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Hahahaha, I had no idea Andrew was behind this masterpiece!
That is so cool
Hahahahaha! That’s my favorite one!
Edit: More videos can be found here. Check out his Alf edits!
The avatar I just got rid of was Paolo and Francesca by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres:
It’s a scene from Dante, I used it because the action and poses in it made me giggle. But more importantly, because my name is Vive La Insurrection - In my head, that dude in the back is about four seconds away from yelling " VIVE LA INSURRECTION!". I may use this again, because it makes me giggle so much.
Other than that this was the first avatar I used:
It’s the Death of Sarpedon by Euphronios, which is a very famous piece, that I fortunatlely saw at the New York Met before they shipped it off to Italy. In the Iliad, it may be one of my most loved scenes in all of literature / poetry
Oh,
and I also bring out Max Stirner once in awhile for “war paint”
James J. Hill, the beastmode capitalist known for making fools out of his subsidized competition.
Tsar Ivan Groznyi, one of history’s greatest consolidators of state power.
Mine is Mises. I made it to match the style of the text in the title bar. I was working on writing a css style for the forum with a blue theme and the mises icon looked better next to the title than the crest did. But, after a while of working on it the forum software was switched and I decided it wasn’t worth my time.
looks boss.
James J. Hill pwn’d, he should be a national hero.
I designed a logo for myself - JDK are my initials, so I thought it worked out nicely.
My avatar is mathematician Alexander Grothendieck, whom I’d consider to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century (maybe of all time). Despite his brilliance, he abandoned his mathematical work sometime during the Cold War, as he saw the threat of nuclear proliferation as a more pressing issue. He has now lost contact with modern society, and his whereabouts are currently unknown.
An imagined portrait of Aristippus of Cyrene.
Mine is Patrick McGoohan as No. 6 in the British surreal sci-fi series the Prisoner. It is a broadly libertarian series and just plain awesome.
My previous avatar was of Enoch Powell the libertarian Conservative Party MP who was also a Greek scholar; he most famously opposed mass immigration.
Mine is a yellow wedge on top of a black wedge–symbolizing the power of the sun over the darkness.
Right?
sounds pretty bipolar
sounds pretty bipolar
You know my forum name is supposed to be an engineering pun but I don’t think anyone ever gets that, they just latch onto my mental disorder
I’m not really Bipolar though so I’ve got that going.
I don’t get the pun.
I don’t get the pun.
It’s not a terribly good one. It’s a portmanteau of Bipolar and Polar Moment [of inertia] and also “makes sense” being read as a “Bipolar Moment”. It has no real symbolism past that, I just thought it was “clever” at the time I thought of it–this is why I’m not a comedian.
I was going to guess it had to do with the moment of inertia.
JP Say, who I actually look like.
Bugs Bunny, who I actually look like.