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CheeseRedux wrote:

On the other hand, the avatar is one more place for the spammers to slip up. Any real user that bothers with uploading a custom avatar is likely to choose something with some sort of connexion to Elite, or just space related.

So what do we do with the avatar that shows a cheese with eyes? Definitely not connected to Elite, or space.

I'd say, kill it!

CheeseRedux wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

a cheese with eyes? Definitely not connected to Elite, or space.

You've apparently forgotten that Cheese Goes With Everything and Makes Everything Better!

The obese female is about to vocalize when it comes to the cheesy avatar though; I have a new design on the drawing board.

And there it is.

Pardon my ignorance: what is it? Looks like a rather dark screen shot, perhaps of a Griff Boa? Unfortunately I can't really make a lot of it.

EDIT: Okay, I downloaded the picture and changed its gamma. Now I can see that it still contains cheese. Even more than one, methinks.

TBH I can't make out what it is either

After also downloading and zooming in the conclusion I came to is...

It is a Griff Boa shooting a can of spam with a triangle or block of cheese of its starboard side.

Do I get a prize? Do I? Do I?

Fatleaf wrote:

It is a Griff Boa shooting a can of spam with a triangle or block of cheese of its starboard side.

I thought it was a Griff Boa powered by a triangular cheese, attacking a round cheese.

Gimi wrote:

Yep, and I have a nice little addon for Firefox that allows me to right click on a picture and run checks on Tineye. Your avatar gives 87 hits by the way.

Hmmm ... time for a change then I think! Anyway, I've had wheels on that jar for a while now ...

Wheels.

Commander McLane wrote:

Pardon my ignorance: what is it? Looks like a rather dark screen shot, perhaps of a Griff Boa? Unfortunately I can't really make a lot of it.

EDIT: Okay, I downloaded the picture and changed its gamma. Now I can see that it still contains cheese. Even more than one, methinks.

Fatleaf wrote:

It is a Griff Boa shooting a can of spam with a triangle or block of cheese of its starboard side.

Griff Boa, shooting tin of spam, with second tin in the background.

About the darkness bit: Is there a GIMP wizard out there who can tell me how to get an image brighter without washing away all the colour? (I've used the program exactly once.) Just upping the brightness left the whole thing looking bland, so I cut back a bit, but as you've said, it's too dark too see properly. I'll probably do another screenshot at some point for a V2.0 - whenever I can get around to jostling with the spam again. Getting two of them close enough to be visible in in shot is a bit of work.

Hey, Cheesy, can you link to the full-size image - I'll have a look at it for you.

Smivs wrote:

Hey, Cheesy, can you link to the full-size image - I'll have a look at it for you.

I'm not entirely happy with the shot, but it was the best from the batch once I got tired of pushing spam around in space...
I think redoing the thing while making sure to shoot from the sunny side might be a good idea.

It's a tricky one to get any detail from when scaled down to avatar size, but try this:-

Thanks, much better! Now I can postpone the re-shoot! (Which may or may not be a good thing.)

You're welcome.

CheeseRedux wrote:

Griff Boa, shooting tin of spam, with second tin in the background.

But... where is the CHEESE?

Doh! It's cheese spam