Hello GUNners and GUNettes
Hope the easter bunny brought you clarity and peace of mind
and lots of sweets and treats too, of course heheh  

Today we're putting up to public choice whether you'd prefer one of three event themes for us to develop over a few weeks during the month of May.

First option: in honoring "The Fourth of May" - international day of Star Wars
the 40th year anniversary and celebration of the Star Wars saga
the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront 2 game by DICE
the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
and all previous movies and games of the series,
we could respark last year's STAR WARS EVENT

Admittedly, last year's event lasted the entire month, which sort of dragged on for too long and people were getting tired of it by the end. But this year it would only last 2 weeks or so, to avoid the same over-saturation.

Second option: to include and respect the Star Wars theme, but add some more variety to it, we thought we would go with an overall SCI-FI THEME, of all space-faring and alien-blasting media: Star Wars, Star Trek, Mass Effect, Halo, Warframe, Eve Online, Firefall, Defiance, X-COM, and more

Third option: in honoring military observance days such as:
May 8: VE Day (Celebrates victory in European theater WW2)
May 20: Armed Forces Day
May 29: Memorial Day
we would go with a realistic trenches, soldiers, ww2, vietnam,
willie's jeep, desert storm, tactical ARMY THEME, with
camouflage and olive drabs uniforms included  

So these are the 3 choices.
We will have our traditional screenshots contest, and perhaps fan-fic and graphics or even cosplay contest to go with whatever theme is the winner. The awards for the contests will be legitimate video games either through Steam, UPlay or Origin.

We won't have two themes at the same time... though the Sci-Fi theme may include all of the Star Wars elements, we wanna know if you want to expand to other sci-fi shows and games, not just the jedi/sith saga, or to keep it as close to the celebrations of May the Fourth as we did last year (though for not as long). And finally we'd like to know if you'd want to go a different direction with some gritty camouflage bad-assery. It's up to you

You'll only have a few days to vote.
Feel free to provide replies with your own arguments to your vote.

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I don't mind any of them. I first voted for Star Wars but cancelled my vote and instead voted for the Military theme. To me it seems a lot more significant to honour the fallen soldiers than it is to theme it around a new video game or movie releasing but that's just me.

As a former military man, active for 7 years (and is the subject matter that I like) military vote

I'd say go for Sci-Fi theme, as it can incorporate both Star Wars and sci-fi military action (XCOM etc).

My vote goes to the Sci-Fi theme and i suggest to include the Deus Ex Franchise in that event.

Or are we trying a mix of themes, like the military Sci-Fi (Starship troopers ....)?
In short it was just an idea like that.

It seems like a tie between sci-fi and military as of now, both very good options in my opinion and i'm torn between chosing one, but for now my vote will go to sci-fi since I love cyber-punk

Easy! Sci-fi.

Sci-fi is really diverse in terms of it's sub-genres. You have things like Cyberpunk, Steampunk, SciFi Horror (Deadspace), Space Opera, and a crap ton more. A Sci-fi event could also include elements from Star Wars too as SW fits into the SciFi genre(s)..

However with military you could include a bunch of cool things too. Things like Navies from way back in the times of Athens and Sparta or as far as space ships and ship to surface troops. Cool choices but in the end it will either be ground vehicles, ships, aircraft, guns and/or infantry..

overall sci fi theme in my opnions would work the best

I love my Sci-fi. Anything out of this world is great. I didn't know we did events here. Good to hear!

We should do an armed forces theme, we've done sci-fi and star wars already, it would be kinda neat to have the Army theme.

The Sci-Fi theme would fit the site pretty well, adding the variety to keep it fresh. A whole month of just Star Wars can definitely tire out the people who aren't die hard fans.

The military theme is a cool idea, I know a few buddies that love hearing when respect is shown for members of the services even if they don't come here.

#2/#3 IMO.

Being a Army Vet myself, of course I had to go with Army theme.
Really cool choices to pick, I'll be happy with whatever gets the most votes.

DVAted wrote:

that's just the way the cookie crumbles

hehe.. that sounds familier... bruce allmighty?

well personly i would like to see a sci-fi theme instead of military theme. personly i think there is already enough military days in the year, so we could have a sci fi themed time for once. the good thing is it can be everything, from blade runner to stargate, to aliens and so on.

I am inclined to agree with the poster above. I don't have anything against military oriented stuff, and I wouldn't mind a mix of both themes. However, I know these veterans had their fair share of going through hell and what not to make us live with the so-called 'freedoms' available to us and be thankful for such sacrifices they offer on the battlefield, but quite frankly I think it's times like these when the internet should get a break from all this stuff.

I'm not saying we shouldn't have military themed styles at all, but the way I hear about Veteran's day and Armed Forces day taking place in the US, it's,,, kind of a political reason of stress for me, also in my opinion, it wouldn't be the time or place to commemorate in such things when we obviously live in an already fucked up world as it is, there's nothing to be proud of when it comes to war and you're forced to do something you don't like. No I don't hate America, but I think I've seen enough patriotism as it is in the real world. I won't elaborate since we're not allowed to discuss politics on here, and I don't intend to offend anyone on this. Message me on Steam or elsewhere if you want to find out more.

Not to mention not every single member on this forum is American. If that's what the majority wants, I won't object. But personally, knowing there can't be a mix since those as DVA would say, are rather 'sensitive' to such material in the modern days of war IRL, I may as well just cast my vote for the sci-fi theme.