So I noticed a lot of people have some really cool avatars. I often try to picture what the person looks like in real life based off of their avatar. Why not post a quick reason why you chose the image you use to represent yourself?
I used to change my avatar a lot back in the day but for now I've settled on my current one of a Romulan commander. He represents a code of honor that even as an enemy of the Federation you have to admire.
See video below:
My avatar is the USS SARATOGA (CV-60), which was the best ship I ever served on. Not even close. I'm one of the dots on the flight deck.
I look exactly like my avatar. All the time.
It is also the art from Faith No More's single A Small Victory off of the 1992 album Angel Dust, one of my favorite tracks and albums ever.
During college I had a huge version of this image on my wall. I cherished that poster - I had that and a giant Nine Inch Nails poster that The Wife ultimately made me get rid of :Loser:
The video for A Small Victory takes place during the First World War - what the lyrics/title mean I never really figured out. But everything else makes more sense to me as I get older.
Except for The Wife getting rid of the actual poster. Not that I'm bitter or anything :twirl:
Halloween 2015-ish.
(https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/12191598_10208503293643616_8402950021219688549_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&cb=99be929b-8d691acd&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=68be17&_nc_ohc=_NObDmMKsEMAX_zTntk&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=00_AfAh7_uAE8Ctue6nQ6IL59ZZzIV12oWMJ6bFPS8nr8VKaQ&oe=65D1F333)
You're such a tease. You aren't showing what's strapped to your right thigh.... :laugh:
^Have to leave some things to the imagination! :Nerd:
In addition to military history, my other great interest is US sports history, particularly baseball and football.
I usually try to put someone or a group in my avatar who would have been very well known in their time, but now, are almost forgotten.
So I've had the "Four Horsemen" (the offensive backfield) of the 1927 undefeated Notre Dame football team.
Also, the baseball defensive combo of "Tinker to Evers to Chance" on the Chicago Cubs helped the team win four National League championships and two World Series from 1906 to 1910. A famous poem at the time immortalized the combo (Joe Tinker - Shortstop, Johnny Evers - 2nd Base, Frank Chance - 1st Base).
My current avatar is of Honus Wagner, the best baseball player that almost nobody knows these days. He even had a hand in early professional basketball. He had incredible talent and physicality. Perhaps nobody knows him because he was never controversial, was even tempered and humble. He was hard working, and the kind of guy anyone would want to have a drink with; but he was also a baseball superstar. But he was not a push-over. There is a story (possibly apocryphal) that when threatened by Ty Cobb's spikes, Wagner stepped aside and tagged Cobb with the ball to Cobb's face: Cobb was out with a split lip.
I probably will change my avatar soon. But again, sports history. Maybe Eisenhower or Bradley, who both played on the 1912 Army team.
Quote from: ArizonaTank on January 19, 2024, 09:58:49 AMI probably will change my avatar soon. But again, sports history. Maybe Eisenhower or Bradley, who both played on the 1912 Army team.
How about Ted Williams. I have the book, "The Wingmen" on reserve at my local library. It's about the lifelong friendship and bond that developed between John Glenn and Ted Williams, both Marine aviators who served together in the Korean War.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on January 19, 2024, 10:04:02 AMQuote from: ArizonaTank on January 19, 2024, 09:58:49 AMI probably will change my avatar soon. But again, sports history. Maybe Eisenhower or Bradley, who both played on the 1912 Army team.
How about Ted Williams. I have the book, "The Wingmen" on reserve at my local library. It's about the lifelong friendship and bond that developed between John Glenn and Ted Williams, both Marine aviators who served together in the Korean War.
Ted Williams is definitely in the queue! Batted .406 in 1941, with lifetime average of .344 and 521 home runs. Not to mention his 39 combat missions as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in Korea. Including a crash landing after his plane was hit by shrapnel over enemy territory.
Is it true that Williams' head is cryogenically frozen somewhere, at his own request?
Quote from: Gusington on January 19, 2024, 11:16:59 AMIs it true that Williams' head is cryogenically frozen somewhere, at his own request?
