Join Joystiq's Avatar Look-a-Like Contest
by Justin McElroy 
{ Nov 19th 2008 at 8:30AM }
1. Visit this link, but switch out "XXXXX" with your gamertag.
2. Send a pic of your avatar (not just the link) and a pic of yourself (or both in the same image) to joystiqblog aat gmail dawt com with the subject line "NXE Avatar Contest."
3. Keep checking this gallery to see if you made the cut.
4. Digg the post to further your stardom.
We'll be putting the best look-a-likes up throughout the day. What's the prize, you ask? How about fame, how does that grab you? No? Well then, how about immortality? Yeah, we thought so.
[Update: We've got more images, it's just taking the gallery below a bit to update. So go here and just start clicking through to see everything.
Update 2: Hey gang. The servers seem to be slow, so please don't send us the link to your avatar but rather the actual file. And if you can put them both into one image it'd be a big help.]
Gallery: Joystiq's Avatar Look-a-Like Contest
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
blizz419 @ Nov 19th 2008 8:37AM
i'm agrivated so far with avatars, no black baseball cap, only plain t-shirts available are white and a light almost baby blue, and have to wait till spring to download new clothes GAY, i'm going back to gamer pics.
SlimPickinz96 @ Nov 19th 2008 8:59AM
Wha- what? You didnt get the Master Chief Suit like the rest of us? Or the fall line up from Nike Sporting goods? Hrm, i'd call MS support if i were you.
*wink wink @ the rest of us*
;)
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Nov 19th 2008 9:06AM
Ahh the internet. Home to millions of insecure little 12 year olds.
blizz419 @ Nov 19th 2008 9:21AM
i'm far from 12, almost 30 actually, i just expected more of the basics to be available, and if not there would always be downloads. i somehow missed the news that there would be no downloaded attire till spring, just irritated me is all, bad day as is so far had to take day out of work cuz lil one is sick, and i was like hey atleast i can make my avatar and that didnt go as well as planned
Tadpole @ Nov 19th 2008 9:55AM
I completely agree. I'm 28 and this avatar crap is crap! If I wanted an avatar I'd have a Wii.
What aggrivates me is that I can't delete it!
Chalky @ Nov 19th 2008 10:15AM
Eh, consider yourselves lucky, my xbox died the day before the NXE came out.
Zach S @ Nov 19th 2008 11:58AM
I don't understand what the big aversion is towards Avatars. Like, really, do they prevent you from playing games? Or enjoying your Xbox in any other myriad of ways?
PranaFerox @ Nov 19th 2008 12:02PM
You should've just let everyone think you're 12. Still calling things "gay" when you're almost 30 is way more embarrassing.
Youthinized @ Nov 19th 2008 1:17PM
I just wish you could change the color of the clothes you have. I found a pair of look-a-like chuck t's but they were green and white! my color's usually classic or black and red.
Duke @ Nov 19th 2008 1:58PM
Oh wow....you're almost 30. Neato! Now your hissy fit sounds so much more mature. Seriously, you are crying over t-shirt colors in a game console. You must have more important issues to deal with.
Sidebuster @ Nov 19th 2008 8:43AM
But can you pop your collar?
Lionbacker @ Nov 19th 2008 8:47AM
Yeah, this collar's popped. Because I'm the fuckin' man, and everyone should know it.
SlimPickinz96 @ Nov 19th 2008 9:04AM
Meh
Talk to me when your avatar bangs Trixie360's "imaginary" avatar. She sent me a message this morning...
Mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.
* cockily rubs shiny apple on chest*
;)
dark_inchworm @ Nov 19th 2008 9:56AM
Now ever since I can remember I been poppin' my collar.
Poppin' poppin' my collar, poppin' poppin' my collar.
Deeznuts420 @ Nov 19th 2008 9:58AM
thanks dark now i gotta sing it for the rest of the day :(
dark_inchworm @ Nov 19th 2008 10:07AM
Now ever since I can remember I been workin' deez... nuts?
nnnnNNNNOOOOOOOooooooo
Hala Madrid!! (THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!) @ Nov 19th 2008 8:48AM
I'm downloading the update right now
dark_inchworm @ Nov 19th 2008 9:42AM
I'm masturbating, but do I see fit to inform the internet of the most inane elements of my life?
Oh, wait.
Dirty @ Nov 19th 2008 10:37AM
This is a twitter gone bad.
Hashbrown Hunter @ Nov 19th 2008 3:37PM
This is a lot more awesome than a Twitter could ever be.
Hashbrown Hunter @ Nov 19th 2008 3:37PM
This is a lot more awesome than a Twitter could ever be.
aristokrat @ Nov 20th 2008 8:07PM
In fact, it's twice as awesome.
Nigeria @ Nov 19th 2008 8:48AM
"no black baseball cap"
I haven't downloaded this yet, so may be a little off base, but you really look like you're reaching to bitch about something. That's got to be about the lamest complaint I've ever heard about anything.
