Fighting Game Backgrounds as Animated GIFs: !THGIF

We’ve seen a website dedicated to videogame logos and another one obsessed with start screens. Redditor RudeBottie has another similarly niche collection of videogame assets: its devoted to the background scene in fighting games. While it’s nowhere near complete you can still lose hours just staring at the collection, because they’re presented as animated .gifs:

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According to Redditor horse_you_rode_in_on, RudeBootie’s collection includes backgrounds from 16- and 32-bit fighting games, namely Street Fighter 2: Super Turbo, Street Fighter: Alpha 3, Street Fighter: Third Strike, The Art of Fighting, Last Blade, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, King of Fighters, Samurai Showdown and Vampire Savior.

Check out more of these awesome animations in the gallery below:

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Dat shark. Quarter circle forward forward left click to Imgur to see all of RudeBootie’s images.

[via Reddit via The Fox is Black]

Google+ Profile Photos Now Support Animated GIFs

Google+ Profile Photos Now Support Animated GIFsWhich is the most frequently viewed animated GIF on the Internet? I am not quite sure about whether porn ads would fall under this category, but it would be safe to assume that hugely popular stuff like the Nyan Cat would be part of the animated GIF revolution. After all, if a picture is able to speak a thousand words, imagine just how about an image that has several frames within it will be able to tell its story? For those who do spend plenty of time on their Google+ social network, you might be well pleased to hear that Google+ now supports the use of animated GIFs as your profile image.

Yes sir, you are now able to upload your most flattering image that you think you look in, crop it according to the correct size, and who knows, it could very well be a springboard to a whole new generation of crazy Internet memes? Just what kind of animated GIF do you have in mind to get your Google+ profile update to keep up with the times?

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