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2024-04-19, 10:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Spoiler: Pictured: the average state flag
Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico all have great designs. California, not so much.
Also, while Alabama's flag is incredibly boring (and also the description is ridiculous, since there's a saltire that is exactly what our flag is, but our flag is officially a different saltire with the colors changed. Because Alabama is ****ing stupid), there once was a very similar flag (that our current one is derived from) flown over Alabama during Spanish rule which was much better designed. The Cross of Burgundy.
Spoiler: I maintain Alabama should change its flag back to thisCuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-04-20, 02:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Just rewatched the CGP flag tier list video yesterday, this discussion is timely. For the record, my top contender is a tie between New Mexico and Alaska.
More states need to lean into the redesign. Blue flag with pointlessly detailed seal in the center is so last century.
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2024-04-20, 09:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-20, 10:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-20, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
One advantage of the needlessly complicated state seal on a blue field as a flag is that it guarantees that only a bona fide state agency would fly it. For example, you aren't going to see even the most patriotic New Yorkers flying the New York state flag, so if you are looking for the DMV, the flag is a much better clue.
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2024-04-20, 05:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-04-21, 12:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
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2024-04-21, 03:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-21, 04:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-21, 11:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
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2024-04-21, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I'm guessing you are talking about some entity from a game, and not National Cash Register.
I suppose a better search would turn it up, but then this wouldn't be a hot take.
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2024-04-21, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-21, 04:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, the two-headed bear is stylized even in-series, the mutated bears in Fallout (Yao Guai) are a helluva lot uglier and meaner than the one on that flag.
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2024-04-22, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
"Cluttered" is fair, but at least it's distinct. "Complicated" to me means that, if you asked me to sketch it, I would struggle to remember all its constituent parts. With the USA flag, the overall "structure" of the flag is pretty easy to recall.
Dang, I'm getting Yao Guai flashbacks now. I'd genuinely forgot they were in the series -- they get pretty outshone by the Deathclaws. But Yao Guais are a force all of their own!Last edited by Ionathus; 2024-04-22 at 12:19 PM.
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2024-04-22, 12:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I mostly remember the one you have to fight while high on some hallucinogen in Honest Hearts. I think it might be that the yao guai don't really have much of an identity, they're just weird looking bears. Or maybe the deathclaws just win by seniority, my strongest memories of them are pretty much all from Fallout 1 and 2 (and maybe Tactics, which I have kind of a soft spot for despite being uneven at best).
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2024-04-22, 08:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Consider Canada's flag versus Mexico's flag. I can recognize either fairly easily, but if you ask me to draw either I will have a much easier time with Canada's than Mexico's. The bear flag is fairly easy to decribe and draw. New Mexico also has a straightforward flag. The US flag is a pain to draw completely, but the symbolism involved is simple to remember and easy to describe.
Many US states could follow the example of Utah and replace their super complicated flags with simpler designs. Utah used to follow the pack of "seal on a blue background". It recently changed it to the state symbol (a beehive in a hexagon) on a red, white, and blue background (with the stripes not being straight lines) and one other star. It is complicated enough to be distinct while being simple enough to be drawable.
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2024-04-22, 09:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
I don't care if it's drawable, I want it to be interesting. The French flag is easy to draw, and that's a big part of why it sucks ass.
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2024-04-22, 11:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
The Mexican flag has a very straightforward, not to say boring, design until you get to the middle. Then suddenly it gets super intricate and basically impossible to draw.
But changing flags isn't as easy as it sounds. We in New Zealand went through this process in 2015-16. First there was a competition to design a new flag, then a referendum to pick the best design, and finally a second referendum to decide whether to switch from the old flag to the winner of the first referendum. Which felt like a lot of voting, but I think was the correct way to do it.
After all that, the second referendum voted not to change. But possibly only because this design hadn't even made it into step 2:
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2024-04-23, 02:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
On a fateful evening, I foolishly sworn myself to follow Xykon's updated speech rule ...thing. The twelve gods know that I regretted my decision ...since then ...multiple times.
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2024-04-23, 02:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-23, 02:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, if we removed all flags that are three bars of colors on top of or next to each other and all the ones that's just a cross with a background there wouldn't be a lot of them left, at least not in Europe. (Personally, I think it's kinda funny that the legend behind the Swedish flag is that a king saw a golden cross against the blue sky... when it's extremely obvious that it's just a palette swap of the way older Danish flag ).
There's also not a lot of creativity in color choices. How many flags are red, white and blue or some combination there of?Last edited by Batcathat; 2024-04-23 at 02:14 AM.
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2024-04-23, 03:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
That was tongue-in-cheek. I only care about flags as an occasion to make fun of each other and have no strong feelings one way or the other. I actually just learned from Wikipedia that the blue of the French flag was made lighter in 1974 to match the flag of the European Union and apparently we're reverting to a darker hue.
On a fateful evening, I foolishly sworn myself to follow Xykon's updated speech rule ...thing. The twelve gods know that I regretted my decision ...since then ...multiple times.
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2024-04-24, 08:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Don't worry: once they asexuals conquer Denmark the Danish will have the best national flag.
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2024-04-25, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Completely Inconsequential Hot-Takes 2: People Take Too Long to Post New Threads
Time for a new completely inconsequential hot take.
The rhyme "divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived" is about only two women, one of whom possessed magical powers.Last edited by Peelee; 2024-04-25 at 10:59 AM.
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-04-25, 11:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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If we're introducing magic into the "setting", why stop at two women? How about just one woman, who went through a really bad mid-life breakup but she got better?
Related: we saw the school version of SIX a few weekends ago and it was fantastic. The show is awesome to see live. It was a little strange to see teenagers singing about something as scandalous as Henry VIII's romantic pursuits: Katherine Howard's song is especially suggestive and the student version doesn't pull many punches, which definitely made the audience uncomfortable. However, that's unfortunately true to life -- and if anything, the performer was too old to play Katherine Howard. She was approximately sixteen when she married Henry, who was 49 at the time.
This forum needs a puking face emoji.Last edited by Ionathus; 2024-04-25 at 12:10 PM.
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2024-04-25, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-04-25, 11:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-04-25, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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