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Thoughts, wishes, greetings, thanks . . . this is the occasion, I realised, that would be perfect for such a mishmash from me - and all of you if you wish, right here together.
All in all it was a very good year.
I say 'all in all' because there was a downside - I didn't get to hang out as often as I wanted over here at GTPlanet.
Sometimes a quick cruise to catch up on the site News, sometimes a check on the GT6 AI Hub for further developments, and maybe even sometimes a bit of a read as I browsed through all the great conversations in here - but not as much time as I needed to travel 'The Planet' as I sometimes did in the early years, making threads here there and everywhere, posting pictures like a dervish. So that was the downside, not enough time - but really - in a fast-paced info-world who has time for 'foruming'? (or so the people tweeting, and facebooking, and YouTubing, and googling and txting say - but, whatever.)
The upside is that it was a most excellent year to look back on when I think of the success that the GT6 AI Hub turned out to be - and the many new friends I made playing Gran Turismo using GTPlanet.
If not that GTPlanet has all these tools in place to aid us players the game would be a lack-lustre shadow of a game, hardly playable alone for long.
Thank you, Admins, and all you GT6 mods that also help run online and offline events - you do a great job keeping the place professional, threads under control, and the pace active and enjoyable.
May your season be merry and bright and the New Year ahead one of the best you can have.
I met many new friends this year - @hall90, @MTM79, @nowayback, @WhoosierGirl, @StirlingMoose, @TRL_Andromeda, @Ed_Night - all superlative drivers and the most amazing players world over to ever meet and hang with. To add to the great company @steve nfs , @DisabledRacer and @TheInfamousJEW6 (no slouches behind a wheel either) also joined in to make more than just an acquaintance and become fast friends to rely on.
All the best in the New Year to all of you, and many thanks - and here's hoping you have as merry a holiday season as anyone could wish for.
Yes, I've sent many letters to Santa about your good deeds.
Old friends joined me there, too - the amazing @Vic_Reign, tyrant of Apexland, and the Baron, a great sidekick to have, and I thank you for such great friendship and loyalty - may you have the very best year ahead, and a very merry Christmas - and much appreciation for bearing with my occasional inscrutability and half-wittedness. You guys rock.
There were so many more of you out there in GTPlanet's GT6 landscape that dropped in to help as well as join in the fun, too many to mention - and here's looking at you, too.
Much appreciation this year, too, to @eran0004 and @Giulietta73 who helped launch the GTPlanet Course Maker Help Desk and once again to that InfamousJew who helped out tremendously and was joined by @Diego440 and @SCClockDr who chipped in with great contributions.
Members like this who contribute selflessly to enhance the game for us, who are patient and informative are pure gold at this forum and I was lucky to meet up and work with them this year - making it all the more 2015 a year to remember.
May you all have a wonderful New Year and the very best of the Season.
A huge thanks to the indefatigable @nowcontrol for the tremendous work he does at the Seasonal Forums - it would not be the same without his lead - and it was a successful year for that subforum - always active, always something going on and harmless give and take that only added to the edge of excitement we felt about every new event.
You guys out there tearing up the A-Spec races - @Polsixe, @dddsprayshop, @Dotini, @SVPSkins, @skeagracing, @GTRufus, @coryclifford, @Fuzzi0n, @UltimateLurker, @Mt. Lynx @GTsail290, @Draggon, @RCKakashi14, @shaunm80, @chrisdittmer (who is also a 'GTPlanet Dad' ) @luv2drive, @Wydopen, @CowboyAce57, @Thomas2012, @Racin510s, @JockeP22, @JohnBM01 . . . so many of you I had fun with that the list is very, very long . . . you guys provided great company at the Seasonals, always polite, helpful, and every ready to rock and roll whenever someone slipped the funny coin into the jukebox - you guys made this year great fun, and every visit to the GTPlanet Seasonal Forums one that left me happy to be a member of GTPlanet and thankful we have such a great site that attracts great guys like you.
May you alll have a super New Year ahead of you and the bounty of the Season be rich with its thanks for all you have provided as players and GTPlanet members.
Even if you were just snowmen and melted away as nothing but a memory - the memories are keepers.
But the year of GT6 at GTPlanet was not the only part of a very good forum year - there was also the Photomode Forums where I made many new friends - even with the limited time I spent here, and other Forums such as the . . . wait . . . where am I?
Ah! Yes, the Rumble Strip. The main drag of the planet.
Now here's a huge bunch of people I'd like to reach out and shake hands with - some of them internet buddies going back five years with me.
But I'll do that another time.
Maybe one of you others can take the stage and tell us about your highlights this year at GTPlanet and what it meant to you, and the members that made your day - and maybe take the chance to give a friendly wave to someone who made your visits here the best experience on this inanimate entity we call the social internet.
I'll be back later to embarrass more of my shady GTPlanet friends.
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Nevertheless, I got tagged twice already in this thread. 
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