I kind of hate how restrictive the color palette is with regards to actual colors. Things with an excess of browns and greys are very easy to make work, but anything with an abundance of color ends up looking very basic. For example, this guy looks fine when converted to the palette, but trying to do it with a green (for example) character just looks like a mess.

Okay, new proposal: We trim some elements and omit others, leaving us with this:

We put it at (0,390), with the understanding that we’re going behind (rather than over) the tree that’s going up right beside us; that will also help box it in.

In the event that the canvas gets extended twice instead of only once (which will result in another 500 px below the initial square), we extend the two cut off pieces down into the new area, if we have time.

Total area here is 176x110, which is still ambitious, but plausible.

The other option is we design something that fits on the right edge of the canvas and plan to continue into the expanded area the first time it expands (which will probably happen, the second one is less likely.)

(It’s not really about being able to place all of the pixels over the course of the event so much as it is being able to command presence of our area. If we’re working slowly and filling things in a little at a time, other art will move into the area we’d planned to draw in, but we can take advantage of the expanding canvas to solve for this.)

The alternative is that we take all of the individual elements and place them around the canvas, and build them separately. We really do just have a collection of small things, so we could fit them in around other artworks rather than trying to capture an entire corner / area.

The right side will be in the middle on the final canvas (assuming it goes the same as last year, with the size doubling mid-way through). Not a bad thing necessarily but worth noting.

As noted above, though, this is too large - we’ll never get this much space to ourselves and we’ll simply never finish it.

This is a composite of the templates currently posted there - top right corner doesn’t work as we’d be competing with another group.

Compacted a few things, removed boykisser, and swapped Omega and the paw to make it a bit more compact; this is the most compact layout I can find. Total outline is 216x180, though, which is way too large. We’ll never get that much space to ourselves, and we’ll never actually be able to finish it.

That actually fits together pretty compactly. We could omit the boykisser, there’s been boykissers elsewhere on the canvas for the last two years, anyway, and it’s the only component that doesn’t fit in nicely.

Oh for sure, I’m not proposing that this is the design, just arranged everything spread out enough that they could be cut out and moved around if someone wanted to propose something. (The red kobold doesn’t need to be there in its entirety, either; it’s quite large. We also don’t need to use everything here, obviously.)

I don’t have a GIMP file; I’m working in Aseprite, but I can export a to-scale PNG. I can also share the Aseprite file (with layers set up and the color palette loaded) if anyone else is using it.

Just realized I didn’t have OmegaMouse’s pixel art version in there. This is what it looks like when reduced to the Canvas palette - it’s workable, but it’d need some work. Up to you which one you prefer.

Here’s all of the ones that’ve been posted, plus a few others that furries will probably find familiar. Some (like the Yiffit logo) will need to be cleaned up if we end up using them, and some are obviously too large as they are (and will need to either be behind other elements or be trimmed down), but they’re all using the right palette.

I’ve got them in separate layers in aseprite and I don’t mind making the final template / doing the cleanup, but I’d like to get some feedback from folks on arrangement. I’m a pretty shit artist.

Even if you want to just toss things in a rough position in MS Paint, that’s fine - input needed.

Ethanol, tblFlip, l_b_i: If you want to get your sonas or favorite character included, I’ll take care of pixelifying it for you, just give me a source image (ideally with high contrast).

@OmegaMouse@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @green_copper@kbin.earth @tblFlip@pawb.social @l_b_i@yiffit.net

The key point you’re missing, I think, is that the tax would increase exponentially for each additional house owned. The first one could be, say, a 0.5% tax increase, and it could go up from there.

If you’re in a position where paying 0.5% extra tax on your hunting cabin split 5 ways will bankrupt you, then I’d argue that it isn’t how you’re supposed to spend your money. That’s “Skip eating out once a year” territory.

I’ve said this before (and caught flak for it) but I think the solution to this is to apply a heavy additional tax to vacant homes (as defined as any home that isn’t occupied by a permanent resident for more than 6 months a year), and increase the tax exponentially for each residence beyond the first owned by the same company or individual.

At some point, you make it so expensive to keep unoccupied properties that they’re better off letting people live there for free than continuing to let them go unoccupied. Use all of the proceeds from this tax to assist homeless people or build new dense housing developments.

“But Kobold, what about soandso with their summer home?” If you can afford a second home, you can afford to pay a bit more tax on it to benefit the public good.

“But Kobold, a lot of those homes that are vacant are run-down, or are in places nobody actually wants to live!” Doesn’t matter. If they’re vacant, tax them. Use the money to build dense housing in the places where people do want to live. If the place is too run-down to be occupied, the owner can tear it down and do something else with it.

Very helpful!

Have you got a fursona you’d potentially want to include? If you’ve got some non-pixel art art, I might be able to make it work. I’m not much of an artist, but I know my way around Aseprite, at least. Just don’t want you to be left out!

Here’s an attempt at conforming it to the Canvas color palette; could use some cleaning up, but it’s quite workable.

I’d like to get a kobold or two in there, too - still mucking with it, but something like

or

Do we want to include a paw or some text or something? Furries of the Fediverse! I don’t know.

We could do all of the headshots surrounding a central paw, maybe.

This is great; have you confirmed that your color palette is supported?

You’ve got about 4000-4500 colored pixels here, or 6650 if you’re thinking to have a solid background behind it; that’s a lot - you might need to trim it down to just a bust (for example) to cut the size down, unless you’re planning to be super active. (There’s a ~30 second cooldown between pixels you can place, so drawing something that big takes a long time. To put it in perspective, the entire area we were working on last year with 3 or 4 of us very active and a number of others popping in for shorter periods was about 7500 total pixels.

@tblFlip@pawb.social @Ethanol@pawb.social @l_b_i@pawb.social @OmegaMouse@pawb.social Do you all (and anyone else, but you all have replied here) want to supply some character images, too? We can put together a collage with all of them around a paw or a slogan or something to tie it together.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

At the low, low price of €5 per character? Zero chance of that happening.

What we get now, because they’ve hung on so tight to FPTP is a really big chunk of people voting tactically against the party they don’t want.

I honestly would love an option to vote against a party (as in, give them -1 vote) rather than voting for a party. Kind of a “I don’t care who wins, as long as it isn’t this person”, or “I don’t want this person in office, but I don’t like their opponent enough to vote for them.” I think it’d be very telling if you had an election and all candidates had a negative vote total at the end.

Both Window and Face link to this page.

Am I missing something here? The links seem to have no relevance to the word they’re linked from; if that’s the intent, what’s even the point of making them linked from words in Ulysses? Further, out of the ~20 links you have here, there’s already a duplicate link.

This seems like a novelty that people would watch one time and then promptly forget about. Where’s the appeal in this at all? Not even from an “AI BAD” standpoint, but just, like… why?

So, Primer, then? Where you can’t return to a point in time before the time machine was constructed?