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Subject: Trophy shot as Forum Avatar?
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if i would make a custom avatar. It would either be the marine from doom3 or Gordon freeman from Half Life 2. or the lambda logo. or a pentagram.

  • 03.11.2008 6:07 PM PDT
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Hello.

I wonder if Bungie accepts a custom avatar from DOOM. Think about that...

Anyways, using a trophy shot as an avatar is a terrible idea. People will use "wrong" things in their trophy shot, and that is not good...

[Edited on 03.11.2008 6:11 PM PDT]

  • 03.11.2008 6:10 PM PDT

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What if we get to choose a thumbnail version of it. That way it cna fit, but the picture isn't shrunken. It just zooms in on a specific part of the picture that you want viewed. Only problem is that we need to figure out how we coul keep it so it's not abused. That's the only hardpart.

  • 03.11.2008 6:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: EpiDemic 1
if i would make a custom avatar. It would either be the marine from doom3 or Gordon freeman from Half Life 2. or the lambda logo. or a pentagram.


You are a VALVe whore Epi. Nah I'd get some pimped out King Leonidas shouting" This is Sparta!" something along those lines.

  • 03.11.2008 6:10 PM PDT

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I think it would be cool but it would be abused like Ash mentioned. But I still think it would be cool. You could take up close pictures of you and it would make ur avatar more custom. In the end though, it would just end up getting abused.

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  • 03.11.2008 6:11 PM PDT

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I really am being ignored...

I think this forum needs to shed it fear of everything. This place is like a tomb with no windows and no doors. This is the internet people! If they haven't seen it yet they will sooner or later, why must we shut ourselves into a closet just because some kiddy on the interwebs wants to make his avatar an image of his manhood?

  • 03.11.2008 11:39 PM PDT

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So what it's a great idea i would surely like my trophy pic used as an avater

  • 03.12.2008 12:00 AM PDT
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Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
I really am being ignored...

I think this forum needs to shed it fear of everything. This place is like a tomb with no windows and no doors. This is the internet people! If they haven't seen it yet they will sooner or later, why must we shut ourselves into a closet just because some kiddy on the interwebs wants to make his avatar an image of his manhood?
That's kind of a one-sided point of view, and I think you are severely understanding the potential problem.

People purposely avoid seeing unpleasant things. Nobody wants to spend their free time hanging around in a place with images that disturb or bother them. Nor do they want their children doing the same thing.

Yes, someday we will all see something that is unpleasant or displeases us. But that doesn't mean that I want to see it every time I log into Bungie.net. Would most of the images bother me, personally? No. But I have to say, if I was a parent checking out the sites that my child visited, and I came here to see phallic or yonic images as avatars, I'd be pretty ticked off. Not to mention that even many adults just don't want to see it, even if it doesn't bother them if they do.

It's not about "fear." It's about pleasantness. It is the same reason that things like spam and flaming are not allowed here. Nobody is scared of it -- it just does not add anything to the purpose of the site.

  • 03.12.2008 12:00 AM PDT

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The topic is trophy shot's as in a picture that a player like the most and who care's if the trophy shot is a halo 3 player t-baging another Plus you already have one like that in the avaters already.

  • 03.12.2008 12:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: UsedSpeedfreak
The topic is trophy shot's as in a picture that a player like the most and who care's if the trophy shot is a halo 3 player t-baging another Plus you already have one like that in the avaters already.


Ya, I'm pretty sure that's not what they're talking about.

  • 03.12.2008 12:10 AM PDT
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I don't see the problem.

1. Aren't the pictures already on the b.net servers? You can already access them through your H3 service record, all you would need to do is transfer it over.

2. The only people that would be capable of having this feature are people with a linked gamertag in the first place. If a user gets banned for having inappropriate material than they are banned until they get a new GT. There is no way to easily bypass this system and would be troll/spammer proof.

3. The report user feature would make it much easier to moderate.

  • 03.12.2008 12:26 AM PDT

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Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
I really am being ignored...

I think this forum needs to shed it fear of everything. This place is like a tomb with no windows and no doors. This is the internet people! If they haven't seen it yet they will sooner or later, why must we shut ourselves into a closet just because some kiddy on the interwebs wants to make his avatar an image of his manhood?
That's kind of a one-sided point of view, and I think you are severely understanding the potential problem.

People purposely avoid seeing unpleasant things. Nobody wants to spend their free time hanging around in a place with images that disturb or bother them. Nor do they want their children doing the same thing.

Yes, someday we will all see something that is unpleasant or displeases us. But that doesn't mean that I want to see it every time I log into Bungie.net. Would most of the images bother me, personally? No. But I have to say, if I was a parent checking out the sites that my child visited, and I came here to see phallic or yonic images as avatars, I'd be pretty ticked off. Not to mention that even many adults just don't want to see it, even if it doesn't bother them if they do.

It's not about "fear." It's about pleasantness. It is the same reason that things like spam and flaming are not allowed here. Nobody is scared of it -- it just does not add anything to the purpose of the site.


It isn't that I want this stuff here, but that the administration here would rather severely limit their members just to avoid a few extra minutes of work. AKA - THEY ARE LAZY!

  • 03.12.2008 7:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: Halifax
Posted by: UsedSpeedfreak
The topic is trophy shot's as in a picture that a player like the most and who care's if the trophy shot is a halo 3 player t-baging another Plus you already have one like that in the avaters already.


Ya, I'm pretty sure that's not what they're talking about.


Halifax, thank you for making me laugh today! haha! :3

  • 03.12.2008 9:36 AM PDT

A bunch of people have already pointed out the abuse issue, so I'll point out a more technical one: loading time.

The image may be scaled down to 90 by 90 pixels, but it will still contain all of the image data that an ordinary 1920 by 1080 pixel JPEG would contain, meaning that each individual image would still take the same amount of time to load. Try it yourself: create a new, blank HTML document and paste this code into it:

<img src="http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/quintet _hst_big.jpg" width="90" height="90" />

That picture of the Galaxy will display in a 90 by 90 area, but it still takes the same amount of time for it to load that it would if you were just viewing it in your browser. If you've viewed an image in the past, that image should be cached in your browser and it will load much more quickly or even instantly the next time you view it.

However, if there's hundreds of different people who'd be using this feature, that would mean longer load times for each thread, and longer load times are a turnoff for a lot of people. Sorry, I can't see it working.

  • 03.12.2008 1:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: Demerzel
A bunch of people have already pointed out the abuse issue, so I'll point out a more technical one: loading time.

The image may be scaled down to 90 by 90 pixels, but it will still contain all of the image data that an ordinary 1920 by 1080 pixel JPEG would contain, meaning that each individual image would still take the same amount of time to load. Try it yourself: create a new, blank HTML document and paste this code into it:

Read my posts, I addressed the issue. All it would take is an application that re-saves the selected area of the image into a 90x90 pixel .gif and adding it your avatar selection. That one avatar slot will change with each new avatar you make, allowing only 1 single 90x90px avatar per member at any given time. A 90x90 .gif does almost nothing to load times.

[Edited on 03.13.2008 10:15 AM PDT]

  • 03.12.2008 5:51 PM PDT
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I like it. I love the ideas in this thread.

  • 03.12.2008 9:04 PM PDT

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