Avatar Theme Week Central (no, not the movie)

[happyturtle]

Coming Attractions:
Video Game Week - Oct 10-16 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169179)

Halloween! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171341)


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Theme Weeks Archive

2010

Halloween 2010 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171341)
Video Game Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169179) - Oct 10, 2010
Talk Like a Pirate Day 2010 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168898) - Sept 19, 2010
Monty Python Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163416) - Sept 12, 2010
Critical Success/Failure Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=160191) - Aug 1, 2010
Nationality Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=156026) - June 27, 2010
Victorian Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147126) - May 24, 2010
Pokemon Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147106) - May 10, 2010
IN SPACE! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142061) - March 22, 2010
Gender Bender week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137948) - Feb 15, 2010
Warhammer 40k week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133845) - Jan 17, 2010
ON FIRE! week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131389) - Jan 4, 2010


2009

Halloween / Dress Like a Playgrounder Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123266) - Oct 26, 2009
Demons and Angels (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120707) - Aug 31, 2009
Draconic Avatar Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118360) - Aug 3, 2009
Greek/Roman Mythology Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118359) - July 20, 2009
Steampunk Avatar Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112957) - June 29, 2009
xkcd Avatar Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112953) - June 15, 2009
Good/Evil Twin Avatar Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104921) - March 14, 2009
Gender Bender Week III (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102623) - Feb 16, 2009


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This thread is for suggesting ideas for future weeks and discussing past ones. To actually request avatars, show off your avatars, or admire the avatars of others for the upcoming weeks, please see links to the individual week threads above.

There is no approval process. Discussion happens here until someone feels like starting a new thread. If you start an Avatar Theme Week, please link it in this thread so I can add it to the archives.

Important: If you don't like a theme week under discussion, then either try to drum up support for a different theme, or don't participate. That's all. Please refrain from negative comments. Saying 'I'm not interested and wouldn't participate' is fine. Saying 'This choice sucks because...' and doing it in multiple posts is not.

[kpenguin]

Suggestion: Moderator/Admin Week.

We all dress up our avatars as the various mods/admins of GitP, including those that are no longer moderating. A tribute to their hardwork policing the forums.

We also act super-special-extra nice or something.

[Icewalker]

The genre themes I think will generally make the most reasonable weeks. Some fun stuff in the list. Should we come up with a voting system?

[happyturtle]

A voting system would be good, if anyone has any idea at all how to manage it.

[Silverraptor]

Suggestion: Moderator/Admin Week.

We all dress up our avatars as the various mods/admins of GitP, including those that are no longer moderating. A tribute to their hardwork policing the forums.

We also act super-special-extra nice or something.

I like this one.:smallcool:

[happyturtle]

Icewalker, can you spoiler your sig quote image? It's screen stretching for me.

[Crimmy]

Suggestion: Moderator/Admin Week.

We all dress up our avatars as the various mods/admins of GitP, including those that are no longer moderating. A tribute to their hardwork policing the forums.

We also act super-special-extra nice or something.

Thirded. :smallcool:

[Icewalker]

Really? Guess it's long enough for some screens. Will fix, sorry.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

...lolita themed? Yeeeah, that's a week I'm gonna have to put down in my calendar.

[Lord Iames Osari]

Have we ever had a pirate week?

[Ashen Lilies]

Every September around TLaP day.

[Blue Ghost]

Suggestion: Moderator/Admin Week.

We all dress up our avatars as the various mods/admins of GitP, including those that are no longer moderating. A tribute to their hardwork policing the forums.

We also act super-special-extra nice or something.

That's an idea, but some of us (myself included) haven't been around long enough to remember any of the mods except Roland.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

My b-day is April 4th. It too egotistical to make that 'Hairy' week, where everyone is covered in fur? :smallamused:

Btw, we've had an admin themed week before. I was Wampa:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/AwakenedDreamer/Tribbles/WampaTribble.gif

[happyturtle]

How about before we start voting on weeks or suggesting new weeks, we discuss these two questions:

1. What makes a good avatar theme week?

2. What are your two or three favourite theme weeks of the past?

My answers

1. - Something that is widely known. ex: 'Star Wars' theme would be better than 'Fifth Element'
- Something that can adapts well to avatar cosplay. It's more fun if we recognize each other's signature avatars dressed up for the week.
- Easily recognizable. Lord of the Rings week might end up looking too much like 'generic fantasy adventurers' to work well.

2. My absolute favourite was xkcd week. Also, I liked devil and angels week and, though it wasn't an official theme week, I enjoyed when everyone did masquerade ball avatars for the playground prom.

[EleventhHour]

How about before we start voting on weeks or suggesting new weeks, we discuss these two questions:

1. What makes a good avatar theme week?

2. What are your two or three favourite theme weeks of the past?


1.) It has to be something that has enough characters in for there not to be three or four repeats (excluding when people share a favorite character), and it should be something with a broad choice that people will know.

2.) I've enjoyed them all so far! ...I can't remember which where Theme Weeks, and which I got at random, though...

Idea for Theme Selection :

The current list of suggestions should go, so that they can be refilled new every month... So, you have the Broad Categories (Action/Media/Etc), which get voted on. Then everyone who can think of a theme that fits can suggest it. Roll on a Random Number Generator, presto. Impartial Selection of a random week.

[Mauve Shirt]

We don't want every week or every other week to be a theme week, though. Avatarists will be overworked, and one wants to see a poster's normal avatar enough to be able to recognize the cleverness of the theme costume.

[happyturtle]

Nope. Not every week, or every other week. It will only be every six weeks, as voted previously. So after genderbender week, there won't be another one until the end of March.

[Kallisti]

Homebrew week. Everyone dig up a homebrew and get it illustrated. And then all the authors have pictures to go with their homebrews.

[Icewalker]

Ooooh, I second Kallisti's plan. That'd be awesome. :smallwink:

[happyturtle]

*thwaps people with the spear of thwapiness* :smalltongue:

Oy! Stop that! We're not collecting and voting on ideas right now! This is the phase where we work out how we'll choose future ideas!

[skywalker]

2. My absolute favourite was xkcd week. Also, I liked devil and angels week and, though it wasn't an official theme week, I enjoyed when everyone did masquerade ball avatars for the playground prom.

Is any theme week ever "official?"

[The Extinguisher]

I think trying to regulate these in any way is just asking for trouble and things to not go as planed.

[kpenguin]

I think trying to regulate these in any way is just asking for trouble and things to not go as planed.

This. So much this.

I think anyone should be able to set up their own avatar theme week thread if they want. It's just a matter if people join or not.

[skywalker]

I think trying to regulate these in any way is just asking for trouble and things to not go as planed.

Or as planned, for that matter.

[Serpentine]

I don't think there's anything wrong with at least trying to have a bit of organisation with this.

1. Pretty much what everyone else has said: reasonably easy to come up with ideas and apply those ideas to avatars, broad enough to prevent too much overlap, and popular enough to appeal to most people.

2. Checking my avatars...
Hmmm. Might be Halloween.
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h287/serpentine16/Avatarables/Serpentine/SerpMarilith.gif
Aside from it being my favourite avi, I think, it's also a good one for lots of variety.

[Zeb The Troll]

I agree. Making an attempt at organization is a good idea and it has successful precedent on these forums with the self imposed regulation of the Werewolf style games in the Structured Games subforum.

[Pyrian]

Hmmm. Might be Halloween.
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h287/serpentine16/Avatarables/Serpentine/SerpMarilith.gifThe first depictions of bare breasts I ever saw were in the 1st edition Monster Manual. :smallredface:

[BisectedBrioche]

Question, why's VGC listed as a potential week when Team Fortress, Sonic and Legend of Zelda are listed as "too narrow"? VGC has about 5 unique characters. Not to mention if you're talking about notability LoZ is only slightly less well known than Mario, as is Sonic (in fact considering that he was basically the mascot of the rival company back in the day...) and TF2 is one of the most popular MOFPSs.

[Jibar]

My b-day is April 4th. It too egotistical to make that 'Hairy' week, where everyone is covered in fur? :smallamused:


I wouldn't say so.

