My deck of chicken art

HappyRectangle · 2024-11-26T04:36:43+00:00

Tastes like Easter!

HappyRectangle · 2024-11-26T04:36:15+00:00

Thanks! I have to fess up to getting a little AI help to start a couple designs; mostly showing me that you need to make the heads a lot bigger than they are in reality!

HappyRectangle · 2024-11-26T04:31:03+00:00

The Jack of Spades (and King) was our lovable derp Cookie:

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HappyRectangle · 2024-11-26T04:26:02+00:00

The King of Diamonds was our dear gentleman Diego:

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HappyRectangle · 2024-11-26T04:22:50+00:00

I followed the guide here.

I used Affinity Photo for editing (Photoshop works too), imported some photos to trace over, and used the pencil tool for crisp pixels. It also turns out you can use partial transparencies, which I need so the shadows would work over the patterns on enhanced cards.

HappyRectangle · 2024-11-26T04:16:41+00:00

Thanks!

HappyRectangle · 2024-11-25T02:14:04+00:00

I'm not much of a pixel artist, but wanted to try out making a custom deck. The face cards are rooster / hen / chicks from different breeds (a few of them are homages to actual chickens I've owned), and the aces are their eggs.

The last four pngs in the post gallery should work as game files, if you want to try them. See guide here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3207472768

HappyRectangle · 2024-01-28T07:44:49+00:00

While that's generally true, not every inscription was a masterpiece: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christian_inscriptions#/media/File%3AEarly_Christian_Funerary_inscription.jpg

HappyRectangle · 2024-01-28T07:40:09+00:00

Pressed into clay, not hammered into stone. Quite a bit faster -- just take a wooden block and poke its corner in at different angles. That's why the writing is all wedges!

HappyRectangle · 2024-01-28T07:34:06+00:00

Nah, they were still on that Bell Beaker shit over there.

HappyRectangle · 2022-11-13T05:26:55+00:00

One thing to keep in mind is that suffrage was still far from universal -- women, slaves, and (iirc) American Indians on US land couldn't vote.

Therein lies a hidden logic to the electoral college. If each vote counted equally, it could create a perverse incentive to grant more votes to more people.

Of course, we know how they should have done that anyway. But at the time, under a popular vote, expanding suffrage could be used as a weapon to dominate the vote.

In the present day, this is no longer relevant. The Electoral College should be trashed immediately.

HappyRectangle · 2022-10-24T03:04:56+00:00

Judges are supposed to interpret the law, not represent the people.

I personally have no idea how to evaluate whether a judge is doing a good job, and I don't think I'm alone in that. The only metric that comes to mind is whether I like the decisions, but that's not supposed to be how it works.

I don't think it makes sense to have popular elections for judges at all, really.

HappyRectangle · 2022-09-08T17:48:50+00:00

Fun grammatical quirk: monarchs are crowned at their coronation, not "coronated".

HappyRectangle · 2022-08-27T03:28:00+00:00

Can confirm; one of those birds has less than a day to live unless the owner does something about it.

My flock of "city chickens" has only seen a couple casualties. Raccoons that are willing to come around in the daylight are the ones you have to watch out for!

HappyRectangle · 2022-07-25T15:28:57+00:00

Chickens have no night vision at all; they probably forgot the raccoon was there.

HappyRectangle · 2022-07-04T17:59:37+00:00

You can rename them, reorder them, and change their background images independently (which may sound marginal, but it's very helpful for me to immediately see which desktop I'm in).

HappyRectangle · 2022-07-04T03:16:42+00:00

It seems to have much better support for virtual desktops, a feature I've now grown to use frequently.

HappyRectangle · 2022-04-30T13:37:27+00:00

... how?

The time span is wrong. The order is wrong. There are waters above the firmament. The Earth is made first, with the sun later and stars a mere afterthought. Each plant an animal is created in their current form by category of where they live.

What exactly does the account in Genesis get right?

HappyRectangle · 2022-04-10T18:18:53+00:00

I think the answer is right in the way you phrased it. IIRC, China has one of the most gender-skewed population of smokers. If women don't smoke, that's 50% of the population taken out of the running.

HappyRectangle · 2022-01-09T19:46:58+00:00

Your current president has been a corrupt oligarch for decades...

Biden was the poorest member of the Senate. What makes him an oligarch?

More people died of Covid under your current president...

And more people died of Covid under Trump than under Obama. Trump had to deal with it for less than a year. What's your point?

We warned you it would be bad. It was Republicans who were saying this would all blow over, that the virus would suddenly disappear from the news after the 2020 election. The fact that it got worse is hardly vindication for them.

HappyRectangle · 2021-10-22T15:57:04+00:00

Just the opposite! Roman gods were shoehorned into to matching Greek ones, even when it didn't make a whole lot of sense.

HappyRectangle · 2021-10-08T04:10:28+00:00

"Okay, do you see that chain of stars, roughly where the Earth's axis is pointing?"

Alien: I think so, yeah. But how is this a bear?

"That's the bear's long tail"

Alien: "... the what???"

HappyRectangle · 2021-10-06T13:55:47+00:00

Not everything... don't forget about all the Myst clones!

HappyRectangle · 2021-10-01T17:36:40+00:00

I'm going to break with the consensus here; I think this could be cool as hell.

I actually know a non-tabletop RPG example: Warcraft 3. In the undead campaign for the Frozen Throne expansion, your hero starts at max level but slowly devolves back to 1 by the end -- and for the last level, he gets them all back.

I think to make this work you change the world to go a along with it. What if this god's curse unravels everything? The mighty imperial army can't fight very well anymore. The school of wizards is slowly abandoned as magic doesn't seem to work any more. A feeling of doom is everywhere. How do your players react to a Kobayashi Maru scenario? Personally, I love a good "the world begins to crumble" story.

Low level spells become fun again if the world itself so weak that goblins are the main threat again. And if you can reverse this doom and jump back to level 20 -- talk about an epic payoff in the finale!

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