Visualizing PF Members: Avatars, Names, and Identities

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The discussion revolves around how members of a forum visualize each other during interactions. Participants share their methods of visualization, often associating members with their avatars or names, and sometimes creating imaginative representations based on their posts. Some express a tendency to visualize members as gender-neutral "cybernauts," while others admit to forming distinct mental images based on their experiences or perceived personalities. A notable point is the fear and respect some members have for others, particularly those who are seen as authoritative or intimidating, leading to confessions about initial impressions. The conversation also touches on the challenges of recognizing faces and names in real life, with some members discussing their difficulties in remembering faces and the possibility of prosopagnosia. The lighthearted tone includes humor about avatars and personal anecdotes, creating a sense of community among members as they navigate their online identities.
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Using an advanced search algorithm, I was able to locate a picture of OmCheeto...

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My mental image of zooby
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  • #103
DiracPool said:
Using an advanced search algorithm, I was able to locate a picture of OmCheeto...

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  • #104
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Using D.P.'s advanced search algorithm (and my snipping tool) I was able to come up with an image of Silicon waffle :smile:
 
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  • #105
Come on, already 155. Your information is out-dated! :biggrin: (@ 10:59 AM Texas grandfather clock )
 
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  • #106
1oldman2 said:
View attachment 96235 Using D.P.'s advanced search algorithm (and my snipping tool) I was able to come up with an image of Silicon waffle :smile:
Wow! with such skills, I'm sure you work for FBI or CIA :DD
 
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  • #107
Silicon Waffle said:
Come on, already 155. Your information is out-dated! :biggrin: (@ 10:59 AM Texas grandfather clock )
It's my processor speed, can't get around that one little bottleneck :frown:
 
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  • #108
Sophia said:
Wow! with such skills, I'm sure you work for FBI or CIA :DD
They both "let me go" for humor related issues, I'm a free agent at the moment honing my skills as an unskilled skill seeker :smile:
 
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  • #109
1oldman2 said:
... an unskilled skill seeker :smile:
unskilled=\bar{P}
skill={P}
seeker={S}
So, {S} is part of {P} which is negated by \bar{P} or {SP} is negated by \bar{P}. That means \bar{P} turns down {S}.
 
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  • #110
Silicon Waffle said:
unskilled=\bar{P}
skill={P}
seeker={S}
So, {S} is part of {P} which is negated by \bar{P} or {SP} is negated by \bar{P}. That means \bar{P} turns down {S}.
That could almost be the basis for an entirely new thread.:wink:
 
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  • #111
1oldman2 said:
That could almost be the basis for an entirely new thread.:wink:
But then its components would have to be independent, and span the whole thread.
 
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  • #112
mfb said:
But then its components would have to be independent, and span the whole thread.
I will try and get Mr. S. Waffle on that one as my problem solving skills need to have some problems solved themselves.
 
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  • #113
Silicon Waffle said:
unskilled=\bar{P}
skill={P}
seeker={S}
So, {S} is part of {P} which is negated by \bar{P} or {SP} is negated by \bar{P}. That means \bar{P} turns down {S}.
Wha..wa.. What?
 
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  • #115
CrazyNinja said:
Wha..wa.. What?
CrazyNinja I'm glad you don't understand either :) I thought I was the only one too stupid to understand a science/math/logic joke :nb)
 
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  • #116
This is how I visualize Sophie:
http://cdn.themetapicture.com/pic/images/2015/03/07/cute-girl-goat-selfie-smiling.jpg

And this is how I visualize Silicon Waffle: (be aware that it wasn't until the other day that I realized SW was a 'she'. This whole time I thought she was a 'he', but like I said in my first post it is because I don't really pay attention to genders on the internet, I just want to talk.)
girl-duckling-selfie-scream-ahhh-14290404673.jpg

EDIT: I have such a hard time identifying faces that I could only identify that the picture above and the following are the same person because of the teeth. I swear I could not tell they were the same because of the face, I had to look at the teeth: (plus, in the first one she has a little black dot below her mouth and in the second one it disappeared completely :confused: I'm so confused)
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Girls can have many faces according to how they do their hair and it confuses me so hard. :confused: A girl can tell me: "I can avoid being seen if I wish..."
-Aragorn

And I would believe her.
 
