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steinrokkan posted:It's just a guy called Roman, the placement is incidental. Acknowledge him. 
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TinTower posted:Acknowledge him. i'd rather watch hogan vs. warrior at halloween havoc '98
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From what I learned playing Civilization and Rise of Nations, the US did have Greco-Roman architecture in ancient times.
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The important thing is that Ancient Egypt was full of hot babes in bikinis
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O.K. but what if “EUROPA” is controlled by space aliens from the same‐named satellite of Jupiter?
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Platystemon posted:O.K. but what if “EUROPA” is controlled by space aliens from the same‐named satellite of Jupiter? All of these regions are yours, except Mesopotamia. Attempt no settlement there.
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The freudian fascination with big white columns is just like the government controlled by big gladius and façade of democracy ruled by the richest people on earth We did it on purpose. Please stop mocking us when George Washington, inventor of liberty, wrote in the constitution we have to do it this way in 4000 BCE.
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Aren't those sorts of games made mainly in China? If so then it's just reverse orientalism (or, uhh, occidentalism) really.
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Private Speech posted:Aren't those sorts of games made mainly in China? Yes, they are all weird Chinese games, and when you find out how much they rake in, you will gain a type of sadness that will only be resolved by having one million battle power, or looking at other weird maps. 
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Oct 13, 2023 05:29
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Those aren't games, those are map painting skinner boxes
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Tnega posted:Yes, they are all weird Chinese games, and when you find out how much they rake in, you will gain a type of sadness that will only be resolved by having one million battle power, or looking at other weird maps. I mean that's just a standard Civ map...
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Some of these games actually have decent-looking art. Unfortunately I assume they're the usual predatory pay-to-win mobile game garbage
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Quorum posted:All of these regions are yours, except Mesopotamia. Attempt no settlement there. Settle Ur? I hardly know Ur!
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is this telling me where most remote workers live or where their employers are? guessing the latter, but want to make sure.
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Oct 13, 2023 18:58
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i think the joke is that not a single one of those arrows is accurate
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i say swears online posted:i think the joke is that not a single one of those arrows is accurate The centers of triangles are closer, I think, though still not right?
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Atlanta appears t9 have been m9ved just outside of Dothan Alabama i see
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Also the bizarre choice to lump numbers together in a single symbol. When with only 10 you could just label the map directly.
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Count Roland posted:Also the bizarre choice to lump numbers together in a single symbol. When with only 10 you could just label the map directly. I appreciate the attempt, sort of, being colourblind. That key there is telling me there's three colours and I keep looking. Pretty sure it's monochrome map with two kinds of triangle either pointing at or centered on wherever the maker thought these cities are.
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abelwingnut posted:is this telling me where most remote workers live or where their employers are? guessing the latter, but want to make sure. At first I thought the map was just bad, but it turns out it is lying. The map ranks cities based on co-working spaces (i.e. WeWork) and completely misses one of the main benefits of remote work is your commute is measured in footsteps.
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https://clips.twitch.tv/GenerousTubularPeppermintImGlitch-Og80MUBFJjNjPLds oh man i totally forgot the world cup was happening. here's a ten-hour youtube of the event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY6hkg87Ufc
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racist idiot’s idiot map but the place names were funny to me https://x.com/padek_de_wish/status/1712603368038793343?s=46&t=KMMfueYvpy-W7VUWexdGpA
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i say swears online posted:https://clips.twitch.tv/GenerousTubularPeppermintImGlitch-Og80MUBFJjNjPLds i lolled at the final location for the day being a stones throw from my old weed dealers house
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Tree Goat posted:racist idiot’s idiot map but the place names were funny to me Nice calque of Lille/Rijsel though. e: 'Al Jazira' means 'The Island', which is also the etymological root of French Lille (L'Île) and Dutch Rijsel (Ter IJsel).
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Is there any particular reason why he thinks it'll be specifically the Ismailis who will be taking over? Aren't there only like 2 or 3 million of them worldwide? I mean I know the answer is that he's a racist idiot but it still seems like an odd choice.
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stereobreadsticks posted:Is there any particular reason why he thinks it'll be specifically the Ismailis who will be taking over? Aren't there only like 2 or 3 million of them worldwide? I mean I know the answer is that he's a racist idiot but it still seems like an odd choice.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I mean, if the parallel is Jewish people, then it kinda has to be a minor denomination. I hadn't even made the anti-Semitic connection until you pointed it out, I thought it was just an Islamophobic Eurabia thing and the mapmaker had a weirdly specific grudge against one particular Islamic denomination.
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I also initially read it as "here's what the Muslims are doing to France, making it an Islamic state, driving out our culture into minor enclaves." I've seen plenty of maps like that, also with England or Germany or any other European state. But now I can see it's clearly "here's what it would be like if the Muslims did Zionism to us, so now you can see Zionism is bad." I don't think it's antisemitic, in fact the whole point is that the colonial process of Zionism can be enacted with any colonizing culture or religion, that the Jewishness of Zionism is ultimately just an aesthetic component. Goes to show that right-wing ambitions and right-wing anxieties are sympatico across cultures.
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You all haven’t even commented on the funniest part which is that the Bayonne Strip is controlled by Action Française
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Civilized Fishbot posted:I also initially read it as "here's what the Muslims are doing to France, making it an Islamic state, driving out our culture into minor enclaves." I've seen plenty of maps like that, also with England or Germany or any other European state. Yeah I mean the account that posted it has a pinned post of them flipping off the Star of David when it was projected on the Eiffel Tower and the geographic parallels to the West Bank Gaza Strip etc make it a pretty direct anti-Zionist commentary but I’m still pretty confident in my initial racist idiot claim
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stereobreadsticks posted:Is there any particular reason why he thinks it'll be specifically the Ismailis who will be taking over? Aren't there only like 2 or 3 million of them worldwide? I mean I know the answer is that he's a racist idiot but it still seems like an odd choice. It's probably just because it starts with Is- like Israel.
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Out of all the islamic symbols, especially for Ismailis who have a flag already, they chose the heptagram. I’m guessing this is the rare antisemite who is consistent about Israel, instead of being cool with Israel because they hate muslims more.
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It looks more like a pro Palestinian map of how the conflict looks from a Palestinian perspective, using a well known country like France to illustrate the occupation. Also where's French Guiana?
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BonHair posted:Also where's French Guiana? In South America
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Badger of Basra posted:You all haven’t even commented on the funniest part which is that the Bayonne Strip is controlled by Action Française Now that's funny
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stereobreadsticks posted:Is there any particular reason why he thinks it'll be specifically the Ismailis who will be taking over? Aren't there only like 2 or 3 million of them worldwide? I mean I know the answer is that he's a racist idiot but it still seems like an odd choice. Frionnel posted:It's probably just because it starts with Is- like Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmaelites I'm fairly, basically 99%, sure it refers to this rather than Ismailism. It's the Arab (or rather the Bible and such referring to Arabs, though I think the Quran and/or Islamic traditions basically accepts the same thing) counterpart to Jews being the "children of Israel" (where "Israel" actually is just the name of a dude), Arabs are "the children of Ishmael" (or "Ismail" in the transliterated Arabic rendition). Randarkman fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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Randarkman posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmaelites this is also what i inferred at first glace
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