SP! avatar wallpaper
So as we were debuting the new site this weekend, Frumph says to me, hey, guess what, this is awesome. See all those folks with no avatars? Well, what if I told you that if you uploaded your own avatars to a certain directory and did some Comicpress magic, they’d be randomly assigned to unavatared users?
So I says, holy balls!
And so after crankin’ out a handful every day since then, there are now a total of 24 avatars in the pool. If you don’t have an avatar and you post, you’ll get randomly assigned, say, Sodomuffin. And then every time you post, you’ll keep that Sodomuffin avatar. (… at least until I upload a new image into the pool, which restarts the math and they all get switched around again)
Since I have so many, and I put so much work into them despite being tiny 64×64 things, I thought I’d show them to you big as a wallpaper. You are also free to crop them out and make your own avatars on other boards, so long as you give me credit. I am also wondering if maybe I should try to do this a print or a poster or something in the meager number of hours I have remaining before C2E2, but we’ll see.
Enjoy!
Why not upload each one more than once? That way when you draw new ones, you can just replace the duplicates, and people will keep the same avatar they’ve had all along except for the people who get a kick-ass new one! That way everybody wins!
Awesome. Skeletor!
Oh man, if there’s one thing I REALLY wanted to put on my desktop, it’s a disembodied flying butt pooping on Scott Summers!
Don’t forget the pony with an image of a penis bursting out of a muffin stamped on her hip.
Ah-ha! I could never quite tell if the penis was coming out of the muffin or if it was going in and that was a small sack. Now I know! And knowing is half the battle.
I just realized none of your Blog posts have a Timestamp; just a Datestamp. (comments show times, but not the blog itself)
WHOO avatars!!!!
I’m just posting to see who I get. It’s like a lamer version of “FIRST POST” type spam.
Same here.
PleasegivemeSodomuffin,PleasegivemeSodomuffin,PleasegivemeSodomuffin…
testing
but, now I’m skeletor too!
Thats no fun…
How does that work, exactly?
Exactly?
$checknum = hexdec(substr(md5($id_or_email),0,5)) % $count;
This random avatar thing is absolutely brilliant. I must ask, Frump, is this something that can be easily added to anyone using wordpress/Comicpress?
http://wiki.comicpress.org/index.php?title=Using/CustomAvatars
There’s the wiki link on how to do it.
thanks, Frump
Link is defective.
Absolutely posting just in hopes of being assigned Cyclops.
Sodomuffin will suffice.
now you just made an excuse for new lazy people like me to stop by and grab an avatar without needing to create a livejournal account. oh, at least one of them isn’t Venus DeMilo
HOLY BALLS says I
but how might i assign an avitar if i dont want to have say…..
sodomuffin
I am posting only because I’m curious about who I get
Who’s that in the lower right corner?
I have chosen the Lion-God.
I will deny that this post is just to see which one I get until the day I die.
Well, poo on me.
Hehe! Yes! Poo on you!
I love Hot Shot but I also love Cyclops and that strip Willis did on X3.
I really just want to see my avatar.
Man, I can’t figure out anything about this website. It’s got all these “users online” and a chat option and I can’t see how to do none of that…
Bwahahahahaha! O Foil Your Plan! Ah haha Ah Haha Ah Haha!
Exactly, I just didn’t realise it was automatic, and set one up from the start…
… So do you still check messages to your Live Journal?
I forget the point of the poop but Cyclops, but dang it’s funny.
I’m not too familiar with the X-men movies, but I think the point was that the X-Men movies seem to love Wolverine and hate Cyclops.
Considering how comics Cyclops got little more than a stern lecture for his criminally bad treatment of his wife and kid (not to mention they way they tried to justify it later), I like to think of it as cross-continuity payback.
The first one that caught my eye was the Cyclops poop one, as the X3 commentary one was one of my favorite Shortpacked strips.
Great selection though — Clock King! Gwen! Dinobot!
So, if you wanted to, you can’t go in and grab, say, Dinobot? Just the luck-o-the-draw?
Finally, a Roadblock appearance! I was worried you’d forsaken him Willis after the disaster that was G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (even though he wasn’t in it).
When will Roadblock be back in Shortpacked! to torment Ethan again?
I love the G.I. Joe live-action movie. It was fun on a bun.
Just had to post and see if I get #5.
Last time I looked I was Skeletor…
But now I’m Sentinel Prime.
And remember kids, if you want to fake your own avatar that matches this style, you’ve just got to draw somebody on top of a background consisting of that light blue circle on top of that less-light blue backdrop!
Who did I get???
