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    • SlprS
      Slpr Gold
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      so long Slpr

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      • PakoonP
        Pakoon @Slpr
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        @Slpr said in I need an actual icon:

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        so long Slpr

        yet another proof that bears are awesome!

        ♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.

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        • tiggerT
          tigger @Kilemall
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          @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

          @Stu said in I need an actual icon:

          @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

          The cool people opt for the minimalism of the colored letter, letting the high value of their posting stand for their own branding.

          That’s fine for the cool people, but what’s your plan?

          True, I am cooler then cool, I may have to take it up a notch to meet expectations.

          Why don’t you use the Duchy of Kansas coat-of-arms?

          http://100acrewood.org/stuff/kansas.png

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          • tiggerT
            tigger
            last edited by

            It’s too small when used in an icon :( Can’t you have a smaller one???

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            • WhoofeW
              Whoofe Gold
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              those trains will collide off screen

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              If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."

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              • KilemallK
                Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @tigger
                last edited by

                @tigger said in I need an actual icon:

                @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

                @Stu said in I need an actual icon:

                @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

                The cool people opt for the minimalism of the colored letter, letting the high value of their posting stand for their own branding.

                That’s fine for the cool people, but what’s your plan?

                True, I am cooler then cool, I may have to take it up a notch to meet expectations.

                Why don’t you use the Duchy of Kansas coat-of-arms?

                http://100acrewood.org/stuff/kansas.png

                Ho ho HOLEE CRAP!

                Where- how- what.

                I don’t know whether to sob with joy or nuke Sweden.

                This is scary.

                For those unaware of Tigger’s little mind nuke, I had a nation state in that policy game called the Duchy of Kansas, and referred to myself as the Duke of Kansas in OT whenever issues of OT sovereignty arose.

                Then, there is the matter of the actual Kansas state seal- Tigger managed to mix in trains into very much the state seal motif-

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Kansas

                Which is also on the flag-

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                Oh WAIT A MINUTE- he was doing the state coat of arms, which I have never seen before-

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                Actually, Tigger’s version is probably more accurate, the state didn’t really take off until the railroads crisscrossed it.

                Terrifying.

                Right in my head.

                Thank you.

                Curse you.

                https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                Never go full Lithu-
                Twain

                No editing is gonna save you now-
                Wingmann

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                • JamJ
                  Jam @tigger
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                  @tigger

                  I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.

                  The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.

                  The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.

                  But otherwise, pretty good drawing!

                  "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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                  • KilemallK
                    Kilemall Careful, railroad agent
                    last edited by

                    Oh I suppose this is absolutely horrible, but I feel compelled to ask-

                    can you make those trains more American?

                    Those look like European locomotives, the 1870s locomotives that would have been around at the same time as the seal creation looked like this-

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                    These are actual Kansas Pacific pics from the 1870s.

                    Slpr, here is a real Hell on Wheels pic of the KP building-

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                    They just started tearing up the old Burnham Yard a month ago, the Denver KP yard from the 1870s that had lasted all the way until now- the roundhouse above is at the approximate site of the current surviving one in KC.

                    Here is Hotfink’s hometown’s reason to exist- the junction where the rails first swung south to Texas.

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                    Can’t help myself, it just looks wrong.

                    Oh, I have a HORRIBLY magnificent idea and request.

                    One of the things the KP did was instigate a slaughter of the buffalo, because they were a huge nuisance and cost to operations (and cut off the Plains Indian from their food source, but mostly it was all those buffalo messing up schedules.

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                    Once the buffalo were out of the way, all those cheap longhorns from Texas could be driven up to the railheads in Kansas for shipping out, thus both helping to create the American taste for beef, and the enduring legend of the cowboy.

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                    So, if you could, have that middle train have a shooting party on board gunning down the buffalo in the field.

                    That depiction would not go over well in Kansas, but it is a LOT more accurate and fits with the terror of trains motif and my Duchy’s philosophy of an unflinching look at history.

                    https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                    Never go full Lithu-
                    Twain

                    No editing is gonna save you now-
                    Wingmann

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                    • WhoofeW
                      Whoofe Gold
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                      Kansas, built on skulls of buffalo…

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                      If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."

