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  1. Welcome back to the mixing zone, my fellow SpongeBobbies, for the 17th edition of the SBC Community Mixtape! I hope y'all are ready for the Day of Black Sun today, but while the US is looking to the sky for the upcoming eclipse, we're once again firing up the good old PokeBlock blender of music to make our next combined concoction. This time, it's going to be with one of our most out-there themes yet, as we'll be...

    ROCKIN' THE BOWERY

    Allow me to introduce all of you to a little hole in the wall, previously located at 315 Bowery in NYC's East Village, called CBGB. Or, rather, I'll let the main character from the 2009 movie Bandslam explain:

    "CBGB: the nerve center of everything that mattered in music in the past 40 years. [...] Birthplace of punk! The Ramones, Patti Smith... Do you know how many times she must have spit on this floor? Bad Brains... Without CBGB, there'd be no Sex Pistols or The Clash, so U2 doesn't get inspired to form a band in Ireland. And the Killers don't hear U2 in Vegas, and decide to pick up guitars... The list is endless!"

    More to the point: CBGB was a famed music club in NYC that was the epicenter of punk and new wave. Just about every band you can think of from those particular scenes played there at some point. It closed in 2006, and has since been turned into a men's fashion store, but the music lives on.

    Can you tell where I'm going with this? The assignment for everyone this time is to find and add songs by artists that are known to have played at CBGB during its over 40-year lifespan. That list of artists is quite extensive, and to that end, I've taken the time to document them in the spoiler tab below:

    Spoiler

    This list of artists is taken from the most comprehensive source I could find, an archive site called CBGB Online. Since this catalogues every single band that's played at the club, many of them acts local to NYC, a lot of these will be far more obscure than others.

    This also may not be a fully comprehensive list. If there's an artist you want to add who isn't in this list, but who you can find evidence of having performed at CBGB, let me know.

     