Yes and No? Not clear if that is what he wanted, but something his son wanted. I think his head may be separated but his body is frozen along with the head.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-williams-frozen-in-two-pieces/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-williams-frozen-in-two-pieces/)
Hahaha wow
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Short version. I trained AI on my face and produced this abomination.
Long version. I used to have an avatar of myself as an Imperial officer and my ex wife as a lady Han Solo that was drawn for us by a not unknown artist of my exes acquaintance. She made us Christmas cards every year and that was one of them.
After the divorce I briefly replaced her head with an Ewok her but then (wrongly based on her behavior since) felt that was far too petty and fed a lot of images of myself into AI and there we go.
My avatar is the look on my face when I play wargames.
Really though, does anyone not know the story behind my ava? :Nerd: It's Hugh Laurie as a leftenant in WWI, from the pilot episode of Blackadder Goes Forth. I managed to get just the perfect still image when he's looking at Blackadder's painting, and haven't had the desire for any other avatar since.
Quote from: al_infierno on January 19, 2024, 06:53:22 PMMy avatar is the look on my face when I play wargames.
Really though, does anyone not know the story behind my ava? :Nerd: It's Hugh Laurie as a leftenant in WWI, from the pilot episode of Blackadder Goes Forth. I managed to get just the perfect still image when he's looking at Blackadder's painting, and haven't had the desire for any other avatar since.
Your cunning plan was perfect. It's almost the ideal avatar.
Mine is actually me, jade katana(ish) sword and all! -- shot by my Dad using one of those newfangled digital camera things in our back yard. Yard and garden still there, trees too, those specific flowering shrubs not. Also a lot more white in my hair now. The katana isn't officially real, i.e. by an actual forge smith trained in the art, but it's a real sword with a real sharp blade, basically a Chinese knockoff. {g} My parents gave it to me for Christmas one year, after finding it being sold at a kiosk of curiosities at a now-defunct mall on the Ohio River at Paducah KY (where they liked to go visit.)
I designed it as an author promo for when I was trying to get my novel series off the ground. It looks cool and reminds me of when I used to teach fencing, so I still use it. Also it reminds me of my late Dad, who found the sword for me and took the photo.
Ghosty from the old Wargaming forum used to have an (even more!) epic comedy version of it which he made to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was a little odd considering my name fits better with Friday the 13th -- but then the mask would have concealed my face. This led to me paraphrasing Gimli's famous line "and my axe!" as "and MY chainsaw!" on occasion.
^And all this time I thought it was a rose you were carrying.
The hilt does have thorns in a way: it's a cheap plastic mold of a very detailed fight between two water dragons, with lots of pointy bumps -- and pointy points! It's practically impossible to use the sword in fighting without tearing up my own hand(s). That might have been an intentionally designed effect, to make a visual poetic statement. Or just bad hilt design for show-offy-ness without regard for functionality. But the blade and scabbard are very well made, so, I lean more toward the former theory; certainly I use its meaning!
Very interesting and not surprising reading your posts after all these years.
Joe Strummer and Odd Ball.
have you read my posts? :ROFL:
fuck you and be groovy man
Mine doesn't tie to my user_name at all; always thought the Backfire was one sexy mother of a plane. To equate to relationship terms, the US makes planes you want to marry, the Russian's make planes you want to take out to Vegas for a 72 hour coke and sex filled bender.
What the hell is my avatar?
Quote from: Windigo on April 04, 2024, 11:03:58 PMWhat the hell is my avatar?
nm.... quit laughing at me!!!!
and get the fuck off my lawn
The avatar is a generic Teutonic Knight impression.
I grabbed the pic from the internet in 2005 or so, when i had to chose one quickly for Wargamer Forum and just kept it since.
My male ancestors trace back to East Prussia to the area around Gumbinnen in the years of 1730ies according to free databases.(place actually still occupied by Soviets, who call it Gussew for the time being)
An area where the Teutonic Knights were active in the 13th century.
I was born and raised in a street which is named after a famous Grand master of that Order.
Always felt a love for the military (but never took a profession in that field cause of bad eyesight and beeing rather small to hump around 50kg of gear at ease for miles and miles) also military history, tactics, strategy and weapons.
...there must be something in my blood :wink: