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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
This map makes no effort for sensible pokemon distribution. Pokemon Island has 63 species of pokemon, all shared in common with Johto region, yet is located closer to multiple regions it shares no pokemon with. Madness! I demand accuracy in my made up bullshit.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
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Jan 29, 2023 06:03
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I was wondering what the deal was with that big stretch of land that didn't match up with any Pokemon games.Edgar Allen Ho posted:Why is it possible to walk all the way from Kyoto to Paris? Why is Paris the literal City of Lights full of fashion models instead of a stinking poo poo pile? They did take the bold choice later to make Madrid into a godforsaken hole when it came to Poke-Spain. I don't think the Japanese vacation enough in Mexico to make a pokemon version of that.
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Feldegast42 posted:IIRC Japan think of Paris like western weebs think of Tokyo Yeah, there's even a phenomenon called Paris Syndrome wear Japanese tourists have meltdowns because it's not as good as they imagined.
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Jan 30, 2023 06:33
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  Such a difference to  I once pieced together and scaled all these maps, they fit together fairly well (although one of the later ones stretched a few cities apart).
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Jan 30, 2023 07:48
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Alright, here's the maps from the Latchkey Kingdom webcomic. As opposed to 70 Seas, it's more specifically a videogame pastiche. Mostly Zelda at first, but there's just a whole lot of things thrown in there. It's a big adventure world riddled with dungeons to explore. It's got a map packed full of features, and I feel like probably the scale was changed a lot after the beginning.   The story takes place inland, but it's still in the crazy floating islands world.  And there was even a whole little thing detailing the land's history that involved it floating around that I pulled the maps from a while back. https://latchkeykingdom.com/comics/comic/history-of-hilla-1-p/ SlothfulCobra posted:Fantasy maps. Fantasy history, excised of panels that aren't maps.  Bonus background map. 
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Feb 7, 2023 19:02
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Big fan of the ghost coast
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Geez, Flash. One crash landing on Mongo is understandable. Two just looks careless.
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Hurry in for Kids Daze at Volcano World, exit 35 off the beltline.
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Fwiw, not that it makes it much better, but two specific things about that wheel of time map The straight line mountain ranges were man made, insane magic guys raising them And the kingdoms not touching is deliberate, countries unable to actually control into wilderness
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May 7, 2023 19:23
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An article on the guy who made the current version of the map of Batman's Gotham. It took around 59 years to actually standardize a map for Gotham, but they finally did it in 1998. The only real certainty in all that time had been that it had some kind of water access, but they also had the idea it'd be on the east coast.  Obviously it takes a lot of inspiration from New York City, although I feel like it'd fit in well as more part of the Great Lakes network (it also takes some inspiration from Chicago even). There's a lot of economic decay from former peaks in that area as well that'd be fertile ground for Batman's crime, but I guess most of that happened after Batman's creation. The official map is a whole 3 island setup, which is sort of like NYC's boroughs, but with some extra logic to them. No cutting out a giant integrated chunk of the city because it's across state lines, all the islands are a single conglomerated mass. A few bridges to the mainland, a whole lot of tunnels.  I'm sure there's some famous stories about individual bits, but all I know is that Arkham Asylum is surprisingly close to a main highway. (I guess like Randall's Island?)
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May 22, 2023 18:18
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Superman lives in Delaware?
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May 22, 2023 19:07
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Superman lives in Delaware? His LLC lives in Delaware but leases out his Metropolis condo to him personally for $1 per annum.
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I always figured Gotham was what happened if you took NYC and moved it to Buffalo. I never figured you could see it from Metropolis.
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May 22, 2023 23:21
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The Animated Batman Series also had a map showing Gotham just being in New York's location. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Superman lives in Delaware? I did poke around a bit for Metropolis, and so far as I can tell, it didn't end up settling as much on a consistent map as Gotham. Although it also has far less searchability. The animated series I think threw out indications for it being in both Massachusetts and Maryland. Some live-action shows have placed it in Indiana, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. Some people make it into NYC, Frank Miller has his famous quote about Gotham being New York at night and Metropolis is it during the day. And there's also a town in Illinois that proclaims to be the location of Metropolis. It's a real mess. But here's an old map of Smallville as just being incredibly square. 
