A thank-you to Protoguy

Narv · Thu May 14, 2020 9:16 pm

Hey all, hope you're all enjoying the nostalgia blast - seems like overall people kinda like this which is super cool to see.

But I can really take very little credit for anything original at all here. The special Plaza look we've all been missing is really the work of many hardworking people of eras past - in particular John Howe for his frame art and, of course Protoguy for the icons and other art that were and are such an important part of the Plaza!

So this thread is just for shouting out Protoguy for generously letting us use those again - without them I probably wouldn't even have bothered with the rest honestly. And also, if people would like to show their appreciation in a more concrete form, Protoguy has a PayPal at protoguy11 [at] yahoo [dot] com where you can send him a tip if you feel so inclined (you'll need a PayPal account if you choose to do that).

That's all - happy plazaing

Uruva · Thu May 14, 2020 9:39 pm

Sent something to him.

I highly encourage this if you are able to spare something. Protoguy is an artist (a great one at that) and I'm sure many of you know that artists are often asked to work for free or very little by those who undervalue their labor or don't realize that it as much (or more) a career as it is a hobby. I'm sure it would mean a lot to him to know that we recognize his work as an artist.

Of course not everyone has the cash to spare, especially in these crazy times. None of us expect it, least of all Protoguy. But those that do, please consider!

Moriel · Thu May 14, 2020 9:44 pm

Peeg I don't know if you're going to read this or not but THANK YOU SO MUCH for allowing Narv/us to use your art! Visually it's really what makes the plaza the plaza. Sending some appreciation :D

Ta'leus Shieldsong · Fri May 15, 2020 12:16 am

I'm so thankful he let us use the icons again! I'll try and see if I can send him anything.

The Elf Imperishable · Fri May 15, 2020 1:36 am

Thank you so so much, Peeg! *goes off and sends him money*

Burnt Toast · Fri May 15, 2020 3:00 am

Many thanks, Peeg!

And thanks, Narv, for all your work-- and posting this here so we can thank and tip as able.

Nienna · Fri May 15, 2020 9:18 am

Yay, let’s tip Peeg or buy some of his fantastic art works. Thank you, Peegles !

Nia · Fri May 15, 2020 9:38 am

Absolutely awesome to see all the beautiful artwork again. Have spent the last two years regretting not having saved a single screenshot of the website I loved so much. THANKS PEEG!!! Please treat yourself to a lockdown beverage on me (once I've remembered how to log into paypal).
[edit: that was actually much more straightforward than I was expecting - done!]

Peeg · Fri May 15, 2020 5:46 pm

WELL MET!!

First of all - thank you so much for the tips/donations/being awesome! You guys are the best, as always!
Plaza peeps are the main reason the Plaza is an amazing place and now once again Plaza peeps are the reason the Plaza is even alive. I think this is it's 4th or 5th re-build/reincarnation.

It's funny, I've always been bugged by the Main page's color scheme, but anything else would be wrong and bad and I'd be the first to petition back to puke Ochre, brown and manilla folder beige.

Love you guys!!

ps., The Hobbit movies are turrible *runs

Reikon Suchi-ru · Fri May 15, 2020 5:47 pm

Peeg wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 5:46 pm WELL MET!!

First of all - thank you so much for the tips/donations/being awesome! You guys are the best, as always!
Plaza peeps are the main reason the Plaza is an amazing place and now once again Plaza peeps are the reason the Plaza is even alive. I think this is it's 4th or 5th re-build/reincarnation.

It's funny, I've always been bugged by the Main page's color scheme, but anything else would be wrong and bad and I'd be the first to petition back to puke Ochre, brown and manilla folder beige.

Love you guys!!

ps., The Hobbit movies are turrible *runs

Ahhhh it's a Peeeeeeeeeg! *glomps*

Mojo · Fri May 15, 2020 5:54 pm

Peeg wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 5:46 pm ps., The Hobbit movies are turrible *runs

Why are you running? This is fact.

Reikon Suchi-ru · Fri May 15, 2020 5:59 pm

Yeah that is not a controversial statement haha.

