freesoftwaremagazine.com — It's well-known that the way that people choose to appear online is distinct from physical appearance, and this is often perceived as some kind of falsehood. But honestly, for someone you've never met, which is their ?real? face? And do you learn more from a photograph or an avatar?
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itanshiAug 22, 2006
uh ok i dun think those two create symbols just to 'exist' as you put itthe utena movie did i think, but ya sposed to laugh at it. (its the evangelion of the female orientated genre, the movie is a huuuge mind trip, probbely unnecesarily so)
laughingman11Aug 22, 2006
Laughing Man avatars unite!I think the thing that amused me most about the first season of Ghost in the Shell SAC is exactly that... they conjured up a character who inspired large scale imitation and whose logo became a powerful meme in the GiTS universe, but in doing so, the meme, the logo, and the Stand Alone Complex phenomena actually leaks out onto the REAL Internet, and the REAL world....And here I am, finding myself imitating the Laughing Man, just like all of you. ^-^
maninblac1Aug 22, 2006
Of all the concepts in GITS the SAC phenomenon is the most abstract.I can't say that i perfectly understand the concept because i have some fundemental logic issues with the definition. Since the person who was "the laughing man" was real, but the idea of "the laughing man" was not, doesn't that make the SAC a technicality. The fact the real person existed should make him the center point of the complex, thus unifying it.*rolls eyes* I think i need to watch the series again....
r__ainAug 22, 2006
I tried using an assh**e as mine, but I chose to be Casper instead.
idonthackAug 22, 2006
@SmwbigbossWe digg you anyways. FLCL ftw.
johnbmullAug 22, 2006
My avatar is nothing like me. I am not a 40 year old balding male. Please pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. There is nothing to see here... Please move along.
dannohungAug 22, 2006
I think the idea is that it was a meme that was never intended to be memetic.Snakes on a Plane is basically the same thing, though nowhere near as cool as corporate blackmail.
antebiosAug 22, 2006
I am Jack's medulla oblongata !