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Post by captainjapan on Oct 14, 2020 21:37:51 GMT -6
Hawklord reminded me, recently, that he created the profile pic I'm using. I know he's right, because a more complete version of it is included in one of his Dave Trampier posts; and I really love Dave Trampier. I couldn't find where anyone had made a thread like this before, so I thought it might be nice to get one started. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this point. As the title says: What is your profile pic? I promise that unless it's super plain, even at thumbnail size, some member has wondered what your avatar means. It doesn't matter if you've chosen a common image or if you've only just joined the boards or if you like to change your pic every other week like Raf;) Please share the what and why of your profile pic! edit: And/Or, your username!! Gracious, but we have some enigmatic usernames, up in here. Obviously, if your username reveals personal details, don't feel obligated to share.
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Post by hamurai on Oct 14, 2020 22:08:17 GMT -6
The Wizard from HeroQuest \m/
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Post by asaki on Oct 14, 2020 22:46:47 GMT -6
My username is the name of a character I created for LARPing, back when me and my friend were kids. Pic should be obvious, but it's the art Erol Otus did for the cover of the Moldvay Basic set.
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Post by captainjapan on Oct 14, 2020 23:24:22 GMT -6
oop; almost forgot - My username is a misunderstood song lyric from Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. It should read, "...like some cat from Japan". I liked it better, my way.
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Post by hamurai on Oct 15, 2020 0:35:09 GMT -6
Right, forgot my username too.
Well, we once played a silly episode of AD&D in our youth where one of the characters (a ranger) picked up a big ham +1 as a weapon. I made up the nickname Hamurai back then, and since I still like the mental picture of the ham-wielding ranger I chose that name.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2020 0:48:51 GMT -6
FWIW, my avatars are usually either references to the anime sword-and-sorcery classic "Record of Lodoss War", or to the "Shannara" novels by Terry Brooks. (Like right now, with the picture of Walker Boh from Dragon Magazine. Walker Boh is the central character of the "Heritage" and the "Voyage" sequences in the "Shannara" universe, and my favorite character in the series. No subliminal message there, I just love the concept of a Gandalf-style character that, at the same time he keeps deciphering the world to his, ugh, fellowship, himself keeps struggling with a severe case of PTSD.) The background to my rather "dynamic" (yeahIliketothinksoindeed) changing of my profile pictures has to do with me being a sucker for coffee break and late-evening sofa "chill-scrolling" on Pinterest, and on similar platforms. I see or get reminded of cool stuff, I want to share it.  Oh, yeah, and my screenname is my real first name, obviously. I think Havard and I started using our real names when we opened the Comeback Inn, back in '09/'10. Steve from DF and Jerry Mapes, the founder of K&K if I'm not mistaken, had changed to their nicknames to their real names, I think, when they started their own pages, and so did we. - That said, as you probably know, I didn't count on the army of especially Brazilian Rafaels that apparently only has one hobby - D&D. The idea was, of course, that people would recognize me better after I switched from my screen name to my real name. The contrary has been the case because there are some people sharing the same first name. ...I guess our parents liked the same music. BY THE HOLY LIGHT |
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Post by Piper on Oct 15, 2020 4:04:36 GMT -6
Screen name: my RL nickname
User icon: Coconut the Monkey (from the former ThinkGeek.com) in Star Wars livery.
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Post by DungeonDevil on Oct 15, 2020 4:12:26 GMT -6
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Post by jeffb on Oct 15, 2020 4:54:35 GMT -6
I'll give you three guesses
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Post by tdenmark on Oct 15, 2020 5:18:54 GMT -6
A smash up of my RL name. Avatar is the original cover I painted for the Warriors of the Red Planet RPG featuring the first modern super hero: Captain Carter, before I went with the "old school" branding I use now.  My original plan for the book was going to be full color interiors, 8.5"x11", hardcover. But as time went on I realized I bit off way more than I could chew (still a problem habit) and scaled it down to a more reasonable digest sized b&w book. Otherwise I'd still be working on it...  |
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Oct 15, 2020 6:34:47 GMT -6
My profile pic is from the back cover of Andre Norton's "Warlock of the Witch World." My username is a character from H.Beam Piper's "Space Vikings" Otto Harkaman is a Space Viking ships Captain. My sig under my avatar is a quote from one of REH's Conan stories.   |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2020 6:48:35 GMT -6
Pic is the Elf from D&D '74. Screen name is from the afterword of the same. Sig quote is from Stephen King's "The Gunslinger".
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Post by tec97 on Oct 15, 2020 6:59:45 GMT -6
Mine is the emblem of Public Enemy.
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Post by Piper on Oct 15, 2020 7:39:01 GMT -6
Pic is the Elf from D&D '74. Screen name is from the afterword of the same. Sig quote is from Stephen King's "The Gunslinger". Wait ... what? Elves have beards?!? Elves have bears? Elves have bards? (j/k) |
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Post by Hawklord on Oct 15, 2020 8:18:28 GMT -6
The band Hawkwind changed its name to Hawklords for one studio album in the late 70s and I've been using Hawklord as a username since the early 90s.
My profile pic is a Jawa wearing Indiana Jones' fedora.
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Post by kipper on Oct 15, 2020 8:50:39 GMT -6
I'm by no means a regular poster here, but I'm a regular lurker so I thought I'd share anyway because everybody enjoys talking about themselves!