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May 23, 2023 00:30
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Looks like soon Smallville will soon be devoured by metropolis ever expanding suburbs unless superman comes to the rescue!
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As a former resident of South Jersey the thought of Gotham being Millville is utterly hilarious.
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LostCosmonaut posted:As a former resident of South Jersey the thought of Gotham being Millville is utterly hilarious. You think that's bad, they stuck Philadelphia in your state too! With Wilmington apparently being swapped to PA as a replacement; maybe some mad comic book scientist played with time travel/local geology and really hosed up the area. Though I find the idea of sticking Metropolis in southern Delaware hilarious; the population there is so low every time Dover Downs hosted a NASCAR race the attendee number used to be over half the population of Kent County (think that number has decreased to just about a third of the population these day though; just know you still do NOT want to drive down there during race days).
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  lookin at ye olde Night Vale fanart maps and I love how much they (mostly) match up
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
reminds me of the maps that incorporate all the gta games.
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lmao at gotham being in jersey lmfao at metropolis being in delaware
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LostCosmonaut posted:As a former resident of South Jersey the thought of Gotham being Millville is utterly hilarious. It also doesn't work because everybody knows the Millville Meteor is Superman.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Frank Miller has his famous quote about Gotham being New York at night and Metropolis is it during the day. That's a better solution than the weird map with extra spaces like above. Just have Gotham / Metropolis be NY on steroids.
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I feel like Gotham should be Detroit. I guess it doesn't exactly work, but that's the aesthetic I imagine. What's funny is that Pittsburgh shows us that Gotham might not be so bad if the Waynes were more like the Carnegies. Maybe they didn't have that kind of money... tadashi fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Jul 7, 2023 |
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When they finally did the Justice League/Avengers crossover, the Avengers got stuck on the DC Earth and vice versa. Iron Man noted that DC Earth is slightly larger to accommodate all the fake cities and countries. A neat detail from Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory series was that the DC Universe's New York City has an inferiority complex because Metropolis and Gotham are so close to it and get all the attention.
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Is there any actual real life case of two such large cities so close? Feel like in real life they would of just merged into/referred to as one city. Million plus population cities have a pretty large footprint
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I want to say there is an international border situation allowing this to happen but I cannot for the life of me remember where that is. I mean Detroit and Windsor are not huge but are both at least cities Edit: Ooh Rawalpindi and Islamabad!
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dr_rat posted:Is there any actual real life case of two such large cities so close? Feel like in real life they would of just merged into/referred to as one city. Million plus population cities have a pretty large footprint Tokyo/Yokohama? NYC/Newark? DC/Baltimore? San Francisco/Oakland? I don't know if Incheon is considered a suburb of Seoul, but I think it's technically a separate city. Oh yeah, Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto too Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jul 7, 2023 |
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I talk too much about real maps in this post, so have a map of the country of Drusselstein from Phineas and Ferb. Since it's a long and skinny country, they have a giant rotating shaft that provides mechanical power throughout the country. Originally driven by rabbits, but when they upgraded to goats, it led to things grinding to a halt because they couldn't decide which way the goats should turn. Dr. Quarex posted:I want to say there is an international border situation allowing this to happen but I cannot for the life of me remember where that is. I mean Detroit and Windsor are not huge but are both at least cities El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. It also happens pretty often with lots of cities that functionally are part of the same urban unit, but go across state borders, since there's not really a functional way for the US government to deal with a city that's in multiple states at the same time. Each state just gets its own bit to incorporate into its own city. But also the US just plain doesn't like aggregating urban areas into single cities much. Hoboken and Jersey City are separated from New York City by state lines and the Hudson River, but there's not much at at all separating Yonkers or Mt Vernon from the Bronx. No particular reason for Elmont or Valley Stream to be separate from Queens. Eastchester is in the Bronx, why not give NYC all of Westchester? Cities just kind of maintain their existence even if you can't see any kind of separation on a map, so long as they can't be convinced to join together. Whether they "deserve" to maintain their own identity is a vague question. I think the Dallas/Fort Worth area is the only place that seems to really get behind the idea that this cluster of cities is all one big unit even if it's not governed as one. Sometimes Silicon Valley gets considered as a single unit. Las Vegas has a whole thing where the core element of the city that makes Las Vegas Las Vegas (the casinos) are in a separate officially unincorporated jurisdiction, called Paradise, but that's mainly a tax dodge.
