Arbitrary Question Time

Far right, middle, dark green center, bright green surround.

Row 4 Column 2

Row 3 Column 7

Row 4 Column 6 Is the best.

Row 2 Column 2

Row 4 Column 2

Row 1 Column 6

in order of best to third-best.

Row 6 Column 3.

Now tell us what underlying disorders we all have.

I bet I'm a rapist. My priest always told me I was after I raped him.

that was in poor taste but I'm drunk and not prepared to regret it yet

red one is cool

I'm picking the only block that's surrounded by only one white block (horizontally/vertically).
Just kidding. I'm picking that white one next to it

Hah! I tricked you all! It's not really arbitrary!

I'm (probably) making a Roguelike Minecraft skin, and there's 50+ conceivable ways to combine a text character, the default skin, and two colours (character/background). I culled that list myself, based on text legibility, and put the remainder up to see what people liked.

The green is grass, the red/grey is netherrack. The two sets of textures are actually the same 9 "methods" used on two different textures, but I didn't tell you that - in theory, the best "method" should get high votes on both of its textures.

Here's how the votes worked out.



STM MM WoF Job Mac Oddey Manco Bungle Varrok

- (2,1/4) was the runaway winner, with four votes.

- Helpfully, it's also one of the simplest - the default ASCII background, with a transparent glyph, layered over the default Minecraft texture i.e a text-shaped "window".

-The runner-up, (7,3/6), was a bit more involved: The ASCII background, set to the colour of the glyph, with the glyph itself transparent, laid over a 50% opacity layer of the background colour, with that laid over the default texture with white converted to to transparency, with that laid over the original colour of the glyph.

- No-one liked the column on the left, for some reason. I thought that one was quite nice; the green has texture, and the grey looks kind of gritty.

- I went for the two black and green ones, because I like that whole "cyber" aesthetic.

- Only STM and WoF (who I asked privately via Steam chat) made unique choices, which might suggest that there's some social pressure going on here.

- Trust Mac to pick the one that looks like aging meat.

Row 4 Collumn 2 really did strongly remind me of Minecraft. I should've said that at the time.

Well, you're suggesting that somebody said that some user just can't select certain blocks? Ridiculous

I didn’t see anyone else picking Row 6 Column 3?

STM chose the same texture pack as you did. His choice is more unique, deal with it

I'm an indie motherfucker.