But then I'd also add that there's another Cat-Muffin Week at the start of June, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask. :smalltongue:

[Boo]

Question, why's VGC listed as a potential week when Team Fortress, Sonic and Legend of Zelda are listed as "too narrow"? VGC has about 5 unique characters. Not to mention if you're talking about notability LoZ is only slightly less well known than Mario, as is Sonic (in fact considering that he was basically the mascot of the rival company back in the day...) and TF2 is one of the most popular MOFPSs.

Not everyone is a big fan of each game. As many characters as there are, most people would be one of a select few (especially for TF2). LoZ has a lot of options, yes, but I can only wonder how many people actually know enough about the game for it to be accessible to everybody.

General themes are usually better than specific themes since more people can really feel part of the experience rather than just another participant.

Or I could be completely wrong.

[happyturtle]

Question, why's VGC listed as a potential week when Team Fortress, Sonic and Legend of Zelda are listed as "too narrow"? VGC has about 5 unique characters. Not to mention if you're talking about notability LoZ is only slightly less well known than Mario, as is Sonic (in fact considering that he was basically the mascot of the rival company back in the day...) and TF2 is one of the most popular MOFPSs.

Because I don't know what VGC is so didn't know how to categorize it? :smallredface: If someone wants to go through all or part of the list and make comments on suitability, please do so.

The list was very much an attempt on my part to be over inclusive, which is why the items were moved to a sub-list rather than dropped off completely.

[rakkoon]

Fabulous overview, thanks happy...now just need to learn avataring

[Dallas-Dakota]

I wouldn't say so.

But then I'd also add that there's another Cat-Muffin Week at the start of June, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask. :smalltongue:
Considering that there was quite a popular trent/week of catmuffins some time ago.:smallamused:

Als I'd say a sesame street week. >.>
And if you say Sesame Street is too narrow... ><


I don't really like how frequent these weeks are becoming >.> They're the occasional good fun, yeah. But it also taxes a lot on avatarists.
And there is the thing of having steady avatars and such....

Also on xkcd week: I didn't really like it...Charm of xkcd is funny/smart, not the art much.

[Serpentine]

I think that, if we get this organisational thing going properly, the weeks should get more spaced out - aiming at every 6 weeks an' all. The 40k thing was brought on by the one-off event of the forum reaching 40000 members, and just got squeezed in between the "official" ON FIRE! and Gender-bending weeks.

[happyturtle]

Yes, every six weeks is the goal, and the main reason for an attempt at organization.

@DD - no, I wouldn't think Sesame Street too narrow, though I'd suggest expanding it to Muppets week

[Totally Guy]

Naked week was an accident!

It just kind of happened spontaneously after I told the tale of how ended up inspiring my friends to arrange a naturism event.

Which was also an accident!

[Ichneumon]

If you leave 6 weeks between the avatar themes weeks, you'll only have time to do 8-9 theme weeks in a year. It might be good to make a list of the "must have" weeks, like Gender Bend and Inner animal week.

[happyturtle]

What makes a week a 'must have'?

I know Gender Bender is an annual tradition, but I don't know what other themes are, other than holiday events.

[Ichneumon]

What makes a week a 'must have'?

I know Gender Bender is an annual tradition, but I don't know what other themes are, other than holiday events.

I was refering to those that are annual traditions. The term "must have" was inaccurate.

[happyturtle]

Which weeks are annual traditions?

[The Vorpal Tribble]

I wouldn't say so.

But then I'd also add that there's another Cat-Muffin Week at the start of June, so maybe I'm not the best person to ask. :smalltongue:
I'd go for it!

Mmm, catmuffins...
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c273/AwakenedDreamer/Tribbles/TribbleMuffin.png

[Serpentine]

Lets see... Holiday ones, obviously:
Christmas
New Year
Birthdays (well, I do :smalltongue:)
Easter
Halloween
Local.
Personally, I'd probably keep these ones separate to the "theme week" lists. Possible exception being Halloween, as that's all about dressing up anyway.

Gender-bend is.
Inner Animal seems to be (though, alas, it tends to be sub-par for me)
Cat-muffins nearly are
Mistaken Identity's been done a few times.

You know what? I wouldn't worry too much about these, really. If we feel like repeating one we did another year, we can resubmit it. Or if we're a bit stuck on new ones, or whatever.

[Jibar]

Cat-muffins nearly are

If Cat-Muffin Week ever becomes an annual thing I will cry, because it will prove there is something deeply and consistently wrong with this forum.

[Boo]

Lets see... Holiday ones, obviously:
Christmas
New Year
Birthdays (well, I do :smalltongue:)
Easter
Halloween
Local.
Personally, I'd probably keep these ones separate to the "theme week" lists. Possible exception being Halloween, as that's all about dressing up anyway.

Gender-bend is.
Inner Animal seems to be (though, alas, it tends to be sub-par for me)
Cat-muffins nearly are
Mistaken Identity's been done a few times.

You know what? I wouldn't worry too much about these, really. If we feel like repeating one we did another year, we can resubmit it. Or if we're a bit stuck on new ones, or whatever.

Out of those, I'd say gender-bender, cat-muffin and Halloween are definite annuals. Winter Holidays is also another annual (I put New Year into this category as well). I don't know about mistaken identity week, but it's happened twice as far as I can recall...

The rest, adding in days of remembrance, are usually just a choice of the playgrounders themselves rather than official avatar weeks. Easter is considered by many people I know to be a religious holiday, so I wouldn't count that one personally, but the playground might have a different opinion on the matter. I don't remember it being one...

@^: Oh but there is! Can't you tell?

[Dallas-Dakota]

Didn't we already know that?

[Ashen Lilies]

There's generally an unofficial pirate week every year as well, as people get dressed up for TLaP day.

[Boo]

Didn't we already know that?

Know what? Everything I just said? Yes. Yes we do. I just felt like saying it.

@KK: Everyday is Pyrate Day!

[Ichneumon]

All right, this is a hypothetical list, of course we can have shifts in dates and all.

I made sure Pirate week is in the week of ITLAPD and Winter Holiday week is in December and halloween is in halloween.

Of couse these are estimates, as the week numbers shift every year and there is no reason to stick exactly to the 6 weeks between them. So they could be a week earlier or later.

Week 4:
Week 10: The Annual Gender Bender Week
Week 17:-
Week 24:
Week 31:
Week 38: International Talk Like a Pirate Day/Week...
Week 45: Halloween
Week 49:
Week 51: Winter Holiday

[BisectedBrioche]

Not everyone is a big fan of each game. As many characters as there are, most people would be one of a select few (especially for TF2). LoZ has a lot of options, yes, but I can only wonder how many people actually know enough about the game for it to be accessible to everybody.

General themes are usually better than specific themes since more people can really feel part of the experience rather than just another participant.

Or I could be completely wrong.

Well if that's the case then VG cats has all the same problems. Which was my main point. I would still argue that LoZ is at least as well known as the FF series (and even longer running for that matter).


Because I don't know what VGC is so didn't know how to categorize it? :smallredface: If someone wants to go through all or part of the list and make comments on suitability, please do so.

The list was very much an attempt on my part to be over inclusive, which is why the items were moved to a sub-list rather than dropped off completely.

Just for the record, VG cats is a webcomic known for it's good quality artwork, sporadic updates and occasionally taking refuge in vulgarity.

Since I'm bored (I, by no means, consider myself the final word on this);

Action based themes:

Party
Musical
Toga Party
Music/Music video
Lost a fight week
Drunken avatar week


Creature themes:
Every avatar can potentially be switched to a given creature, (apart from the odd case of the creature in question already being in use for an avvie) so I'll give this a blanket pass.

