The Black Hawks | Still Winning

[Lord Visoraxus]

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

(Image)

Simple but effective.


Is that all you have, everyone? My eyes aren’t bleeding yet.

[Lord Visoraxus]

(Image)

Simple but effective.


Is that all you have, everyone? My eyes aren’t bleeding yet.

You can put my TBH flag in your flags dispatch if you want.

Also, if you want your eyes to bleed, you should look at that. It's bad.

Or this:

You can put this in your flags dispatch too if you want.

[All Wild Things]

Because when we think of TBH, we think They Bring Hope...

edit: Just found this guy too. Gonna have to look at this web page some more...

[Devi]

Excuse y'all. I was making shitty flags long before it was cool.


I took the time to dig out the full-sized one too, but then figured that NS's compression would just add to the charm

[Numero Capitan]

(Image)

[Bowzin]

sorry but I win, this flag is the result of hard work and years of artistry

[The Noble Thatcherites]

(Image)

sorry but I win, this flag is the result of hard work and years of artistry

That's the flag on the announcement post. Did you make that?

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

(Image)

sorry but I win, this flag is the result of hard work and years of artistry

That's the flag on the announcement post. Did you make that?

Yes he did

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

A dispatch has been assembled of all entries! Apologies for the delay. Entries without a name have been given one unilaterally by me. Judging will now commence. Please view both the The Black Hawks and Ebola Quarantine Zone regions for both halves of the public poll!!!

Since prohibiting cheating in NS polls without making them teeny tiny and hard to participate in is nigh-on-impossible, cheating is instead encouraged. Out-cheat your peers. Cheat to fix the numbers if you want. Follow your dreams.

[Atagait Denral]

I want to let you all know that after subjecting me to your flags, I am not friends with any of you anymore.

[Lord Dominator]

I see that Roavin, among others, got started on the cheating aspect early.

What kind of defenders are you?

[Sweeze]

I see that Roavin, among others, got started on the cheating aspect early.

What kind of defenders are you?

Roavin didnt do any cheating.

[Lord Dominator]

I see that Roavin, among others, got started on the cheating aspect early.

What kind of defenders are you?

Roavin didnt do any cheating.

Idk, feel like at least one of the others is also him

(you get a pass, you're an indy, and thus obviously untrustworthy anyways )

[Eumaeus]

The lesson I'm taking from this is that I need more puppets.

[Lord Dominator]

The lesson I'm taking from this is that I need more puppets.

There's such a thing as enough puppets?

[Miss Bad Life Choices]

Hawks flying with a UFO filled with aliens they helped escape, September 20th 2019

Prepared with tin foil hats and hours of practice of Naruto running, the Black Hawks Naruto ran past the Area 51 Guards and raided The Area 51. It was a tough journey, filled with narrowly escaping the Area 51 guards at times, but The Black Hawks finally met some aliens and helped them escape. Before flying back to their home planet, the aliens shared the top sekrit knowledge of what the fox actually says.

LTN Miss Bad Life Choices, who had this idea while sleep deprived
LTN Lady Dominator
SGT Bjourn
SGT Nabashar
CPL Armaros II
CPL Ezkio
CPL Scottfire
CPL Utsuho
PFC Kurryans Wiggaakelfi

Mercenaries Drexlore & Benjabobaria

[Malphe]

>when the NS area 51 raid is less underwhelming than the real one

[Twobagger]

Yeah. Pretty garden variety op stuff. Shame you deleted the poll.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Yeah. Pretty garden variety op stuff. Shame you deleted the poll.

Must be a pretty strange garden you keep, with aliens and all.

[The Church of Satan]

Yeah. Pretty garden variety op stuff. Shame you deleted the poll.

Real shame there wasn't a hawk parading a sign that said "Clap alien cheeks."

[Lord Dominator]

>when the NS area 51 raid is less underwhelming than the real one

TBH is officially superior to a random mob of people

Yeah. Pretty garden variety op stuff. Shame you deleted the poll.

Real shame there wasn't a hawk parading a sign that said "Clap alien cheeks."

If I had thought of it or someone else had mentioned it I probably would have.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Image courtesy of Atagait

Here is the shit flag I threw together that I am using as the bar for "Unironically terrible"

Flag Contest Results!

Goooooooood evening! Our flag contest was loads of fun, and saw 17 entries, if I counted right. I at least had loads of fun just seeing what people came up with. All that said, I'm sure you all still want to know who won. The contest's judges have finished their voting, and because the voting was very lackadaisical, I have finished figuring out more or less who to call "winners" based on those votes. I will include full judge breakdowns below, but without further ado, here goes the top slots.

Kyrusia's "TBH_Flag_True_Complete_Honest_100_Percent_Perfect_Yes_Burb.png"



"Oh my fucking god my eyes" - Atagait

"It's bad enough at first glance because of the color combinations as well as the shades of those colors but when I actually tried to read the background I got the faintest of headaches." - CoS

"It hurts my face. Not just my eyes. My whole face." - Souls

Khronion's "He sees you" and Lord Visoraxus' "Alert"

Valkyrie's "THE E D G E L O R D of my youth is back bb!"



