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Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Carrion Crow on May 13, 2008, 11:59:00 am
It sounds crazy but I kinda imagine forum members as their avatars e.g. when steel posts I can see someone getting shouted at by gordon ramsay and when rami posts I think that kermit the frog is indeed sitting at a computer somewhere typing away.

 I find it really weird when you look at the member picture thread and they are actually REAL PEOPLE :blarg:

So at risk of creating another pointless topic, how do you imagine other posters?

I thought that Strangeluv was a white guy who wears a tweed jacket with elbow pads who also smokes cherry tobacco in a pipe but he's actually a crazy wannabe president from T&T.
I imagine ATARI as Maynard James Keenan but that image was also shattered thanks to the member picture thread.
I am also almost convinced that NightBlade sits at his PC wearing a black hooded cape and that he has glowing red eyes.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Marcus on May 13, 2008, 12:12:01 pm
steel looks like a terrorist so if you're ever walking down the street and see a 7ft. tall hairy guy wearing dark shades with a huge beard listening to genesis then it's probably him

Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: missingno on May 13, 2008, 12:13:17 pm
their avatars unless i have seen a picture of them
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: HL on May 13, 2008, 12:14:10 pm
so what do you picture me as then...i better be ken....
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: helter skelter on May 13, 2008, 12:15:47 pm
Well Hundley is that guy from Suikuden or whatever...
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: missingno on May 13, 2008, 12:18:02 pm
Quote from: handsome lamb on May 13, 2008, 12:14:10 pm
so what do you picture me as then...i better be ken....

i picture your dick actually
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Kaworu on May 13, 2008, 12:21:02 pm
unless I've seen a photo, I prettymuch imagine people as fat nerds, but then after seeing a photo I just see them as what I saw in the photo.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: jamie on May 13, 2008, 12:24:22 pm
i know what most of the people who i know on here actually look like, so i just imagine that. for some random member i usually associate them with the avatar, unless it's an anime avatar of a woman then you know there's something unpleasant behind it.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: otomon on May 13, 2008, 12:35:45 pm
I look like my avatar.
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Post by: jamie on May 13, 2008, 12:44:53 pm
yeah we know
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Post by: headphonics on May 13, 2008, 12:50:57 pm
i can't think of a single member who i've actually pictured looking like anything at all that i haven't already seen some photo of.  i think if i haven't seen a picture or something i just picture HANDS TYPING and not a face or body or anything like that.  i definitely don't picture avatars.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: missingno on May 13, 2008, 01:25:54 pm
Quote from: Meta Sal Dalí on May 13, 2008, 12:59:14 pm
I don't know, I guess I just think of everyone as people on forums. I identify avatars with certain members (if they're active and always use the one picture), but not with their actual appearance. But it doesn't make me think of their picture posting or anything.

Yes this is a much better way of wording it. I don't really picture people as like THIS ANIME CHARACTER IS ACTUALLY SITTING AT A COMPUTER but more just associating it with that person's name and personality. Thinking about it I don't really picture people actually typing at all.
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Post by: Ax_Dude on May 13, 2008, 02:08:08 pm
I Imagine people to look like their old avatars.
You've all changed your Usernames and Avatars so much i dont know who's who these days.

Then the picture thread just ruins it for everyone.
BRING BACK PUBLIC ACCESS!!!!!!
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: otomon on May 13, 2008, 02:47:58 pm
Quote from: Ax_Dude on May 13, 2008, 02:08:08 pm
I Imagine people to look like their old avatars.
You've all changed your User names and Avatars so much i don't know who's who these days.

Then the picture thread just ruins it for everyone.
BRING BACK PUBLIC ACCESS!!!!!!

I agree man..why do people change their avatar and user name so much? Its just confusing.. I don't see any reason to change one`s user name...
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Iaman on May 13, 2008, 02:50:46 pm
I still cannot see an Ax_Dude post without imagine him being in the midst of a sea of zombies, fighting them off while desperately typing up a post on this forum as if he were recording some sort of memoir.

