The 2020 Oddworld Forums Awards (Now Hosted Primarily on Discord)
 

So, while I haven't bothered to format it for the forums just yet (and probably won't either, because that's a lot of effort for the four or so people that only use the forums and rarely as hell) I've started the 2020 Oddworld Forums Awards! I suppose it's worth bearing in mind that those of you on the Forums exclusively will likely have missed out on a lot of the "juicy" material that happens on Discord, so if you have no votes or intention of voting, no worries. If you'd like to, I suggest you put your grievances with modern technology aside long enough to get on Discord and vote as the "original vision" intended.

Again, I could format it better, but this year, the categories are:
Best Debate (not debater, an actual debate that people enjoyed)
Best Meme
Most Insular Member
Most Missed Member
Unofficial OWF Mascot
Most Liked
Best Emoji
Worst Emoji
Best New OWI Moment (ironic best or best in quality? I'll let you decide)
Funniest Member
Most Underrated Member
Most Changed Member
Best Couple
Best Artist
Most Eccentric

I feel the need to point out that the forum awards are generally only eligible to members who posted in the last year, therefore there can be no awards.

What a load of nonsense, activity has been booming recently

Best Debate: Can the 2020 Oddworld Forums Awards even happen?
Most Insular Member: Nate
Most Missed Member: OWF Community
Unofficial OWF Mascot: Nate
Most Liked: Nate
Best New OWI Moment: Stealing memes from the forum without credit
Funniest Member: Nate
Most Underrated Member: Alf Shall Rise
Most Changed Member: Nate
Best Couple: Nate and Chuck Norris
Best Artist: Nate
Most Eccentric: Nate

best couple - varrok & toby the mudokon
don't care about the other categories so just put vexen wherever applicable

The search feature on Discord says we got 800+ individual messages just today. It wasn't even a busy day.

Keep in mind it's more akin to IM, so it doesn't necessarily equate to forum posts when it comes to verboseness.

An advert for forum awards, pertaining to IM content on a Discord server that seceded from the very same forum the awards are about, posted despite an acknowledgement from the advert itself that the forum is pretty much dead. Bizarre.

MA for every category, both in your awards and just in general.

yeah i don't quite get that either. seems strange. but it's a new age apparently. obviously we must have an aversion to modern technology, that definitely must be the reason why we don't care. that must be it. surely.

also i'm totally not above just 69'ing STM's votes and voting him for everything. STM for overlord. we'll have our own forum awards, dammit. even though these are technically ours, but not anymore. or something. i don't fucking know.

actually that reminds me, why are we calling them 'oddworld forums awards' when they're more like 'oddworld discord awards' or whatever? everyone has pretty much accepted the fact they're nothing to do with the forums anymore yet they still carry the same name. how does that even make sense? come up with your own name you fucking plagiarists! GAWD

what is OWF? a relic of the past. there is only OWD now.

OddWorld DICK

What I find weirder is that some of you seem to be condescending towards Discord as a weaker alternative to the forums... while hardly any of you bothers to even hold up conversation on the forums, leaving it little more than a barren wasteland of boredom.

If there's anything stranger than that it is the fact some of you find it unbelievable that people don't want to hang around the forums that are fucking broken and on a verge of being nuked by the site provider.

We call them Oddworld Forums Awards because the Discord server's name is called Oddworld Forums, based on this site here. With the exception that it is not dead and people want to hang out there.

i posted before that i don't have the energy or interest in discord and online chats in general anymore, but i really don't have any issues with the server.

tbf i made those posts with tongue-in-cheek, i wasn't being completely serious. i was just being a sarky cunt. i don't agree with what you're saying here, but i think it would be better for my general lifespan if i agree to disagree with a few points you made there.

just know that i don't have a problem with your discord, the only reason i haven't joined is because i'm too old-headed for that shit now. i really have no patience for modern internet culture to be honest. plus a lot of the general oddworld-related convos people have I have already discussed to death, and it was probably ten years ago on these forums. that's the truth. i don't care is the essence of it. i doth not care anymore.

Regardless of your reasons, I'll be sure to mark a vote for STM across the board, along with MA. And obviously also log ASR's votes.

It's Oddworld Forums Awards because 90% of the people eligible for these awards originate from the Oddworld Forums and 90% of the content that is eligible was made by said people. Seems only appropriate to call that the unifying factor.

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And of course you all have an aversion to modern technology! Everyone using this forum was like 20 or something when it was active, you must be like 50 by now, ya bunch of old geezers. Everyone over the age of 40 hates technology and wishes they could go back to the gold of days of using flint to start fires, looking at the sky for dating advice, whacking sticks together as a form of cultural expression, communicating in a series of grunts and groans and most importantly beating up anyone who disagrees with you.

Discord, being the hip young modern "with it" techno gizmo gadget cool-kids app for attractive young people is waaay ahead of you old coots what with its newfangled "instantaneous messaging service" and "emotional icons. DAAAAAD, you don't get it do you!

For the more serious record, though, we try to keep Oddworld-related discussions on the Discord to a bare minimum, because holy shit, if there's one thing we don't want to talk about anymore, anywhere, it's Oddworld. It's a mix of exhaustion of new and interesting topics and the reminder of years spent waiting for a game that wound up a disappointment to everyone and the knowledge that we're doing the same thing with SoulStorm anyway.

hey the sun has never steered me wrong

why the fuck aren't pen pals a thing anymore? if i don't have to wait a week for a reply it doesn't feel like i've had a conversation. bullshit, man. send me back.

Notice how you only started saying that after your corneas burned out?

Good god, it's like talking to Mr. Darcy and his 30000 pound estate in Victorian England, wantonly pining for Ms. Bingley and her meagre 1000 pound allowance. Step into the 20th century, Mr. Wickham, then give the 21st century a spin.

i'm only 25 :( i was a literal child when i joined here.

Because the correct thing thing to do is tie a message to a balloon and send it off, then hope someone does the same so you get one - that is a real conversation on a national scale, potentially international if you get a really big balloon

I am a bit tongue-in-cheek as well, though it might not translate into text as well as I'd want it to :p

frankly, i think daxter king deserves the owf award for best picture AND best cinematography

Daxter King for bestest most biggerest winky.

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