valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
edited February 2019
Heh. They said "Titicaca."
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
titicaca has floating islands so there
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited February 2019
In 1981, the Cold War was in a particularly nasty phase. The Polish Crisis was underway, and it was clear to everyone that a new phase of belligerent nuclear buildup was in the very near future.
It was at this point that a professor specializing in negotiation and conflict management named Roger Fisher suggested one of the wildest yet oddly compelling deterrents to nuclear war I've ever heard. He proposed that the government surgically implant a capsule containing the nuclear launch codes into the pericardial cavity of a volunteer. This volunteer's full time job would be to hang around the president, wearing a big old knife on their belt and waiting for nuclear war to be declared.
If the president wanted to launch the nukes, they would have to request the knife from the volunteer and personally butcher the person they'd spent their entire presidential term with in order to retrieve the codes from their chest.
The idea was that if someone was going to kill hundreds of millions of people by giving an order, they should have to kill at least one person with their own hands.
If you look at Lake Baikal on a map it doesn't seem that big, but it has only slightly less water in it than all five Great Lakes combined. I also seem to remember an article in an old Nat Geo where they said every time they do a biome study on it, they find several new species of insects, birds and fish that don't live anywhere else on the planet. The place is fucking fascinating.
I'm lloking up card decks from history. Are there any places to buy reproductions of old decks? Recommendations for particular decks? Most decks I have are fairly ratty and usually have advertising (Fly Air NZ) or moral messages on them (remember to look after your kid!). It'd be nice to have some fancy decks to get out when we have guests.
Also, it is funny to me that Americans invented the Joker. "This beats everything, I win."
After doing some searching it seems like most reproductions are done through kickstarter. There was one company that did a few but they no longer exist. One kickstarter by another guy is in the middle of fulfilment, but he's gonna sell it through a storefront after fulfilment.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
If you're looking at old cards, have you seen this collection:
Your previous post about those cards is partly what got me thinking about it!
Cards are real cool. And it's neat how they've evolved over time in fairly organic ways. Like, why Clubs? Why Hearts? Why anything? It's interesting how as cards got passed around, different cultures interpreted the symbols in different ways. Which were then in turn interpreted as different symbols again as that deck was passed around.
Edit- i should have paid the interesting thread tax.
Here: have you ever wondered why we call clubs "clubs" even though they don't look like a club?
The English use a French deck. But the French call clubs "clover". Which makes sense. It totally is a clover.
But... the first decks in England were Italian decks. Which have a club. So when we changed to the French deck we kept the name.
The German decks have something similar. Their decks don't have an ace. But (and I forget some of the details here) after the German decks lost the Ace a certain French game became popular. This game used the Ace. So the Germans used the Deuce as the Ace. Which is why a Deuce can also be called an Ace in Germany.
Oh. And our spade is the French Pike. Which makes sense again.
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I'm lloking up card decks from history. Are there any places to buy reproductions of old decks? Recommendations for particular decks? Most decks I have are fairly ratty and usually have advertising (Fly Air NZ) or moral messages on them (remember to look after your kid!). It'd be nice to have some fancy decks to get out when we have guests.
Also, it is funny to me that Americans invented the Joker. "This beats everything, I win."
1) the 15th C Flemish Hunting deck. Which was the most expensive yet also the lowest quality. These are roughly hand cut, which tbf, is probably needed due to their unusual size and shape. Apparently there's a better version of the deck you can buy from the Metropolitan Museum. It has the museum logo watermark on it but it is the best quality version.
2) the 14th C Morsican deck. These were a kickstarter project to make coloured versions of the Morsican deck, plus add some original art to fill in some of the gaps. One complaint is that I wish they'd have been a little more colour coded. Maybe it is? But it isn't obvious. This one is probably my favourite as it is very legible. It's also a nice half way point between modern decks and the next deck that just arrived today...
3) the 14th C Mamluk deck. Which is very nice to look at and good quality. Trzes Art did a fine job vectorising the old cards.
