" Id be impressed and would probably befriend anyone who has the same avatar as me. Unless they didnt know what the fuck its from. Then id be pissed. "
I know Mordukai's avatar it scares me. But I know he's an old gamer like me and just as twisted. I do like a unique avatar or one that changes and is unique. If I know you, I know you by name.
Well besides last year when half the people had the Joker avatar, I don't see anybody with the same one. Unless they are brand new and it's the default pic.
Luckily no one will dare use my avatar. Nobody cares about Wipeout 2097...... *sniff
But people who have Master Chief or Snake or... well, just those two really. It frustrates me that they couldn't have found something else. GRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH But actually I don't care that much.
It's horrible. I recognize people by avatars mainly. I don't think of you as Mordukai, I think of you as "The dude with the scary green haired dude as an avatar that looks like the dude from twisted metal but probably isn't because that dude always has his hair on fire. Actually, it might be a particularly scary rendition of the joker. I don't know. It's that dude anyway". So if two people have the same avatar I get confused.
I know of at least two other users who use the avatar I have, but they rarely ever post. When I do see another post with it, I have to do a double-take since I identify people by their avatars as well (including myself).
Whilst I am indifferent to what people use, like many others, I recognise members by their avatars first. When people change their avatars, it just means that it takes a while for me to remember them again.
If the forums turned in to a huge clone army, then I'd start to get annoyed. There's only a couple of people I've seen that are using hte same avatars as each other, luckily mine hasn't been stolen yet. Though I do prefer it if forum members use unique avatars, as it makes them much easier to recognise, so I'll pick A.
It's interesting you mention this, because a few months back some odd guy choose to use mine, with censored eyes. I didn't care at all really, I just thought it was odd and mildly amusing that someone would do something so weird. The thing is, others realized this guys use of my avatar, and as a result I was inundated with PMs asking me what the hell it was all about. To which I had no reply. I found the repeated PM's of those enquiring to be the biggest annoyance, so, I popped a wall post on Johnny 5's wall and asked him what his use of my avatar was all about. He replied with a lol said it was to see if I felt, guilty : / Giant Bomb sure has some strange members, lol
I tell people apart from the content of their posts, if you're more concerned about a unique picture in order to stand out chances are you're not very interesting.
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