<\/a><\/td><\/tr>I have created some nice new t-shirt<\/a> and mug<\/a> designs. I’m very happy with the result. I went back and made higher resolution versions of the logo and took fresh photographs of the dice using a better camera, and the results look pretty good. The design is the popular “HELP! My dice are trying to kill me”. For those that have commented and emailed for this sort of thing, now is your chance. Check it out<\/a>, if you’re so inclined.<\/p>\n Since I’m using a cheapo freebie Cafepress account, I can only have one design at a time. So, I’ll leave this one up for a little while and then change it once everyone that wants one has one. I’m thinking two weeks-ish.<\/p>\n I’ve always hated how stores charge $n.99 for stuff. To me this sort of thing carried the implied insult, “We think you’re too stupid to notice that $12.99 is just a penny short of $13. In fact, we’re hoping you’re dumb enough to think you’re paying $12.” Maybe I shouldn’t take price tags so personally. So, flying in the face of decades of consumer merchandising wisdom, the stuff in the Twenty-Sided store is set to an even dollar amount. I figure if you’re reading a webcomic filled with jokes about probability<\/a>, quantum mechanics<\/a>, and byzantine rule systems<\/a>, then you’re probably a smart egg who will mentally add the penny anyway<\/em>, so it would be a waste of time to try to fool you. I mention this so that you’ll realize this was done in a deliberate attempt to buck a tiresome trend, and not because I was careless.<\/div>\n The final item I have to appease you for your missing DMotR is a totally re-worked version of the very first comic<\/a>. It’s always been the ugliest of the series, and I’m thinking maybe that wasn’t the best way to welcome newcomers. It really was clumsy and difficult to scan. Comparing the old and the new, I can see I am getting better at this. I’m still just vandalizing the work of more talented people, but at least now I’m doing it with a little style. For comparison, here<\/a> is the new one and below is the original:
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