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Made a joke about that card in sketches before, now it’s in the comic 😀
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Anyone else have their brain read the dark spots on the flowers as “faces” and get a little disturbed? 😅
I actually left them like that after I saw that. Little Easter Egg in the card, let’s say :p
The rabbit wouldn’t by any chance happen to be inspired by Scorbunny, would it? 😛
Yikes that is horrifying
A gift, it seems, for Nora
is the price of Phoenix fire.
A common treat can be
all that you desire.
Will he tell her what it cost
to put a smile upon a beak?
Will he keep his secret move
or will the secret leak?
Making friends the Benji way;
it’s a skill that he doesn’t lack.
Two Dragons, now a Phoenix too…
He’s making a mythical pack.
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Which one will be next? The tortoise or the qilin? Though the twins aren’t blue…
Benji’s a friend of Jin too, yes? So Two dragons, One phoenix, Anndd a lion-dog? One more mythical for a full hand! The mythical -Unbeatable Deck??- 🙂
Clue-eating rabbit? I couldn’t possibly guess what that card’s function would be…
And happy birb is happy.
I expect if will fit in Nora’s Anti-RNG deck.
By the way, I first read it as a glue-eating rabbit. 😀
“Glue-eating rabbit” So; rabbit is still in first grade in school? 🙂
Something like that. It could have the power to supress synergies.
It eats the glues that hold the clues together.
Are the dots on her (idk how to spell her name 😅) beak the bird equivalent of freckles?
Kinda, yes ^^
Are card trades always 1 to 1? Or could Benji take multiple Clue-Eating Rabbits for a rare card like Alabastra Phoenix? With the idea of multiple Commons still being worth less than a rare one like Red-Eyes Blac… I mean the Phoenix card.
Like all the Hare Apparents I keep collecting… always need more lmao
As with any trade, it’s up to the people involved to decide what to accept.
As they say, the price depends on the demands…
Happy birb makes a happy birb chirp, I wonder what other bird noises Phoebe can make and if she’s a good songbird.
Looks like Benji managed to get a valuable card, one of personal rather than monetary value, a bunny for his bunny. I wonder if this card will reward Benji with a kiss from Nora. Or will the Brown Bunny of Doom refuse to pamper her boyfriend again? Those two are like an old married couple. I think Phoebe is curious as to who’s luck is so bad that they can’t find a common Scorbun-, Clue-Eating Rabbit card…
Phoebe is one happy fire chicken (or crane, whichever bird the Phoenix is more closely related to), she has a new card to complete her deck’s theme and strategy plus she made a new friend. She’s so happy she can just explode, which might be possible for a Phoenix; thankfully, only her feathers catch fire. I wonder how Benji will react to learning Phoebe is a Mythical Hybrid.
She’s got a beak so possibly she also has a syrinx instead of vocal cords. I would guess the rest depends on training.
You know, Nora always thinks she has bad luck, but I think she has good luck where it really counts. She has Benji in her corner and that makes up for a lot.
I think that Nora just spent all of her good luck when she met Benji. He’s a good boyfriend.
Is a clue a kind of flower I’ve never heard of, or does he interfere with mystery investigations when not eating flowers?
My sense is that the answer to exactly what the card does is a spoiler. Other than the fact that this card will be part of the take down of the normally impossibly lucky bunny, which is at least strongly hinted because it looks so much like Chekov’s clue eating rabbit.
Careful, Benji. Try to improve an unlucky person’s luck, and you might have *your* luck decreased.
Worth it for someone like Nora! 🙂
What is love, if not a willingness to suffer for another?
What is love?
Baby don’t hurt me,
Don’t hurt me, no more….
What is lo-o-o-ooo-o-o-ove, anyway?
Does anybody really love anybody, anyway?
Makes me want to know more about this card game! (As a game designer, it makes me want to play this game IRL!!!)
Seems to be a mix of mostly magic, with some pokemon (if the artwork on clue-eating rabbit is anything to go by) and a hint of yugioh as benji mentioned summoning in attack position a few pages ago
yep, definitely based on a Pokemon – whose name I can’t remember (although my niece owns a stuffed one, which I have interacted with on several occasions)
YouTube has started suggesting Yu-Gi-Oh videos to me this week. Been making me wonder how easy or difficult it’d be to put RFID chips into playing cards to trigger video effects for a game. No idea how to do it, though.
I think your best bet would be to have some pattern on the cards that’s easy for a computor to locate, so that it can re-orient the view that the camera has of the card, and compare that card image with a database to identify them.
That way you could just get one design of card sleve (with the pattern) and be done with altering the cards, and the computor vision shouldn’t even need AI!
That’s actually how QR Codes work. The 3 large squares around the outside mark the borders, with a smaller square acting as a “this is the bottom right corner” marker. QR Code reader picks up on those squares, identifies bottom right square, rotates the image to line up, then reads the binary in the rest of the binary located in the code…
When all that was developed, there were a few things going around thst took advantage of the technology. Most were novelties, but I can see it used for a csrd game, providing Anime style effects, on the screen at least…
The reason I was thinking RFID was it’d be harder, I think, for people to create counterfeit cards, since not as many people (I think) are familiar with programming RFID cards. QR codes (as Castigator suggested) can be copied with any decent scanner/printer combo, so it’d be a lot easier to create counterfeit cards that way.
I know RFID cards are often used by hotels and security companies/offices in buildings. I assume “tap to pay” is also RFID, but making those cards in the first place is more of a challenge, I think, than just using an inkjet on some cardstock.
As for the database, that’s exactly how I was thinking of doing things. The trouble is, it would have to be an absolutely massive database of video files, since I’d want the game to show a unique video of every card combination against each other. (Like, Wood Elf vs every character, then Vine Lady vs every character, and so on. Even in a game without traps, spells, or combos, it’d get very massive very quickly.
RFID might be a bit expensive for a collectable card game. Each card would basically have to be essentially a credit/debit plastic card instead of cardboard, which would drive up costs a lot. You could go cardboard with a retail security style sticker built in, but I don’t know if that could send out an identifying signal, instead of just a “product here” signal security scanners pick up on. If those kinds of stickers *could* be programmed with enough code to identify enough cards, sandwich it between 2 pieces of cardboard, add a holographic sticker on as a mark of authenticity, that could work…
RFID was actually a Russian invention. They put it inside a sculpture they gave to US Intelligence who hung it in a important office and didn’t know what it was secretly doing until a friendly country told them their radios were picking up conversations held in the office with the sculpture…
RFID works by an external device sending a radio signal to the RFID device which picks up that signal, sends the energy through a computer chip essentially, which then uses the energy to transmit whichever code is built into it. The code is picked up by the original transmitting device and translated into whatever action it needs to do. The Russian version from the sculpture picked up the signal the Russians were transmitting, using it to power the built-in radio transmitter, which picked up what was being said in the office then transmitting that out, which the Russians then listen in on like it was a common radio station…
Nora better be careful. That little Phoenix might be developing a crush on Benji.