Genre themes:
Same as Creatures

Human based themes:

Lolita - The implications/origins might bother some. It has the issue of basically being GB week with an age down (taken as the character type), but it could include the spear counterpart or just focus on the fasion style I guess.
Hobo - No issues here
Standard OotS - A little dull perhaps, and exclusive to those who already use standard avvies. Keep it in reserve.
Old smelly person week - Interesting, if narrow.
Crazy Person week As old person week


Media themes:

Joss Whedon Week Fairly broad, plenty of characters
Non-oots Webcomic It'll work
8-bit week This could be fun. It'll give sprite artists a chance to shine as avatarists (depending one one's interpretation)
Nintendo week Broad enough. Could be expanded to a general "classic video games" week.


Final Fantasy Week Plenty of characters, could stand on its own or be merged into "classic games" week
Mario Week Could be merged into Nintendo week, but just about broad enough on its own

Lord of the Rings week Enough characters. Well known series.
Lego week Lego versions of any avatar are easy. Well known toy/serious buisness.
Pixar week Pretty much everyone's seen at least on Pixar movie.
Anime Might be a bit exclusive to non-anime fans, but most people have seen at least one anime series. Those who actively dislike it can get over themselves.
Discworld A little more obscure than Harry Potter, but fine. No shortage of characters
Harry Potter Fairly well known. Enough characters
Sesame Street/Muppets Week Most people below a certain age in many countries should be familiar with it.


Possibly too narrow:
Team Fortress week You could think of the character classes as a theme. In any case there's plenty of characters to consider apart from them. Maybe a more generic "Online FPS" or "MMO" week is in order?
Sonic Week Fair amount of characters, but only a few are popular. Maybe expand this into a "SEGA" week? Perhaps merge it with Nintendo Week and have a "classic video games" week
Legend of Zelda week Quite a few characters, but it might be best to merge it into Nintendo week anyway, given it's basically their second "Killer App" series.
VG Cats Not too many characters (2 main characters and enough supporting characters to count on one hand). Limited source material. Good webcomic, but best merged into "non-OotS webcomics" week in my opinion at least.




Random silly themes:

LOLoots I'm not to sure what this implies
Pie Who can say no to pie. :smallwink:
Invisible
Inanimate object week
Household Furniture Merge into the above. They're rather similar
Elements Chinese or Western? :smalltongue:
No avatar A little dull, perhaps...
Jigsaw Week (All the avatars of participants are arranged into a collage, then it's diced up as a puzzle, and avatars are sent back to the participants?) Sounds quite fun, although it'll need some organisation.
Sunglasses week Could be good as a simple week for everyone to take part in (just draw sunglasses on your avvie and away you go)
Nationality week No objections here.
Homebrew week (Everyone dig up a homebrew and get it illustrated. And then all the authors have pictures to go with their homebrews.) Might be a problem for those without any homebrews to their name. Good utility for those that do though. Consider a convincing for those who don't do any homebrew (assign random MM monsters, allow homebrewers to let other's "adopt" their work for the week?)

[Quincunx]

Turtle, why're you borrowing trouble? The forum will keep chugging along without your avatar guidance. (Unless it's being loaded on this connection. Among the throttled sites is Photobucket. I may have to turn off avatars as well as signatures. :smallfrown: )

[RabbitHoleLost]

If you leave 6 weeks between the avatar themes weeks, you'll only have time to do 8-9 theme weeks in a year. It might be good to make a list of the "must have" weeks, like Gender Bend and Inner animal week.

I know we skipped Inner Animal week last year, because the response the year before was not a great one, so I'm not sure it counts as a must have, annual avatar them- OMG I AM IN JIBAR'S SIGNATURE EEEEEE
[/fangirlism]

[The Extinguisher]

I liked Inner Animal week. I made a pretty sweet whale last time.

[Boo]

Well if that's the case then VG cats has all the same problems. Which was my main point. I would still argue that LoZ is at least as well known as the FF series (and even longer running for that matter).

I'd argue they're equally known. :smallsmile:

But yes, I see your point. I'll shut up now. :smalltongue:

@V: Y'know, I'm not much of a gamer, so I couldn't say the possibilities with most of these titles. =/

[Serpentine]

Question, why's VGC listed as a potential week when Team Fortress, Sonic and Legend of Zelda are listed as "too narrow"? VGC has about 5 unique characters. Not to mention if you're talking about notability LoZ is only slightly less well known than Mario, as is Sonic (in fact considering that he was basically the mascot of the rival company back in the day...) and TF2 is one of the most popular MOFPSs.I agree that VGCats should probably be on the "too narrow" list, but disagree with the implication that Legend of Zelda and Sonic shouldn't be.

[BisectedBrioche]

I agree that VGCats should probably be on the "too narrow" list, but disagree with the implication that Legend of Zelda and Sonic shouldn't be.

In that case so should Final Fantasy (as I said earlier, LoZ and Sonic are at least as well known).

[Serpentine]

Fine by me.

(I haven't played any of those :smalltongue:)

[Kobold-Bard]

Fine by me.

(I haven't played any of those :smalltongue:)

:eek:

I weep for you :smalltongue:

[BisectedBrioche]

Fine by me.

(I haven't played any of those :smalltongue:)

And might that have something to do with why you don't consider them as notable as the rest? :smallwink::smallamused:

[The Extinguisher]

It's not that they aren't notable, but moreso that they're really narrow. There aren't a lot of options to choose from. Now, a Nintendo week is probably better. But a specific game or game series just won't work, because not everyone has played the game.

[BisectedBrioche]

It's not that they aren't notable, but moreso that they're really narrow. There aren't a lot of options to choose from. Now, a Nintendo week is probably better. But a specific game or game series just won't work, because not everyone has played the game.

Not everyone has owned a Nintendo (some favoured Atari, SEGA, and more recently, some favoured Sony or MS).

[Totally Guy]

Clone Week was rather narrow if I recall correctly.:smalltongue:

Sonic, tails, Robotnic...

Even if there are 15 more character's that I've missed it's still too narrrow. There's a whole forum to cater for and there's more than 20 of us.

Warhammer week too? I can't tell who's even participating because it's not something I'd recognise.

[BisectedBrioche]

Clone Week was rather narrow if I recall correctly.:smalltongue:

Sonic, tails, Robotnic...

Even if there are 15 more character's that I've missed it's still too narrrow. There's a whole forum to cater for and there's more than 20 of us.

Like most longer running video games series, it has an entire expanded universe worth of characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_hedgehog_characters

I'd like to add that I'm not particularly in favour of or against a SotH week, I'm simply ensuring all the bases are covered.

[The Bushranger]

Count me in for Muppet Week!

*promptly pictures Quinn as Beaker* :smallbiggrin:

[Boo]

Not everyone has owned a Nintendo (some favoured Atari, SEGA, and more recently, some favoured Sony or MS).

Not everyone has owned a Nintendo, but EVERYONE here should at least know three characters that have appeared on the consoles (which also includes movie-games like Back to the Future!).

[Castaras]

Make sure Genderbender is always around valentines. Tradition is important! :smallbiggrin:

[BisectedBrioche]

Not everyone has owned a Nintendo, but EVERYONE here should at least know three characters that have appeared on the consoles (which also includes movie-games like Back to the Future!).

Hmm, so people can know about Nintendo characters (and specifically know they are) without playing games, but can't know about the characters of well known games without having played them? :smallconfused:

Besides, licenced games don't really go with the spirit of things...:smallwink:

[Jesse Drake]

Well, I'm hoping for Superhero (and villain) week, personally.

Also, a lot of the Sonic characters would be appropriate if there were an inner animal week. All but Robotnic and his robots really. And the Chao. They aren't exactly animals.

[Boo]

Hmm, so people can know about Nintendo characters (and specifically know they are) without playing games, but can't know about the characters of well known games without having played them? :smallconfused:

Besides, licenced games don't really go with the spirit of things...:smallwink:Exactly! :smalltongue:

[skywalker]

Clone Week was rather narrow if I recall correctly.:smalltongue:

Sonic, tails, Robotnic...

Even if there are 15 more character's that I've missed it's still too narrrow. There's a whole forum to cater for and there's more than 20 of us.

Warhammer week too? I can't tell who's even participating because it's not something I'd recognise.

