That's it! No more goatees!

The goatee archive page is here, or you can download the whole archive (which includes an HTML file for easy viewing). I also have TF's flipping moose (which I made) and bearded crazy_k, plus a few bonus ones I whipped up. I was going to beard Zaphos' avatar (COWERING IN FEAR I AM 23YROLD3YROLD WORST OF WORSTS LEAST OF LEASTS I CANNOT DEFEAT YOU!) but none of my editing programs were up to the task. I'm sure I'll chew up my bandwidth limit fast with all those images; oh well

I guess I'll ask the obvious poll: which one's your favorite? Best looking? Ugliest? Anything else?

From now on, my avatar is going to reflect my current project. My platformer's main star isn't ready to be unveiled yet, so we'll stick Optimus Prime up there for awhile. I've already made it my avatar for Pixelate and a few other Allegro sites. As for the platformer itself, it's going great. I'm building up more levels now for the demo, and hopefully it won't be much longer. It'll blow you away; I guarentee

View the avatars! Evil Harold commands it!

(I also changed my profile pic for the hell of it )

grabs permanent marker in hopes of drawing a fake beard on 23yrold

Hehe.... Yu gi oh...

Well, my favorite is Mega Man, because I'm a great fan of the series...

The worst: none! all are great!!!

No need for more goatees

^__^

The funny thing is I remember seeing all but one or two of those avatars... have I been here that long?? At least 23 isn't leaving us... only his goatees, no big loss, just nothing to smirk at anymore.

I AM THE NEW GOATEE LEADER YAY!!!!!!!!

Even if the goatee is gone, maybe somebody will think of giving their avatars moustaches... Hmm... Nah...

All I know, is I'm sure glad animated avatars are hidden. Some of those are annoying!

My least favorite is probably the frog; didn't turn out so great.

Looks like you joined the month I started

Forgot to mention: this is also my two year anniversary as a member I wanted to get my demo done by now, but it didn't work out. I also thought about pushing to hit 10,000 posts this week, but I thought better of it Man, if I accomplished all that, this would have been 23yrold3yrold Week, big time ...

23: Your next step could be, after you have shaved yourself, to create new avatars like this, a new one every week:
http://edu.loviisa.fi/lg/jh/images/george.jpg

edit:
This is not Jek Porkins

Jek Porkins. Why? I love StarWars

So is the real 23yrold3yrold going to shave off his goatee too?

Pete

Definantly my favorite:

all are Ugly! he's almost the Ugliest member!
i gotta arrest him because he bearded Megaman(tm)…if i'm capcom
these(1,2) too.>:(

The link doesn't work for me

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Oh joy! Now it works!
Heh, seems like I too must've started lurking here at about the same time you started bearding your avatars

Yeah The M-m-m-max Headroom one is brilliant!! My favourate too!

End of an era....

I considered that, but ... no

Almost. We won't know for sure since some of us won't show their faces at all

I remember the transformers one. I spent hours trying to guess which one it was (Cybershark, wasn't it?).

And wth is your current avatar?

Oh noes! Harold has an evil twin.
I expect you to make a full skin when Icy Tower 1.2 becomes available.

I like your new OP avatar. Definitely keep it; unless the character for your plaformer is cooler-looking.
I recognize all of the bearded ones except for the first few. If you take a look at my graph, I think you'll understand. Haha

Somehow the colours of your new avatar always remember me of Harbinger ZERO XXXX Game Company Harbinger CEO's one. But he really seems to be gone, so there won't be too much confusion.

Do I sense some making-fun-of-someone's-name?

How much longer is not much longer? Can we have any sort of time frame? Maybe a screenshot?;D

Now that's a lot of bearded pictures. Any ideas on whether you'll start a new theme soon?

That sounds like the sort of thing I keep saying about my sekrit projact. Not a good idea; now everyone expects it to be absolutely amazing. What if it turns out to be just another Tetris clone, or just another Breakout clone, or just another platform game, or something

I remember the first couple, but probably only about 60% of the rest. Guess I'm just not regular enough. (I was worried for a moment )

Marcello

Hang on ...

