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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 1:28:00 GMT -5
Welcome friends, family, Romans, and other members of long dead empires! Once more it's that time of the year. The time of merry-making, cheer, disappointment, and runs to your favorite place for kicks and giggles. It's time... for the 2009 Lugiasian Awards. Once again Loogs has disappeared to some random corner of the globe, and it's not likely that she'll appear again any time soon. Which means that I am taking over this year. That's right folks, SpamBot of the 2009 Lugiasian Awards, Host of Post Race II, and the Knight of Great House Ulaich (the most awesome house ever and you know it) BloodWolf7Below are the awards used last year. However, I'm also going to be using this time period as a time for creating new awards. THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS Friendliest Member: Funniest Member: Happiest Member: Coolest Member: Smartest Member: Wisest Member: Most Dedicated Member: Most Creative Member: Best Artist: Best Writer: Handsomest Member: Loveliest Member: Best Role Model: Most Improved Member: Most Missed Member: Best Couple: Best Two-Minute Member: Biggest Penis: THE RAZZIES Most Annoying Member: Grumpiest Member: Most Depressing Member: Strangest Member: Least Dedicated Member: Biggest Procrastinator: Most Impatient Member: Worst Role Model: Most Run-Down Member: Biggest Drama Magnet: Most Infamous Member: Most Likely to Die an Untimely Death: Scariest Member: THE PULITZERS Best Post: Best Topic: Best Board: Best Fic: Best Image: Best Avatar: Best Signature: Best Alternate Name: Best Skin: Best Fad: Best Posting Game: Most House Spirit: Best Wiki Article: Best Event: Best New Board Concept: Best Spambot: Best Post Racer: Worst Contest: THE OSCARS Best Recent RP: Best Overall RP: Best Plot Twist: Worst RP: Best Storyteller: Best Recent RP Character: Best Overall RP Character: Best Characterizer: Best Personality: Best History: Best Powerset: Best PRP Tactician: Best Recent RPer: Best Overall RPer: Most Improved RPer: Best RP Couple: Best RP Post: Honors a single post in the RP that's considered to be of high quality. Best Fight: Best RP fight, whether from an isolated topic (like one of the Ulima set) or as part of a larger storyTHE NOBELS Random Just-for-the-Hell-of-Nominating Award: Lifetime Achievement Award: To reiterate; this preliminary is just like last year's. If you have an idea for an award that you'd like to be included, then now's the time to say so. I'm only giving you a few days, then the nominations begin.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 6, 2009 1:38:05 GMT -5
Lessee: -Best Post Racer, if we haven't had that yet. -Worst Contest: I wanna see who takes the suckiest contest award. Bulbabail or Infinite Mafia. -Best RP Couple: Why not?
As for the schedule, what are you thinking? I'm thinking this through Wednesday or so, Noms through the 19th, and then voting until like the 30th or so or something. WWPD?
