"simply put"??
so, to be clear, after reading all that, you still didnt get that im not out to screw anyone? i've been an artist and musician/composer for almost my entire life, and yes, that's only 36 years, but well enough to know the ins and outs of how to, and not to f**k people over. i said, again, i sent him the thing just so he could see what i wanted it to do, i.e., "be a deck stand", nothing more "the same" to Uusi than it being made from wood, which im pretty sure has been done before. anyway, im not big on being made to feel like you think im simple, when ive had all the respect for you in the world, Don. sorry i dont use caps or punctuation at all times, my stupid hands hurt, to go along with just about every single other part of me, so i dont bother. i figure my sense shows through regardless, but maybe not... so, again, as well, i dont give a damn about the stands now, at all. truly. my biggest mistake was being detailed about what i sent him, because had i not mentioned Uusi to start, this would have all been fine, im pretty sure. or, if i fucking had the ability to drive my cripple ass to a store and get a new camera so you could see them, either way. no need to reply, i wont be continuing the thread.

btw, Don, if this isn't in the best place for this post, could you relocate it for me? you're always so damn great at that ^_~ thanks bud

great idea, Sparkz!  i have a Target down the street, as well as a Home Depot... i will surely give this a try.
on yours, did you drill through both layers of the plastic? i ask because like you say, it would be intersting to put a background behind the deck... if you went through both layers, this would seem like it would make it difficult- though, wouldn't having the "posts" in the front (if they extended into the back) cause the pic not to have the pressure it needed to stay in place? idk... 
i think it would be nice to blow up a back design, or art from one of the cards, from the deck you are displaying, and use it as the picture in the frame. then, if you have a sealed deck, you could still have the extra art on display without having to have an opened deck nearby. this is what i'm considering, anyway.
i was also thinking, if you wanted to display 2-4 decks, you could buy bigger standing frames, like these, and use more posts, though keeping it standing would become a problem once you started going more than one-up in your display. maybe you could use something to weigh down the stand's bottom?
i think i'm going to paint the back black, and use a mirroring paint for the front, if i'm not adding a pic to the frame...

o.k. good, i was hoping to have add-ons available soon, so i know what i''l have left to spend that month. i looks like the limited deck will be a lot different, now that backing has gone so well, but we will see... i just "managed" to switch to the "1xunlimited, 1x limited, and 1x tarot." fot $72, and added a coin/pendant for someone else.  :Di am very happy to see Shane able to make items without the dull albino dragon logo thrown on everything. it just made other coins kinda half-cool, imo. i really hope to see that Shane functions just as well, if not better than he did with Eric breathing down his neck... (this deck/vs/princessbride is no contest, unless you hate cthulhu (to begin with, or now that it's so damn popular and overdone), or love princess bride...) 

Quote from: Rob Wright on November 12, 2013, 02:12:17 AM

Quote from: Don Boyer on November 12, 2013, 02:08:10 AM

Wait a sec...  The only difference between the standard and limited edition Bicycle decks is the phrase that appears below the Bicycle logo?  That's the whole difference, right there?  That don't seem right...

The spade on the limited has tentacles!

Oh, well, in THAT case...

um... seriously... if the art between the two is somehow different, which remains to be seen (i guess), after reading the KS page and all the tiers, i would have no idea how to get both decks. i see one for each of the limited and the tarot, etc., but i don't even see any add-ons (yet...).  man, i'm kinda scared of what all he may end up adding on for the people who will die for this chtulhu stuff. personally, i'm on the edge of my seat in anticipation of the book written by kickstarter backers!

@Don- i don't mind you merging it at all, i just hope there is someone who can answer a couple of those (many) questions! 
i very much agree with you on CowBe, Trigun, and GITS most of all... i'm very curious about the new GITS series i saw a disc from a couple months ago...
@Sparkz- Man Machine Interface was an awesome book- fortunately, when i wanted to give a copy of it as a gift to a girl i was seeing, along with copies of the 1st GITS book, and GITS 1.5- Human-Error Processor, there was another printing (a larger book, with blown-up images) of the first book, and MMI, that were slightly edited- keeping me from looking like a perv for putting these in her hands (while MMI isn't so bad, if she had started reading with the first book, as one should, i don't think the beginning would have been very cool for her... [maybe had it not been the first set of manga i gave her, and were i not 32 while she was 20 at the time, it wouldn't have been as bad]).   

well, i guess since others were doing this on the thread this was merged with, i might as well mention some of the stuff i'm into...

