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    FlutterDash99

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    A flag is a brief visual representation of a country. It should sum up a country's culture in just a few colours and shapes.

     

    Rules for making flags:

    - No more than three colours

    - Basic geometric shapes

    - Keep it in the standard ratio 1:2 (unless you want a square flag like the Vatican City or an entirely different shape like the Nepalese flag.) 

    - Try to keep every item on the flag in an ordered fashion

     

    Basically, a kindergartener should be able to draw your flag.

     

     

    As an example of representing a nation's culture let's look at Australia's flag.

    australian_flag.jpg

     

    The first and obvious factor is the Union Jack in the top-left corner. This is called a Canton flag. The Union Jack ties in Australia with its colonial history with the UK. Already at first glance we know this country has British history.

     

    Below the Union Jack is the Commonwealth Star (the big star), this highlights that Australia is apart of the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental coalition of past British territories. 

     

    To the right is the Southern Cross, a constellation of stars only viewable in the southern hemisphere. This demonstrates Australia is located in the southern hemisphere.

     

    The Australian flag presents its history and even location just through the use of three colours and basic shapes. Everything is neatly organised; notice how the flag has four quarters, the top-left corner is the Union Jack, the bottom-left corner is the Commonwealth Star, the bottom-right corner is the bottom two stars, and the top-right corner is the top 3 stars of the Southern Cross.

     

    If you want to make a flag for an imaginary country, or even redesign your own flag for an existing country, use Australia's as a good example.

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    Chara

    Posted

    Hang on.

    You're complaining about BO3 being lacklustre on a last-gen console?

     

    You know, the PS3 is almost a decade old (in fact, by November 11th this year, it will be), it's outdated now, the next generation is starting to become the main focus; game developers are beginning to forget about the last-gen consoles because, A:) They're underpowered and developing games for them while also developing for the current-gen consoles is difficult as changes in programming and such happen, and B:) More and more people everyday are leaving last-gen and moving to current-gen, as such the demand for last-gen games is decreasing and less and less profit is being made on them. Soon enough, the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be forgotten about like the PS2 and original Xbox. 

    Vertigo_95

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    As Silver Stream first said, if you aren't super interesting or talented, it's hard to gain a significant social status on any type of large community, this is obviously because the larger the community, the more people there are in it, and the more people there are in it, the less everyone stands out, raising the bar to be noticed or considered important. As such, popularity is a never-ending game where everyone (at least, everyone who cares about popularity) clamours to be at the top, to be king of the hill. But once you reach that top of the hill, you have to defend it. (This is getting really deep, lol). Because everyone else is still trying to be more important or in some way or another, significant.

     

    This is why you shouldn't care about popularity. It's just a never-ending, unimportant and uncompletable hassle. It's a contest with no end. Sure, you may have some time being the popular person everyone admires and wishes they could be, but that time can disappear so easily and quickly, I've had some first-hand experience with that and it's a horrible feeling. 

     

    So don't worry about it, instead, just stick with the good friends you have and enjoy this site.

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