Be honest, tho, how many people participate in each theme week? Now, gender-bender, that's a famous one, a lot of us do that one. But there's tons of people who spend all their time outside FB who never even know a theme week is going on, nor do they (as far as I can tell) particularly care. I think it would be interesting to see how many people participate. Not that I'm saying theme weeks are bad or should be canceled due to low participation, just that it's not the whole forum.

To reiterate: How wide should a theme be to cover all potential participants? I mean, I doubt there are more than 1000 people who ever participate in any theme week (to be honest this is conservative and I would more likely estimate less than 500, potentially excluding bigger weeks like Gender Bender which are of course broad enough by simple fact). We really don't need to cover too many people. It need only be something some people are interested in. If we held the holidays up to the "narrowness standard," we wouldn't be able to do any of them. Cuz let's face it, it's hard to find 100 different winter holiday tropes that look good.

Anyway, point is (trying this again it seems) that we shouldn't try too hard to cater to everyone, realize that not everyone participates to begin with, and there's really nothing wrong with "doubling up," especially if the avvies are clever.

[PhoeKun]

I know that this is not the time for discussions, but when it is, who will I have to beg to make Lolita week happen? I don't think there's been a theme week yet that has had the same level of appeal to me as that one.

[Morty]

I think the issue with for example Sonic isn't that there wouldn't be many options for participants but that people who'd like to participate won't do it because they don't know a thing about it.

[BisectedBrioche]

I know that this is not the time for discussions, but when it is, who will I have to beg to make Lolita week happen? I don't think there's been a theme week yet that has had the same level of appeal to me as that one.

Is that lolita the character archetype or the fashion style?

[happyturtle]

I know that this is not the time for discussions, but when it is, who will I have to beg to make Lolita week happen? I don't think there's been a theme week yet that has had the same level of appeal to me as that one.

However, this is the perfect time for discussions of 'How will we choose each theme week?' :smallsmile:

Elly suggested a nomination period each time, then picking the nominated theme randomly.

I have two other suggestions for consideration/debate:

1. Nomination period - everyone nominates three themes, or can combine votes to give their favourite theme 2 or 3 nominations. Top nominations then have a voting period where everyone ranks them in order of preference.

2. If an avatarist is willing to make avatars for at least 3 other playgrounders for a given theme week, his or her vote for that theme counts double.

The idea behind these suggestions is to give theme weeks that are strongly wished for a bit of an edge, as well as making sure that there is avatarist support for the weeks that are chosen. Good idea? Bad idea?

[Dallas-Dakota]

I know that this is not the time for discussions, but when it is, who will I have to beg to make Lolita week happen? I don't think there's been a theme week yet that has had the same level of appeal to me as that one.
While I'm not a big fan of Lolita......This appeals to me.

*starts imagining various Lolita avatars, such as cookiemonster, Dipsnig and Glug*
:smallamused:

[BisectedBrioche]

While I'm not a big fan of Lolita......This appeals to me.

*starts imagining various Lolita avatars, such as cookiemonster, Dipsnig and Glug*
:smallamused:

Please don't make me imagine female cookiemonster as a lolita. I've already suffered enough trauma from drawing her many a year ago...:smalleek:

[PhoeKun]

Is that lolita the character archetype or the fashion style?

The fashion style. Character archetype available at the user's option, like all theme weeks.

@Happyturtle: I think that while picking randomly would be the most impartial method of selection, it risks selecting a theme not many have their heart in. On the other hand, I worry that some very interesting weeks will be washed aside by more popular options. If there's a bipartite solution to all of this, I'll be darned if I know what it is.

[BisectedBrioche]

The fashion style. Character archetype available at the user's option, like all theme weeks.

@Happyturtle: I think that while picking randomly would be the most impartial method of selection, it risks selecting a theme not many have their heart in. On the other hand, I worry that some very interesting weeks will be washed aside by more popular options. If there's a bipartite solution to all of this, I'll be darned if I know what it is.

What about putting potential weeks into groups, voting for a given group and then selecting a week from the most popular group? It would give less popular weeks a chance while making sure it had some support (if the groups are selected carefully).

[happyturtle]

That could work. What groups would you suggest?

[Dallas-Dakota]

Please don't make me imagine female cookiemonster as a lolita. I've already suffered enough trauma from drawing her many a year ago...:smalleek:
Who said anything about female?:smallamused:

[Haruki-kun]

2. If an avatarist is willing to make avatars for at least 3 other playgrounders for a given theme week, his or her vote for that theme counts double.

Completely, absolutely, and entirely OPPOSED.

Since when do we have tiers for Playgrounders? Mo vote counts more because I'm gonna spend one hour doing something I do anyway? What the hell?

Everyone's votes should count for the exact same, and I'm saying this as an avatarist.

[BisectedBrioche]

That could work. What groups would you suggest?

Hmm, I hadn't really though as far ahead as being taken seriously, but as a rough draft, something along the lines of;

Group 1 "Community projects" -
Avatar themes related to activities elsewhere on the playground and/or co-operating with other playgrounders to make your avatar.

Jigsaw Week
Homebrew week
etc



Group 2 "Not as you know them"
Themes related to recharacterizing avatars and giving them different personalities or have them engage in a specific activity

Drunken avatar week
Sunglasses week
Hobo Week
Superhero/villain Week
etc


Group 3 "Cute n' Fluffy
Themes related to making avatars "cute"

Catgirl week
Teddy bear week
Penguin
etc


Group 4 "Dress up"
Themes relating to making dressing you avatar as a fictional character, or replacing them with one.

Wild West Week
Cyberpunk Week
Joss Whedon Week
Non-oots Webcomics
etc


Group 5 "Art Shift"
Redo you avatar (or have it redone) in a different style

8-bit week
Lolita
Cyberpunk Week
In SPACE!!!
etc


And so on. Maybe have 4 or 5 groups. Possibly less. It depends how many people we should expect to vote. I've just drafted a few groups to show what I mean above.


Who said anything about female?:smallamused:

If anyone needs me, I'll be drinking, banging my head against a wall as hard as possible and browsing TV Tropes.

[Kobold-Bard]

I believe the Admins allow polls on a case by case basis. Perhaps they'll allow one for deciding theme weeks? Might have to reduce them from every 6 weeks for that though.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Completely, absolutely, and entirely OPPOSED.

Since when do we have tiers for Playgrounders? Mo vote counts more because I'm gonna spend one hour doing something I do anyway? What the hell?

Everyone's votes should count for the exact same, and I'm saying this as an avatarist.
Seconded.

Everybody is equal, remember?

Besides, if I'm going to make theme avatars, I do it because I like the idea and/or like the person.

[skywalker]

What about putting potential weeks into groups, voting for a given group and then selecting a week from the most popular group? It would give less popular weeks a chance while making sure it had some support (if the groups are selected carefully).

I dislike this. It would be entirely possible to group one really popular week and a bunch of "meh" ones. That wouldn't give any more chance to the less popular ones, it would simply give less chance to the more popular ones. If that makes sense? For instance, if we group Gender Bender, Famous Cookie Fans (no offense D-D), Names Beginning With Q, and Lox together, and then we group Inner Animal, Talking On Cell Phone, Pancake on Head, and Decapitated together, we know which week is going to win out of each group. It really only gives the illusion of choice at the second round. People will simply vote for the group with their favorite week, and then everyone will vote for that week. Because if Gender Bender's group gets picked, then, as far as I know, there aren't going to be any Inner Animal fans voting for Lox the next round.

[happyturtle]

The amount of work playgrounders put into each theme week is not equal, but if the idea is not popular, it can die a quiet death.

Any opinions on this one?


Nomination period - everyone nominates three themes, or can combine votes to give their favourite theme 2 or 3 nominations. Top nominations then have a voting period where everyone ranks them in order of preference.

