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Carbon dioxide posted:You people who don't know what this is a reference to, please keep your innocence. It is a valuable asset. 
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You know what you're doing, and my urge to Google grows by the second, gently caress this.
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Elyv posted:the vatican and san marino aren't in purple(or my monitor is bad), garbage map They are. 
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TinTower posted:Did somebody say vexillology? Because I'd like to share my favourite, the apoleiasexual pride flag. i'm at a loss
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Kurtofan posted:i'm at a loss alright gently caress this entire place. took me long enough. i swear that image wasn't up there when i checked the first time
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 Countries that have or had their own 'Idol' series, such as "American Idol". Blue: These countries film their own version of Idol. Green: This country takes part in a series with other countries. (Such as Arab Idol)
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Lots of people getting huffy about how they're totally not secretly ruled by some old lady who gets to pretend that her military dictator ancestors were somehow better than regular humans because they had ~*NOBILITY*~. I'm a republican, but if monarchy had actually won its fight in the UK against the rest of the nobility it would probably be a regular constitutional monarchy nowadays instead of a hosed up Ancien Régime throwback class society.
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Peanut President posted:Look I just used the basic paint.net colors. Be glad there's not 3 greens. I just assumed the terrible color choices were part of the joke.
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Aug 20, 2017 19:23
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Here's an interesting longform article about some surprisingly politically loaded infrastructure maps. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-10/nobody-knows-what-lies-beneath-new-york-city
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Whiz Palace posted:Unless there's a big one I missed, the politically-loaded elements are pretty subtle so I don't know which you want to call out. I was calling out the whole island reclamation discussion that was going on?
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how is it anything but a tower a boat??
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Presumably the name was chosen before the Russians were adequately acquainted with the concept of boats.
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Kurtofan posted:how is it anything but a tower How is a bishop a jester? Unless this is some radical anti-clericalism in which case carry on.
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Aug 21, 2017 18:40
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It's pretty cool that there's very few places where all of the pieces are named in a similar manner.
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Aug 21, 2017 19:02
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Some of the names probably stem from before the standard Staunton style pattern for chessmen, and have stuck around. You can still get sets with a cannon for the rook.  In that set, the queen appears to be a pumpkin, and gently caress knows what the bishop is. I've never seen a non-theme set where the rook looked anything like a boat though, unless it's supposed to be the mast or something.
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Guavanaut posted:I've never seen a non-theme set where the rook looked anything like a boat though, unless it's supposed to be the mast or something. Apparently an elephant as Bishop and a boat as Rook is something Russia got from Indian sets. Bengali set from the 1600s:  And a Soviet Russian one: 
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Estonia calling the queen flag seems weird, but then you get the Faroes calling the pawn "small woman" and wonder how they used to wage war.
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frankenfreak posted:Estonia calling the queen flag seems weird, but then you get the Faroes calling the pawn "small woman" and wonder how they used to wage war.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:They couldn't deal with the fact that foot soldiers were promoted into ladies, so they made the foot soldiers into women instead. Things get awkward in that once in a lifetime game where you need to promote into a horse though.
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Aug 21, 2017 19:32
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Has anyone ever made republican chess? Republican like how the king is called something else, not Republican like the pawns are fetuses or something. It seems like the sort of thing that France would do around the time that they were doing republican clocks and calendars.
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Aug 21, 2017 19:44
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Guavanaut posted:Has anyone ever made republican chess? Republican like how the king is called something else, not Republican like the pawns are fetuses or something. lol, you are completely right, they modernized chess post 1789, not just to do away with monarchist elements, but also to bring it up to date with modern warfare, so there were pieces like an observation balloon or a sharpshooter. http://ib.frath.net/w/Republican_Chess E: Upon closer look this appears to be the wiki of some fictional universe? Owned, I guess.
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Quoting so it doesn't break my browser to look at such huge images.
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Guavanaut posted:Has anyone ever made republican chess? Republican like how the king is called something else, not Republican like the pawns are fetuses or something. Louis-Bernard Guyton, Baron de Morveau, apparently proposed a republican chess, using military titles for everyone, but it doesn't seem to have been picked up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Bernard_Guyton_de_Morveau https://books.google.com/books?id=R...hess%22&f=false
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Orange Devil posted:How is a bishop a jester? Unless this is some radical anti-clericalism in which case carry on. they've both got a funny hat
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Aug 21, 2017 20:26
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Bishop is Jester in France because they thought it looked like a jester's cap it's that simple.
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Spanish peón means both foot soldiers and farmhands/laborers. Also beehives, now that's a set I wanna see.
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Georgian Turtles, known for speeding across the battlefield
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I've called the queen queen in french before, was i wrong then
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Frionnel posted:Bishop is Jester in France because they thought it looked like a jester's cap it's that simple. And we're right obv
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Kurtofan posted:I've called the queen queen in french before, was i wrong then Also call the queen queen in Dutch (koningin).
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Aug 21, 2017 20:34
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IDK a lot of languages probably have multiple names. It's pretty common for people to say "horse" and "castle" in English.
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Duckbag posted:IDK a lot of languages probably have multiple names. It's pretty common for people to say "horse" and "castle" in English. horse sounds like kids stuff
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Kurtofan posted:horse sounds like kids stuff Yeah, every kid who plays chess for the first time calls it that until someone corrects them. Not everyone accepts the correction.
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