Just wait for the Circular Baduk Boards, rather than bowls there are four pockets
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Yes yes. Round board, square stones.
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I remember (perhaps from Martin Gardner) Piet Hein being keen on such superellipses, though I thought I remembered him calling them something else, and preferring some exponent around 2·5.
Rectangular stones pls!
Squircle perhaps?
BTW, I‘ve been using a circular avatar image for a quarter century now 
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Against a black background, I am wondering whether my profile pic aka avatar is circular or square.
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Hmm considering submitting a PR for this during Hacktoberfest. Is this actually a popular suggestion or just a meme? (fwiw I really do prefer the circular profile pics)
- I prefer circles
- I prefer squares/rectangles
- I prefer squircle
- I don’t care
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I don’t think that any changes should be made. The current square avatars can be made to simulate circles or other shapes by utilizing transparency.
Putting a circle inside of a square does not lose any available space. However, if it were the other way around, trying to simulate a square avatar (using transparency) within a circular cropped image, then one would lose space.
Thus, currently circular (other shaped) avatars are already supported with a simple workaround. Changing to a circular cropped avatar by default would limit flexibility and options.
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As you can see here, cropping my avatar down to a circle actually clips the outer circles
Yeah that’s fair, glad I asked!
Heh the inconsistency between OGS proper and OGS Forum will continue to bother me 
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Mostly it’s because discourse does discourse things haha
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We could change it on Discourse.
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It would be useful if default was square, but with a button that instantly crops your avatar to a circle.
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