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Mine is some dragon image I found off of the various image boards I frequent, recoloured it to my colours and significantly reduced it's overall quality because I like severely posterized images.

And of course I'm a dragon, who would of thought?

An artfully-presented snippet of entirely useless LabVIEW code (the equivalent of IF FALSE, RETURN FALSE; ELSE, RETURN TRUE).

LabVIEW is cool.
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Labview-Spaghetti.aspx

I like purple
I like Gobliins
'nuff said

My avatar photo dates from the early days of this forum. The number one or number two Google Image search result for "Vogon" at the time was the logo for this British corporation at http://www.vogon.co.uk (http://www.vogon-investigation.com/company_profile.htm ) so I swiped it and started using it. Accordingly, I only use it here. Prior to this one, back in the day, admins and moderators had these illustrated "Vogons" (from Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) as their default avatars. 😀 My only reason for adding an avatar photo was that these Vogon illustrations became unfashionable amongst moderators (or were they taken away? I forget.) I honestly don't use an avatar photo anywhere else online.

The name is more of a storied thing, dating all the way back to 1993-1994. It was the last name of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game (like a Star Wars Dungeons & Dragons) character I created for SWRA and various clubs in the Gaming/Sci-Fi/Fantasy section of PRODIGY, my first online service. (He was a jack-of-all-trades warrior known for expertise with all types of swords, knives and daggers. A stiletto is one kind of these, hence the name. A bit archaic when players wielded plasma swords and blasters!) I then resurrected the name and character in 1997-2000 for a tour through various Star Wars roleplaying web chatrooms on the Internet. While I got out of the hobby of roleplaying gaming on bulletin boards and chatrooms - I got much more involved with emulation research and development and involved with many more open source emulation projects around 1998-1999. And I decided to keep the screenname. It just made sense at the time - for someone like me, who would pop up out of the blue with "incisive" research helpful to an emulation project - to be named after something that could pop up out of the blue and stab you in the back. It was a l33t h@x0r name. 😉 Sadly, it has led to several people over the years assuming that I was female or had a shoe fetish of some kind 😁

Excuse my ignorance but was the site named Vogons after the hitchhiker's race, or is it an acronym of Very Old Games On New Systems? Which one is the coincidence?

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Mine is the C&T "CHiPS" logo combined with the opening screen from 1980s classic TV show "CHiPs".

A great 80's show as well!

badmojo wrote:

Excuse my ignorance but was the site named Vogons after the hitchhiker's race, or is it an acronym of Very Old Games On New Systems? Which one is the coincidence?

It's not coincidence, it's intentional. Because we were/are nerds. 😀

Here's my first post ever here in 2002! (so glad to be able to say that, so many times forums purge...) and this is literally when and where it happened.
When I registered and logged in that day, it was called "OGONS - Old Games on New Systems".
So I suggested to Snover to add a "V" (we'd come up with something to stand for it) and Snover went about theming the forum HG2G-style.
Just letting you know I'm here now...

Here's my full explanation several months ago.
Re: Vogons: confusing sub-forums

I wish I could find the thread on Bravenet's VDMSound forum, archived in the Internet Archive, where we hit upon the idea of taking our party elsewhere. 😁

Mine should be self explanatory. 🤣

@Stiletto
Thanks, I've been wondering about this site's history for a while.

@sliderider
It isn't.

@stilet
I got it! You like Mary Sanders and the Spanish number for two....it all makes sense now....

I look as goofy as my avatar 😜

I like happy avatars, and cats , and pixels, and happy pixel cats 😀
Its Nicole from The Amazing World of Gumball.

BigBodZod wrote:

I look as goofy as my avatar 😜

As goofy as Jones looks, he's still the star of one of my favorite games ever.🤣 Jones in the fast lane is sweet.

badmojo wrote:

@Stiletto Thanks, I've been wondering about this site's history for a while. […]
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@Stiletto
Thanks, I've been wondering about this site's history for a while.

@sliderider
It isn't.

Well it should be. This is a vintage gaming site revolving mainly around DOS games. It's not that difficult to work out.

Well my avatar will probably give the idea that i am an AMD fan of some sort, specially because previously i used an AMD 386DX-40 pic. Well i couldn't care less about AMD or Intel, i also think it's quite silly being a "fan" of Fortune 500 company or something like that. I just put pics of CPU's that i quite like and served me well. AMD because it's what i used at the time, and they were cheaper and served me well.

I should really change my avatar for something that really reflects my personality and one of my greatest loves in life, besides retro computing. Music.

EDIT: There. No band is more appealling to me than Dream Theater. Seriously, listening to their music makes me really feel satisfied and complete. Maybe because i'm a musician as well, but it's what works for me.

I think mine is a CPU.
Now I have to understand what a CPU is.

Mine is Pablo Martinez from Powerslide. From his character bio: "Now a grotesque, disfigured loner, shunned by corporate society, he is bitter and angry with the universe." Most of the time, I feel as miserable as he looks so it is a fitting image.

My handle is from my obsession with spinning tires and sliding sideways in anything I drive in real life or games. I used to work at a major tire chain during my college years and I would sneak home the used tires and burn them off the back of my 1972 Ford LTD 6.6 liter V-8 that was jacked up inspired by Powerslide. I still have the car but it sits rotting away, needing major repairs while real life gets in the way.

Oh, I also forgot to explain my signature, it's just a little thought that popped into my head while playing doom, I had another one for only a few months when I first joined but I can't member what it was. Mods, do you remember? 🤣 You know how people say Left for Dead is preparation for the apocalypse, well same sorta thought, silly but cool.

Pretty simple really to those who watch a certain tv show that got canceled by Fox.