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Spiderfist Island posted:Pearson Pennant designs: For reference, I liked this one the best as well.
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YF-23 posted:I'm using these colours because they are Christiana's flag's colours, and so *traditional*, just like how any proper absolute monarchy ought to be. The white looks better in my opinion than the black though. Maximum Switzerland. All your flags are ugly. But, but ugly flags are what makes america great. e: For reference, I think this one was the best one for Borealia. The mapleleaf flags are cool and all but they're just so [/i]canadian[/i].  For Scandinavia, I think we have a few options. We can take aspects from the three old flags and mash them together like the union jack does, or we could update it in a "revolutionary" style (hate to say it, but a tricolor would make sense), but those are both sort of boring. I feel like an international revolutionary government would want to create a unifying symbol for themselves. Historically when people have tried to create a modern national symbol from the ground up they've wound up with silly poo poo like sickles, maple leaves, and stoned looking yellow suns. So this is our chance to get creative. Ugliest flag wins as far as I'm concerned. Duckbox fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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Thank you  At some point I stopped caring about making pretty flags and just tried out designs and just put them up for the world to see without much care. I am the bad poster, it's me.
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Before flagchat dies out, throwing in a fascist flag for Scandinavia or Borealia, it could work either way. It's supposed to be some sort of swastika meets nordic cross design, though I have no idea if it's too complex or not.
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Bishop Rodan posted:It's linked to in the OP, but here you go. Do you know if it would be against any rules to make this a gif avatar?
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tonberrytoby posted:Totally missed that the first time. But then you'd have to ask yourself wouldn't that be worth it.
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I can't imagine how it would be against the rules. E: Just make both Borealia and Scandinavia declare a war on flags. Their banners shall be pure white with "I loving hate flags" tastefully embroidered in deep crimson (or written in poo poo). steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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steinrokkan posted:I can't imagine how it would be against the rules. 
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I'm half-tempted to buy this as an avatar, because I loving HATE FLAGCHAT, but I'm not giving up my current av.
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ThePutty posted:Before flagchat dies out, throwing in a fascist flag for Scandinavia or Borealia, it could work either way. It's supposed to be some sort of swastika meets nordic cross design, though I have no idea if it's too complex or not. This is the first flag I've liked this round. Great color choice and no ugly/complex elements.
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Duckbag posted:All your flags are ugly. But, but ugly flags are what makes america great. They are Canadian because Canada has lot of maples. It wouldn't be a stretch for these guys to choose it as their symbol, especially when Nordic crosses are ugly and boring as poo poo (and I am saying it as someone who is from a Nordic country). Without stupid Union Jack loving things up the flag of Canada would very likely have been a maple leaf in the first place instead only for the last 47 years.
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 Here is my quick take on the flag of Borealia. I based the desing (ripped off) on the union flag of Sweden and Norway. Cristiania being the major part in the Union gets the big cross and cascadia is the blue and yellow stuff on the corner. I couldn't find the Vestland part so I just put Cristianias colors there instead.
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 e: vvv Yeah, that might work better. My Latin isn't exactly the greatest. Updated. e2: I'm keeping abbhoreo since it's a more accurate description of how I feel about flagchat. e3: I give up. I'll just keep the original. v  v
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"While I am loving, I hate flags." e: Maybe "futuenter"? "I fuckingly hate flags." I dunno man e2: also with "abhorreo" that's technically "I shrink away from flags in horror"; you really should be using "odio"/"odi" instead but I'm getting too  y about Latin when the point is I actually liked your joke
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Nov 20, 2012 15:57
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That last one reads "I, who am loving, hate flags". There's no real Latin for 'loving' as an adverb, but "mehercle vexilla abhorreo" might be better. With all the time I've spent learning this dead language I'm drat well going to use it for something!
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HrungTheGi posted:With all the time I've spent learning this dead language I'm drat well going to use it for something! Don't worry, this is the most noble endeavor.
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Well,I hread some people really like flags.
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The history of nations is composed of mainly flags and maps. That's just the way of things. Personally, I like this flag for Canada: quote:
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SlothfulCobra posted:The history of nations is composed of mainly flags and maps. That's just the way of things. California almost had a pear on its flag, but thankfully the guy who sowed together the final version misread the directions as 'Bear.' Things could be worse.
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Spiderfist Island posted:California almost had a pear on its flag, but thankfully the guy who sowed together the final version misread the directions as 'Bear.' Things could be worse. Except that that's an urban legend.
