At 8/3/03 05:00 PM, Impetus wrote:
At 8/3/03 10:01 AM, gfoxcook wrote:
10, 12, 16, and a couple of the 20+ levels for me. I dislike level 11 as well, but I hate hate HATE level 14 much more. Rusty pipes may make a good weapon IRL, but they make a sucky-looking icon on NG, IMO.
14 is my absolute most favorite. Especially because of the rust. It's so "hardcore street brutality."
10 and especially 12 are the worst by far in my opinion. After spiked thin leather gloves, boxing gloves? And with barbed wire wrapped around them you're not going to help things much.
I look forward to 13+ when the weapons start.
See, now this is where me and apparently everyone who likes level 14 differ. You see, we have entirely different reasons for liking level icons!
If I picked my favorites based on what the weapon would be like in person, then yes, a sturdy, slightly rust speckled, candy-cane-shaped pipe might be an AWESOME additional to my arsenal, and I would wield it with FIERCE ABANDON!
But until the day when Wade starts sending us weapons to match our icons arrives, I don't look at the icons and think "hmmm, that'd be cool IRL!"
The reason I like the icons I like is simply because they look nice. Either due to color, and how the color goes with the background auras or one particular aura, or because of the shape, appearance, texture, whatever.
The nunchaku just have the perfect crispness to the chain, and the black of the handles is nice, it just looks good as an icon on every single one of your posts. And that's why I want to be level 16, cause I want it as my avatar. Not because I want to wield it.
And that's why I hate level 14. I'm going to have to look at that damned pipe in front of the green background that makes it look even worse than the red does (and I ain't shifting my aura for no icon!)... look at it EVERY time I see my own posts while scrolling through topics! And it'll be in all my postcount screenshots! GLWESEGPESWGOSJEGBLARGH!
That's why I hate it so. Can you at least understand that?
As lame as boxing gloves, be they unadorned or wrapped in barbed wire, are as a weapon, they look NICE with blue or green backgrounds. Nice red color to offset the cool backgrounds. Bleh. Damned pipe.