    10,000 Maniacs
    3 Doors Down
    7 Year Bitch
    11th Dream Day
    AC/DC
    Afghan Whigs
    Against Me! - taken by Steel
    Agnostic Front
    Alan Jackson
    Alan Lanier
    Alex Chilton
    Alkaline Trio
    Angry Samoans
    Ani DiFranco
    Annie Golden
    Anthrax
    Atari Teenage Riot
    The B-52s
    Babes In Toyland  
    Baby Moon
    Bad Brains
    Bad Religion
    Bark Market
    Battalion of Saints
    Beastie Boys
    Ben Taylor
    Better Than Ezra
    Big and Rich
    Big Dipper
    Big Fat Pet Clams From Outer Space
    Billy Bragg
    Billy Corgan
    Biohazard
    Birdland
    The Black Crowes
    Black Jack Train
    The Bloodless Pharaohs
    Blondie
    Blues Traveler
    Body Count
    Borbetormagus
    Boredoms
    Boss Hog
    Breakfast Club
    The Breeders
    The Bronx
    Bruce Dickinson
    Bruce Springsteen
    Burn It Down
    Bush
    Bush Tetras
    Butthole Surfers
    Camper Van Beethoven
    Cardinal Woolsey
    The Cars
    Certain General
    Cheap Trick
    Cheap Perfume
    Chocolate Genius
    Chris Cornell
    Chris Stamey
    Chris Whitley
    Chrome Cranks
    Cibo Matto
    Circle Jerks
    Circus of Power
    CIV
    CKY
    Clutch
    The Colors
    Come
    Contortions
    Cop Shoot Cop
    Corrosion of Conformity - taken by Hawk
    Cowboy Junkies
    Cracker
    The Cramps
    Crisis
    Cro-Mags
    Crossfire Choir
    Crowded House
    Crumbsuckers
    The Cryers
    D Generation
    The Damned
    Dandy Warhols
    Dashboard Confessional
    Dave Matthews Band
    David Byrne
    David Johansen
    Davy Jones
    Dead Boys
    Dead Kennedys
    Dead Milkmen
    Deaf School
    Deadspot
    Defex
    Delinquents
    The Devil Wears Prada
    The Dickies
    The Dictators
    Didjits
    Dinosaur Jr.
    Disturbed
    Divine
    DNA with Arto Lindsay
    Don Caballero
    Down by Law
    Dream Syndicate
    Drive In Cryin
    Dripping Goss
    Drunk Tank
    Dumptruck
    Eddie Paul and the Make
    Eddie and the Hot Rods
    Eddie Vedder
    Edith Massey
    Elephant's Memory
    Elvis Costello
    Erasers
    Eruogression
    Everclear
    Eyehategod
    Face to Face
    False Prophets
    Fastball
    The Fat Lady Sings
    The Feelies
    Fiction Plane
    Fight
    Fire Bug
    Fishbone
    Fish Dog
    Flaming Lips
    Fleshtones
    Flipper
    Flyleaf
    Foetus
    Fossil
    Fuel
    Gang of Four
    Gavin Rossdale
    Geezer Butler
    George Thorogood  
    Georgia Satellites
    Giant Sand
    Giant Metal Insects
    Gibson Bros
    Gin Blossoms
    Girls Against Boys
    Glass Jaw
    Glen Buxton
    Go Betweens
    God is My Co-Pilot
    Godsmack
    Goldfinger
    Goo Goo Dolls
    Good Charlotte
    The Good Rats
    Gorilla Biscuits
    Government Issue
    Great Kat
    Green Apple QS
    Green Day- taken by Steel
    Guns N Roses
    Gumball
    The Gun Club
    Guster
    Hank Williams III
    Happy Mondays
    Headhunters
    The Heartbreakers
    Helen Wheels
    Helmet
    Henry Rollins
    Heroine Sheiks
    The Hives
    Hole
    Ian McCullough
    Ice-T
    Indigo Girls
    In Flames
    Interpol
    Iron Prostate
    J Masics
    Jackyl
    The Jam
    James Blood Ulmer
    Jayne County
    Jayhawks
    Jawbox
    Jeff Buckley
    Jello Biafra
    Jesse Malin
    The Jesus Lizard
    Jim Lauderdale
    Jimmie Dale Gilmore
    Joan Jett
    Joan Osbourne
    Joe Cool
    Joe Jackson - taken by Rebel
    John Belushi
    John Cale
    Johnny Thunders
    Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
    Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
    Judge
    Juliana Hatfield
    Karen Black
    Kiss It Goodbye
    KMFDM
    The Knack- taken by Rebel
    Korn
    Kustomized
    L.A. Guns
    Laughing Dogs
    Laughing Hyenas
    Laura Branigan
    Leeway
    Lemonheads
    Leningrad Cowboys
    Lenny Kaye
    Letters to Cleo
    Libertines
    Life, Sex, and Death
    Life of Agony
    Linda Potatoes
    Lisa Loeb
    Live  
    Living Colour - taken by Hawk
    Liz Phair - taken by Hawk
    The Lordz
    Lou Reed
    Love Spit Love
    Luscious Jackson
