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Koramei posted:
fake edit: woop Space Kablooey fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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I slipped in an updated version 
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Aug 10, 2020 23:45
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mobby_6kl posted:Feels like there's a good chance one of you nerds here would know what I'm talking about. A while ago I read an article on the different ways how new territories in the US were surveyed and parcels divided, which lead to those areas looking distinct to this day because the way land was divided often persisted to this day. Any ideas? My googling fails completely here. I vaguely remember something like this too, but the closest I can find is a few posts around this page: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3531615&pagenumber=1448&perpage=40#post500379009
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Aug 11, 2020 01:32
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 mobby_6kl posted:Feels like there's a good chance one of you nerds here would know what I'm talking about. A while ago I read an article on the different ways how new territories in the US were surveyed and parcels divided, which lead to those areas looking distinct to this day because the way land was divided often persisted to this day. Any ideas? My googling fails completely here. maybe you are thinking of the homesteading act and how it effected parcel layout, or possibly a slightly different but similar process that playing out in the old northwest (now the midwest)? I'm not going to post about that because i only kind of remember, but i was looking at images of the US Canadian border and i was wondering if the different pattern was a result of that initial land distribution or subsequent differences in the law and economy https://earth.google.com/web/search/St.+Clair,+michigan/@42.83237695,-82.4937174,185a,1028470d  So here we can see the border across the St Clair river between Michigan and the USA on the left, and Canada on the right. I really have no idea why canada's side looks so tidy, and America's messy. If you zoom in it seems like the forest vs row crop area is managed differently, so I wonder if there are differences in land use regulations at play?
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Aug 11, 2020 01:35
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mobby_6kl posted:Feels like there's a good chance one of you nerds here would know what I'm talking about. A while ago I read an article on the different ways how new territories in the US were surveyed and parcels divided, which lead to those areas looking distinct to this day because the way land was divided often persisted to this day. Any ideas? My googling fails completely here. This is honestly the closest thing I can think of an I'm betting it was based on some book or something https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772281/ e: https://www.amazon.com/How-States-Got-Their-Shapes/dp/0061431397
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Aug 11, 2020 01:44
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Squalid posted:
on the american side, it looks like there's less agriculture than on the canadian side. road frontage has been chopped up and subdivided into residential lots, and this is one of the first steps in the process of suburbanizing farmland. i'm guessing it's due to the relative proximity of the detroit job market (between .5-1hr travel time away) such that the american side of the river is functionally an exurb of a major metro. just across the river in canada, there's no cities of significant enough size nearby to generate suburban/exurban pressure here, so it remains farmland, albeit not exactly the middle of nowhere rural
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Aug 11, 2020 02:15
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Aug 11, 2020 02:34
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Well I just can't wrap my mind around that
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Aug 11, 2020 03:28
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Türkiye küçük bir ülke değil
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Aug 11, 2020 03:37
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FreudianSlippers posted:Türkiye küçük bir ülke değil Two posts. I'm proud of you, thread.
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Aug 11, 2020 03:41
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FreudianSlippers posted:Türkiye küçük bir ülke değil I don't know why I even bothered google translating it.
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Aug 11, 2020 03:41
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Aug 11, 2020 05:44
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Please give them turkish flag
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Aug 11, 2020 06:14
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Thanks all, I think this is the closest to what I had in mind. It might've been these exact posts that I put together into an article in my head even. Jaguars! posted:I vaguely remember something like this too, but the closest I can find is a few posts around this page:
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Aug 11, 2020 06:21
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ugh basé napoléon et la grande france ce qui aurait pu être si seulement ce n'était pas pour l'albion perfide PawParole fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Aug 11, 2020 08:55
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PawParole posted:gentleposters, I submit to you, greatest France. I'm trying to imagine a world where one country gets all of france, northern italy, the rich parts of germany, and switzerland. Would there be a need for the EU then?
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Aug 11, 2020 09:09
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ASAPRockySituation posted:I'm trying to imagine a world where one country gets all of france, northern italy, the rich parts of germany, and switzerland. Would there be a need for the EU then? yes, because the larger the market, the more potential buyers. but you have a good point
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Aug 11, 2020 09:11
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Sweden still has a French king but is supposedly not a natural part of France?
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Aug 11, 2020 09:12
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Kings aren't natural.
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Aug 11, 2020 09:23
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Too bad the resolution is so crappy that you have to strain your eyes to read the jokes. Roncevaux Pass: Navarre forget. A France without Croats is a France without neckties.
