The No-Hat-Blues – Avatar Pack
So, I heard you guys like avatars. And judging by the success of Tesla’s and Tygrys’ two avatar collections, I presume it to be correct. So, I went and set out on a long a tedious task to find T&T Industries, break into it, and steal the latest avatar designs the two made. I was ready to do this, risk everything in order to get (more) fame and popularity, and as such, I made haste to finish this quest…
I failed. Miserably.
Finding T&T Industries wasn’t too hard, and with the Cloak Camp and Dagger, breaking in was the easy, though long and tiresome part. Getting out, now that was painful. You try stealing something and getting outside when there seems to be a fancy, hat wearing guard around every corner, all of which armed and loud, calling other guards to my position. It’s like playing Metal Gear Solid without hiding or shooting any guards. Oh, and then you have the ones with the Rocket Launchers. Urgh. In the end, I decided to value my life more than their ideas, dropped all the briefcases I had and used the Coward and Dagger to make my slow way out of the place. I still have nightmares of the place though…

So, here I was, no ideas stolen, and moving so slow I might as well be a snail, and to top it all off, everyone around me was wearing a hat. And that is when I had this wonderful idea: avatars for the hatless. And I’m not talking about hatless hats because, despite what I said before, the Hatless Engie reminds me of Cortez from Timesplitters, which is always a plus in my books. So, I gathered a couple of hatless people and told them that they sucked because they had no hats, and took a picture of their reaction. Some burst into tears, some burst into angry. One chap almost sent me to the great Capture Point in the sky. A couple of them complained that their Halo/Gibus/Halloween Mask was a hat, and I just shook my head and took the picture. Those with Bill’s Hat, however, simply kicked me “down under”, so I decided to avoid them until I saw them in Left 4 Dead 2, where I would proceed to shoot their groin. That would show them…
Anyway, with no further delay, the No-Hat-Blues Avatar Pack. It’s not stealing, it’s copying the style of something else, which I have totally gotten away with before. Go enjoy it.
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Hey you? Yes you, the fella’ with the classy picture on your Steam/Forum/Other Account. What are you doing? Trying to hide your hatless shame behind a little picture? What is your problem? Are you, like, Sir Super Coward the Third of Cowardland? Be a real man and trap your sadness in these handy avatars of sad, hatless people, just like you!
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Made by a hatless person, for hatless people, using the pain and torment of other hatless people, Mr. Shadow captures the grief of the news that these chaps officially suck in a beautiful and classic photographs which I would hang on my wall, had it not been for the fact my walls were already covered with his other masterpieces. The best thing is that there are two versions of these soon-to-be-so-iconic-you’ll-grandchildren-will-know-about-them pictures; one zoomed out, and one zoomed in, so you can decide between seeing the poor saps’ body language or facial expressions. How would you not want one of these to represent you?
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And even if you do have hats, you can still have one of these pictures to remind yourself and take joy in the fact that, somewhere, there is someone crying over the fact they have nothing on their heads. So what are you waiting for, a bus? Just right click these amazing snapshots and select “Save Image As…”, and save them somewhere and under a name you can remember so next time you want to stun your foes with something their spend ages looking and remember for the rest of their lives, don’t go for the porn spray, just change your avatar to one of these and by the time they are done looking, you would have already left after winning so many rounds. Something Mr. Shadow wished he had a couple of days ago when he was trying to stealing from T&- err, I mean, he was stealing a capture point from the enemy. Yeah…
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Signed: The Post Script Company Manager of Doing Stuff Mr. Shadow is too busy to do
Septa Viscous
Paper Shadow on January 25th 2010 in community, game classes, team fortress 2, the funny

himmelstoss responded on 25 Jan 2010 at 2:06 pm #
The Soldier mouth close up one is awesome. AWESOME.
Jackal responded on 25 Jan 2010 at 2:44 pm #
[Medic] GOOD WORK! [/Medic]
Good thing I already have MULTIPLE hats. And by multiple I mean 2
orange!Gamer responded on 25 Jan 2010 at 3:24 pm #
@Jackal: By multiple I mean 3… Can you belive I bought the game 6 months ago? Damn, I’m a lucky fella!
My hatless medic make the same expression, then ubersaw you to death
Bunni responded on 25 Jan 2010 at 4:33 pm #
I was not aware that such emotion was conveyable through gmoddage. Unless I’m mistaken and it’s some other program and/or sheer badassery.
Tygrys responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 12:34 am #
See Tesla? Next time we need to mine the goddamn entrance to hell :<
Good work there chap. Some are maybe a little dark for my taste, but the expressions make up for it.
Tesla Tank responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:16 am #
Don’t worry, our lawyers are all over this like jarate.
Good stuff, I must say.
Spindrift responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 1:58 am #
The depth of their plight is a palpable force, one that ravenously sucks at the boots of the spirit with every plodding step through the horizon-spanning bog that is a hatless life. In these sad, sad faces I see a breadth of emotions- bewilderment, despondence, anger, denial- and yet in each runs a common streak of grief… cold, and alive, and rooted in the musty warrens of primordial human need, but twisting into the light to pierce even the most elevated of souls with a reminder of cruel, unabated need. It is the stuff of unrequited love, of parents who outlive their children, of the elderly realizing that though their life may soon pass, it does so unfulfilled.
There, but for the grace of God, go we.
Paper Shadow responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 3:14 am #
@Bunni
Photoshop was used to zoom the pictures in to a 192×192 picture, and it also turned the picture black and white, although that is possible in GMod with Colour Mod option…
The first picture was set to 1.5x colour multiplier to make it super colourful…
Sandman responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 3:49 am #
Great stuff, I might use a few of these.
Also, pyro’s halloween hat was far and away the best, thanks for the reminder. I’m sure that bird has a story he’d love to share…
Secret Agent Clank! responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 4:19 am #
Or was it AT&T industries hurr.
None for me thx, and I still say hats are as worthless as ever.
*makes out with Gunboats*
Tygrys responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 4:36 am #
AT&T? Do I DON’T know about something?
The Administrator responded on 26 Jan 2010 at 5:18 am #
This man has been promoted.
That is all.
Wolf responded on 06 Feb 2010 at 9:33 am #
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I think you gentlemen will be happy to see this!