    Ludichrist
    Lunachicks
    Lungfish
    Lush
    Lydia Lunch
    Madonna
    Manic Street Preachers
    Marianne Faithfull
    Marshall Crenshaw - taken by Rebel
    Material Issue
    Matisyahu
    Matt Haimovitz
    Matthew Sweet
    Meat Puppets
    Medeski Martin and Wood
    Medicine
    Melvins
    Mekons
    The Miamis
    Michael Cerveris
    Michael McDermott
    Michelle Shocked
    Mickey Dolenz
    Mighty Joe Young
    Mighty Mighty Bosstones
    Milk 'N' Cookies
    Milkwood
    Mindless Self Indulgence
    Mink DeVille
    The Misfits
    Missing Foundation
    Miracle Legion
    Modern English
    Moltov Cocktail
    Monster Magnet
    Mr. Big
    The Muffs
    Mule
    The Mumps
    Murphy's Law
    Nada Surf
    Napalm Death
    Nausea
    Nervus Rex
    Neurosis
    New Found Glory
    Nico
    The Nitecaps
    Norma Jean
    Nuclear Assault
    The Offspring
    Orchestra Luna
    Orangutang
    Our Lady Peace
    P.O.D.
    Pachinko
    Paley Brothers
    Patti Smith (Group) - taken by Steel
    Pavement
    Paw
    Pearl Jam
    Penny Wise
    Pete Yorn
    Pere Ubu
    Peter Tork
    Phantom Planet
    Pinball
    Pitchblend
    Pixies
    P.J. Harvey
    The Planets
    Plasmatics
    The Police
    Pond
    Poptart Monkeys
    Poster Children
    Prong
    Protein
    Psychedelic Furs
    Psycho Nurse
    Puddle of Mudd
    Pussy Galore
    Quicksand
    Queens of the Stone Age - taken by Prez
    Radiohead
    Raging Slab
    Railroad Jerk
    The Ramones
    Rana
    Rancid
    Rat At Rat R
    Ray Manzarek
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - taken by Steel
    Reducers
    The Replacements - taken by Rebel
    Revelons
    Ric Ocasek
    Ricanstruction
    Richard Hell and the Voidoids  
    Richard Lloyd
    Robert Gordon
    Rocket FTC
    Rods and Cones
    Rollins Band
    Romantics
    Ronnie Spector
    Rooney
    The Roots
    Royal Crescent Mob
    Rudies
    Rufus Wainwright
    Runaways
    Rusted Root
    Sahara Hot Nights
    Say Anything
    Scratch Acid
    Screamin' Jay Hawkins
    Sea Monster
    Sean Lennon
    Sebadoh
    Seed
    Sense Fail
    Sense Field
    Sham 69
    Shadows Fall
    Sheena and the Rokkets
    The Shirts
    Shoenan Knife
    Shooter Jennings
    Shrapnel
    Shwayze
    The Sic F*cks
    Sirsy
    Six Finger Satellite
    Sixpence None the Richer
    Skeleton Key
    Sketchbook
    Sleater-Kinney
    Sloan
    Slowdive
    Smash Mouth
    Smithereens
    Smoker Craft
    Social Distortion
    Soilent Green
    Solution AD
    Sonic Youth
    Soul Asylum
    Soul Coughing - taken by Prez
    Soundgarden
    Southern Culture
    Spacehog
    Spin Doctors - taken by Hawk
    Spinal Tap
    Split Enz
    Squeeze - taken by Rebel
    Staind
    The Star Spangles
    Steel Tips
    Stereophonics- taken by Steel
    Steve Forbert
    The Stilettos
    Still Suit
    The Stray Cats
    The Strokes
    Student Teachers
    Sub-Humans
    Sugar Ray
    The Sugarcubes
    Suicidal Tendencies
    Suicide
    Sum 41
    Swans
    Swerve Driver
    Sylvia Bullet
    Talking Heads
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
    Teenage Fanclub
    Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
    Teitur
    Testors
    They Might Be Giants
    Tish and Snooky
    The Toasters
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    Tom Tom Club - taken by Steel
    Toadies
    Tool
    Too Much Joy
    The Tragically Hip - taken by Prez
    Trashcan Sinatras
    The Treble Boys
    Tripping Daisy
    Tuff Darts
    U.K. Subs
    The Undead
    Unrest
    Unsane
    Urge Overkill
    The Used
    Vanilla Ice
    Velocity Girl
    Velvet Mafia
    The Verve
    The Vines
    The Voidoids
    Voivod
    Volcano Suns
    The Waitresses
    The Walkabouts
    The Wallflowers - taken by Rebel
    Walter Steding
    Waltmink
    Warzone
    The Webb Brothers
    The Wedding Present
    Weezer
    White Zombie - taken by Hawk
    Xray Spex with Pollystyrne
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    Yoko Ono
    Yo La Tengo
    Youth of Today
    The Zero Boys

