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GABA ghoul posted:It's a strange choice because no country has ever claimed to live under communism. In Germany we just say "former east block/Warsaw pact" or "ex socialist". I don't think I've ever heard the term "post communist" used here. Maybe if you’re talking to a bunch of academics researching forms of government, but in day to day life everyone else is going to consider the USSR a communist state. People might have less clear opinions about Yugoslavia and GDR. When they’re run by a literal "The Communist Party" as a one state system, then saying "but it wasn’t real communism" is pedantic unless you’re a professor of political philosophy. (replying to a poster a few up) I grew up in the US and in public schools in the south and our textbooks, mid 90s, made no doubt that the Vietnam War was a debacle and a huge loss for the US. Do textbooks not say that now, since Vietnam and the US are all buddy buddy again and they’ve gone full hog rhino-and-elephant-murdering capitalist?
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To be honest, i always get a weird "is Jordan trying to tell me King Arthur is buried in Manhattan?" vibe when i read the wheel of time.
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Toplowtech posted:To be honest, i always get a weird "is Jordan trying to tell me King Arthur is buried in Manhattan?" vibe when i read the wheel of time. Is that a wheel of time thing? I have never read it but that map immediately parsed to me as “wannabe Tolkien flips New York”
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Is that a wheel of time thing?
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Saladman posted:Maybe if you’re talking to a bunch of academics researching forms of government, but in day to day life everyone else is going to consider the USSR a communist state. People might have less clear opinions about Yugoslavia and GDR. When they’re run by a literal "The Communist Party" as a one state system, then saying "but it wasn’t real communism" is pedantic unless you’re a professor of political philosophy. All those drat pedants who say North Korea is not a "real democracy" even though they're literally called Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Toplowtech posted:To be honest, i always get a weird "is Jordan trying to tell me King Arthur is buried in Manhattan?" vibe when i read the wheel of time. With zero context that read as fantasy Paris to me.
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Toplowtech posted:To be honest, i always get a weird "is Jordan trying to tell me King Arthur is buried in Manhattan?" vibe when i read the wheel of time. He sure as hell isn’t buried in New Jersey.
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Arglebargle III posted:With zero context that read as fantasy Paris to me.
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Toplowtech posted:To be honest, i always get a weird "is Jordan trying to tell me King Arthur is buried in Manhattan?" vibe when i read the wheel of time. Isn't the Wheel of Time setting supposed to be the Earth in the distant past/future? (Because time is a wheel, so distant past == distant future.) So yes it could be saying just that. 
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Is the desert really called Shara
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Ras Het posted:Is the desert really called Shara Nah, the desert is the Waste, "Shara" is the name of the China analogue.
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Toplowtech posted:Yes but see i am an actual Frenchman and i know that the Ile de la Cité is small and Paris is not the island, but hey your mileage and impression on the inspiration may vary. Jordan city is more Manhattan size to me. Did he ever discuss it? yeah I'm a US/france dual citizen and it's really weird to read a giant city island as Paris when NYC exists
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Good list of urban islands here. I nominate Lübeck as being similar to Tar Valon. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jan 14, 2020 |
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I hate to stan Manhattan from the Bronx but there's exactly one city island that nearly tops the chart, looks almost exactly like the fantasy map written by an old rear end american, and is far larger and has more people than its small, dense competitors. Manhattan is a bit elitist but it's less so than the combined 5000ish people renting or buying million plus euro apartments on Ile de la Cité and Ile Saint-Louis combined and has approximately many times the amount of people in less space per person.
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GABA ghoul posted:It's a strange choice because no country has ever claimed to live under communism. In Germany we just say "former east block/Warsaw pact" or "ex socialist". I don't think I've ever heard the term "post communist" used here. It's really loving common, lol
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More like “temporarily communism deficient”.
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Cat Mattress posted:Isn't the Wheel of Time setting supposed to be the Earth in the distant past/future? It's the distant future (or past) a few thousand years after extremely powerful wizards all went insane and started reshaping the face of the earth as they went. There's one bit where the characters cross a mountain range and there's the ruins of a harbor on a mountain peak.
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Platystemon posted:More like “temporarily communism deficient”. Intercommunist.
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Kassad posted:It's the distant future (or past) a few thousand years after extremely powerful wizards all went insane and started reshaping the face of the earth as they went. There's one bit where the characters cross a mountain range and there's the ruins of a harbor on a mountain peak. Orange Devil posted:Intercommunist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNC61-OOPdA
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Kassad posted:It's the distant future (or past) a few thousand years after extremely powerful wizards all went insane and started reshaping the face of the earth as they went. There's one bit where the characters cross a mountain range and there's the ruins of a harbor on a mountain peak. IRL these extremely powerful wizards are called "plate tectonics" and we find ancient marine fossils on mountaintops.
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Wait it's Özbekistan? I didn't know that!
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O'zbekiston actually. Sometimes written in Cyrillic although they officially switched to a Latin alphabet a couple decades ago. Kazakhstan is now working on doing the same thing. FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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Post the best maps on Wikipedia. I'll start
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good lord. Not only horrible, but inaccurate - based on my research, the Territory of Orleans technically included West Florida west of the Perdido River as well. From its details: "Drawn on Paint" No poo poo.
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There was no "state" in the Sabine free state which was the point. Both Spain and the US claimed it and because neither side was willing to go to war for it they had a gentleman's agreement to not have soldiers or government officials in that land.
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You think the point is the Sabine Free State, and the map might think that's its point, but the image is only used in the Orleans Territory article. The article on the Neutral Ground has a much better map.
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Orange Devil posted:Intercommunist. Between revolutions
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sniper4625 posted:Yes, Geo Safari! Hahaha. Yesssssss! It was my favourite toy as a kid.
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escapegoat posted:
Honestly thought this was a map of Ireland at first glance
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I like the confetti explosion in the top right corner.
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I want a map that shows all of our conflicting claims with the Canadians at the maximum. Big spiky Maine with all the islands, the parts of the Louisiana Purchase over the parallel, the Pacific Northwest at 54 40, all of it. An alternate universe where only our claims on Canadian land were upheld.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I want a map that shows all of our conflicting claims with the Canadians at the maximum. Big spiky Maine with all the islands, the parts of the Louisiana Purchase over the parallel, the Pacific Northwest at 54 40, all of it. An alternate universe where only our claims on Canadian land were upheld. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States  Not an alternate history map, but it is built to be the USA from its perspective, meaning it has the maximal interpretation of all treaties. Where that intersects with others' claims is handled in a companion set of maps.
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