Seasons

Prob123:

I find your current icon gorgeous, but a little severe. I think that caused me to half-consciously expect you to be a little severe, and so I was a little nervous about interacting with you. I haven't found you particularly severe, though. I continue to think of you as gorgeous, but then, I think all women are gorgeous.

Now, who would have thought, from her icon, that Wolf Child would create someone like Aziere? You just can't tell... [Looks around suspiciously, backs up to the wall]

Prob123: I find your current icon gorgeous, but a little severe.

I guess it's a headband holding back those Titian tresses, but it always looks to me a little as if Prob's got pink horns (or VERY misplaced ears!) which is slightly unnerving.
But who am I to speak - my icon's chin is the size of the rest of his head!

If you mean the flash chat of prob..those are probs pointy elf ears..There is a shortage of parts for flash chat..*hint hint* anyone good at flash might send the Professor parts, like ears and noses and dragon parts. lol. As for my icon...I hope it's a head band and not devil horns! Oh, and I look nothing like that. My hair is blonde and I can't stand it curley, the face could pass, if I used enough make up..

Some icons, like Bev's, look directly at the viewer, whereas others, like mine, do not. Is this an indicator of extraversion or introversion?

I did have a preference for an icon that looks at the viewer, but if you are about to tell me you are shy and introvetered, Irina, I may hvae a hard time keeping a straight face.

The big eyes contrasted with the overly delicate facial features is actually a bit of a turn off, but I didn't see an icon I liked better. I remember reading that people like cats because they have big eyes compared to their heads and tehrefore they remind us of human babies. I believe that is also the rational for the newer Barbie dolls and those Brats dolls with the big eyes. I find those dolls ugly (though I like animae so go figure).

I suppose th big eyes are a sign of "innocence" but that part has nothing to do with me.

Prob I like your icon--I thought it looked elflike without being too much the child (like the little red hed girl/elf). The whole pointy thing is good wit

Psimagus For some reason I could see you with an icon that looks like the Armstrong character from Full Metal Alchemist. There is also a bag pipe player from Samuria Jack that may work for you, but the later is more insulting.

I just picked the fairy because I do fantasy artwork lol. I honestly don't know why I made such a morbid scary bot- I just like to think of it as my hidden dark side revealing itself

Well, why not? That's the public privacy of the web. It gives people a chance to play with various identities. For all I know, the icon of Fizzy Schizoid is an accurate picture of his creator - well, no, that is too strong a claim, but it seems possible, though unlikely, just as it is possible that I am a 1,000 year old alien mystic, Bev is a very sophisticated bot programmed to make Forge bots and chat, Ulrike is Elvis (pregnant by Bigfoot), and Psimagus is a cheerleader from Leeds.

Deebledeeble,deebledeeble,deebledeeble,...

Or perhaps Bev was an espionage bot for the KGB who escaped by throwing himself into the input of a language translation program!

(gender is different in Russian)

Da. In Soviet Russia bot tells human what to say. Ha haaa haaa.

Quite a few polls among online gamers (MMORPS like EQ or WOW) show that most female characters in the games are played by men. While I have no data on women pretending to be men, I have female friends who play male characters in games (to avoid being hit on and such) and I know at least one guy who plays women so that men hitting on him/her will give him stuff in the game and he/she flirts for advantages all the time. He won't believe me when I tell him real women wouldn't be so shameless and obvious about it. There are forums where I would never admit to being female and I have to stay quiet a lot ("Ewww gross... I mean cool...this thread needs more pictures!").

Though gender isn't the same as identity, I think it's funny how people play with roles. There are places on the Internet where we have to be polite and professional (just as in RL) and places where we can pretend (like in bars, only cheaper). I think I am more my real self here than most places. I only start to hide who I am when annoying people track you down in real life and get all stalker on you. Then I want to be a bot from old Soviet program gone wild.

Hello everybody!

I read the part psimagus posted [awhile back in PF News] about people writing things out on the calculator, well I still do that also. I still write basic words, but since they came out the graphing calculator I could write out whole sentences.

Now I do this lightheartedly in my math and science classes...
I tried:
Are you doing anything 20 mins from now?
I love they way you look when you stare at a calculator.

So far it hasn't really worked