    The rules:

    • We're going to do this similar to Steel's Obama Block Party, in that, once someone has added at least one song by a given artist to their submissions, that artist is officially claimed, and can't be submitted by anyone else. I'll try and keep track of them in the list above.
    • To balance out the above, you can only have a maximum of six different artists in your submission.
    • Try to post your submissions using a Spotify playlist. If this is not possible for you, at least make sure that all of your submissions are available on Spotify.
    • Joke/troll entries can and most likely will be excluded.
    • No repeat entries (can't submit the same thing as somebody else).

    Tentative deadline for submissions is Saturday, April 13th. Now, can someone show me how to sneak into the secret abandoned CBGB bathrooms?

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  2. 7 hours ago, 4EverGreen said:

    Question, can our submissions include any music actually featured IN a video game, or a movie based on a video game?

    Both, as long as they fit the sound we're talking about!

  3. **** SBCOMMUNITY BASIC ****
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    READY.
    LOAD"THESBCCOMMUNITYMIXTAPE16",8,1:

    SEARCHING FOR THESBCCOMMUNITYMIXTAPE16
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    Hello again, fellow kids, and welcome to the 16th edition of the SBC Community Mixtape! It's been a few months since our last entry, and with it, it's time that we brought this tradition back with a bang. So, as we kick Arcade Anarchy III into motion, what better way to get back into the Mixtape series with a bit of a challenge? By that, I mean that our theme this time is:

    CHIPS AND BITS

    Some of the best soundtracks in gaming history have been powered by the most basic of audio hardware, only capable of outputting simple beeps and white noise. That distinct sound has also given rise to the genre of chiptunes, modern music made using vintage game hardware. Whether it's a chiptune, or a genuine game soundtrack from back in the day, I want all of you to bring the best retro game-sounding music you can think of. Be it from the NES, the Game Boy Advance, or anything in between, this mixtape is all about the essence of 8-bit and 16-bit music, and the kind that captures it in spirit.

    The rules:

    • From now on, we're doing away with fixed total time limits on submissions per person. Just try and not go overboard, is all we ask.
    • Since a lot of submissions here will probably not be on Spotify, we'll be doing this one as a Youtube playlist. That being said, you can make your submissions as either a Youtube playlist of your own, or simply list the songs you want to add in the replies below.
    • Joke/troll entries can and most likely will be excluded.
    • No repeat entries (can't submit the same thing as somebody else).

    Tentative deadline for submissions is next Saturday, March 16th. Until then, I'm off to search for a functioning Bosconian cabinet.

    Spoiler

    HawkbitAlpha:
    *Meganeko & Rymdkraft - Astro Soda
    *rj lake - Cherry Blossom Monster Movie
    *Chipzel - Fighting Chance
    *Chipzel - Courtesy
    *Chipzel - Focus
    *Steve Rowlands - Cyberdyne Warriors Theme
    *Jori Olkkonen - The Purser Stole My Gun (Netherworld C64 Theme)

     

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  4. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, I DECLARE WE MIX SOME MORE! TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT, WHAT DO WE ALL CREATE? THE COMMUNITY MIXTAPE! Now, uh, let me just get out of this here, uh... cheerleader outfit... hang on, y'all-- OKAY! Yes, it's that time again, to throw vinyl records at the wall and see which ones stick, for the 15th edition of the SBC Community Mixtape! Since we've already done a Christmas mixtape before, we're going to take things in a slightly different direction this year. Our theme this time shall be...

    NOSTALGIC HIGHLIGHTS

    Every year, when we start entering into the Christmas season, I have these little flashbacks to prior Christmases, and some of my favorite moments of them in years past. It isn't limited just to the holiday season either; sometimes, if I listen to certain songs, I might get mentally tossed back in time to the period in which I first heard it, like how I first heard albums by Dream Theater and Ok Goodnight while living in a big city for the first time. That's what I want y'all to bring to the table this time: songs that you have some kind of association with nostalgic, or otherwise very memorable moments in your life, holiday-related or not. Whether or not you want to also tell the story behind each of your choices is up to you!

    As always, the rules:

    • Length limits per person: you have a total of 30 minutes worth of music to play with. (This site is great for calculating the times.)
    • Try to post your submissions using a Spotify playlist. If this is not possible for you, at least make sure that all of your submissions are available on Spotify.
    • Joke/troll entries can and most likely will be excluded.
    • No repeat entries (can't submit the same thing as somebody else).

    Tentative deadline for submissions is this Saturday, December 30th. Until then, I'll be looking somewhere for a broadband tree.

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  5. On 11/14/2023 at 12:52 PM, Danny DeVito said:

    is there an EaglebitAlpha

    There have been attempts to make one. Every single time, the resulting bird squawked the phrase "I WILL NEVER BE A BRONY" and flew off, never to be seen again.

  6. ...Wait, where am I? What time is it? Why does this whole room smell purpl-- [sneeze] ...OH YEAH.