[BisectedBrioche]

I dislike this. It would be entirely possible to group one really popular week and a bunch of "meh" ones. That wouldn't give any more chance to the less popular ones, it would simply give less chance to the more popular ones. If that makes sense? For instance, if we group Gender Bender, Famous Cookie Fans (no offense D-D), Names Beginning With Q, and Lox together, and then we group Inner Animal, Talking On Cell Phone, Pancake on Head, and Decapitated together, we know which week is going to win out of each group. It really only gives the illusion of choice at the second round. People will simply vote for the group with their favorite week, and then everyone will vote for that week. Because if Gender Bender's group gets picked, then, as far as I know, there aren't going to be any Inner Animal fans voting for Lox the next round.

Is it really possible to give more of a chance to the less popular ones without reducing the chance of the more popular ones? :smallconfused:

[bluewind95]

As for the Sonic/Nintendo weeks... why not just general videogames? That kind of makes it not-narrow.

[Ichneumon]

Seconded.

Everybody is equal, remember?

Besides, if I'm going to make theme avatars, I do it because I like the idea and/or like the person.

Agreed, it wouldn't be in the spirit of the forum to have people count as more than others. Also, I don't think we should be voting, that never works well and always causes people to feel hurt or left out. Everybody should be able to announce a theme week if they want to.

The only way this is going to work is when we decide on a few annual great theme weeks. Weeks most people enjoy and which happen every year, like talk like a pirate day, Halloween and the gender bend stuff. We decide a date on those and the rest we leave undecided, free for anyone to create. The calendar would only be there so people would know when the anuals would be and qould't create them to early after each other.

[GrlumpTheElder]

I'd like to see an 'Art' week or 'Painting Week', when you change your avatar to a piece of artwork (so say your avatar as the mona lisa).

[Jibar]

I know we skipped Inner Animal week last year, because the response the year before was not a great one, so I'm not sure it counts as a must have, annual avatar them- OMG I AM IN JIBAR'S SIGNATURE EEEEEE
[/fangirlism]

Forgot you'd been away for a while.

But, also, why are people counting Cat-Muffin week as annual? I'd like it to be considering it keeps going what fragile self esteem/confidence I have, but we have had one Cat-Muffin week. And it conflicted with Halloween.

[Kobold-Bard]

Forgot you'd been away for a while.

But, also, why are people counting Cat-Muffin week as annual? I'd like it to be considering it keeps going what fragile self esteem/confidence I have, but we have had one Cat-Muffin week. And it conflicted with Halloween.

Well the fact that it seems to have affected people in such a way that they consider it a tradition should tell you something. I don't remember it, but I'm sure it was great.

[Serpentine]

Hmm, so people can know about Nintendo characters (and specifically know they are) without playing games, but can't know about the characters of well known games without having played them? :smallconfused:It's definitely more likely. For example, from Sonic, I know... Sonic and Tails. I'm vaguely aware of a female Sonic, too. But from Sega as a whole, I know Sonic, Tails... Huh. It turns out Sonic's the only Sega game I know. Checked the Wiki and everything.
Alright, better example. Nintendo. If we had a "[specific game] week", the only ones I'm really likely to be able to do properly is Mario, Mortal Kombat, Lufia and Donkey Kong because I've played those games. If we did, say, Legend of Zelda, I could be... Link. Or that fairy thing.
Most people would have played at least one Nintendo game. But not everyone has played the same Nintendo games. I think "Nintendo" (or whatever), or better yet "Video Games" would be better than specific games.

On the selection system: I think it'd be best to keep it as simple as possible, and it'd be brilliant if we can get a poll. My idea:
- A set of [5?] options are selected at random from the whole list. We then vote (preferably with a poll) for the one of those we each prefer.

[skywalker]

Is it really possible to give more of a chance to the less popular ones without reducing the chance of the more popular ones? :smallconfused:

My point was that it doesn't actually give the less popular ones more chance. It simply reduces the chances of the more popular ones, without doing anything positive at all for the less popular ones.

[The Extinguisher]

Agreed, it wouldn't be in the spirit of the forum to have people count as more than others. Also, I don't think we should be voting, that never works well and always causes people to feel hurt or left out. Everybody should be able to announce a theme week if they want to.

The only way this is going to work is when we decide on a few annual great theme weeks. Weeks most people enjoy and which happen every year, like talk like a pirate day, Halloween and the gender bend stuff. We decide a date on those and the rest we leave undecided, free for anyone to create. The calendar would only be there so people would know when the anuals would be and qould't create them to early after each other.

This. Things like the Warhammer 40000k week show that even if we have some dedicated calender to how things are going to go, someone is going to come up with a cool idea and everyone is going to join a long, and everything will go to hell.

[happyturtle]

I'm looking at these too ideas:


Idea for Theme Selection :

The current list of suggestions should go, so that they can be refilled new every month...


On the selection system: I think it'd be best to keep it as simple as possible, and it'd be brilliant if we can get a poll. My idea:
- A set of [5?] options are selected at random from the whole list. We then vote (preferably with a poll) for the one of those we each prefer.

I like Serp's idea of choosing the nominees at random then voting among them. But if we do that, then I think Elly's idea of refilling the idea list every time should be combined with it, or the list will just keep growing more and more massive.

Proposal:

1. People can suggest as many ideas as they like, including re-affirming ideas on the current list.
2. Ideas must be seconded by at least one other playgrounder to make it on the random number generator list.
3. Nomination stage ends on Feb 15, the start of GB week. The nominations to be polled are chosen by random.org or a dice rolling thread.
4. Voting goes on for a week, hopefully by poll, but with in thread counting otherwise.
5. By the end of GB week, the next theme week will be announced.

Thoughts? Critiques?

[BisectedBrioche]

I can't see any problems with it.

[Prime32]

Black-and-white/greyscale week? Or possibly "Silent Movie" week where everyone has curly moustaches and such?

[Serpentine]

Sure, it's worth a try. Can always be changed later if it turns out to be a mess.

[BisectedBrioche]

Black-and-white/greyscale week? Or possibly "Silent Movie" week where everyone has curly moustaches and such?

I second silent movie week (an excuse to wear a bowler and a moustache!).

Anyway, some suggestions of mine (I've marked ones that were on the list with asterixis);


Catgirl Week*
Homebrew Week*
Video Game Week*
Anime Week*
Cyberpunk Week*
8-Bit Week (I haven't had an excuse to sprite for ages :smallbiggrin:)*
Impostor Week (replace your avatar with one of someone disguised as you)
Alternative style week (have your avvie redone in a different art style)

[Serpentine]

My votes from what's already there:

Teddy bear week
Snake (no-brainer :smalltongue:)
Wild West Week
Superhero/villain Week
In SPACE!!!
Art week (your avatar as a classic work of art) (but does it have to be classic?)
Lolita (note: That's "gothic Lolita" and relatives, not "pedophilia week")
Non-oots Webcomic
Nintendo week
Lego week
Sesame Street/Muppets Week
LOLoots
Invisible
Inanimate object week
Elements
Nationality week

[EleventhHour]

Oooh... what to do...

Votes : (Already voted for in Italics!)

Catgirl
CyberPunk
Nintendo
In SPACE!!!
Beasts and Slayers (Vampires, Werewolves, versus thier Hunters.)
Star Trek

...I think I'll keep mine to a minimum. We don't need a few dozen Weeks to randomize.

[happyturtle]

Okay, the first post has been updated with the new nomination process.

Nominate at will!

Also, if you have already made nominations and you think of more, please make a new post. I won't be going back to check old posts.

My nominations:

Silent Movie
Inanimate Object
Food
Star Wars
Art week
Sesame Street/Muppets
Superhero/Villain

[PhoeKun]

Making nominations for:

Lolita
"Lost a fight"
Superhero/Villain

[Gullara]

Hmm, I'd say Final Fantasy week but if people think that's too narrow video game week would be good to.

[happyturtle]

For the nomination phase, you can nominate something as wide or narrow as you like. Arguments for or against will occur during the voting phase, as everyone campaigns for their favourite. So go ahead and decide whether you'd like to nominate FF week, Videogame week, or both. :smallsmile:

[UncleWolf]

I'd personally like to see:

Mad Scientist Week
IN SPACE!!!
Superhero/Villain

[Jesse Drake]

Superheroes/Villains!

