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Puffy
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o_O My computer has been on the fritz... =\ not my laptop... soooo now that everything is up and working properly (with a blasted new 400$ cooling system... liquid... so nice...) I should be around more often... isn't that just lovely ^_^...

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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 10:28
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Certainly!

Be sure to check out Legend of the Green Dragon, that's about the biggest news that you might have missed.

Nice to see you back.


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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 11:37
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Who is this Puffy? lol.


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 12:34
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boo! go back to your own forum
hehee


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=P Oh this Puffy (DarthPuff)... o_O You guys complained about DarthPuff and always insisted on calling me Puffy... so the name has stuck... It seems that my avatar has died... -_- ack...

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Puffy
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 17:11
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Fixed...

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spooky
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Marks out of 10 for avatar design: 0

P.S. This forum is now a vomit-free zone

Boo!
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David T
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 18:29 Edited at: 19th Nov 2003 18:29
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Return of the odd smilies

=)

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0_0

^_^

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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 18:30 Edited at: 19th Nov 2003 18:30
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=) looks like a pick axe.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Na - its an alien triangle.


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Ian T
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Posted: 19th Nov 2003 18:50
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I think it's excellent . If everybody had avatars like that instead of (ahem) anime, I'd be a very happy Mouse

Welcome back Puffy!!!

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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Welcome Puffy.



A book? I hate book. Book is stupid.
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Dazzag
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Is it a ZZ-Top logo in black and white?

Or a negative image of a liquirice allsort?

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Posted: 20th Nov 2003 00:45 Edited at: 20th Nov 2003 00:45
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...or stolen plans of the Stealth Bomber.

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Dazzag
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Or a musical note in black and white... erm...

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Puffy
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Thats odd... o_O looks like an arrow2 with pi in bjork font cut out of it over dragonfly lines or sine lines with a corona/dropshadow hardlighting and a rectangle with mosaic glass burned into a grey background to me... =\ eh... ^_^ I must be wrong...

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Puffy
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Posted: 20th Nov 2003 01:55 Edited at: 20th Nov 2003 01:56
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Oh yes I almost forgot... O_O I have the full image of the original avatar... -_- sadly I could not grasp all the detail in 50x50... sigh...


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Dazzag
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Nice try Puffy, but it is obviously a scene from the lawnmower man 2. You know with all that wickedly realistic Cyberspace stuff and everything , just in black and white.

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Pi? Please be some sad looking logo for a kiddie superhero (Super Pi, lord of maths!), and not a member logo for a pi .com site!!!! Have you actually searched for pi? God. Trust me, this forum, or even MS XML & StarTrek forum even, would be the coolest thing around (ie. anti-geek) compared to any of those sites

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Ian T
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Lawnmower man 2 is a wonderful excersize in boundless stupidity and wasting good money. Happily, I doubt Puffy invested much in his excellent avatar, so the two have little in common .

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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Dazzag
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Your right. Puff has obviously invested nothing in his avatar.

Including any use of colour.

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Puffy
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Posted: 20th Nov 2003 03:18
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o_O Of course I invested nothing into the avatar... -_- besides my sweet 30 minutes making it... ^_^ but doesn't it look perdy (I was giving you guys a hint by pointing out all the steps I took in making it...)... O_O color is for the weak... (I'm j/k... I didn't apply color because I wanted it to match my forums)... and PI... ahem... I'm guessing you never guessed to click on my lil web link... Puff Interactive... PI... get it... oh the halarity... ^_^ the new .com should be up soon... forum.puffinteractive.com o_O the forums... eh...

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Posted: 20th Nov 2003 11:26 Edited at: 20th Nov 2003 11:35
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Quote: "=P Oh this Puffy (DarthPuff)... o_O You guys complained about DarthPuff and always insisted on calling me Puffy... so the name has stuck... It seems that my avatar has died... -_- ack..."


No, I mean... because you haven't been here in so long... it was a joke


Quote: "If everybody had avatars like that instead of (ahem) anime, I'd be a very happy Mouse "


Hope you're not referring to mine because my Av/Sig is an artists conception of Leon from Resident Evil 2, the full image actually includes Ada and Tyrant though.


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las6
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Just turn up the contrast for the 50x50 or use another kind of filtering when resizing and you should get a bit more detail in it. Still, nice job.

I sure feel like a psgeek now, cause your post made a lot of sense. Except that I think you were referring to "outer Glow" instead of corona. Or you were using some other filter.

p.s Sinelines are great. ;D

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Arrow
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Quote: "If everybody had avatars like that instead of (ahem) anime, I'd be a very happy Mouse"
I hope you're not saying anime sucks, it's the only field of animation I've seen a bit of varity in. In America you got three basic types, blocky MTV style cartoons (aka Clone High, Samurai Jack, those 5 minute Starwars cartoons), the clasic Disney style (anything released in theatures really), and Flash style cartoons. Anime seams to be the only style of animation that tries to be different or new.


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Quote: "Anime seams to be the only style of animation that tries to be different or new."


lol some opf the stuff I've seen people watch seems to have a disturbingly satic theme - battling

battling monsters
battling playing cards
battling spinning tops
battling robots

etc

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'Hope you're not referring to mine because my Av/Sig is an artists conception of Leon from Resident Evil 2, the full image actually includes Ada and Tyrant though.'

