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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by Gyt Kaliba » Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:02 pm

Well...Timmy's Dad-ku lasted a little over a week at least, but now I'm back to sporting a Kuririn avatar. This picture just screamed 'AVATAR-IZE ME', so I had to do it. It comes from a page in Malik's Dragon Ball New Age comic in the fanworks section (well, and DeviantArt too).

I know, I'm a Kuririn nut. A Kuririn...chestnut. *waits for someone to get it and...probably not laugh...but still worth it*
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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by Kamiccolo9 » Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:15 pm

Gyt Kaliba wrote:Well...Timmy's Dad-ku lasted a little over a week at least, but now I'm back to sporting a Kuririn avatar. This picture just screamed 'AVATAR-IZE ME', so I had to do it. It comes from a page in Malik's Dragon Ball New Age comic in the fanworks section (well, and DeviantArt too).

I know, I'm a Kuririn nut. A Kuririn...chestnut. *waits for someone to get it and...probably not laugh...but still worth it*
Here you go. Everyone deserves a pity laugh once in a while :thumbup:

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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by Ringworm128 » Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:23 pm

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Post by Dr. Machismo » Thu Aug 29, 2013 1:56 pm

I chose my avatar because I thought it would piss other people off
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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by DragonBoxZTheMovies » Fri Aug 30, 2013 2:32 am

Dr. Machismo wrote:I chose my avatar because I thought it would piss other people off
...And did it? :P

My avatar is Ireland's Tommy Bowe intercepting a pass from Australia's Quade Cooper during their pool C game at RWC 2011. For the record, Ireland won 15-6. :D
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Post by Dr. Machismo » Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:52 pm

DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote:...And did it? :P
Some people have gone out of their way to question and express disapproval at my avatar, so probably.
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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by Kamiccolo9 » Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:30 pm

There wasn't nearly enough Melvin on this forum.
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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by dbzfan7 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:25 pm

Kamiccolo9 wrote:There wasn't nearly enough Melvin on this forum.
Will you be spreading hugs all around the world.
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Post by Kamiccolo9 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:28 pm

dbzfan7 wrote:
Kamiccolo9 wrote:There wasn't nearly enough Melvin on this forum.
Will you be spreading hugs all around the world.
Find me a .gif of him hugging people, and I'll get started on that. :thumbup:
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Post by dbzfan7 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:29 pm

Kamiccolo9 wrote:
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Kamiccolo9 wrote:There wasn't nearly enough Melvin on this forum.
Will you be spreading hugs all around the world.
Find me a .gif of him hugging people, and I'll get started on that. :thumbup:
But they're all done of screen.
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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by Kamiccolo9 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:12 pm

dbzfan7 wrote: But they're all done of screen.
Naw, I mean a gif of this scene
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Post by dbzfan7 » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:57 pm

Kamiccolo9 wrote:
dbzfan7 wrote: But they're all done of screen.
Naw, I mean a gif of this scene
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Kinda blurry. I have CS5 for this stuff.
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Post by Gonstead » Thu Sep 05, 2013 4:19 pm

I read some DB SD and I cracked up at this Mr Satan panel.
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Post by DBZGTKOSDH » Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:37 pm

I couldn't resist to not make this Super Saiyan God Goku my avatar. :twisted:
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Post by Kunzait_83 » Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:23 pm

This one's a fairly ancient piece of fan art that dates back around late '93 and that's always stuck with me since then as incredibly well done. It makes for a cool looking/unique image that also distinctly represents my general era of fandom. I think my main reason for posting here today is just as a flimsy excuse to use it.
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Post by Attitudefan » Fri Sep 13, 2013 3:58 pm

DragonBoxZTheMovies wrote:
Dr. Machismo wrote:I chose my avatar because I thought it would piss other people off
...And did it? :P

My avatar is Ireland's Tommy Bowe intercepting a pass from Australia's Quade Cooper during their pool C game at RWC 2011. For the record, Ireland won 15-6. :D
I hate Machismo's avatar and pissed on him a little bit in the comments somewhere long ago.

I really do hate it though.
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Post by TheGmGoken » Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:04 pm

@AttuideFan. I just realize you're in Canada. How the hell could you have a HBK picture?
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Post by Revolution » Fri Sep 13, 2013 4:18 pm

Came across mine on deviant art :) all cred to the guy who made it's awesome! His name escapes me :)
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Re: How did you decide/get your avatar?

Post by Ringworm128 » Sat Sep 14, 2013 4:40 am

Kunzait_83 wrote:This one's a fairly ancient piece of fan art that dates back around late '93 and that's always stuck with me since then as incredibly well done. It makes for a cool looking/unique image that also distinctly represents my general era of fandom. I think my main reason for posting here today is just as a flimsy excuse to use it.
That old? That's pretty cool, where on Earth is it from?
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Post by Kunzait_83 » Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:33 am

ringworm128 wrote:That old? That's pretty cool, where on Earth is it from?
This one's from an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. DBZ fan art was a pretty common sight in its letters section back in the early 90's.

I used to post on here a lot a few years back, and one of my recurring themes as a very, very tired old fuck was constantly reminding a lot of the starry-eyed innocents around here that both this particular franchise as well as anime in general were nowhere remotely near as obscure and unknown to Westerners and English speakers 20+ years back as so many younger fans today seem to mistakenly (and kind of stubbornly/irritatingly) believe.

Anyway, here's the whole thing uncropped:

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Pretty gorgeous and stuck with me for 20 years for a reason.
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Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
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