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BBJoey posted:Nice of the rising sea level to not bother Germany or Belgium. It's the sea telling the Dutch to quit it with zwarte Piet.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:It's the sea telling the Dutch to quit it with zwarte Piet. It's been a while since I've seen The Little Mermaid, but my memory is that they're pretty okay with racial stereotypes under the sea.
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BBJoey posted:Nice of the rising sea level to not bother Germany or Belgium. That is your chance to get in at the ground floor for beach property!
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BBJoey posted:Nice of the rising sea level to not bother Germany or Belgium. They're going to have a bad time as well.  The EU is not going to be happy when Brussels is underwater and the only part of Belgium left is Wallonia.
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Well poo poo, bye Flanders. Dutch people are tall so that they won't drown. Lycus fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Already we are being mercilessly trolled.
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Phlegmish posted:Already we are being mercilessly trolled. We shouldn't gloat; that means even more rich fuckers from Brussels' periphery and Flemish farmers making our property prices rise.  Speaking of Flemish farmers, I'm amazed by how quickly a previously growing strip of grassland and forest in the Condroz (below the Lilles-Liège line) suddenly turns into farmland in the 1990's. Even the grassland in the provinces of Flanders shrinks at the same time: escape mechanism fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Man, the sea really hates the Dutch, huh?
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Inaccurate. By this point the dutch will have 100m walls.
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DarkCrawler posted:Man, the sea really hates the Dutch, huh? Not a surprise. We won every battle against it, so far. It keeps trying, but our defenses get better and better. There's a reason there's usually Dutch engineers around whenever some place needs flood protection. By the way, those hilly parts in the center are mostly national parks and the like. The Dutch treasure their mountain ranges. Edit: I just noticed why that map is politically loaded. See that river delta thing in the northeast? There's an unimportant border dispute between Germany and the Netherlands there. It causes some problems when either country wants to get natural resources from those waters or the soil beneath. Usually they're resolved by local authorities making a small treaty. There were a few more weird things with that border, those were all resolved after WWII. Needless to say, Germany was forced to meet Dutch demands. But it seems the Dutch forgot about the Eems/Dollard problem. This map shows the border according to the Netherlands. The German idea of the border hugs the Dutch coast line. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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A_Raving_Loon posted:Europe: Europe:  World:  Enjoy! 
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In red: the counties where the county council presidents have been officially charged or convicted for various corruption offences  In Romania, the council presidents are the most powerful people in each county. One of them got arrested today in a sting operation, he demanded a kickback for awarding a public contract for cleaning the snow off the roads, but it turns out he had his phone, office and house infested with microphones, and as soon as he received the money the special police forces came knocking. The Anti-corruption Directorate has been extremely busy this year, with high level arrests like the president's brother, 3 leaders of the governing party (including the prime minister's father in law), a former prime-minister, a couple dozen parliament members, current or former ministers (including 9 former ministers in a single case where they received bribes from Microsoft and Airbus), dozens of mayors, plenty of businessmen (including a billionaire), the boss of the anti-terrorism and organized crime directorate, and all kinds of other officials. In total there were over 1500 convictions for high-level corruption this year, and all thanks to the EU who put enough pressure on politicians to get us an independent and efficient anticorruption directorate. Thanks EU!  Finally, a christmas carol dedicated to all politicians in romania, which translates to something like "here come the trick-or-treaters, late at night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfZLlVcN2Jg
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Romania is not the only (EU) country in need of an independent and efficient anti-corruption directorate.
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Disco Infiva posted:Europe: They really messed up Corsica 
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Disco Infiva posted:-Images- For prosperity, the little pink numbers over each province is a measure of how much wealth/productivity they have, with 1 being as poo poo poor as you could possibly imagine, and a theoretical 20 being gold paved roads and near unlimited wealth. Try to pick out the subtle biases! (Hint: Check out the name of the maker plus the language used  )Edit: mobby_6kl posted:Stolen from PYF: VerdantSquire fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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ekuNNN posted:Nope, he's from Limburg, so in that bottom part that doesn't get flooded He's from Venlo, he's toast.
