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Help us choose the Golden Icon for 2020!

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EDIT: Forum Icons should be updated. Some of you who have not have been sent an email if I need to confirm further details. If you donated $2 or more this year and your golden icon hasn't turned over and you are not an 18-year donator and have not receive an email from amanda at gamerswithjobs dot com, please PM Amoebic so we can work it out!


Hello everyone! This year, since our donation drive had turned 18 and is now old enough to vote, we'd like to involve the community in voting for this year's golden icon selection and looking to get your suggestions! Once we've gotten a good handful, we'll set up some polls and the icon with the most votes wins!

The current year's Golden icons, numbered, for your reference. If it's too similar to a custom donor icon or previous icon, it may not end up in the final vote.
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We've received a couple of suggestions so far, so thanks to folks for submitting! If I haven't listed it, please repost here! I apologize for missing any. We'll start the list in the OP, and add them as suggestions are posted below.

It has to be relatively small, so simple is best. Icons need to follow the code of conduct. Avoid anything political, religious, or culturally appropriative.

Here's the list so far:
Mars Rover
joycon
Golden Eye
Cat
“modern” controller
Rocket
Globe
Peace sign
Monster truck
Lizard
Frog
More cars!
Banana
Lego block
Sega Genesis controller
Mouse
Pair of 6 sided dice
A ♥♥♥ life meter
Golden Apple of Discord
A Golden Handshake
dumpster fire
AC turnip
Nook logo
chair
Fire Truck
Big cat - lion or tiger (aka tiger king)
Chess piece (Aka Queen’s Gambit)
Grogu
Cthulhu
Voting Ballot
Bed
Eagle
Roll of Toilet Paper
Gas Mask
Whoopie Cushion
Webcam
Headphones
Lotus flower
fairy princess
unicorn
rainbow

Thanks so much, everyone! It's been such a year, and I would love to design something that you've all voted for.

Comments

Something that celebrates healthcare and other frontline workers would be cool, but I'm not sure what would be a good choice. A caduceus is vertical and not horizontal. Hmm.

1. A cat (we have a dog after all)
2. A “modern” controller (generic shape to avoid fights)
3. A rocket
4. A globe
5. A peace sign

Personally, I’d rather the icon not be a memorial of this dumpster fire of a year. Just my $0.02. If we do go there though, then my vote is the middle finger emoji.

My three year old suggested:

Monster truck
Lizard
Frog
More cars!
Banana (my personal fave for this year)
Lego block

PaladinTom wrote:

2. A “modern” controller (generic shape to avoid fights)

I'm fine with picking sides to begin with and eventually filling in the others. I was thinking a Genesis controller because we already have an NES one, and could just keep going down the line over time with memorable controllers for each of the big companies that have made console controllers over time. Maybe eventually adding a mouse or something for PC as well. I think a pair of dice would be cool if that's not too much for the small factor.

So my suggestions:
1. Sega Genesis controller
2. Mouse
3. Pair of 6 sided dice

1. Syringe
2. Facemask
3. House

Or we could turn to the GOTY thread for some inspiration.

Not sure tieing it to a specific year makes sense.

garion333 wrote:

My three year old suggested:

Banana (my personal fave for this year)

I like it!

6' apart icon

Moggy wrote:

Not sure tieing it to a specific year makes sense.

Though you might not know it, many of the existing icons do tie back to a game, event, or topic during the year they were introduced. They bring back memories for sure.

A ♥♥♥ life meter.

Gold means starting the second quest.

LouZiffer wrote:

1. Syringe
2. Facemask
3. House

Or we could turn to the GOTY thread for some inspiration.

Lou's #1 and #2 are what came immediately to my mind.

I guess the mask is more emblematic of what we've gone through in 2020 and the syringe is hopefully what we'll all be seeing in the very near future.

I like the banana, too, although some might think it looks too much like the wienerbomb.

Of course I won't be seeing the new icon for another decade or so...

Banana would be fun, too. Would also give this place a sense of scale.

Golden Apple of Discord. Hail Eris!

A Golden Handshake

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A Golden Shower

dumpster fire

doodled an example (thank you, overly long WoW flight paths):

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ruhk wrote:

dumpster fire

Oooh. I think we might have a winner.

Hrdina wrote:

1. Syringe
2. Facemask
3. House

I'm not sure about anyone else, but I'm a little traumatized by covid. As spot-on as it may be for 2020, I'm not sure covid-related icons is something I'm comfortable with, especially if anyone who lost someone to covid would have to carry that tag around for a whole year. If any get voted into the final rounds, we will need to have a discussion about it before proceeding.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Banana would be fun, too. Would also give this place a sense of scale.

lmaoooooo

ruhk wrote:

dumpster fire

I like how universal this is. It could apply to this year, this life, myself, many others.

RawkGWJ wrote:

A Golden Handshake

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A Golden Shower

I might veto the latter, if only to avoid disappointing confused fetishists.

A straight jacketed Stan.

Space is most definitely an issue! Image needs to be approximately 280 x 140 pixels with a horizontal orientation, so a stan in a recognizable article of clothing would be very hard to implement/read, unfortunately

Big box PC game

Facemask, duh!

I like the joycon suggestion

I would offer an AC turnip or Nook logo

Amoebic wrote:

Space is most definitely an issue! Image needs to be approximately 280 x 140 pixels with a horizontal orientation, so a stan in a recognizable article of clothing would be very hard to implement/read, unfortunately :)

If space is an issue then I think it might have to be a chair.

ruhk wrote:

dumpster fire

Was just going to post that

garion333 wrote:

Facemask, duh!

That already got suggested ya scrub

Unless you mean football facemask in which case +1

RedJen wrote:

or Nook logo

For the Nook logo, you actually are given the gold icon first, then have to pay it off.

Fire Truck

Amoebic wrote:

Space is most definitely an issue! Image needs to be approximately 280 x 140 pixels with a horizontal orientation, so a stan in a recognizable article of clothing would be very hard to implement/read, unfortunately :)

Bummer.

DUMPSTER FIRE

SYRINGE

FACEMASK

any of these fits perfectly for this year, and start of the next....

How about some icons with indirect call backs to 2020.

1. Big cat - lion or tiger (aka tiger king)
2. Chess piece (Aka Queen’s Gambit)
3. An alien “inspired” by Grogu that looks just different enough to avoid Disney’s ire
4. Cthulhu

It's old enough to vote - make it a voting ballot