Eléowyn · Fri May 15, 2020 6:04 pm

Peeg!!! So glad to see you! The Plaza owes so much to you. Thank you!

Peeg · Fri May 15, 2020 6:04 pm

I knew I was right to believe in you guys :)

Burnt Toast · Fri May 15, 2020 6:08 pm

Yay! Welcome back! Er... Re-back? It's not really back since it isn't what it was, but it kind of is.

WAIT HOLD THE PHONE WHERE IS THE BUTT EMOTICON

was it, right?

EDIT: I should have known that would make a moon. It was a mooning emoticon.

Eldy Dunami · Fri May 15, 2020 7:24 pm

Mor Toast wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 6:08 pmIt was a mooning emoticon.

This one?

Burnt Toast · Fri May 15, 2020 7:28 pm

No, it turned and it was just a head, and then it's lil smile went up and down a few times after it turned around.

Oof that's a terrible explanation...

Oro · Fri May 15, 2020 7:28 pm

Oak · Fri May 15, 2020 8:12 pm

Thank you so much Peeg for letting us use your beautiful icons. Then they redid the Plaza, it, well, wasn't quite the same.

Fairy Nuff · Fri May 15, 2020 8:53 pm

Thank you Peeg, your art is as always so full of character, it is the flavour of the Plaza. I licked it, it doesn't taste the same without it.
Glad to see your face here :)

Galadrihell · Fri May 15, 2020 9:21 pm

Peeg wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 5:46 pm
...
Love you guys!!

ps., The Hobbit movies are turrible *runs

We love you too, not least because you’re completely right about that.

Thank you.

Winddancer · Fri May 15, 2020 9:34 pm

Thank god there was no kilt..

Thanks PG!

Donrufie · Fri May 15, 2020 9:49 pm

(deep breath)

........PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG!

Hi :smiley8:

Narv · Fri May 15, 2020 9:51 pm

Nice to see you here Peeg, and thank you again - if it wasn't for you, I would have had to spend the last 3 weeks of free time doing like.. exercise, or bettering myself in some way.

FireroseArien · Fri May 15, 2020 9:52 pm

PEEG!!!!! Good to see you again - hope you are doing well!

Peeg · Sat May 16, 2020 12:18 am

ALLO! All the old faces! Literally lol
Hard to believe it's been almost 20 years.

Moriel · Sat May 16, 2020 12:23 am

Hooray Peeg!! Welcome!!

My 16th Plazaversary went by last month... it's a trip

Oak · Sat May 16, 2020 12:26 am

Peeg wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 5:46 pm Love you guys!!

ps., The Hobbit movies are turrible *runs

Agree. The Hobbit Movie gave me the runs. LOL! They were terrible.

Really happy to see you posting on here.

Dis · Sat May 16, 2020 2:07 am

Peeeeg! So glad to see you here! I agree about the hoppit movies. The Dwarves looked stupid and the whole Tauriel subplot was puke. I actually have not seen the third installment. I see lots of familiar names in here. It's been so long ago that I don't even know the year I joined.

Oak · Sat May 16, 2020 2:36 am

Yes what's with Bifur having an ax in his head? And the Dwarves hair and beards were just bizarre.

Peeg · Sat May 16, 2020 5:23 am

Yeah, I haven't seen the third one and only saw parts of the second. My daughter keeps sending me Snaps of the awfulness. The only thing I enjoyed was Beorn. Everything else was like what old people think nerds like in their Middle Earth soap opera. "Hey! Can you destroy my heroes and wipe your butt with my childhood? Sweet, thanks PJ."

Lirimaer · Sat May 16, 2020 12:03 pm

And Peeg explains the second reason why most people originally came to the Plaza - to moan about PJ.

(The first being to fawn over Legolas, obvsly!)

Nice to see you Peeg.

Lealnemarr · Sat May 16, 2020 2:38 pm

Thank you, Peegie-poo!

Your money bag has been sent a wee gift. :)

Narv, you're up next-- did you have a PayPal set up?

