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How do we look to thee?

You're all bloody Morgan Freeman
- 14 (18.2%)
Teenage kids
- 2 (2.6%)
The great abyss of facelessness
- 12 (15.6%)
Avatar-based identification system ACTIVATE
- 41 (53.2%)
Other
- 8 (10.4%)
Some Non-Freeman Celeb
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 75


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Author Topic: Mental Images of People?  (Read 14189 times)

Siquo

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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2012, 02:50:09 am »

I still think you're all figments of me. Or, more seriously, a lot like me. So every time I hear someone's age, I'm surprised again :)
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2012, 06:11:26 am »

I have trouble imagining anyone as person in real world. You only exist in cyberspace , so avatars it is!
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2012, 09:35:39 am »

I still see most forumgoers as their avatars, with certain embellishments based on what I know about them.  When I think about people's voices, I just have a general mental voice that I apply to everyone.  If I catch any sort of quirk or tic in someone's writing, I add it to my mental voice for that person.  Mostly, though, I don't worry about what forumgoers look/sound like, and I just focus on the posts they make.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2012, 10:18:31 am »

I still think you're all figments of me. Or, more seriously, a lot like me. So every time I hear someone's age, I'm surprised again :)
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2012, 01:02:12 pm »

Pretty simple, generally I just associate people with their avatar and everyone has my voice.  That is, unless I happen to look too closely at the avatar first and it has a distinct voice, then maybe I'll read the post in that voice, sometimes.

I have Skyped with a few people from here, and I'll say that as to be expected, the voices never match my preconceptions.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2012, 01:14:14 pm »

Everyone is the summation of everything I have read of them. Everything I have read of them has been read with no voice whatsoever. Thus, the ambiguity of the internet is kept at balance.

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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2012, 01:20:39 pm »

I see everyone here as eldericstein monsters and unspeakable abominations of flesh and no flesh, and beards.

Lots of other places have other faces, like;
guy richey, nigel thornberry, spiderman and batman for a site that shall not be uttered by me.
Mspaf gots real shitie drawing of what could be people, and are all bro.
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And any forum where I dont know people are always shadow people.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2012, 05:48:22 pm »

You know, reading this thread and the other thread (before it devolved into penguin craziness) has made me come to a realization.

Whoever manages to create a program that will read anything in Morgan Freeman's voice will be very, very rich.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #23 on: May 03, 2012, 06:10:19 pm »

"March of the Penguin Avatars"

hmm, now I'm thinking of the movie Avatar; but set in the antarctic; with the humans controlling cloned/robot wtfever Penguins.

While Morgan Freeman narrates.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #24 on: May 03, 2012, 06:13:47 pm »



Hmm, your avatar seems a bit slow...

Anyone has changed image of me? Since I changed my avatar a while ago? xD
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #25 on: May 03, 2012, 06:18:37 pm »

I don't quite go to the extreme of regarding the forum as a chinese room, but I don't really adscribe faces to people here.

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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #26 on: May 03, 2012, 06:30:33 pm »

I often wonder if people read my posts in a Russian accent.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #27 on: May 03, 2012, 06:31:11 pm »

I often wonder if people read my posts in a Russian accent.

When I see you, I can only think of some oil businessman screaming DELICIOUS OIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL xD

Blame it on the ant game.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2012, 07:00:16 pm »

I often wonder if people read my posts in a Russian accent.
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Re: Mental Images of People?
« Reply #29 on: May 03, 2012, 07:08:15 pm »

Anyone has changed image of me? Since I changed my avatar a while ago? xD


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