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[Phaedra]

[META] A thank-you idea for the PMs

[HitsHerMark]

[rose]

This is nice. Sadly, I already emailed my own thank you to the various PMs and earlier I sent a pic of a card code to Lucky saying "thank you" and "RIP Lucky" - so I won't join in this one.

But thanks to the PMs.

And to SpaceBass for hosting this site for us to play!

[miss_seph]

I'm in depending on when you are likely to want to give this to them.

[Phaedra]

A couple more ideas/thoughts.

(And again, all of this is contingent on actual community interest -- this would look silly rather than cool if only 5-10 people did it.)

First of all, this should in no way be taken as mutually exclusive with thanking the PMs in any other way anyone sees fit. I'm sure a lot of us want to say more to them than would fit on a playing card. I just thought it would be nice to have some sort of thank-you gift representing the community and not just individual players.

Second, great idea, HitsHerMark!

This might also make it easier for people who live overseas, or people who don't want to have to mail cards.

If possible, I think it would be nicest to have a thank you written on a real playing card, because just from an aesthetic standpoint I think it would look cooler than a scanned-and-printed card.

But, there are several possible options I'm seeing:

1) Use an actual greeting card. Write a note or just sign it, and send it to me to be used in the collage.

2) Do the same, but email me a high-quality scan.

3) I have a number of unusual decks (examples to follow), and I'd be happy to scan the complete decks in so people could print them out on photo-paper, sign them, and mail them to me, or scan them back in and email them to me, and I'll print them out.

The latter two options are a way that overseas people could avoid the cost of mailing something to the U.S., so that might be a good way to go.

Also, I'd like to include photos, and if you wanted to either send me your favorite photo with your card, or give me a link to it, I'd make sure to put your card by the photo.

Okay, some ideas for card-scans for people who can't/don't want to use real cards:

Going to just link to this first one, since it's big, but I didn't want to shrink it because the detail is nicely visible.

This is a reproduction of a 19th-century French deck that I love, and I think would look cool mixed in with more normal-looking cards.



The Gun Deck.



These are transparent cards that are designed to float, should you ever need to play poker in a hot tub.

I had two decks of these, but Dog got ahold of one of them, and there's only about a third of it without teeth holes now. I'd be willing to send out a few of these to people to sign and return, because I think aesthetically they'd be a cool addition to the mix and I was only keeping them around as a sort of backup for the other deck. (And because I just didn't feel like throwing out the good ones. This is a better use though.)



These would probably be good for longer messages, as there's a lot of white space.



Got a bunch of decks of these little tiny cards for party favors a while back, and I thought I might scatter a few of them in just for aesthetic appeal/to cover up holes.

I'd be willing to scan in cards from those decks for people who can't/don't want to mail real ones, and it sounds like HitsHerMark has some pretty cool decks too.

[Cortana]

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[Chewy]

I'm in, for sure. Although my note will only be written on a standard playing card (No GUN preorder cards in Canada )

I'll take the 4 of Diamonds (since that's the only playing card I can find around my immediate computer desk area

[SpRiNkL3z]

Count me in.
I'm doing my own shadow box for a keepsake and would love to be able to thank the PMs properly.

[HitsHerMark]

[Phaedra]

[Phaedra]

[HitsHerMark]

I may have some scooby-doo cards around here somewhere that I wouldn't mind busting up.

I'll see if I can find them... And I must remember to drop by my local Linins and Things.

[jamesi]

[Phaedra]

[Nadif]

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