I mean, I know that probably is the case, but, you know, whatever.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Dale Gobbler on May 13, 2008, 03:13:00 pm
When I see BM post I think of his lab assistant lookin' avatar. And when TFT posts I think of that gay fox thing with pigtails, your pretty ugly in my eyes TFT.
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Post by: Ghost_Aspergers on May 13, 2008, 03:13:54 pm
I know how most of the regulars look so I just imagine them as them.

Not Hundley though. He will always be a younger Bogie.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Mateui on May 13, 2008, 03:20:33 pm
I've never posted a photo of myself, and I rarely look at the picture thread because I prefer to imagine how people look like instead of seeing how they actually do (because I don't want to see how far off I am!)

For example, I picture Marcus as some badass burly black man (and I don't think I've see a photo of him in real life yet so I don't know if I'm close in my assumption or not). For others I actually know how they look like - Kaworu, ASE, Bart, Lars (man, who DOESN'T know how he looks like :P) so I picture them as them.

However, I honestly don't really associate people's usernames with their appearances. I associate then with their name. Before reading a post I always look at who's posting it. Eventually you begin to see people's personalities and they become ingrained with that username.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Jayce on May 13, 2008, 03:37:01 pm
Mateui I always think of you as a chocobo or a contestant of Survivor series 'X'
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Post by: Dale Gobbler on May 13, 2008, 03:39:27 pm
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/img387.imageshack.us/img387/3225/tehnewavataroo4.jpeg)

It's not his avatar, but this is what Marcus looks like.

Quick, everyone upload your picture as your avatar. Everyones doing it, Lars, Otomon, etc.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Ghost_Aspergers on May 13, 2008, 03:57:32 pm
Quote from: Mateui on May 13, 2008, 03:20:33 pm
For example, I picture Marcus as some badass burly black man (and I don't think I've see a photo of him in real life yet so I don't know if I'm close in my assumption or not).

The funny thing is that this is exactly how Kezay looks... despite his rampant Nintendoism.
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Post by: Achiro on May 13, 2008, 04:10:17 pm
I think most of them look like people.  :hmm: I dunno, some of them could be cats...
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Post by: Frankie on May 13, 2008, 04:16:22 pm
My avatar doesn't leave much room for imagination... until you see my right hand is a HOOK...
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Strangeluv on May 13, 2008, 04:45:44 pm
Quote from: crumply on May 13, 2008, 11:59:00 am
I thought that Strangeluv was a white guy who wears a tweed jacket with elbow pads who also smokes cherry tobacco in a pipe but he's actually a crazy wannabe president from T&T.

I am the president, what the fuck...!

White guy with elbow pads, smoking cherry tobacco... is that how you thought of me, crumply?? White guy?!
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Lars on May 13, 2008, 04:45:58 pm
(http://www.fox.com/stacked/bios/images/christopher.jpg)

this is what i expect hundley to look like
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Ghost_Aspergers on May 13, 2008, 04:48:31 pm
Quote from: Strangeluv on May 13, 2008, 04:45:44 pm
I am the president, what the fuck...!

White guy with elbow pads, smoking cherry tobacco... is that how you thought of me, crumply?? White guy?!

Aren't you the metrosexual punjabi prince of the Caribbean?
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: ase on May 13, 2008, 04:49:06 pm
I update my avatar whenever I undergo reconstructive face surgery. This ape is what I currently look like.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Vyse on May 13, 2008, 04:50:36 pm
I imagine the Freaks and Geeks cast.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Strangeluv on May 13, 2008, 04:50:46 pm
Quote from: KBJGXLM
Aren't you the metrosexual punjabi prince of the Caribbean?

Yes that is what some call me
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: thejackyl on May 13, 2008, 05:37:15 pm
Never really thought about this to be honest.

