Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and as such, Sactown Royalty has prepared some Kings-themed Valentine's Day cards for you to print out and hand to your loved ones! Enjoy.

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You may have noticed we are more aggressively removing photos and GIFs featuring scantily clad women from our traditional post-win threads. We will continue to do so, and repeat offenders who post these photos and GIFs will meet the Timeout Tapper or, possibly, the Ban Hammer.

This is not about the appeasement of those offended by the photos and GIFs. This is about Sactown Royalty not serving as your personal repository for quasi-porn images. Contrary to what some have tried to argue, you do not have a Constitutional right to post GIFs of jiggly women in the comments of your favorite sports blog. We follow the policies set forth by Vox Media and those additional policies that make sense to us. The post-game thread is a fun tradition that can be fun without ass-shaking GIFs. It's pretty simple.

If you notice an inappropriate photo or GIF in any thread, flag it. Do not comment about how chauvinistic the poster is. Just flag it and move on. The offending poster will be addressed.

What constitutes an inappropriate photo or GIF? If you legitimately don't know, it's probably inappropriate and not worth it.

Everyone's got a clean slate. Be good.

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A quick congratulations to Ash_Ketchup, who rallied to win the Blackout Contest and will be receiving two tickets to tonight's game. We do wish all contestants could go -- those were all exceptional FanPosts.

Thanks to everyone for participating, either as a contestant or voter.

We had 10 entries to the Sactown Royalty Blackout Contest. Instead of cutting that down, we'll let the community pick a winner from the 10 FanPosts. The links are just below this paragraph; the poll is after the jump. The poll ends at 9 p.m. Pacific today. The winner receives a pair of lower bowl tickets for TNT Night at Power Balance Pavilion on Thursday.

Links, in order of entry (FanPost will open in a new window):

baykine
herewestayandrise
Sac555
dbaron3
Schneezel
Kyle_B
CowbellKings
bballkingsrule
Ash_Ketchup
Mike Garza

Vote below the jump.

Sactown Royalty has a pair of tickets for TNT Night on Thursday (Kings vs. Thunder, 7:30 p.m. Pacific, The Gymmer in Sacramento) to give away. Here's what you need to do to enter.

1. Write a FanPost on what it means to you to be a Sacramento Kings fan. The length is up to you, but 200-500 words is the sweet spot, in my opinion. The subject line should include the phrase "Blackout Contest," but the content is all up to you. Total creative license.

2. The deadline is tight -- 9 a.m. Pacific on Wednesday. Like I said: the deadline is tight. You can post your entry beginning now.

3. By 10 a.m. Pacific on Wednesday, we will have fronted our (up to) five finalists and created a poll in which the community will select a winner. That poll will end at 9 p.m. Pacific on Wednesday. The top vote-getter is the winner and will receive two lower level tickets to Thursday's game.

4. Full contest rules are here.

5. Please don't enter if you already have tickets.

Good luck to all of the entrants! The Kings' box office still does have tickets available, so if you don't have time to enter the contest, there's still an opportunity to get into what should be a marvelous event.

We try to stay out of politics that aren't local and revolve around the arena issue here, but given today's web-wide focus on Congress' Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the fact that Sactown Royalty nor any SB Nation sites are going dark like Wikipedia and Reddit, I figured I'd share some info on the official position of SB Nation's parent company, Vox Media.

You can read that position in full at The Verge (Vox's excellent consumer electronics branch), as well as at SBNation.com. What it boils down to is this: SOPA looks at a legit crack in the foundation of the internet -- the piracy of paid content -- and elects to tear the entire building down. SOPA would force content providers who include community elements -- like Sactown Royalty, which has vibrant comment threads and robust FanPost and FanShot sections -- to become the enforcement arm of Hollywood, the music industry and the rights holders to sporting event broadcasts. The same would apply to virtually every website based in the United States, causing a completely destructive reworking of the internet as we know it.

We have long had a blanket policy on Sactown Royalty that you do not ask for or provide illicit streams of games in our threads. We have banned members for abuses of that practice, and feel that we have been a good partner of the NBA in this regard. We obviously don't tolerate links to any other pirated material such as movies or albums. But SOPA would force us to spend considerable time and money on compliance and all but castrates previous federal protections for sites who rely on user-generated content.

SOPA is like taking a sledgehammer to a thumbtack, and it's bad policy. As sports fans, consumers of web content and members of Sactown Royalty, you should be rightly concerned, and we urge you to contact your Congresspeople to express your displeasure with the bill and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Want to win two tickets to an upcoming Kings game? Check out this contest from SB Nation's ticket partner, TiqIQ.

So to recap, to enter all you have to do is:

• Like our page on Facebook
• Go to the TiqIQ Facebook Page and like them and then enter your guess on their FB wall
• Contest rules here
• Deadline for entries is January 6

I'm thankful to Tom Ziller for allowing me to write for such a wonderful site and be part of an amazing staff.

I'm thankful for the opportunities that being a writer/member of this site have given me as a Kings fan.

I'm thankful that I've gotten the chance to meet a lot of you, and have made several new friends.

I'm thankful that even in the midst of a lockout, with no end in sight, I'm still able to come on here and find something to talk about.  The level of discourse and sense of community we have is unparalleled from any other website I've perused. 

I'm thankful knowing that even when things aren't going great, I can come here and find something that will brighten my day.

I could go on and on, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm thankful for you, Sactown Royalty.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone.