That's neat! We just have a sign on the river, and people guess when the ice will start moving. More precisely, when the sign will pass under the bridge. A dummy would definitely be more fun, but some teenagers would probably steal or break it... or someone would mistake it for someone drowning in the spring as it travels towards the sea. Maybe it's better to just stick to the sign.
(template stolen from Crow Time comic)
Still frames taken from [MONTAGE] Leftover Ideas | Paladins SFM and [ANIMATION] Siblings | Paladins SFM.
While learning multiplication in dozenal, I quickly ran into the issue of answers getting mixed with my already memorized decimal multiplication tables. So, to remedy this issue (and to prevent dozenal from corrupting the decimal multiplication), I began a search for an alternative set of glyphs for numbers! And after several uninteresting numerals, I came across these Kaktovik numerals!
They're wonderfully simple, can be drawn without lifting the pen and clearly tell which number is portrayed, which also makes them easy to learn. And yes, it's for base-20, but it can be easily adapted for base-12 by cutting off the right column and bottom row. So each upper/horizontal line represents 4 and every vertical line represents 1.
Now I can properly start getting into learning multiplication and other basics (reminds me of elementary school and I feel like a child again!). If anyone has any other interesting numerals to use for dozenal, I'd be interested to find out what. I don't particularly like using 1-9+A,B, or X and E, or such and I'd be happy to find more interesting alternatives!
Yesterday I was thinking about how clocks could perhaps be improved upon by making them follow solely dozenal system... and lo and behold, a quick internet search led me to an implementation of just that!
It looks familiar at first, but you notice the difference very quickly. No 10, 11, or 12 on it for one (to be expected in dozenal), and there appears to be more hands than usual! Seems complicated, but it's actually even simpler than the one we're used to:
Unfortunately I have no clue what to call these time units, but I love them! The longest/fastest of these hands circles the clock 1728 times a day, which is 1000~z~ in dozenal! This clock makes converting from one time unit to another a breeze, just move the dozenal point! (same advantage as SI-system generally has in decimal) No need to multiply with 60 or 24.
I'll leave the beauty of digital presentation of time in this system for you to figure out. Check out the site linked above and just play around with it for a bit!
I'm still new(ish) to the game so I don't have any fancy gear yet... but here's my first attempt at fashion wars anyways!
I might have spent most of my gold on two dyes to try and mimic the colors of her flames, but I admit nothing.
Gandalf said he wasn't interested, so Saruman locked him in the attic. "He'll learn to love me eventually."