If you're only just getting to know me you may not be aware that I care about civic art, usually represented by flags and currency. Back on twitter I used to occasionally do something like put all of America's state flags in a head-to-head voting list to determine how good or bad they are, and explain why they suck (because they almost all do).

I have a flag thread I want to do, but I am struggling with a where to do it. I thought at first, because its target is primarily on cohost, I would do it here, but I don't think Cohost is a good venue for a flag thread, and I want to talk about why, just because it's useful to know what formats are god at.

• Images: If I want to make a flag thread on Cohost, I am limited to four images, at the top of each post. This can be true for twitter/mastodon too, don't get me wrong, but...
• Uploading with Ctrl-V: Back on twitter, being able to right-click on an image of a flag and ctrl-v it into the posts while I'm writing it was a big part of maintaining speed
• Compacting: Flag threads sprawl. They are mammoth affairs. One of them took basically a month to complete and had thousands of words in it. Doing that as a sequence of replies on Cohost would occupy a huge amount of space on the TL and suffocate other posting for a bit. It would be very selfish of me, because you'd see, in timeline, a post with 654321, then immediately after it, 54321, then 4321, and so on.
• Workarounds: Work arounds for the compacting problem would be things like making it as a twine sheet or making it a single post with a lot of click-through-able powerpoint presentation style crimepost effects, which I'm sure one of my cool CSS criminal friends could provide. Problem anew here: This would be a TON of effort compared to the normal shitposty nature of a flag thread.
• Responsiveness: On twitter, anyone can respond to a flag thread at any point and pass opinion and I can then put that comment into the thread with quote-replying. If I compact a flag thread on cohost, then the ability to respond to specific bits gets more complicated.

Now, very importantly: COHOST SHOULD NOT CHANGE BASED ON THIS. This is me finding a type of content I make does not fit cohost well and it's okay and I should find a better venue for it.

Now, that said, a question for you: Is there a game or videogame you can think of with flags in it that you'd like to see me comment on? I'm considering making a video of Flag Commentary and I'd like a corpus of flags to work from

well, here's the first selection. have at it while i go get cooking started.

Grant Moros, Mysteries (1973)