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Sat, May 26th, 2012, 11am to 11.45am PST – we will be broadcasting LIVE! (as long as the internet connection is strong enough)
Join me for this LIVE netcast celebrating my newest book "Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast". This event is being broadcast from 11 to 11.45am PST on Sat May 26th, 2012 from San Francisco, CA.
Please stop by if you're in the SF embarcadero area:
I'm starting to netcast for the first time again since I conceived of and executive produced 'Fiber' back in 1995, before ISDN or T1 were available! 'Fiber' was the World's 1st online fashion show event ever, and it was broadcast over copper phone lines to the Mbone at UC Berkeley, CA, and then out to the world!
Thanks for joining me here and for helping me celebrate my newest book "Ani's 15-Day Fat Blast"! Love you all xo, ani
dineLA is an exciting 2-week dining event created by the Los Angeles Convention and Visitor Bureau (aka LA, INC) to introduce diners to hundreds of neighborhood restaurants throughout Los Angeles County. LA's a huge county full of many great spots for food and drink. So, to help filter through over 300 participating restaurants, dineLA's invited me to call out a few restaurants offering vegetarian dineLA menu items. I live in West Hollywood, so most of my recommendations are for spots in my area.
For dineLA, participating restaurants offer a fixed 3-course menu for lunch and/or dinner…a great way to taste popular dishes. If a restaurant offers only 1 or 2 vegetarian items on their dineLA menu, many will let you order just those vegetarian items, so do ask. You'll also find a few vegan and almost raw items too.
With so many great dineLA restaurants, it was challenging to choose just 10! Here's a few vegetarian items to look for. If you prefer vegan, ask to leave off the dairy. It's that simple. Click each link below to view their dineLA menu:
:: Check out photos from the dineLA Kickoff Celebration at the W Hotel in Westwood last week with my Exec Chef friends.
Join the discussion on my Facebook page and at Twitter.
Download my free 2012 Healthy Jumpstart report with tips for recharging your immune system, nourishing your body, and boosting your metabolism at www.RawFoodRockStar.com.
dineLA Restaurant Week is a 2-week dining event created by the Los Angeles Convention and Visitor Bureau (aka LA, inc) to introduce diners to hundreds of neighborhood restaurants throughout Los Angeles County.
:: Check out my dineLA Vegetarian Roundup – my top 10 picks for restaurants who have vegetarian and even vegan items on their dineLA menus.
To celebrate, dineLA hosted a party at the W Hotel in Westwood last week on Jan 11th, 2012 with flowing scotch, champagne, beer, and wine. Though I've taken a break from drinking, I had to have just one scotch because it was Highland Park 12 year, neat with one ice cubes on the side please.
Chef Jason Fullilove from The Tar Pit has the best last name ever! He may look familiar because he was on the 1st episode of Chef Hunter on Food Network last month. Keep a look out, as he'll soon be on Cooking Channel too. Finally, diversity on TV, yeah! Chef Jason's food is yummy. For dineLA, you will find 2 vegan dishes on his vegetarian menu including a Roasted Vegetable Terrine, Winter Root Vegetable Pasta, and a choice of 3 decadent desserts.
Executive Chef Chris Morningstar from Ray's and Stark Bar, hailed by Esquire Magazine as "One of the best new restaurants of 2011″. Bravo Chef Chris! Chris and I first met while we were both preparing for our Test Kitchen dinners as Chris' dinner was the night following my 2-nights of Ani Phyo's Gastrawnomique. His menu was completely opposite mine….all animal products vs. my vegan raw. I get a kick out of the fact his last name, Morningstar….it's the brand name of popular vegan and vegetarian breakfast sausages….though Chris' expertise is with meat. Ray's and Stark Bar is a Patina group restaurant, and I was super stoked when Chris told me his boss and Master Chef Joachim Splichal had given him a copy of Ani's Raw Food Essentials to use while creating menus and recipes for Google campus.
Exec Chef and owner Kerry Simon from Simon L.A. is offering several vegetarian items on his lunch and dinner dineLA menus including Market Roasted Vegetable Kale Salad, Fennel Pollen, Sherry Vinaigrette (I love kale!), Spinach Salad with Dates and Persimmon, plus desserts that look amazing like a House Made Kit Kat. Yum! Chef Kerry is very accommodating, is happy to let you order items from the dineLA menu, plus is fine with you making substitutions and requests. So just ask, and you shall receive!
dineLA asked artist Phil Lumbang to illustrate chef characters that were being silk screened onto canvas dineLA bags for everyone. What a fun idea, and very cool bag. Chef Chris Morningstar had a character screened onto his chef jacket, super cute!
Shana Wong (LA Magazine), William Karz (LA, inc), Shelley Leopold (LA Weekly), and I watching the screening of characters onto the canvas bags.
Our hostess Stacey Sun is red. She makes dineLA happen. Thanks Stacey! Excited to check out new restaurants beginning next week!
Join our discussion on my Facebook page and at Twitter.
Download my free 2012 Healthy Jumpstart report with tips for recharging your immune system, nourishing your body, and boosting your metabolism at www.RawFoodRockStar.com.
New Year's Day 2012 I took a trip out to Pasadena's Rose Bowl to help with the Donate Life float for the Rose Parade, which was on Jan 2nd this year. Donate Life is an amazing organization that raises awareness so we stick that pink dot onto our driver's license, to help save lives by being an organ donor. My dad was a kidney recipient, so this organization rings very close to my heart.
This is the beautiful finished float. The folks sitting on it are the stars of the show…family members of donors from 2011. The stories I heard yesterday were so moving, and I broke into tears numerous times. One woman's 9-year old daughter had gone to the hospital for an ear infection. The hospital misdiagnosed and mistreated her (not uncommon), and she died. Her mom was proud to share how her daughter lives on in others, literally, and that her daughter has saved many lives by being a donor. You can see the portraits of each donor on 6 clock faces, a total of 72 donors are honored.
My good friend Vicky is a 'red jacket' and one of the team leaders on this huge project. She's been here working on the float for weeks from early morning until 11pm. A huge undertaking, whew.
We are all misting the flowers with water before the float is moved outdoors for judging. It was gorgeous in Pasadena, 80 degrees!
Everything on all of the floats in the Rose Parade are all organic! This means only living materials like flowers, leaves, seeds,…all put on by hand.
Look at this detail….mustard seeds painstakingly glued onto the surface. Wow.
Beans and flower petals have all been attached by hand.
This is the bed of roses underneath the clock with the moving hands at the front of the float.
Look closely and you can see each of these red roses has a wish tied onto them.
When the float moved outside into the sun, all the colors popped so brightly! You can see the driver of the float inside the open door. The driver can't see a thing, and is guided by audio by someone outside the float.
At one point, everyone held hands in a circle around the float. It was very moving. And even the judges teared up and cried when they talked with the donor families and heard all the incredible stories. Today, I discovered (since I don't have a TV to watch the parade myself) that our float won one of the top 3 trophies and the craftsmanship award for outstanding showmanship and dramatic impact over 55 feet! Yeah! I also heard that floats cost about a half a million dollars to build! Great exposure and for a wonderful cause.
This was one of the best, most memorable New Year Day's of my life. What a way to spend the 1st day of the new year. Plus, I felt like it was in honor too of my dad, who was so very blessed to have had a kidney transplant, which helped extended his life another 10 or 12 years. I learned that a liver lives for 100 years, so even after someone passes from old age, a liver can be donated to help another person live. Amazing.
I've chosen to be an organ donor for as long as I can remember, and I hope you will also consider joining me in helping save lives so someone else may live one more day! For more information check out Donate Life.
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One of my favorite foods is cabbage because it's super versatile, has hardly any calories, is free of wheat and gluten, is great for digestion, and is beautiful in color (purple and green). It tastes awesome in salads, gives us valuable probiotics as pickled sauerkraut, plus it works perfectly as a "shell" to be stuffed with yummy fillings to make a delicious hand held treat. I'm currently reintroducing heart-healthy fats into my diet from flax and chia seeds (omega-3), some nuts (vitamin E and antioxidants), and olives to keep my skin supple and moist, especially now that autumn is upon us. I picked up a bunch of avocados at the Farmers' Market, but am disappointed they didn't make it into my bag!