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Disco Infiva posted:Europe: It used to be a board game?
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Kulkasha posted:It used to be a board game? Before they turned it into a video game nearly all of Paradox's revenue came from them owning the rights to Conan the Barbarian. e: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4102/europa-universalis "1412 counters" a pipe smoking dog fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Dec 8, 2014 |
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Kulkasha posted:It used to be a board game? A board game designed by Philippe Thibaut, who later founded the video game company AGEOD, which in 2009 was bought by Paradox and renamed Paradox France. They released 2 games that bombed and cost Paradox money, then began working on a third game, March of the Eagles, that was the first time they ever tried to make a game out of their AGEOD engine and was such a mess Paradox gave up on them, spun AGEOD off as an independent company, and spent 6 months finishing off March of the Eagles themselves. MotE was also a bomb, to the point that Paradox have announced that there will be no bug fixing patches for it, even for known bugs, it just isn't worth their developer time. AGEOD is still making games in the same engine they've used since 2005 with no major engine updates, it still is using a setup where you set up all the moves you'd like to make, then hit next turn and it takes ~5 minutes to process a turn. The whole being bought out and let go thing had to have been weird for him.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Before they turned it into a video game nearly all of Paradox's revenue came from them owning the rights to Conan the Barbarian. Playing Time: 3600 minutes.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Arglebargle III posted:Steam game times can get really messed up. I remember when I used to play the Wargame series some people had like 5000 hours in game when the game had not even been released that long. No that's the length of the boardgame
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Arglebargle III posted:Steam game times can get really messed up. I remember when I used to play the Wargame series some people had like 5000 hours in game when the game had not even been released that long. That's loving insane. The most hardcore law firm billing requirement is 2500 hours. A year.
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TheImmigrant posted:That's loving insane. The most hardcore law firm billing requirement is 2500 hours. You guys having some kind of a misunderstanding competition here?
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Haha both of you are totally misunderstanding each other. PittTheElder is talking about how long it takes to finish one round of the board game. Arglebargle is talking about the cumulative amount of time some people have spent playing the video games.
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Rumda posted:No that's the length of the boardgame Wait what? 
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Arglebargle III posted:Wait what?
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Also, units. There's a difference between minutes and hours.
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Unreal_One posted:Also, units. There's a difference between minutes and hours. You realize that still divides into 60 hours, right? That's one hell of a long board game you have there!
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"Let's play one game before bed."
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Kennel posted:"Let's play one game before bed." Famous last words
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3600 minutes is the BGG default setting for "a fuckton of time." And while buying the rights cost them in the short run, EU has been a huge success for Paradox and catapulted them into a major name in grand strategy so it paid off.
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That is nothing compared to the king of insane boardgames, The Campaign for North Africa. The map is 10 feet long, it is recommended that each side have 5 people, and the estimated length is 1200 hours for the full campaign.
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Konstantin posted:That is nothing compared to the king of insane boardgames, The Campaign for North Africa. The map is 10 feet long, it is recommended that each side have 5 people, and the estimated length is 1200 hours for the full campaign. If this is the game I'm thinking of, I remember reading about it in an issue of InQuest back in the 90s. The article claimed that you have to keep track of water and rations for each individual soldier, and the Italian faction uses more water per soldier because they have to boil pasta. I assumed back then that was a joke, but reading the description here, maybe it wasn't.
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Holy poo poo, this is the most detailed bureaucrat simulator ever created. The pics and comments are priceless: quote:Actually, I have been playing, and it is fun (depends on your definition). Lots of paperwork.
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I mean I know people who will play D&D for 4-5 hours a day, and break a campaign out over several weekends. These games are just a non-fantasy version of that.
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What were people on Facebook the most thankful for this Thanksgiving? That's kind of weird, Illinois.
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:What were people on Facebook the most thankful for this Thanksgiving? Pennsyltucky. 
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You can basically see the Bible Belt in this map (mercy, forgiveness, god's stuff, bootstraps).
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