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Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Gerrick on June 27, 2017, 07:15:35 PM
It's time to start nominations for July's Avatar Theme of the Month! Post below if you have an idea for what it should be. The winning theme will be adopted by people into their avatars for the month. Nominations will last until Saturday, July 1, and then voting will start and occur in a poll in this thread.

I'll nominate 'MURICA in honor of the Independence Day of the GREATEST FUCKING COUNTRY ON EARTH.

Past Avatar Themes of the Month
June 2017: FBI and the Battle of Midway
May 2017: The Proletariat
April 2017: Nuclear Weapons
March 2017: Ancient Rome
February 2017: AIM Buddy Icons; Donald Trump; and Chickens, Roosters, and Things Most Fowl
January 2017: Potatoes and His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular
December 2016: Upside Down
September 2016: Autumn
August 2016: Summer
June 2016: Penguins and Memes
May 2016: Potatoes, Italy, and Ireland
April 2016: Harry Potter
March 2016: Lord of the Rings
February 2016: Optical Illusions
January 2016: Star Wars
December 2015: Winter
November 2015: The North
October 2015: Spooky Characters
September 2015: Video Game Characters
August 2015: Emoticons
July 2015: Fallout and NES Characters
June 2015: Game of Thrones
May 2015: Original Characters
April 2015: Amalya's Avatar
March 2015: Springtime Scenery from Video Games
February 2015: African American Leaders
December 2014: Tidings of Horror
October 2014: Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi
September 2014: RPG Characters and Beavers and Roosters
August 2014: Batman
December 2013: Fictional Characters
November 2013: Ponies

Current Nominations
'MURICA
Canada 150
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Crushita on June 27, 2017, 07:49:17 PM
Gerrick posted on June 27, 2017, 07:15:35 PM
I'll nominate CANADA in honor of the Independence Day of the GREATEST FUCKING COUNTRY ON EARTH.

Fixed that for you.

I nominate Canada 150/Canada Day
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Gerrick on June 27, 2017, 08:02:30 PM
There, there, little Canada. Good for you reaching 150, but we're nearing the 250 mark.

AND DON'T EVER REPLACE AMERICA WITH CANADA, YOU GODDAMN CANUCK.
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Crushita on June 27, 2017, 08:12:27 PM
Gerrick posted on June 27, 2017, 08:02:30 PM
There, there, little Canada. Good for you reaching 150, but we're nearing the 250 mark.

AND DON'T EVER REPLACE AMERICA WITH CANADA, YOU GODDAMN CANUCK.

*Clears throat*
In the name of Her Majesty the Queen, we do politely state that you Americans are the GREATEST FUCKING COUNTRY ON EARTH.

Also fixed that for you
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Mathyland on June 27, 2017, 09:16:25 PM
Gerrick, you're a moderator here, so you could just fix his fix :D
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Gerrick on June 27, 2017, 11:27:48 PM
Mathyland posted on June 27, 2017, 09:16:25 PM
Gerrick, you're a moderator here, so you could just fix his fix :D
I would never! I do wholeheartedly agree with Crushita, though:
Crushita posted on June 27, 2017, 08:12:27 PM
*Clears throat*
In the name of Her Majesty the Queen, we do politely state that you Americans are the GREATEST FUCKING COUNTRY ON EARTH.
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: taulover on June 27, 2017, 11:38:30 PM
The question is, which of the following won the Great War: Vimy Ridge, or doughboys?
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Crushita on June 28, 2017, 12:16:44 AM
taulover posted on June 27, 2017, 11:38:30 PM
The question is, which of the following won the Great War: Vimy Ridge, or doughboys?
Neither.
It was Siam clearly.
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Gerrick on July 02, 2017, 01:30:24 AM
In a classic matchup, this month will be USA vs Canada! Choose your side!

