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Icon Meme!
Mar. 31st, 2008 02:25 pmMeme courtesy ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thessalian
Rules (adjusted, for flavour):
1. Reply to this post, and I will pickfour of your icons some of your icons; probably around four, but if you've got loads of interesting ones I want to know about, I'll pick more. If your icons suck I might pick less, but I are curious blogger, thus I can probably manage four icons on almost anyone.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
Three and a bit. If anyone reading this meme wants to know about any of my other icons, then ask, and I shall talk about them.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.
Having recently gone 'fuckit, 100 userpics costs about the same as a couple of pints' a lot of the icons I've added are ones I've grabbed because they evoke moods, or can summarise a post. This straddles those two – it's a quick statement on my thoughts on a given idea, with a side order of some implied criticism of the idea generator (as opposed to "...or not", which gives the disagreement without the 'also, you suck' element).
It's one of several Icons I've got that I'm somewhat careful with using, because there is much potential for internetzDRAMA if I use 'em in the wrong place – while it's not quite as blunt as "It's not my fault you SUCK", there is the potential for people to take personal offence at it.
But then, as people frequently point out to me, I am quite a blunt person, and sometimes I do want to tell someone that they suck, or tell them that the suggested idea is so bad that I imply some criticism for even suggesting it. So, a useful weapon, but one to be used carefully.
As regards finding the icon, it's one of a bunch I've grabbed from various iconmakers, after having upgraded to 100+ icons, while I was looking for things that evoked moods or fitted situations.
There's several sides to this icon. Firstly, it's a bunch of simple typographical icons I made when coming back and forth on the train from Plymouth, as I had a laptop with me, and Corel Photopaint on the Laptop, and a hour of time to fill. Regarding icon crafting, I tend to use Corel on my Laptop, but more often CS2 ImageReady (essentially photoshop for webstuff) on my Mac. Corel's quite good for typographical stuff, but ImageReady is the king for animated gifs.
Secondly, it's a generic silly gaming related icon, it talks about rolling silly skills, and the asking of whether you've done enough to qualify for a roll that might actually achieve something useful. I don't actually have any other generic 'this post/comment relates to gaming' icons – I've a few World of Warcraft ones, and some that are inspired by games like my Ananasi "I'm hungry", but those are not instantly recogniseable references, whereas making a skill roll is.
Thirdly, it references a particular game – the Cthulhutech game it was made on the way back from. Essentially, the GM had cut down the number of skills in the system, as there where lots of crossovers (for example, there was both 'culture' and 'ettiquette' as regards understanding social rules), and some of the changes caused some controversy/disagreement from the players on whether or not a given skill should have been retained. The lack of a need for a cheesemaking skill was raised as a "You don't need a skill for everything" point. Later, in the actual game, one of the players was making a cheese toastie for another player, while spiking it with prozac to calm the other guy down, and thus it was an issue how well he made the toastie, and how well he disguised the broken up pill within it.
Clearly a time for a cheesemaking skill roll.
A quote from Chuck Palahniuk, though I have to admit that until I just now stuck it into google, I only knew it was "probably a quote from someone". It's a fairly simple "This icon evokes/summarises the mood of the post it goes with" – it's something for saying I'm angry about whatever the issue is, without the specificness of saying that someone sucks or suchlike.
Heh. Freeeaaaky Echidna thing. This is one of a whole bunch of icons I had on my laptop, and when I finally got around to getting it fixed (after it spending a good couple of years as a large paperweight), I'd also just increase my icon allowance. One of the things the laptop had on it (along with a lot of music I was glad to recover, having foolishly deleted it from my desktop due to space issues), was a whole bunch of icons I'd made or grabbed for the purpose of continually changing my userpic on the University forums I was posting a large amount on at the time.
