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does anybody else want a custom Avatar ?

If there's one horseman/nazgul then the number 4 should appear somewhere - maybe on the glyph? But if you're going to the trouble of making a cool aztec-styled 4 glyph, maybe that should just be the avatar??
 
My opinion about avatars - if the owner gets the joke, that's good enough of a couple of people get it, that's awesome. It's impossible to make it so clear that everyone gets it.

You get associated with the thing no matter what. Daughter of Bob was distressed by @Slanputin 's upgrade - and I had to change my usual colour based (blue) scanning for his posts and replies. Now I look for psychedelic.

Back to ideas for TDA - the 4 of the LM dice was the Bastiladon. If you are going for glyphs on a plaque or necklace, the dice designs might make for logical source.

I think using a cropped big image for an avatar is legit. You can link to the original art in your signature - hence using the four riders is still doable. I will hint to n810 that he should go all out and use it as his art comp entry.
 
Wait a minute! click on @Jorgik 's profile page

His chosen image is too tall - but the cropped avatar square is just right - there must be some forum functionality to have a non standard profile image. Does this mean I can stop posting drawings in square frames????
 
spawning of Bob said:
ou get associated with the thing no matter what. Daughter of Bob was distressed by @Slanputin 's upgrade - and I had to change my usual colour based (blue) scanning for his posts and replies. Now I look for psychedelic.
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Uh oh. I didn't know my change would cause such waves. Hopefully the pink stegadon made up for it.
 
spawning of Bob said:
Wait a minute! click on @Jorgik 's profile page

His chosen image is too tall - but the cropped avatar square is just right - there must be some forum functionality to have a non standard profile image. Does this mean I can stop posting drawings in square frames????
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Yeah I also noticed, but I thought it was normal... (or I´m special... :p)
 
thedarkfourth said:
I actually LOVE that idea.
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There are lizardmen official number glyphs from [5th?] an earlier edition of the army book.
One = is a thick circular donut.
Two = is a pair of circular dots.
Three = is three oval dots arranged in a triangle.

Maya or Aztec numbers were apparently just circular dots of whatever number up to 5.
 
spawning of Bob said:
OZYMANDIAS by Percy Shelley (Mary Shelley's Hubby)

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.



I looked over my digital shoulder today and discovered that I was being followed by @Otzi'mandias

He is obviously a being of great discernment. And he likes Romantic poetry!

I had a mental image as soon as I saw Otzi's username, and you, @n810 are the one who could bring it to life.

Lines 4 and 5 - the head of a colossal (lizardman) statue half buried in desert sands

By a happy coincidence, Otzi has a barely tolerable generic avatar, and I was wondering if...Pleasey weasy?
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Is it bad that i only know the Ozymandias quote from civ 5?
 
airjamy said:
Is it bad that i only know the Ozymandias quote from civ 5?
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Don't feel bad. I met him as a bit player in the comic strip Crock back in the 70s and 80s. He is in the bottom strip here - and I think he was just referred to as "Oh Great Ozy"

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ken The original poem was in a high school poetry book I read somewhat later, and the penny dropped. The image of a broken down statue buried bysand is a very powerful one to me - the accumulation of earthly wealth and power is ultimately futile. With the exception of the accumulation of five carnosaurs - that is legit.

I like Otzi's avatar, but my minds eye had a HUGE standard LM glyph statue with just eyes and brow showing, which looks tiny becasue it is set in a vast wasteland with no other texture
 
spawning of Bob said:
Don't feel bad. I met him as a bit player in the comic strip Crock back in the 70s and 80s. He is in the bottom strip here - and I think he was just referred to as "Oh Great Ozy"

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ken The original poem was in a high school poetry book I read somewhat later, and the penny dropped. The image of a broken down statue buried bysand is a very powerful one to me - the accumulation of earthly wealth and power is ultimately futile. With the exception of the accumulation of five carnosaurs - that is legit.

I like Otzi's avatar, but my minds eye had a HUGE standard LM glyph statue with just eyes and brow showing, which looks tiny becasue it is set in a vast wasteland with no other texture
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Haha, this is hilarious, we all need to get our cultural influences from somewhere, comics and games are as good as a place as any i'd say.
 
@spawning of Bob — In the states that strip called the big idol in the dessert something more like: "Nebook-a-nezzar".

I remember a bunch where the Moorish[?] character is bowing to it and starting off, "O Great Nebook-a.........." I cannot remember the exact spelling.
 
Dang, you are right. I can't work out how I made the association, now.
 
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