What do demo gamers look like.

OPD · October 19, 2002, 19:51

I started this thread after realizing that in my head I subconciously have a general picture of what each of you looks like.

Kind of in terms of general physical things like how tall, short, big, small etc you/we are but also in terms of more specific things.

Anyway I think it'd be cool to see whether I/you are right in our mental image of people in the demo game. So have attached a pic of a footabller called Vladimir Smicer who apparently I look just like and am the same build and size as.

civman2000 · October 19, 2002, 20:02

i tend to think of people as their avatar...

DAVOUT · October 19, 2002, 20:10

I am afraid I dont know any footabller looking like me ...

civman2000 · October 19, 2002, 20:13

Out of curiosity, what's your mental image of me?

Meshelic · October 19, 2002, 20:36

Are you suggesting we post our actual pictures, or lookalikes? I think lookalikes would be kind of funny....actual pictures are okay too.

civman - I agree with you, I always kind of picture people in this forum by their symbol (rightly so, what else would avatar's be for??)

Or when I'm trying to remember someones name I just remember the avatar and it'll usually come to me.

Arnelos · October 19, 2002, 20:44

I've been told by several friends that I look a good bit like Tony Blair, with the exception that I'm only 23 and perhaps not as ugly (though that might just be the age and I'm fated to be that way

...).

Given that my discent is almost entirely from English settlers who came here in the 17th Century (with a wee bit of German and a wee bit of Scotish), I suppose the claim by others of my resemblance to Mr. Blair isn't terribly surprising. My WASP background was also a source of endless ribbing from my girlfriend while I was in school in Arizona

I'm also rather abnormally thin (I have an absolute monster of an over-efficient metabolism).

Meshelic · October 19, 2002, 21:15

I've been told that I look like the love child of Johnny Depp and Harrison Ford, although I honestly can't say either way... my German, Italian and Welsh heritage kind of allow me to be almost chameleon-like in that if I shave, cut hair, wear glasses or ANYTHING then I look really different then before. It's funny when my own friends don't recognize me every other day.

Panzer32 · October 19, 2002, 21:52

Avatars definately shape the mental image.

OPD i imagine you as a guy with a big nose, somewhat hunched back, etc.

CivMan, you look strong and young

Meshelic, you look like you like modern warfare, etc.

Arnelos, you look like a scuba diver (take a look at your avatar and squint...)

I have no image besides a Canadian flag because it won't let me pick an avatar (see Presidential Message: Apologies for Delay thread)

WhiteBandit · October 19, 2002, 22:00

Yes yes, I have aspirations to be a rockstar someday.

Never really been told that I look like a person, however I have been told that I *act* like a person. On many occasions and especially by strangers too. Ah hem. "Screech" from Saved by the Bell!

Meshelic · October 19, 2002, 22:12

WB you look EXACTLY like my friend Sean. Totally amazing, my first thought was "...what the?"

Nice guitar too. I've been playing for 11 years. Gibson's are pretty decent guitars, I've owned a few.

NOT to get off subject here. sorry folks

MrWhereItsAt · October 19, 2002, 23:16

OPD - I gotta say that where a poster has a distinct, noticeable avatar, I tend to think of that poster like that (although I had problems reconciling Moe's crankiness with you OPD!

). This of course doesn't apply to people like Aro or Ghengis

I am in the process of tracking down an actual picture of me to think about posting here, as I can't remember who I'm supposed to look like. Besides, I have grown a goatee since then and no-one has said I look like anything since that time!

Seeing my choice of avatar and my posting style, I wonder what ppl think of me as? Panzer32 - ideas?

UnOrthOdOx · October 19, 2002, 23:38

Bad timing. My wife is at a scrapboking party and has most of the pictures. Here's one from last year of the whole family. And my crappy free scanner isn't that great either...

Mommy 'Dox, Poppa 'Dox, and Lil 'Dox. sorry, don't have any in the house of baby 'dox. Wife took them all for the weekend...

Apocalypse · October 20, 2002, 01:01

Here is a pic of me I took back in June. If you look through my monitor, this is what you'd see.

Togas · October 20, 2002, 01:55

Here's an old and very tiny pic of me.

Panzer32 · October 20, 2002, 08:24

Mr. Wheres it at:

i would say i think you look like the person in your avatar, and you look like you perservere through hard struggles

Shiber · October 20, 2002, 10:52

OPD: Are you always that pixelated?

UnOrthO: Let me guess, which one in the picture is you...

I'll take my own picture soon and post it so you can all make fun of me too.

astrologix · October 20, 2002, 13:45

Coucou !

It's me

Reddawg · October 20, 2002, 14:14

i dunno why i'm posting it, but hereeeee's me!

Donegeal · October 20, 2002, 18:34

Is this what is meant by creating a community?

MWIA- I, too, see you as your avatar. Strong, powerful and confident. However, just like Vegeta (sp?), I also see you as beatable

I really want to see a pic of Ninot.

Togas: ever the diplomat. Go figure.
astrologix: Nice doo!

Here is a pic of me and the woman leaving paradice (Jamacia, go if you can!).

Donegeal · October 20, 2002, 18:39

Why didn't the pic take? Can't seem to make it work.... Just continue to think of me as a knight (It could happen... maybe if I lost some weight, learned to ride a horse, learned to joust, learned to etc....)

Donegeal · October 20, 2002, 18:39

Well, I'll be... it worked....

ThePlagueRat · October 20, 2002, 19:08

Oh gawd, what a lovely wife Unothodox got!

He must be a lucky man.

E_T · October 21, 2002, 01:39

This picture is close to a year old. It's one of the first pictures taken from my new (at the time) Digital Camera.

E_T

WhiteBandit · October 21, 2002, 03:13

We are definitely a sexy bunch of people. Now again I ask, where are the female demo gamer's? Oh.

Meshelic · October 21, 2002, 04:21

I've only heard of maybe two female gamers in the whole Apolyton circle. I guess it's the whole world domination thing.

zeit · October 21, 2002, 04:58

These pictures can supply the next few Gazzete with lots of cartoons- imagine what Aro will make of these...

Donegeal · October 21, 2002, 05:20

yeah, imagine what he could do to the people who don't have enough guts to post....

Aro · October 21, 2002, 10:10

Well, it's me. I'm the one on the left. Oh, I'm the one on the right, too...

Aro · October 21, 2002, 10:12

Quote:

Originally posted by zeit
These pictures can supply the next few Gazzete with lots of cartoons- imagine what Aro will make of these...

Hey, zeit... where is your pic?

ruby_maser · October 21, 2002, 10:55

you all are lucky I don't know how to post pictures

... I will spare y'all.

Anyway, I DO look like my avatar with just a little more hair.