Today, I filled up a red cabbage shell with Chiffonade green cabbage. Watch our "How to Chiffonade" video I shot for Vegetarian Times Magazine: http://www.vegetariantimes.com/video/10). Please watch on the Vegetarian Times website to help generate viewer numbers. Thank you!
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I first filled up my purple cabbage shell with Chiffonade green cabbage. Next, I layered on a Black Olive Tapenade, from Ani's Raw Food Kitchen, page 155, and Candied Onions, inspired by my Buckwheat-Battered "Fried" Onion Rings, from page 116 of Ani's Raw Food Essentials, plus I added maple syrup to sweeten the onions. I then topped it all with artichoke hearts, and would have added avocado, if I had some on hand.
Black Olive Tapenade
Place all ingredients into food processor, mix well.
Will keep for a week or longer stored in fridge.
Candied Onions
Place all ingredients into mixing bowl. Set aside to marinate and wilt for at least 10 minutes. Add syrup to your liking. I choose to make this sweet! Squeeze excess liquid before using.
Will keep for several days in fridge.
This was the beautiful view of the rose gardens as we arrived at the NetKal Gala event….. gathering of Asian Americans in entertainment.
Styled by my favorite fashion designer Linda Loudermilk of all time, plus…she's all about luxury eco! Makeup and hair by the best artist ever, Dorit Genazzani.
The beautiful Lisa Ling (Oprah Winfrey Network, Our America) and her husband Dr. Paul Song.
Bryan Tee from Fast and the Furious. I can count all of 2 Asian actors in film. At least they're representing! Yeah.
From the TV show Dexter, actor C.S. Lee. Okay, this makes 2 Asian actors…one TV, one film, so far. I can think of one more Asian male from TV. Hopefully, you can too.
The NetKal Gala was held at USC at the Annenberg Center.
The event was catered by my friends at Good Gracious Catering. I met Pauline and Joanne at Sunset Magazine's annual Celebration weekend event last spring, where I was invited along with Chef Rick Bayless (Frontera), Candace Nelson (Sprinkles), and Govind Armstrong (8oz Burger). So impressive they included vegan raw along side these TV celebrities.
The food was presented beautifully. And, my friends hooked me up with a vegan meal, of course!
Check out this space, there was a pool and water fountain in the center. It was cold that night though. The ladies were all freezing in their cocktail dresses. I had my coat on for dinner. Dinner was accompanied by performances by 3 Korean pop stars. Sort of made me giggle. USA and Korea entertainment is very different. An incredible event. And great conference the following day with discussions and inspiration for ways to encourage more diversity in the media. Some said it'll take a few years. I'm not holding my breath though….
Thank you Nathan Nowack for these gorgeous photos. Please visit Nathan Nowack for more photos from this event.
Old school friends came down from San Francisco last weekend to host the most wicked day of dance, tunes, and great vibes…and it was the best day I've enjoyed in a while! DJ's Solar (above) and Galen (below) are both Sunset and Pacific Sound crews. (I used to have a multimedia studio back in the day in SF, and we threw a historic NYE party in 1995 together with Sunset). When I lived in SF, all I would do is dance for exercise. It's the best workout ever! Plus, Solar cooks, and of course loves Raw Food!
Here's Galen. These guys still look the same as they did back in the early 90′s! And they put so much love into their music, you can feel it. We agreed dancing, good music, and raves are what keep us young! I was just up in SF a couple months ago, and went to the Sunset boat party hosted on a ferry that sails the Bay from 6 to 11pm. A perfect way to finish off the weekend, always.
Since I'm usually in bed by 10pm, this daytime party in the park was exactly what I needed! The sun was bright and warm in Van Nuys where we all laid out picnic blankets, brought food, and danced up a storm. Galen, Solar, and the Sunset Crew are known for their outdoor parties on Sunday afternoons. They've been hosting them for probably over 20 years now! We'd all end up at Sunset parties after a long weekend. Great way to taper down off the weekend.
