this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2024
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[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Short for avatar, which used to be the name for profile pictures

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] funkless_eck 33 points 5 months ago

the schwa in /'a-və-ˌtär/ is a close homophone of /ɪ/ combined with English's habit of forming diminutives using /ɪː/

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure there is. It's basically the only thing in the picture!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Along with the frog in the lift, of course

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Avatai my brother.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

It’s a great thing we don’t type those extra three characters ong frfr

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I still call them buddy icons when I’m not thinking :facepalm:

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

.avi was a video file format like .mpg back in the day when we had to download our porn one file at a time, slowly. Though in this instance I'm assuming it's a fucking stupid shorthand for "avatar."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I'd forgotten about .avi's. Also haven't thought about limewire in about as long.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I too forgot all about .avi's. How did that happen?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Probably due to you not remembering them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You're not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The ravage of time I guess?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well do you at least remember DviX?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's quite possible haha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The compression format or the failed rental format?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Compression format, xvid replaced it before the hevc codecs were invented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm assuming you're correct

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

Audio-video interleave, an early video container that sucked because you couldn't play it unless it was complete, making it unfit for streaming. The only use I can think of nowadays is to generate an NTSC MPEG-2 file that even early DVD+USB players will play, for testing composite video equipment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

I think that's a typo but otherwise it's a file format

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Such dms

Much frog

a elevator

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

Fake: girl on the internet

Gay: frog

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not high enough for this. Someone tell me what I'm supposed to see which isn't there.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

signal-2024-03-23-21-15-21-185

Nevermind. Got high enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm still not awake after waking up recently so I saw it right away lol