What's behind your Avatar?

[DaOld Man]

 

[Frigo]

The avatar is from a webtoon called "Rejected." It's supposedly about this cartoonist who submitted some animation for "The Learning Channel" but his work was turned down. The cartoons get progressively stranger and stranger until... well... check it out (EDIT: May be NSFW)

....that's gotta be a ---smurfing--- joke. At some level, jesus.

Haha, yeah, I believe it is a joke. Still, it makes me smile whenever I'm feeling down.

[ChadTower]

Dash Rendar appearances: 

That actually makes sense.  Only two of those appear to be real novels.  The synopsis of one of them says he was only briefly mentioned.  The other is one I didn't pay a ton of attention to when I read it years ago because it was mostly a vehicle for the game that released along with it.  I never got into the comics, games, or anything other than the novels.  I'm only a passing fan of the movies if I'm honest about it.

[DashRendar]

Yep.  Like I was saying, I was part of a modding community for the X-Wing Alliance game about a decade ago.

Had to find an identity/avatar that wasn't taken, and thought Dash sounded cool.  Around that time is when the Shadows of the Empire game came out, so it seemed like a good fit.   

[Namco]

Somewhere around 2000 I was really into Tekken, Soul Calibur, and Ridge Racer. At the time my buddy, with whom I would spend hours playing Tekken Tag, wanted me to get on IRC so we could chat while I was at work. Well my online persona was "gamehulk" back then, an 8-character compound word that I thought sounded cool back in 1996 to use as my email, but seemed way too lame to use on hardcore IRC channels. Since I was so into those Namco games Tekken, Soul Calibur, and Ridge Racer, and I absolutely LOVED Namco's early arcade classics and was reliving the experience in this new application called MAME, I decided to call myself Namco.

As for the avatar, it's part of an image from Starcraft 2. I clipped it from the Blizzcon 2009 promotional website. I change avatars every so often. I may change it back to the "Made By Namco" avatar I had before, the secret easter egg in Pac-Man.

[NIVO]

a cat.

[garnerb350]

My avatar is a illustration from an artist by the name of Travis Pitts. The name of it is called "Mission of Madness 6"... But if you look closely...its justa representation of Pac-Man. Pac-Man and Adventure (Atari 2600) were the first "video games" I  played growing up (back in 80-81) and what introduced me into Arcades, gaming etc. When i first started using this avatar, somebody here on the forum asked me if i knew the story of this illustration. He/She showed it to me & when i read it, I couldnt stop laughing. I was blown away by it's "awesome-ness". Since then I've alway kept it.


In 1976, Cosmonaut Nikolai Peckmann was sent alone to an orbiting space station for what would be called Mission Six- to study the radiation levels and strange circumstances that killed all four crewmen of the last research mission.
By the third day, Peckmann's broken transmissions were coming back to ground control filled with increasing paranoia and delusion. He claimed that the spirits of the dead cosmonauts were coming to claim him, and that he had to keep moving to evade them. He shouted that if he could capture consume these spirits himself while he still had strength, he could move to the next level of consciousness...Truly the rantings of an insane man.
Indeed, video recovered later would show Peckmann running around the confined but maze-like station, downing emergency sedatives like a madman....pausing in a corner momentarily, only to throw back vitamin pills and give chase to his invisible demons.
He had exhausted the entire cargo of vitamins, pills, and fresh fruit well ahead of schedule. There was no way another crew could be assembled to rescue him before he starved. After one rather violently garbled transmission, the static cleared and the last live image on record is that of Peckmann's empty, wilted spacesuit on the cabin floor.
It was determined that another mission to recover any remains or gather any more research would be a waste of the people's money, and the station was allowed to drift out of orbit and into space- a failure never to be mentioned again. It was ordered and assumed that all video and paper evidence had been destroyed.

..then, at the dawn of the eighties, a fledgling arcade game company called NAMCO would stumble across the transcripts of these events, and the rest -as they say- is history.

As for the name, its the usual last name , first inital...350 is the engine in my 72 Chevelle I drove back in highschool.

[MaineEvent]

Mine represents how I feel about my monitor that I can't seem to fix completely..... Lately I have been hijacking my bedroom LCD, throwing on top of the useless cold black monitor and connecting it using the VGA on the PCB *sigh*



I feel like if I just pry out the old monitor and replace it with an LCD it will ruin the classic 80's feel (I honestly love my woodgrain tak-paper paneling)

[jukingeo]

I didn't really know where mine came from until a kind person from our BYOAC ( I was going to say member - but it didn't sound right) midst asked.

Its from a short firm called smile.



So watch it with the lights on.

Fear is for the weak......

Way cool!  Nice find! As I said in my other thread, this would be something great to add to a haunt for Halloween.

It's better with the lights OFF!

Geo