Another great thing about partying in the park is that Kanga can join in too! She laid down in the middle of the dance floor early on, and made folks dance around her the rest of the afternoon. She loves to be in the center of everything. She was very popular, and calm, but, …..no parking on the dance floor Kanga!
My lovely lady friends, and Max the dog. Maria's the beautiful blond, and is the talented photographer who took the cover photo on Ani's Raw Food Asia.
Galen spun last, and brought in the sunset while pumping the dance floor. He and Solar both motivated me to go to their after party downtown, which started past midnight, …..and it went to dawn! A Sunset, and then sunrise event! (Small world too because the party ended up in a warehouse space owned by Thomas, who has assisted me in my raw food kitchen!)
Thank you Sunset, Solar, and Galen. Come visit us in LA again soon, and host more outdoor parties for us…please! I miss great SF tunes, the Sunset sound, and vibe. I'd head to SF for their Halloween Boat Party, except Mom's coming to visit me in LA. Thanks for bringing your tunes to LA for us to enjoy! Love you guys! xoxo
Labor Day marks the weekend my Rhodesian Ridgeback, Kanga, and I rescued one another….9-years ago! How time flies. (and yes, I cake sunblock on my face, as you can see).
Kanga had been at the Humane Society for over 2 weeks, and no one adopted her. Surprising, since she is a beautiful specimen of this breed. Plus, she came fully trained, so someone had spent a lot of time and energy with her. She was skin and bone, and 50+ pounds underweight with kennel cough and dusty fur. Poor baby.
Luckily, a truck intercepted 20 dogs on their way to get euthanized, and brought them back to a no-kill shelter in Portland, OR called Family Dogs NW. This was where I found Kanga early the very next morning. I applied the same raw food principles to Kanga as I do for human healing, and over the next month or two she gained 50 pounds and regained radiant health on a Raw Food diet. You can read more about her journey in Ani's Raw Food Kitchen, where Kanga has her own dog food chapter.
My brother Max saw this photo of Kanga and said she looks like she's "mugging". I had to ask him what the heck that means. Max said "mugging = posing, like rappers do for pics". Hahaa. Yup, Kanga is a superstar, and very popular too. Folks always stop us to pet her, especially young children.
Kanga's from Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and the Sahara so she loves the sun, warmth, and sand. She hates water, but it was so hot out that Kanga got her paws wet. I love dog beach because here she can roam off-leash, and run free to play with other dogs.
Kanga and I love laying in the sand and soaking up the sun. It's never hot enough for us, and soaking up sun is one of our favorite past times. I'm happy I got to take Kanga to Huntington Dog Beach yesterday on the final hot day of the summer (it was 90 F) to celebrate her 9-year Bday and Dogversary with me. Thank you Kanga for being my family, love, and for hanging out with me for the past 9-years! I love you.
I visited Erewhon Natural Foods in Los Angeles on May 28, 2011 along my book tour for Ani's Raw Food Asia. Erewhon is my favorite Raw Food store. These beautiful photos are courtesy of the very talented Sherman Lee at http://www.digitalslimages.com.
Juan Hernandez, the store manager, makes sure to offer the largest range of Raw Food products and brand, and has created the nexus for Raw Foods here in LA. Juan was one of my earliest supporters of my SmartMonkey Foods packaged and prepared foods products.
Each year's visit celebrating my new book always draws a packed house. I love Erewhon!
I showed everyone how easy it is to make my Mushroom "Bul Go Gi", from Ani's Raw Food Asia, page 186, using mushrooms marinated in tamari or nama shoyu (raw soy sauce), toasted sesame oil, asian pear, and sweetener of choice like agave or brown rice syrup. We topped off these beautiful Lettuce Wraps, from page 188, with my version of a traditional Korean Gochujang Sauce, page 225, made with miso, sesame oil, chile powder, and sweetener like agave.
Following my food demo and Q+A…next, I get to sign books and meet people 1 on 1!
This tour, many people had me sign multiple copies of Ani's Raw Food Asia for friends and family. I do love when people bring their entire collection for me to sign too…..a blessing for me.
My friends Ron Gilmore and Caroline Jue create an awesome animated series called Rawman & Green-Girl. They are doing great work educating and sharing information about our food sources.