But since I recognize 90% of the members here by their avatars, I guess that's how I would picture them.  Of course If I've seen pictures of you, then I know what you look like.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Carrion Crow on May 13, 2008, 05:49:07 pm
Yeah SL I thought you were a whitey.
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Post by: cowardknower on May 13, 2008, 05:54:31 pm
i used to think hundley was a librarian.  Then I talked to him a little more and i kinda picture a 20something.  Or a detective.  Steel I used to picture as his avatars until i saw how unthreatening he looks in his cooking videos and now i just picture him cooking.  Dom = his avatar, no joke.  doldengatio is probably a slimey dildo factory schematic approval technician
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Post by: Achiro on May 13, 2008, 06:19:53 pm
I don't know why but I see crumply as this guy :
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll204/arcanemonster_666/quakeroo2.gif)
The quaker oats guy.
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Post by: Ocean's Dream on May 13, 2008, 06:36:40 pm
I don't put too much thought into what others look like, so what I might imagine someone to look like is nearly always different than what they do look like, unless their avatar is them or a drawing of them. So if you have an avatar of an old man and keep that around for a while, I'd imagine that it's an old man posting. I won't believe it really is, but I wouldn't really have any other reference to go by unless i've seen their picture. It works for me with photo avatars (even if it's not them), and not so much drawings or whatever.
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Post by: holloway on May 13, 2008, 06:39:23 pm
I always think of Lars as Alan Partridge. Probably because its always at the back of my mind when I see his avatar so he just became Partridge.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on May 13, 2008, 06:42:02 pm
I wish holloway looked like his avatar :(

I'm pretty sure when marcus posts it is just samuel l. jackson shouting at the monitor
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Carrion Crow on May 13, 2008, 07:36:05 pm
Quote from: Achiro on May 13, 2008, 06:19:53 pm
I don't know why but I see crumply as this guy :
whatthefuck
The quaker oats guy.

 :fogetgasp: Wow... I dunno whether to laugh or cry
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: holloway on May 13, 2008, 07:41:17 pm
Quote from: Rockman. on May 13, 2008, 06:42:02 pm
I wish holloway looked like his avatar :(
If I looked like my avatar, I'd be far more wary of meeting you faggots in Brum.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on May 13, 2008, 07:42:31 pm
That made me chuckle. :)

I wouldn't half mind looking like my avatar! McFadden is a cool guy.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Carrion Crow on May 13, 2008, 08:02:01 pm
thats it i'm not coming anymore
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Post by: Kaworu on May 13, 2008, 08:05:28 pm
I wish I looked like my avatar :(
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Post by: bible_basher on May 13, 2008, 08:28:27 pm
Quote from: Rockman. on May 13, 2008, 07:42:31 pm
That made me chuckle. :)

I wouldn't half mind looking like my avatar! McFadden is a cool guy.
as a villa fan i must say that birmingham suck and you suck for liking mcfadden

apart from that i always pictured you as a dude with a mophead and pure black hair
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Post by: cowardknower on May 13, 2008, 08:29:50 pm
you look crazy.  and coked up.
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Post by: Achiro on May 13, 2008, 08:32:49 pm
Quote from: crumply on May 13, 2008, 07:36:05 pm
:fogetgasp: Wow... I dunno whether to laugh or cry

At least the Quaker oats guy gets a lot of women. He's obviously a pimp with his hair and hat and cloths.
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Post by: dada on May 13, 2008, 08:44:32 pm
Generally, people will formulate their imagination of someone based on their avatar. That's why I have this one. I want to have authority 'round here.
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Post by: Strangeluv on May 13, 2008, 08:46:56 pm
Couch wears a viking hat.

Hundley is some sort of undercover agent.

Kaempfer is Santa Claus.

Velfarre is a quiet chick with glasses and red hair.

otomon is an Orc.

Shinan is a sharp-toothed wolf-slayer fellow.

Skie is a negro with blonde hair.

Liberty is a French babe.

