GiantBomb needs more (dumb) chat icons

While watching the daily dota and some other live streams recently I felt restricted by my current selection of dumb chat icons. Jeff said he should start a topic to try to get user's to create icons, but since he's most likely busy with e3 stuff this week I figured we could get the ball rolling ourselves.

I'm not sure if these are requirements but @mrpibb might be able to confirm, the current icons on the site for the most part are 30x30 .png files. With that in mind here are my first submissions. Please add your submissions or just your chat keyword :Ideas that someone else could fill. If we all come together we can make the GB chat as dummmmb as we all know it can be.

Note: None of these are good, and I don't think all should be added, but I figured it could help people brainstorm. Feel free to make better versions keywords I listed or add new ones.

Dota

:Hook

:Dota

:Rapier

:BlackHole (or :BlackHoooooooooooooooooooooole)

DiveKick

:DaveLang, :Turbo or :LangZone (or :RonGalaxy since that's more accurate)

:ShoeController

:Skill or :S-Kill

:DiveKick (thanks to @mccarron for the better icon!)

:popoff (for when you have to show someone what's what)

General GiantBomb

:WillSmith

:EnjoyYourMassage

Ideas missing artwork (AKA: things you help make!)

I threw some shitty place holder ones next to some of the ideas for keywords.

Others

:gg

Giantbomb-isms

:BigBo

:Bigjeffrey

:Truck

:puppy

:<>

Dota

:BigPlays

DiveKick / Fighting Games

:Salt

Bioforge

:afork :fork (thanks @itwongo)

:NestorStrom

No. No. No.

These icons are always the most retarded things in chats.

MORE DUMB ICONS! MORE DUMB ICONS!

I like :DiveKick and :BigPlays. I don't think the rest really translate well at all.

That said, this is a great idea, I love the dumb chat icons in the chat. WE SHOULD TOTALLY USE MY INTERPRETATIONS OF THE BOMBCAST AS PER MY ANIMATION RIGHT GUYS RIGHT YEAH

as mentioned in the chat earlier :Trucks

Bioforge

:afork

Those and <>

You are right we need a :<> I've added it to the OP.

Kappa

Oh, I can't stop smiling. That Was GREAT!!

If we need anything, it's that image of Will Smith's face. YOU KNOW THE ONE.

:langzone and :bigplays ....and something something bioforgerelated

@moonwalksa said:

If we need anything, it's that image of Will Smith's face. YOU KNOW THE ONE.

I love this one. I added it to the OP and made it 30x30.

There totally needs to be an :enjoyyourmassage emote set up before E3. It should be the sweaty, bald guy from 0:57 in your video. Whenever there's a female guest on the E3 livestreams, and some chatters get creepy, everyone else can hit back by spamming the :enjoyyourmassage dude.

Done.

@galacticpunt: The big question... Who will be in the emote? Jeff? Ryan? Bald Dude? Microform!!!?? Too many choices!

Isn't Will Smith already in the chat?

Not that it means anything to anyone but I give this my full endorsement. Most of these are pretty good. My only request is a puppy emoticon to go along with @rorie:

@demoskinos done, picked a random Corgi image.

This is either the best idea ever or the worst idea ever. Can't decide which.

@winternet: worst

@aquacadet said:

@moonwalksa said:

If we need anything, it's that image of Will Smith's face. YOU KNOW THE ONE.

I love this one. I added it to the OP and made it 30x30.

This is so sadly missing from the current chat icons. We need this!

These are great. I especially like the DOTA ones.

I think big plays has to happen.

First, technically the Dave Lang icon above is Dave Lang playing "Ron Galaxy" who is a character in Divekick that we'll know more about in Story Mode, according to the eSports Hour this week.

How about the Divekick League icon I designed for Divekickers?

I don't like them too much honestly. It seems like they don't really translate well to the small icon and I can't see a situation where any of them would be useful aside from probably Big Plays and Will Smith.

Totally agree. I'm trying to make some of them better at 30x30.

I think most of the dota ones apply to most the daily dota streams. People constantly call for Big Hooks, blackholes and Rapiers.

I am personally a big supporter of :bigplays

We need someone to come up with a good :bigplays icon pretty badly

Added a few more. Looking for the perfect :salt icon now.

Most of those are awful. Also, people don't know how to use the ones that are already there and just ruin it for everyone.

a fork

@aquacadet: Yes, that's what a forum is. A bunch of opinions. Another opinion I have: "IMO" is completely worthless because it's something that's self-evident and doesn't have to be stated.

Why haven't I been able to get these dumb icons to work in chat?

A great question for people like @jeff (who is way too busy this week with e3)

:WillSmith

:D

Hey man, if people want to spend their one opportunity to chat every 70-400 seconds on a bunch of silly Emotes? More power to 'em have fun ya rascals.

:pup :pups or :puppy should all just be the :rorie symbol though. definitely.

http://twitch.giantbomb.com #eSports

Eh the more chat icons I see the more I think of Twitch chat and that place is a fucking cesspool.