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 1:43:16 GMT -5
I'm not sure on the voting quite yet. I'm thinking Tuesday or Wednesday for the Prelims, but I'm leaving that kinda open in case I'm having problems with my comp again. Though if that happens I SHOULD be able to use the computers at the college.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 6, 2009 1:57:46 GMT -5
Might be a good idea to recap what some of the more possibly confusing award names mean, for the benefit of the I don't know two or three people who weren't here last year. - Best Two-Minute Member honors the most cherished member who stuck their head in for like five posts at most, and then disappeared off the face of the earth. - Most Run-Down Member is meant as the opposite of Most Improved Member -- the person who's fallen farthest from what was perceived as their peak here on the boards. - Most House Spirit denotes the person with the most House spirit, not the House with the most House spirit. I remember there was confusion about this last year. - Best Storyteller means the person who hosts the best RPs. Similarly, Best Characterizer means the person who has the best cast of characters overall. To be honest, I still feel like there just hasn't been enough to 2009 to make this ceremony as worthwhile as it was in 2008. But hey, maybe recapping this year will prove me wrong. Even so, I want to actually suggest the deletion of a couple of awards from last ceremony: - Best Fad: The business of Archie Exie fads was, itself, a fad, and it's passed. We loved coining and playing with fads back in 2008. We laughed, we cried, we fell in love, it was great times all around. This year, fads lost their steam, big time. Maybe they'll be cool again in 2010. In the words* of the great Loogs herself: "CYCLE." - Best PRP Tactician: Despite attempts to the contary, Fallfish was the alpha and omega of PRP this year. That's just not enough material to consider displacing Max Milen/DJkates from the title. *wordBut since I am not all doom and gloom, a few more awards! Some were suggested by others on what may or may not be called the Coffee Table: - Best Mafia Player: Lee's suggestion. A Pulitzer, I imagine. - Least Surprising Plot: Lee's suggestion. Kind of an anti- Best Plot Twist -- recognizes an RP that failed to defy expectations adequately. An Oscar. - Scariest Member: Blood's suggestion. A Razzie, I guess. - Biggest N*ggerfaggot: Choobs' suggestion.- Best Comic Strip: Lee's suggestion. An individualized version of an older award, Best Webcomic. A Pulitzer. - Best RP Post: Here's one I'll suggest. Honors a single post in the RP that's considered to be of high quality. An Oscar. - Best Fight: This, too. Best RP fight, whether from an isolated topic (like one of the Ulima set) or as part of a larger story. An Oscar. Be nice to have at least two or three new awards for each category. Maybe not the Nobels. I'm not sure what would constitute a good new Nobel. Oh, and... -Best RP Couple: Why not? *rolls out the ClipperShipping cannons*
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 20:36:18 GMT -5
Well, I like the three that Lee mentioned, so I'll add those to the list.
Any other suggestions? Anyone?
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 6, 2009 20:37:21 GMT -5
You see, if I had known what Best Characterizer meant, this would have been a bit different. I don't know who I would've voted for, for sure, but it may have been Ch00bs or El, or even possibly myself, instead of Photu (I thought Characterizer meant "The one who is best at developing the personalities of their characters.", and not "Best Cast", essentially.) Not to say that Mr. 'hatu has a BAD cast, but he's got a very, very small one. At least until the Ishka-bubble of this year. To put it into perspective: Photu's cast: Lee's Cast: Yeah, if we had gotten to the sequel before awards season, or Kevin had followed through on his RP (DANGIT, KEVIN.) we'd have reason for Tactician, but as is? It can go for now. Hopefully, we can get a few other members (Tim, Lone) into PRP, and give some vets (El, Kev) reasons to return in the coming year. It won't ever usurp ORP, but it deserves better than this. Maybe we should allow people to start Nomming right away, and then just lock the topic list down after Wednesday? Speed is crucial, since waiting for Loogs took a quarter of our time to run these out.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 20:39:52 GMT -5
I'll probably start it up Tuesday. I won't get back until late Monday, Tuesday should give me a LITTLE bit more time.
Also, I have a Presentation due Tuesday.
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 6, 2009 20:54:38 GMT -5
-Best RP Couple: Why not? *rolls out the ClipperShipping cannons*
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 20:56:09 GMT -5
Oh geez..... Shouldn't you be saving this the nominations topic?
XD
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Post by Tout-Perd on Dec 6, 2009 21:03:10 GMT -5
On a more serious note, I want to see what happens with Best Relationship. Really, there's quite a few "Character Couples" that have risen up since '08. I wouldn't say it's an EXCLUSIVE phenomena, per se, but it does seems that in general, '08 was the introduction of a lot of concepts, and '09 has been elaboration and interconnection of said concepts. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of character interaction.
Ships that I can think of: -MysticShipping (Helen/Rhys) -FascereShipping (Terrian/Nopcsa, for those that want to read their friendship differently) -ClipperShipping (Blaise/Terrian) (A strong contender, but only if certain RPs go long enough to develop the connection between the two beyond "dislike".) -LabShipping (Ender/Natalie) (The most canon of any on the list, really.) -InterestShipping (Eragon/Natalie) (Not much support for it, yet. It depends on how Trainride plays out.)
