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Subject: Why can't we have our own avatars?

But we do....our Halo game emblems

  • 05.20.2012 3:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Install Coup, observe, have your question answered, turn Coup off to save your visual sanity.

Unless of course your coup is subtle and a little funny, like Recons #54's here.

  • 05.20.2012 7:08 AM PDT

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Why can't you just be happy with what you have? Seriously...

  • 05.20.2012 8:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: CoNSoL Embu
Why can't you just be happy with what you have? Seriously...

That's your reasoning behind rejecting innovation and improvement?

  • 05.20.2012 8:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!

Just by looking at coup, it's clear that there are many who aren't responsible enough to respect everyone else. Coup is the same has having a personal avatar, it just takes a little longer to set up.


So if Bungie says no, then use the resources that you have left.

[Edited on 05.20.2012 10:37 AM PDT]

  • 05.20.2012 10:37 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Install Coup, observe, have your question answered, turn Coup off to save your visual sanity.
Safari Master Race.

  • 05.20.2012 11:17 AM PDT

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I WAS SOCK

You can have a custom avatar! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Play halo.
2. Make your avatar.
3. ???
4. Profit.

  • 05.20.2012 11:23 AM PDT

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

I got one, dunno what the big deal is.

  • 05.20.2012 11:27 AM PDT
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Oh stop it ;) <3
Posted by: Halcylon
I got one, dunno what the big deal is.

  • 05.20.2012 11:31 AM PDT
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Posted by: Halcylon
I got one, dunno what the big deal is.


Halcylon; trolling one post at a time.

  • 05.20.2012 12:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: HALO3syourdaddy
You can have a custom avatar! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Play halo.
2. Make your avatar.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Were it so easy.....

I'm sure there's new avatars on the way in the next update :-)

[Edited on 05.20.2012 12:05 PM PDT]

  • 05.20.2012 12:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: defnop552
Posted by: HALO3syourdaddy
You can have a custom avatar! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Play halo.
2. Make your avatar.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Were it so easy.....

It actually is. Using this you can have your own custom Halo Reach emblem Avatar.

  • 05.20.2012 12:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: HOOBLA 911
Posted by: defnop552
Posted by: HALO3syourdaddy
You can have a custom avatar! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Play halo.
2. Make your avatar.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Were it so easy.....

It actually is. Using this you can have your own custom Halo Reach emblem Avatar.
I don't own Halo:Reach. :-(

And I didn't change my Halo 3 emblem to something decent before the stats freeze. So now I'll have to stick with the Trow Drummer :)

  • 05.20.2012 12:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: defnop552
Posted by: HOOBLA 911
Posted by: defnop552
Posted by: HALO3syourdaddy
You can have a custom avatar! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Play halo.
2. Make your avatar.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Were it so easy.....

It actually is. Using this you can have your own custom Halo Reach emblem Avatar.
I don't own Halo:Reach. :-(

And I didn't change my Halo 3 emblem to something decent before the stats freeze. So now I'll have to stick with the Trow Drummer :)
Oh, I see. Sorry about that :(

  • 05.20.2012 12:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lord Pyro
and not abusable.


...What? They may not be special but there is always some jerk who will abuse it. Which is why we can't have nice things.

  • 05.20.2012 12:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: defnop552
Posted by: HOOBLA 911
Posted by: defnop552
Posted by: HALO3syourdaddy
You can have a custom avatar! Just follow these simple steps:
1. Play halo.
2. Make your avatar.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Were it so easy.....

It actually is. Using this you can have your own custom Halo Reach emblem Avatar.
I don't own Halo:Reach. :-(

And I didn't change my Halo 3 emblem to something decent before the stats freeze. So now I'll have to stick with the Trow Drummer :)
Oh, I see. Sorry about that :(

This is when the "Online Emblem Editor" would be handy. I could just change it now instead of having to wait for BUNGiE to release their new game so that I can have my trademark sad face!!! :-(

  • 05.20.2012 12:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: defnop552You can use your ODST one if you want. I think it looks pretty nice :)

  • 05.20.2012 12:16 PM PDT

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Posted by: LH Justin
Also, you can't "attach" a virus to a regular image file. Learn how the Internet works...
I'd like to interject here.

Image files contain data (which is just text) in the same way that programs with viruses contain data (which is also just text). Believe it or not, downloading a virus is completely harmless unless another program executes the commands within it, which is where it becomes a problem.

That being said, image files can contain malicious Javascript which, if and when read and executed by the browser, can be a security problem, especially in older browsers. A modern browser like Chrome, for instance, actually catches this and displays the full page "something's not right here" message.

And it has nothing to do with the Internet.

Posted by: LH Justin
The real issues behind custom avatars is the massive amounts of avatars that would be uploaded to Bungie's servers. Although this would cause nearly the amount of trouble animated GIFs would cause when attempting to load a thread.
Not if the images were stored and delivered via a content delivery network then cached in the browser. Not to mention that objects like images which are separate from text in the HTML are downloaded separately so as not to block the rendering of the rest of the page.
As you said up to date software virtually prevent this. Not to mention modern occurrences of this are extremely obscure. You are right, it is possible to send a virus via an image, but the chances of it occurring are incredibly small do to the impracticality of such a method. Image uploaders also typically have precautions that look through the files you are uploading and I assume that Bungie would use their own uploader rather than allowing people to use off-site avatars. I was quite careless with my words, but for all intents and purposes uploading a virus bearing image to Bungie.net would be impossible, as it would be on most online sites. The person I was responding to was acting as if it would be a major problem. And yeah, I would say it has to do with the internet considering an image would be uploaded to a server and then downloaded and cached by your browser, an application used to access the Internet.

Also, of course the images wouldn't prevent the rest of the page from loading. You would, however, see a bunch of blanks spaces where images should be. I myself consider a page incomplete when everything on the page isn't finished loading. My apologies again for the misunderstanding of words.

  • 05.20.2012 12:29 PM PDT

Well we don't want the mods to have to clean up after tons upon tons of inappropriate avatars. Plus, some people could go overboard with avatars/.gifs that, I believe, could use up a lot of memory or make some pages on where they appear slow down/laggy.

  • 05.20.2012 12:34 PM PDT

I have my own avatar.

  • 05.20.2012 12:38 PM PDT

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I can see through windows.

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Or the teabagging .gif.

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Posted by: Godzneighbor
People would abuse it.

This.

People would post content that would not be aloud.

[Edited on 05.20.2012 2:19 PM PDT]

  • 05.20.2012 2:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

I am the only one here who has an emblem like this. This is custom enough for me.

  • 05.20.2012 2:23 PM PDT

Oh hey there

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Posted by: True Underdog
I would never look at some kind of avatar queue.
You're just lazy TU.

  • 05.20.2012 2:23 PM PDT