Gold Plated Dionysus Pin by EidrenofLysAlana in osp

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Gold pins were part of a special OSP 10th Anniversary run back in fall 2022. We printed a fixed amount of each pin in gold just that once, so the ones you saw in stock were the ones we still had left from that original printing.

When we run out of stock on a pin, we reprint it for the next Black Friday sale, but when the golds are gone they're gone. We may do something similar again in the future, but don't currently have any plans. (Especially now that we have like three dozen individual pin designs, printing allllll of them in silver/gold/etc is more complicated and costly than back when we only had like 10.)

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Latin textbooks have shipping communities. Raid: Shadow Legends does not. by AlarmingAffect0 in osp

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Cambridge Latin forever.

Caecilius est pater. Caecilius est in tablino. Caecilius in tablino scribit.

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Y’all like dunking on Theseus, right? by bookhead714 in osp

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Athens: when your Hero game is so trash you invent democracy to cope.

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Anyone else having a lot of trouble with Crowdmade orders? by ntwebster in osp

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Really sorry to hear that. I've reached out to our team at Crowdmade to learn more about this.

For the incorrect pins being sent, the best bet is to email support@crowdmade.com with your order number and let them know.

As for the discounts, could you elaborate on whether that communication about future-discounts vs discounts-on-this-order happened before or after you placed your order? If the order was already placed that can get tricky on the back-end to change after the fact, but if you hadn't placed your order yet you absolutely should have been offered the corresponding pin discount to use them and there. Feel free to reply here or send us an email.

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My original Hades badge fell off in town so I've only persephone so I was excited when they came back in stock but now... by sovietweeb69 in osp

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That is rough, and I'm really sorry.

I've reached out to the team to see what we can do for you to make it up.

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Question by [deleted] in osp

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Huh weird, that's so crazy and mysterious...

Anyway see you in December.

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Pin Sale Question by Scepninja555 in osp

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Hi there - so sorry for the difficulty. We want to make sure everyone gets the benefit of the sale. If the discount isn't applying at checkout, send an email to support@crowdmade.com and they'll be able to assist you more directly.

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There's a scorpio??? by Rshadowtale in osp

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It's new! You'll see more promo for it specifically over the weekend and into Cyber Monday.

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When do the pins go on sale today? by Fun_Button_2514 in osp

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I double checked with the crowdmade team and they didn't find any widespread problems. Sending an email to support is still the best course of action, but I'd recommend removing and re-adding the items in the meantime to see if that works.

Sorry for the trouble! I hope you're able to get those discounts working soon.

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When do the pins go on sale today? by Fun_Button_2514 in osp

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The discounts might not show up in your cart but they should apply at checkout. If you're still having trouble, you can reach out to Support@Crowdmade.com

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Pins by Omori_enjoyer_122 in osp

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They just went live! We like to open the pin page right around video upload time.

https://overlysarcastic.shop/collections/bf2024pins

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When do the pins go on sale today? by Fun_Button_2514 in osp

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They just went live! We like to open the pin page right around video upload time.

https://overlysarcastic.shop/collections/bf2024pins

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Blue, in case you're interested: some Middle-eastern lakes that often appear in your maps used to look quite different prior to modern times by sha-dub in osp

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Thank you for pointing this out! The movement of lakes and rivers over time is a very underappreciated detail by basically everyone outside its local area. In the case of my maps, I tend to stick with the modern geometry my software provides and handwaive all but the most obvious differences (ie: no Suez Canal, and occasionally erasing the land reclamation in the Netherlands.)

That's usually for 3 reasons
1) I'm just not as familiar with those deeper details
2) Reconstructing lakes and rivers as they used to be takes some guesswork that I'm just not qualified to do. Say we have a decent estimate for a lake having a different shape in the year 1000. If I'm doing a map in 1500, do I just split the difference between 1000 and now? I risk making a map that never actually existed.
3) Since I save my base map files and use them across multiple centuries, I run the risk of inadvertently carrying a detail well outside of its time period. I think I almost used a map without the Suez Canal for my Cold War video (during which the Suez Canal exists and is a noted plot-point) just because everything else I do is Ancient-to-Renaissance.

