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Furnaceface posted:What do Latvian forests look like? it's like that, only add unkempt shrubbery, cigarette butts, and swamp water to them we basically don't have leaf forests - it's all by and large evergreen conifers. fairly flat, and very airy (like inverse of a jungle basically)
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Feb 28, 2023 03:02
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Sounds like it could be fun in the winter if you cross country ski. Not so much in the summer.
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Feb 28, 2023 03:05
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Furnaceface posted:Sounds like it could be fun in the winter if you cross country ski. unsurprisingly, cross-country skiing is a popular thing here, because the entire country is flat. when i was in school, it was in highschool sports curriculum, and we would have pe lessons where we would be doing laps around the football stadium, etc in summer though yeah, just shrooming/berries. otherwise not much to do there, besides feeding insects
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Feb 28, 2023 03:14
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Furnaceface posted:What do Latvian forests look like? what do you do in the forests? besides smoking
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Feb 28, 2023 03:29
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a strange fowl posted:because they're full of disaffected youths I dont smoke. Or drink.  Lots of hiking, bike, snowmobile, and skiing trails in the forests here. Quite a few swamps and small lakes hidden in the forests too. When I was younger and thinner I used to go for bike rides all the time in the nearby woods. Last time I went all the poo poo I used to see when I was a kid was mostly gone though. Cut down for hobby farms, mcmansions, and golf courses. 
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Feb 28, 2023 03:46
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Furnaceface posted:I dont smoke. Or drink. quote:Lots of hiking, bike, snowmobile, and skiing trails in the forests here. Quite a few swamps and small lakes hidden in the forests too. When I was younger and thinner I used to go for bike rides all the time in the nearby woods. Last time I went all the poo poo I used to see when I was a kid was mostly gone though. Cut down for hobby farms, mcmansions, and golf courses.  i am picturing packs of wild-eyed chain-smoking latvians chasing deer through the forest on foot
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Mar 1, 2023 02:00
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Cease to Hope posted:the core part of an isekai story is the fish-out-of-water aspect of someone going from one life to another, which is very common. even if you narrow it down to the fish being even happier out of water, it's still common. "is inuyasha/the last starfighter/encino man/superman/etc. an isekai" is the anime nerd version of "is die hard a christmas movie". it's similar and fits a very rigidly technical version of the definition, and you could have a productive discussion about the similarities, but you're almost never going to have one with anyone who brings it up. hmm
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Mar 1, 2023 08:22
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Mar 1, 2023 08:23
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No Seymour, 2/10
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Mar 1, 2023 15:12
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every day is an isekai, you step out of the world that was into somewhere new and weird
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Mar 2, 2023 00:51
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i'll allow it
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Mar 2, 2023 01:47
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Spring is coming! *weather alert for 40cm of snow*
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Mar 2, 2023 03:03
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we've had weeks of like -1 at night, +1 during the day. only a few days of decent snow (backscatter from scandistorm), and only one day below -10. really sad for winters these days
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Mar 2, 2023 03:05
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Its been a weird winter for us. Like the winter overall is much warmer with way fewer days at -20C or colder, but the storms we get are much wilder. Way too many ice storms.
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Mar 2, 2023 03:10
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i was out working in a hailstorm today, so you high latitude cold place folks can cram it being pelted with ice cubes in my loving mediterranean paradise for christs sake
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Mar 2, 2023 07:09
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a strange fowl posted:every day is an isekai, you step out of the world that was into somewhere new and weird present avs, locked in an eternal asynchronous struggle with her nemeses, past avs and future avs
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Mar 2, 2023 07:25
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i was out working in a hailstorm today, so you high latitude cold place folks can cram it hailstorm cannot harm you if you close your eyes
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Mar 2, 2023 14:36
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Oh poo poo. Marmaduke is the DOG'S name?
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Mar 2, 2023 14:42
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Oh poo poo. Marmaduke is the DOG'S name? 
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Mar 2, 2023 14:44
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This changes everything. The twist came out of nowhere because the speech bubbles always seemed to be pointing to the couch that the dog was sitting on. They never spell it out until strip #386 and it re-contextualizes the entire run and so many jokes. There's a reason they call Brad Anderson the master.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:00
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This changes everything. I'm assuming you have watched R&M but if you haven't there's a great Marmaduke joke in season 1
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Mar 2, 2023 16:10
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Harold Fjord posted:I'm assuming you have watched R&M but if you haven't there's a great Marmaduke joke in season 1 That joke was good. I think they actually got Brad Anderson to do the voice and play himself too.
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Mar 2, 2023 16:12
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Where the heck is Catan in Settlers of Catan?
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Mar 3, 2023 20:22
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Where the heck is Catan in Settlers of Catan? Leon asked me to come respond to this vital question. Catan is a mythical place, like Shangri La, or Atlantis, or the admin forum. Perhaps it's somewhere hidden in the bermuda triangle or the misty mountains beyond Tibet; or maybe it existed long ago, but sank beneath the waves; or maybe it's only accessible to those who have been sanctified with hidden, secret knowledge; or maybe in the end it was in your heart, all along.