Superheroes/Villains!

And... well, I also support Inner Animal Week, and Beasts and Slayers looks intriguing.

[The Bushranger]

Muppet Week
IN SPACE!!!
Star Wars

[Prime32]

Muppet Week IN SPACE!!!
That could be interesting.:smalltongue:

[Bradakhan]

Nationality Week
Non-OotS Week
Iner Animal Week

[Ikialev]

March 29? Why, that's a day before my birthday.

I support Art Week, Cyperbunk Week and Video Game week.

[Gullara]

March 29th? Why that's 89 days before my birthday:smalltongue:

Wooot a vote for videogame week. :smallbiggrin:

[GrlumpTheElder]

March 29? Why, that's not anywhere near my Birthday.

My vote goes for:

IN SPACE!!!
Art Week
Non-OotS Week

[Gamerlord]

* Zombie week
*Jedi/sith week
*Evil/good twin week
*Battle droid week! We make all our avatars as battle droids!
Those are my ideas.

I second "Inner animal" "IN SPACE" "None-OOTS week"

EDIT: I have another idea!
* Politician week, we dress our avatars up as politicians!

No,wait, that is stupid, never mind.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

* Zombie week
*Evil/good twin week
Those are my ideas.Second



EDIT: I have another idea!
* Politician week, we dress our avatars up as politicians!

No,wait, that is stupid, never mind.Would be good were it not for the board rules. :smallfrown:

[happyturtle]

Some notes:

1. A theme only needs two nominations to reach the next round. You're welcome to continue listing your support for a theme even after this has happened, but it won't affects its chances of appeasing the Random Number Generator gods.

2. Not sure if the run of posts with three nominations is coincidence or if people think they can't nominate more. You can nominate as many as you want.

3. Gamerkid, since 'Star Wars' week is already on the list, I lumped 'Jedi/Sith' in with that. If you want it to be a separate nomination, let me know, and I'll change that.

4. The first post will have the most up to date list, but here's how it stands at the moment:

Nominated themes:
(nominations start on post 97, updated through post 117)

8-Bit
Alternative style (have your avvie redone in a different art style)
Anime Week
Art week (your avatar as a work of art) :smallcool:
Battle droid
Beasts and Slayers (Vampires, Werewolves, versus their Hunters.)
Black-and-white/greyscale
Catgirl :smallcool:
CyberPunk :smallcool:
Elements
Evil/good twin :smallcool:
Food
Homebrew
Impostor (replace your avatar with one of someone disguised as you) :smallcool:
In SPACE!!! :smallcool:
Inanimate object :smallcool:
Inner Animal :smallcool:
Invisible
Lego
Lolita (fashion style, not character archetype) :smallcool:
LOLoots
Lost a fight
Mad Science
Nationality :smallcool:
Nintendo :smallcool:
Non-oots Webcomic :smallcool:
Sesame Street/Muppets :smallcool:
Silent Movie :smallcool:
Snake
Star Trek
Star Wars :smallcool:
Superhero/villain :smallcool:
Teddy bear
Video Game :smallcool:
Wild West
Zombie week :smallcool:


:smallcool: indicates the nomination has been seconded and survives the first round of selection. Once this has occurred, no more nominations for that theme are needed.

[Dr. Bath]

EDIT: I have another idea!
* Politician week, we dress our avatars up as politicians!

Pow. Already done it.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h24/solarturtle/DrBathcandidate.png

[Gamerlord]

Some notes:



3. Gamerkid, since 'Star Wars' week is already on the list, I lumped 'Jedi/Sith' in with that. If you want it to be a separate nomination, let me know, and I'll change that.

\

I don't mind, I didn't exactly bother checking all the nominations at first.
EDIT: I had another idea for a theme!
*Samurai week, we dress our avatars up as samurai.

[Gullara]

* Zombie week
*Jedi/sith week
*Evil/good twin week
*Battle droid week! We make all our avatars as battle droids!


Also seconded

[horngeek]

Alternative style (have your avvie redone in a different art style)
Anime Week
Elements
Lost a fight
Mad Science

These are my secondings.

[Madmal]

Nominating:


Black-and-white/greyscale
Catgirl
Mad Science
Non-oots Webcomic
Star Trek
Superhero/villain

[Dallas-Dakota]

Seconding Mad Science.

I guess that's as close as we're going to get to my real profession.

Mad Artist:smallbiggrin::smallamused:

[Gamerlord]

Seconding star trek.

[onasuma]

8bit. Oh please gods, let it be 8bit. Give us avatarists a break for a while :smalltongue:

[BisectedBrioche]

8bit. Oh please gods, let it be 8bit. Give us avatarists a break for a while :smalltongue:

Maybe you want a break. I love spriting.

[Da Beast]

Seconding Beasts and Slayers. That sounds awesome.

[BatRobin]

I'm for Beast/Slayer or Drunken.

[Zeb The Troll]

I would like to nominate "Use a Default Avatar" week. :smallbiggrin:

[Madmal]

I would like to nominate "Use a Default Avatar" week. :smallbiggrin:

i'll second that, just for kicks.

[deuxhero]

In honor of the fact that I just spent 3 times the time I spent creating a detailed body to make some poor hair, I say bald week.

[Elder Tsofu]

Ahem, I say "hairy-week" then.
Just to save you from the sight of a shaved librarian. :smalltongue:
(not serious)

[deuxhero]

I would like to nominate "Use a Default Avatar" week. :smallbiggrin:

How about "Art upgrade to a default avatar" week?

[Mercenary Pen]

March 29th- that comes about a week before a popular western-world holiday.
namely easter
I would suggest "Avatar made of chocolate week".

[Emperor Ing]

8bit. Oh please gods, let it be 8bit. Give us avatarists a break for a while :smalltongue:

Speak for yourself. :smallsigh:

[skywalker]

I would like to nominate "Use a Default Avatar" week. :smallbiggrin:

I love this idea.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Fourthing ''use a default avatar'' week!

[Kurien]

I nominate:


Nationality
Beasts and Slayers
Grayscale
Default Avatar

[CrimsonAngel]

What is beasts and slayers?

[BisectedBrioche]

What is beasts and slayers?

If I recall the description from a couple of pages ago it's; werewolves, vampires and the people who hunt them.

[deuxhero]

Having just made an Alliance Solider Avatar I whatever Star Wars week. The date should be in May (ANH release) or August (during celebration 5)

[happyturtle]

May the Fourth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day) be with you!

[deuxhero]

that also works.

[happyturtle]

The nomination process seems to be going well. The OP is up to date with all the nominations so far.

Any thoughts on how many should be randomly selected for voting?

[Perenelle]

Fourthing ''use a default avatar'' week!

Fifth-ing default avatar week. :smallbiggrin:

[Geno9999]

I second (or third or fourth) the 8-bit week!

[Temotei]

Lost a fight
Silent movie
Black/white/grey scale
Default


In that order. :smallbiggrin:

Of course, I get one vote for each, but those are my favorites. :smallamused:

[Serpentine]

Get one more, and roll a d30.

[Temotei]

Elements


(1d30)[27](27) -- Copied from Die Roller Test Thread II.
There you go. :smallcool:

[Krade]

So is the nominations closed?

If not I'd like to throw in "Cereal Box Mascot."

[happyturtle]

Nominations are still open until Feb 14.

[BisectedBrioche]

So is the nominations closed?

If not I'd like to throw in "Cereal Box Mascot."

Ooo, I'll second that. Is that in the sense of exiting cereal mascots or "give your avvie its own cereal to be mascot of" (I'm up for it either way).

[Dragero]

Wizard Week!!!

Everyone dresses up as a Wizard!!

[Krade]

Ooo, I'll second that. Is that in the sense of exiting cereal mascots or "give your avvie its own cereal to be mascot of" (I'm up for it either way).

Hmm... Dunno. Perhaps dress up as current cereal box mascots. "Making your own cereal box to be a mascot of" sounds like it could be more interesting, if harder to pull off.