    Hello again, everybody! Just, uh, ignore that. That was just some, uhhh... housekeeping. Anyway! This is your friendly neighborhood furry, Hawk, and allow me to welcome y'all back to the 17th Golden Community Awards! You've all told us over the last few weeks just who belongs in the polls for this year's round of celebrating with the island, and with that out of the way, it's time for the part we've all been waiting for: Da Votes! Do you know who all you want to drop a piece of solid gold onto the head of this year? Well, let us know, by sending your ballot to me in DMs!

    THE RULES:

    • Our way of voting will be a little different this time, as we'll be using a ballot form. To vote, please DM me either here or on Discord, and I'll respond to your message by sending a link to the ballot. Please do not directly send me your list of votes, and especially do not post them here.
    • You cannot vote for yourself. If you do, you have to wear the Stinky Boot. (This also applies to anything you've made that was nominated in the Creative Arts categories.)
    • You can vote for only one nominee per category.
    • You must vote for at least one section. You are welcome to skip a section if you’re not comfortable voting in that field, but it would be nice if votes could be given in all categories.

    PRIZES:

    Now, what do you get if you happen to net a GCA? Tell 'em what they'll get, Johnny!

    • 1,000 doubloons
    • 200 experience points
    • GCA Winner badge (if not already obtained from previous years)
    • A trophy with your name and the corresponding category

    With these things in hand, you're free to place them in your profile, on your wall, on a shirt, on a... well, you get the idea. Don't ask me, I don't do fashion or interior design. Now, with all of that said...

     

    DRUM ROLL, PLEASE!

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    ...You're fired, Johnny.

     

    GOLDEN COMMUNITY AWARDS XVII - NOMINEES

     

    MEMBERS

    Funniest Member
    Candidates -- Wumbo, Prez, dman, OWM, Jjs, Cha

    Kindest Member
    Candidates -- Meko, ExKizuna, SOF, Cha, That Excited SpongeKid, Katie

    Spongiest Member
    Candidates -- BobCarotte, Salmon, WinterArcanine, Meko, 4EverGreen, Appy

    Best Gamer
    Candidates -- WinterArcanine, Hawk, ExKizuna, Cha, Jjs Goodman, dman

    Show Stopper
    Candidates -- WhoBob, Katie, Storm, Kev, Jjs Goodman, Clappy

    Geekiest Band Geek
    Candidates -- Prez, Katniss, Kev, SBManiac, Steel, Fred

    Most Artistic Member
    Candidates -- Cha, Salmon, Steel, Nuggets, RDSP, DarknessDG

    Sportiest Member
    Candidates -- Trophy, Clappy, Illiniguy, Katniss, JCM, Prez

     

    CREATIVE ARTS

    Best Creation
    Candidates -- JCMovies (JCM), SpongeBrawl (OMJ), Toast Krusters (OMJ), A Bikini Bottom Dream (Meko), Power Rangers: Multiverse Force (4EverGreen), SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation (Steel)

    Best Miniseries
    Candidates -- Patrick Star in the Multiverse of Madness (JCM), Aquatic Avengers: Unite! (Jjs), One-Time Power Rangers Characters: Where Are They Now? (Ex and Jjs), Community Deathmatch 10th Anniversary (OMJ), MegaloMania (OMJ), Jjs’ Riffing Theater 3000: Tales from the Internet (Jjs and crew)

    Best Episode
    Candidates -- JCM Hunts for Lost Media (JCMovies - JCM), Act V (Parick Star in the Multiverse of Madness - JCM), Unite (Aquatic Avengers: Unite! - Jjs), Squidward Kills The SpongeBob Universe (A Bikini Bottom Dream - Meko), Pau’ana (Tiki Land - Steel), Mutually Assured Destruction (MegaloMania - OMJ)

    Best Comedy
    Candidates -- JCMovies (JCM), Jjs’ Riffing Theater 3000: Tales from the Internet (Jjs and crew), One-Time Power Rangers Characters: Where Are They Now? (Ex and Jjs), A Bikini Bottom Dream (Meko), SpongeBrawl (OMJ), SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation (Steel)