Okay. Just wanted to secure Reply #23 (only fitting) ...

Sky-Byte.

Optimus Prime. Took me a while to decide, design it and get it right (darkened the background, hand edited the stars, etc) since it'll actually outlast a week

Sure

I might be able to cough up a decent screenshot in a week (keep in mind it's all programer art at the moment). The big triumph right now is multiple layers of parallax, and I swear when I first ran it it brought tears to my eyes. Ran like a dream I'm going to throw together the main demo level this weekend; it'll be big, so hopefully I can get it running fast ...

It occured to me to run weekly X-Men quotes/TF quotes/Bible verses in my sig. But perhaps that's all time better spent on coding

Well, everyone already has some idea, since I already released a demo. It's definitely better than most of the Depot games; really

BTW, I forgot; we need a new Friday entry for The List now:

Monday - "I wanna make a kick a$$ game but I have no experience" thread
Tuesday - Allegro vs. SDL thread
Wednesday - C vs. C++ thread
Thursday - Cake stealing day
Friday - ??:anti-smiley:??:anti-smiley:??:anti-smiley:??
Saturday - "Lets all get together and make a cool game" thread
Sunday - Religion thread

Hey; I thought Monday was the "I'm looking for a team" day ... guess not ...

I think Monday is the day people want to make a cool game, but don't know how and thus ask others to make it

Nice page... I missed one or two of the early ones and a few from the summer, but most are familiar. Haven't picked a favourite yet, though.

I like Optimus Prime 8)

Wow. The end of your bearding came so soon.. so.. expectedly soon.

Very hard to pick a favorite. There's lots of good ones. Mr. Bush, Elvis, and Captain Crunch would probably be in the top 3 imo

I'm not that quotable

*sniffles*...I've never known 23 without...the...*sniffles*...goatee avatars!!!! Are you ever going to bring them back? (Put a goatee on my Squall avatar )

That would make a good sig

Interestingly, Peter Hull won't forgive me for bearding his beloved Bagpuss, even though it seems he will forgive me for forgetting he even exists. Go figure that one.

Squall Lionheart == FFVIII character == unworthy shítstain

Ahh, nothing like cycling two or three miles to a twenty-four hour supermarket at three in the morning.

Bagpuss is that funny blinking chap, right? If so I never saw the bearded one... how come it isn't included?

Um...I belive you mean "Leonhart".:P;D

Nyah.

I believe I do not, although Google turns up many hits for both. Is this like Aerith/Aeris, where there's a spelling for Japan and a spelling for America?

Ben: Bagpuss == Avatar 26 (beside Bam Bam)

I'm going by the English version's instruction booklet, countless websites, the Square Soft site, my strategy guide, etc... Nyah.

Ah, fair enough. I'm so uncultured I don't know what most of them are

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Oh, um ... by the way ... are we allowed to beard our avatars now that you've stopped?

Dunno about the instructions, but my old FFVII strategy guide called Aeris "Aerith", I got lots of websites for both spellings (as I said) and Squaresoft's site could be fudging the spelling like everyone else too, or just using the English spelling and not the Japanese. Whichever, whatever

Ben: I thought Bagpuss was a UK thing ...

Too late to ask now, from the look of it

Ah! It's painfully obvious! Either the strategy guide itself or the person who typed it has a lisp!! (Or lithp.)
Nyah!!
Hahahahahaha! I'm the |/|4573r!!:P

[EDIT] I hope you're not reffering to my bearded Squall picture that I made in 3 seconds... [/EDIT]
[EDIT 2] I may use that... [/EDIT 2]
[EDIT 3] What the hell's "bagpuss"? [/EDIT 3]

For all I know, Bagpuss is a UK thing. Don't forget that I spent my entire youth in front of a computer, thus gaining extensive knowledge about programming but very little knowledge that's actually useful. The little knowledge I do have was acquired in the past year or two from beings I have encountered on IRC.