[BisectedBrioche]

Hmm, this seems to have dropped of the front page. Let's try to get one decided before the end of GB Week.

[happyturtle]

Round one of nominations is over. Time to choose the finalists!


8-Bit
Alternative style (have your avvie redone in a different art style)
Art week (your avatar as a work of art)
Battle droid
Beasts and Slayers (Vampires, Werewolves, versus their Hunters.)
Black-and-white/greyscale
Catgirl
Cereal Box Mascot
CyberPunk
Default Avatar
Elements
Evil/good twin
Impostor (replace your avatar with one of someone disguised as you)
In SPACE!!!
Inanimate object
Inner Animal
Lolita (fashion style, not character archetype)
Lost a fight
Mad Science
Nationality
Nintendo
Non-oots Webcomic
Sesame Street/Muppets
Silent Movie
Star Trek
Star Wars
Superhero/villain
Video Game
Zombie week


Roll here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7863008#post7863008): (5d29)[5][3]
[14][11][10](43)

So the finalists are:


Art Week
Beasts and Slayers
Default Avatar
Elements
In SPACE!


Time to begin talking up your favourite, and I'll see if I can get Roland to approve a poll. :smallsmile:

EDIT: Roland has requested that we just do manual voting.

To vote, put your choice in BOLD RED.

One vote per person. If you make more than one vote, only your last choice will count. Voting ends at the stroke of midnight GMT on Valentine's day (the end of Vday, not the beginning.)

Go!

[EleventhHour]

Beasts And Slayers

Woo!

[Darkcomet]

IN SPAAAAACE!

That is all. *retreats from FB*

[Lex-Kat]

Beasts and Slayers, because Elly told me to.

[Temotei]

Elements. :smallcool:

[happyturtle]

Of all the choices, I think Art Week has the most potential for awesome.

For example, if Darth Vader was a playgrounder, his Art Week avatar might look like this:

http://www.limpfish.com/img/vader_with_a_parasol_med.jpg

[UncleWolf]

I vote for IN SPACE!

Mostly because I already have Monster and Slayer avatars, and I wouldn't know what to get for Art Week.

[CrimsonAngel]

Wedding week. College week. (going to college, not mascots.)

EDIT: Is what I would like to see in the future.

[happyturtle]

No new suggestions are being taken during the voting phase. Once the new week is chosen, the slate gets wiped clean and nominations start anew.

[CrimsonAngel]

Beast and Slayers.

[Jesse Drake]

Beast and Slayers, that sounds fine by me.

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

Oh no! I like both Beasts & Slayers AND In SPACE! One way, I can wear a trenchcoat and a slightly mauled hat and legally hunt sentient entities! The other, I can get an actual Space Pirate!

Oh cruel Fate!

Beasts & Slayers says the Fullbladder.

[Trobby]

*Frown* ;-; I was hopin' for the Video Game theme...ah well...

I vote...IN SPACE!

[Serpentine]

ART

Though most of them (especially "in SPACE" and "elements") would be fun.

[skywalker]

Space

When I read the thread title, I always think it's a theme week for Avatar, the movie.

[billtodamax]

Beasts and Slayers!

Wroar!

[Recaiden]

I vote for a playground In SPACE!

[Serpentine]

Dear Happyturtle,

Lawl.
Sincerely,
S

[The Extinguisher]

I will probably have to go with IN SPACE mostly because I think spacifiying my avatar would be pretty cool.

[BisectedBrioche]

IN SPACE!

I'm a sucker for science fiction. My second choice would be elements week.

[horngeek]

Elements.

Because then I get to request an Avatar for an avatar. :smallcool:

[BisectedBrioche]

Elements.

Because then I get to request an Avatar for an avatar. :smallcool:

Ouch. :smallamused:

[GrlumpTheElder]

Art Week

Because I've got so many ideas for this!

[rakkoon]

In space because that would be easier for me :smallsmile:

[Ikialev]

ART WEEK because I don't know what is it. :3

[BisectedBrioche]

ART WEEK because I don't know what is it. :3

Ever considered a career in politics? :smalltongue:

[Ikialev]

Since I was a kid. :smallbiggrin:

But seriously, what is it?

[lord pringle]

IN SPACE!!!!!
:smallbiggrin: just cause I love scifi

[Serpentine]

Since I was a kid. :smallbiggrin:

But seriously, what is it?Erm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art)... Art (http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=art&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi).

Okay, more specifically: Your avatar as a work of art, or a work of art as your avatar, or some combination of the above.

[Elder Tsofu]

Erm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art)... Art (http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=art&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi).

Okay, more specifically: Your avatar as a work of art, or a work of art as your avatar, or some combination of the above.

Pah, ain't an avatar already a work of art in itself? :smalltongue:

[BisectedBrioche]

IN SPACE!!!!!
:smallbiggrin: just cause I love scifi

Who doesn't (Personally I was hoping for Cyperpunk, but I guess IS'll allow just about the same thing).

BTW, who's this "Bisected4" fellow? He's clearly an avatarist of incredible talent. :smalltongue:

[Bradakhan]

Beasts and Slayers

[bluewind95]

Pet week? As in... the avatar with a cute, fluffy pet?

[Kobold-Bard]

Elements

New word for the day: Deanonymise (dee-anon-im-ize) - to make something that is anonymous no longer anonymous.

New word for the day is brought to you by the 10-character post limit and the letter A.

[Coplantor]

IN SPACE!

Cause I've been working on space Coplantor! (Technically cyberpunk Coplantor in space, but, meh...)

[llamamushroom]

Abstract/Surreal!

Find a way of re-working your Avatar into the abstract or surreal art genres.

Basically, I think it'd be hilarious. Either that, or...

Muppet Week!

Guess what that one means.

[happyturtle]

Great ideas, but this is the voting phase. :smallsmile: New nominations will start up again once the voting has ended.

The finalists are:


Art Week
Beasts and Slayers
Default Avatar
Elements
In SPACE!


To vote, put your choice in BOLD RED.

One vote per person. If you make more than one vote, only your last choice will count. Voting ends at the stroke of midnight GMT on Valentine's day (the end of Vday, not the beginning.)

[bluewind95]

Elements!

That's the one I want to vote for.

[Coplantor]

In SPACE!

FTW!

[BisectedBrioche]

I got bored so I thought I'd take a tally;


Art Week |||| (4)
Beasts and Slayers |||| || (7)
Default Avatar (0)
Elements |||| (4)
In SPACE! |||| |||| | (11)

[skywalker]

I got bored so I thought I'd take a tally;


Art Week |||| (4)
Beasts and Slayers |||| || (7)
Default Avatar (0)
Elements |||| (4)
In SPACE! |||| |||| | (11)


You want to make sure everyone votes only once.

[llamamushroom]

Sorry, I'm an idiot who tried to read a thread at 1 in the morning after being awake for 48 hours. In which case, Art Week.

[BisectedBrioche]

You want to make sure everyone votes only once.

Really? I thought I was supposed to hand out extra votes to random playgrounders. :smallannoyed:

[happyturtle]

Voting continues until midnight gmt tonight.

[lord pringle]

In space!!!
also Oops changing it to bisected8 now.

[Dragero]

IN SPACE!!

Lawyers in spaceboots FTW!

[Emperor Ing]

IN SPAAAAACE!!!

Because I don't have to do anything :smalltongue:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll246/EmperorIng/Chainfisted-1.png

[Recaiden]

Really? I thought I was supposed to hand out extra votes to random playgrounders. :smallannoyed:

In space
In space
In space
In space
In space
In space
In space

Like that?

[happyturtle]

Polls closed!

Does anyone want to do an official count, or is IN SPACE far enough ahead that it's unnecessary?

[Phase]

In Space!

I'll expect many people with me featured in their avatars, kapeesh?

[BisectedBrioche]

I think we'll just let In Space win.

[happyturtle]

IN SPACE it is! :smallcool: First thread has been updated. Whoever makes the specific thread, drop a link in here so I can add it to the OP.

IN SPACE will be the week of March 22, which makes May 10 the following week. The nominations slate has been wiped clean - time to suggest new ideas!

