As you can no doubt tell from my blog header, I'm a fan of Big Rigs. I've yet to have an opportunity to explain my liking for the game, so I saw fit to do it now. A fellow Rigist told me about this video by Aaron Thomas:


I found the video to be very amusing, but for me the video highlighted a lot of misunderstanding regarding Big Rigs (such as the video's comments had several people saying "You're winner!" as opposed to the correct "YOU'RE WINNER !"). So I decided to write this post to clear up any doubt about what is definitely the best game of all time, and perhaps even make some people WINNER in the process. YOU'RE WINNER !

Firstly, for those unaware, a brief description of the game itself.

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Big Rigs (commonly referred to BROTRR for short) is a game released towards the end of 2003. It was developed by a company known as Stellar Stone, known for hiring Russian developers, and published by GameMill, who also published some of Stellar Stone's other games. Big Rigs received many shockingly inaccurate reviews, naming it the "worst game ever",including a 1.0 from GameSpot. However those reviews were anything but the truth, for Big Rigs is, in actual fact, the best game in existence.

Rigism
Rigism is a philosophy (though some consider it a religion) surrounding BROTRR. It teaches that Big Rigs is the most WINNER entity known to man, and that Rigists (followers of Rigism) must love and respect the game, as well as other WINNER games of the same level, and defend these games from the forces of LOSER. It is accompanied by the Book of Rigism, and most Rigists can be found spreading the word from various fansites, mentioned in the Rigism article.

WINNER and LOSER
Inspired by the famous screen that appears when you win a game of BROTRR, Rigism teaches that there are two powerful forces in the world. The first is WINNER, which is the good force. Something WINNER is something of incredibly good value (such as Big Rigs), often capable of blowing people's minds when they interact with it. For example, playing WINNER games like Big Rigs or Superman64. However, the simple act of playing the games is not enough to make someone WINNER. For a person to become WINNER they do not necessarily have to have played BROTRR, as long as they recognise the true greatness of it and other similar games, and show full respect to the Almighty Rig and its followers, they can be considered WINNER.

LOSER is the opposite of WINNER. Not to be confused with any of these definitions of the word "loser" (notice the difference in capitalisation, WINNER and LOSER are in upper-case to make them clearly different from any similar terms), someone who is LOSER is someone who has made it their objective to obliterate WINNERS and destroy the Almighty Rigs.

As well as WINNER and LOSER, there is another status known as "not WINNER". This is the "neutral" phase. A not WINNER person would either have a mixed judgement on Rigism and its teachings, or have never heard of Big Rigs and thus cannot judge it. Or if the high Rigists can't reach a decision as to whether something is WINNER or LOSER, it is given the status of not WINNER.

One can show a gesture of WINNERNESS to someone by presenting them with this:


Or, by saying to them "YOU'RE WINNER !". Note that capitalisation matters. "You're winner!" doesn't generally have the same effect as the upper-case version, though most WINNERS can still understand your meanings and appreciate your gesture. In addition there must be a space between "WINNER" and "!", because Big Rigs has put a space there.

Stell
Stell is the creator of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Stell is currently the most WINNER person there is. The story of Stell says that on a journey of his through mountains in Russia, SunriseW12 (one of the 4 Almighty Rigs) appeared before him and told him he was the chosen one, that he must make the game Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Stell founded the company Stellar Stone in his name, and mandated several WINNER people, including the very WINNER Sergey Titov to develop it according to his WINNER words.

HWSNBN
"He who shall not be named", known as HWSNBN for short, is considered by the Book of Rigism to be the most evil person to walk this earth. His very name strikes fear into the heart of all WINNERS, except for the mighty Stell himself. It is believed that his desire is to eliminate Big Rigs and its following of WINNERS, and turn as many people to the evil side of LOSER to join him in eliminating all traces of WINNER.

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Regarding Aaron Thomas' video, I am a firm believer that the film was edited so that the players' reactions were taken out of context, and this is what I really believe happened:

Aaron Thomas' remark "I think I've learned my lesson. I'm never going to be late again" was cut short. In fact, the full sentence was "I think I've learned my lesson. I'm never going to be late again. Because I'm never going to work again, I'm staying at home to play Big Rigs. YOU'RE WINNER !"

Joseph Dodson was seen banging the keyboard on his head, and then later attempted to drive a knife into his chest before Jeff intervened. The reason he was banging his head on his keyboard is that he was in firm disbelief that he was playing a game so WINNER and thought he was in a dream. He was banging his head on the keyboard to determine whether or not this was actually real or just a dream. He was still in disbelief, having played something so unbelievably WINNER that he then attempted to drive a knife into himself, thinking it was a more effective way than banging his head to see if he was in reality or just a dream world.

Kevin VanOrd was seen at the end hiding in his jacket, rocking backwards and forwards yelling "stop!". After playing Big Rigs for so long and becoming aware of its superior laws of physics, he must have felt his surroundings to be LOSER with their restriction by gravity and was shielding himself from them. The reason he said he didn't want the job is that he wanted to instead work for Stellar Stone and make more WINNER games.

Well, that's all for now, hopefully I've cleared up any misinformation surrounding Big Rigs and Rigism. Now I leave you with some teachings of Rigism:

1. Everyone is WINNER until proven LOSER.
2. You do not need to denounce your original faith in order to become a Rigist.
3. Level 4 is to be kept secret within WINNERs.
4. Violence is not the answer, unless it is to defend all things WINNER.
5. YOU'RE WINNER!