i recall that the original reason such rule was to prevent kids for going into some grotesk porn over destruction and death. (And for some reason always crudely kitbashing my drawings
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IMO sunked ships are always graves, and should be dealt with respect, and idea that someone would want to make simple pixel art of someones grave disturpts me slightly. This could be a cultural thing, but I gather I am not the only one with this mindset here.
Also, what comes to worn and torn, and damage, its always something that breaks away from the mathematical aesthetics, that designed technical constructions presents, and thus further difficoulties to be properly presented in pixel art, specially our non gradient ones. Attempts of such starts bordeline a mockery to the style itself, and serve no purpose in core idea of what our style is to be about: uniform templates of ships (and other equipment) to be viewed as part of larger catalogue of similar things.