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The Dictatorship of Mondie

I am graduating high school this month!!!!!

Tethys 13, North aurelia, Cretanja, The True Czar, and 6 othersBig Boyz, Malphe II, Tiplomecja, Gormhuth, Bloomwealth, and Beauty of endymion

The Rodentine Seer of Malphe II

We have a new flag! Read about it below.



[ RAT REFORMS ENTRY 01 - AESTHETIC OVERHAUL ]
or, an account of redesigning the graphics of osiris
<< the live journal of hazel-malphe, pharaoh of osiris >>


Alright, welcome to the Rat Reforms:tm:, the live journal of me about the stuff I'm doing to fix up Osiris! I have very specific elements of the region I want to touch on and I'll be going every one of them individually, for each I'll publish an entry to the rat reforms:tm: detailing the changes I have made and the theory I apply via them. There is no specific schedule or list I'm going through, this is what I do when I get to it. Hope yall enjoy!

For this entry we've got the aesthetics of the region- the WFE, the colour scheme, the dispatches, the graphics. The graphic design of Osiris has been disjointed for a while now, the product of several years of clashing aesthetics piled over eachother, this overhaul is designed to unify and improve them. This comes first just cus I could prep it all before I was officially Pharaoh, unlike everything else with more moving parts.

<< DESIGNING THE NEW FLAG >>

No graphics overhaul can be complete without first redesigning the flag, a process that's taken about two months from conception to what I have now. The scarab flag we'd been using for the last few years was a very complex and intricate graphic taken from the internet, it left elements to be desired tl;dr so what I was designing had to fulfil a set of criteria- it had to be historically founded, simple enough to downsize effectively for server icons and headers, complex enough to be visually interesting, and meaningful to the theme of Osiris.

The design I ultimately elected on is originated from the combination of Linkthe old OFO flag and LinkVleer's later design, and it fulfils all criteria- plus a few Linkredesigned versions to fit better as server icons and the like. This originated from a design where the eye of Horus rested on top of a Scarab as it's head, but I ended up simplifying it. I also considered putting the Crest of Vytherov in the background, it's the weird spiky thing in Vleer's flag, but I decided the more concise the flag was the better.

The overlapping double eye of Horus has a long history in Osiran graphics, lowkey I'd say even after three years of the Scarab it's the single most recognizable symbol of the OFO. This redesign is intended to be simple but interlocking, every part of the design is dependent on every other part of it to look right, it works uniquely well for banners and headers for how flat it is, plus blah blah it downsizes well and Horus is basically the protag of the Osiris myth so blah blah blah, it works and I like it.

After I'd finished the design I worked on a bunch of variations- the aforementioned server icon variation, smaller sizes (surprisingly hard to resize without looking pixel-y), smaller sizes with borders, etc.

<< NEW COLOUR SCHEME >>

Early on into designing the flag I had to figure out what colour scheme I wanted to go for. The flag of Osiris has had SO many colours- we got Linkgolds, Linkblues, Linkgolds n blues, Linkreds, Linkbronze-ish golds, you name it, and all of our secondary graphics have been some weird combination of all of those. I wanted to create a narrower purview, a single colour you could identify among the other regions of NS as Osiran.

You'll notice there's quite a lot of gold up there, so that's what I went with- works pretty well too, black for the dark soils of the Nile and gold for the desert. I wanted to invoke the desert with my redesign so this worked quite well, I'm avoiding blue like the plague for how common it is. I ultimately settled on #BB9421 and #91730E for the primary colours of Osiris, the darker gold makes up for some contrast that's missing with only using one primary colour for your region. The Sekhmet Legion stays blood red ofc.

<< NEW DISPATCHES >>

Next up is dispatches. Our old dispatch system, spruced up and maintained by myself as it was, was still the same we'd be using for several years; I didn't like how many there were, how many didn't really need to exist, and how difficult it was to unify the existing texts into a graphical style I liked. This lead me to design a new set of dispatches, this time only three- the Golden, Reddened, and Paled Books of Ma'at, guides to Osiris, the Legion, and to a collection of Osiran resources respectively. Some thought went into these, but all you need to know is they look better, contain more information in a more efficient package, and are easier to work with as living documents. Nicer dispatch nation too, I'm lowkey shocked 'Hieroglyphs' wasn't taken. I intend to build off the back of them further in the coming months, there's a lot I still haven't included and a lot of pretty clunky segments I want to rewrite.

