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General Chat => Help! => Topic started by: Tiplodocus on 16 September, 2009, 11:07:44 PM

Title: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Tiplodocus on 16 September, 2009, 11:07:44 PM
So how do I make mine bigger?
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 16 September, 2009, 11:15:23 PM
I don't get it, Tips.
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 16 September, 2009, 11:19:00 PM
Just re-upload a bigger version, assuming you've still got the original image somewhere. If not.. well, the internet isn't short of good dinosaur pictures.

Click on 'Profile' near the top of the page and it's under 'forum profile information.'
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Kerrin on 16 September, 2009, 11:26:23 PM
Have you tried 'Deep Heat' and a wire brush?

If you mean your avatar though tips...as Jimbo said, if you've still got the original image, try reimporting it to your profile page and see if it resizes it to the new jumbo size. If that doesn't work just carry on with the 'Deep Heat' and brush.

Wake or Vince should know. Maybe put a post in the "Forum Bugs and Issues" (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25664.0.html)  thread as it appears this gets checked fairly regularly by the commandants.

Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Kev Levell on 17 September, 2009, 08:16:39 AM
It may be small, but it's perfectly formed and does it's job just as well as the bigger variety. Well that's what I'm telling myself...
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: TordelBack on 17 September, 2009, 09:03:03 AM
Too right.  The big icon boys are overcompensating for something.

And hey Tips, you weren't kidding about the knob gag!
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: SamuelAWilkinson on 17 September, 2009, 10:33:13 AM
Where I come from, a small icon is a badge of virility.
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 September, 2009, 07:08:49 PM
Sorry, did anyone just hear some teeny tiny voices after Kerrin? NO? must have imagined it.

I've never been able to make out what your icon actually is - a Tiplodocus presumably!
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Bouwel on 17 September, 2009, 07:13:53 PM
It's Stickleback, isn't it?

-Bouwel-
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Bouwel on 17 September, 2009, 07:14:43 PM
Oh, and yes; I do have a big Grobbendonk...

-Bouwel-
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Emperor on 17 September, 2009, 09:52:43 PM
Count yourself lucky - this is the second time mine has disappeared completely, nothing to do with this cold snap, oh no. Anyway its not how big it is its what you do with it that matters and I am unsure size really matters in this case, does it?

Or the answer you are looking for is jelqing.

Take your pick.
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Dandontdare on 17 September, 2009, 10:13:08 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 17 September, 2009, 09:52:43 PM
Count yourself lucky - this is the second time mine has disappeared completely,

I thought you did that deliberately to cultivate an air of mystery!  ;)
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Emperor on 18 September, 2009, 01:01:14 AM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 17 September, 2009, 10:13:08 PM
Quote from: Emperor on 17 September, 2009, 09:52:43 PM
Count yourself lucky - this is the second time mine has disappeared completely,

I thought you did that deliberately to cultivate an air of mystery!  ;)

That's what I use the smoke bombs for. And the potato in the underpants.
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Tiplodocus on 18 September, 2009, 01:49:35 PM
Thanks for the advice fellas.

As you can see, mine is now huge and so I am happy and satisfied and so is Mrs. Tips.
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: TordelBack on 18 September, 2009, 02:29:14 PM
Hocus Pocus, it's a Tiplodocus!
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 September, 2009, 08:57:46 PM
Aha - now I get it - I couldn't make out the picture from the background lines when it was small, so I thought it was some strange runelike symbol.

Now if I could only work out what the hell Tordelback's is supposed to be!
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Mike Gloady on 18 September, 2009, 09:08:54 PM
I've given up trying to work out what most of the avatars are meant to represent.  Except the obvious ones, naturally.  Does anyone have a good story about theirs?

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Ok.  How about a story?  Anyone?  *tumbleweed moment*
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Bouwel on 18 September, 2009, 09:18:00 PM
QuoteNow if I could only work out what the hell Tordelback's is supposed to be!

It's Stickleback!

And if you really, really want I can tell you how I came by the nick of Bouwel, and how it relates to my avatar..or not as the case may be.

-Bouwel-
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Dandontdare on 18 September, 2009, 09:20:22 PM
When every avatar was tiny, the animated ones (like Bou's kicky boots) really  impressed me and that's what I aspired to. My current one is my default doodle, but with moving eyes, and I love it! I'm so pleased with myself (as a techno-ignoramus) to be able to create any animation, that I think I'll stick with it for a while.
Title: Re: Everyone else has a big one but mine is small and I'm jealous.
Post by: Paul faplad Finch on 18 September, 2009, 11:22:42 PM
I picked mine from the characters available on the site, same way I got my old Sancho Panzer one before the site went all doolally - which happened while I was off the board for a couple of weeks and confused me something rotten when I came back on - for the simple reason that I have absolutely no idea how to bring images from outside the site.

As to why I chose them, Sancho was to show love to a character I felt had been unfairly crapped  on over the years and my current one was because Sancho wasn't available so my nephew picked one at random.

Hows that for meaningful subtext. Truth is I'd go without but the posts just look a bit barren.