Chris

I thought Best Quality Posts could take over that. Best English is there, already discussed why we aren't going to break it down further with non-native stuff etc. Not sure about post of the year, but Topic of The Year seems a good idea, think we'll add that.

Current list of awards including suggestions I liked GTA (8) Most Knowledgeable (GTA3): Most Knowledgeable (GTAVC): Most Knowledgeable (GTASA): Most Knowledgeable (GTALCS): Most Knowledgeable (GTAVCS): Most Knowledgeable (GTAIV): Best Stunter (San Andreas): Best Stunter (Vice City): Member (11) Most Respected Member: Most Respected Mod/Super Mod: Most Helpful Member: Most Improved Member: Most Intelligent Member: Best New Member: Funniest Member: Most Original Username: Biggest Geek: Most Random Member: Best Personality: Graphics, Creativity, Skills etc. (9) Best Avatar: Best Signature: Best Graphics maker: Best Animator: Best Writing (creativity forum): Best Quality Posts: Best Written English: Best "About Me" page: Best Debater: Prestige (3) Member of the Year: Hottest Male: Hottest Female: Lolz (fun stuff) (2) Person Least Like to Get Laid: Best Breasts: Total: 33 Some of your suggestions I added but they replaced another award, e.g. I renamed Most Unique Member to Best Personality (thanks Connor) as I think it sounds better and is fairly similar anyway. I renamed Largest Breasts to Best Breasts since it's less factual and more opinion, thus more competition among the ladies AND men. Yes, we're not sexist Anything else for removal or addition from that list? I'll leave this open for another day.

Merged with topic already here. Please use the search guys.

All details are here, so we'll continue posting in that topic. Thanks for letting us know anyway, although I was told by someone else before realising anyone had posted here

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Well I think it's 9001x better than your Huckleberry Pie stuff.

Nah, everyone has different tastes, no way to determine who's is best. Throughout 2008 we've still had quite a few stunt vids posted so we'll keep the awards for at least this year. Perhaps next year if it's still declining in popularity we'll scrap them.

^^ Good point, meant to say I'd get rid of weirdest looks as well. Forgot about that.

Actually no, I think Least Likely to Get Laid can be one of our humorous awards this year, along with Largest Breasts. That should probably be it though, mostly looking for serious awards that people have to actually work for. Best Debater is a good one, as is Best English so we'll definitely include those. Best non-native English is a good idea too, except it's unfair in numerous ways, some of which Gerard pointed out. But some countries teach kids English alongside their mother tongue, whereas some only learn it in the schooling stages. People are at all different stages. For the reasons we've discussed I won't bother including that award.

"Well done for trying, since you didn't get 5 million I'm not going to have sex with you, but I'll suck your cock for your efforts"

Well on the back of the box it says: "Enhanced for: 64 bit | multi-core" So I guess it should do, XP or Vista 64 bit versions, on a multi-core processor are what you're going to run the game best on.

Possibly next year for that? Not sure we have many notable modders here, in terms of actual modelling and stuff. A lot of the modders here are more texturers, config editors and such. Not sure we'd have that many candidates right now, that's all.

More realistic award suggestions please, something that members would have to work for. I'll leave this open til Sunday/Monday, and finalise the list then. We'll hold nominations after that.

Watch out, he has guns and shit. Lol, too many pervs here. Especially people posting bangbros pics in the hot babe thread, and also Car Stuck Girls, what the hell, one of the most bizarre fetishes I've ever heard of.

Once someone creates a tool that can modify model/texture archives so we can replace them with our own. No telling how long that will take. I'm not a software programmer so I'm not sure what exactly they need to figure out before they can start working on writing such a tool.

I dunno maybe penguin lovers? People who think South Pole owns the North Pole? Polar bears are awesome though. Best avatar is already there btw Alright, so far we're adding: Member of the Year Best Quality Posts (non-staff?) Best "About Me" Page I'll have a think about which (if any) awards to have 2nd/3rd place medals for.

That is an epic fail. But I like his unique method of getting laid. Props to him for that. Stupid terms though. 5 million? 1 million I think would be a way more realistic target.

Yeah, I just thought it might be a good idea to have a "Best quality of post" or "Most helpful member" award. We already have them. Well, most helpful member. I suppose we could have best quality posts award too.

It didn't get them wrong. The Ruger/Kruger change, SPAZ12 and SPAS-12 change are just two examples of names which changed between PS2/PC versions. It was to do with trademark issues.

Meh, it's better with just one award for it I think. Member of the Year is fine. That's a pretty prestigious award to win. I'll definitely add that. No need for many staff awards, we're respected enough as it is. Seriously. Open to males and females so certain folk don't accuse us of being sexist and/or sexualising stuff for no reason!

Well it would be better if people didn't. But during nominations, like if it's an image (usually is) we'll just link to it, so if they do change their sig it won't matter. Dunno. I'm kinda against negative awards now. Could have that I guess. Are you trying to guarantee yourself an award? As I said above, not too keen on negative awards but we did have this one year. But it can lead to banned members getting awards which is pointless. Gang awards are actually a great idea. Unfortunately kinda pointless right now, but definitely next year because by then the gang's will have been revamped and hopefully in a much more active state. Most active member is a bit ambiguous, some people like myself come here everyday anyway, it would end up being who posts the most etc. So I'm gonna say no to that. Member of the year could be a good one. How would you rank that? Just on their overall quality of posting, attitude, helpfulness etc.? lol. We could but that's too much and we're not really a big enough forum to warrant that much awards. We do however do them for Sexiest Member awards since they're always the most popular for some unknown reason would have won last year but now I wouldn't. Poor breasts, into the bonfire they went. (I am kind of telling the truth ) I think the catergories are still up to scratch, I always find the most respected member is always an arse licking fest on the mods. But hey the mods are very good anyway so who knows (haha am I arse licking?). Also I think the hottest member award will be more interessting this year for us girls as we dont seem to have Kokane (is she still around?). You would have won biggest cock award!? Oh... your breasts... into a bonfire! To be fair I think the biggest breasts award would be one of the most amusing to have, we should seriously do that just for the lulz. You're right about most respected member. That's why we added a most respected mod award separately last year, so a normal member would get an award and not always be staff, Problem is with staff, people just generally respect the admins more, so me or Sky would win every year which is why I specified mod/super mod instead. I think I will make all staff applicable though. Sky's been admin long enough now for everyone to stop arse licking only me (as enjoyable as that can be sometimes). Kokane doesn't post anymore, seems to randomly visit from time to time though.

I think we had that in 2006 and removed it for 2007 for that reason, yeah it's a bit of a laugh but some people do take things too seriously... @Sky: Yes sir. I'd win both though, right?

Hmm... wonder if that means we can use melee weapons on motorcycles? Might just be a cutscene though.