    Best Storyline
    Candidates -- Power Rangers: Multiverse Force (4EverGreen), Patrick Star in the Multiverse of Madness (JCM), Aquatic Avengers: Unite! (Jjs), MegaloMania (OMJ), A Bikini Bottom Dream (Meko), Tiki Land (Steel)

    Best Character
    Candidates -- Manny (MegaloMania - OMJ), Lego Patrick (Patrick Star in the Multiverse of Madness - JCM), JCM (JCMovies - JCM), Squidward (A Bikini Bottom Dream - Meko), Sniz (Total Cartoon - 4EverGreen), Blue Arrow (Aquatic Avengers: Unite! - Jjs)

    Best Artwork
    Candidates -- Spicy (Nuggets), Squid Noir (Cha), Wile E. Coyote (Salmon), Hell (RDSP), What Can You Do? (Steel), Amy Rose (Patty)

    Best Pictionary Drawing
    Candidates -- Turtle (Patty), Feral Friends (Carotte), Out of the Picture (Steel), Ghostbusters (DarknessDG), Planet of the Jellyfish (dman), House Worming (Salmon)

     

    HALL OF FAME

    Honorary Creation
    Candidates -- Pirate Legends (Jjs), Total Cartoon (4EverGreen), MegaloMania (OMJ), The Light of SBC (Jjs), SpongeBob SquarePants: Lost in Translation (Steel)

    Honorary Staff Member
    Candidates -- HawkbitAlpha, OWM, Terminoob

    Honorary Member
    Candidates -- Salmon, Meko, Kevin, Prez, dman

    Honorary Skin
    Candidates -- The Stephen Hillenburg Community (Kieran), The Cosmic Shake Community (Kieran), V13 Sponge (Patty), Orca 8 (tvguy)

     

    The deadline to send in your ballots is Wednesday, December 20th. After that, this entire shindig will conclude with the GCAs XVII awards ceremony on Saturday, December 23rd. Until then, remember that we also have water aerobics at 10:00, shuffleboard on the lido deck, and the taco bar is open 24 hours. Thank you, and I'll see y'all on Discord as the votes come!

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  7. Ready... steady... GO!
     

    Here we are at that time of the year again, folks! (No, not that one. Get that cornucopia outta here before I shoot it!) After yet another action-packed year for those of us on SBC, it's time to begin ramping up to the one event that, much like the Dude's rug, really ties it all together: the 17th edition of the Golden Community Awards!

    Coming off of a season of leading SpongeCraft Frontiers and other chaotic ventures, it was decided that, for 2023, the duty of hosting this year's GCAs shall fall to yours truly: the Bayou Barnstormer himself, HawkbitAlpha! Does that sound good? I hope so, because, right now, I feel like standing on a rooftop shouting out "baby, I'm ready to go!"

    But, of course, our narrator would have to slap me with a fly swatter if we tried to begin so fast. Before anything else, we need to have our nominations for this year's GCAs! There's a few ins, outs, and what-have-yous that go into this process, so how about we go over those now?

    1. Post your nominations in this thread. It's in the interest of Transparency™, of course!
    2. Don’t nominate yourself. C'mon, this is a community! What are you people who'd do this? Senators?
    3. Don’t copy/paste other members' nomination lists. Sure, you'll probably have some of the same choices as others, but no two people will ever have the exact same lists. You can do better!
    4. When nominating, you must do at least one section. Creative Arts is not required, and staff will choose if nobody else nominates in that.
    5. You may nominate between 2 to 5 choices in the Members & Creative Arts sections. You can only nominate 2 candidates for the Hall of Fame categories.
    6. Don’t get upset if you aren’t nominated in this topic. There’s always next year!

    Now, what categories are on the block this year, you might be wondering? Let's find out!


    GOLDEN COMMUNITY AWARDS XVII - CATEGORIES


    MEMBER CATEGORIES


    (Notes: A new category, "Sportiest Member", has been added to recognize users passionate about sports. The former awards of "As Seen on TV" and "Most Cinematic Member" have been combined to create the “Show Stopper” category, for our users most passionate about both television and movies together.)

    Funniest Member
    Kindest Member
    Spongiest Member
    Best Gamer
    Show Stopper
    Geekiest Band Geek
    Most Artistic Member
    Sportiest Member


    CREATIVE ARTS CATEGORIES

    (Originally for SBC stories, this section has now been retooled to also celebrate the community’s works of visual art.)

