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That is James Urbaniak, isn't it?

That's not a man, baby! Clearly your standards are just too high, Eric.

Also, Blade Runner? 

You gentlemen certainly seem to enjoy your large, cold glasses of tea. 

We may need another screen shot. I've got nuttin', baby. 

I like the idea of giving 'silver' to the runner-ups.

Barn Runner-ups, you mean! 

That is totally "Night of the Comet"!

Ohmigod! It, like, totally is! That is, like, so radical, Ilyich. 

Your turn, dude.

Eric: No.
Armageddon: No and also no.

Let's keep those guesses coming, good people.

Happy birthday, Baron. I hope the duke and duchess of Canada bring you a fancy new zeppelin.

[Kinda]

Ponch kinda got it.  kinda.  Take it away, Mr. P.

Kinda? *Snort* Don't let your own arrested development interfere with your judgment, sir. Your screen grab tells us everything about you! To wit:

[imgzoom]http://www.barnrunner.com/pics/misc/MovieClueW.png[/imgzoom]
Apocalypse cheerleaders with machine guns.

I await your guesses!

It's always a little boring when any single game/movie/whatever sweeps an awards show. But it's usually the best game that wins, and so the awards were deserved. A "Best Commercial Game" category sounds nice and would let the other, smaller AGSers have a chance at the huge cash prize that accompanies every AGS Award (there is a huge cash award, right?). But I'm not sure such a thing could be implemented easily.

Do we split every category into commercial/freeware? That seems cumbersome. Great games like Resonance or Oceanspirit Dennis Losers His Vaginity will always win almost every category that they're in because they're of a significantly higher quality than most of the freeware efforts put out by the other poorer developers inspiring hobbyists. For example, if the top game is split into two groups but the background category isn't, then you'll hear cries of "2034 A.C.'s shoddy backgrounds won't have a chance against Rockstar304's latest majestic backdrop!" I know this because I'm already saying it in anticipation of the 2013 Awards. 

My two cents is that we keep the awards the way they are, I guess, and just accept the fact that AGS has finally gone commercial in a successful way and the bar has been raised much higher than it used to be. It's not like it was in the days of Fatman (commercial) versus Larry Vales (freeware) -- but the games are much larger (and deeper) than they used to be. So I for one welcome our Wadjet Infamous 7 Screens overlords.

Still sucks that the guys running the awards this year totally forgot to mention the Bake Sale. But that's the sort of problem I can drink away... in time... maybe...

There's a Cow of the Year award?  WHY DIDN'T I WIN IT?

It's an injustice!! 

 
Too many trophies! Goodness, yours is such a tale of woe, Mr. XII. I can only count my lucky stars that I've never known the burden of the AGS Award... never... not once... not after ten years and more than twenty AGS games... sigh... lucky me... 

EDIT: Nice avatar. I shall have to update mine now...

Happy b-day, abstauber. You should probably consider taking your awards show tux to the dry cleaner now. 

How can I possibly be expected to hold all these trophies?!?

You make a good point, Mr. XII. 

Exsanguinators?

Bannable Foolishness 3? 

Seriously, g'night Ben. Enjoy yet another victory over this sad old cow. 

Bed Flopper 3?

Seriously, it's 11 pm here (2300 hours, metric time for those of you in non-America). I'm too tired to carry on. You win this round, Ben!

Baron's Fishwife 3?

Blueskirt's Funhouse 3?

Bluecup Finder 3? (Personally, I preferred Bluecup Finder 2.72, but that's just me)

Blast Farter 3? (Dualnames' favorite game)