as for anime series-
wolf's rain (one of my cats is named Darcia)
d. gray man, deadman wonderland
darker than black, one piece
naruto, naruto shippuden
attack on titan
bleach (hooray! Ulquiorra!)
bubblegum crisis 2040
gankutsuou, basalisk
mushi shi, moribito
ninja scroll (duh)
serial experiments: lain
appleseed, and a.s. ex machina
last exile (my first cosplay was alex row- this was awesome, as i didn't have to do anything to look like him, other than dress the part... "being" him was the challenge. i was waaay excited, and spent close to a thousand bucks having a silversmith make me items for the outfit.  i now display them, and i sometimes wear the whole uniform for fun. )
last exile: fam- the silver wing
samurai champloo, air gear
mezzo, burst angel
haibane renmei,
sword art online
heat guy j, kaze no yojimbo
voices of a distant star
the place promised in our early days
everything from Hayao Miyazaki / studio ghibli (got my Grandmother interested in anime by watching totoro, castle in the sky, and the cat returns with her. )
trigun, perfect blue
ergo proxy, samurai 7
fullmetal alchemist/ fma: brotherhood
berserk, kino's journey
hakkenden, gungrave
blue sub 6, big o 1 & 2
rurouni kenshin / samurai x
metropolis, eden of the east series and movies
elfin lied, coyote ragtime show
soul eater, jyu-oh-sei
s.d. kyo, escaflowne
hellsing, deathnote
king of bandit jing
gunslinger girl and pt. 2
cowboy bebop, witch hunter robin
casshern sins, x tv
samurai gun, sword of the stranger
-and on and on... but i'm starting to have trouble not repeating what i'm thinking of, so here at 3:48am, i'll leave it at these. i have lost my link to the site i wrote my list at a few years ago... i need to update it, too. does anyone know the site where you find and list your watched/watching/going to watch anime? 

a few manga i've enjoyed-
gto, deathnote
trigun maximum
blade of the immortal
vagabond, hero
shirahime-syo
king of wolves, and japan (both these by the creator of berserk, kentaro miura)
rebirth, loveless
ragnarok, basalisk
claymore, blame!
berserk, bleach
zombie powder, anne*freaks
dogs, full metal panic
biomega, gits 1 , 1.5, and 2
bobobo-bo bo-bobo
samurai executioner
k.o.b. jing, k.o.b.j. twilight tales
lone wolf and cub
cowboy bebop- shooting star
chobits, s.d. kyo
gunslinger girl, Es
now, the demon ororon
black cat
and many others- sometimes shonen jump was somewhat fun as well... 

boy, it seems it's actually kinda fun to type out an excessive amount of titles you're into once in a while. lol...
anywak, these are some of my more recent favorites... (strangely enough, i love cards, and i love anime, but i have absolutely no desire whatsoever to own a deck of licensed anime playing cards. why is that?  )
while i'd still like replies to my earlier questions, i'm also curious as to what everyone's favorite anime's are when it comes to the music they make for the shows. i'm sure a fan of Yoko Kanno myself, but i also have so much music from anime soundtracks on my MP3 player, i can listen to it for hours and hours and not hear the same track twice. [=)]

 

having a hard time picking between these... my friend is wanting to get me one or the other for us to play together on Xbox360. from what i've seen, they both have some pretty cool features/qualities to them. if anyone knows about this stuff, which is going to be the better choice for multiplayer, and why? also, which has the more interesting single player campain?
(btw, for some reason, it says you can pick two, but really, it only makes sense to choose one. hopefully this is what everyone will do... if anyone can change this from two to one, please do. thanks.)

well... if i needed a deck that would last for life, and i was buying cards because of wear and tear often, this wouldn't seem like the worst idea, really. as for if they are printed on card stock or not, i watched the videos on the KS page, and they do not seem like a fake. i also noticed in the picture you showed above, mr. faukx, that the way the pattern lies on the cards is different from one to the next, from what i could tell by looking at the corners.

if i was going to get one of these, i think i would have to go with the red first, or the blue- they are a hundred times better looking than the plain black, although it may just be the way i'm seeing them, since they are not in my hands. (if you watch the video of the colored thread decks, you will notice the depth is more than you could achieve with printed images) if i was a backer, i would actually pull my pledge if we didn't reach the strech goal. speaking of which, why the h*ll are different colors a goal, when i doubt there is any printing minimum? it seems like he would be allowed this option from the start...  o.O?

i guess considering a pledge for four of these cards is $20, i have to think $120 for a deck and a metal case (because if you are going to spend $100 on these cards, why wouldn't you spend the extra $20 on a decent case?), all shipped, is pretty reasonable. although, i have no idea what carbon fiber costs, even in bulk, so i could be way off.   

personally, i would be more likely to consider this deck if it were more unique than just the material it's made of. some custom work would be nice, but it would even look better if the colors weren't so damn standard... they even have one-way backs, for God's sake.   maybe they will improve when the creator starts getting some feedback. it might be worth watching. 

if there was a single card i believe should be scrapped, and reconsidered, it would have to be the ten of clubs... when i got that update, i was pretty confused. i mean, an art card? really? please, if anyone else has seen this card, and can give me a good reason why it should be included, let me know, i'd like to not hate it so much. 
i have considered commenting on the project for it to be done over. i mean, hell, splash it with some various colors, or something, give me the impression that SOME work went into it... geez...

