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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 02, 2016, 07:04:46 pm »
#54 - Raid



The horse's legs seem a little short. This art is pretty cool.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 02, 2016, 07:03:37 pm »
#55 - Page



The sword looks a little bent near the hilt. If she only knew the road she were about to travel.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 02, 2016, 12:57:51 pm »
#56 - Sacrifice



With the life of this sheepdog the gods will defeat our enemies!

That is a very strangely shaped altar.

I'm surprised this card didn't end up in group W or something given how much my daughters love animals. They told me that if the house were on fire and they had to choose between rescuing me or the pets, they would get the pets out first (and this is before we started the Dominion card project). We were watching a movie where a bunch of people got killed and then some animals. My daughters didn't get upset until the animals got killed.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 02, 2016, 12:53:58 pm »
#57 - Venture



The monarch practice his hypnotism skills while listening to another crackpot pitch his wonderful idea that would pay back in cartloads if he is just given the chance.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 02, 2016, 12:51:42 pm »
#58 - Trader



Mona Lisa sells to the woman from the Scarlet Letter and her daughter. (My daughters told me the little girl looks like the little girl from the Scarlet Letter. I have to assume that is her mother then).

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 02, 2016, 12:50:15 pm »
Did you know that in the Wizard of Oz, the book, Dorothy's slippers are made of silver and not rubies?

Sure. Red shoes were better equipped to show off the new-fangled colour movie technology.


Yeah, but the silver shoes were pretty central to the whole economic point the book was trying to make.

When has Hollywood ever been worried about the original content of a story?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 01, 2016, 07:47:56 pm »
#59 - Noble Brigand



Adam Driver's first, little-known, role as Robin Hood before he took on the role as Kylo Ren.

When he took off that mask for the first time, I couldn't believe they didn't get a good-looking actor to play Han Solo's son.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 01, 2016, 07:45:40 pm »
#60 - Library



My daughters say this looks like the library from Beauty and the Beast. They have decided as well that the guy in blue is a member of the Illuminati. Go figure.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 01, 2016, 07:44:17 pm »
#61 - Treasure Hunter



My daughters had issues with the cave and her not having any scratches or cuts. Whatever, I think it's cool.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 01, 2016, 12:32:32 pm »
#62 - Crown



The window is a little odd. We love the crown.

I can't hear the word crown without thinking of this from Pollyanna:

The way she says the words 'crown thy good' has been seared into my brain forever.


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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 01, 2016, 12:27:21 pm »
#63 - Herbalist



The guy almost looks like he's serving up some casserole. There is some nice green ectoplasm for sale.

I can't even think of Herbalist without thinking of this epic post: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=10809.msg363315#msg363315

If you've never read it, you should.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 01, 2016, 12:11:46 pm »
#64 - Silver



This is the start of group D, 15 cards.

Silver Bells. Silver and Gold.

Did you know that in the Wizard of Oz, the book, Dorothy's slippers are made of silver and not rubies?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee
« on: August 01, 2016, 12:10:10 pm »
All the cards have been given a score. But after I broke them up into groups, we lay out all the cards in a group and order them worst to best in that group and then make comments. I'm rarely able to get very far ahead in that department. All the groups are formed but the final order within the groups has yet to be determined.

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#65 - Advance



My daughters wondered why she wore her wedding dress for this occasion.

I think it is a great piece of art. I would have had it in my top 20.

That is the end of group E.

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#66 - Chariot Race



She makes the Indy 500 look like a Roman Chariot Race now....

This could be straight out of Ben-Hur. I'm not happy they are remaking that movie by the way. It's one of my all-time favorites.

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#67 - Golem



I think this is from a dream sequence from Harry Potter where Sirius Black gets to boss around Lord Voldemort.

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#68 - King's Castle



The castle art continues with the varied and interesting sky colors. That is a fantastic castle.

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#69 - Hireling



My daughters said it looks like he's sitting on a couch with no legs. Whatever.

This art really resonates with me. I've always liked it.

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#70 - Horn of Plenty



My daughters: 'It just looks like a basket of fruit.'

Uh, yeah.

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#71 - Defiled Shrine



Neglected Shrine? Overgrown Shrine?

In defiling a shrine I think more of desecration, but we still like the art.

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#72 - Triumph



The view angle is interesting. The first horse's face is a little odd perhaps due to the lighting.

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#73 - Trade



While trading for money is technically correct in concept, we'd have like to have seen trading for something else. Nice art though.

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#81 - Mining Village

My daughters say the climbing guy looks like Shadow Mario. I've never played a game with that character so I couldn't say. I just like the art.

In Super Mario Sunshine there's a villain called Shadow Mario. Is it likely that your daughters are familiar with a 14-year-old game?

We have a copy of Mario Sunshine and I have seen my daughters playing it. Wii is the last console we bought, so all those games are still kicking around.

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We have now posted 300 cards. I'm going to take a minute and vent. It has been increasingly difficult to get my daughters together to process a batch of cards. Apparently they enjoyed making fun of the lesser art. Now I just get, "This is all good art, Dad." I have nearly run out of cards to post on a few occasions.

With 5 groups and 79 cards to go you can rest assured that we will finish. You can complain about a lot of things with our rankings, but you can't say we haven't been regular and diligent about posting cards. Hopefully my daughters will not be such pains about finishing. The last couple of groups have been very unpleasant to process and the commentary isn't very interesting once everyone has had to be brow-beaten into participating.
The important thing is to find something bad to say about every piece of Dominion art. Put those artists in their place!

We've done our very best!

Edit: My daughters are adamant that making fun of the art is far more interesting to them than saying nice things. I can't say I entirely disagree but I have tried to shift their focus to other areas of commentary, mostly unsuccessfully.

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#74 - Squire



By not including faces, I think this is a tip of the cap to all the nameless squires through the ages who faithfully served their knights.

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