StarMan™
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It seems since Disney Wars, the prequels are more fondly looked upon. I think the relative quality between them has an impact, but also, I wonder if the 'memeification' of something can affect our perception?
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It seems since Disney Wars, the prequels are more fondly looked upon. I think the relative quality between them has an impact, but also, I wonder if the 'memeification' of something can affect our perception?
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
The sort of person who drops $1,000 on a 12' Halloween skeleton to stand in their front yard is also the sort of person who doesn't consider where they will store a giant skeleton the other 360 days of the year and therefore concludes they will store it standing in their front yard.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Nightmare on Sesame Street -- REVENGE OF THE FELT
Mirah
I love you
Why do I feel like I'm going to have some strange dream tonight after reading these 2 descriptions?
Oscar needs a reboot, only his garbage can is a tiny home and the woke people try to help him and the unwoke try to shame him and say "its not thier problem" and then they try to send him back Mexico along with Big Bert. (Bird)
Wait this doesn't sound right
We need a guy painting a giant "4" on a hot dog bun in downtown New York for "4 more years"
Wait no
This show was brought to you by the Letter "F" and "P"
F for Fail, and P for President
I didn't mean to make this political
Just throw a pie in someone's face and call it good
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Loktar
Pinata Whacker
Or Olive Garden.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
"Ever since COVID, it's been amazing how we've been able to get fine-dining delivered" and you order Dominos.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
Bicycle playing cards are all subtly different, depending on the size of the deck. For example, the Jack of Spades in the bridge sized deck is slightly different than the Jack of Spades in the standard sized deck. And there is at least one other deck size that is different from the bridge or standard sized decks. I noticed this when I accidentally replaced a bridge size deck with a standard size deck. Tonight I was looking at an LOLCat that was laying on some Bicycle playing cards and I decided "I'm going to figure out what sized deck that is." So I got my 2 decks and it was different from both of them. It was closest to the bridge size deck but there was subtle but definite difference in the pattern at the center of the Jack of Spades chest.
The person who answers questions for Bicycle playing cards' Facebook page is completely unaware of any of this. I asked in case there was maybe some interesting obscure trivial reason for it and they were just "it's just a difference in scaling when the image is stretched for the difference in card dimensions." and I'm like "no it isn't. The mace/scepter he's holding on the bridge deck has red accents that are missing on the standard deck. His robe has spades in the design on the bridge deck that are missing from the standard deck." That was the last I heard from them.
My conclusion is, Bicycle has been making playing cards since...1885, apparently. Back in the days before digital printing, even before photo lithography, artists had to create a different deck of art for each different size of cards. As the technology changed, they just kept using the original artwork as the basis for newer decks. I can't prove that, but it's the theory that fits the facts.
The person who answers questions for Bicycle playing cards' Facebook page is completely unaware of any of this. I asked in case there was maybe some interesting obscure trivial reason for it and they were just "it's just a difference in scaling when the image is stretched for the difference in card dimensions." and I'm like "no it isn't. The mace/scepter he's holding on the bridge deck has red accents that are missing on the standard deck. His robe has spades in the design on the bridge deck that are missing from the standard deck." That was the last I heard from them.
My conclusion is, Bicycle has been making playing cards since...1885, apparently. Back in the days before digital printing, even before photo lithography, artists had to create a different deck of art for each different size of cards. As the technology changed, they just kept using the original artwork as the basis for newer decks. I can't prove that, but it's the theory that fits the facts.