There is only 99 as you said 65x1 and 17x2 if you add that up that's 99 then the singed cards are one deck of the grain back we will sing on so that's why thanks for backing.

this new concept really is magical! what type of song will be sung on these cards?! what kind of mood does this put the cards in? would you mind just singing on my whole order? i think i would surely pay extra for that!

i got my Deco decks and coin a few days ago... i really like them, and i get where Paul is coming from on wanting the design in the background to be visible, but not overly apparent. they look like high quality cards (well, they are HQ cards...), but when you inspect them a little closer, the details in the cards are more than they seem. i also have an awesome new coin. 
i really like the changes in colors of faces, pips, and details between the two decks. these are very fitting shades of each color to compliment the differences, everything works together very well.

Then why do you guys hate on the big guys when they release colour changes? Calling those money grabs and Paul a justified business model. You cant pick and choose. Goddamn hypocrites.

silly phegget! is it that you are upset you can't have one of these awesome decks with the errors? is it that important to you? i got the "v.2" myself, and could care less that another tuck choice exists... nobody withdrew money from my account for it, so i don't care if i didn't get one. to the people that did, and like that sort of thing, i understand this, and i'm personally happy to see them offered, as it was my understanding that this wasn't his intention- it was interested people who asked him if they could possibly get one of these first-printing tucks, of which he then kept a small supply to meet these needs. boy, how could he ever do such a thing!? 
i don't see how this is anything like offering color changes, as John B. said. i mean, maybe it would be similar if one of these "big guys" printed a deck and got the wrong color, mentioned it to explain a delay, and was shown interest by collectors in the "wrong" color. if they then put aside some of these decks (and very few, really) to meet this demand, it would be nothing like just switching colors because they know they can sell them.

and "G.D. HYPOCRITES"? don't you think this is a little much?  no one here has insulted you for your skewed view of the situation... learn that others are not always going to agree with you. and if the pressing of this issue was any indication, it's most likely pretty common most people aren't going to agree with you. sorry buddy, we are all welcome to our opinions, even if they are abnormal- like yours. 

USPC (and probably every other printer out there) has some difficulty with printing low contrast, dark images.  Two prime examples of this are the Bicycle Venom and Bicycle Venom Strike decks.  The artwork on both was great, but WYSIWYG does NOT apply to CMYK-printed playing cards.  The designs of both were overall very dark with what was supposed to be a few brighter details here and there, but the whole thing ended up looking like mud.

There was also a print run of the Black Arcane deck from E that had this same issue.  I'm guessing that an early print run looked too light, more gray than black, so they opted for a heavier shade of black.  Unfortunately this also resulted in much of the finer details on the design being lost in a sea of black ink.  The most recent print run I've seen has corrected this, going back to a lighter shade of black and allowing more details to show through.

A deck this dark, with the brighter areas mostly being just fine detail work, will probably (and I can't say with total certainty, but probably, based on recent history with similar decks) lose a lot of that detail work behind a mess of dark ink.

thanks for clearing up my concerns with the color, Don. i was actually horribly dissapointed with both venom decks (though they looked great in theory- as do these backs), so if that is going to be an issue here, what does it matter, had i even loved this back ?  (i mean, it's alright, and for the type of deck, it would have looked somewhat nice...) it's not like there are no other decks to tie up my (little bit of) money, right now anyway... for that matter, even just on kickstarter. 

Wait - so they told you that the cards came out sticky and unplayable?  With the default MAGIC FINISH on them?  And that THEY told USPC to use "an alternative" based on an idea they had?


I call bullshit.

i had a hard time with this, too. as i said, it didn't really aid me in determining an answer for my questions, even though i told them flat out they are possibly going to lose backers as a result of this claim alone (and not just for this project, but maybe future ones, as well). i even told them i was going to post the reply they gave me where others could see it, to address many people's concerns. i was pretty clear (from my message to them) what they needed to do, and this didn't help matters... at all.  oh well... at least now i know where the money will come from for my crystal additions in my black-out deck.