Current Events > GameFAQs has avatars because of an anti-transgender rant I made 10 years ago.

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Judgmenl
04/15/24 6:32:19 PM
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Also I consider myself woke now.
Friends from GameFAQs changed me into the person I am today.
You're all welcome.

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CatToy
04/15/24 6:37:37 PM
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Does that mean you're less Judgmenl now?

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Baron_Ox
04/15/24 6:38:37 PM
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thank you for your bigotry

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DoesntMatter
04/15/24 6:39:26 PM
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how so?

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Rosa
04/15/24 6:39:38 PM
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you can't have that topic title without telling the whole story

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Judgmenl
04/15/24 6:42:18 PM
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DoesntMatter posted...
how so?
In the early 2010s I created an avatars user script which turned into a browser extension which results in me getting pissed off after two users were arguing with me over PM and I had enough and lashed out at one of them unfairly updating the extension's backend to inject hate speech into the extensions settings. As a result, I was banned for 6 months, I willingly shut the browser extension was shut down and demand lead to the feature being added to the site. At the end of its life over 2000 people had avatars and even more were using certain other features of the extension such as rotating signatures and quick account switching.

Also at the end both Devin and Allen used it (or people exploited the REST API and injected avatars into their avatars I don't know).
Also at one point I captured everyone's IP addresses and did not do anything with them.
Very fun stuff. I'm a software architect at a cybersecurity company now creating enterprise endpoint protection software.

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mario2000
04/15/24 6:44:13 PM
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me: ok

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BlueTigerLion
04/15/24 6:45:12 PM
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I don't think GameFAQs would make a change due to one person being transphobic. I think it was something other sites were doing so they added it here. Not as much customization as Reddit though.

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Kradek
04/15/24 6:45:16 PM
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Baron_Ox posted...
thank you for your bigotry

Reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman's bigotry saves the day and Kyle begrudgingly acknowledges it.

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Judgmenl
04/15/24 6:46:29 PM
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Keep in mind I am only posting all of this now because my friend told me CE was shutting down and Poltiics discussion was now banned everywhere else. Nice authoritarian hellhole and I'm sure Error is delighted at the proposed changes.

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wizardmon
04/15/24 6:48:20 PM
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I remember getting mad at avatars, for the longest time I refused to select one.
I forget what my avatar is.
Oh, my avatar is someone who used to (or still does?) regularly post on this website. I edited their face into the creepy woody.

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Enclave
04/15/24 6:49:41 PM
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I never got mad at avatars existing but I also never selected one.

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notforremnant
04/15/24 6:50:44 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
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It's more than just Error on here that's touchy & doesn't want you talking about those subjects or saying them in any thread where it doesn't have the 'politics' tag. Interesting thread though
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MC_BatCommander
04/15/24 6:51:57 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
Error

Lmao, even when soulless corporations ruin stuff it still comes back to Error

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Enclave
04/15/24 6:52:55 PM
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MC_BatCommander posted...
Lmao, even when soulless corporations ruin stuff it still comes back to Error

Yeah, I don't get people who want to blame a specific mod or person. This decision was made purely from a business standpoint. You have capitalism to blame, nobody else.

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Epicness2012
04/15/24 6:52:56 PM
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Talk about a ripple effect.

There's no doubt in my mind that avatars eventually led to the downfall of CE and therefore gamefaqs.gamespot.com as whole.

Ergo, Judgmeni killed GameFAQs.

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Judgmenl
04/15/24 6:53:55 PM
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Epicness2012 posted...
Talk about a ripple effect.

There's no doubt in my mind that avatars eventually led to the downfall of CE and therefore gamefaqs.gamespot.com as whole.

Ergo, Judgmeni killed GameFAQs.
Every time bby.

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Time
04/15/24 6:55:09 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
Keep in mind I am only posting all of this now because my friend told me CE was shutting down
Nope not shutting down, it's just private now.

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K181
04/15/24 6:56:52 PM
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This site has avatars?

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Calwings
04/15/24 6:58:00 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
At the end of its life over 2000 people had avatars and even more were using certain other features of the extension such as rotating signatures and quick account switching.

Rotating signatures was so fun. A shame that GameFAQs killed it when they updated the way the site handles signatures.

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radical_rhino
04/15/24 7:00:02 PM
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K181 posted...
This site has avatars?
Ive never seen any.

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deoxxys
04/15/24 7:01:12 PM
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We have avatars?

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Judgmenl
04/15/24 7:01:31 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/994cdc84.png

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Waluigi1
04/15/24 7:03:50 PM
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GameFAQs has avatars?? I legitimately didn't realize. Do they show beside people's names on desktop? I haven't been on GFs on desktop in...uh, I don't remember when I got my first smartphone.

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Judgmenl
04/15/24 7:05:41 PM
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Waluigi1 posted...
GameFAQs has avatars?? I legitimately didn't realize. Do they show beside people's names on desktop? I haven't been on GFs on desktop in...uh, I don't remember when I got my first smartphone.
No. AFAIK Devin was always too conservative with allowing avatars in posts. That's a user script that I made myself, but there's a wonderful one that another user wrote many years ago that should still be usable now:
https://openuserjs.org/scripts/melon/GameFAQs_Show_Icon

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Orange_of_Doom
04/15/24 7:06:05 PM
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Judgmenl posted...
In the early 2010s I created an avatars user script which turned into a browser extension which results in me getting pissed off after two users were arguing with me over PM and I had enough and lashed out at one of them unfairly updating the extension's backend to inject hate speech into the extensions settings. As a result, I was banned for 6 months, I willingly shut the browser extension was shut down and demand lead to the feature being added to the site. At the end of its life over 2000 people had avatars and even more were using certain other features of the extension such as rotating signatures and quick account switching.

Also at the end both Devin and Allen used it (or people exploited the REST API and injected avatars into their avatars I don't know).
Also at one point I captured everyone's IP addresses and did not do anything with them.
Very fun stuff. I'm a software architect at a cybersecurity company now creating enterprise endpoint protection software.

For what it's worth, I might've been the first one to exploit it to give SBAllen his first avatar of a Legend of the Galactic Heroes character, but tons of other people found it a few days later. I wanted to show some friends that I figured it out and might as well go after the most high profile proof I could.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/dc1c31e0.jpg

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Calwings
04/15/24 7:06:35 PM
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Waluigi1 posted...
Do they show beside people's names on desktop?

Unless it was implemented very recently and I didn't know about it, no. You need an external script to do that.

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/melon/GameFAQs_Show_Icon

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kirbymuncher
04/15/24 7:07:17 PM
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the good old days

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Judgmenl
04/15/24 7:09:29 PM
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Orange_of_Doom posted...
For what it's worth, I might've been the first one to exploit it to give SBAllen his first avatar of a Legend of the Galactic Heroes character, but tons of other people found it a few days later. I wanted to show some friends that I figured it out and might as well go after the most high profile proof I could.
Whoever was the one replacing porn with people's avatars was a riot. That was when I was still a software development noob (I was still in college) and didn't know much about anything.

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thronedfire2
04/15/24 7:10:42 PM
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Error's only crime is being a Steelers fan

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UndefeatedGOAT
04/15/24 7:11:12 PM
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If gamefaqs was what changed you, wed all be the same as you

what even is a gamefaqs
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UnfairRepresent
04/15/24 7:11:59 PM
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I legit don't know what my avatar is

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Time
04/15/24 8:06:28 PM
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I've always hated avatars

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