Member titles/levels

[NAHTMMM]

Originally Posted by Nate the Great

P.S. A LONG time ago I wanted to make an avatar that was a cycling list of instructions:

1. How to be an official Dopefish in Three Easy Steps.
2. Swim (Dopefish swims to the right).
3. Swim (Dopefish swims to the left).
4. Hungry (Dopefish looks to camera and opens mouth).
5. Congratulations! You are now an official Dopefish! (Dopefish burps)

Unfortunately, the images would be cut and pasted from a banner from another site, and my spriting skills aren't sufficient enough to do anything beyond cropping and scaling, so the words would've been REALLY tiny on the avatar. Sad, really.

You could try having the words in separate frames:

1. "How to be an official..."
2. "Swim"
3. (Dopefish swims right)
4. "Swim"
5. (left)
6. "Hungry"
7. (hungry Dopefish)
8. "Congratulations!..."

That would tend to increase the filesize, but assuming the parts showing the Dopefish aren't long animations or anything I think you could get away with it.

[Nate the Great]

I guess, but somehow that seems like less work than simply changing it to one of my other (premade, "stolen") animated avatars. You know, Link's Spin Attack, Zelda stuck in her crystal, the spinning Kataan probe, Kid Radd's The Power of Cheese, the hypercube...

PS. Any preferences on what I should stick with for awhile? I could e-mail the options to anyone that's interested. I'm sure Zeke would like me to stick with one for awhile, too.

[Zeke]

Eh, I don't mind rapid avatar-changing as long as the user in question doesn't mind a little lag time in my changing his/her member title.

[Nate the Great]

Just for that, I almost want to change it EVERY DAY just to see if you can come up with an all-purpose title to cover all of them.

"Crazy as a bedbug."
"Fickle as a sickle."
"Bizarro."
"Great the Nate."

[Zeke]

Oh, you just try it. I'll give you back the Britney title.

[Nate the Great]

Britney title? When and what was that?

[Zeke]

You were "not a girl, not yet a woman" for a while, IIRC.