And that's just cross-cast. There's also Sly/Amiila, Ryuu/Aya, Zeb/Thyra, etc. to consider.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 21:14:13 GMT -5
I can also think of one other one, but not enough has happened there to cause me to want to nominate them for the award.
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Post by ch00beh on Dec 6, 2009 21:27:15 GMT -5
Shadowshipping.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 21:55:36 GMT -5
What's Shadowshipping?
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Post by ch00beh on Dec 6, 2009 21:56:57 GMT -5
Rhometer + Vieve
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 6, 2009 21:59:00 GMT -5
Ah...
I guess I'll be seeing a lot of these be posted as nominations...
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 6, 2009 22:07:29 GMT -5
*rolls out the ClipperShipping cannons* HAHAHAHAHA YES. YESSSS. But I digress. Blood you should add my two RP-related suggestions because they are good ones. That is my argument.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 7, 2009 15:56:45 GMT -5
Sorry, I was going to but I was busy earlier. It shall be done right now.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 7, 2009 21:47:21 GMT -5
Okay, cool.
I feel like there needs to be at least one new People's Choice Award, though. Or several. And I still think Best Fad and Best PRP Tactician should get the boot. In fact, I also don't think we should keep Worst RP, since there aren't really any new spectacular failures to join the ranks of what was being considered for the trophy last year. You know? I just don't want the awards list to be 95% exactly the same as last year's, is basically my problem. Awards that aren't as relevant this year should go on the shelf, and new ones should take their place.
(I wonder if I have the hutzpah to suggest a Best External Influence award, for an outside work that has had a really positive and inspiring effect on the writers here, just so that us Baccano! fans can campaign for it.)
I'm also hoping there'll be some new concept or twist that makes this something other than "Pohatu's ceremony again, but this time with Blood hosting". I'm complimented that you're cribbing so closely from my material last year, but you gotta have some kind of fresh spin on the whole thing.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 7, 2009 22:01:02 GMT -5
No worries there Photu, I'll just ban everything Bacaono! related.
And whilst I'm inclined to agree with you on removing some of those awards, I want to wait and see what other RPers have to say first.
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Post by Shrouded Wolf on Dec 7, 2009 23:37:33 GMT -5
I know that this has been y'all's tradition here for (obviously) longer than I've been here, but... Considering the number of active members here.... Isn't that a few too many awards?
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 8, 2009 0:00:15 GMT -5
Man we here at Archipelago H. Exodus are all about the ego inflation. How'd you miss that?
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Post by Shrouded Wolf on Dec 8, 2009 0:50:29 GMT -5
I know, I know, but... I'm thinking about something similar to what's going on IRL. Years ago, it used to be that if you got an award, you were truly best of the best. Nowdays, there's an award for every little fucking thing and the point of an award now is completely meaningless.
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 8, 2009 0:58:05 GMT -5
Okay, you got us. The Lugiasian Awards ceremony is a communist plot to destroy any sense of individual enterprise and ambition possessed by any member of the board.
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Post by {WW}BetaBloodWolf7 on Dec 8, 2009 2:58:08 GMT -5
Well, to be fair, Pohatu is talking about removing some of them. What really makes up for as to whether or not the awards are worth-while is the level of activity. Some of these WILL be removed.
If there are awards you want to see removed, then pick them and give a good reason as to why you want them removed. Somn more than "there's just too many and this one is kinda stupid".
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Post by Shrouded Wolf on Dec 8, 2009 14:57:02 GMT -5
Sorry. I just see that there's a handful of active people here and I saw several handfuls of awards.
My bad, guys. My bad
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Post by Beelzebibble on Dec 8, 2009 17:21:18 GMT -5
To be honest, if I were running it this year, I'd seriously consider the possibility of just shelving all of the categories except the Oscars, expanding the latter considerably, and pitching it as the RP Awards (or some catchier name. The Wudgies, maybe). I'd let the full Lugiasian Awards ceremony be a biannual event rather than annual, which I feel makes more sense.
Yes, the more I think about it, the more that is exactly what I would do. Blood. I know you want that Spambot title, again, for some reason, but give some real thought to what I just suggested. I know what I'm talking about, here.
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