Am I going to play card games with these? I hope so, but it will require people who are ok with older art that is not as legible as modern cards. You can't tell at a glance what you have in hand and often need to count. But even if they're just tools to do show and tell with I'll be quite happy. It's neat and interesting to have some history to share with people.
In other news, I've got high (enough) resolution images of the Pasttime deck from the library of Columbia. I'm currently working out how to convert them to black and white as they originally were, but I might just get them printed as they are. I'd like to do more of the decks but the Pasttime deck was fun and this card in particular convinced me that I needed to do it first.
The "long" form was only used in the middle of words or as the first letter, and it also only replaced the lower-case 's' and not the capitalized version. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
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The baking process would likely eliminate most of what you'd expect to find I'm sure, but some mold spores are pretty tough... It'll probably turn out fine. If the baker suddenly starts spewing locusts out of their mouth and turning into Angry Sand we'll know it was a mistake.
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you just wanted an excuse to say “Titicaca”.
It was at this point that a professor specializing in negotiation and conflict management named Roger Fisher suggested one of the wildest yet oddly compelling deterrents to nuclear war I've ever heard. He proposed that the government surgically implant a capsule containing the nuclear launch codes into the pericardial cavity of a volunteer. This volunteer's full time job would be to hang around the president, wearing a big old knife on their belt and waiting for nuclear war to be declared.
If the president wanted to launch the nukes, they would have to request the knife from the volunteer and personally butcher the person they'd spent their entire presidential term with in order to retrieve the codes from their chest.
The idea was that if someone was going to kill hundreds of millions of people by giving an order, they should have to kill at least one person with their own hands.
Also, it is funny to me that Americans invented the Joker. "This beats everything, I win."
https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog?per_page=100&q=Playing+cards&search_field=all_text_teim&fbclid=IwAR0NY-j5CiAJnqgJGxxV9InX5GHdh9rLuU2uT-32B9RfQm1cao9VaS3S5fs
Cards are real cool. And it's neat how they've evolved over time in fairly organic ways. Like, why Clubs? Why Hearts? Why anything? It's interesting how as cards got passed around, different cultures interpreted the symbols in different ways. Which were then in turn interpreted as different symbols again as that deck was passed around.
Edit- i should have paid the interesting thread tax.
Here: have you ever wondered why we call clubs "clubs" even though they don't look like a club?
The English use a French deck. But the French call clubs "clover". Which makes sense. It totally is a clover.
But... the first decks in England were Italian decks. Which have a club. So when we changed to the French deck we kept the name.
The German decks have something similar. Their decks don't have an ace. But (and I forget some of the details here) after the German decks lost the Ace a certain French game became popular. This game used the Ace. So the Germans used the Deuce as the Ace. Which is why a Deuce can also be called an Ace in Germany.
Oh. And our spade is the French Pike. Which makes sense again.
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1) the 15th C Flemish Hunting deck. Which was the most expensive yet also the lowest quality. These are roughly hand cut, which tbf, is probably needed due to their unusual size and shape. Apparently there's a better version of the deck you can buy from the Metropolitan Museum. It has the museum logo watermark on it but it is the best quality version.
2) the 14th C Morsican deck. These were a kickstarter project to make coloured versions of the Morsican deck, plus add some original art to fill in some of the gaps. One complaint is that I wish they'd have been a little more colour coded. Maybe it is? But it isn't obvious. This one is probably my favourite as it is very legible. It's also a nice half way point between modern decks and the next deck that just arrived today...
3) the 14th C Mamluk deck. Which is very nice to look at and good quality. Trzes Art did a fine job vectorising the old cards.
Am I going to play card games with these? I hope so, but it will require people who are ok with older art that is not as legible as modern cards. You can't tell at a glance what you have in hand and often need to count. But even if they're just tools to do show and tell with I'll be quite happy. It's neat and interesting to have some history to share with people.
In other news, I've got high (enough) resolution images of the Pasttime deck from the library of Columbia. I'm currently working out how to convert them to black and white as they originally were, but I might just get them printed as they are. I'd like to do more of the decks but the Pasttime deck was fun and this card in particular convinced me that I needed to do it first.
(Not high resolution.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
This is pure gold. Bravo!
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