(Drastic exaggeration, but you take my point )

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aybabtu: Umm, yeah, he must be. glances left

Shut up! Your's too small!! How was I supposed to see it? But now that I look at it...quite funny...it almost looks like it's really part of the teleDEMONtubby thing.

I did

Ask Peter Hull who Bagpuss is; apparently they're married. Richard Phipps knows too IIRC ...

Well...um...you've spent months on this goatee thing...you have...GOATEE VISION!!
(I dare you to use my goatee'd squall...;)...that is, if/when you start them again)

As far as I know, 23yrold3yrold has never actually stolen an avatar or a gimmick from someone else (unless crazy_k's photo counts). I, on the other hand, stole the beard gimmick, stole the Dancing Duckies from Inphernic, and even cloned 23yrold3yrold at one point. So give 23 some respect! Banyaii! ´\o/`

I give him all the respect he deserves (he happens to know a lot more than me)...outside of the FF8 bashing of his . Just how close am I getting to flaming? I sorta want to avoid that...and while 23 hates FF8, and I like it mucho, there's bound to be some flames...;)

yeah, 23's hate for FF8 has grown over time
Guess it's all the exposure it gets here.. with the talking of RPGs and such..

I'm afraid you will be judged harshly in the great puppet afterlife for bearding bagpuss...

Somethings should never be attempted.

(BTW: Bagpuss was a very good childrens programme - only about 6/8 episodes, but very cool)

However my favourite as a very small child was:

The Clangers!

Ahh... so that's where the "fake moon landing" pictures were from

And poor little me, skimming over this thread, and this is teh first one that I really stop to read. Now I'm scared to read teh rest .

There was a thread on GameDev a while ago; someone had a chance to buy either SaGa Frontier or FFVIII used, and he wanted to know which was better. Even the FF fans expressed their opinion that VIII was a low point for the series; no one recommended it.

Then the original poster came back and said he made a typo; he meant IX. He had VIII already and hated it too; barely played past the first disc

FFVIII == teh soX0r5!!1`

hmmm... My Instruction booklet, the game its self (the PC ver, and PSX ver that I borrowed) all say AERIS. So suck it. ;P

Nah, I bet the Japanese version uses Aerith, juging by the differences in the Official FF6 and the retranslated version...

I love them all, Chris. Although, my favorite is George Bush . That's probably the only time I'll ever have to say that. Unless someone asks me: "Who was your favorite stupid a$$ crackhead president?"

It does; that was my point Some people still insist that's here "real" name, though try saying both names. "Aerith" sounds like you have a mental deficiency ...

As an only slightly related note, Kingdom Hearts has Aerith in the english version as well.

Anyway, to be really correct, it should be http://catbox.dyn.ee/~xg/aerith.png {earisu} ("Earis", curiously enough).

Similarly, Squall's japanese name is IIRC http://catbox.dyn.ee/~xg/squall.png {sukooru reonhaato}, which is closest to "Squall Leonheart". If it was supposed to be "Lionheart", it probably would've been "raionhaato".

EDIT: Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick! You just can't get japanese on these forums, can you? >_<

EDIT 2: Pictures!

Or a lisp.:P

Saying "Aerith" is a sign that you have a lisp.
Saying "entheh" on the other hand is a sign of mental deficiency...

No, using the nick "entheh" is a sign of mental deficiency... Bet you didn't see THAT comming

edit: also, using Bullwinkle characters for avatars is a sign that you're loosing your antlers... cough

Are you (23) ever going to do beards again?

No. It's been done, why do it again?

Too much Nyah in this thread now

It's part of my sig now...I guess I'm just in a 'nyah' sortof mood...;)
SO:

heh.. that reminds me...

Yes, and it's also in half your posts (multi-Nyah).

Of .....?

So? Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, and...

