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Private Speech posted:

I like the cheeky Korea.

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Barbelith posted:

In the autumn, Western Sahara starts its annual migration (still no data).

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I'm No Data Disputed East Brazil/Western Spain.

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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Cold War secrecy.jpg

SOVIET-ERA JOKE posted:

Every day Svetlana Vladimirovna works a long shift at the machining factory beside the smelter at the edge of her city in central Russia. The factory makes the best beds in the Soviet Union, all of them of exceptionally fine steel. But no one in Svetlana’s city, including Svetlana, has a bed. This is an unfortunate but perfectly understandable matter of policy. The comrades who run the factory, and who have designed such magnificent and marvelous beds, better than any beds in America, have decided in the spirit of the revolution and correct socialist principles that they must give beds first to all of the hospitals, and to the army, and to the universities, and to the collective farms, and to many other important institutions necessary for the people and the government in the world’s most rapidly and inevitably advancing socialist society. To do this, the factory must work round the clock. Three shifts a day. And only rarely stopping on holidays. It is understood that the workers need beds. But it is not yet the workers’ turn. Only recently did the cosmonauts receive beds!

And so everyone who works at the bed factory returns home after each shift and sleeps on the floor.

One summer Svetlana’s sister, Natasha, who long ago married a man in Leningrad and moved away, returned for a visit. She was appalled that after ten years Svetlana still had no bed. After all, Svetlana was strong of hand and skilled with tools and one of the best machinists at the bed factory. “My dear sister,” Natasha said. “You have not been thinking correctly. It is very easy to have a bed. Each day you must steal one piece of bed from the parts bins at the factory and smuggle it home. And after a week or two you must assemble the parts. Then you will have a bed. And you will never again sleep on the floor.”

Svetlana listened closely. “My dear sister,” she sighed. “It is you who are not thinking correctly. We have tried this many times. We have stolen the bed parts and carried them home. We have assembled them in the room. And every time, after we finish, we discover that instead of a bed we have an automatic Kalashnikov.”

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Golbez posted:

Loving that one of Morgan's cities is named Fountainhead.

SlothfulCobra posted:

Space Kablooey posted:

what are the hospitals doing with the AKs

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Minenfeld! posted:

Is this supposed to be the official map of planet?

God I want a remaster of SMAC. There really hasn't been a good 4X since.

SlothfulCobra posted:

There's a lot of these hobbyist mapmakers on Deviantart. I guess it's a great platform for if you wanna tell a story with artwork but can't tell a full work of fiction. Here's a guy's interpretation of Earth in Alpha Centauri at I guess around the time they sent the mission. Some of this is directly based on fluff, Free Scotland, Christian States of America, wartorn Africa, but there's a lot of liberties taken as well.


https://www.deviantart.com/rvbomally/art/Sid-Meier-s-Alpha-Centauri-734120815

Count Roland posted:

They did such a good job of making believable and cool continents and coastlines.

Arglebargle III posted:

Sunny Mesa supremacy

Arglebargle III posted:

Sunny Mesa supremacy

Powered Descent posted:

I always liked starting by the Freshwater Sea, especially if you can get to one of the two spots where a base will act as a canal to the Sea of Pholus, letting your Sea Formers go back and forth between oceans.

By the way, SMAC/SMAX is available on gog.com for like five bucks, and that edition runs perfectly on modern Windows (and even under Wine for the Linux nerds). If you google around, there's a simple .ini file tweak that lets you use all of your modern hi-res screen instead of being limited to 1024x768, or whatever it was that screens were running in 1999.