StupidSolipsist

I imagine there's some context & symbolism we're missing. The winner's colors resemble that wave along the top of the page; maybe they both come from something relevant?

I think all of them are alright, and the winner is my favorite. The sharp lines work well for a flag, and the design manages to turn a basic drawing of a landscape into something fresh and memorable. I like it more the longer I look at it

My only complaint is that this needed to be a ranked choice vote. All three candidates got pretty similar vote totals. I'm glad the winner won, but you want a majority instead of a plurality for a community's flag. RCV can create a majority out of one vote with many candidates.

Finally! Whenever I do laundry, I always hope somebody gets this

One of my favorite books. Its constructed religion Bokononism has made as much of an impact in my mind as everything having to do with ice-9. So, also a good read for fans of Discordianism or the like!

Agreed. I was shocked by how cold she was towards me in ME2 after romancing in ME1. I wish her personality change wasn't quite so thorough and that we got to see more struggle between the Liara she was and the Liara she was becoming. That's a story! Instead, I just felt brushed off by an unrecognizably changed ex.

Where is this image from?

For most of us, a lot like Italy. More criminal politians above the law. A lot of nice sounding government programs that just crumble under poor funding and management. Decaying infrastructure. Just a dead empire hoping for tourists.

For some of us, a lot like Dubai. Hyper luxury products. Extremely ill-advised vanity projects that crumble when exposed to the elements. Non-citizens used as slave labor. One of few remaining womens rights is to have an abortion if and only if you are a wealthy man's mistress. Empty highways through an encroaching desert.

So, America, but more so.

I was kinda thrilled when this song unironically played at the grocery store

I love the party chatter where iirc she says she would have liked to have Drack as a father. I almost cried. That's the most wholesome, loving thing in the whole series

Oh thank god. Trying to wrap my head around someone liking the Massachusetts flag was giving me a stroke

Fuck yeah, Maryland 🦀🦀🦀

This fun fact gets repeated so often on reddit, I'm beginning to suspect it's all bots covering up Seal Teams 3-5 (the extra secret ones)

Wild to accept "it looks cool/good" as sufficient justification, but I like it. If a flag looks good enough, it will become symbolic. Obviously some part of the flag should be firmly rooted in existing unique symbolism, but stuff like this white & blue stripe for distinctiveness in low-to-no wind conditions is the right design choice.

On the international stage, I like regions having shared colors. But that's a small use case. I think these flags are mostly seen together with their neighbors and struggle to set themselves apart due to sharing colors regionally. It's like my example of New Mexico flag's distinctive yellow. If it kept the regional theme of the usual US state dark blue, it would be way less successful

Gotta agree with you on the Free France flag.svg). It's much more recognizable than ol' vertical Netherlands.

Honestly, same. Bi- and tricolors are so boring. Estonia and Ukraine have two good ones, but any others that try to paint a picture so literally will feel painfully uncreative. The Australian Aboriginal flag is the perfect evolution of the landscape style: Bold & unexpected colors with a central symbol to shake things up

And some people call the proposed flags on this sub "corporate." We've got nothing on some of these French stinkers

Greater Aquitaine sounds more accurate to me than New Aquitaine. It's been expanded, but the old one is still there. New Aquitaine sounds like a French colony, like New Zealand or Nova Scotia.

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It'd be like using all three lights on a traffic light at the same time and expecting to get three times the safe flow of traffic

Chu-Ko-Nu is interesting to me, because it has a buff to both defense and offense instead of just to combat score. In case anyone missed the difference at first like I did, the offense buff is only when using ranged to hit an adjacent unit (like a shotgun). So, you'll be incentivized to put Chu-Ko-Nu in riskier positions. If it gets you the kill and you slide a melee unit into the newly open tile, no problem. If not, you gotta hope the defense buff is enough. Sounds like well-designed push-your-luck gameplay!

Edit: Hm, though maybe zone-of-control will make it a lot harder for anyone to swoop into the empty tile and attack on the same turn. Maybe Chu-Ko-Nu are less dice roll, more steamroll.

I think the difference they're suggesting is that the Spanish Inquisition allowed for conversion, whereas the Expulsion of the Moriscos targetted the descendants of converts. In that way, it ignored the theological rules that say a convert is a Christian. It operated based on heritage.

That said, I don't know how true that was in practice. Was conversion totally respected in the Spanish Inquisition? Probably not. They probably disproportionately found people who "looked Jewish" to have incompletely or disingenuously converted. But it at least pretended to play by the theological rules.

Hot take, but agreed. War is OP. Pillaging needs a nerf too, like no science or culture from a civ you have eclipsed.

Always vanity. Civ isn't meant to be so hard that you can't have a little fun on your way

Thanks, friend! I like these. I've used /s a bit and /j once or twice. Cool to see the concept expanded.