I'm referring to all anime avatars.

'I hope you're not saying anime sucks, it's the only field of animation I've seen a bit of varity in. In America you got three basic types, blocky MTV style cartoons (aka Clone High, Samurai Jack, those 5 minute Starwars cartoons), the clasic Disney style (anything released in theatures really), and Flash style cartoons. Anime seams to be the only style of animation that tries to be different or new.'

Anime is about as different and new as rocks on a beach. Do you really want to argue through this again? I'd be more than glad too. I have some excellent web resources backing up my cases and I've been dying to throw the URLs around.

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In my opinion you've not seen enough to truely say all anime is generic, maybe the Crap they throw on tv (and that's just what it is after all the editing) is but not the good stuff. The Ruronni Kenshin movies (Samurai X), Angel's Egg, Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ultra Q Part 2, Manie Manie, Robot Carnival, Bavi Stock, Goshogun: Etranger, Ai City, Battle Royal High School, Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Azumanga Daioh, Evangelion, Lain, Metropols, and 'X' all contain very different and unique stories as well as animation style, they also have never and probable won't be shown on TV. Hell the entire 80's can be used as one big argument that anime is anything but generic. Anime isn't even a genra, it's a medium, a way to express a story or art. If you realy doubt anime can be artist I sudgest you look at Yoshi-taka Amano (I had to add the - otherwise the language filter kicks in), perhaps one of the best anime artist out there.


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O_O Wow.. o_O You guys notice that indi is back too... within the same week we both return... ^_^ isnt that odd...

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You guys weren't planning this were you?



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Welcome back puff

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Or perhaps an old type Elite ship, just as it cocks up the docking on a space station.... perhaps...

Would have been more obvious with colour...

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Posted: 21st Nov 2003 10:11 Edited at: 21st Nov 2003 10:13
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Quote: "I'm referring to all anime avatars."


My point is that my Avatar isn't anime, it's a US artist's drawing of Resident Evil 2 characters. And other then my own and Koshi's Avatars, I haven't seen very many people at all that have avatars even remotely similar to Anime.


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I think Koshi and Raven are the only two. Yeah your pic isn't very anime looking, I wouldn't worry about it.


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your old was though, right Arrow?

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Quote: "I think Koshi and Raven are the only two. Yeah your pic isn't very anime looking, I wouldn't worry about it."


Actually, my Avatar is based off of a "How To Draw Anime" template, so its somewhat anime...


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Not really, mine came from the game "Ico". I guess you could call it anime but it was in a more art centered style. I wouldn't really call your avitar anime, Omega. Those how to draw anime things aren't really that good.


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Who cares if we have anime anyway? We shouldn't have Avatars Mouse wants us to have, we should have the ones we want.


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You could have a dancing pink cat if you wanted to and no-one would care.





No, wait...

...and like that; he's gone...
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The only time I care about avitars is if someone started using mine, esspecially if they were an ass. That why I don't used Yorda anymore.


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I like my new one

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why do people care about thier av's?
i just throw something on i like ... ya'll don't like it you know my ass is and you can quite rightly kiss it cause i don't give a damn

i heard so many people bitching about Rich's recent avatars too, just stupid if you ask me


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Heh, I thought we were just having a laugh at old Poofy there.

Personally my own lack of colour avatar was something I nabbed about 30 secs after thinking I wouldn't mind an animated avatar. Wasn't particularly bothered, but quite like it in a head spinney kind of way. Used to have a morphing picture of the back of my head that then had my face coming through it. Simple, but effective, effort from around a decade ago. But I lost it

Prefer your new Avatar BTW, even if it does make you look like a girl Heh, good move on the lack of colour as well. Join the no-colour avatar force now!

I'm in a weird sunday mood...

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Whohoo! Another lack of colour avatar! Nice.

Now, c'mon USA, bring us some nice non-color avatars. Raven is actually British, and DBZ lives in a particle accelerator, so neither really count!

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lmao ... well if people think i'm a girl or the next one will probably be gay, then ya know whatever.
i like it, if others wanna make something out of it which isn't there then really that's just pathetic wouldn't you say?

ya know the amusing thing about you Divide, is that somehow you think that what your doing is always a joke that only i don't get.
maybe i don't, but then i'm not exactly the only one around here who doesn't find you funny for your jokes.

wonder if you were picked on when you were younger Divide, just fancy taking it out on me cause i'm on of those guys who always used to throw you in with the trash hahaa
it's the lil accomplishments that count for you, eh hahaa

ya know i'd probably actually bother sitting here making fun back at you, at the things you do and say here; ya know if i like cared


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i've been laughing at you since you started having ideas above your station


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oh yeah i totally care... i spend nights awake wondering just what your doing, what your posting... it's just too much for me to take.


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Yea me, lack of color avitar too, like anyone was payind attention anyway.

I love that new avitar Raven, were did you find it? The only thing I can come up close to that is this




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irish... hmm, that reminds me i need to phone Cathy soon.


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More interestingly though, I think we can all agree that Shadow has let us all down with the anti-colour avatars...

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