Golden Items

2021 Golden Icon Nominee Submissions! (Deadline September 15th!)

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 19th annual GWJ donation drive!

This year, we'd again like to invite the community to provide suggestions for the golden icon selection. Once we've got a good handful of choices, we'll set up some polls, and the icon with the most votes wins!

Here are the current year's golden icons for your reference. If your suggestion is too similar to an existing icon or to a custom donor icon, it may not end up in the final vote.

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The golden icon has to be relatively small (49 pixels wide x 20 pixels tall), so simple is best. Icon suggestions need to follow the Code of Conduct. Please avoid anything political, religious, or culturally appropriative. Also, pretty much anything that has to do with Covid-19 or covidiots will be immediately denied. Let's keep things positive.

Lastly, I'm afraid we'll have to decline any suggestions for a golden D20 this year — we're saving that for next year!

Thanks so much, everyone! I'm looking forward to designing the winning icon from your suggestions and votes!

Stay tuned for the Official Donation Drive post coming soon.

Edit: Since the submissions have slowed down, I'm thinking we'll wrap up submissions and be looking to send out votes for the next Golden Icon for 2021 by September 15th! On September 30th, we'll reveal the top nominee and I'll get started on the design!

Comments

I'd really like to keep it to submissions provided this year, but still want the previous year's suggestions to exist as inspiration if folks want to be reminded of last year's submissions, or would like to re-submit them for 2021!

List from last year:

Spoiler:

Mars Rover
joycon
Golden Eye
Cat
“modern” controller
Rocket
Globe
Peace sign
Monster truck
Lizard
Frog
Banana
Lego block
Sega Genesis controller
Mouse
Pair of 6 sided dice
A ♥♥♥ life meter
Golden Apple of Discord
A Golden Handshake
AC turnip
Nook logo
chair
Fire Truck
Big cat - lion or tiger (aka tiger king)
Grogu
Cthulhu
Bed
Eagle
Gas Mask
Whoopie Cushion
Webcam
Headphones
Lotus flower
fairy princess
unicorn
rainbow

Well, since Certis and Elysium already have the golden Pillow of Heterosexuality, all I can come up on the fly is:

A beer being poured out, for those we've lost in the past 19 years.

I like watching the fidelity of the icons go up as the years go on - it's like we're watching technology get more advanced!

I'm +1 on the beer-being-poured-out, especially because we continue to have countless people killed needlessly in a pandemic.

Aww, that's lovely.
One thing I was actually thinking of doing is retouching some of the older icons - not redoing them, but cleaning them up a bit to read a bit more clearly in darkmode on mobile since they're a bit lossy around the edges.

A phoenix.

Bongo drums.

A Valheim house. Because GWJ will always be a warm place with the door open <3

(potential reference image like the left house below)
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Certis wrote:

A phoenix.

Who’s Certis? Whoever he is, this phoenix is a pretty good idea.

I also love bongo drums! and peace signs! but maybe the two fingers rather than the circle with lines.

A not-at-all-phallic golden rocket. The kind that important people ride into space and that don't look like props from an Austin Powers movie.

How about an hourglass to celebrate all the great games that have brightened up many Sands worth of our time.
I like the house idea too.

I hereby nominate the bananadog.

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A Bottle Rocket

Taking inspiration from a google search of phrases containing "gold" [1] [2] [3]:

Gold teeth (a full-on grill?)
A gold mine
Heart of gold
Pot of gold (a yellow hemp leaf? )
Gold digger (er, maybe not)
Golden ticket (Willie Wonka style?)
Gold medal
Gold bar
Gold nugget
Gold Ore (a block, Minecraft style)

Let's bring things back to the whole "with Jobs" conceit of the site. Lots of "work from home" stuff has suddenly become very relevant to modern life.

My nomination: A golden webcam.

EDIT: Apparently the webcam made last year's list, so credit to whomever suggested it previously. But I'm on board with pretty much any suggestion that relates to our increasingly WFH world.

EDIT 2: Jesus Christ, apparently the webcam suggester last time was... me. Maybe I should ask for a golden brain, mine's on its way out.

*Legion* wrote:

EDIT 2: Jesus Christ, apparently the webcam suggester last time was... me. Maybe I should ask for a golden brain, mine's on it's way out.

This makes me feel so incredibly normal and I love it! Thank you!!

*Legion* wrote:

EDIT 2: Jesus Christ, apparently the webcam suggester last time was... me. Maybe I should ask for a golden brain, mine's on it's way out.

My god, that's amazing.

I'm going to add both golden webcam and golden brain to the poll list anyway

Amoebic wrote:

I'm going to add both golden webcam and golden brain to the poll list anyway :D

Make sure to add asterisks before and after the icon so we know what to vote against.

garion333 wrote:

Make sure to add asterisks before and after the icon so we know what to vote against. ;)

Now I would have expected you to be on board with voting me a new brain.

Would a Golden Toilet be too crude?

mortalgroove wrote:

Would a Golden Toilet be too crude?

Pink Stripes wrote:

I hereby nominate the bananadog.

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My stomach/tastebuds applaud wildly!

I love the idea of including the bananadog, but when rendered as tiny pixel art in two colors, it'll just look like a dumb ol' hot dog

Is last year's list automatically being considered?

If not, I re-nominate:
Game Controller
Headphones

I'll include them, but they'll be at the bottom of the selection list in the survey. The ones suggested this year will be at the top of the list so re-voting them will move them closer to the top of the list!

What on earth is the Year 7 icon supposed to be? I've never known. Superhero Owl?

I think it's a portal companion cube? ?? ?

Well I would never have guessed that in a thousand years!

I always thought it was the Princess Mononoke mask.

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Year 7, the Golden Rorschach.