Beyond that, the icons are also ice breakers, letting each other know who plays what, thus allowing us to say, "Hey, you play such and such, wanna get online so I can cream you and call you a noob?"
The other person then says, "I would love to, but I stole a CD key from some bloke and am now playing this game illegally. Although the boards can read what game I play, my system freezes up when I try to get on ICO. As a result, I feel that these guys suck for not supporting my pirated game and they can take a broomstick to the ass."
"I know what you mean. I've been downloading several Gigs of music for months now. I was jamming to my tunes in my parent's basement when a bunch of guys broke into the house and dragged me to a federal prison. I'm surfing the net from cell block D."
"Is that one of the better cell blocks? I've been running a Nigerian scam for some time now and am trying to make plans to get out of the country unless they freeze my passport. I figure to plan for any situation."
"It's not a bad cell. We get cable tv, internet access and plenty of time out in the yard to play basketball and chat. Well, gotta go. Time for my daily sodomy."
"Ok. See you later."
