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Shbobdb posted:To be fair, Dick's writing is very coherent for someone with schizophrenia who is self-medicating with methamphetamine and LSD. Yeah. Dick wasn't interested in world building or realism, and on top of that he was insane and on drugs. That produced some pretty interesting books where the scifi aspect to them is secondary.
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fishmech posted:Well in this specific instance, there's massive Japanese and German armies on hand to stop Canada and Mexico from doing anything, and also to keep Canada from being meaningful opposition to either power. I was talking more about things like Kaisereich or that Traitors and Tyrants map where the U.S collapses rather than stuff like High Castle where the whole country was outright conquered.
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Powered Descent posted:I like this map. If you continued even further south it'd turn into that old Powers of Ten video... In fact, if you check the pdf in the source link, they have a Mercator version of Powers of Ten.
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The twist of the novel is that the reality depicted in it is in violation of nature, and that the cosmos itself is trying to escape to a more plausible, more reasonable reality, similar to ours. This manifests itself in many different ways, including through lapses of characters to material reality of real world America when they find themselves in state of enhanced consciousness. In light of that I would say any non-sensical features of the world actually enhance the story.
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Fun fact: "kirja" is Finnish for "book", so the title seems to be "The Oracle Book" or "The Book of Oracles". Funny that they chose to focus on that aspect of the story. Kopijeger fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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The original name, Man in The High Castle, also focuses on that same aspect of the story. The significance of the Oracle and the Man is one and the same.
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Kopijeger posted:Fun fact: "kirja" is Finnish for "book", so the title seems to be "The Oracle Book" or "The Book of Oracles". Funny that they chose to focus on that aspect of the story. I'm assuming that the Yijing in Finnish would be "kirja" or something like "Chinese Kirja"? Because Man in the High Castle is more about a crazy dude's "California mystic" take on the Yi than pretty much anything else. It's a good name for the book.
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Duckbag posted:Also draining the Mediterranean would probably create hundred of miles of salt flats and brackish malaria swamps rather than farmland. Plus it might reroute the gulf stream and freeze half of Europe. Shbobdb posted:To be fair, Dick's writing is very coherent for someone with schizophrenia who is self-medicating with methamphetamine and LSD.  And I don't actually remember that being mentioned in the book at all, might be just something the author of the maps decided to add.
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mobby_6kl posted:Well it's not like that was his idea in the first place. I like how Venice gets a huge canal built just so it retains sea access but every other city, town, and village on the Mediterranean coast is SOL.
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Pakled posted:I like how Venice gets a huge canal built just so it retains sea access but every other city, town, and village on the Mediterranean coast is SOL. I mean not being in the sea would completely destroy the only good thing about Venice. That it will soon be gone. Also why bother extending the Suez canal when you're destroying its worth as a shipping route with a huge dam across the Straits of Gibraltar? GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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Shbobdb posted:Probably the most reasonable map: I'm Finland as a "power".
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Baron Corbyn posted:I mean not being in the sea would completely destroy the only good thing about Venice. That it will soon be gone.
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Kopijeger posted:Fun fact: "kirja" is Finnish for "book", so the title seems to be "The Oracle Book" or "The Book of Oracles". Funny that they chose to focus on that aspect of the story. Oraakkeli is singular and oraakkelin is genitive so it's Oracle's Book, The Oracle's Book, An Oracle's Book, The Book of Oracle, A Book of Oracle, The Book of the Oracle, The Book of an Oracle, A Book of an Oracle, or A Book of the Oracle - take your pick 
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Baron Corbyn posted:Also why bother extending the Suez canal when you're destroying its worth as a shipping route with a huge dam across the Straits of Gibraltar?
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm Finland as a "power". A Nazi ally getting to keep their independence makes sense.
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The border doesn't make sense though, as Greater Finland would extend much further east. *edit* Something like this: 
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Apr 1, 2017 19:52
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Poor Finland. Can't even irredentist right.
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doverhog posted:The border doesn't make sense though, as Greater Finland would extend much further east. If you are going to claim areas where Sami are found, why not the South Sami as well? And what the hell is "Pohjanlinna"? The location makes it seem like Narvik, but wouldn't the name mean something like "Northern Fortress"? Why does "Tromssa" lose the T? Also, the claims on Svalbard, Frans Josef Land and Novaja Zemlja are remarkable.
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I am not claiming anything, I did a Google image search for Suursuomi and picked one of the maps that came up as illustration. It took about a minute so please don't draw any conclusions, except maybe that I'm lazy.
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In what universe would the Germans let the Finns have St. Petersburg?
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Funny, searching for the same term led to this: At first glance it looks like some Civil War map with captions in Spanish or something, but then you notice that the perfidious Swede has absorbed Norway, and that "Finlandia" has gained Sør-Varanger/Etelä-Varanki.
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Shbobdb posted:In what universe would the Germans let the Finns have St. Petersburg? In what universe would Germany win the war? The map is the fantasy of some Finnish fascist, so it's not really based on anything, just meant to look cool, and big.
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Baron Corbyn posted:I mean not being in the sea would completely destroy the only good thing about Venice. That it will soon be gone. Never not destroy Venice.
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I'm Non-Aligned Independent Tierra del Fuego
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Byzantine posted:Never not destroy Venice. I can see why a Byzantine would say this
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A globe I found in a university in China.   
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AgentF posted:A globe I found in a university in China. I'm the spoopy Mediterranean sea. e: No Sweden, 10/10 globe!
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Wow I didn't realize China cared so much about the Mexican Cession.
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I support the Chinese effort to sink Alabama.
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Ciudad Demexzcd.
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spotted (and covered up) this Dutch fascist sticker today: it says "Here and on the other side - there and here is the netherlands" it rhymes in Dutch.
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Im the random white line separating NZ's islands.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:You could create a series of locks to lift ships in and out of the Mediterranean. Or simply brute force it and build a ship lift! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQo_9zduQUQ
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Arglebargle III posted:Or simply brute force it and build a ship lift!
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ekuNNN posted:spotted (and covered up) this Dutch fascist sticker today: No Bakker-Schut Plan, 1/10. Nederland's grens kome aan de Wezer!
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ekuNNN posted:spotted (and covered up) this Dutch fascist sticker today: So this is basically Netherlands + Flanders, right? I get that they're stupid fascists, but why not claim leadership over the whole Benelux for maximum low countries? Nationalists have no imagination.
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Duckbag posted:So this is basically Netherlands + Flanders, right? I get that they're stupid fascists, but why not claim leadership over the whole Benelux for maximum low countries? Nationalists have no imagination.
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Which I guess means they're just pretending the Netherlands isn't already full of those.
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