LordTyphoon looks like Luigi

DragonSlayer looks like James Franco
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Post by: Achiro on May 13, 2008, 08:47:36 pm
Quote from: Dada on May 13, 2008, 08:44:32 pm
Generally, people will formulate their imagination of someone based on their avatar. That's why I have this one. I want to have authority 'round here.


your avatar reminds me of  a yakuza gang member.
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Post by: tuxedo marx on May 13, 2008, 09:22:55 pm
Quote from: bible_basher on May 13, 2008, 08:28:27 pm
as a villa fan i must say that birmingham suck and you suck for liking mcfadden

apart from that i always pictured you as a dude with a mophead and pure black hair
i liked mcfadden before he moved to birmingham and shit on the villa, david gold and david sullivan's antics suck

also i used to look like that
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Post by: TFT on May 13, 2008, 09:33:19 pm
Quote from: Aztec on May 13, 2008, 03:13:00 pm
When I see BM post I think of his lab assistant lookin' avatar. And when TFT posts I think of that gay fox thing with pigtails, your pretty ugly in my eyes TFT.

f u buddy
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Post by: Carrion Crow on May 13, 2008, 09:36:11 pm
man TFT is a fine piece of ass don't disrespect the foxtails
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Post by: hero_bash on May 13, 2008, 09:37:00 pm
I base it on their avatar and also their names..

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Post by: Pulits on May 13, 2008, 09:47:06 pm
Like average americans or something. Except for the ones I know how they look like. ;)
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Post by: Strangeluv on May 13, 2008, 09:53:12 pm
Quote from: Aztec on May 13, 2008, 03:13:00 pm
When I see BM post I think of his lab assistant lookin' avatar. And when TFT posts I think of that gay fox thing with pigtails, your pretty ugly in my eyes TFT.

Man, did you just diss Peaches Foxtrot

Peaches is an important icon in amateur gaming man
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Post by: Shepperd on May 13, 2008, 09:56:42 pm
I hope you guys think I'm my avatar
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: dada on May 13, 2008, 09:58:31 pm
Quote from: Achiro on May 13, 2008, 08:47:36 pm
your avatar reminds me of  a yakuza gang member.
What. The character in my avatar isn't even an asian.
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Post by: holloway on May 13, 2008, 10:35:08 pm
Quote from: Dada on May 13, 2008, 09:58:31 pm
What. The character in my avatar isn't even an asian.
He does look a bit when you aren't focused on it.
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Post by: Cheesy Doritos on May 13, 2008, 10:37:12 pm
Am I a giant charmander or what?

Mostly I visualize people based on their avatars, but more association than actual physical forms really.
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Post by: SEimagery on May 13, 2008, 10:40:16 pm
The only avatar that comes to mind is meiscool's.

So I picture him as that Mountain Dew kid lol.
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Post by: Strangeluv on May 13, 2008, 10:41:24 pm
Yeah I picture Cheesy as a Charmander because even his Facebook pic is a Charmander. it's kinda amazing.
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Post by: Cho on May 13, 2008, 10:45:37 pm
Quote from: Cheesy Doritos on May 13, 2008, 10:37:12 pm
Am I a giant charmander or what?

Mostly I visualize people based on their avatars, but more association than actual physical forms really.

I picture you as a Charmander who constantly tosses Cheetos-brand cheese snacks in the air. Why not doritos? I don't know.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Frisky SKeleton on May 13, 2008, 11:11:48 pm
Quote from: DJ Soup on May 13, 2008, 09:56:42 pm
I hope you guys think I'm my avatar

yes.

when i am talking to people on the forums their avatars are what i'm talking to and they talk back. i don't picture their avatars typing away or anything though
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Post by: holloway on May 13, 2008, 11:15:53 pm
But if the piano keys were keyboard keys....
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Post by: ThugTears666 on May 13, 2008, 11:44:31 pm
I imagine people who annoy me with two black eyes
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Carrion Crow on May 13, 2008, 11:46:41 pm
Some of you blatantly look like saladfingers the amount of time your spend online
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Post by: Cheesy Doritos on May 14, 2008, 01:00:14 am
Jesus christ man my AIM icon is charmander too. I'll screenshot all three together and edit it here...

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Post by: ATARI on May 14, 2008, 02:17:31 am
pokésexual?
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Post by: hima on May 14, 2008, 02:21:09 am
I base it on their avatar too...kinda like seeing those avatars talking lol.

