Pros and Cons Thread #3 - Enabling and De-Enabling

[FLizarraga]

It's pearls before suet, and speak for yourself!! (I know an electrical engineering diagram when I see one, you charlatan, you )

I'm crying again. I've never cried so much over a thread.

I'm not talking about the creators commenting, nor inviting anyone's analysis of what's happening in the deck (nor is this the right thread for that) I'm talking about asking someone we know who actually owns it to talk about its readability, which IS what you want to know about, right?

Of course, but you see what tends to happen...

Aw, I think the artist has a sense of humor. I watched her video and she seems pretty chill! Plus she put little jokes in the deck. Like, check out the potted plant on the desk in the Eight of Pentacles card.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. I hadn't seen this one. Mikey likes it!

Totally. I like it in the same way I like the Cosmic Tribe. So over the top and kind of silly, but in a wise fool way. The MAT feels friendly too. I can't possibly follow all the esoteric stuff, especially the hexagram stuff, but I feel like it would meet me where I am. Invite me to hop on that Strength dinosaur and take me for a ride.

As a counter example, the Hermetic tarot is also crammed full of esoteric detail, but I get the feeling from it that it wants to keep its secrets for the initiated only. It's all prickly and fenced in with that dense black and white art.

You know, I so agree with you. And I also find the Thoth an inviting deck --I think that was Crowley's true intention-- and that it is the Thothies who sometimes (willingly or not) do their best to fence it in and imply that it is for initiate eyes only.

 

[Laura Borealis]

Please DE-enable me on the 1JJ. Please! I don't need a weird Swiss pattern pip deck. I only got interested in it the other day when the Juno satellite approached her Jupiter orbit, and I remembered the Swiss deck with JJs instead of Pope/ess.

Now I'm watching eBay auctions, it really has to stop. Tell me all the reasons I don't want it.

 

[Padma]

Please DE-enable me on the 1JJ. Please! I don't need a weird Swiss pattern pip deck. I only got interested in it the other day when the Juno satellite approached her Jupiter orbit, and I remembered the Swiss deck with JJs instead of Pope/ess.

Now I'm watching eBay auctions, it really has to stop. Tell me all the reasons I don't want it.

It's really fugly.

And the colours are almost too bright. The Ace of Wands is really violent looking - and there is nothing else to say about the pip cards, which are just that and nothing else...and it's so 1960's. Meh!

 

[G6]

Please DE-enable me on the 1JJ. Please! I don't need a weird Swiss pattern pip deck. I only got interested in it the other day when the Juno satellite approached her Jupiter orbit, and I remembered the Swiss deck with JJs instead of Pope/ess.

Now I'm watching eBay auctions, it really has to stop. Tell me all the reasons I don't want it.

It's too common.

 

[bonebeach]

I love the Swiss 1JJ and it's the only deck I have MULTIPLE copies of--

So you know, it *is* too common, way too common.

But really, it's not remotely actually Juno-ish except for the fact that there's one card...titled Juno. You really don't need it!

On the MAT, however, @FLizarraga--

ohmygosh, I want it, I need it, we need it--do we need it?

does ANYONE have any actual knowledge about the cardstock? hahah. maybe if I make sure to find my bedazzler first...

 

[Laura Borealis]

I love the Swiss 1JJ and it's the only deck I have MULTIPLE copies of--

So you know, it *is* too common, way too common.

But really, it's not remotely actually Juno-ish except for the fact that there's one card...titled Juno. You really don't need it!

On the MAT, however, @FLizarraga--

ohmygosh, I want it, I need it, we need it--do we need it?

does ANYONE have any actual knowledge about the cardstock? hahah. maybe if I make sure to find my bedazzler first...

You can get a sense of it from her video. She shuffles it at one point. It seems pretty substantial.


I know the 1JJ is common but I don't think it's ugly... *is slightly offended for a deck I don't even have*

 

[Michellehihi]

Please DE-enable me on the 1JJ. Please! I don't need a weird Swiss pattern pip deck. I only got interested in it the other day when the Juno satellite approached her Jupiter orbit, and I remembered the Swiss deck with JJs instead of Pope/ess.

Now I'm watching eBay auctions, it really has to stop. Tell me all the reasons I don't want it.

Sorry to contradict your demand but I love it! It reads so well, I love the colours, I love the vintage feel, I love Juno and Jupiter!

 

[FLizarraga]

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It's really fugly.

Don't be so cruel, Padma.

I do find it "dated" and sort of ugly, but in a friendly way. Think Miriam Gargoyles. And I actually like the bright colors.

It's too common.

Spoken like Lady Grantham.

On the MAT, however, @FLizarraga--

ohmygosh, I want it, I need it, we need it--do we need it?

does ANYONE have any actual knowledge about the cardstock? hahah. maybe if I make sure to find my bedazzler first...

You can get a sense of it from her video. She shuffles it at one point. It seems pretty substantial.

She says it's 350gsm, which is the heaviest you can get, AFAIK.

I'm already resigning myself to the fact that I'll probably buy it come payday. *sigh* It's not like we need it. Gosh, I need yet another deck (especially another hard-to-work-with deck) like I need a HOLE in the head. And yet, and yet...

And no please, nooooooo, DON'T smack Padma!

 

[Padma]

yeah! No more smack talk about Padma!

Now...what is the MAT you are all talking about...? (oh nonono. I really don't *need* to know!) but I have curiouses!

 

[Dee Ell]

I'm crying again. I've never cried so much over a thread.

On the MAT, however, @FLizarraga--

ohmygosh, I want it, I need it, we need it--do we need it?

does ANYONE have any actual knowledge about the cardstock? hahah. maybe if I make sure to find my bedazzler first...

Oh you MUST post bedazzled pics if you get it!!

I do find it "dated" and sort of ugly, but in a friendly way. Think Miriam Gargoyles. And I actually like the bright colors.

I'm already resigning myself to the fact that I'll probably buy it come payday. *sigh* It's not like we need it. Gosh, I need yet another deck (especially another hard-to-work-with deck) like I need a HOLE in the head. And yet, and yet...

Miriam GARGOYLES?!? I'm dying FLizarraga (talk about a Freudian slip )