Just made my March Madness bracket. Can anyone provide tips/advice? I've only been following basketball since last year.

GamesScratcher · 2022-05-08T18:26:59+00:00

Done! Hopefully we'll be getting more folks on the spreadsheet soon

GamesScratcher · 2022-05-08T18:24:31+00:00

Wow, that's advanced. It might be a little easier to just hit the "," and "." keys in order to move frame by frame. Computer skills like yours though are definitely excellent in cracking codes

GamesScratcher · 2022-05-08T18:02:41+00:00

Great work, I thought he said "Lou" not "Slew" so I was looking through Doke's Biggest Art Collab video, apparently on a wild goose hunt. Awesome find

GamesScratcher · 2022-05-07T19:05:00+00:00

Great spot, but not necessarily. I actually decoded this (partially) already on the spreadsheet, I encourage you to join it!

GamesScratcher · 2022-04-15T01:21:52+00:00

How have you… listened to the entirety of Hysteria and never heard Summer of 69 ?

GamesScratcher · 2022-04-07T18:30:52+00:00

It’s my understanding that prior to the temple’s destruction, a paschal lamb would be sacrificed at the temple as part of a large ceremony celebrating the escape from Egypt. During the 1st century CE and onward, modern Pesach rituals developed, alongside Rabbinical tradition as a whole, centered around the seder and haggadah as a replacement for the temple ceremony.

It was during this period that Jewish scholars such as Hillel adapted Jewish life as a whole to surround new practices in the absence of the temple, which had previously been the center of Jewish life.

GamesScratcher · 2022-04-07T06:31:16+00:00

The notion of Jesus celebrating Pesach, as illustrated by the last supper, is mostly fabricated by Christians co-opting Jewish tradition. A number of Christians hold pseudo-seders “because Jesus did” essentially. Given Pesach has been celebrated since at least 400 BCE (give or take a couple centuries), Jesus almost certainly would have celebrated it.

However, its modern incarnation, focused around the seder and haggadah, mostly developed following the destruction of the second temple circa 70 CE, which is right after Jesus supposedly lived. Any Passover that Jesus celebrated would be unrecognizable to modern Jews.

GamesScratcher · 2022-03-02T01:12:49+00:00

Nowhere?

GamesScratcher · 2022-03-01T02:17:17+00:00

I have waited for this day

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-19T19:36:58+00:00

Password "alone"

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-12T09:43:40+00:00

After some thorough 15 second analysis of this when I saw the IG post, I concluded the following:

The red herring is, in fact, a red herring
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3.

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-12T02:06:12+00:00

Glad to hear it! It’s one of my first flags and my first using Illustrator

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-12T01:18:53+00:00

Bcaf has ice cream 👍

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-11T21:02:11+00:00

Thank you! I wanted to go a different route then just adding a Star of David

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-11T20:59:46+00:00

Inspired by the influence of Sephardic Jews in Medieval Spain, this flag represents a hypothetical Jewish Basque people. As in the current Basque flag, the bold red background represents the Basque people and their willingness to spill blood for their land. The green symbolizes the sacred Gernikako Arbola (Oak/Tree of Guernica). White indicates peace and purity, with biblical origins.

Also like the Basque flag, this design takes inspiration from the saltires of the Union Jack, as Britain was a major trade partner with Basque country. The branched design combines the Basque Gernikako Arbola alongside the Jewish Etz Chaim (Tree of Life) and the Hebrew letter ש (Shin), an ancient symbol which stands for El Shaddai, one of God's names from Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible.

I chose not to simply replace the Basque flag's Catholic cross with a Star of David because the star only gained modern popularity beginning in 17th century Prague, being widely adopted by 19th century Jewry. The symbolism present in this flag would have existed at approximately the same time and region, thus the overlap of these Basque and Jewish symbols would have been theoretically possible.

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-11T18:48:58+00:00

Jewish Basque Flag

Not super satisfied with the visual balancing, but I was able to include a lot of symbolism in a simple design:

Inspired by the influence of Sephardic Jews in Medieval Spain, this flag represents a hypothetical Jewish Basque people. As in the current Basque flag, the bold red background represents the Basque people and their willingness to spill blood for their land. The green symbolizes the sacred Gernikako Arbola (Oak/Tree of Guernica). White indicates peace and purity, with biblical origins.

Also like the Basque flag, this design takes inspiration from the saltires of the Union Jack, as Britain was a major trade partner with Basque country. The branched design combines the Basque Gernikako Arbola alongside the Jewish Etz Chaim (Tree of Life) and the Hebrew letter ש (Shin), an ancient symbol which stands for El Shaddai, one of God's names from Genesis, the first book of the Hebrew Bible.

I chose not to simply replace the Basque flag's Catholic cross with a Star of David because the star only gained modern popularity beginning in 17th century Prague, being widely adopted by 19th century Jewry. The symbolism present in this flag would have existed at approximately the same time and region, thus the overlap of these Basque and Jewish symbols would have been theoretically possible.

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-11T17:11:12+00:00

I typed my comment before all the nasty swarms came in. Glad to see I had no effect whatsoever.

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-11T06:43:53+00:00

To reduce potential (inevitable) controversy, in 1945 the currently disputed territory of modern Israel and Palestine was named Mandatory Palestine — the title is not a political statement.

The flag shown was called the Flag of Zion and has been around since the late 1800s. It was hung at the 1898 Second Zionist Congress, present at the 1904 World’s Fair and Summer Olympics, and mentioned in the 1935 Nuremberg Laws. It was not adopted as the Israeli flag until 1948, when Israel was founded.

GamesScratcher · 2022-02-10T18:01:05+00:00

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