does anybody else want a custom Avatar ?

If there's one horseman/nazgul then the number 4 should appear somewhere - maybe on the glyph? But if you're going to the trouble of making a cool aztec-styled 4 glyph, maybe that should just be the avatar??

 

How about this: divide the image into quarters, 1st-2nd-&-3rd quarters are Maya or Aztec glyphs for 1-2-3, the fourth section is all black?

Too literal?

 

I actually LOVE that idea.

 

My opinion about avatars - if the owner gets the joke, that's good enough of a couple of people get it, that's awesome. It's impossible to make it so clear that everyone gets it.

You get associated with the thing no matter what. Daughter of Bob was distressed by @Slanputin 's upgrade - and I had to change my usual colour based (blue) scanning for his posts and replies. Now I look for psychedelic.

Back to ideas for TDA - the 4 of the LM dice was the Bastiladon. If you are going for glyphs on a plaque or necklace, the dice designs might make for logical source.

I think using a cropped big image for an avatar is legit. You can link to the original art in your signature - hence using the four riders is still doable. I will hint to n810 that he should go all out and use it as his art comp entry.

 

Wait a minute! click on @Jorgik 's profile page

His chosen image is too tall - but the cropped avatar square is just right - there must be some forum functionality to have a non standard profile image. Does this mean I can stop posting drawings in square frames????

 

Uh oh. I didn't know my change would cause such waves. Hopefully the pink stegadon made up for it.

 

I told you that it would, it was just too radical of a change. We were simply not ready for it.

 

It has destroyed my equilibrium.

 

Yeah I also noticed, but I thought it was normal... (or I´m special... )

 

There are lizardmen official number glyphs from [5th?] an earlier edition of the army book.
One = is a thick circular donut.
Two = is a pair of circular dots.
Three = is three oval dots arranged in a triangle.

Maya or Aztec numbers were apparently just circular dots of whatever number up to 5.

 

Yawn. Get some dice!

 

Something like this ?

 

Yuuuuuuuuuuup.

Praise be to Avatarzi!

 

XD

 

That guy looks adorable, for some reason. Maybe i have seen to many half drunk people merrily smoking away lately, i don't know, but this guy resonates for me.

 

Is it bad that i only know the Ozymandias quote from civ 5?

 

Don't feel bad. I met him as a bit player in the comic strip Crock back in the 70s and 80s. He is in the bottom strip here - and I think he was just referred to as "Oh Great Ozy"



ken The original poem was in a high school poetry book I read somewhat later, and the penny dropped. The image of a broken down statue buried bysand is a very powerful one to me - the accumulation of earthly wealth and power is ultimately futile. With the exception of the accumulation of five carnosaurs - that is legit.

I like Otzi's avatar, but my minds eye had a HUGE standard LM glyph statue with just eyes and brow showing, which looks tiny becasue it is set in a vast wasteland with no other texture

 

Haha, this is hilarious, we all need to get our cultural influences from somewhere, comics and games are as good as a place as any i'd say.

 

@spawning of Bob — In the states that strip called the big idol in the dessert something more like: "Nebook-a-nezzar".

I remember a bunch where the Moorish[?] character is bowing to it and starting off, "O Great Nebook-a.........." I cannot remember the exact spelling.

 

Dang, you are right. I can't work out how I made the association, now.