Nigeria @ Nov 19th 2008 8:49AM
That was meant for Blizz. I wasn't like talking to myself, well not today anyway.
blizz419 @ Nov 19th 2008 8:55AM
why becouse they cant offer some of the most basic shit, cuz i dont want a camp baseball cap or a red one, they should of had all basic colors for baseball caps and t-shirts, if you think thats complaining to much than your just a fuckin retard
blizz419 @ Nov 19th 2008 8:58AM
*camo
Nigeria @ Nov 19th 2008 9:03AM
I hope I'm not the only fucking retard.
SlimPickinz96 @ Nov 19th 2008 9:06AM
Hey!
*Looks in the mirror*
Just realized that...
Im a fucking retard!
*pumps fist*
T @ Nov 19th 2008 9:23AM
I think more to the point, why the heck couldn't we change the colors of some of the items. For example: Why can't we take the Xbox Jersey item and make it's colors a little closer to our favorite team?
blizz419 @ Nov 19th 2008 9:57AM
"T" thats what i thought at first too but then i thought bout how alot of the downloaded clothes creators would want to make a certain way and i'm sure it isnt worth the trouble programming it so you could have clothes you could change the color of with others you couldnt, but they really should of had download store for avatar clothes avaible day one thats really my biggest problem.
ryan @ Nov 20th 2008 11:26AM
I can change the color of my skin, eyes, lips etc.
Why no clothes color changes?
Gimbal @ Nov 19th 2008 8:54AM
I've gotten a Mii to look exactly like me, not so much for Xbox's avatars. Plus I hate Xbox's avatars. They are perfectly proportioned to maximize the look of stupid.
Is there really a way to go back to just gamer pics, or hide the avatars? I didn't see an option NOT to use an avatar after installing the new dashboard.
John Z @ Nov 19th 2008 10:31AM
When creating an avatar, you don't need to do the step of creating a gamer picture for the avatar. Simply skip over this and your gamer picture will still be there.
I'm not upset by avatars, really, but I would have liked color customization on the clothes, or at the very least the ability to have a shirt with your gamerpic on it.
I must be the last guy in the world clinging to the Torchwood pic.
Gimbal @ Nov 19th 2008 11:28AM
Yes, I am aware there are still gamer pics. And I am aware I don't have to have a gamer pic of my avatar if I don't want to.
What I want is to not have an avatar. Now I'm going to be forced to spend money on something, anything, that will obfuscate the irritating look of it since I can't opt out of it.
Don't get me wrong, I actually like the idea of having an avatar, I just think what they ended up looking like is...well. Rare worked on it, didn't they?
John Z @ Nov 19th 2008 12:50PM
If you're "forced" to spend money to ignore it, you're ignoring it wrong.
Deeznuts420 @ Nov 19th 2008 8:56AM
the only thing i hate about the avatars are the way theyre standing, it just....doesnt look right, women stand that way, not men
xFenixKnightx @ Nov 19th 2008 9:01AM
BINGO!!!!!
Fucking Teh Ghey!
SaltyGary @ Nov 19th 2008 9:03AM
Would you rather have your avatar grabbing it's ankles?
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Nov 19th 2008 9:06AM
That's actually the only thing that has been bothering me about the avatars.
Rhamsey @ Nov 19th 2008 9:21AM
ive been thinking the same thing too. but would you rather have your avatar scratching its balls every five seconds, and looking both ways before letting one relaxing fart out?
KnoW @ Nov 19th 2008 9:55AM
@ Rhamsey
Thats exactly what i would rather have him do. It would be my gamer pick for sure.
xFenixKnightx @ Nov 19th 2008 9:04AM
Damn those Avatars look pretty cool actually! Good job Stiq!
Dirty @ Nov 19th 2008 10:39AM
Agreed... Im either lazy or ugly because I cant really get my avatar to look like me.
Good job though.
Rhamsey @ Nov 19th 2008 9:17AM
meh, mine looks like me, and i think its pretty cool. i had to put +1 fat point though, cause im not fat, but im not just skin and bones.
wait, maybe ill sue microsoft because they made me feel "insecure" now where have i heard that before...
stupid girl suing Nintendo
butaneko @ Nov 19th 2008 9:24AM
Is that gay full monty-esque male dancer pose the default or did you pick that special?
Who knew Ludwig was so shrimpy!
TaiZ @ Nov 19th 2008 9:24AM
I just installed the NXE, working on my avatar now.
tiremfej @ Nov 19th 2008 9:30AM
I do have mine looking like me, I don't mind the Avatars at all, and I'm a 34 year old gamer. They are far less "kiddie" than the Miis. How would one get the picture from your Xbox to your PC? Just curious...
schwal @ Nov 19th 2008 10:18AM
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/schwal/avatar-body.png
but replace schwal with your gamertag.
holyice7 @ Nov 19th 2008 9:35AM
I haven't been keeping up with this whole thing at all, but every time I see images for it, I can't help but feel unnerved at the fact that all the discussed avatars hold the exact same pose - the stance one takes whilst attempting to coax that errant piece of boxer fabric to drop out of one's ass crack.
Jody Anthony (gamertag and psn: JodyAnthony) @ Nov 19th 2008 9:41AM
sent mine in. it looks sort of like me. my mii looks more like me though.
plus if mine gets posted, everyone can see me looking dapper in my Illusion of Gaia t-shirt.