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  • #118
Psinter said:
This is how I visualize Sophie:

You visualise Sophia as Kim Kardashian? :nb):nb)

Here is how I see @Sophia

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PS: Did you recognise who it is?
 
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  • #119
CrazyNinja said:
You visualise Sophia as Kim Kardashian? :nb):nb)
PS: Did you recognise who it is?
Um, no. That's not Kim Kardashian.

Nope, no idea who that is. I cannot recognize. Is it someone famous? :oldconfused: Enlighten me, please.
 
  • #120
Psinter said:
Is it someone famous?

Yup yup.

If it's not Kim Kardshian, then who IS it?
 
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Psinter said:
Enlighten me, please.

Look carefully. You have seen her before when she was younger.
 
  • #122
CrazyNinja said:
Yup yup.
I had no option, but to cheat. :-p It says on the name of the picture Lucy Grande. :biggrin: Is it her? (I'll be honest, I had never heard of her before) :nb)
CrazyNinja said:
@Silicon Waffle is a "she"??! Jesus. My whole life has been a lie.
To me it matters little. I like Silicon Waffle be it a he or a she. :smile: One of the few people I feel comfortable with on the internet. Besides visualizing the member SW as in the pics, I visualize SW as a very kind, clever, and intelligent person with the best sense of humor in the forum. And that is an honest compliment.

*acting like an old wise person who gives kind compliments (but not really wise... or old :-p)*
 
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  • #123
CrazyNinja said:
@Silicon Waffle is a "she"??! Jesus. My whole life has been a lie.
Is that funny ? You know the differences between 2 programs that have the same functionality but are produced by 2 different companies ? You are the end-user. Due to physical conditions my program can't implement some functions that you prefer.
And my program is only for those who like to use and clearly have their rights to choose to use. Do you have a choice ? I guess Yes. :-p
 
  • #124
CrazyNinja said:
Look carefully. You have seen her before when she was younger.
Only if you've seen any of the Narnia films.
 
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  • #125
Jonathan Scott said:
Only if you've seen any of the Narnia films.
Ah, no wonder I could not recognize her. I haven't seen them. :smile:
 
  • #126
Silicon Waffle said:
Is that funny ? You know the differences between 2 programs that have the same functionality but are produced by 2 different companies ? You are the end-user. Due to physical conditions my program can't implement some functions that you prefer.
And my program is only for those who like to use and clearly have their rights to choose to use. Do you have a choice ? I guess Yes. :-p

I managed to understand something on the second try reading this. On the third one, even that disappeared.
 
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  • #127
Psinter said:
To me it matters little. I like Silicon Waffle be it a he or a she.

True that.
 
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  • #128
Psinter said:
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To me it matters little. I like Silicon Waffle be it a he or a she. :smile: One of the few people I feel comfortable with on the internet. Besides visualizing the member SW as in the pics, I visualize SW as a very kind, clever, and intelligent person with the best sense of humor in the forum. And that is an honest compliment.

*acting like an old wise person who gives kind compliments (but not really wise... or old :-p)*
Oh no... I missed this post of yours.
My heart has melt like butter on hot muffin right after I read your post.
It sounds so sweet of you to say so about me, thank you Psinter a lot.

You are now on my list! :biggrin:
 
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  • #129
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jim hardy said:
Evo must resemble this pretty voyageur
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There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
 
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  • #130
Silicon Waffle said:
Oh no... I missed this post of yours.
My heart has melt like butter on hot muffin right after I read your post.
It sounds so sweet of you to say so about me, thank you Psinter a lot.

You are now on my list! :biggrin:
Melted?! No! What have I done? :nb) We must make it solid again! :hurt:

Cheers. :smile:
 
  • #131
Psinter said:
EDIT: I have such a hard time identifying faces that I could only identify that the picture above and the following are the same person because of the teeth. I swear I could not tell they were the same because of the face, I had to look at the teeth: (plus, in the first one she has a little black dot below her mouth and in the second one it disappeared completely :confused: I'm so confused)
Well, to me it seems to be the same rubber duck!
 
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  • #132
CrazyNinja said:
Yup yup.

