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Profile Pic, Reason?
Hoja Lateralus:
--- Quote from: Indreams on March 24, 2015, 10:55:03 am ---I'm okay with symbols because, well, they are just a visual pattern that happen to have a meaning in our minds.
So, I really really miss your old profile pic. It had more of that "Mr. Disaster" meaning/feeling to it. And I think that hammer-sickle-communist argument really shouldn't have happened.
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I'm not okay with symbols that represent totalitarian sinister regime. I've stated my reasons in that thread and I won't change my mind. I may sound like a mad man but I think that it is a kind of duty of me as a person and of me as Pole to remind people that "no, communism is/was not okay".
I miss it too, but I changed it to make a point. I also think that nothing says "Disaster" more than a huge explosion.
--- Quote from: David Dire on March 24, 2015, 12:43:25 pm ---Yeah, personally I think you should change it back. I Mean, there are symbols that could be seen as bad (like the Hammer and Sickle) but then there's just an explosion. An atomic explosion wasn't even originally made for war, it was Einstein's creation/idea/thing he realized (I think it was Einstein, woops if it wasn't. Point is, I'm pretty sure it wasn't made for war and war only. It was just Splitting an atom and seeing some cool energy shit). That's like saying Pencils are offensive because Lead is in bullets.
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I changed it to make a point that even given a non-sincere argument that my avatar is insulting or hurting someone is enough for a reason for me to apologise and change it. And as I said before - I could only WISH that those kind of scum people have the same amount of decency. I couldn't have fighted for my cause with people calling me a hypocryte.
Koali:
I'm a Kirby wearing a dyed Revolutionary and holding a Pipe Wrench, courtesy of Miss Nicce.
'Twas a commission.
Richard LeMoon:
Steampunk pineapple... because I have a Pineapple.
Inside joke. Blenderfish get it.
BdrLineAzn:
Mine I just googled steam punk logos and I went with the one that looked sorta official. I still don't fully know what it is and I think we hade some discussions about it.
Richard LeMoon:
That is a ball governor used to control the speed of an engine. It is 'governed' by gravity and the weight of the balls spinning. Setting the ball limit higher allows the engine to go faster. Thus gave rise to the sayings "Going balls up" meaning going to full speed, and "Balls to the walls", meaning pushing up to the governor and engine's limit.
The sayings have lost their original meanings, but are still quite common.
Edit: In case you think I am making it up for some bad "balls rising" jokes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor
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