Elaine R. Johnson hand delivered this beautiful porcelain sculpture she made to me all the way from Arizona with her mom. Elaine is amazingly talented. I can't even begin to express my gratitude for such a beautiful gift.
This is the beautifully talented Elaine R. Johnson. She told me how challenging porcelain is to work with….cracking as it dries, or cracking out of the kiln during baking. A labour of love, it shows!
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Seriously lol I cant belive peeps get bent out of shape about fans rallying behind their game. Maybe GW2 fans should have done the same. Instead of assuming they were gonna win..hit the offical forums and campaign.
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results.
There is also another possiblity that folks have not thought about. The GW2 crowd for the past 2 years has shown up in everybody else forums, bashing and complaining about the other games, and trash talking and saying how great gw2 is compared to the other games.
Just maybe those folks who were tired of the GW2 crowd decided to go vote for something they never heard of as a vote against gw2 at the same time to send a message.
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Joined: 11/26/12
Possible point # 6 - Voting by people so fed up with the hype-machine and swarm mentality to defend said hyped game that they are willing to vote for any game but that one.
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Originally posted by Czanrei
Plain and simple.
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Joined: 8/08/03
The Op forgot factor number 6.
People who voted for the second ranked game just to spite the forrunner to make sure it loses.
Consider this a conspiracy theory if you want, though i think most people know it to be true.
ie the only way to vote against a game for whatever reason is to vote for the second rated game
so the first game doesn't win.
While this indeed may indeed be the tactic of a sore loser you know that many votes for pirates 101 weren't from people that liked pirates 101 or even that had ever tried pirates 101 but simple were from people trying to prevent another game from winning.
SImply put in the lowest terms Pirates 101 was the little kiddy game from a nobody developer that nobody cared enough to hate. hell had hello kitty online been on the list it would probably have won just from people caatsing votes to be funny and show how totally ludicris these game io year awards really are.
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You really need to check out Kingsisle's history when it comes to these votes. I have never seen another game company go to such great lengths to push these votes. They post threads in their own forums, snd messages in game and send out emails as well as encourage fan sites to post threads. If you look a the history you will see wizard 101 won a similar award a few years ago and after several complaints the magazine looked into the situation and had discussions due to the same people voting over and again.
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I only read a portion of the comments from the original Awards topic, but to me, it seemed quite a few of the people were hardly being "sore losers", but rather upset that the poll itself was so flawed. People want a players choice award that is less likely to be 'cheated' on by registering multiple accounts via proxies, spamming official forums to get players to vote, etc... And let me just state, I don't think GW2 should have necessarily won, I just think Pirates101 isn't quite comparable to GW2, TSW, or Planetside 2.
Really, the voting should have been locked to people who had registered prior to the posting of the poll. The only reasons I can think of that this wasn't done this way, is that a.) site admins were too lazy to code a system to do that, or b.) they were mainly interested in 'expanding' their userbase to increase ad profits. My moneys on the ad profits being the motivator judging by the recent "you're no better than pirates" comments made by the site admin. It's too bad really that many of the people who registered for this poll, likely won't come back to this site until a new game of the year poll or more likely, won't come back ever. Trying to get more users on the site isn't a bad thing by itself, but aiming for temporary ones of this nature just for ad profit is a little deplorable.
I'd be interested to see what percentage of the actual votes were from accounts made AFTER the posting of the poll itself, my guess is it'd be quite a large number. In reality, this wasn't a player's choice award, nor was it an mmorpg.com user's choice award, it was simply a "what game developer/fansites will spam their users the most" award.
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Joined: 7/03/04
As I've said before, when people around here don't have anything to say about gaming they go after the players. That seems to be the direction the OP takes. But okay, let's go there. I find your negative post about negative forum posters a little hypocritical.
OP is supposed to be 'Devil's Advocate'. Instead he comes off more like Mall Cop taking the forum readers to task for running in the halls. He come's off more like an editor who feels freed by the name 'Devil's Advocate' to come here and lecture us because we didn't react they way he wanted to.
