Flag Wars Bonus Round

Looking at those pre existing flags, i would've made something like this from them

But I don't know much about the city or its history, just jostling about existing design elements

PSA

avoid conforming to traditional gender norms by avoiding this common palette:

try using these palettes instead!!

Not to be mean but they’re right. None of these would ever fit together

They’re DISGUSTING, op. I’m sorry, it’s better you hear it here than have your grandma say she likes your clothes.

i actually disagree! not to bring back a certain children's hospital and say "it's literally color theory" unironically, but... it's literally color theory. both of these color palettes are virtually complimentary and look pretty nice together

youve got reds, greens, and blues:

and purples, blues, yellows, and oranges:

(you'll have to click on the images to see the full thing, i don't want to put them one after the other and make this post even longer than it already is. sorry for the low resolution im doing this on my phone)

of course there's variation in the values and saturation, but imo that's a bit of a given ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

wait actually fuck this post. what the hell is going on between you two

not to re-rail a post that OP himself intentionally derailed but I wanted to try out the palettes. The first one is made with the Girl Colors with no changes made to the values/saturation.

i think its ok. 

The second one I tweaked the saturation and values a to my liking. Both are very low effort but as you can see I kinda got into the second one. Anyway I really like orange/purple/yellow as a color scheme so I had fun with this 

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I didn’t know Exodia was the friend of Nicki Minaj’s cousin

How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama.

| William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

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Speaking aave when you’re not black is a problem that must be addressed

Some of my favorite responses to this post, hastily screenshotted:

Credits to @bandaniofficial, @lauroboros, and @fractalzoom (who I can’t properly link for some reason).

This is the level of hyperanalystic bullshit I live for

not so fast, in the review of gusteau’s anton ego compares gusteau to chef boyardee or hector boiardi with a tone implying that boyardee is dead and in history

given that gusteau died shortly after this and the will takes 2 years after death

assuming that ego’s review was the same year that boiardi died then the absolute EARLIEST the movie can take place is 1987

and about the incredibles, when looking for the scene with the newspaper i stumbled across this

a headline from 2002, and given that lawsuits generally take a while and september to december is really quick for the banning of supers so let’s say they were banned in mid 2003, at the EARLIEST incredibles can take place in 2018, with ratatouille taking place sometime in between 2003 and 2018

assuming that was a mistake, thunderhead died november 15 1958, a date where superheroes would’ve been illegal if incredibles 1 took place in 1962

and adding onto the impossibility of the date being 1962 his death is included in the shutdown reports of the national supers agency

so the year in which the movies take place is impossible to find because the staff of the incredibles couldn’t chose a date and commit to it

I take it back

This is the level of hyperanalystic bullshit I live for

IS NO ONE GONNA MENTION THAT THUNDERHEAD IS GAY?!?!

OMG OMG OMG

“loves kids, adopted single father of 5 children, raising them with help of his roommate, Scott” 

oh my god, they were roommates

wikipedia is good

That bit really annoyed me, I’m glad she’s taking legal action

DAMN I HOPE SHE WINS AND THIS GETS BLOWN UP AND EVERYONE LEARNS HER NAME INSTEAD OF A FICTIONAL NON EXISTENT CHARACTER!!!!

There are a lot of female chessplayers!!! It is shocking to me they made the movie about a fake one! Fuck you hollywood!

IV bag?

When I was about 4 or 5, my dad worked in software implementation (installing very complicated programs for entire companies, basically). And sometimes when people had a problem with the program, they’d call my dad.

If he wasn’t in the room, I was assigned to answer the house phone and say “Hello, Edward will be here in jutht a moment,” in my high-pitched lisp typically described by family members as “elfin”, and then yell for my dad. Then I’d listen to him walking them through the issue because I found it interesting.

One time my dad went in for a meeting with the CEO of a large company, like, one you’ve heard of, and the CEO said “Oh, by the way, your assistant is amazing! Fixed my problem immediately."

After some very subtle investigative work - because if the CEO of a billion dollar company is pleased you don’t answer with ‘wtf are you talking about’ - he determined that what happened was the following:

The CEO called my dad at a very odd time of day, because rich people are like that.

The phone was answered by an elfin, lisping voice, which said “Hello, I’m thorry, Edward ithn’t here right now. Can I help you?”

“…okay, do you thee the power button? Can you rethtart the computer? …that means turning it off.”

Five minutes later, the CEO hung up, very pleased that an elf with a speech impediment had fixed his million-dollar software.

You're the mythical 20 years old with 20 years experience.

What if we started actively disincentivizing landlords letting real estate stay empty rather than renting at reasonable prices? Like, give them a maximum of three months to get a new tenant in, and then they start accumulating fines for the unused space.

And some similar system to disincentivize the ridiculous airbnb market as well. Make it unprofitable to have homes sitting empty in a city where people with jobs find themselves living in tents. Hell, make it unprofitable to have homes sitting empty anywhere that has a homelessness problem.

The fine? The full rent amount they're asking for. You think $1700/month for a studio apartment is reasonable? Well, until you get someone into that apartment, you're going to be fined that same sum every month.

For Airbnb, a lower cost, but still based on how many nights/month the space is unused, and the fine will be based on the asking price per night.

This is... really, really sensible.

Fun fact: by court order, no Burger King franchise is allowed to operate within this black circle, a 20 mile radius around an independent local restaurant named Burger King that had used the name first

habitable zone

I’ve wanted to visit it for years. The town it’s in also has a Bagelfest that looks extremely entertaining. 

In Ireland the prefix Mc or Mac on a second name is part of our history and language. A lot of people have names like McGraw or McGuire. Also in Ireland, as a left over of how Irish language works, its not unusual to give someone a sort of nickname by adding ‘young(small)’ or ‘big’ in front of their name. (it flows better in Irish but we still do it). This combined with an abbreviation of second names being used as their nickname youd end up with people being called ‘Young Dave’ or, and I’m sure you can see where this is going, ‘Big Mac’

In 1978 one such person opened a fast food restaurant called Supermacs and they just happened to sell a burger called a Big Mac. They became wildly popular and can be found in most towns in Ireland. Their food is actually pretty good.

Now, a certain large restaurant chain didn’t take kindly to this cuz they thought they owned the idea first (they didn’t) and they brought the relitively small fast food chain to court to force them to stop using the name ‘big mac’ and anything with the prefix Mc. Yaknow, the way Irish people have named ourselves since before Irish was a written language.

In a wild twist they lost and in doing so lost all exclusivity of the prefixes in all of Ireland so now any restaurant can sell a ‘big mac’ and they do. Most chipshops do a Big Mac of some variety.

Unfortunately McDonalds weren’t happy with this for some reason and brought the case to the European Courts in 2019 or so… and THEY FUCKIN LOST AGAIN.

So, if you’re ever in Ireland you should treat yourself to a Supermacs. Not cuz they’re food is amazing, it’s not, it’s just ok but by god the idea that some rich fuckin assholes spend years in courts and spent a fortune trying to sue a small buisness out of their family name and then lost, twice, sure does make it taste amazing.

There’s an extra-savoury flavour about this.

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