the counter intuitive thing about the winter solstice is that it actually gets worse from here, weather wise (and of course food supply-wise). if you hadnât put together how the whole thing works, hadnât been given knowledge passed down from people come before, you wouldnât know hope comes with the lengthening of days. itâs solace for the worst bit yet to come
follow up question: what would the ballpark cost be for a card game design? it seems like you could spend anywhere from one afternoon to years playtesting and iterating so i have no idea what sounds normal
basic pigment literacy, folks, I donât ask for much
we overheard a guide in the vatican museum (!) giving that idiotic spiel about how Maryâs mantle is painted blue because âblue was a very expensive pigment so it showed off the Churchâs wealthâ. how do so many people just repeat this like they canât tell the difference between azurite and ultramarine??
can one commission the design of a card game? not a ccg or w/e, like actually âhere are the kinds of games i like to play (features I like and donât like), here is a tarot deck, i would like someone who is thoughtful about game design to take a whack at somethingâ
feel like shit just want her back http://swallowmygraphicdesign.com/project/macostalgia
in this 1410s illuminated book of hours, december is for hunting wild boar: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/21/in-this-1410s-illuminated-book-of-hours-december.html
iâm not supposed to bring wood over the mountains to my parentsâ so i think i will petition that we go to grocery store to get a lil wood for outdoor yule fire. i really like their gas fireplace but a yule log out of fiberglass is prolly suboptimal
happy solstice!!!
I really like the idea of Nextdoor so I went through the settings to see if it would be possible to calm it down somehow. The open user hostility is a little refreshing: switch to chronological view and it informs you matter-of-factly that that preference will be switched back in sixty daysâŠ.
3x speed ainât bad: maya digs way too deep into a blog post from hacker news: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/20/3x-speed-transmissionism-confused-writing.html
https://houseofmysticum.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/card-game/ <-- riding off millennia of a certain kind of dream-like sense implying the presence of symbols with meaning, but intentionally using symbols that canât signify
listen to the 333 covers of âlast christmasâ released since last christmas: https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/20/333-covers-last-christmas.html
I am quite pleased that someone thought https://maya.land should be listed on https://biglist.terraaeon.com as â[gen]â rather than â[tech]â. I do try.
I donât have super strong feelings about symbolic monarchies as a category but hoo boy am I ready to see Windsor eat some shit. if you have a hereditary post as a national mascot and you canât even follow the mascot rules, people should get to throw metaphorical eggs at you all day long
apparently when the British monarch dies the new monarch goes around to nations in the Commonwealth getting pledges of alliance and fealty and whatever and while I canât bring myself to hope for an old personâs death when theyâre not, like, Kissinger, after the queen passes I am just slavering to see that trip go wrong for Charles