How does everybody have such an arrange of user Avatar's here?

[GrinningManiac]

Mine's a picture of my face

that's why there are no copies

 

[Mikaze]

Mine is from the dark days in my past when I used to go to 4chan, I also just think it's very good advice.

 

[BluenetteDiviner]

i used a picture of me... and nobody can take that unless they're stalking me... >.>

 

[Azazcyh]

Well, I made my own so I rather doubt there's a repeat of mine. We're a pretty diverse group, so repeats don't happen much.

 

[SonicKoala]

I think it's because everyone is trying to be "unique", thus people make a conscious effort to pick an avatar that hasn't been used. Mine is a photo of the Pink Floyd "eye" which was featured on their "Pulse" DVD - I just found it on google images, but it's become my regular avatar that I use everywhere, including Steam.

 

[TimeLord]

Very few people have heard of the band Chameleon Circuit

My avatar is from a youtube competition for one of their songs.

Obscure much, but well worth the find

 

[JEBWrench]

Well, time for a change, to support the "Apple already made a console" movement.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Yes, we do have distinctive avatars. And no one here got the same avatar as me, and perhaps never will.
But I can only assume some troll in a far distant forum got my avatar, that's talking about some idiot having the same avatar as himself...
Perhaps at this very MOMENT! *GASP!* SCARY SCARY!

 

[Georgie_Leech]

In my case, my avatar isn't exactly a well-known character. Although there does seem to be an unwritten code that avatars remain personal.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

It's simply because the Avatars are like our own second name here. The Username and Avatar give us a sense of personality and the idea that we can let everyone know in a small picture and a name, who we are and what we like.

 

[Alita_99]

My screenname and avatar have much in common.

 

[Alex The Rat]

I just used a picture of myself.

Yeah, me too. I've actually been surprised by the openness and lack of violent speciesism among Escapists.
Thanks guys!!

 

[King of the Sandbox]

I just used a picture of myself.

Yeah, me too. I've actually been surprised by the openness and lack of violent speciesism among Escapists.
Thanks guys!!

Hey! Who let the dirty rat in here?!

/grabs broom, stands on table, squeels with girlish terror

(I kid, I kid. I love meeces to pieces, irl. So cute ^_^)

 

[ThatOneJewYouNo]

I think it's because everyone at the Escapist knows that they want to be unique, so we pick something that's popular yet still different. Take my The World Ends With You Avatar, the symbolic pin that starts off the whole game itself. It's unique, even though it's so common.

That, and we try to stay away from the Yahtzee icons, we know too many people came here at first for Yahtzee... I did.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

I like being unique, working for me so far.

 

[Aisaka]

And there is a place to go for custom avatars as well, so that may help some.

Yes there is such a place

Shameless self advertisement.

OT: I just love Toradora! and not many people like that show enough to have avatars of it....

But I do...

Also, lots of people don't even know what it is...

 

[oppp7]

There are actually a good bit of repeats among the new users, but higher ups have been around long enough to know which ones haven't been taken.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

It's kind of an unspoken rule. Watch what happens when someone does use the same avatar as someone else, it's not pretty.

I at least am safe in the knowlege that since everyone either hates jRPGs outright, or just hates FFVIII, I'm unlikely to see another Squall.

 

[Daffy F]

Well, I designed my avatar, with a little help for the moving bits, myself. If anyone else had this avatar then I'd know they copied me.

 

[Woodsey]

Well from the billions of images you can get it's unlikely that you're going to have 2 people get the same one.

I fully expect that, once Mafia 2 comes out, everyone will realise that it's the greatest game ever and copy me though.