Hello, fans of Generally!
First of all... Like propably all of you know, there has been a big disaster in Japan. The distressing images have been show to us about the water taking everything with it, and now even problems with the nuclear reactors. Over a thousand people have already lost their lives and unfortunately the number keeps on getting higher. For this reason, I would like that all of you would have a minute of silence to think about the people in Japan, the Japanese Generally players and the lost lives.
A tribute for the event:
We may not be able to help them anyway even if we wanted, but what we can do now is to support them mentally by staying happy and sending that power to them. The whole Räbinä Awards crew would like to send their condolences for the people who have lost a close one or their homes.
So the game has now been available for 9 years. What started out as just a small game mady by two normal Finnish students has grown into quite possibly the most well known free downloadable driving game. And there is a good reason for this. Well.. Many actually, but let's try to cram it into one reason this year. The game is just simply something extraordinary. With the features the game now has, you can really feel the dedication put into the game by the Räbinä brothers.
But obviously, the game couldn't get the status it has without you. The reason why the game keeps on living is because you people keep on believing in the game. You belive that the game gets better when you release the tracks, the cars, the sounds, the palettes and everything else. And because you believe, you actually make it happen.
And now it's a great time to head back to the past! I have been a part of the community since 2003. Already back then I thought that the creations couldn't get any better. They were already mind blowing. But somehow every year there is a newcomer or two who will push the limits of the game. Maybe not during the rookie year, but soon. And once someone does something exceptionally well, others want to obviously try and get to the same level. Now this is the good way of copying and developing. At around 2006 I decided that I wouldn't make new content for GR because already back then everything else was just taking too much of time. And I have to say that it propably was a good decision. It has been such a huge pleasure to watch the development of the game and the content during the years.
The GR community is also something totally different from pretty much any other community. This place just has that homely feeling. There are no blatant copy-paste "trackmakers" or "carmakers", the people seem to live in peace (although there was that funny little squabble between a few members... Not saying names but man, did I laugh when both of the sides talked to me at the same time in MSN mocking each other. ) The community also has the real feeling of wanting to help the others to get better. This can be seen already in the amount of additional programs created for Generally, and the amount of tutorials made.
While 2009 was more of getting back on the feet after falling many times (I guess we are cockroaches), 2010 was clearly a year of development. GTGR got revealed after a long wait, Lmap buildings got clearly better and the overall level got higher all around the board. And my home got more lively! (Off-topic area, that is). And if this wasn't enough, the big one happened in the beginning of 2011. After 7 years of waiting, the messiah had landed! The results of this will be seen all through the forth coming year.
I would like to thank all of you people for the year 2010 and all of the years I have been a part of the community.
But, without stretching this anymore.. Behold! It's the time for the awards that make even the Oscars feel like awards for everyday people!
It's time for the Räbinä Awards 2010!
-Mandatory official lines written by the sponsors-
HOW WILL THE THREAD WORK?
You are free to post whenever you want. And just like last year, you are more than free to make commercial breaks during the event announce, for example a new compo, a new track, a new car, or that you have just accidentally dropped your behind while laughing so much. Just specify that it is a commercial break by stating it in the title of the post. Or create an extremely annoying theme song for the ad, at that point EVERYONE surely knows it's an advertisement. While this is a moment of celebration for the winners, this is the moment of celebration for you too, so make most out of it! Let's have a text party! WHOO!
This year there will be 8 different awards given. To make the presenters' lives a bit harder, they had to also write a speech (I'm personally doing this 5 am...).
On their message you will find a link "And the Golden Räbinäs go to...", which gives you the award which has the results inside.
The order of presenting:
Important links:#1. CarMaker presented by Rendy
#2. TrackMaker presented by Nielske
#3. Comp. Organizer presented by Soltys
#4. Rookie presented by Mr.J
#5. Commentator presented by Martyn
#6. Racer
#7. Honorary Awards 2010 presented by Trigger Happy, In memoriam by Buka
#8. Community Member presented by mizzamar
Räbinä Awards discussion thread
Räbinä Awards nominations thread
AAAH MY FINGERS ARE BURNING! And propably your eyes are burning too, so...
LET'S GET THE PARTY STARTED LIKE IT WAS THE 90'S!
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