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Well this is how it happened...

One day, months ago, and quite inexplicably, I found myself with Frankie's GamerTag linked to my BNet Login. So, being the all round cool guy I am, I PMed, telling him about this, asking him if he wanted to rectify it. Ofcourse I didn't mind having his GT, apart from his stats being a bit rubbish, who would? But I thought I'd be really nice and ask him if he wanted it back.

I never got a reply to that PM, presumably because it was just thrown out because Frankie is, understandably, too busy to deal with little things.

I waited for about 2 or 3 weeks, and still nothing happens.

This is when I decided to be a bit cheeky and start using Frankie's Emblem as my BNet avatar; and it seemed such a good idea. And for a while it caused me no trouble. Until, without any real reason, Frankie's GT was removed, but his Emblem remained. So I continued to be content with that for a while.

But this morning i felt like a change. So i went onto my settings, went to change my avatar, and tried to change it to one of the Marathon ones. But instead It's just sticking to the default one, not allowing me to change. I click on a new one, Modify my settings, then it acts asif I've never selected an avatar. It's getting kinda irritating, so I guess what I'm trying to say is.... Help...

  • 06.13.2005 7:08 AM PDT
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I read the first line and stopped the second I saw your avatar. I promise I'll read this later. It just seems so funny right now for some strange reason.

  • 06.13.2005 7:15 AM PDT
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It's not funny! I don't want to be stuck with this furry piece of fuzz as my avatar for the rest of my Bungie days.

But there is a moral to this, kids. Never make away with Frankie's Emblem, there'll be retribution...

  • 06.13.2005 7:19 AM PDT
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Funny?

I think so.

You should've kept the grunt emblem when you had the chance. All I can say is keep trying to change the avatar, lol.

  • 06.13.2005 8:37 AM PDT
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I know I should've kept the grunt, but I wanted to change to some Marathon goodness and <<<<<that monstrosity happened...

  • 06.13.2005 8:40 AM PDT

It must be Frankie's revenge for using his emblem.

  • 06.13.2005 9:05 AM PDT
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Nah, he already got his revenge, came over to my house and kncked my legs off with a lifesize recreation of Tartarus' Hammer...

  • 06.13.2005 9:14 AM PDT
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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

That's quite funny, but you think you've got avatar problems? I've been waiting for my custom avatar for... umm... well I forget how long for.

Anyhow, that's one crazy error as you say. Shame it's fixed now.

  • 06.13.2005 3:01 PM PDT
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Well, atleast while your waiting for a custom avatar you can have some marathon hotness as your avatar, whereas mine just, well, y'know, stinks....

  • 06.14.2005 2:15 AM PDT
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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

Well, that's true. I can't imagine the upper right section of the Webmaster's head smells too great. Well, unless you like the scent of gin mixed with tequila et al.

  • 06.14.2005 5:53 AM PDT
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Hahaha, you ever wonder what BNet would be like without a drunken maniac for a webmaster?

  • 06.14.2005 5:59 AM PDT
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My friend, you would not tell with ſuch high zeſt
To children ardent for ſome deſperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum eſt
Pro patria mori.

Only in my sweetest day-dreams... ;)

  • 06.14.2005 6:34 AM PDT

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I also had a similar trouble in that it wouldn't change to another one other than my emblem.

However, as you can see the problem was very temporary. I'd suggest just keep trying it. If it doesn't work, leave it for a bit then try again etc. If it still doesn't work, then well... i can't help.

  • 06.14.2005 7:38 AM PDT

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Try PMing Achronos. He always responds to my PM's. Im sure he can give you a detailed. answer.

  • 06.14.2005 7:50 AM PDT
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Cheers, I'll try it.

  • 06.14.2005 7:52 AM PDT

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I think you are a victim of the Disembodied Soul useing his Soul Shifting Atack. See he switches your soul with someone elses and that starts mixing up your avatar. Till slowly you take the aperance of your new soul.

For help quickly contact the webmaster by sending him a letter. If you are lucky he may perform surgery with his buzz-saw jockstrap ; )

  • 06.14.2005 8:43 AM PDT
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It's fixed. Achronos was the most help a man can be. Kudos to Achronos...

  • 06.14.2005 1:38 PM PDT
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Man, I missed that hairy beast. Oh, well.

  • 06.14.2005 2:59 PM PDT
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Yeah, same here....well, just so people can know, this kind of thing has happened to me twice. The first time, I was just going along, happily posting in my groups, when my avatar (basically what I have now, colored different) turned into the default. I got mad, looked at my avatar page, and it said I still had my avatar on. I went with it, posted a few more times, and it was back to normal. The second time, when I changed the color/background of my septagon avatar, and I came online bungie, and it was the same. So, I went to my avatar page, clicked the "gamertag avatar" thingy off, modified settings, clicked it back on, modified again, and it still wasn't back to normal. 5 posts or so later, there was my newly colored avatar.

  • 06.14.2005 5:06 PM PDT
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Well, I shouldn't be laughing right now. I'm also waiting for my custom avatar which may never happen. *sigh* Yes, it is still funny so, nyah.

  • 06.15.2005 11:49 AM PDT