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                      • KilemallK
                        Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Jam
                        last edited by

                        @Jam said in I need an actual icon:

                        @tigger

                        I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.

                        The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.

                        The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.

                        But otherwise, pretty good drawing!

                        Hahah, ya I spotted that right away, and had to ask to change it, just cause- took me awhile to find the right pics.

                        https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                        Never go full Lithu-
                        Twain

                        No editing is gonna save you now-
                        Wingmann

                        http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

                        http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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                        • KilemallK
                          Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Whoofe
                          last edited by

                          @Whoofe said in I need an actual icon:

                          Kansas, built on skulls of buffalo…

                          VERY much so.

                          Almost to extinction.

                          https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/buffalo-in-kansas/15602

                          https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                          Never go full Lithu-
                          Twain

                          No editing is gonna save you now-
                          Wingmann

                          http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

                          http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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                          • PakoonP
                            Pakoon
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                            Buffalo meat is über.

                            ♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.

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                            • tiggerT
                              tigger @Jam
                              last edited by

                              @Jam said in I need an actual icon:

                              @tigger

                              I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.

                              The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.

                              The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.

                              But otherwise, pretty good drawing!

                              Aaah! Another railroad agent! They are everywhere!!! Lithu, what did you do??

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                              • PakoonP
                                Pakoon @tigger
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                                @tigger said in I need an actual icon:

                                @Jam said in I need an actual icon:

                                @tigger

                                I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.

                                The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.

                                The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.

                                But otherwise, pretty good drawing!

                                Aaah! Another railroad agent! They are everywhere!!! Lithu, what did you do??

                                Hmmm I suspect Lithu’s secret title is Agente de Ferrocarriles de Cuba Communista

                                ♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.

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                                • tiggerT
                                  tigger @Pakoon
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                                  @Pakoon said in I need an actual icon:

                                  @tigger said in I need an actual icon:

                                  @Jam said in I need an actual icon:

                                  @tigger

                                  I personally like the Coat of Arms, but there is an incongruity evident.

                                  The locomotives depicted are European designs. The upper one looks like a GWR 4200 class tank engine. Were it not for the prototypical GWR safety bonnet, it may well be a British Railways Standard 4 Prairie tank.

                                  The lower locomotive is a 4-6-0 although it could be a 4-6-2 Gresley Pacific if the trailing bogie is obscured by steam. It appears to be pulling a British Pullman coach.

                                  But otherwise, pretty good drawing!

                                  Aaah! Another railroad agent! They are everywhere!!! Lithu, what did you do??

                                  Hmmm I suspect Lithu’s secret title is Agente de Ferrocarriles de Cuba Communista

                                  Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Not Lithuuuu!!!

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                                  • KilemallK
                                    Kilemall Careful, railroad agent
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                                    Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?

                                    https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                                    Never go full Lithu-
                                    Twain

                                    No editing is gonna save you now-
                                    Wingmann

                                    http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/72217/DSC_2528.JPG

                                    http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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                                    • tiggerT
                                      tigger @Kilemall
                                      last edited by

                                      @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

                                      Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?

                                      It’s on my to-do list!

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                                      • D
                                        dinobot @tigger
                                        last edited by

                                        @tigger said in I need an actual icon:

                                        @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

                                        Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?

                                        It’s on my to-do list!

                                        dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!

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                                        • WhoofeW
                                          Whoofe Gold @dinobot
                                          last edited by

                                          @dinobot said in I need an actual icon:

                                          @tigger said in I need an actual icon:

                                          @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

                                          Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?

                                          It’s on my to-do list!

                                          dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!

                                          dino needs an icon

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                                          If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."

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                                          • PakoonP
                                            Pakoon @Whoofe
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                                            @Whoofe said in I need an actual icon:

                                            @dinobot said in I need an actual icon:

                                            @tigger said in I need an actual icon:

                                            @Kilemall said in I need an actual icon:

                                            Pretty please on the locomotive/buffalo shooting redo?

                                            It’s on my to-do list!

                                            dont do it, let them suffer with having to look at superior commie trains!!!

                                            dino needs an icon

                                            alt text

                                            ♙♙♙ Michael Waltz added you to the group.

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