In rewriting the dispatches I've run into a lot of funky dead ends where I've found something I want to rework or reform but I couldn't do it yet, so there's still a lot of blank sections of the Books of Ma'at that I'll fill in once I've fixed up whatever I don't like and I can feel good about including it in the book. I'm also defining a few set templates within the books for forum announcements and the like, that way there's no more *wait how should i format this* crises.

Very notable is that if you're not sure of the policy in a particular area, like embassies or endorsement caps or whatever, the Books of Ma'at have precedent over any old forum resources I haven't updated yet. These policies are upheld by word of the Pharaoh, and my word is in these new dispatches.

<< WFE & BRUTALIST VIBES >>

For WFE and dispatch aesthetics, at some point along the line I decided to go for the ~simple hacker-vibes brutalist utilitarian command line~ aesthetics cus honestly they're what I vibe with most and I'm Pharaoh now. WFE and banners both redesigned to fit the new aesthetic + flag + colour scheme obvs, new regional tablet for fyi's and the like, fully expect to tweak it a lot into the future. There's a lot of boring stuff I've also done over, you'd be surprised at the sheer amount of writing involved with a Sinker delegacy.

Think that's basically it, tune in next time to the Rat Reforms:tm: for something else.


while True: print("next up is prolly forum cleanup actually")

Read dispatch

Czakhan

Avek ei travecz pet ket totczet?

The Republic of -Karen-

Hewwo! I came to see the manager!

The Rodentine Seer of Malphe II

-Karen- wrote:Hewwo! I came to see the manager!

The manager is a rat, she demands more endorsements!

The Republic of -Karen-

Malphe II wrote:The manager is a rat, she demands more endorsements!

YAY! I would have used my Osiris nation (Rushtaria) but I'm lazy so you get a Karen because it was already in WA.

The Toppled Regime of The True Czar

Mondie wrote:I am graduating high school this month!!!!!

Congratulations!

Cretanja, Tiplomecja, and Gormhuth

Bloomwealth

Mondie wrote:I am graduating high school this month!!!!!

Congratulations my friend.

Cretanja, Tiplomecja, and Gormhuth

Kawaiis sleeper nation

Wake up, babe! New osi flag dropped!

The Rodentine Seer of Malphe II

Kawaiis sleeper nation wrote:Wake up, babe! New osi flag dropped!

Actually fight me.

Cretanja, Kawaiis sleeper nation, Tiplomecja, Gormhuth, and 1 otherAthatrondeasia

Tiplomecja

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day (Special Edition):

How does your nation treat rats (or the equivalent)?

Rats carry a really bad association with disease in urban areas, but far out in the farmlands, rats are generally healthier as they don't grow above their natural carrying capacity in their natural environment and aren't pumped full of industrial chemicals. So farming families sometimes hunt wild rats along with other small critters like squirrels, groundhogs, mice, and rabbits to put food on the table, while others end up as somewhat cute pets for the little kids.

Jiayang

Hi, I'm back, again

The Sovereign Orbital Vessel of Cretanja

Jiayang wrote:Hi, I'm back, again

Welcome back to Osi, friend!

Cantonstan

Kawaiis sleeper nation wrote:Wake up, babe! New osi flag dropped!

Lol

The Aquatic Librarian Knights of Tethys 13

Question of the Day:

What show, film, game etcetera did you feel pessimistic towards the moment you heard about it?

Tethys 13 wrote:My answer:

A Tolkien-inspired television series first mentioned at the height of Game of Thrones' popularity. I imagine this is the obvious choice.

Dragonian Alliance, Cretanja, and Tiplomecja

The Sovereign Orbital Vessel of Cretanja

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day:

What show, film, game etcetera did you feel pessimistic towards the moment you heard about it?