One slight size adjustment, and it went on my userpic list. Quite a few of the ones that went on with it (much of the bunny icons, and most or all of the Madness Combat ones) will likely be replaced as and when I find new and interesting icons, but I think the Echidna will say, because it's random, freaky, and non-specific, which is sometimes exactly what a post needs.
thessalianRules (adjusted, for flavour):
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
Three and a bit. If anyone reading this meme wants to know about any of my other icons, then ask, and I shall talk about them.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.
Bugger that, bugger him, bugger you.
Having recently gone 'fuckit, 100 userpics costs about the same as a couple of pints' a lot of the icons I've added are ones I've grabbed because they evoke moods, or can summarise a post. This straddles those two – it's a quick statement on my thoughts on a given idea, with a side order of some implied criticism of the idea generator (as opposed to "...or not", which gives the disagreement without the 'also, you suck' element).
It's one of several Icons I've got that I'm somewhat careful with using, because there is much potential for internetzDRAMA if I use 'em in the wrong place – while it's not quite as blunt as "It's not my fault you SUCK", there is the potential for people to take personal offence at it.
But then, as people frequently point out to me, I am quite a blunt person, and sometimes I do want to tell someone that they suck, or tell them that the suggested idea is so bad that I imply some criticism for even suggesting it. So, a useful weapon, but one to be used carefully.
As regards finding the icon, it's one of a bunch I've grabbed from various iconmakers, after having upgraded to 100+ icons, while I was looking for things that evoked moods or fitted situations.
Can I roll my cheesemaking skill now?
There's several sides to this icon. Firstly, it's a bunch of simple typographical icons I made when coming back and forth on the train from Plymouth, as I had a laptop with me, and Corel Photopaint on the Laptop, and a hour of time to fill. Regarding icon crafting, I tend to use Corel on my Laptop, but more often CS2 ImageReady (essentially photoshop for webstuff) on my Mac. Corel's quite good for typographical stuff, but ImageReady is the king for animated gifs.
Secondly, it's a generic silly gaming related icon, it talks about rolling silly skills, and the asking of whether you've done enough to qualify for a roll that might actually achieve something useful. I don't actually have any other generic 'this post/comment relates to gaming' icons – I've a few World of Warcraft ones, and some that are inspired by games like my Ananasi "I'm hungry", but those are not instantly recogniseable references, whereas making a skill roll is.
Thirdly, it references a particular game – the Cthulhutech game it was made on the way back from. Essentially, the GM had cut down the number of skills in the system, as there where lots of crossovers (for example, there was both 'culture' and 'ettiquette' as regards understanding social rules), and some of the changes caused some controversy/disagreement from the players on whether or not a given skill should have been retained. The lack of a need for a cheesemaking skill was raised as a "You don't need a skill for everything" point. Later, in the actual game, one of the players was making a cheese toastie for another player, while spiking it with prozac to calm the other guy down, and thus it was an issue how well he made the toastie, and how well he disguised the broken up pill within it.
Clearly a time for a cheesemaking skill roll.
Todays weather is partly FURIOUS with occasional FITS OF RAGE
A quote from Chuck Palahniuk, though I have to admit that until I just now stuck it into google, I only knew it was "probably a quote from someone". It's a fairly simple "This icon evokes/summarises the mood of the post it goes with" – it's something for saying I'm angry about whatever the issue is, without the specificness of saying that someone sucks or suchlike.
Echidna
Heh. Freeeaaaky Echidna thing. This is one of a whole bunch of icons I had on my laptop, and when I finally got around to getting it fixed (after it spending a good couple of years as a large paperweight), I'd also just increase my icon allowance. One of the things the laptop had on it (along with a lot of music I was glad to recover, having foolishly deleted it from my desktop due to space issues), was a whole bunch of icons I'd made or grabbed for the purpose of continually changing my userpic on the University forums I was posting a large amount on at the time.
One slight size adjustment, and it went on my userpic list. Quite a few of the ones that went on with it (much of the bunny icons, and most or all of the Madness Combat ones) will likely be replaced as and when I find new and interesting icons, but I think the Echidna will say, because it's random, freaky, and non-specific, which is sometimes exactly what a post needs.