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Aug 11, 2020 09:33
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PawParole posted:gentleposters, I submit to you, greatest France. Needs an inset with French Guiana
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Aug 11, 2020 12:10
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Platystemon posted:Needs an inset with French Guiana these are the natural borders of France. the unnatural borders of France have a few more continents inside of them.
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Aug 11, 2020 12:13
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Milo and POTUS posted:Please give them turkish flag It currently has Ohio's flag. I know this because I started playing World Geography for Android again: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.age.wgg.appspot&hl=en_US At first I despised the US with its 30 nearly-identical blue state flags, but now I've come to embrace it. Come at me. Oceania and the Caribbean, too, I don't care how many tiny island nations you throw at me. I've sworn a solemn oath that I will reach the top 5,000 of map nerds one day, or die trying.
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Aug 11, 2020 13:16
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Aug 11, 2020 13:57
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Then immediately below, Antwerp is covid Mordor
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Aug 11, 2020 14:01
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Aug 11, 2020 14:14
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Trickle up economics?
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Aug 11, 2020 15:03
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How are u posted:Maps are very interesting, while flags are only a little bit interesting (excepting cool flags like pirate flags, naturally). Counterpoint: https://twitter.com/withoutaplain/status/1287199869170581510
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Aug 11, 2020 16:11
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This flag is amazing, though?
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Aug 11, 2020 17:04
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Phlegmish posted:It currently has Ohio's flag. Been playing since this game first got recommended here and I hit the top 100 a few months ago.
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Aug 11, 2020 17:28
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HardDiskD posted:This flag is amazing, though? Yeah Sin Vega is a big fat idiot. e: 
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Aug 11, 2020 17:29
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Banana Canada posted:Been playing since this game first got recommended here and I hit the top 100 a few months ago.  gently caress you, I was going to brag about being about to break into the top 70,000. Do you have any tips for us newbies??
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Aug 11, 2020 17:50
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TIL that Arnhem is the most power metal of all cities.
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Aug 12, 2020 06:32
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Phlegmish posted:
The game is well designed in its progression from multiple-choice to free-input answers. If you stick with it and unlock all the levels you will, by the end of it, have all the categories mostly memorised. Developing your own mnemonics or finding commonalities between similar countries/sub-national territories help a lot. Let me know if you have any specific categories that you find you are having trouble with. Flag are probably the easiest category to get to near-100% accuracy given that the purpose of flags is to evoke a recall of the country it symbolises. But I'll take the opportunity to call out Nebraska as having the blandest and least-memorable flag in the world. All the middle eastern flags? No problem. Central american flags? No sweat now. Russian oblasts and Thai provinces? Got them memorised after a few weeks of their release into the game. Nebraska? I just got it wrong again in the game despite 3 years of playing and seeing the flag innumerable times.
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Aug 12, 2020 09:35
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Nebraska's flag should have a square cut out in the bottom left quarter to make it more memorable.
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Aug 12, 2020 09:48
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Banana Canada posted:I'll take the opportunity to call out Nebraska as having the blandest and least-memorable flag in the world. All the middle eastern flags? No problem. Central american flags? No sweat now. Russian oblasts and Thai provinces? Got them memorised after a few weeks of their release into the game. Nebraska? I just got it wrong again in the game despite 3 years of playing and seeing the flag innumerable times. But it's written "State of Nebraska" on it... Also lol: quote:In 2017, State Senator Burke Harr proposed a task force charged with redesigning the flag, citing the fact that the flag had flown upside down at the capitol for 10 days with no one noticing. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Aug 12, 2020 11:49
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That just proves nobody gives a poo poo about flags. Now maps on the other hand...
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Aug 12, 2020 12:07
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Cat Mattress posted:But it's written "State of Nebraska" on it... e: Actually, looking at pics on Google that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. I guess someone realized you don't need to do that and it doesn't make sense for a vertically symmetrical flag to have asymmetrical mounting. Every flag I've ever hoisted did, though, but I haven't done that since 1998. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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Aug 12, 2020 12:13
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Guavanaut posted:Nebraska's flag should have a square cut out in the bottom left quarter to make it more memorable. A flag shan't be a map...but this is cheeky enough they should do it. Cat Mattress posted:But it's written "State of Nebraska" on it... The game removes the name of the region if it is written on the flag.
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Banana Canada posted:The game removes the name of the region if it is written on the flag. That's cheating! Do they also remove the map if there's one (Cyprus, Kosovo)?
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