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Pishtaco

#1575
June 19, 2009, 10:14:17 AM
More Arma 2:

Malthus

#1576
June 19, 2009, 10:21:58 AM
WTF?  :lol:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

garbon

#1577
June 19, 2009, 10:54:18 AM
Quote from: katmai on June 19, 2009, 03:59:01 AM
And yet you were offended when i named it that :rolleyes:

I was in a different mood, so sue me.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

jimmy olsen

#1578
June 19, 2009, 02:08:15 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 19, 2009, 09:08:03 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 19, 2009, 08:32:23 AM
What I wonder is how Brazil got France to give up French Guyana

That's nothing compared to the Scandinavian imperial domination of Afghanistan, The Incan colony of Madagascar, and the Egypto-Chili Confederation.
Like all world maps in a post colonial age I'm forced to use colors more than once, shocking I know.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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jimmy olsen

#1579
June 19, 2009, 02:38:55 PM
Quote from: ulmont on June 19, 2009, 08:26:18 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 18, 2009, 10:47:57 PM
I don't feel like making a new one, so here's probably the best world map I've made.

Ok, I'll bite.  What exactly is this map supposed to represent?

Well this world map is set in the present and is the cumulation of several large separate works. I first made a map of North America in which I went for the largest United States I thought could be halfway plausible. Not much else to say about that continent, there's an independent Quebec and Mexico absorbed Guatemala. The UK still rules New Foundland, Belize and Guyana.

In South America, I was going for less Balkanization and different borders all around.

Africa, well most of the original borders were just colonial lines on the map, and I was trying to replicate that feeling while still looking authentic. Some of those nations are more ethnically and linguistically "pure" and some aren't.

As for Asia I was just being contrary, a united Subcontinent, a divided China, etc.

When I made the world map I still had Europe left and I tried to keep both Germany and France strong. We've got Gross Duetchland, and the French have absorbed the Walloons and maintains a colony in North Africa, as do the Italians.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

jimmy olsen

#1580
June 19, 2009, 09:31:23 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 19, 2009, 08:32:23 AM
What I wonder is how Brazil got France to give up French Guyana
Brazil doesn't have French Guyana, it's part of British Guyana.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Savonarola

#1581
June 19, 2009, 09:50:23 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 14, 2009, 03:56:39 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 14, 2009, 03:15:09 PM
Ah, the famed double flop:

http://fcbayernmunchen.fandome.com/video/113106/Double-Headbutt-KO/?q=k
:lmfao:
Wow, that's just ridiculous. How can they not be ashamed of themselves?

European civilization lacks a Don Cherry to tell people how their game ought to be played.   :(
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#1582
June 19, 2009, 09:52:24 PM
Quote from: ulmont on June 19, 2009, 08:26:18 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 18, 2009, 10:47:57 PM
I don't feel like making a new one, so here's probably the best world map I've made.

Ok, I'll bite.  What exactly is this map supposed to represent?

You lose.   :(
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#1583
June 19, 2009, 09:55:39 PM
Quote from: Cerr on June 18, 2009, 08:27:36 AM
Ah ok, must be a familarity issue. Have either of you heard the names Declan or McManus pronounced outloud correctly? It might just look funny written down without knowing how to pronounce the names.

People do run into trouble with Irish names quite often. It's amusing hearing foreigners pronounciation of certain names, like the towns Drogheda, Youghal and Dun Laoghaire.  :lol:

And Dingle.  :P  ;)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#1584
June 19, 2009, 10:05:27 PM
My last name is McManus.  "Manus" is (or at least was at one time) a common first name so to the Irish it's like "Johnson;" nearly every county in the emeral isle has a McManus family.  To see the "Mc" prefix denegrated to a "McDonalds" reference by Americans or Canadians is sad, since so many Irish immigrated to those countires.  The "Anus" part, on the other hand, has caused a great deal of unintentional humor at work when I have to spell my name, reapeatedly, to our Indian technical support.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Habbaku

#1585
June 19, 2009, 10:14:08 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 19, 2009, 09:08:03 AM
the Egypto-Chili Confederation.

I admit, I've never heard of a country founded on the ideals of a pork-free food.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

jimmy olsen

#1586
June 19, 2009, 10:17:08 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 19, 2009, 09:52:24 PM
Quote from: ulmont on June 19, 2009, 08:26:18 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 18, 2009, 10:47:57 PM
I don't feel like making a new one, so here's probably the best world map I've made.

Ok, I'll bite.  What exactly is this map supposed to represent?

You lose.   :(
Why you gotta be like that? <_<
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Savonarola

#1587
June 19, 2009, 10:41:26 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 19, 2009, 10:17:08 PM
Why you gotta be like that? <_<

You know I love you, Tim, but the random maps without any explanation annoy me.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

jimmy olsen

#1588
June 19, 2009, 10:49:28 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 19, 2009, 10:41:26 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 19, 2009, 10:17:08 PM
Why you gotta be like that? <_<

You know I love you, Tim, but the random maps without any explanation annoy me.
Ask for an explanation and you shall receive.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Syt

#1589
June 20, 2009, 05:09:18 AM
Today's David Lynch moment is brought to you by CREEP.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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