Just for my own sanity, let me make sure I got them all right:
Clock King, Dinobot, Skeletor, Cyclops, Prince Adam reading a book?
Sodomuffin Pony, sad Darkseid?, Hot Shot, Flash, Roadblock
Ratchet, Spectacular Gwen Stacy, Terminator?, Krang!, Captain America
Donatello, Azlan, Sentinel Prime, Number Johnny 5, and… male Amber?
Hehe, I got Skeletor. Badass.
I think the avatars are:
Clockking, Dinobot, Skeletor, Cyclops being pooped on, the girl from Superbook?
Sodomuffin, Grail Knight from The Last Crusade, Armada Hot Shot, Flash, Roadblock
G1 Ratchet, Gwen Stacy from SSMA, Robo-JOE, Krang, Captain America
Donatello, Aslan, TFA Sentinel Prime, Johnny 5, the president from Battlestar Galactica.
-airfox
If I don’t get my site logo gravatar, I’m hoping for Johnny 5.
Shameless self-promotion it is.
So wait, how do I get all my own awesome avatars? I clicked “Get a Gravatar” but it seems to be all about how to add their feature to your own site. SO CONFUSED
Sign up, Register an Email, Register an Image, then use the registered email where it asks for your email, and Bamf, you’re teleported to Paris during the War.
Does it retroactively affect emails already entered, or does one have to reenter the “registered” email? Frumph, David, anybody in the know… got a serious answer? =) This is the first time I’ve signed up to comment on any online comic (even though done so anonymously on Willis’ a few times) and as much as I like Hot Shot, my own avatar would be a bit more… mine, ya’ know?
– agent_of_the_8.
p.s. Sorry if this double posted: internet service has been acting wonky here in the desert.
So you just do that for each avatar?
Cmon, Poop Cyclops!
Dang.
Oh!Oh!
I have to comment just to see who I get now
Let’s see if my Gravatar gets pulled up automatically or I get a random one instead.
Gravatar recognizes me. So I guess I don’t get a spiffy random avatar. One the other hand, I won’t have to be forever known as “disembodied butt pooping on Cyclops.”
I have to comment as well. I want one of those avatars.
Sentinel Prime. Booyah.
Jumping on a bandwagon time!
(please get Roadblock please get Roadblock)
Oooooooooor sodomuffin. Wonderful.
LET’S DO THIS
Here’s hoping I get Cap.
Eh, Skeletor works.
~Crosses fingers~
Yeah, totally just trying to see who I get.
Awww, I’m not even sure who that is…
It’s Gwen Stacy from Spiderman
Oh, I see it now. I guess she’s kinda cool.
This entire randomized image idea reminds me of 4chan and how people would comment to see if they could get certain numbers or matching word colors which led to a lot of spam and banhammering
Hey, I don’t want to panic people, but…. the homepage has an ad for Loreal’s Youth Code Cream…
….
What have people been talking about it to make Google think that was the right advert for this site?
That would make an awesome print!
Totally doing this to just see who I get.
sweet i’m the flash!
So are you going to fix all the comic links on the walkypedia by hand, or do something clever with the close to make http://shortpacked.com/d/20100101.html not broken?
(Also, I want to point out there is a livejournal-crossposter plugin for wordpress that will x-post your blog entries to there. You don’t have to do anything.)
I really just want to see who I get!
I was all like, “why 71 comments?” Then I was like, “I wanna try it, too.”
And I see I did this in the wrong place earlier. I chose….unwisely.
Poop Cyclops was one of the funniest Shortpacked! of all time. OF ALL TIME!
Congratulastions, people. This blog has more comments than pretty much any so far.
And it’s all spam.
You’re acting like this wasn’t my devious intent all along!
Well played, Willis. Well played.
I just keep mousing over the image of the avatars expecting a Sipher-Mugshot-esque commentary.
I was going to type something witty here…but then gutter banner on the bottom has something about a doll-fetish comic and now I’m just deeply disturbed more than anything.
Wait! How’d I end up with *this* avatar? Oooooh – ComicPress, so it’s grabbing my WordPress avatar.
Well that’s no fun. No fun at ALL.
This avatar gimmick is brilliant. BRILLIANT!!!
Love the site, love the pop-culture refrences, love the humor. Now no wammy no wammy STOP!
Lets see now…
And my avatar is……..
The metaphorical bassist of the ninja turtles. He doesn’t really do anything except whine.
Good post, I always like them
Let’s try
I really hope I keep Sodomuffin forever. If I ever lose her I will have to get myself a real Gravatar to make it stick.