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Does your posting avatar affect you at all?

saihung423saihung423 Member Posts: 548 Arc User
edited July 2014 in Ten Forward
I changed mine to Fred G. Sanford (the G. stands for Galaxy class Dummy!) and I swear I fight myself to not call every other person dummy or threaten people with five across the lip.

When I had a dog dressed as spock as my avatar, I found myself highly logical in my responses and every once in awhile wanting a biscuit.



So...how does your avatar affect you and how you post? Or is it your signature that affects your posts?

Color me curious you big Dummy!
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  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Well medtac124 has an avatar of Garak so I always read his posts in Garak's voice.

    As for me, my Seargant Appo avatar doesn't make a lot of difference how I post. I just like clone troopers.
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  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Your not real!!
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    i use the picture of the scorpi clone in crichton's head in that Hawaii shirt because it works with the forum name, in effect the neural clone is the mirroring chaos of crichton's nice neat order. but it also reflects my state of mind as equally, im an undiagnosed and strongly suspected bi-polar case, so i can jump from one emotion to the next without noticing it, so it has an effect on the forum and sometimes the effects can last months in mood swings.

    of course no one cares, so rolling on through to the next thread.
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Well...I find myself hailing Ba'al a lot more now...

    :D:P:cool:
  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I do tend to enjoy chimichangas and post accordingly
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  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited July 2014
    Hmmm... now that you mention it....

    Garak - yup I hear his voice with his text.

    Bender - Bender...

    Ba'al - heck yeah, Ba'al my favourite baddy. With an Ausssie accent.

    Katt - well, any cat

    Sadly Iconians voice is that dude from Ancient Aliens, and I always laugh. It's his Centauri haircut. But then again I have issues with the History Channel showing programs that are clearly not History, but tin-foil hat speculation. That's another topic..

    I created my avatar based on an old ICE card game I used to play 'back in the day', and have used pretty much on every forum since. I certainly do not hear myself in Sauron's throaty rasp....

    My voice? Hmmm..... David Hedison from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

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  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Speaking of which I'm thinking of changing my avatar to a Jem'Hadar. How does that sound? After all it's still a clone trooper, right?
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  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited July 2014
    grandnaguszek1 wrote: »
    Speaking of which I'm thinking of changing my avatar to a Jem'Hadar. How does that sound? After all it's still a clone trooper, right?

    Only if you end every post with "right away General Kenobi!"
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I often have fantasies about wiping out the STO playerbase out of a sense of misplaced vengeance.
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  • grandnaguszek1grandnaguszek1 Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    ddesjardins wrote: »
    Only if you end every post with "right away General Kenobi!"

    Lol, I guess I'll do it right away, General Kenobi!
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    ddesjardins wrote: »
    Ba'al - heck yeah, Ba'al my favourite baddy. With an Ausssie accent.

    cliff simon is south african and his accent.
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  • starfish1701starfish1701 Member Posts: 782 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Oh yes.

    If I'm totally honest some things about this game annoy me and I begin to type the occasional mean spirited post, but when I preview it with the smiley fish picture next to it I tend to re-think my words and re-type something much nicer.

    So yes, my avatar really does affect my posts, in a positive way.

    I think it's the same reason I listen to classical music when driving the car as it positively influences my general state of roadworthness. Without it I would probably just burn rubber and leave a trail of death and destruction in my wake to the soundtrack of screeching tyres and screaming pedestrians. :D
  • medtac124medtac124 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Is that right?
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    medtac124 wrote: »
    Is that right?

    Yep, it's all true. Especially the lies!






    I don't give a chevron about my avatar :P
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Are F2P players forbidden from changing their avatar? I know I have tried in the past but could not select anything but the preset options.

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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    gulberat wrote: »
    Are F2P players forbidden from changing their avatar? I know I have tried in the past but could not select anything but the preset options.

    You have to upload an avatar picture to select it. I'm FTP and I switched to Supreme System Lord Ba'al just fine.
  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    edited July 2014
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    cliff simon is south african and his accent.

    I stand corrected - and didn't know he was south african. Oddly enough I've done work for companies there - should have recognized it ;)
  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    *sigh*

    Yes, it does. It's obvious. :P
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I haven't sucked you dry of your lives, have I?
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Hrmm, I stopped playing my original Willard the Rat almost a decade ago. Shadowbane, Rogue Assassin, Wererat Discipline...blah, blah, blah. So when I created a new Willard the Rat for LoR, Reman Sci in a Fleet T'varo, and he ended up my main - I went with the clipped image for my avatar.

    Does it affect me? Nah, I affect it. ;)
  • kuntelkuntel Member Posts: 16,484 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Well... I am heavily a romulan supremisist in the Ban thread... and whenever I can.

    But I was like that before my new avatar...
  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    toiva wrote: »
    I haven't sucked you dry of your lives, have I?

    Not sure. Where were you in the summer of 2005?





    Just kidding :P
  • cbrjwrrcbrjwrr Member Posts: 2,782 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    Nobody has ever noticed its an NSR and not a CBR in my avatar, so... makes no difference.
  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    I just likes sharks an' pirates is all. /e shrug.

    iconians wrote: »
    I often have fantasies about wiping out the STO playerbase out of a sense of misplaced vengeance.
    I get that too. It's perfectly normal.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
    edited July 2014
    And I happen to like a certain two tailed engineer/pilot.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    I often have fantasies about wiping out the STO playerbase out of a sense of misplaced vengeance.

    My weekend experiment with the redheaded kid from Twilight Zone didn't work...course, maybe it did - never specified that there couldn't be wifi in the cornfield...meh.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    crashdragon wrote: »
    It's what I am.

    You inspired me...so it's all your fault!

    edit: Then again, I'm not sure how different this is from my last avatar...hrmm.
  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,769 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    i'm very cloud when i post............. o.O
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  • sirokksirokk Member Posts: 990 Arc User
    edited July 2014
    My avatar is the Vulcan IDIC symbol, properly positioned to how Spock wore his on his necklace.

    It's not symbolic of anything personal it just that my main toon is a Vulcan male engineer.
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