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steinrokkan posted:Are those blotches next to South America spooky new islands, or coffee stains The book's prologue, that happens before the expedition, involves you defeating a giant living tub of human fat, which is buried under a pyarmid in Peru, so uh... it might have started leaking.
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steinrokkan posted:Are those blotches next to South America spooky new islands, or coffee stains It's the Island of the "GOD WATCHERS".
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Weyd posted:The book's prologue, that happens before the expedition, involves you defeating a giant living tub of human fat, which is buried under a pyarmid in Peru, so uh... it might have started leaking. the gently caress? Did Dean Koontz write this? Was everything a supernatural plot yet also all the fault of liberals? Did a dog save the day?
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Regarde Aduck posted:the gently caress? Did Dean Koontz write this? Was everything a supernatural plot yet also all the fault of liberals? Did a dog save the day? I'm gonna err on the side of caution and spoiler this in case somebody doesn't want to read early Masks of Nyarlahotep spoilers or mildly icky descriptions. Father of Maggots is an avatar of a cosmic god that has been imprisoned in an ancient pyramid in modern day Peru. The book itself describes it as "a monstrous, seething mass that appears to be made entirely of rancid fat, roiling with unnatural life. Its iridescent surface writhes with maggots and larvae crawling in and out of its substance. It extrudes unstable pseudopods that drip festering white fluid, or sprays fluid out in exploding pustules." Everything was going well until the spanish conquistadors arrived and, naturally, proceeded to release the ancient evil by dismantling a part of the golden ward that kept the creature imprisoned. The conquistadors got cursed in the process and turned into essentially immortal fat-sucking vampires who spend their days wandering the wilderness in colonial era garments and ambushing unwary travellers by giving them unwanted liposuctions through their chest cavities. Once a vampire is full with fat, they go back to the pyramid and vomit all the fat out through the crack in the ceiling to feed their master. The vampires multiply by voring one of the maggots that writhes in the Father's fat and transferring it to the victim through a "kiss". Sadly, the resolution to the scenario is fairly straight-forward. The players get tricked into going on an expedition to the pyramid by a wealthy socialite smack addict who is mind-controlled by a cosmic god, with the aim of dismantling the rest of the golden ward around the pyramid. The players realize that something is not right and end up fixing the part of the ward, that was dismantled by the conquistadors, instead. The fat vampires die promptly after doing that. To be fair, the cosmic horrors being incomprehensibly alien to the human mind is true to the source material. To stay slightly on-topic, I like how the map becomes more half-assed the further you get from the expedition line. Finland has apparently annexed the Estonian islands and turned them into a single land mass with a road connection.
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A low resolution map of sometime in the 800s CE? I don't see anything obviously wrong with it.
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West Sahara is "no data" as it should be.
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Albino Squirrel posted:Saharan Ghana? More likely than you think
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Koramei posted:Wonder where they're getting Eskimo-Aleut and Yukaghiric coming from the Korean peninsula from. Korea's paleolithic is pretty understudied still and I think who the inhabitants were/what became of them is still pretty much unresolved, let alone what language group they might have spoken. I think the paper claims Jeulmun pottery is similar to the style of pottery found by the "Eskimo-Aleut-Yukaghiric" region? And maybe something about haplogroup N. I didn't read all the thing. That paper also claims the Yamnaya (almost always considered Proto-Indo-European) were Uralic which is probably very  for most anthropologists.The proto-Korean-Japonic looks somewhat plausible. It's a pretty recent study isn't it?
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Negostrike posted:That paper also claims the Yamnaya (almost always considered Proto-Indo-European) were Uralic which is probably very
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Count Roland posted:A low resolution map of sometime in the 800s CE? I don't see anything obviously wrong with it. I just really like good historical maps, there's not really much wrong with it. Here's a more provocative map.   Delaware!We must aspire to the purity of New Zealand. Also I wonder how much higher on the list the UK would be if you added it with Guernsey and Jersey. SlothfulCobra fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Dec 20, 2021 |
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Weyd posted:To stay slightly on-topic, I like how the map becomes more half-assed the further you get from the expedition line. Finland has apparently annexed the Estonian islands and turned them into a single land mass with a road connection. Even at minimal zoom-in I enjoyed JAPANES EMPIRE.
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Here's one that's making the rounds today. https://i.imgur.com/Xxu6zc7.mp4
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Guavanaut posted:Could be that, could be 
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Powered Descent posted:Here's one that's making the rounds today. LOL in a functioning country it definitely shouldn’t say power outage that often
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Honj Steak posted:LOL in a functioning country it definitely shouldn’t say power outage that often That's storms and other weather events downing lines, not random third world style outages.
