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dmcowen674

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Explain your Avatar!!

Hey People,

I keep wanting to ask people about their avatars, but I don't want to derail threads so explain why you chose your current avatar, and / or what it means.

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I chose this, as it is the "eye" / camera from HAL9000 in 2001. So what's yours?

Mine is self explanatory too

People are so stupid
 

davmat787

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Nov 30, 2010
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It's a view of Raiatea and Taha'a from an airplane when I was flying to Bora Bora in the South Pacific.

I thought yours was somewhere in the South Pacific. Just before 9/11, I was in French Polynesia. The last island I visited was Bora Bora, before returning to Tahiti for the flight back, a few days before 9/11 went down. Amazing place with very nice people.

My avatar is a pic of Jeremy Wade taken in the Congo, just a guy I live vicariously through sometimes.
 
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TheVrolok

Lifer
Dec 11, 2000
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I don't view HAL as a villain, but as a victim....

Surprised there was this much argument over something fairly clear. Hal is the antagonist, the villain is traditionally the antagonist, and has a negative effect on the other characters (especially the protagonist). Ergo, Hal = villain.


My avatar was always the surgeon from FuseTalk, but he didn't make the trip over to vB, so no avatar for me. :(
 

erikistired

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Surprised there was this much argument over something fairly clear. Hal is the antagonist, the villain is traditionally the antagonist, and has a negative effect on the other characters (especially the protagonist). Ergo, Hal = villain.


My avatar was always the surgeon from FuseTalk, but he didn't make the trip over to vB, so no avatar for me. :(

humanity is the villain yo.
 

HAL9000

Lifer
Oct 17, 2010
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Surprised there was this much argument over something fairly clear. Hal is the antagonist, the villain is traditionally the antagonist, and has a negative effect on the other characters (especially the protagonist). Ergo, Hal = villain.


My avatar was always the surgeon from FuseTalk, but he didn't make the trip over to vB, so no avatar for me. :(

humanity is the villain yo.

Philosophically yes, but in the film's plot no.
 

KeypoX

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Aug 31, 2003
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Click a random one when they changed the forums, maybe i should change it. Its kinda gay
 

dawp

Lifer
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Bill the Cat from Bloom County, the greatest comic strip of all time!!!!!!