Update 7:35PM PT: It appears that Google has relented and is now offering email on the free edition? Will confirm.

Update 5/17 1:14PM PT: I think we've gotten onto the newly updated free plan that includes email. So I think we're good to stay as-is!

This post will be deleted tomorrow.

(This message is for super-old staff who might come by the website every once in awhile regarding an old service. This message does not affect forum accounts or anything regarding the website.)

Sadly, Google is dropping their free version of Google Workspaces. After 15 years (Jan 2007) since originally being "Gmail for Domains", we are being unceremoniously kicked to the curb. The good news is that it appears that most of you have not logged into your starmen.net email in years, in which case if you have already migrated away, just know that all the old data will be deleted.

If you are still using your starmen.net email, and I haven't contacted you about potential redirect options, please email my username at starmen.net. If you are a previous user and you want a redirect setup, please email me also. Note that the best option is to migrate away from using your starmen.net email since it will continue to get complicated from here.

If you are using your starmen.net Google account for email, calendars, Google Drive, and Google Docs, that data will be deleted around the end of the month, so please be sure you have backups! You can login and use Google Takeout to download all your old information.

Data for YouTube and Android will not be deleted. Google Support has told me you can still continue to login, use those services, and that data will not be deleted.

Hello and welcome to a front page update! It's been awhile, eh?

I am here today to announce the results of the 2021 Holiday Funfest! I know you have all been waiting eagerly and the staff thanks you for your patience! Before scrolling down, I just want to thank all of our wonderful staff and volunteers who assisted with bringing this event together via judging, hosting, streaming, etc. We definitely appreciate all the work you have done to keep this tradition alive. Please consider leaving them a kind word or two as this is not easy to put together, as you can imagine!

Thank you for your time and without further ado, let us announce the winners!

Writing:

In Third Place:

• Winters

  • by epoch5zz
  • .post

  Here is my entry, thanks for the extra time for getting stuff together!

In Second Place:

• Heist for Giraffes

  • by asterika
  • .post

  Here’s my very belated entry! Couldn’t finish it because life got in the way...

In First Place:

• Good and Evil

  • by StarstorMew
  • .post

  This text discusses “good” and “evil” as portrayed in the MOTHER series.

Compart:

In Third Place:

• SK’s Christmas

  
  • by Squirrel King
  • .png

  I made a bunch of EarthBound-style sprites for a character I thought up a...

In Second Place:

• EB Comic

  
  • by I_SO_ONETT
  • .png

  . . .

In First Place:

• A Very Saturn Christmas

  
  • by Hammer7
  • .jpg

  Here’s a submission I made in Blender

Handart:

In Third Place:

• Poo Does Endurance...

  
  • by Unassuming Local Guy 321
  • .jpg

  . . .

In Second Place:

• Empire Porky Hideout

  
  • by pio_dov
  • .jpg

  Who’s idea was it to turn the Empire Porky Building into a guinea pig hideout????

In First Place:

• Rainy Circle

  
  • by Squirrel King
  • .jpeg

  My artsy grandma suggested that I paint something since I was at her house...

Audiovisual:

In Third Place:

• Christmas Hometown

  • by Retsu
  • .mp3

  Download Flash to see this player.

In Second Place:

• The Beatles x Earthbound!

  • by UltraBolt
  • .zip

In First Place:

• EB Snowy Studio

  • by MaryStarkiller
  • .zip

Thank you so much to all of those who submitted something for this Funfest! You all are the sole reason these events continue to happen and will in the future! Everyone deserves a big ol' pat on the back for your efforts! You made judging hard!

Badges will be handed out in the very near future! I do believe that judges have comments at the ready for the winners, so please be on the lookout for those as well!

Once again, thank you to everyone who help put the Funfest together and all the participants! Thank you for a lovely end to 2021 and let us have a wonderful 2022!

...but the very next day you gave it away.



Welcome back to the ultimate survival game, WHAMAGEDDON.

Once again, I am posting this on the morning of December 1st, and as such am granting all players immunity for the first forty-eight hours, just to make sure folks have time to reveal themselves and familiarize themselves with the rules.

Do you know what today is? Why, it is the Chinese New Year, of course! We here at Starmen have a long history of celebrating the occasion with our handy EarthBound-themed zodiacs! These are loosely based on the actual animals. 2021 is the year of the ox, but to us, it's the year of the Bad Buffalo! We hope all of you buffalos out there have an absolutely wonderful year!

I'm sure you want to see what EB "animal" represents you, so please, just take a glance here!

Be sure to share your animal below!

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart...



Welcome to the ultimate survival game, WHAMAGEDDON. For the first time ever on Starmen.Net! Since I am posting this on the morning of December 1st, I'm granting all players immunity for the first forty-eight hours, just to make sure folks have time to reveal themselves and familiarize themselves with the rules.