Are mmorpg.com forum posters that bad compared to the rest of humanity? Humanity where I live is pretty pathetic. We have shootings, stabbings, beatings, home invasions, theives, all kinds of gangs based on every racial group, drug dealers and addicts, and a lot of rapists and child molestors. It's not uncommon to hear mom's and dad's cursing in front of their kids in Target or Walmart.
Society is breaking down...or broken down. I see it around town. I see it at my work. Is it any surprise civility would be one of the first casualties?
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Joined: 6/11/08
I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
It's a whale with a town on its back. A whale. With a town on its back. Someone gets to drive a whale around with a town. How could that not win?
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
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Joined: 1/06/05
In short, there are a lot of bitter, crappy people out there who see these things as a way to bolster their own self worth or see it as a personal afront.
Elite Member
Joined: 1/12/04
Not thinking before you speak is human. Not thinking before you hit ENTER has no excuse.
I personally never really got into these Awards since I'm not a game developer. If I had a game under my belt, sure, I'd want to win. But really, what do these Awards really mean? Obviously nothing since it's just votes from fans and not based off of common sense. I'm pretty sure, if you were to do a revote now, GW2 fans would come back with a fury of vengeance and cause Pirates 101 to crash and burn. It's a question of numbers and honestly, you can't tell me more people play Pirates 101 then people who play GW2.
That being said, I do give 2 thumbs up to Pirates 101 for campaiging cause the Award did mean something to them.
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Joined: 3/02/08
It always amazes me the amount of emotion people can summon about what is pretty much an insignificant issue.Winning a players choice award from this site does not change the course of history and the onyl effect is a small amount of free advertising for the winners.
What this years poll has been great for since GW2 both won ana award and was beaten for another is that it showed that the rabid fans and haters of this gaem are jsut bitter,twisted reflections of each other.
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Joined: 11/10/12
Originally posted by BadSpock
Yeah, and I´m almost as sick of ^ this quote as I´m sick of "Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what yadda yadda"
Repetitive MMOs rehashing old concepts win awards and get 10/10 innovation scores, end of story, reason for rage -> check
SWTOR hype last year ? Look where it´s now.
The most innovative thing I´ve played in years is TSW by the way, oh wait it got less marketing, some dismissing it because of early beta bugs or because of 15 bucks a month, so there are less fans to vote, so it must be inferior compared to Pirates 010 or GW2 endless looping "dynamic" (cough) events?? It´s not.
Polls and players choice awards are meaningless. How about the editors make a simple feature comparison with checkboxes and see how many boxes can be ticked, instead of a "How many fans go vote on the game they bought to justify their purchase."
Hint: TSW has DX11, Tesselation, no grab boxes, no Pay2Win, regular updates and events, RP features, community radioshows, most creative and intelligent mission design ever in an MMO, motion captured cutscenes with AAA voiceactors and a story worth telling -> if all this can not make top #1, nothing can.
For once, dear editors, for 2013 make an opinion free, non-sponsored, checkbox feature comparison of the current games, your future leaderboards might change drastically.
Oh and would you KINDLY write an article on Elite Dangerous, which is - you know- a massive multiplayer online space sim by David Braben? The campaign ends in a few days and the goal has not been reached yet, no word from mmorpg.com yet. Why?
Secrets of Dragon´s Spine Trailer.. ! :D
Best MMOs ever played: Ultima, EvE, SW Galaxies, Age of Conan, The Secret World
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Joined: 4/15/07
Originally posted by lizardbones
IKR i wanna live in that town :(
*edit* just looked at the pic again..dude..that whale is flying not swimming.
No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin
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Joined: 2/24/04
Ako neces nemoze!!!
It is Peoples Choice award , not MMORPG Choice award, mmorpg cant be held responcible or loose credibilty or respect over this matter as they only relayed what people that DID vote voted for.
Its like that x factor crap show, mmorpg presented some candidats that made it into voting stage and people are voteing for their favorite.
It sux that there are people campaining for their game or the developer it self, but as stated it is a people choice so gives to show what kind of people vote.
If there were a statistical data measured on the equal garding system by a selected group of participants it might be more objective but it is Peoples choise so to me means nothing... and i think to the most of the people it means nothing.