    Best Creation
    Best Miniseries
    Best Episode
    Best Comedy
    Best Storyline
    Best Character
    Best Artwork
    Best Pictionary Drawing


    (The Best Artwork category refers to works featured in either the #da-art Discord channel or Squidward’s Art Show, while the Best Pictionary Drawing is for any Pictionary drawing archived on the game’s server. For both awards, be sure to link the image and say who was the artist that created it.)

    HALL OF FAME CATEGORIES

    (Note: For this section, you can only nominate 2 for each category. One new category has been added: “Honorary Skins.”)

    Honorary Creation
    (Stories that have had a profound impact on SBC will be nominated.)
    ("Adventures in the Underground City", "Storm Racers", "Jjs' Riffing Theater 3000", "JCMovies", "Team SpongeBob", "SBCinema", "Community Deathmatch", "Mystic Guardians", “My Leg!”, “Skodwarde”, “The Silly Adventures of Patrick Star”, “One-Time SpongeBob Characters” and “Bikini Bottom Nature Watch” have all won this award previously, and cannot be nominated again.)


    Honorary Staff Member
    (Staff members who have had a profound impact on SBC can be nominated. Former staff can also be nominated for this award.)
    (tvguy, jjs, CNF, Wumbo, Nuggets, JCM, Clappy, Patty Sponge, Cha, Fred, teenj and Katie have won this award previously, and cannot be nominated again.)


    Honorary Member
    (For ordinary members who you feel deserve special recognition, whether it be based on behavior, activity, or their contributions in general.)
    (Current staff - jjs, JCM, Hawk, OWM, Trophy, sbl and Aquatic Konquest - cannot be nominated for this award. Cha, WhoBob, SOF, Hawk, sbl, Katniss, Steel and Ex have won this award previously, and cannot be nominated again.)


    Honorary Skin
    (To honor the artwork of our brilliant artists over the years by highlighting impactful forum themes.)
    (Any skin, present or past, is eligible for nomination. Note that any skin with both a light and dark theme will be counted as the same.)


    Everyone has until November 22nd to post their nominations in this thread, but as we always say, the sooner, the better. Let's get the ball rolling and Midas touch this community all the way up, y'all!

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  8. Y'all might have noticed recently that Youtube has been rolling out increasingly aggressive measures to bring the hammer down on browser adblock extensions, including shutting down video playback entirely for people who use them. We've had discussions around here over the last couple of weeks on how to fight back against this, but the message still seems to be moving slowly. So, instead of continuing to just tell individual people what's going on, I'll tell you everything I've gathered recently.

    First order of business: as far as I can tell, the only adblock extension that's still putting up a fight against Youtube is uBlock Origin, which is more advanced than the classic Adblock or AB Plus. That being said, Youtube's system is advancing along with it, and its anti-adblock continues to punch through UBO, forcing its devs to continually update the extension to keep up. At first, in late September, I was told that adding the following set of lines to UBO's filters list would hold Youtube back:

    youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
    youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
    youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
    youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

    ...but more recently, it seems like this no longer works. The new filter I've seen be posted is this one:

    youtube.com#@##YtKevlarVisibilityIdentifier

    After the first filter failed, though, I decided to abandon Opera GX, the browser I've been using for several months. Instead, within the last couple of days, I've moved back to my previous browser Brave, which contains its own internal adblocker that Youtube hasn't been able to touch (at least, not yet). If you're looking for a Chrome-based browser (which, both Brave and Opera GX are) with a powerful adblock system, get Brave, and equip it with uBlock Origin. Short of entirely switching browsers, you might also find some use for a new extension called Youtube Adblock by Friendly, which cheeses the system by just playing Youtube's ads at very fast speed.

    At least, all of that is what I wish I could say and be fully done with it. Sadly, I can't, as we now have to talk about the big problem. Google is apparently going to war with the entirety of adblocking, and it's with that in mind that we need to bring up an impending bomb...