I think I feel this way every time I hear they're making another Home Alone movie.
Like, none of the Home Alone movies are bad. But, it just seems like the right time to leave it alone.

Tethys 13 and Tiplomecja

The Divine Infinite Technocracy of Dragonian Alliance

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day:

What show, film, game etcetera did you feel pessimistic towards the moment you heard about it?

The new Matrix and Top Gun movies

Tethys 13, Cretanja, and Tiplomecja

The People's Republic of Vanmoriana

Were losing against these heathen North Valerian army. There's just too many of them. We need any help just any. We beg.

Cretanja, Tiplomecja, and Gormhuth

Unsere grosse kaiserin

Do former WA Delegates usually resign from world assemblies? I mean all power to our new one but what happened to our previous pharaoh?

Cretanja and Tiplomecja

The People's Republic of Angalaria

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day (Special Edition):

How does your nation treat rats (or the equivalent)?

I am a bit late on this but rats in my nation are domesticated in belief it will keep them off the street and increase hygiene standards.

Tethys 13, Cretanja, Tiplomecja, Communistic Anarchy and Nature, and 1 otherCrepuscular hydrocephalix

The Sovereign Orbital Vessel of Cretanja

Unsere grosse kaiserin wrote:Do former WA Delegates usually resign from world assemblies? I mean all power to our new one but what happened to our previous pharaoh?

Former Pharaoh Skies abdicated shortly after naming Incumbent Pharaoh Hazel the Heiress Apparent.

So you're caught up, feel free to check out Hazel's inauguration / coronation post.
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=395368&start=1300

Hail Osiris! Hail the Pharaoh!

The Federated National Republics of Gormhuth

Vanmoriana wrote:Were losing against these heathen North Valerian army. There's just too many of them. We need any help just any. We beg.

We would love to. Unfortunately, we are experiencing a political crisis right now. Please come back later.

Malphe II and Tiplomecja



The Rodentine Seer of Malphe II

Unsere grosse kaiserin wrote:Do former WA Delegates usually resign from world assemblies? I mean all power to our new one but what happened to our previous pharaoh?

Yeah, so most regions similar the size of Osiris have legal or social mechanisms for delegacy transition, the previous Pharaoh legally appointed me their successor, abdicated, and legal rights to the delegacy passed to me. These mechanisms exist to separate an approved delegacy from a coup d'état. Our allies in the Brotherhood of Malice are helping stabilise in the meantime!



The Nomadic People of Pridelantic people

Big Boyz wrote:Question of the Day!

What is your favorite summer holiday?

Big Boyz wrote:Question of the Day!

If you could go anywhere in the world for 1 week, where would you go and why?

Big Boyz wrote:Question of the Day!

What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

vanilla and strawberry

Big Boyz wrote:

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Question of the Day!

What is your favorite type of pie? (To go with your ice-cream, perhaps)

Mushar wrote:weird question, but what is your religion guys? i was born in orthrodox (i hope i spelled it right ) country but i am atheist

Big Boyz wrote:Question of the Day!

What is your favorite kind of drink? (either alcoholic or non-alcoholic)

ginger ale, ginger beer

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day:

What is the largest area of government expenditure in your nation, and how large is it?
A reminder: If you use NationStates statistics, you can find this information under the 'Government' tab.

giving gift in exchange for

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day:

If your nation were to head an international treaty or alliance, what would it be called and and what would its purpose be?

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day:

Do you play any browser games besides this one?

used to most were flash games city builders and some other ones.

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day:

When and why did you join NationStates?

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day (Special Edition):

How does your nation treat rats (or the equivalent)?

Are pests, hunted for meat. Pests affecting crops such as root crops, fruit trees, ruining harvests, eating any produce stored and rapidly spoiling them.

Tethys 13 wrote:Question of the Day:

What show, film, game etcetera did you feel pessimistic towards the moment you heard about it?

fast & furious, from furious 6 onwards, trailers too long and I feel have already watched the whole movie and any other movies that do this.

Corvinna

Ok, so supporting the creation of baseball stadiums causes patriotism to DECREASE? What the actual f**k…

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