Why did you choose what your avatar is?

[Dullstar]

Basically, discussion about avatars.

I decided to make a desktop cube for an avatar on a different forum, and then I ran into the "Squirrelizer."  It wouldn't work, though, but I got the squirrel added in manually.

[Pooty]

With my avatar, I wanted to make it clear what my favourite version of Lemmings is; the Master System version. Also, I was in an experimental mood at the time, and I wanted to see if it was possible to make a level in a 128x128 pixel space (reduced to 128x104 due to the skills bar). I also decided to animate it to give it more life, and I feel that it isn't a distraction.

[Simon]

Love for L2 and pixellated old-school graphics in general.

-- Simon

[Proxima]

Mine goes with my username http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" /> (Sentinel Proxima from Iji, the most awesome videogame boss of all time.)

[ccexplore]

Thanks for finally providing an answer to http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=208.msg5784#msg5784" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">my question.  I figured something that cool-looking can't be just a generic spaceship/robot clipart. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" class="smiley" />

[Fernito]

Well, I play the bass, so... http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/winktounge.gif" alt=";P" title="Wink-Tongue" class="smiley" />

[Minim]

...and I play the guitar. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/laugh.gif" alt=":D" title="Laugh" class="smiley" />

Anyway, my avatar is the symbol for Aries. I love it, because that's the constellation I was born. Aries happens between 21st March and 20th April and is the first sign of the zodiac.

[Mr. K]

It's a pixely rendition of me.

[Dullstar]

 http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/shocked.gif" alt=":o" title="Shocked" class="smiley" /> Woah, that's you?

[Chmera]

  Mine's a greek letter, the lowercase phi, standing for the golden section or golden mean, 0.618, complementing uppercase Phi, 1.618 - a proportion believed to be inherently pleasing to the human eye, and frequently repeated in nature and art, so as someone who considers themself both a scientist and an artist I felt it was perfect. It's my avatar on a lot of other sites, as well.
  I could go into detail as to why I use the colour purple a great deal, but I'm probably rambling already, so I'll stop. =P

[Proxima]

  Mine's a greek letter, the lowercase phi, standing for the golden section or golden mean, 0.618, complementing uppercase Phi, 1.618

You have those quantities the wrong way round. Although, if you're thinking of phi as a proportion, both stand for the same proportion, since 0.618 = 1 / 1.618. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/smiley.gif" alt=":)" title="Smiley" class="smiley" />

[Clam]

Civ 4 has clams too http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" />

[Minim]

Civ 4 has clams too http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" />

I have spotted that in the Civ 4 forums as well, even though I don't play it.

I also know that Super Mario 64 have Clams too.

[GuyPerfect]

When the Nintendo 64 and Sony Playstation came out, home video games were capable of 3D and therefore if you wanted to make any money in the business, you were going to use 3D as well. Then there were the XBOX, GameCube and Playstation 2 (and the untimely death of the Dreamcast), which were capable of more 3D, so if you wanted to make any money in the business, you were going to use more 3D as well.

2D gaming kinda disappeared, and indeed became understood as a sort of archaic method of making games and eventually became synonimous with old-fashioned technology and obsolete graphical style. I was one of few people who, over the last decade, kept pushing for new 2D innovations, as the new graphical power of current consoles don't only do 3D. With what we can do nowadays, you can make some 2D that's WAY beyond anything that could be produced from the days before polygons.

My wishes--long thought doomed to be forever unanswered--were eventually granted by the title http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wario_Land:_The_Shake_Dimension" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">Wario Land: Shake It! and an upcoming "reimagining" of a classic game of the distant past: I saw the first screens and videos for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Blob_(2009_video_game)" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">A Boy and His Blob, done correctly this time around. It was several months ago when this happened, and I whipped up my avatar using early promotional artwork for the game (sometimes it pays to have a friend in the gaming journalism biz).

So next Thursday (when the game will actually be available for purchase), I'll be doing that instead of anything Lemmings-related... And I'll have to think of what my next avatar will be!

I could go into detail as to why I use the colour purple a great deal, but I'm probably rambling already, so I'll stop. =P

No! Don't stop!

[Dullstar]

I liked your old avatar better, Clam Spammer!  Why'd you change it?