"The text aside, the aesthetic is consistent throughout the flag. It really looks like some graffiti you'd find in a tunnel somewhere." - Atagait

Despite the intentional attempt to do bad it does look kinda cool with the paint dripping outside the lines like a graffiti artist who, half way through his work said "Why do I bother!? What good is it when art is dead to me now! All that's left for me are upvotes on Imgur!" The only insult (compliment? I'm not sure which this is supposed to be, lol) I can offer is that the way the paint brush used for the wings blends with the white background is a heinous assault on the visual senses." - CoS

"Love the spraypaint aesthetic, fits for tagging. Very traditional TBH flag tbh." - Souls

Jay's "Cosmo" and Valkyrie's "Therapy"

Well, the clear winner of "best at cheating" and thus the official winner of this award is...

Roavin's "Best entry ever."



...With a whopping 579 votes. Congratulations on finding a way to win something while being so bland that no judge bothered to mention it

Attempting to look at legitimate votes, McMannia, Kyrusia, and Eumaeus appear to have done well! Meanwhile, Eumaeus and Devi made valiant efforts to stack the vote as well, but ultimately fell short.

So there you go! These three flags will each be used on at least one tag raid. I do think that Hawks look forwards to weaponizing Kyrusia's eye cancer, actually "tagging" with Valkyrie's paint, and ruining TGW's brand by tagging with their imagery without fear of impersonation charges. Thank you to all entrants for your participation! The dispatch will remain up for all time, so feel free to go find and fly one of the entries any time.

---

What follows are each judge's complete commentary and votes

Objectively not terrible from Best to Worst
"Edgelord of my Youth is back bb" - The text aside, the aesthetic is consistent throughout the flag. It really looks like some graffiti you'd find in a tunnel somewhere.

"Therapy"
Minimalist aesthetic is uniform through the entire flag, text aside.

"Cosmo"
Good horse art, pretty fuckin' gay and that's okay

Objectively shit from worst to best
"Epic"
I hate it
"Alert"
My eyes are bleeding
"He sees you"
Internet explorer, a foam sword, and a horrifying laser-eyed hawk

So bad it's good, or good in a bad way
"TBH_Flag_True_Complete_Honest_100_Percent_Perfect_Yes_Burb.png"
Oh my fucking god my eyes
"Duo"
Dead meme, but the presentation isn't bad.

Honorable mentions because they tryharded to make me hate it
McMannia's entries

Worst Worst
------------------------
1.) Kyrusia's devastating pupil pounding. It's bad enough at first glance because of the color combinations as well as the shades of those colors but when I actually tried to read the background I got the faintest of headaches.

2.) Visoraxus' "Alert" flag. Those shades of red and pink, in such enormous quantities should never ever be together. I regret looking at it in detail.
------------------------
Best Worst

1.) Serboro's edgelord eye pain. Despite the intentional attempt to do bad it does look kinda cool with the paint dripping outside the lines like a graffiti artist who, half way through his work said "Why do I bother!? What good is it when art is dead to me now! All that's left for me are upvotes on Imgur!" The only insult (compliment? I'm not sure which this is supposed to be, lol) I can offer is that the way the paint brush used for the wings blends with the white background is a heinous assault on the visual senses.

2.) Serboro's "Therapy". I actually love the art style. Were this a standard flag contest it would be a strong candidate for 1st place. It could stand to be worse.

Honorable Mentions:

McMannia's "I can make it worse". The sheer number of dabbing in a flag of all things is disturbing both to my eyes and my brain. The fact that the submission itself acknowledges how bad it is is worthy of mention...or shame. Take your pick.

Khronion's "He sees you." The searing gaze of this flag makes me imagine my eyes actually burning out.

My worst worst is:

Kyru's. it hurts my face. Not just my eyes. My whole face.

Honorable mentions: Mcmannia's original was worse than his second attempt. Khron's ....khron's. Alert hurts my eyes, but only my eyes.

My best worsts is:

Kyrie's edgelord. Love the spraypaint aesthetic, fits for tagging. Very traditional TBH flag tbh.

Honorable mentions: Cosmo (cute, charming), tiny (adorable, like a game sprite), therapy (wonderful art, not very flaggy), Epic (I actually find it adorably bad), Duo (it works, it really works)

Misc. Additional mention: AWT's miniature figure flag. It's a chicken with a gun. Actually would be decent as someone's flag, if not award winning. Neither terrible or adorable.

Also, shoutout to Bowin and Kyrie for the original meme!

Bonus Meme for McMannia, from Atagait.

[Serboro]

haha thanks y'all

also shout out to CoS for recognizing what a shit brush default airbrush is. i used to do all my coloring with it ;-;-;-;-;

[Kyrusia]

"Oh my fucking god my eyes" - Atagait

"It's bad enough at first glance because of the color combinations as well as the shades of those colors but when I actually tried to read the background I got the faintest of headaches." - CoS

"It hurts my face. Not just my eyes. My whole face." - Souls

These are all exceptionally apt.