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the boy wizard who shall not be named podcast being on Hunger Games has me looking at maps of that universe 
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The Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky has a map at the start drawn by Hemesh Alles, defining the part of the continent the events of the book take place in. It's a classic line drawn, almost Tolkien-esque, fantasy map, and perfect in its scope and vagueness*. Here's all of them individually: https://shadowsoftheapt.com/world/map/434 Then a fan of the series by the name of Robert Easton stitched them all together to make a world map.  *vagueness can have a negative connotation sometimes, but I mean it in a positive way here, because you can absolutely put too much detail into a world map and some people do. I think it's important to be vague and general when it comes to world maps like this.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:the boy wizard who shall not be named podcast being on Hunger Games has me looking at maps of that universe I may regret asking...but how in the absolute gently caress are the Sierra Nevadas and Cascades underwater, but MUCH lower elevation areas (like, I don't know, LITERAL current sea-level areas on the Gulf coast) not underwater? Fake edit: Well maybe it's a difference in maps? The top one seems to indicate maybe those areas are underwater, but the bottom one clearly has current Gulf-coast areas of Mississippi and Alabama as bring a-ok.
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There must be something really terrifying over the old Canadian border that Panem wants nothing to do with.
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Tree Bucket posted:There must be something really terrifying over the old Canadian border that Panem wants nothing to do with. i like to think it's regular Canada just keeping on, sort of gazing at the horrible dystopian teen murder to the south like "this place really turned to poo poo, maybe stop the child murder games'' or alternatively maybe it's terrifying moose/bear hybrids who have overrun everything from Tadoussac to Victoria and Panem's peaceful mutant creatures are actually the good side of the post-apocalypse
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:the boy wizard who shall not be named podcast being on Hunger Games has me looking at maps of that universe DrBouvenstein posted:I may regret asking...but how in the absolute gently caress are the Sierra Nevadas and Cascades underwater, but MUCH lower elevation areas (like, I don't know, LITERAL current sea-level areas on the Gulf coast) not underwater? The vagueness of the top map makes some sense giving that "general idea" vibe. Then there's the bottom map, where the ocean appears to have claimed all of Mexico but gave straight up at the western portion of the Rio Grande while simultaneously having no respect for mile high elevation mountains lol.
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Twenty Four posted:
The bottom map also has the Adirondacks somehow exist in the MIDDLE of Lake Champlain, and the Green Mountains and White Mountains have merged on top of the Connecticut River.
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Pan Am is incredibly stupid. Like, the whole this district does this one thing. Okay, so say you're in the district that just produces wheat, and someone finds a oil or some other useful material. They'll just go "get back to harvesting your wheat!" Also the Hunger Games itself is dumb, a authoritarian state wants to keep its people focused on both external and internal enemies, not the state itself. Its like the YA authors didn't think long or hard about their dystopias.
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twistedmentat posted:Pan Am is incredibly stupid. Like, the whole this district does this one thing. Okay, so say you're in the district that just produces wheat, and someone finds a oil or some other useful material. They'll just go "get back to harvesting your wheat!" hmm verily
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Also having a good reason for the people your trying to keep under control to learn to fight real good using basic guerrilla warfare tactics, seems not the smartest descion I'd say.
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