I hope people think I look like Martin Freeman though haha :P
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Post by: Mince Wobley on May 14, 2008, 02:26:07 am
I imagine cheesy doritos as a 13 year old boy with red hair wearing a black kippah and holding a talmud on his hands

I imagine angry black man as Ice Cube (the rapper)

I imagine climbtree as his avatar

I imagine couch as a mentally insane person who goes around shooting bananas and saying random nonsensical phrases

I imagine sarevok as an indian or a pakistani

I imagine strangeluv as this (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/vanwoolfe/PeachesFoxtrot.jpg)

I imagine hero bash as a 13 or so years old philippino boy with a bowl cut hair wearing a checkered button up shirt

I imagine rockman as one of those college students that lives in a dormitory and parties all the time

I imagine ryan as a guy with his head shaven and stubble and tattoos and heroin marks on his arms

I imagine harry manback as a muscular marine with that "high and tight" hair cut wearing a desert BDU

I imagine hima as a regular thai person
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Post by: holloway on May 14, 2008, 07:58:21 am
Why do you have a charmander picture for your Facebook profile?? That defeats the point.
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Post by: Revenant on May 14, 2008, 08:42:14 am
I too picture forum members looking like their avatar most of the time!
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Post by: Mongoloid on May 14, 2008, 08:54:42 am
i always pictured Kaworu as the actual Kaworu from evangelion. Then I actually saw evangelion and saw him try to rape that kid or whatever and decided to block that from my mind.

but if you guys see me as my avatar i will switch to a chuck norris one. plz.
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Post by: Bisse on May 14, 2008, 10:04:59 am
or to a banned one L O L

I kind of picture handsome lamb as this Fonzie dude with giant sideburns rolling around town in a Caddilac. (And trying to hide the fact that he plays fighting games and his entire family is lardasses)

As for the rest of you either you are some pic from the picture thread, or your avatar. Also ever since B:SUAJ:G Hundley is a cross-eyed hobo mumbling to passerby's and himself, and I like to think of, is it DJ Soup now, as Johnny Five-Aces, and GZ as Scholtz.
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Post by: ThugTears666 on May 14, 2008, 10:38:58 am
woah revenant posting again
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Post by: tuxedo marx on May 14, 2008, 01:19:56 pm
Quote
I imagine rockman as one of those college students that lives in a dormitory and parties all the time
what

i don't know whether to laugh or party

(party)

Quote from: Bisse on May 14, 2008, 10:04:59 am
I kind of picture handsome lamb as this Fonzie dude with giant sideburns rolling around town in a Caddilac.
I was thinking more handsome mutton chops, idk
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Post by: XxNemesis29xX on May 14, 2008, 01:25:23 pm
haha, this topic is great. I never really think about the actual people, for some reason. But when someone posts, I think of them as their avatars, but never get to thinking of the actual person. You can think of me looking like that guy in my avatar, because that's exactly what I look like in real life.
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Post by: Farren on May 14, 2008, 02:08:56 pm
Quote
I imagine harry manback as a muscular marine with that "high and tight" hair cut wearing a desert BDU


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Vellfire on May 14, 2008, 02:14:27 pm
Quote from: Strangeluv on May 13, 2008, 08:46:56 pm
Velfarre is a quiet chick with glasses and red hair.

Don't have red hair, sorry.  Besides that I'd say you're not too far off, although "quiet" depends on who I'm with (with friends I'm fairly loud but otherwise I don't talk much) and yeah I have glasses (except I am getting evaluated for eye surgery soon so WHO KNOWS WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS)

edit: also picture thread
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Kezay on May 14, 2008, 07:20:58 pm
Aside from those who posted pics in the picture thread and that I can remember, I just associate some with their avatars if they're fitting or with some other random thing that comes to mind, like a rutabaga or something.

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Post by: Cheesy Doritos on May 14, 2008, 08:12:56 pm
I dunno, I'm not too photogenic I guess and it's pretty funny I think.
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Post by: datamanc3r on May 14, 2008, 10:45:16 pm
With people changing avatars and nicknames so often I just sort of assume that each new one I encounter is a different person, though I am a bit miffed at not knowing who is who.

And no, I am not my avatar.
Title: What do you imagine forum members to look like?
Post by: Carrion Crow on May 14, 2008, 11:05:05 pm
You so are