Scott1716 Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 (edited) Hey again folks, time to start nominating! What happens now is that we ask you to begin nominating who you think should win the awards. Three separate threads have just been posted that allow you to vote for each category of the awards. Player Awards Alliance Awards Community Awards Player awards are for individual players, regardless of alliance, that you think should win the award. Alliance Awards go to the alliance as a whole, and Community awards go to either someone or a group of people in the PnW community that you think are deserving of the award. Please use only this thread for questions as the other threads are purely for your nominations. Nominations close on the 15th of January One last thing is that our winners ceremony voice chat will take place on the 30th of January at 5pm EST (10pm Server time) in the PnW main server ( https://discord.gg/H9XnGxc ), more info to follow. Thanks again!! Edited January 10, 2022 by Scott1716 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kurdanak Posted January 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2022 New year, new opportunity to make the right fricking choice this time. 😤 On 1/1/2021 at 10:33 PM, Kurdanak said: One that I'd like to get out of the way right now, is Best Holiday Flag: Now, I know what you're thinking, "holy shit is that flag awful," and you're not wrong. But just take a few minutes to really take it in. What on Earth is that texture on the red background? The rendering is uncanny. The gold on red contrast is poor, but I can get over that - however, it should be noted that the snowflake colour scheme is consistent except for one single snowflake. I get the ankh, because, you know, The Immortals. But centre-scene, the early 2000s CGI Santa popping out through Christmas wrapping paper background? Truly astounding. It's so bad that it's practically a work of art. Whoever made this, know that I'm so very disappointed in you, but I also have a deep, immense respect for having created an atrocity of this scale. On 1/1/2021 at 11:00 PM, Belisarius said: I would second Kurdanak’s nomination for Best Holiday Flag belonging to The Immortals. Look at it! Look at it! In the history of vexillology I do not think there has been a flag as awe inspiring as this. We throw around the word “awesome” too frequently, to denote a good thing like a tasty cheeseburger. But this flag, this thing, is awesome in the traditional sense: it is to behold the face of an uncaring diety as we watch the Earth crumble under the weight of a ravenous Sun. If one were to imagine a contemporary take on Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias,” we would not behold the decaying monument to a forgotten Pharaoh. No, it would be The Immortals Holiday Flag. Pablo Picasso is to have once said: "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.” Is this not true with the Immortal’s Holiday Flag? A cretin, on first blush, will remark that the Immortal Holiday Flag has no good sense, no redeeming quality. Is the field supposed to be a pixelated simulacrum of wrapping paper? Are we supposed to see the Santa jumping out of the ankh as a friend, ushering in the bacchanalian merriment of the holidays, or a threat about our transient place in the universe? And why the unnaturally large snowflakes? But these incongruities, the inherent heterogeneities found within the Immortals Holiday Flag are the literal embodiment of the adage: "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.” Individually, each aspect is a betrayal to all good sense. But as Picasso knew full well, the Immortals Holiday flag, in bravely subverting the good senses of existence, has made the most creative of creative endeavors. When I first witnessed this flag, I knew I was looking at a work of sublime genius. If there is any evidence for the existence of a benevolent God, is this not it? Thomas Aquinas had nothing on the Immortals Holiday Flag. Indeed, one wonders if art is at an end. Once the summit of the highest peak has been surmounted, what else is there to do? Indeed, once perfection has been reached, why bother? Was Fukuyama right that the end of history is at hand? Maybe not with regards to the fall of Soviet communism, but certainly with the Immortals Holiday Flag. I feel a melancholy that we will never see anything like this ever again. I grieve for us as this flag is both a culmination of human achievement, but also a clarion call that there is no better future out there. But yeah, totally best holiday flag for 2020 👌 3 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Belisarius Posted January 10, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 10, 2022 Thank you for that, @Kurdanak. Last year was a truly horrid year, one where the failures of society writ large were evident for all to see. No, I am not referring to the ongoing pandemic outside of Orbis or January 6th. Instead, I am referring to the gross injustice - a cataclysm, really - of this community’s failure to award the Best Holiday Flag award to The Immortals Holiday Flag. I had a dream (or was it a premonition?). I gazed the Louvre. I. M. Pei’s famed pyramid was shattered, with a dreary pall blanketing the sky overhead. In the distance, gun fire echoed through the streets of a city in the throes of death. The “City of Lights” was anything but. I enter. The halls are empty. Where the art of Delacroix and Rembrandt was stood, there was nothing but a sickening void. The Mughal art of Akbar was gone. The Winged Victory of Samothrace was shattered and profaned, an image I tremble to write out in more detail to save you from my terror. Titian’s art was missing, replaced by a graffito in an unknown script. I could not read it, but I sensed it was taunting in tone. With apprehension and dread, I entered the hall to see da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Where once throngs of people waited to take their selfies with “La Gioconda,” there was