DEATH · Sat May 16, 2020 2:49 pm

Peeg wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 12:18 am ALLO! All the old faces! Literally lol
Hard to believe it's been almost 20 years.

Figured I'd quote a short one. It's good to see you here, PG. You are loved.

You can't kill Rock 'n' Roll.

Oro · Sat May 16, 2020 5:52 pm

Ohh forgot to post early, It’s great to see you PG thanks for all the hard work and the memories you created for all of us.

Oak · Sat May 16, 2020 5:53 pm

We need to give Peeg his very own special Icon. He made the Plaza what it is with its beautiful icons and art.

Dimcairien Luiniel · Sat May 16, 2020 8:54 pm

I love having my phial back. Thanks for letting us use your beautiful artwork @Peeg
@Oak Yes! I have no talent for that, but he deserves a special rank.

Shivased · Sun May 17, 2020 1:21 am

Peeg, even if you never read this, THANK YOU!!! It is so wonderful to see the old icons and images. I missed my lovely horses!

Oak · Sun May 17, 2020 2:11 am

Dis wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 2:07 am Peeeeg! So glad to see you here! I agree about the hoppit movies. The Dwarves looked stupid and the whole Tauriel subplot was puke. I actually have not seen the third installment. I see lots of familiar names in here. It's been so long ago that I don't even know the year I joined.

Where a vomit smiley when I need one. I hated the Taurel deal. If they wanted females, why not a female Dwarf? That would have been interesting.

Dimcairien Luiniel · Sun May 17, 2020 2:42 am

Oak wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 2:11 am Where a vomit smiley when I need one. I hated the Taurel deal. If they wanted females, why not a female Dwarf? That would have been interesting.

I know! I would have greatly preferred that.

Baingíl Randír · Sun May 17, 2020 2:49 am

@Oak perhaps this smiley might do?

Oak · Sun May 17, 2020 2:52 am

That one will work

Galadrihell · Sun May 17, 2020 6:24 am

Pallador · Thu May 21, 2020 3:32 pm

I didn’t absolutely hate the Hobbit movies. That being said, to be honest I have to say that I didn’t love them either. I guess part of the problem was (1) that they tried to make another freaking trilogy, and out of a book that had maybe enough material for one film. (2) It definitely wasn’t canon. However, each of the three films had moments that were fine. While I still have my original DVD copies of LOTR, and even upgraded to Blu-ray, I’ve never purchased copies of the three Hobbit movies, so that should tell you something there.

Liläth · Thu May 21, 2020 4:40 pm

Am I the only one who thought there was just one Hobbit movie??? just me? ok...

Moriel · Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:40 pm

Hey everybody!!

As you may have noticed, the admins now have shiny new faces. There was quite a but of discussion about the idea of admin icons when Nu Plaza first appeared, including among the admin team once elected, so we wanted to let you in on our reasoning for deciding to use them.

1. Support a long time plaza artist, @Peeg. We commissioned the icons from him, and they are as gorgeous as expected! If anyone wants to send some extra love Peeg's way, you can tip him via PayPal at protoguy11 [at] yahoo [dot] com . We are so grateful for his generosity in letting us use all his art that makes the Plaza look like the Plaza!

2. Make it clearer, visually, who the admins are when looking at the forum. As we continue to grow, and with the prospect of admins changing each election, we felt it was important for members to be able to quickly identify the team.

@Narv elected to stay with his Cave Troll icon, and we thank @Lirimaer for adding the Admin text to it!

That's it! Thank you again Peeg.

*Sil and Tara are giant trolls you have been warned

Lychfield Ghoul · Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:23 pm

I already thought something looked different. Looks great!

Lirimaer · Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:43 pm

I love them! Although my jaw dropped at Narv's! I thought only @Oak and I had seen it!

Y'all look gorgeous. I'm glad you have decided to choose characters you like, which are different! Great job!

Also Tara

Dwim · Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:44 pm

Wooo spiffy looking icons!

Lailyn · Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:25 am

They are lovely and you've chosen some neat characters! Peeg did a wonderful job as always.