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Lord Hydronium posted:What happened to Ford that first month? Was that when he pardoned Nixon? Yeah, Ford was sworn in on August 9, 1974 and pardoned Nixon on September 8, about 30 days in.
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Pakled posted:He was eligible to run, he just chose not to, right. Johnson actually ran in 1968, but the primaries started out kind of rocky for him even though he was a sitting president so he bowed out early.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Lyndon was that socialist president who caused presidential term limits? Lyndon Johnson was the one who would whip his dick out in cabinet meetings.
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More to the point, what happened to Clinton?
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Hillary murdered Vince Foster.
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But he was on RAW the day after Wrestlemania 33? 
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TinTower posted:More to the point, what happened to Clinton? Waco. The first big "THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA TAKE OUR GUNS" scare.
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Elyv posted:Johnson actually ran in 1968, but the primaries started out kind of rocky for him even though he was a sitting president so he bowed out early. It was also presumed RFK would waltz into office, so it made sense for LBJ to bow out for the next great Kennedy.
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Pakled posted:Waco. The first big "THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA TAKE OUR GUNS" scare. drat I forgot Waco was that early in Clinton's run.
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Pakled posted:Waco. The first big "THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA TAKE OUR GUNS" scare. It's not like Waco wasn't a genuine clusterfuck in its own right, it was just overshadowed by everything that came after it.
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Janet Reno did nothing wrong. 
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Here's a map from a Russian video game that might be a tad off (English labels are mine)
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Ensign Expendable posted:Here's a map from a Russian video game that might be a tad off (English labels are mine) If it's some sort of Strangereal fantasy Earth, that might be deliberate. 
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Good maps are hard to make. The first maps in Civilization 1 where really bad. Later version of Civilization tried things like archipelagos maps, or big landmass maps. But the correct mix seems to be a bit of archipelago and big landmass. Algorithm that generate continents, but also many isles and interesting militar places like land-bridges connecting continents. I don't have played much the last versions of Civilization, but I guest they have ironed out the algorithm to produce great earth-like maps on demand. I wish I had a good article to help this post :-I
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I wanna see fantasy maps where the planet was formed/is composed in a different way geologically and it shows
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How different? This is very different: Some of the Final Fantasy games take place on a toroidal planet, although I don't think that was deliberate. Here's a terraformed Venus, but that's practically everyday in comparison. 
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Guavanaut posted:How different? This is very different: I've always liked the looks of a terraformed Mars. 
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Cat Mattress posted:If it's some sort of Strangereal fantasy Earth, that might be deliberate. I hope "Wellow" translates directly to "No Data".
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Tei posted:The first maps in Civilization 1 where really bad. They certainly have not (or at least Civ5 didn't). The problem with the later civ games is that the map scale has shrunk so badly that even a designed map of the earth looks goofy and wrong.
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PittTheElder posted:They certainly have not (or at least Civ5 didn't). The problem with the later civ games is that the map scale has shrunk so badly that even a designed map of the earth looks goofy and wrong. Yeah, the map scale is odd now. It feels fine in the abstract, but if you come from like Civ 3 then maps are a good couple times smaller in terms of grid size
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Tweezer Reprise posted:I wanna see fantasy maps where the planet was formed/is composed in a different way geologically and it shows http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM The author is a strange dude, but these are a joy to read. He considers things like the world's mass, distance from its sun (what type of star it is), water content, plate tectonics, rotation. He thinks about what weather patterns develop, what this means for where vegetation develops and where His sentient species bit gets too weird for me. But his geologic world building is a hoot. e: thanks ulmont, for pointing out my poor spelling, jerk. Count Roland fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jun 2, 2017 |
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Count Roland posted:He thinks about what weather patterns develop, what this means for where vegetation develops and where dessert does. ...but how can you have "dessert" without sentient species to cook it?
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Subway maps mapped to their real geography, originated on /r/dataisbeautiful. Aggregated here, where I first saw it NYC  Berlin  Tokyo  Singapore  Shanghai  Sao Paulo  Washington, DC  Oslo  Montreal 
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Count Roland posted:The author is a strange dude, but these are a joy to read. Pakled posted:I've always liked the looks of a terraformed Mars. Guavanaut posted:Here's a terraformed Venus, but that's practically everyday in comparison. owns, ty guys 
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Incredible shrinking Washington.
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Montreal: most accurate Singapore: most improved Oslo: greatest artistic licence
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Tweezer Reprise posted:I wanna see fantasy maps where the planet was formed/is composed in a different way geologically and it shows Dave Duncan's Dodec books take place on a giant dodecahedron. Apparently traveling between faces is like trekking through the Hymalayas. I haven't read them yet (hard to track down), but he's a solid fantasy author with a day job in geology, so I bet they're fascinating.
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Tweezer Reprise posted:I wanna see fantasy maps where the planet was formed/is composed in a different way geologically and it shows
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Those internet speeds near the north pole must be amazing.
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Not  666g at the pole; missed opportunity.
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Tweezer Reprise posted:I wanna see fantasy maps where the planet was formed/is composed in a different way geologically and it shows In Iain M. Banks' Culture books planets are passé and most people live on artificial orbital rings ~3 million km in diameter. 
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16th/17th centuries is surely way too late for Scandinavia/ the British Isles? The Lewis Chess set is from the way earlier than that.
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 That's the Vauxhall car factory in Luton they've labelled, not the Vauxhall area of Central London.
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Koramei posted:16th/17th centuries is surely way too late for Scandinavia/ the British Isles? The Lewis Chess set is from the way earlier than that. Chess definitely existed there previously (the etymology of all uses of the word "check" in English derive from the chess sense), maybe it's just the specific spelling?
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Etymologically that map makes no sense w/r/t France. How would they go from "ajadrez" to a word that more similarly sounds like the Italian or German versions?
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HookShot posted:Etymologically that map makes no sense w/r/t France. How would they go from "ajadrez" to a word that more similarly sounds like the Italian or German versions? It doesn't actually say that the etymology traces descent along the lines (though it does seem like it means to SUGGEST that.) They could have gotten the game from spain and then picked up the word they ended up using from the italians later.
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reignonyourparade posted:It doesn't actually say that the etymology traces descent along the lines (though it does seem like it means to SUGGEST that.) They could have gotten the game from spain and then picked up the word they ended up using from the italians later. That's true, though if the English took the name from the French it couldn't have been *that* long after.
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