doesnt even affect you. Sheesh.:rolleyes:
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Fine, I’ll take Satan then. We’ll do battle!
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This thread is indeed bizarre, a welcome diversion from the realities of an avatar-less existence.
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Woot!
This may come as a shock, but not everything is about you. Since you’re not arguing that we shouldn’t allow avatars, how can a post about people who’re arguing that we shoudln’t allow avatars possibly apply to you?
We wouldn’t have these problems if you could use pronouns properly. You said:
“You wanna show off your pretty pictures, make a thread specifically devoted to it. Keep it out of my GD.”
“It” could quite easily have referred to this discussion about avatars. Which is IN THE PIT, not GD. Moron.
If only there were an option to show no avatars…
OH WAIT. THERE IS AN OPTION TO SHOW NO AVATARS.
Good thing you’ve just provided *solid evidence *that your position is, in fact, unreasoned and retarded.
That’s a clear infringement on my IPU.
This reasoning has been demonstrated 100% accurate so many times. For instance, remember how much use of the word “cunt” went down after they banned its use against other posters?
Oh, wait. No, it went up. You’re still a complete retard.
In all ways except the essential definition of an avatar: that it is automatically affixed to every post a user makes.
It’s like saying that a bicycle functions perfectly as a car… except when you want to take it on the freeway for a 2,000 mile trip.
1.) That’s not why everyone wants them.
2.) Those of us who do want them for visual identification of posters never phrased it that way, because that would be retarded. We don’t want to “put a face with a name.” We want to have an image associated with a name, every time that name says something, because our brains work in a visually-focused way.
Seconded. I’ve mildly entertained the notion of playing the Star Trek MMO just to make a bunch of ships with Culture-esque names.
Well, I don’t even want to decide not to see avatar discussions.
Oh, and I Love Me, for someone who hates any teensy bit of even the discussion of avatars, you sure do seem to be enjoying yourself here. Why are you even in this thread if you find the mere mention of avatars so horrific?
Wait, wait, don’t tell me… Because you’re a fucking retard.
Nope, not unless there’s a kitten in there, too.