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Mar 3, 2023 20:31
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Leperflesh posted:Leon asked me to come respond to this vital question. I was just joking and wanted you to make a post in here so I could change your AV to the Cat Daddy. Lmao. Thank you for answering about Catan, though! I legitimately did not know.
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Mar 3, 2023 20:45
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Sure thing, Leon. This is D&D so I should reference and cite sources, right? https://catan.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_Catan of course there's a Catan fandom wiki, of course there is. This one says Catan was found in the ocean by German settlers. But it's a fandom page so I would not rely on its veracity. https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/116432/where-island-catan This boardgame geek thread says it's in Ohio, or Puerto Rico. I think we can discount this as speculation. https://www.thefactsite.com/catan-facts/ This URL has "facts" twice, so it is surely definitive. It says the original inventor of the game in an interview declared Catan to be a pacific island. I think we can take this as authoritative. However, there is a spacefarers of Catan, where they find a Catan in space, and there's also a Star Trek Catan game, which we can assume means there's a Catan in the Star Trek universe. In both cases, though, this might still refer to an island on Earth. I don't know.
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Mar 3, 2023 21:01
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Do we know for sure that Star Trek Catan is not an "Elseworlds" situation or that the original Catan universe functions as but one of many multiverses?
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Mar 3, 2023 21:05
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i have played settlers of catan as the second of 3 western board games that i have played
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Mar 3, 2023 21:22
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Catan is really the worst popular Western board game by far. So popular and so so bad If you need a silly gambling fix play can't stop, roll for the galaxy, or space base
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Mar 3, 2023 21:28
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we have soviet and local card games (with a regular deck) that we play here by large, with board games being a foreign novelty. in latvia specifically i've literally never played a board game, unless we count monopoly as a board game, i guess
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Mar 3, 2023 21:31
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cinci zoo sniper posted:we have soviet and local card games (with a regular deck) that we play here by large, with board games being a foreign novelty. in latvia specifically i've literally never played a board game, unless we count monopoly as a board game, i guess What is the Soviet version of Monopoly?
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Mar 3, 2023 21:32
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What is the Soviet version of Monopoly? none, the main soviet board game is card game called durak (“fool”) https://www.pagat.com/beating/durak.html
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Mar 3, 2023 21:35
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okay now i'm unnecessarily jumbling the taxonomy. so, of tabletop games like 95% of my playtime in latvia is just card games, soviet or local. the rest is monopoly. during my life or travels abroad, i've tried 3 western games - mtg, catan, and hanabi
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Mar 3, 2023 21:37
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What is the Soviet version of Monopoly? You round up all the people who own property and dispose of them.
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Mar 3, 2023 21:38
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What is the Soviet version of Monopoly? It's called "Warsaw Pact"
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Mar 3, 2023 21:40
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What is the Soviet version of Monopoly? The game starts the same as Monopoly, then the banker is shot and the person to their left tales everything and doles it out to the others according to their need.
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Mar 3, 2023 21:46
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It's interesting that "Durak" is based around picking a loser rather than a winner. It seems very similar to the American card (drinking) game "rear end in a top hat", which I assume also has its own regional variants. But it's the same idea, try to get rid of all your cards and don't be last. Loss aversion-based games like that seem kind of dark to me, but then I was also annoyed by how every drat ad I saw for board games on TV as a kid (and holy poo poo, there were a ton back then) ended with some brat yelling "I WIN!" - even at a young age it said something disturbing to me about American competitiveness.
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Mar 3, 2023 21:46
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the fool/durak part is something that gets dropped out of playing culture by the time players are like 12-13, at which point what you're left is a flexible card game that accomodates 2-6 players playing both free for all and in teams, with fairly short match times. when i worked in construction, our 1-hour lunch, besides eating, would involve like 3-5 matches of durak, and then you could just run bants the rest of the day about owning someone etc
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Mar 3, 2023 21:50
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Fun Fact: Monopoly was actually designed by a semi-socialist as an educational tool for people who couldn't read to show what happens when you allow completely unregulated business. Every business slowly bleeds all the other businesses dry until one business successfully bleeds out the competitors until there is just a single one left. So, Monopoly is literally designed to be unfun and painful to finish.
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Mar 3, 2023 21:58
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Mellow Seas posted:It's interesting that "Durak" is based around picking a loser rather than a winner. It seems very similar to the American card (drinking) game "rear end in a top hat", which I assume also has its own regional variants. But it's the same idea, try to get rid of all your cards and don't be last. it's called Shithead most places my cousin brought an extremely rude variation over to the gathering this christmas where all the cards were euphemisms for sexual organs https://gingerfox.co.uk/Product/230/don-t-be-a-dik-dik
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