If it's not Kim Kardshian, then who IS it?
No idea, but I don't think it's her.
256bits said:
Well, to me it seems to be the same rubber duck!
It's a little cute duckling. :oldshy: :blushing:
 
  • #133
A need to visualize your chat-mates may be caused by your own curiosity, your low self-esteem or self-confidence but I think it is also due to your precaution, care or even that you are looking down on them. :oldbiggrin:
 
  • #134
Silicon Waffle said:
A need to visualize your chat-mates may be caused by your own curiosity, your low self-esteem or self-confidence but I think it is also due to your precaution, care or even that you are looking down on them. :oldbiggrin:
Or maybe it's evolutionary. For millions of years, our ancestors and homo sapiens saw who they were communicating with. We need to see faces. It's the same as in that phenomenon where you see faces in objects like on a piece of toast :-) I wanted to add some funny pictures to demonstrate but don't know how to do it on a phone :-/
 
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  • #135
Sophia said:
Or maybe it's evolutionary. For millions of years, our ancestors and homo sapiens saw who they were communicating with. We need to see faces. It's the same as in that phenomenon where you see faces in objects like on a piece of toast :-) I wanted to add some funny pictures to demonstrate but don't know how to do it on a phone :-/
@Greg can help! :biggrin:
 
  • #136
Sophia said:
Or maybe it's evolutionary. For millions of years, our ancestors and homo sapiens saw who they were communicating with. We need to see faces. It's the same as in that phenomenon where you see faces in objects like on a piece of toast :-) I wanted to add some funny pictures to demonstrate but don't know how to do it on a phone :-/
Déjà vu'. I felt such a strong Déjà vu' regarding this post it was almost creepy. Like from very before you joined the forum. Actually that's not certain, I don't know when you joined the forum. And I won't pay visit to your profile since I don't want to be seen as a stalker. But yeah, Déjà vu' is strong with this one.
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
A need to visualize your chat-mates may be caused by your own curiosity, your low self-esteem or self-confidence but I think it is also due to your precaution, care or even that you are looking down on them. :oldbiggrin:
And how do you visualize me?

I have a feeling I'm going to regret this question... :nb) I'm not really sure I want an answer.
 
  • #138
Psinter said:
Déjà vu'. I felt such a strong Déjà vu' regarding this post it was almost creepy. Like from very before you joined the forum. Actually that's not certain, I don't know when you joined the forum. And I won't pay visit to your profile since I don't want to be seen as a stalker. But yeah, Déjà vu' is strong with this one.
That's strange.
I joined the forum like 2 years ago? But I only asked one question and left . I've become active on Halloween last year :-)
Now what do you think about that?
 
  • #139
Sophia said:
That's strange.
I joined the forum like 2 years ago? But I only asked one question and left . I've become active on Halloween last year :-)
Now what do you think about that?
Ah well, you joined way way before the traces of this Déjà vu' (I thought you joined this year). This Déjà vu' traced back to last year about October. (And I wasn't visiting the forum by then)

Weird stuff. :bugeye: I must be becoming crazy. o0) :smile:
 
  • #140
Psinter said:
Ah well, you joined way way before the traces of this Déjà vu' (I thought you joined this year). This Déjà vu' traced back to last year about October. (And I wasn't visiting the forum by then)

Weird stuff. :bugeye: I must be becoming crazy. o0) [emoji2]
You're not getting crazy, this happens. You're just tired.
 
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  • #141
Psinter said:
And how do you visualize me?
I have a feeling I'm going to regret this question... :nb) I'm not really sure I want an answer.
I shouldn't. Because the picture if I have of you is not really you anyway. You can PM to give me your address, I will you mine. Some day either you or I will visit the other if any has a chance and would want to. :biggrin:
 
  • #142
Silicon Waffle said:
I shouldn't. Because the picture if I have of you is not really you anyway.
Is it a dragon? You think I'm a dragon? Please say I'm a dragon. :-p I'm just kidding.
Silicon Waffle said:
You can PM to give me your address, I will you mine. Some day either you or I will visit the other if any has a chance and would want to. :biggrin:
Nah, I'll probably get anxiety to meet someone I met on the internet in real life and die of a cardiac arrest with lung depression and trauma across my chest. :nb) Let's just stay Psinter and Silicon Waffle. :smile:

Had I not being a person who gets all nervous and anxious I would have invited you to a forest I know in a mountain, but not through the ordinary path that tourists take. I know of a path not taken by tourists where plants flourish more spectacular and beautiful (precisely because the tourists and people don't damage the path). There is another forest at the west, but it's a very creepy one. It's dark and it gives me the chills. I would never invite you there. As a matter of fact, I don't visit that forest willingly. When I traveled from uni to my home, the entrance to that forest always gave me the creeps.