My Avatar: Spongebob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs playing "P+P", pure awesome. I screen-shotted the pic myself from the episode, that scene only lasts a few seconds.
My username: was more-or-less randomly chosen in 2001, it's an obscure reference from an episode of the British TV series Red Dwarf ("Dimension Jump"). Turns out the word itself is not super rare as a username though, so sometimes I use 01kipper instead.
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Post by captainjapan on Oct 15, 2020 9:07:16 GMT -6
"Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast." Big Red Dwarf fan, here. |
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Post by stonetoflesh on Oct 15, 2020 10:23:45 GMT -6
Profile pic is Michael Lonsdale in the movie Ronin, sitting at his hobby table working on figures for a diorama of the 47 Ronin.
Gnombient is a handle I started using in the early 00s, an amalgam of "gnome" and "ambient." I was (and still am) a huge fan of Gong's "Radio Gnome Invisible" album trilogy, and am also very into ambient music. I've tried retiring the username a few times, but keep coming back to it.
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Post by Desparil on Oct 15, 2020 19:55:18 GMT -6
I'd be shocked if anyone doesn't recognize Cthulhu, but that's what it is. My username is the name of World of Warcraft character that I played for many years, which in turn was named after the evil wizard at the end of the Doom-clone shooter Heretic - spelling slightly altered because you can't have an apostrophe in a character name or username.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Oct 16, 2020 22:23:39 GMT -6
"Punkrabbitt" as a name coalesced a long time ago, it was my first ever online name. It still has a lot of name recognition in some circles, so I decided to revert back to it for everything now that I have a few DriveThruRPG offerings under the name Punkrabbitt Publishing.
The frabid raccoon is because I have always liked raccoons... very long story there, but as an adult, the idea of having a rabid racoon as my avatar is amusing to me.
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DDO, DCC, or more Lost City map work? Oh, the hardship of making adult decisions! ;)
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Post by bobjester0e on Oct 17, 2020 1:46:10 GMT -6
The avatar is of Regis Moulun's satyr carrying a nekkid woman over his shoulder with one arm, and playing pan pipes with his other hand. Unfortunately, I had to cut the pic way down to get it to fit into the 150x150 pixel requirement for avatars here. (If I'd gone with the other pic I'd considered, the size requirement would've dictated that I reduce it to a bit of cleavage, so this one was the clear choice.)
I unofficially became a jester at Halloween 1993, after creating my own jester costume to go with the hat that I got at an Oregon ren faire of some sort earlier that summer. I've officially been "Bob" since I was found in an Ouroboros box under a pool table.
(Yes, another Red Dwarf fan here! I couldn't resist, had to be smeg!)
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Post by tombowings on Oct 17, 2020 2:08:34 GMT -6
Username: Tombo is Japanese for dragonfly, known for being unable to move backwards (How's that for fighting spirit!), to which I appended the word wings (for no particular reason). Pic: the cover-art from Jack Vance's story, Mazirian the Magician, a fantasy masterpieces.  |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 18, 2020 2:32:10 GMT -6
My profile pic is a pixellated version of a photo I took of a bird dropping on a pavement. The facts that I could feel the wind of its passing parting my hair, and that it was clearly a derivative of Alan Moore's anarchist V's tag inspired me to get out my (first!) digital camera and snap the pic. It's probably one of the first 10 digital photos I took.
It's Vile because I'm too young to be called Ur-Vile, and Traveller because I've been around.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2020 13:17:03 GMT -6
WAIT I HAVE BEEN STARING AT POOP FOR TEN YEARS THAT IS LIKE STRAIGHT OUT OF MY FAVORITE TV SHOW |
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Post by Morandir on Oct 18, 2020 17:50:06 GMT -6
My username is elvish, though I can’t remember if it’s Sindarin or Quenya. It’s a play on Gandalf’s elvish moniker Mithrandir (grey pilgrim), but swapping gray for black (mor+randir) and dropping the extra R because I think it looks better. The inspiration was the “Dark Wanderer” that your character is chasing in Diablo II; I figure Black Wanderer is close enough.
My profile pic is a bust of Epicurus, one of my favorite philosophers, though I lean more towards Stoicism these days.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 19, 2020 15:46:27 GMT -6
I HAVE BEEN STARING AT POOP FOR TEN YEARS I haven't seen many of the cartoon episodes, but I have the complete set of manga. It's translated, though, so it says "kacke" not poop. |
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Post by dicebro on Oct 19, 2020 16:08:54 GMT -6
I found this pic in an old zine. It reminded me of a cartoon character on an album cover Of the punk band “rich kids on L S D”
“Dicebro” refers to that friend of a friend’s big brother who came back from college and introduced the munchkins to D&D, Heavy Metal, and possibly other substances back in the 70s.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2020 0:48:09 GMT -6
I HAVE BEEN STARING AT POOP FOR TEN YEARS I haven't seen many of the cartoon episodes, but I have the complete set of manga. It's translated, though, so it says "kacke" not poop.  You have the German version of the "Dr Slump" manga? How so? |
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Post by Vile Traveller on Oct 21, 2020 11:59:15 GMT -6
You have the German version of the "Dr Slump" manga? How so? Bought it in Munich 15 years ago or so. Much funnier than in English, and my Japanese was never up to the task. |
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Post by greentongue on Oct 22, 2020 11:28:44 GMT -6
It was created back when I was new at the "online stuff". Like a "greenhand" so "greentongue". Plus I like green apple flavored hard candy.  |
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