WINNERS REVEALED!!! GOLDEN GANONS 2023 FINAL POLLS - CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[Jeevan | 8,916]

4 minutes ago, OptOut said:

WELL DONE to all our wonderful award winners, as we conclude our awards season for this year! Feel free to post your acceptance speeches, congratulations, and/or bitter rebukes below! And here's to all of you, our entire community, everyone who makes VGS the most awesome place to be!!! 

 

shit, i didn't see this.............

I love everyone who nominated me, but I don't feel i deserve it!  I do appreciate each and every one of you, but feel tht I have let you down in the same breath!  I appreciate being recognized as a person who is your best friend, and love that you all thought of me!  Thanks so much, it means more than you will ever know!  Like legit, i don't want to be recognized for giving away games, but want to make it so that folks can have games that they want and not feel like they have to be burdened by the $$$$ aspect of it.  So my idea of giving away a game to a sage was just something I wanted to do whilst I was getting some OT and able to do so.  I didn't want anyone to tell that i was doing it and I don't think that anyone but @G-type mentioned it. 

I love everyone on VGS and just want to let you know that you all have kept me sane through some dark times in my life.  

Thanks for the nominatoins, and the "win" but i feel that we should all embnrace the feelings of, let's help each other out if we can!  That is what collecting and VGS is all about.  

Acceptance speech over, now give me my charm/bauble

[Jeevan | 8,916]

Also, shameless plug

 

[goldenpp72 | 1,234]

I wasn't able to keep up with this as much as I would have liked, I mostly only knew about it due to being tagged, but I appreciate all the peeps who liked my room, always nice to feel a bit of validation since it isn't really something most people will appreciate really

[phart010 | 1,708]

5 hours ago, Jeevan said:

Who told you I give away games?  Was it @phart010, @Gloves, @G-type or @spacepup lol.  I was planning on doing more, but he pandemic hit and I wanted to be able to make sure I was able to take care of my own before vgs unfortunately!  either way, i love vgs and will be giving away more games in the future if $$$$ permits me to do so!

Not me. But now that the genie left the bottle, let me state how honored I am to have been chosen among the ranks of @Gloves, @G-type, and @spacepup

You have identified some real champions and I feel humbled 

[ThePhleo | 2,185]

Wow, I genuinely feel honored to be admired at all. Truth be told, even after all this time I still feel like a poser, standing on the shoulders of giants, still trying to learn the basics.

...chili vs. potato needed to be higher though.

[fcgamer | 4,737]

7 hours ago, OptOut said:

11. Public enemy No. 1 award! Just for FUN, which VGS member do you love to hate, or somehow always find yourself on opposite sides of the discursive battlefield?

Winner: @fcgamer

Hoo hoo hoo boy! In what turned out to be a surprisingly hotly contested category, I think we found the bad boy VGS... deserves??? Yeah we'll go with that, well done @fcgamer, if that IS your real name! 

Nice! 

Back on NA I always admired the Nolan brothers; they always had their hands in one thing or another, when it came to drama, but they were no-nonsense and generally just told things how they saw it. I miss people like that. I'm not saying that people go around and act like a dick for the sake of doing so, but sometimes the pot does need to be stirred, and similarly, sometimes someone needs to point out the literal elephant that's standing in the room.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again here: I reckon folks would be quite surprised if we met up in person. At the end of the day, I see this collecting as just "trivial things" to occupy my time at the moment. If any of you VGS'ers make it to Taiwan, hit me up, I'll gladly take off work and show you around, and also go for a few beers. 

#SachenKicksAss
#UnlicensedCartsMatter
#SayUnauthorisedGamesNotBootlegGames

[G-type | 2,487]

1 hour ago, ThePhleo said:

...chili vs. potato needed to be higher though.

It had a tough match up competing with the Heritage Auction thread. I think I found a way to bridge the gap though... I'm going to see about getting this can of Skyline Chili slabbed:

I think I might have inadvertently stumbled onto the next hot trend in collecting. Get in quick before all comic investors  skyrocket the prices. Skyline will definitely be in the Black Box series of canned chilies.

[AirVillain | 490]

Thank you all. It's been an honour serving with you all. 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,561]

Venezuelan ballot boxes indeed 

[spacepup | 2,405]

You don't give yourself enough credit Reed!

There are lots of amazing people here, some of whom are more private than others or have different ways of contributing positivity and constructive energy to the community.  

Jeevan is a great fellow and friend, so I think his win is definitely well-deserved!  But there are many great people here, doing lots of good things for others.  Thanks for everything you do Reed!

[Jeevan | 8,916]

16 minutes ago, spacepup said:

You don't give yourself enough credit Reed!

There are lots of amazing people here, some of whom are more private than others or have different ways of contributing positivity and constructive energy to the community.  

Jeevan is a great fellow and friend, so I think his win is definitely well-deserved!  But there are many great people here, doing lots of good things for others.  Thanks for everything you do Reed!

Personally I would have loved to see a tie all around that category   I have become very good friends with all nominated, and I think there are a lot who were not on there that should have been!  Lots of good folks on VGS!

[docile tapeworm | 4,204]

@Reed Rothchild third place! I’m honored of course.

btw smb2 USA is a fake Mario game!

[Brickman | 4,000]

So no GG2024?  

[GPX | 1,371]

I vote @OptOut the winner of best awards host, on top of his class clown award!

Fun read!

[OptOut | 8,890]

7 hours ago, Brickman said:

So no GG2024?  

Soz dude, I'm absolutely snowed under with everything at work ATM!

I will be happy to give the awards another go at some point in the future, if by some miracle I manage to get more freetime!

Otherwise, of course, I would be happy to pass the baton if anyone else wants to take over!