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Real-GAF: A GAF Community!
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.la1n
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.la1n
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I was hysterical. It's actually pretty hard to eat delicious burgers while you're crying I found out.
.la1n
Member
Couples therapy.
RobotNinjaHornets
Banned
Are you kidding me? Noone pointed out how he missed an incredibly awesome pun here?
GAWD!
Here's me in all of my crusty glory. I'm never getting a hair cut.
You call that long hair? That's how long my hair was AFTER I had a haircut, bitches!or people who want to have a job.
I used to have long hair:
WHAT UP YO! And then:
And now I'm on short hair. And probably will be for the majority of the rest of my life.
Greetings Seanspeed! I just wanted to address this, for your despair affected me personaly, causing sadness spasms and all kinds of other ill-effects.
1. You may not see January in this thread title, but I assure you that the OT and OT2 (which I happened to be the one making) clearly addressed "Real Pic January." As January drew to a close (this part you'll like!) several posters in the thread expressed a desire to continue using their real pics after the month, including me.
2. When the thread was moved to Community, someone else renamed it "RealPic: A GAF Community!" relinquishing all references to January for better or worse- but there's no rewriting history, that's the way it was always planned.
3. Turns out, plans for a "letter February" where people's avatars are replaced in some way with the first letter of their usernames, attracted a bunch of RP GAF over and many were starting before Feb even began. I didn't like this idea as much because, like your problem with what's going on in this thread, the letters are very impersonal. In a sort of natural reaction to that movement, our very own Tence started drawing us all these MSPaint renditions of whatever Real Pic we happened to be using at the time. Many of us decided to run with these as our avatars for the month of February. This I enjoy quite a bit, as I can still recognize quite a few posters simply by their avatars, especially when I knew the Real Pic each was based on!
4. There has been a bit of talk of switching back to real pics across the board for March, but nothing set in stone. Maybe you can be the one to motivate us and lead the charge for "RealPic: The Return!" or something!
5. The "worthy movement being crushed" bit is a little ironic. Funnily enough being moved to community has done more than anything else to slow the participation and activity in this community. But conventional wisdom said that the thread would just be closed at the end of the month and people would just switch back or not haphazardly over the course of the next few weeks with no organization or any unifying thread. So here at least we have a place to coordinate future Real Pic activities and don't have to sacrifice the ties that were made during the experience. So chin up!
While I certainly understand your disappointment, I can't particularly sympathize with your attitude here. Again, we didn't name this thread, nor did the original concept imply anything other than a specific event for the month of January. The fact that the concept has gone beyond the month of January and is willing to be revisited by any is a good thing.
Calling this thread a "glorified chatroom" is a bit of a sore spot for me... if you had happened to be following events in the main threads toward the end of January, you'd have seen a lot of discussion of what would happen to the community as the month ended and the thread was locked (as was assumed to be the case). A chatroom was one of many suggestions, and we do have a fun RPGaf chatroom to take part in, but myriad differences between a thread of this nature on a forum and a chatroom were voiced by a number of active participants in here.
I hope that you stick around and hang out in here a bit. I'm sure you will be able to convince some of us to switch back to real avatars sooner rather than later.
I assure you that that's been discussed. Also, while you may not be able to see our real faces, our real identities are definitely a part of these paint avatars.
Finally, 4chan figured out our diabolical scheme wrought by EviLore to make the forum at large seem like less of a propaganda machine and more like a place composed of real people, so it's a good idea for us to switch it up a little to throw them off the scent.
I'm sorry, the whole Seanspeed rant is hilarious to me. While he's busy chastising us for not sticking to our laurels, he's completely missing the point of why we're all MS Paint characters and still regularly check this thread. On top of it all, he showed up for 5 posts in the original thread, 0 in the OT2 and 4 in this one, which were only to express his contempt for what we do in here. For a person who posted 9 times out of a collective 32,312 posts from all three threads, it seems like a rather innocuous rant of which there really is no bearing.
Sean... how can you claim you have the interest of the "Community" at heart when you've played absolutely no part in its birth or growth?
Oh, and Good Morning RP-GAF.
Sean... how can you claim you have the interest of the "Community" at heart when you've played absolutely no part in its birth or growth?
Oh, and Good Morning RP-GAF.
.la1n
Member
Good Morning Dave.
My God. It's full of stars.
Like a man and his dog
Or
A queen who wears her heart
On her cheek.
Nothing makes sense,
Logic behold,
Because it doesn't have too,
Tis the drunken tale of
real pic gaf retold!
...
Morning Dave.
GameplayWhore
Member
"Missing" is not the same thing as "being subtle".
Oh, so long-hair-GAF is back, eh?
Gimme another year, and I'll come up with something more pretty and flowing, non-goth-GAF.
edit: Btw, you look *really* good with the long hair. One would almost use the term "fetching".
GameplayWhore
Member
GameplayWhore
Member
You don't want it. It clogs up all the drains. I'm making a big sacrifice here by doing it. :|
oyg, I just realized that my face in my hair pic is a
very rough
clearacell
Member
my dates for tonight
I've had it... dont want it anymore. I like myself bald better. I only say things like that in jest =).
GameplayWhore
Member
And I will be likely joining you in a year or two. With the mingstache.
GameplayWhore
Member
I see nothing of acceptably high ABV here. How do you expect to see pink elephants with this pedestrian water?
clearacell
Member
ShockingAlberto
Member
Sorry for bailing on TC last night.
Got in huge fights with my brother and an ex (separate things, I assure you) and just wasn't really in the mood to talk.
How's everyone doing today?
Got in huge fights with my brother and an ex (separate things, I assure you) and just wasn't really in the mood to talk.
How's everyone doing today?
You know, IT is a thankless field. Often, my job is taken for granted by many and I rarely get recognized for the catastrophic events I prevent quite often. This is something I've grown accustomed to and have no real problems with.
Yesterday, I replaced a computer for a woman in the office here who had a really old Dell Pentium 4 that was slow, out of disk space and just generally had a lot of major issues. I gave her a new quad core with 3Gb of ram running Windows 7. This morning, she brought me in brownies as a thank you. That's pretty awesome.
Yesterday, I replaced a computer for a woman in the office here who had a really old Dell Pentium 4 that was slow, out of disk space and just generally had a lot of major issues. I gave her a new quad core with 3Gb of ram running Windows 7. This morning, she brought me in brownies as a thank you. That's pretty awesome.
.la1n
Member
YES, my man. We shall celebrate forever alone day together...on TC. lol.
Doing well outside of being at work. Hope you are doing better today.
ShockingAlberto
Member
My general plan with stressful situations I can't do anything about is to not bother thinking about them and focusing on something else, so I'm making beef noodles.
I'll probably gauge interest in the ATL meetup sometime this week, too.
GameplayWhore
Member
I left my 99 bananas at a friends house
The fact that you mention one of my favourite party drinks puts you totally in the clear.
You should invite your friend over for the celebrations.
My general plan with stressful situations I can't do anything about is to not bother thinking about them and focusing on something else, so I'm making beef noodles.
I'll probably gauge interest in the ATL meetup sometime this week, too.
How do you get the beef through the pasta maker? I would think it wouldn't flatten out that way.
.la1n
Member
It's everything we could have ever asked for, and more.
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