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Joined: 1/06/05
Originally posted by FromHell
yeah but newsflash, welcome to the world.
There are a LOT of things out there that, based on the merit of how they are put together, conceived, executed, what they are trying to achieve, etc are legions better than the more popular items in the same genre. This has been going on for far longer than you and I have been alive.
Heck, this whole things is unfathomably funny to me as I see it ALL the time in contemporary music. Classical and popular; which happen to be a field that I am a part of.
How many concerts have I gone to with maybe 15 people and their poor girlfriends where, after it was over, people would get together decryng the state of the arts in the world where some pop-o-the-month persona was making millions and "x" composer slaved for a long time only to garner 30 people if they were lucky.
But it's not the fault of "the masses". I don't believe you can force someone to see the merit in a work and I very much don't believe that just because they don't like a thing that they are lesser for it.
People will like what they like and GOOD ON THEM! No reason they have to listen as someone says "but it's not good because of x, y and z and you just are ignorant. (in general, not saying you are "saying this".)
A checkbox feature comparison means nothing if those features have no meanting to those who are experiencing it. That's the end of it.
In the end, certain games, plays, art, music, movies will always be for a smaller audience.
No reason for people to get up in arms because their favorite didn't win an award or a poll,. That's life.
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Joined: 2/14/10
what i find incredibly suspicious is how the only mention i can vaguely recall of Pirates 101 was a few news columns like months ago that i didn't even read after scrolling through a few pictures. Therfore i was very surprised to see it on the list.........the next week it had won the Player's Choice award......
....i am here A LOT(way more than it is healthy to be), and i had NEVER even seen 1 player's thread about Pirates 101. no fan threads, no hate threads, no "Piarates 101 is the next WoW killer" threads, no nothing...complete silence..... yet somehow all of a sudden it's more popular than GW2.....whhhaaaatttt?.....
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Joined: 8/05/04
Mufflo wrote -
I'm baffled almost every day (as I follow this site almost everyday) how such creative, smart and interesting pieces posted on this site from the experienced writers of MMORPG.com get such lousy, respectless and sometimes simply distateful comments below.
I think everyone knows how low people sink in form of communication, love and respect on the internet. This of course has coloured a large part of the gaming community. I think everyone already knows this. I say "knows", as in: deep within their hearts, not as in: aknowledges and acts from.
This is global, as the community has almost always been on a global scale and communicated globally through internet. That means this is a global problem, which means it gets different responses in different parts of this world. (I will not go into detail, as I fully believe to be in power to offend people)
If the world treats if different, it won't fully understand. It will be confused. Please don't let that happen. We all "know", as I said, deep within ourselves what is the problem, and how to deal with it ourselves.
The problem is respect, the solution: start with the man in the mirror. Do not go to friends, or out on the internet to complain about the problem, like me. Look yourself in the mirror and realize how you act as a gamer. Your worst and best parts. You might scream in teamspeak, or not. You might curse and hate in the comments of somebody putting out their thoughts in a game blog. You might write a acidly hateful reply to this. I would not.
The problem is respect, the solution is to look into the mirror. We are better than this.
I really wish we could upvote posts.
I had to edit because the quote did not work.
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Joined: 6/06/12
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Originally posted by Jakdstripper
Rigged because the developers and the studio cheated to get the vote. Pirate 101 took it as a serious event to get free publicity. Gw2 could care less and in the end the cheating bastards won. Which is sorrta similar to life.
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Joined: 5/12/10
+1 for Victor, I admit I don't even understand the fuss in the topic under the results...
It was just a usual forum poll with a bit more highlight on it. Some of the comments aren't reflecting this, a few posters took the results almost as an insult... seriously? :)
It wasn't an election, was not a new course setting in the industry, or similar important stuff, it was just a regular forum poll. Why people attack the results with so much force, is beyond me.
(btw I voted for TSW, Neverwinter and TSW, with n/a on the last 2)
Edit: lol, I tried to put it nicely and not belittle mmorpg.com's Award, but I just red the comments and FromHell already said it directly, so I copy it here too:
Originally posted by FromHell+1 :)


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