    WEB ENVIRONMENT INTEGRITY:

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    Perhaps the most telling line of the explainer is that it "takes inspiration from existing native attestation signals such as [Apple's] App Attest and the [Android] Play Integrity API." Play Integrity (formerly called "SafetyNet") is an Android API that lets apps find out if your device has been rooted. Root access allows you full control over the device that you purchased, and a lot of app developers don't like that. So if you root an Android phone and get flagged by the Android Integrity API, several types of apps will just refuse to run. You'll generally be locked out of banking apps, Google Wallet, online games, Snapchat, and some media apps like Netflix. You could be using root access to cheat at games or phish banking data, but you could also just want root to customize your device, remove crapware, or have a viable backup system. Play Integrity doesn't care and will lock you out of those apps either way. Google wants the same thing for the web.

    [...]

    Google's document pinky-promises the company doesn't want to use this for anything evil. The authors "strongly feel" the API shouldn't be used to uniquely fingerprint people, but they also want "some indicator enabling rate limiting against a physical device." In the "non-goals" section, the project says it doesn't want to "interfere with browser functionality, including plugins and extensions." That's a veiled reference to not killing ad-blockers, even though the project mentions better advertising support as some of its goals. Chrome already has a "kill ad blockers" plan anyway (or at least "watered-down ad blockers" plan). It's called Manifest V3, which will change the way critical extension APIs work so they can't modify webpage content as effectively. Google also says it doesn't want to "exclude other vendors" from its DRM scheme.

    What this means, in short, is that there's a very real chance that any browser based on Chromium can be completely crippled and unable to adblock in the near future. This includes Chrome, Edge, Opera (GX), and sadly, even Brave. In the event that this happens, the browser of last resort will have to be none other than Firefox armed with uBlock Origin, and I'm already installing it on all of my devices in advance.

    I'm gonna keep using Brave for now and see how it holds up into the future - and dear god, I hope it continues to stand up against this push of BS by Google. In the meantime, if I come across any updates or useful info relating to this, especially with regards to the Youtube anti-adblock push (i.e. new filter strings), I'll be sure to post them here.

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  9. Hello one, hello all! It's time once again for the next entry of the SBC Community Mixtape, our continuing exercise in finding out how many PokeBlocks you can make out of a collection of Spotify playlists... I think that's what it's supposed to be, anyway. As I'm sure you gathered from the title, this time, we're going for a second entry themed to the spookiest time of year. Last year, we stuck directly to the themes of nightmares and other haunts, but this time around, I'm thinking we should try something a little bit different:

    TRACK OR TREAT

    Do you happen to plan on going out trick-or-treating this Halloween? Well, even if you don't, pretend for a minute that you will. Think about what character you'd want to be dressing up as for that night on the town. Once you've decided on that, here's your challenge: come up with a playlist of songs that would be a great "soundtrack" for your character. Songs that could play over it as you, let's say, power walk right toward the camera in a movie, "O-Ren in Kill Bill" style. Be sure to also tell us (preferably in your playlist title) what the character you've chosen happens to be!

    As always, the rules:

    • Length limits per person: you have a total of 30 minutes worth of music to play with. (This site is great for calculating the times.)
    • Try to post your submissions using a Spotify playlist. If this is not possible for you, at least make sure that all of your submissions are available on Spotify.
    • Joke/troll entries can and most likely will be excluded.
    • No repeat entries (can't submit the same thing as somebody else).

    Tentative deadline for submissions is this Saturday, October 21st. Now, please excuse me while I try and fail to look for a good Papa Titan costume.

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  10. Gather round, all of you potential unconventional conventionists, because it's about time we usher in Octerror Fest with the return of a classic event: the SBC Movie Night, or as we can call it this time, the SBC Fright Night. Now, what flick should rise to the occasion this year for the spookiest of all seasons? Allow me to take you over to the Frankenstein palace, for one night of...

    THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW - the very deranged, very queer, and truly amazing horror-comedy-musical from the mid-70s that first introduced the world to Tim Curry. After 50 years, this movie still continues to draw crowds of devoted fans into midnight theaters across the world, and I say it's time that SBC gets its own taste of the hot patootie this weekend.

    This is one rare movie that lives on audience participation, so I recommend looking up how to indulge in the fun in advance. In other words, put on your best dancing shoes and get ready to do the Time Warp this Saturday night, October 14th!

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