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Poor aussie.zone didn't stand a chance to get their flag in
Edit: Oh except for the tiny one I see there!
I remember them mentioning some technical problem, right at the start. I kind of used the opportunity to write the "fuck flags // fuck nations // we're in a single Earth" text, right where they'd make the union jack. Then I saw people actually making a background for it and thought "yeah, no huge Australian flag this time".
I like the sentiment, but thought it was kinda funny that there were so many flags everywhere else.
While there were flags everywhere, I felt like there were a lot fewer than these things usually have, at least.
If I didn't suck so bad at recruiting people for my anti-flags faction, perhaps we would see less of them.
Maybe you could try and rally them under some kind of banner.
A flag, if you will?
I managed to overwrite half of the long German flag near the bottom, plus the original/lower South African flag, the Czech flag, and the Polish flag. I also did like a third of the background to your message and changed the "in" to "on". I didn't join the Matrix/Discord but your message is what motivated me to do all that, so maybe you're better at recruiting than you think 😉
when the long german flag was steadily getting longer, i thought, "hmm, what might stop germans advancing eastward?" and placed the polish and czechoslovak (identical to modern czech) flags in their path.
it only stopped them for a while, (but they did go underneath instead of overwriting)
I'm glad I managed to do some change! ...beyond, you know, pissing feddit.org off with my wiggly green line 🤣
(It'll haunt their dreams until Canvas 2026.)
What's the story with the wiggly green line? Are those the 6 green pixels on the large German flag?
For a lot of the game, I was shaving the German flag's sides, top and bottom. My goal was to leave the text alone (it's cool), but with the LGBTQ+ flag as a background. After all, once the Australian flag went MIA, the largest country flag in the canvas was the German one.
However, since I was doing it by myself and plenty users were reverting my "creative deflation" of the German flag, we quickly reached a standstill.
So I thought on the best way to make at least some vandalism last forever, for a final act of defiance against ~~my Schweinekatze Siegfrieda waking me up 3AM out of nowhere~~ country flags. The solution was to place them in the last seconds of the canvas, somewhere it would be easy for me to plop them all together, but you had to change colours to undo it. Somewhere close to each other for visibility. The net result was a wiggling line between the red and yellow.