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Grape posted:That's storms and other weather events downing lines, not random third world style outages. 
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Someone's never actually been to third world countries where the power just kinda goes off and on huh.
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That's the Texas (and California but maybe the big fire was last year?) outages that were 100% preventable. It's the same third world complete lack of governance thanks to corruption problem, just with a higher base level of service and called something else because 
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PittTheElder posted:That's the Texas (and California but maybe the big fire was last year?) outages that were 100% preventable. It's the same third world complete lack of governance thanks to corruption problem, just with a higher base level of service and called something else because I mean by that metric then basically the entire world is third world. Western Europe is having a hell of a crunch right now between not having enough gas for heating and a bunch of issues with power plants. I don't think we'll lose power (unless there's a major storm or something - unlikely as Europe doesn't really do inclement weather) but it'll be crazy expensive, e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-16/eu-power-markets-face-precarious-january-as-supply-risks-mount or here's "third world Austria": https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/10/27/austrian-minister-warns-of-possible-power-outage-across-europe/ Granted both of those are near-term theoretical, but there's a pretty big world of difference between the US and say, Lebanon, although Lebanon is likely the world's worst offender for the relationship between a country's general development (generally pretty developed, at least prior to them blowing up Beirut and the unrelated currency collapse) versus its power grid (Congo-level-bad). Storms in the US are absolutely crazy compared to Europe and, like Lebanon blaming everything on what Israel did 15 years ago, it's a fine mix of bullshit for being lazy/corrupt, and truth. Hopefully Lebanon is finally waking up to that being a bullshit excuse, now that they've seen their own politicians set off a bigger bomb and destroy more of Beirut more than any invader ever has. Didn't New Orleans also get a lot better after Katrina? E2: https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2283946-french-edf-shuts-down-two-reactors-extends-outages "pushing the French January peak-load contract close to €1,000/MWh" good god, that's 10x the normal end-user electricity price.. so I guess anyone using French electricity can expect their bills to go up by 20x+ this winter. Saladman fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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South Africa had really bad issues with its power despite being quite developed in most ways. Probably the problems persist-- it was organizational incompetence and corruption that caused the issues. I was looking for an outage map but found this instead: 
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Count Roland posted:South Africa had really bad issues with its power despite being quite developed in most ways. Probably the problems persist-- it was organizational incompetence and corruption that caused the issues. Afghanis have a ~95-100% access to electricity? They must be using a pretty liberal definition of what "access" means, but I couldn't easily find their methodology. I do indeed see them list that ( https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?locations=AF ) and I know Afghanistan got a ton of development in the last 20 years, but 98% access to electricity seems... unlikely.
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Saladman posted:Storms in the US are absolutely crazy compared to Europe
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Albino Squirrel posted:Saharan Ghana?  Bonus: 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Excluding major events, the average electricity customer in the US experiences a little under 2 hours of disruption per year. This is roughly on-par with Czechia, Bulgaria and Latvia (also excluding exceptional events), and thus we can conclude that the US is an Eastern European country. Averaging across the US is kind of cheating. It's closer to 2-3 days a year in Oklahoma. We had a 3 week completely avoidable outage last year because they cut the line maintenance budget and gave out big dividends to stockholders. Ice storms aren't "major events. They're predictable and regular weather. Leviathan Song fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Dec 21, 2021 |
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PittTheElder posted:That's the Texas (and California but maybe the big fire was last year?) outages that were 100% preventable. It's the same third world complete lack of governance thanks to corruption problem, just with a higher base level of service and called something else because The Texas power outages that were already mentioned as being incredibly stupid because Texas is not connected to the US grid, and which didn't affect east and west Texas which are?
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Leviathan Song posted:Averaging across the US is kind of cheating. It's closer to 2-3 days a year in Oklahoma. We had a 3 week completely avoidable outage last year because they cut the line maintenance budget and gave out big dividends to stockholders. Ice storms aren't "major events. They're predictable and regular weather. What sort of ice storms are we talking about here? When I think of an ice storm I think freezing rain that creates a buildup of ice on... things. This tends to bring down powerlines and trees. All the bad ice storms I've been in resulted in at least some loss of power. There's the famous Quebec Ice Storm of 2008 which did incredible damage.  E typo
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Well, today I learned about this! Thank you!
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Thank God they provided the critical Saarland data E: Also how do you eat 500g of potatoes every day without killing yourself
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steinrokkan posted:Thank God they provided the critical Saarland data That's Luxembourg, which, in open defiance of common sense, is still a country.
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steinrokkan posted:Thank God they provided the critical Saarland data The potatos are being drunken, not eaten.
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Portugal used to show higher relative other latins, or am I misremembering? I mean they still are but I thought the difference between them and Spain would be higher.
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