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Boxer of the Galaxy

Mmm yeah, but Quebec seems cool, too. New Caledonia would be the cheap (and warmer) option.

June, in theory. Although I found out only two days ago that the money doesn't have to be earmarked and I can just get cash. So I'm considering saving up for a more substantial trip to somewhere a bit further than Auckbourne. Somewhere where they speak French preferably, so I can actually get some mileage out of learning a language.

I don't own a 3DS, but it is also not out yet. They're being a little slow on the release, though we're getting the For the Sequel version, not the original. Would love to play it, but I don't need another handheld. The Vita's more than enough.

Haha its cool, that will give me some time to be reacquainted with everyone here.

Okay. Do you want to message noxious.sunshine, or should I?

The only thing I can think of to add would be to decide whether or not you will allow editing posts of their nominations.

That's sounds fine.

Ecchi?

I usually onry deal with full-on Hentai, I recently came across a small series of doujin by the title of Domina no Do. Has a nip slip here and there but its a good read.

Can't say that I've watched either anime you talkin about so ehh.. almost all the animes aired atm got some moe mixed into it.
Japan Anime Showtimes Calendar - Haruhichan

One of my faves is Seitokai Yakuindomo, along with Hen Zemi - they are both mega old now though. Sword Art Online is another one you should keep an eye for 24 eps in all, twice the normal amount of a standard series. I would list a massive list of hentai movie names on here but I don't think that'd be appropriate, public site and all lol.

Here are the rules Polk had about the nomination. The first quote is what he used from back when Alisyn was in charge of the awards. The second quote is what he added himself to help specify things.

RULES:
This is the system we've been using for a few years, first implemented by Neo Necron. Give it a read so you're not confused by the next round.
(1) For each category, you may nominate 2 members.
You may not nominate the following:
- Yourself
- Non-members (that probably goes without say, but I wanted to make sure)
- Ex-members
- Members who haven't shown any activity for a while*

(2) For each category, up to four members will be picked to move through to the voting round. However, 1 member can only make it through to voting for 3 categories only. This is to prevent one member getting a large amount of awards. Couple categories or club categories won't count towards your three.
In other words, if a member receives enough nominations to get into voting for categories W, X, Y and Z, we will remove them from the voting round for W,X,Y or Z (based on how many nominations they have in each) and should we pick, say, X, another nominee will take that place in voting for that category.
I know that's all confusing, but worry not. It will all be nice and fair and we'll all be very very very happy.

(3) We will then move through to the voting round. For each category, you may vote for 1 of the four nominees. Most votes wins.

*UNO: From now on, I’m referring to this as Pete’s Law. Activity counts for considering people to vote for. If you are inactive for eleven months out of the year, then miraculously make a comeback one month before the awards happen, you’re out of contention.

DOS: So, after a bit of thought, we will be having two gender specific awards: Nicest male/female, and most attractive male/female. I feel like most attractive is kind of obvious. Just because Rocky might be the hunkiest dude on the forums (he is), that doesn’t mean he’s the sexiest lady. For nicest member, I feel it’s beneficial to have two winners because chances are, for newbies, if they see someone with a “Nicest Male/Female” banner in their sig, they’re more willing to approach that member with questions or whatever. Having two people instead of one just seems to make more sense. For these categories, please nominate two men and two women.

TRES: Bogus awards need some sort of explanation to them, when you copy and paste, please PLEASE don’t post the explanations. Otherwise it’ll be a pain in the ass to sort through when I count up votes.

Obviously, DOS doesn't matter because there aren't any couples categories (that I know of). Based on the list I have, it will probably be wise to have the people nominating members for "Indecent Comment Award" include the indecent comment the member made to qualify for the nomination.

But to answer your question, you will have members nominate two people for each award. We tally up the nomination posts/PMs to get the 2, 3, or 4 people who move on to the voting round. Then for the voting round, members will vote on only those people who passed the nomination round. After that, we count up the results and give the awards to the winner. And of course I would be glad to count up the votes for you.

As for the banners, I am half finished with the awards on the list I made. And most of the ones that I haven't made, I have ideas for written down or thought up in my head. I see you added one since the last time I checked (Biggest Troll). I like the idea for that one, and it won't be difficult to make.

So, whenever you feel like starting them, go ahead and start them.

mmmm.... not quite. What you're wanting me to do is merge the reputation and like systems together. We actually already have something like that link you shared in place as it stands.

I definitely think it's possible. Someone somewhere has probably already made the mod for it - it's a matter of finding it.

If I could manage to get the two things to actually work together, I'd love to do that. That would require some serious recoding of built-in software though, because each of those elements are actually default parts of vB4.

I'm also trying to maximize our communication with Square Enix. I think when Eric is back from his latest business venture, I'm going to ask him if I can post my email response to him as an article on our site. I feel like having the community be able to visualize SE's attempts to reach out to us could be great.

Free stuff tends to do that. The trick is going to be keeping them rolling for a bit. It's also approaching the holiday season, where some of us (like me) will disappear, but many more of us will return.

Here's a good piece of reading imo.Sexual assault and drinking: Teach women the connection.