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Subject: Employees and Moderators. Questions about your avatars, and an idea...
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Just wanted to know where you all got your Avatars from? On top of that, explain your reason for choosing it. And, if it was taken from a bigger picture, could you possibly provide a link to the picture?

PS, I and many others thought it would be a cool idea to give trusted members their own, personal avatar as a thank you from Bungie (somebody who has continually contributed positively to the site, forums etc).
What does everyone think?

-JAY132

[Edited on 7/31/2004 11:39:19 PM]

  • 07.31.2004 10:11 PM PDT
Subject: Employees and Moderators. Questions about your Avatars.
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That didn't even make sense.

- Reiginko


[Edited on 8/1/2004 12:41:01 AM by Reiginko]

  • 07.31.2004 10:15 PM PDT
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You sir are a sad, little boy.

[Edited on 7/31/2004 11:38:24 PM]

  • 07.31.2004 11:30 PM PDT
Subject: Employees and Moderators. Questions about your avatars, and an idea...

My Avatar is the character Alric from the Myth series. I chose it because he's so damn awesome. Actually, I'm not really a big fan of Alric, because you sometimes have to question his motives. I'm of the opinion that Soulblighter got it partially right when he said "Once again you sacrifice loyal men to increase your own glory". Oh, and there's that whole "probably destined to be the Leveller unless Soulblighter broke the cycle" thing. But this isn't the place for Myth story discussion!

The avatar itself is a reduction of a pic from the level "Shiver" from Myth II. The full pic can be seen here.

- Reiginko

  • 08.01.2004 12:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: Reiginko
The avatar itself is a reduction of a pic from the level "Shiver" from Myth II. The full pic can be seen here.

- Reiginko


Interesting, thanks man. I'm going to have to play more of the old Bungie games, I want to increase my knowledge of them. I've just started playing Marathon, and I'm getting into it. Good to see some old cool stuff being brought back to the table (i.e. duel wielding).

-JAY132

[Edited on 8/2/2004 2:24:36 AM]

  • 08.01.2004 2:17 AM PDT
Subject: Employees and Moderators. Questions about your Avatars.
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That didn't even make sense.

- Reiginko


that was uncalled for and in no way violated the bungie code of conduct

  • 08.01.2004 8:54 AM PDT
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No one else going to give their story?

  • 08.01.2004 9:48 PM PDT
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This isn't the avatar I wanted to use...it was actually one I was going to submit to bungie for site-wide use, but there was an issue with my original avatar. It had nothing to do with bungie.

  • 08.01.2004 10:19 PM PDT
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  • 08.01.2004 10:56 PM PDT
Subject: Employees and Moderators. Questions about your avatars, and an idea...

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Posted by: JAY132
Just wanted to know where you all got your Avatars from? On top of that, explain your reason for choosing it. And, if it was taken from a bigger picture, could you possibly provide a link to the picture?


Mine is from Marathon 2: Durandal. In the battle against the Phfor, the Pfhor create a series of Simulacra, and pack them with explosives. They look just like regular BOBs, but will say bizarre things ("Frog blast the vent core!"), will not fire at the enemies, and will run up to you and explode on contact.

The original painting, available here, was painted by Craig Mullins, who did all the chapter screens for Marathon 2 and Infinity, as well as a lot of concept and advertisement work for Marathon (not to mention stuff for Oni, the Myth series, and the Halo series). The painting is the chapter screen for the appropriately named "Simulacrum."

Originally, when I had chosen BOB as my avatar, I had in place of the white "Moderator" text "SimulaMod." Right before submitting it, though, I realized most no one around here would get it, so I changed it back to Moderator.

PS, I and many others thought it would be a cool idea to give trusted members their own, personal avatar as a thank you from Bungie (somebody who has continually contributed positively to the site, forums etc).
What does everyone think?


Not going to happen, sorry. Giving everyone unique avatars creates security and abuse issues. Giving "special members" custom avatars is playing favorites and could easily become a popularity game. As you can tell by the way we do things such as ban the use of the word "noob," we try not to seperate users into groups, and we try not to give older users some elite presence over newer users.

As such, custom avatars go only to Bungie staff and the moderators. The moderators only get custom avatars because it makes it clear that we are, in fact, moderators. This is a necessary seperation from regular users so regular users know who to turn to when they have a problem or a question (or money, we'll gladly take money).

So it goes.

  • 08.01.2004 11:57 PM PDT
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Hey that shuld be my avatar! Look at my name. I go perfect with it

  • 08.02.2004 12:02 AM PDT
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Posted by: JAY132
[quote]PS, I and many others thought it would be a cool idea to give trusted members their own, personal avatar as a thank you from Bungie (somebody who has continually contributed positively to the site, forums etc).
What does everyone think?


Not going to happen, sorry. Giving everyone unique avatars creates security and abuse issues. Giving "special members" custom avatars is playing favorites and could easily become a popularity game. As you can tell by the way we do things such as ban the use of the word "noob," we try not to seperate users into groups, and we try not to give older users some elite presence over newer users.

As such, custom avatars go only to Bungie staff and the moderators. The moderators only get custom avatars because it makes it clear that we are, in fact, moderators. This is a necessary seperation from regular users so regular users know who to turn to when they have a problem or a question (or money, we'll gladly take money).

So it goes.

I fully understand. Shame though. I'd love my current Avatar to say my Bungie name over it, no reason though, it'd just be cool.

And I don't have any money right now. Might have *cough* 'some' *cough* quite soon though.
:)

-JAY132

[Edited on 8/2/2004 2:32:13 AM]

  • 08.02.2004 2:31 AM PDT