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"Don't tread on the pear" sounds more intimidating though.
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SlothfulCobra posted:It was pretty abnormal for Canada to choose a maple leaf for its flag in the real world, so it's unlikely that they'd do that in this one. quote:At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the settlements of New France had attained a population of about 18,000. Also by this time, the maple leaf had been adopted as an emblem by the French Canadians along the Saint Lawrence River.[1] That's all before it even appeared as a flag. I don't see what is abnormal about it, it's a pretty prominent leaf in a big-rear end tree. Even during Canada's flagchat when they were choosing the new flag the debate wasn't about whether or not the maple leaf was suitable as a symbol for Canada but whether they should keep the Union Jack or not. In this universe Union Jack never flew over the Nordic colonies and they first broke in a violent rebellion, then unified so I think they would want a whole new flag instead following the Norwegian (?) one. DarkCrawler fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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Before the modern design was adopted, all of the versions of the Red Ensign that Canada used featured maple leaves prominently in their coats of arms. It still seems kind of weird for a culturally Scandinavian settler colony that doesn't really have anything in common with Canada besides occupying the same geographical space, though.
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Rincewind posted:culturally Scandinavian settler colony In this timeline, black metal should originate ~200 years early in Borealia. Their flag should reflect this. 
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Rincewind posted:Before the modern design was adopted, all of the versions of the Red Ensign that Canada used featured maple leaves prominently in their coats of arms. Well, why not? The French and English settlers both apparently adopted the symbol, and it's certainly not a trend among other colonies created by either nation. Maybe it's the geography that counts.
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Rincewind posted:It still seems kind of weird for a culturally Scandinavian settler colony that doesn't really have anything in common with Canada besides occupying the same geographical space, though. lonelywurm fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Nov 20, 2012 |
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Nov 20, 2012 23:24
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Well when they have so much gorgeous frozen forest why not represent them on the flag
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The problem with the maple leaf is it sort of de-emphasizes the alt-historyness of the country. Back when there were three of them, it was pretty clearly different from our Canada. Now though, it has practically the same territory, giving it the same flag just makes it even more the same, but different. The other issue is the maple leaf really only makes sense as a symbol for Christiana. There are maple species on the west coast, but the iconic sugar maples are very much a north-eastern tree.
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Not to derail the flag chat, but I have a quick Victoria 2 question. I'm playing a vanilla version (with A house Divided) and I'm trying to stay alive as Texas. However, according to all the online guides I should wait for the USA to join, but the problem is America keeps allying with Mexico and never helping me. Is there some other way to survive or do I just have to save scum until I get one where America helps?
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Not to derail the flag chat, but I have a quick Victoria 2 question. I'm playing a vanilla version (with A house Divided) and I'm trying to stay alive as Texas. However, according to all the online guides I should wait for the USA to join, but the problem is America keeps allying with Mexico and never helping me. Is there some other way to survive or do I just have to save scum until I get one where America helps? I dunno how different AHD's AI is, but if you continually use the "improve relations" diplomatic action with the US they'll prefer you more. Remember that Mexico's AI will also try to keep good relations with the US (at least until they get the Manifest Destiny Decision and gobble up everything north of Chihuahua)
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Duckbag posted:The problem with the maple leaf is it sort of de-emphasizes the alt-historyness of the country. Back when there were three of them, it was pretty clearly different from our Canada. Now though, it has practically the same territory, giving it the same flag just makes it even more the same, but different. The other issue is the maple leaf really only makes sense as a symbol for Christiana. There are maple species on the west coast, but the iconic sugar maples are very much a north-eastern tree. Solution: maple leaves on only the fascist flag. They will become the symbol of Fascism in this timeline, much like trains/gears should be the symbol of this timeline's Communism. People will learn to be terrified of that leaf. 
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Doesnt the name Borealia comes from the Aurora Borealis, northern lights. A flag design based on that could work.
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Is this going to happen every time a new country is created?
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It happens in real life every time a new country is created
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Which African country is the one that has an AK-47 on the flag? I wish I was a fly on the wall when they were coming up with that one!
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You mean Angola? It's a pretty cool flag all things considered...
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Mozambique. It also has a bayonet!
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Gorgo Primus posted:You mean Angola? It's a pretty cool flag all things considered... It's Mozambique 
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Don't worry guys, a gun appearing on a flag doesn't necessarily mean it's a violent country. They have a book on their flag, too, but their literacy rate is only 56.1%.
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