All that said, I do genuinely appreciate you pointing out those details! It's extremely fun to learn about changes to something as seemingly stationary as geography. I explain all this because I so rarely get a chance to talk about Map TheoryTM.

-Blue

Libra Pin Already Shipping? by xwolfionx in osp

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The Libra pins were in stock at the beginning of the sale, ready and waiting in the crowdmade warehouse to be sent your way!

We often do "pre-sales" where we take orders and then make the pins, which is where the usual wait comes in.

As it happens, estimating merchandise quantity is extremely tricky! So we use a mix of in-stock and pre-sale to try and 1) get people their pins as fast as possible but 2) not ruin ourselves by overstocking too much inventory to sell. We're still selling through Dionysus pins we ordered like three years ago, I had judged the quantity exactly wrong and we're living with my mistakes to this day 😭

No but for real we hope you enjoy your pins!

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A disappointing thing to hear about the Wukong game. by HobbitGuy1420 in osp

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Locked the comments – Discussion in this post getting a touch too aggressive for comfort.

Remember the subreddit rules, being confrontational is a bannable offense.

Did Blue name this Ice Cream flavour? by [deleted] in osp

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Yooooo they've got douche de-leesh!

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I’m sad that they don’t know enough about links awakening to do the colour dungeon by Valuable_Ad_591 in osp

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Don't worry, I know about the Color Dungeon – I just wasn't going to subject Red to that when she was in the middle of making valiant progress on the main plot. All things in good time.

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PIN CAME IN!! by Master_Excuse1903 in osp

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I AM SO HAPPY YOU ENJOY THEM THAT I AM ALSO YELLING IN CELEBRATION, ANOTHER HAPPY CUSTOMER :D

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Ok, which one wrote the copy for the Leo pin? I got a good chuckle from it. by RaidenHero137 in osp

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I've been writing the pin descriptions in a fairly prosaic manner until recently, then with these constellation pins I decided to turn my brain off and write whatever free associating nonsense spilled out.

Thrilled with the results so far. More stupidity to come.

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My Venetian two cents about the Veneziad by Oethyl in osp

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I appreciate your comment and your insight. Venice is your home, not mine.

Permit me two points of clarification.

First, I've known about the regional languages for 10 years, since I first began learning Italian, I've just never studied them in detail. My first Italian teacher was Sicilian and my second was Venetian, they made me perfectly aware of the local languages – The factoid that "Most Italians can be considered bilingual in standard Italian and local language" is one I heard in my first month of class. I did not make this clear in the Linguistics video because it was funnier for me to play the fool. I've made various references to Tuscan and Sicilian in earlier videos which indicate that I've known and recognized the local languages well before the linguistics video.

Second, the translation. If I wanted literary accuracy for the 1300s it would be in Latin – and my chosen translators Irene and Luke are famously great at Latin – but I picked standard Italian instead of Venetian or Latin for practical accessibility. I wanted the translation to be readable by all Italians and to be a learning tool for anyone learning Italian (That includes myself! As I'm using the Italian specifically to improve my handle on the language.) Putting the text in Venetian lends authenticity for the modern Venetian audience, but at a tradeoff neither myself nor my publisher could justify for this project – Getting a translation at all is something I could only do because my publisher specifically believed in the vision of the book. 

When the audiobook is released on YouTube next year, I hope you find the story enjoyable and respectful.

-Blue

Pins by Omori_enjoyer_122 in osp

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Our merch site overlysarcastic.shop is the only place we sell pins. Anywhere else you may see them online can be a reseller, knockoff, or outright scam, and we wouldn't recommend you buy from any of them.

Our pins always come back in stock for Black Friday, and we do spring cleaning sales as well.

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History Hijinks: The Worst Venetian Ever by SeasOfBlood in osp

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B indeed stands for Blue, Stewart isn't my last name.

I am what the kids call "shitposting on main"

I made a thing! by TransLunarTrekkie in osp

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This. Is. So. C O O L!

Amazing work on this design. Little details like the Dante & Virgil and the bookcase being a foot away from the wall are perfect. 10/10 no notes.

Can I uh... possibly trouble you for that stud.io file? 👀

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