[GrlumpTheElder]

Nominations you say...

Art Week.
Musicals Week

Edit:
Have a new thread: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142061

[BisectedBrioche]

Very well, I shall resuggest;


Catgirl Week
Homebrew Week
Video Game Week
Anime Week
Cyberpunk Week
8-Bit Week (I haven't had an excuse to sprite for ages)
Impostor Week (replace your avatar with one of someone disguised as you)
Alternative style week (have your avvie redone in a different art style to the one it is currently in)

[rakkoon]

Do we have a specific date for
Dress-as-another-playgrounder ?

I'm really looking forward to making that one actually

*Ninja'd, Impostor Week then

[happyturtle]

Didn't we just do that for Halloween 09? Or is there some difference that's eluding me? :smallconfused:

[BisectedBrioche]

If you mean the difference between it and imposter week. Dress-Like-Another-Playgrounder is exactly what it says. Imposter week is someone (or something) else dressed as you.

[happyturtle]

First post updated with links! I went through and found all the 2009 theme weeks that I could. If anyone knows of one that I missed, let me know. If you look at the dates, you can see that there was a glut of them over the summer with 5 in two months! Poor avatarists! :smalleek:

Previous Theme Weeks

2010

??? - May 10, 2010
IN SPACE! (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142061) - March 29, 2010
Gender Bender week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137948) - Feb 15, 2010
Warhammer 40k week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133845) - Jan 17, 2010
ON FIRE! week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131389) - Jan 4, 2010


2009

Halloween / Dress Like a Playgrounder Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123266) - Oct 26, 2009
Demons and Angels (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120707) - Aug 31, 2009
Draconic Avatar Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118360) - Aug 3, 2009
Greek/Roman Mythology Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118359) - July 20, 2009
Steampunk Avatar Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112957) - June 29, 2009
Good/Evil Twin Avatar Week (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104921) - March 14, 2009
Gender Bender Week III (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102623) - Feb 16, 2009


Also, I'm going to nominate Star Wars week, with the addendum that if it's chosen we should move the date to May 4th. :smallbiggrin:

[GrlumpTheElder]

Also, I'm going to nominate Star Wars week, with the addendum that if it's chosen we should move the date to May 4th. :smallbiggrin:

Agreed! But, Star Wars week will be quite similar to In SPACE week...

[happyturtle]

Good point.

[GrlumpTheElder]

But, in it's defence, this May will see 30 years since Empire Strikes Back came out...

[happyturtle]

Hmm... we could combine In Space/Star Wars, move it to May, and pick a different one for March...

but that seems awfully complicated and pointless.

[GrlumpTheElder]

Lets just stick with what we've got. It'll be simpler :smallbiggrin:

[rakkoon]

Didn't we just do that for Halloween 09? Or is there some difference that's eluding me? :smallconfused:

Hey, I've been changing avatars for 1 month now and creating them for 2 weeks. Everything is new to me :smallsmile:

[GrlumpTheElder]

First post updated with links! I went through and found all the 2009 theme weeks that I could. If anyone knows of one that I missed, let me know. :

You missed XKCD week,

Have a link:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112953

[deuxhero]

So we start over with noms for the next thing after In Space week? I go again with Star Wars starting on May 4th.

[happyturtle]

You missed XKCD week,

Have a link:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112953

Wow! How did I forget that? I started making avatars that week! :smallbiggrin:

[Jacklu]

How about a week of well dressed (formal attire, maybe even Victorian period formal) avatars? Proofy dresses and puffy shirts and all that.

[happyturtle]

I like! Formal attire week seconded

[Trobby]

You missed XKCD week,

Have a link:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112953

Incidentally, do we have an archive space for all the avatars of various weeks?

I remember it somewhere, but I can't remember where...

[happyturtle]

Not that I'm aware of, other than Lykan's archiving of GB avatars.

[GrlumpTheElder]

If one was needed/wanted, someone could always trawl through all the Avatar Themed Week Threads and create one!

[happyturtle]

Musicals Week
Goth Lolita Week
Nationality Week
Fairy Tale Week

OP is updated through this post. Please put nominations in bold so I won't miss them.

I had an idea for an alternate method of narrowing down the list: Collect all the nominations, including multiple nominations for the same theme, and theme variations, then roll the dice. So if 'Poodle Week' was nominated 5 times, and 'Steampunk Poodle Week' was nominated once, then 'Poodle Week' would have 5x the chance of making it to the final list of nominees.

The final five would be voted on the same as last time.

What do people think? Is this better or worse than the 'every theme that is nominated and seconded has an equal chance' method from last time?

[banjo1985]

Nomination for Gothic Lolita Week here.

Partly because it would annoy Randomizer, but mostly because I've bought loads of lace and black cloth that I have no idea what to do with...

[GrlumpTheElder]

What about Roland St. Jude Week, where everyone is dressed up as Roland.

[Mordokai]

Nomination for Gothic Lolita Week here.

Partly because it would annoy Randomizer, but mostly because I've bought loads of lace and black cloth that I have no idea what to do with...

I am in full support of this :smallbiggrin:

[BisectedBrioche]

A few simple weeks (the idea being anyone can take part in them without the need to significantly modify their avatar);


Upside Down Avatar week (rotate your usual avvie 180 degrees).
Sticky Note Week (place a post-it-note somewhere on your usual avatar with a message of your choice).
In shadow week (convert your avatar to a silhouette)
Photo week (replace your avatar with a photo related to it).

[Coplantor]

what about an elderly week? Where we all become grunting and ranting 80 year old versions of ourselves?

[rakkoon]

Then baby week should be added. Or is that part of being-cute week?

Alternate identity week?

[Emperor Ing]

What the hell is "Gothic Lolita?"

[happyturtle]

Gothic Lolita (http://tinyurl.com/n7npwx) :smalltongue:

[Emperor Ing]

http://ui27.gamespot.com/1242/1185942618212_2.gif

[BisectedBrioche]

I'm also going to nominate Nationality Week (my avatar could do with a cup of tea).

[happyturtle]

I'd need a cup of tea in one hand and a can of coke in the other.

Being binational is fun. :smallbiggrin:

[BisectedBrioche]

I'd need a cup of tea in one hand and a can of coke in the other.

Being binational is fun. :smallbiggrin:

So you're half American, half...British? Chinese? Japanese? Indian? Irish? :smalltongue:

[Coplantor]

http://ui27.gamespot.com/1242/1185942618212_2.gif

I love you, seriously.

Also, what about those who rather belong to a different nation or have a somewhat bad perception of their own culture?

[Emperor Ing]

Also, what about those who rather belong to a different nation or have a somewhat bad perception of their own culture?

I would think that you either try to be representative of a different culture and/or nationality, or just don't participate.

[Coplantor]

Or I can mock my own

[happyturtle]

American by birth, English by marriage.

Also, if Gothic Lolita is chosen, the male version is known as kodona (http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=kodona).

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Repeating for the new page:

Please put nominations in bold print to distinguish them from discussion.

Since I didn't hear any objections, the more nominations a theme gets, the greater its chances of making it to the final cut. So speak up if you like an idea!
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[Emperor Ing]

Please review previous post (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7921229&postcount=236)

Also to make it simpler, why don't we just go ahead and make Victorian Week?

[Coplantor]

Because victorian is boring, is like steampunk WITHOUT the cool stuff

[Emperor Ing]

Well it's what this gothic lolita looks like to me. Besides how do I know this isn't some marketing ploy by Hot Topic huh? :smallamused:

[Coplantor]

I was'nt supporting gothic lolita either, this body was not made to be a gothic lolita :smalltongue:

[Emperor Ing]

Well i'm not a good supporter for any of the above options unfortunately.

[happyturtle]

Anti-nominations count for nothing though. Better to find an alternative to support.

[Coplantor]

Well i'm not a good supporter for any of the above options unfortunately.

Then this to post discussion we just had was pointless and a lost of time, lets pretend that we spent that time solving all of humanity's problem but then we lost focus and forgot what we were talking about.