Let's Play a Game: "What the 'ell is That Thing!?" IO Set Edition

[MTeague]

11 minutes ago, KauaiJim said:

That is what I always thought it was only I thought she had her arms crossed like you did something wrong and were in trouble...

Man.  as long as they don't use your middle name.

When they yell at you with your full First, and Middle, and Last name, all strung together, it's just instant regretful puppy / don't hurt me!

 

[Yomo Kimyata]

This one still puzzles me:  

 

[Frostbiter]

1 hour ago, TemporalVileTerror said:

 

vs

 

 

I don't think I see it, sorry @Frostbiter.  Do you  maybe have a reference photo that looks more similar to what you're describing?

 

No, that was a guess. Lol I see the tassle now.

[Techwright]

50 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

This one still puzzles me:  

 

You mean the Avalanche?

[Yomo Kimyata]

10 minutes ago, Techwright said:

You mean the Avalanche?

Yeah, it looks nothing like an avalanche to me.  It looks like a combination of an amoeba and Casper the Friendly Ghost jumping out from behind a slanted wall saying, "er, boo."

[tidge]

11 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

This one still puzzles me:  

 

 

To me, this looks like a slice of cheesecake while someone is applying "whipped topping" via a spray can.

 

[Carnifax]

12 minutes ago, tidge said:

 

To me, this looks like a slice of cheesecake while someone is applying "whipped topping" via a spray can.

 

Or a punk hedgehog who dyed his spikes blue. 

 

All hail Punkhog. 

[Spaghetti Betty]

17 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

This one still puzzles me:  

 

 

POV: You're on a snowy hill about to get hit by an avalanche

[Spaghetti Betty]

I got one. What is this supposed to be?

 

[HelBlaiz]

A spear breaking upon a shield, it looks like.

[Nerio72]

This is obviously...a film roll/canister?

[MrAxe]

6 hours ago, Carnifax said:

All hail Punkhog. 

Found my next alt!

[Ratch_]

Ragnarock to me will always be a giant banana resting on a rock

[Techwright]

3 hours ago, HelBlaiz said:

A spear breaking upon a shield, it looks like.

Yep.  500% magnification on Firefox is your friend.

 

[HelBlaiz]

I'm on my phone at the moment, and the ability to zoom in with a swipe of the fingers helps out a lot.

[Placta]

6 hours ago, Nerio72 said:

This is obviously...a film roll/canister?

 

Yep, reflecting that it's earned from the movie-themed Summer Blockbuster event.

[twozerofoxtrot]

I've got a ton of these I could ask about, but I'll go one at a time:

 

 

Wha-...?

[Nerio72]

31 minutes ago, Placta said:

 

Yep, reflecting that it's earned from the movie-themed Summer Blockbuster event.

Oooo! Well that makes sense then! 🤣

[TemporalVileTerror]

That's a fractal pattern, @twozerofoxtrot.

 

Although it may have been more accurate to use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor#Strange_attractor image, the Mandelbrot makes for a more interesting picture.

[twozerofoxtrot]

2 minutes ago, TemporalVileTerror said:

That's a fractal pattern

 

Okay yeah, yours is scarier and I feel infected with dread at seeing the looming Entropic Chaos before me. 

 

Thanks! 😄

 

Next up:

 

 

Why hands-on-head?

[Aeroprism]

On 3/24/2021 at 1:54 PM, KC4800 said:

It's a hockey puck half hidden under a red blanket, of course.

 

I'm not the only one who thinks that!  Glorious day!!

[Crysis]

On 3/23/2021 at 10:20 PM, Techwright said:

I suspect it is a joke referencing the song "Home on the Range".  Discouraging Word is used in the lyrics, though why they didn't use an antelope, I'll never know.

Oh boy, that makes TOTAL sense, and I grew up on a farm!  I mean, lots of times a bull will just snort to discourage interlopers, but even that didn’t make much sense to me.  Had never thought about Home on the Range.

 

Love it!

[Crysis]

On 3/23/2021 at 8:34 PM, TemporalVileTerror said:

The game is simple!  (And not actually a game, honestly.  I just don't know what this thing is supposed to be a picture of.)

Choose an image from the https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Enhancement_Sets and ask the community:  "What the 'ell is That Thing!?"

 

I'll go first.

What the 'ell is That Thing!?

 

Reminds me of an old kids game my grandmother had at her house.  You had these circular palm sized flexible lid looking things and you’d place them over these little flat rounded beads (like small river pebbles) and push the bead to the edge with a rocking motion, kind of like ‘burping’ a Tupperware lid.  The bead would shoot out from under the lid when it got to the edge of it at a very high speed.  Sudden Acceleration if you will.

 

It was like Tiddlywinks, but either a knockoff or an older version. (See picture)

 

But admit the speedometer jumping makes more sense.

 

EDIT: I had to go find the name/version of the game my grandmother had.  

 

Edited March 27, 2021 by Crysis

[Yomo Kimyata]

On 3/25/2021 at 3:00 PM, Leetdeth said:

I got one. What is this supposed to be?

 

 

This is clearly my parents fighting about my preschool.

[bodenee]

On 3/23/2021 at 8:05 PM, Shocktacular said:

 

It's a fireball with a dark right hand grasping the top (you can only see the thumb and pointer finger), to go with the name "Dominating Grasp".

Here's one:

What the 'ell is that thing!?
Is it a keystone? A fortress of some kind?  A big concrete block?  I can get most of these, but this one confuses me.

one of those road barracades... steadfast... get it?