Today’s deck is Tarotorial: The Ultimate Tarot Training Deck.
Listen I’m gonna be honest, this is only the ultimate training deck if you’re in Kung Pow and they’re training you wrong as a joke.
Tarot is a very visual thing, and while things like “this card is facing left because it means X” or “The black cat symbolizes Y” sounds like (and often is) just noise, the result knowingly or otherwise is that you can recognize cards not even by the specific detail but by the fucking sillhouette your eyes catch.
Some of the best decks I’ve used indulge in things like calling Wands shit like Sploorb but I’ll be damned my eyes immediately read woman sitting facing the front with a creature by her feet and I KNOW that the Baloob of Sploorb is mah girl the Queen of Wands and her black cat.
In general I take issue with decks that want to be extra original with their cards because it’s basically like a modern shooter game where the triggers aren’t to shoot and right analog isn’t to move the camera. There’s a reason why the scheme has become standard and you better be Metroid Prime on the Nintendo Gamecube and make it feel good if you’re gonna break that standard.
…and for this one we’re not even at the point where THAT argument becomes relevant, there’s no images and in fact all the text looks the same at a glance.
I’m not gonna fully dismiss it because we all learn at different paces in different ways and it might be a much needed breakthrough for someone else, but having so much text without an image that your brain can attach itself to is teaching you an incomplete lesson.
ANYWAY, today’s reading indicates an end to all the trials, that change leading to indulging in creative endeavors is not only coming but inevitable.
GOD I certainly hope so.
So here’s an interesting thing about companies in Japan: Stamps.
Some of you might already know this, but basically the way things work in Japan is that everything has to be sealed in place of a signature and the seals are these wooden relief stamps that you dip in red ink.
They have a fucking technique to themselves lemme tell you.
Now, some of you might be wondering if you can just make any random seal and the answer is yes… but then you have to register them. Literally go to the public registry, give them your stamp, they scan it and enter it into the system.
Anyway, I’ve had to go and do that for a couple of days but I keep waking up late and by the time my brain has warmed up I’m squarely in “bleh” mode.
Granted, the registry closes at 5 so at least I have more flexibility with that matter than with a bank for example.
Speaking of seals, before we’ve been using a single one, but I’ve been wanting to shift things so I can delegate (admittedly I didn’t start with staff to delegate TO, mind you). In theory you can be like “this is the midle manager’s seal, it can be used for anything the middle manager is allowed to approve”, but normally it’s one for accounting, one for the owner, and one for the directive.
“Hanko Culture” is a whole thing with defenders and detractors. I’d rather not use this specific type of Very Finnicky relief seal myself, but it’s not like I have an option…
An event started in Dragon Quest Walk where you can recover 100% of your HP/MP at Coke vending machines (as opposed to the 50% of the usual recovery spots). It’s honestly neat to be doing quests and stuff and see a reflection of the position of the actual machines IRL.
Also like…
LOOK AT HIM.