Voting is now open and will last for 3 days until 9:30pm EDT on Tuesday, July 4.
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Barnes on July 02, 2017, 04:52:45 AM
I'll try to get dual citizenship so I don't have to pick a side.
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Wintermoot on July 02, 2017, 02:57:24 PM
Sorry guys, I was scrolling this topic and accidentally clicked remove poll with my middle mouse button. v_v

I recreated the poll, but......
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Gerrick on July 03, 2017, 04:50:44 PM
A little over a day and a half left to vote. Come on, USA!
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Crushita on July 03, 2017, 06:20:11 PM
Oh Canada!
The World Does Not Hate Us!
Adi-ition-ly,
We don't have Donald Trump!
Tous les érables poussent là où les França-a-is sont
Nous devons les apaiser, nous aider s'il vous plaît
Spud keep our land
Glorious and free!
Oh Canada!
We-e vote for thee!
Oh Canada
We-e vote for thee!
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Gerrick on July 05, 2017, 04:53:04 AM
Aaaand... it looks like we have a tie! Who'd've thought it possible, but the theme for July is both America and Canada. So add one or both to your avatars for the month. :D
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Elbbsas on July 05, 2017, 05:37:33 AM
Barnes posted on July 02, 2017, 04:52:45 AM
I'll try to get dual citizenship so I don't have to pick a side.
Gerrick posted on July 05, 2017, 04:53:04 AM
Aaaand... it looks like we have a tie! Who'd've thought it possible, but the theme for July is both America and Canada. So add one or both to your avatars for the month. :D
I spy a conspiracy. :o
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: taulover on July 05, 2017, 05:49:02 AM
Relevant polandball:

(https://wintreath.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzdodqQ5.png&hash=b0384df978c1b56f2df7ccb867968381)
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Aethelia on July 24, 2017, 01:27:12 PM
No need to change your avatar or anything, but thinking about the countryball thing makes me sad, even though it's part of the reason I'm here now.

The last region I was in, they started doing the countryball thing for all their active members. I think just a month ago they had this huge image of a few dozen of them on their region page.

At the time, I wasn't sure if I was fitting in. I'd been there for what must have been months, I thought I was RP'ing pretty well, and I thought my non-RP posts were funny and insightful. I tried to tell myself that my worrying was my low self-esteem acting up again, that I needed to stop sabotaging myself, and that everything was okay.

And then they made their countryball poster thing. So many people got in on that. But I was missing. Nobody asked me if I wanted to be a part of it, nobody else seemed to notice I wasn't on it. It was like being left out of the school yearbook all over again. Or any instance of seeing a group of people happy together, and only being able to look at them from afar from some dark corner with envy. Apparently it wasn't paranoia this time, the people who I thought were becoming my friends really didn't consider me to be one of them. They haven't even noticed that I left. After all the hours I spent with them, I still didn't matter.

I'd like to say it was a learning experience, but there were no hints that I did anything wrong. Maybe I should have just bluntly asked what they didn't like about me. Probably too late now, I don't think I want an even more self-esteem breaking answer of "Who are you?" after all of that. Why would they remember me, I'm not on their countryball banner with all the other important people and a few people who had spent far less time with them.

I know countryball things are a fad on NS right now for some reason, not sure how that started, but I think just for me I look forward to getting rid of that bad memory. I couldn't take it when I was a part of the region before leaving, every time I looked it was a message to me saying "This is all of us, you're not part of it".
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: BraveSirRobin on July 24, 2017, 01:59:16 PM
Pro tip: making a polandball poster for a region as a new player and leaving out several prominent members of the Dunn unity 8)

More seriously though, sorry that happened! It is really annoying to be ignored/overlooked/forgotten. I hate the deeling. Usually it can be avoided by presenting ludicrous ideas or the like, but sometimes people are just forgetful primates too concerned with getting their own stockpile of bananas and forget about others :/
Title: July 2017 Avatar Theme of the Month
Post by: Justinian Ezkantion on July 24, 2017, 03:37:55 PM
The way I ended up becoming a prominent member of my first region was literally by role playing a member of my own nation and speaking in broken english. Zhat isz vhei Iey vhiel szoumtiemesz talkh liekh zisz.