{"name":"nyah.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/7\/1\/71716b96dda3f3daea35bdf80e6109f8.png","w":343,"h":258,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/7\/1\/71716b96dda3f3daea35bdf80e6109f8"}

Be more origonal and think of a new comeback, so anti-nyah!

Okay, okay I've held off long enough. HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH~! This thread is really funny . Maybe your new things could be tounges you could draw tounges on all the things you hate!

I just did And we have an evil smiley; it just don't link too good ...

(that's the Rolling Stones tounge on Squall, btw)

Hehehehe, lets see how mad we can get aybabtu! FFVIII <b><i>SUCKS</b></i>. Muhahaha!(Jez, I'm in an evil smiley mood )

Let's not; I'd like the thread to stay open at least a little longer, 'kay?

Good job man, i'm sure he cares so much about FF 7.

Dan: I dont know what you're talking about, it's said FFVIII the whole time .

23: the image doesn't work here or something (evil smiley that is)

EDIT (to avoid COMPLETE Spam): To answer your post below, 23, Kefka works
EDIT again: Alright, lets not use those because Geocities doesn't actually like to give people any bandwidth, just the illusion thereof

I know; that's what I said. Still not sure why it won't work ...

You'd know by know... But Something seems to be broken... Has my avatar changed for you?

ctrl+F5

reloads it
Okay; NOW it has ... is that another Bullwinkle character?
And why not the old flipping moose again?
Lose the border, btw

Nothing seems to be flushing my cache.. Probably a Konqueror 3.1 thing...

Yes, its from Bullwinkle and You'd know who It is If I was allowd to change my Name

edit: THERE WE GO! I had to "view image" and refresh there.. Weird.

Off-topic, but:

The Eminem sig was 3 lines as well, BTW...

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TF: Try right-clicking on the refresh button... Works in GNOME...

[edit]
err. Galeon, not GNOME

Well now it's not the Eminem sig

Note I said I was using Konqueror 3.1 Right clicking on the button gives me a tool bar menu. Thanks though.

Where the fsck is aybabtu? I went through almost 10 minutes of work making that forum pic and no response Must be working on a counter-retort

BTW, aybabtu: are you a he or a she? I was going to refer to you as a "he" just now but it occured to me I don't know for sure, and I don't recall you mentioning. A cutsie Squall avatar says "girl" to me ...

@TF's monster sig:

HEY! I like FF8 too

What you talkin about? It's only 6 lines long

8 lines. 8 full lines. 8 full lines that dwarf your 2 line post

MF: NYAH!!

Still big, maybe bigger than 23's old sig...

Nope. I only count 6 lines You need a bigger monitor

I get 7 (and I ain't going to increase the size of browser window... I like the fact that Winamp takes up the remain empty space (well... not in terms of height) because of the width.

Eh...it's ok...kinda boring...

I'm back...and I'm most definatly not a girl. As for the counter retort...um...give me a minute, 'k?:P

I'm sure most of us haven't mentioned whether we're guys or gals giggle

Counter retort:

Oh, You! giggle

My nyah > your nyah.

And what's on my nose?

That'll be an overflow in whatever drawing program he used. Well done

Ha! M1n3 is t3h b3tt4r! Ph34r m4 1337 5qua11 edi71n6 ski11z! C4n j00 74573 t3h 0wn463!!?!

(sorry; been reading Megatokyo ...)

I'm thinking of finding a decent unobscured pic of the GunBlade (EDIT: which I just did on Google); then I can edit out his pointer, ring, and pinky fingers

What? Why would I want to switch to destop #5? I only have four!

I can't be both?;D

huggles

p433r 734 1337 M4D 5k1LZ!!!

aka: Megatokyo r0x0rz.

Um...there was some white on your nose, so it saw it as transparent. (I did it in paint, it took longer to upload than to draw...didn't take nearly as long as yours )
My nyah > your nyah!!!