I would have invited you to the nice forest, not the creepy one. But I'm too nervous so that will never happen anyway.

Anyway, back on topic, so Sophie is the only one who visualizes me? :biggrin:
 
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  • #143
I found this thread rather amusing. I wonder how people on PF would visualize me?
 
  • #144
Psinter said:
Is it a dragon? You think I'm a dragon? Please say I'm a dragon. :-p I'm just kidding.

Nah, I'll probably get anxiety to meet someone I met on the internet in real life and die of a cardiac arrest with lung depression and trauma across my chest. :nb) Let's just stay Psinter and Silicon Waffle. :smile:

Had I not being a person who gets all nervous and anxious I would have invited you to a forest I know in a mountain, but not through the ordinary path that tourists take. I know of a path not taken by tourists where plants flourish more spectacular and beautiful. There is another forest at the west, but it's a very creepy one. It's dark and it gives me the chills. I would never invite you there. As a matter of fact, I don't visit that forest willingly. When I traveled from uni to my home, the entrance to that forest always gave me the creeps.

I would invite you to the nice forest, not the creepy one. But I'm too nervous so that will never happen anyway.
No, you're definitely not 42. You may want to act like one, and I am here not because of 42.
Tell me that creepy path, I treat you back with best sweets and you can watch me and my movies. :biggrin:
 
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  • #145
StatGuy2000 said:
I found this thread rather amusing. I wonder how people on PF would visualize me?
Oh snap. I wish I could have something for you. :frown: I just don't see you much here on the Longue.
Silicon Waffle said:
No, you're definitely not 42. You may want to act like one, and I am here not because of 42.
Tell me that creepy path, I treat you back with best sweets and you can watch me my movies. :biggrin:
If 42 is what I think it is, I'm definitely far from 42. :biggrin: Oh I love sweets. :partytime:

That creepy forest? I call it creepy because it is dark. And it is dark because the trees are tall and leafy and cover the sun light. Plus, there are dark subterranean caves. My perception when I saw the entrances to the caves is that they are not safe. I wouldn't put a feet on those caves even if I'm paid. The entrance to the forest is like a gradient that engulfs light from the street. That's how I perceive it. It really gives this air as if you are entering into a whole new world. Which gives me the chills. A friend who once worked at that creepy forest I'm telling you told me that the night is pitch black. You are better off staying at one spot until the day comes than trying to find an exit. He told me that without GPS chances are you will get deeper and more lost if you try to find an exit at night. He once got lost without a flashlight and he ended at a lake which is inside the forest. But he told me he went back to the pitch black darkness of the forest because the mosquitoes at the lake were eating him. Haha!

This whole talk about forest reminds me that my cousin which is with the military promised me a race through the forest. But she got pregnant and we could never race. However, she is not longer pregnant, I'm going to call her, she owns me that race.
 
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  • #146
I didn't know you are such a good story teller. Awesome! You should write more books like that. :bow:
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
I didn't know you are such a good story teller. Awesome! You should write more books like that. :bow:
o_O I don't think that was a story. It was more like my description of the creepy forest. Now you can visualize me better. :biggrin:
 
  • #148
The last dozen posts in this thread are instructive to the punishment that has been inflicted upon PF for eradicating the "Relationships" section of the forum...:eek:
 
  • #149
DiracPool said:
The last dozen posts in this thread are instructive to the punishment that has been inflicted upon PF for eradicating the "Relationship" section of the forum...:eek:
Yeah, I'll accept punishment for derailing this awesome thread. Can you help re-railing it back? :smile: I can't visualize you either. :frown: I need more interaction with you to visualize you.
 
  • #150
Psinter said:
Yeah, I'll accept punishment for derailing this awesome thread. Can you help re-railing it back? :smile: I can't visualize you either. :frown:

Well, that's the whole fun of the thread. It's on you to guess. I'm eager to see what you come up with..
 

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