silence. The security guard’s stool stood empty as I rounded the corner. “Was it there?,” I thought. My heart was racing as I closed my eyes, not daring to look. Every footstep I took echoed through the hall like a thunderclap, matching, step by step, the chasm rending open my heart. Did Napoleon feel such dread when he knew Waterloo was lost? Whatever he felt was one one-thousandth of what I felt in that moment. When I opened my eyes, I did not see that mirthful smile, that bemused look from da Vinci’s subject. But instead of an unspeakable profanity that would have broken my spirit, I saw its antithesis. Not darkness, but light. I thought that whatever malevolence made its way through this hallowed museum was just that, a force of indescribable evil and villainy. I was wrong. When Saul made his way to Damascus, a sudden light paralyzed him, changing his heart and the world with him. Saul died, but Paul brought the good news to the far corners of civilization. But what greeted me was not malevolent, but something of sublime beauty. Then I realized that the destruction of the West’s patrimony was not a senseless destruction, but a rational decision. After all, what I saw made any preceding art superfluous. An apocryphal telling recounts the burning of the Library of Alexandria. When the kalifa Umar ibn al-Khattab entered into Alexandria, he was asked about what to do with the famed library. He is said to have remarked: Quote "As for the books you mention, if there is in it what complies with the Book of God, then it is already there and is not needed and if what is in these books contradict the Book of God there is no need for it. And you can then proceed in destroying them.” Looking at what replaced the Mona Lisa, I knew that, whatever had destroyed the Louvre, was right to do so. Because when you gaze upon it, you realize this is it, that nothing can surpass the beauty and divinity of The Immortal Holiday Flag. I then woke up. And I smiled. The future was bright indeed. Open your hearts! The Immortals Holiday Flag is clearly the best holiday flag, the best anything. Whether Philistines had taken over last year's vote or the good and virtuous among you had been held captive, there is no excuse not to vote for this banner of light, love, and humanity. Submit to The Immortals Holiday Flag! Obey The Immortals Holiday Flag! VOTE FOR THE IMMORTALS HOLIDAY FLAG!!! 4 1 7 1 Quote http://i.imgur.com/K3xCRAP.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdanak Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Well said, @Belisarius 👏 to scholars such as yourself, every pixel is already burnt into your retinas beyond repair (and joyfully so!). However for the sake of the masses, I'd beware posting The Immortals Holiday Flag ™️ in such a brilliantly high resolution - it is...truly powerful to behold. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Cosmos Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I've decided that since Alpha was both a player and an alliance they must be eligible for both the player and alliance awards. My interpretation of these events may not be universal. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spukey Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Half the space on this page has been used for shitposting. why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onuris Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 (edited) Oops Edited January 12, 2022 by Onuris Wrong thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdanak Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Nukey6 said: Half the space on this page has been used for shitposting. why Bro in two days you'll have been in BK for a year (congrats!), and you're asking this question? Edited January 12, 2022 by Kurdanak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belisarius Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Quote Best Holiday Flag (links) Aurora Christmas Aurora Halloween Global Alliance & Treaty Organization Christmas House Stark Christmas Los Pollos Hermanos Christmas Rose Halloween The Commonwealth Christmas The Knights Radiant Christmas The Knights Radiant Halloween The Wei Christmas Waffle House Christmas How dare you?!?!?!?! There is no hope for anyone. We are all doom if you cannot recognize the majesty of The Immortals Holiday Flag 😭 2 1 Quote http://i.imgur.com/K3xCRAP.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdanak Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 (edited) Actual clip of @Adrienne spitting in my face both literally and metaphorically when delivering these shortlisting results: BKSNWN9.mp4 @alliance representatives, you wound me. 😔 Edited January 27, 2022 by Kurdanak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 @Belisarius @Kurdanak I, too, was disappointed when seeing those shortlisting results. I am sorry the alliance representatives do not share your eye for art. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodor Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 15 minutes ago, Adrienne said: @Belisarius @Kurdanak I, too, was disappointed when seeing those shortlisting results. I am sorry the alliance representatives do not share your eye for art. Name them so that we may shame them. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdanak Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Adrienne said: @Belisarius @Kurdanak I, too, was disappointed when seeing those shortlisting results. I am sorry the alliance representatives do not share your eye for art. Don't worry, shooting the messenger was simply the first step of many in my long campaign of terror. Next is @Aero. 💀 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurdanak Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 DNN winning Best Server (popular vote) with 69 votes, really incredible - one might even say that this vote was...guided by the hand of fate, or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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