That's what I thought; so fix it

Indeed; mine is superior because it took more effort (a whopping 8 minutes!)
Yours took no effort, no time, no thought, no originality. The judges are unimpressed.
837742 1U[|< |\|3><7 71M3!!

NYAH!!

EDIT: Maybe we should hold a vote ...

23, where is yours? I cannot see it... Oh, and I get points for my new avatar don't I? It took like 8-10 mins playing with Gimp to get it somewhat decent...

I can see it just fine, but if it's not linking for you, here's a direct link to mine (and here is aybabtu's). Dude; why are you using a .bmp?

Wha!? You put a tounge on it, and wrote NYAH!!, what's so superior about that? And if that took effort, I feel sorry for you.

FINE!

Ah. Hmm.. IE suxorz I just uploaded an new avatar saved as an 8bit png so IE can pick up the trasparent background... LAME.

Points are also scored on originality; most forum pics take no effort. Hell, mine took more than most

If you want effort, go look at my STL campaign button ...

Here is the repaired picture:

Mine's original. Moreso than yours. <u>NYAH!!!!</u>
We should have someone judge them. Someone who's not biased.

Reply 100 for me.

And your picture is not original. Your avatar, my profile pic, my whole freakin' concept (copycat!). Whoopee At least my Squall has a "Nyah!!" expression ...

I'm going to use my image on GameDev from now on

What about me? sniff

TF: Who is that guy?

His name is Snidely Whiplash. He is Dudley Doright's arch nemisis.

I've heard that name. You might want to clean up the jaggies, though ...

And what about the poll du jour? I think everyone's avoiding the thread's high post count ...

high post count? looks left looks right walks quietly away

I tried to play with the jaggies, but Its kind hard Its a verry small image, and I have almost no experience with Gimp

I must say I like 23's better

Now I'm having TF's problem

Squall is flipping the bird now, but I can't clear my cache of it. Weirdly, it's the Anonymized version I can't change; the direct GeoCities link works perfectly with one reload. Really odd ...

Bah! Everyone against me...

At you, 23!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!:P

SO!? The mere fact that your head is on the video game that you hate more than anything's main character is enough to warrant the absence of nyah-ness. SO:

Ohhhh, he's gotcha there 23!

He does? There's no absence of nyah-ness; it says "Nyah" right on it Whatever. My picture is a good generic forum pic for use on many occasions and was a proper original retort to his nyah's; his is a cheap shot that ripped off my idea and is useless outside this thread.
Thread getting stupid. Probably get closed soon on length issues anyway

I meant the expression, of course...
AND, mine was specifically designed to rip of yours and not to be used outside of the thread...HA!

Seriously. It's gotten to be nothing about bearded avatars.

EDIT: YAY! Post number 111 on this thread!
BTW: I'm getting off the internet now, so don't wait for another reply tonight...

Ok, I have a nice idea for doing an avatar prank... we'll see on friday, won't we
Not that I intend to keep it up for a whole year... maybe a month or two. I'll see...

I managed .

BTW, I've had an excellent idea for an avatar set for months now... and now I finally have teh resources to do it .

Eh. I can't be arsed Probably need to play with the html source to find out the params... etc...

Wasn't Cage "CageWilson"? How'd you do that?

Nice avatar btw. Old school. DTK's avatar's owner?

Tom: DELETED!!!

I gotta download some more of those strongbad e-mails; apparently this is some cool Flash site everyone knows about but me ...

I found out about it from Harry Carey when he was ranting about how everyone at his school went to it and how much he hated it

I found out about it from TF
..I have the whole collection (27+ MB) on my drive, and add every new one the day it comes out.

There's lots of kewl flash stuff on that site. Marzipan's answering machine is another good one

I never caught on to the answering machine, but the emails are great (A Japanese cartoon, eh James? or maybe, We installed that lightswitch so you could turn the lights on and off. Not so you could throw lightswitch raves!)

I got it from a link here somewhere...

Yesterday's update had a Trogdor Arcade Game! Go Strong Bad!