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[-] bazus1@lemmy.world 82 points 4 months ago

If he can lay down a four-belt balancer from memory, you are the side hoe to his Factorio addiction.

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Her: "He's thinking about other women now...isn't he?

Him: "If I rebuilt my rocket control units factory, I could reach a rocket launch every 4 minutes vs 4.5. Then if I optimize my platform in space....."

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Platform in space? What what what? Is it time to sink another 100 hours?

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Check out the Space Exploration Mod. The Vanilla game is like the first 10% of the mod. It's truly a lot. It's so good that the modder was hired to help make the expansion.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

I avoid mods for Factorio because it feels like switching from heroin to fentanyl

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Probably but if you're getting your high, is it really so wrong?

:p

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[-] Crowfiend@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I play Satisfactory instead, but I felt that in my soul.

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[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

Map man map man map map map men men men

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 10 points 4 months ago

Obscure and good

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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 46 points 4 months ago

But do they know the difference between Istanbul and Constantinople?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago
[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I can't say.

Maybe people just liked it better that way?

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[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 13 points 4 months ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 43 points 4 months ago

How they hell would anyone not know the difference? It’d be like not knowing the difference between Taylor Swift and Madonna.

[-] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 54 points 4 months ago

Most people don’t have a clue. I remember mentionning the word byzantine at the dinner table when I was a teenager and was told “you play too many games and read too many books, this is reality, there’s no such thing as a byzantine”.

When I showed them the wikipedia page about it, “it’s not because it’s on the internet that it’s true”. Yet here we are, in 2024, where they are glued to facebook believing some of the wildest things.

[-] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I've noticed there's this weird cross-section of people who ask "do you believe everything you heard on the internet?" about some pretty established facts, and blindly believing Fox News.

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[-] Longpork3@lemmy.nz 8 points 4 months ago

I mean, there was no such thing as a byzantine. That's a name we came up with in the modern era to help distinguish between "roman" empires.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

To expand on that it was during the enlightenment in the early renaissance where people had a boner over the Roman Empire but still thought the medieval Roman Empire (Byzantine) to not be cool. So they came up with a new name for it. A declining empire that had a massive beauracracy, spoke Greek and had the wrong brand of Christianity (Orthodox) is not nice enough to create a glorious image like the Pax Romana did.

This of course made a lot of people upset in the then Ottoman empire since they identified as Romans but were not counted as Romans according to western people. Think "You're not Romans with a glorious history, you're Byzantines" even though they clearly were.

For extra fun the Byzantine/Roman distinction is also unfair.

  • Eastern Rome always spoke Greek, even at 200AD.
  • Orthodox and Catholic were the same pre-schism.
  • During the decline of the Western Empire the capital was moving a lot anyway so "based in Rome" was soon outdated.
  • During the decline Italy was just another province anyway so "based in Italy" was soon outdated.
  • They were literally the same thing except one half managed to fuck their shit up while getting invaded by hordes of tribes at the same time.
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[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's a pivotol part of European history that has ramifications to the present day. It's like not knowing the difference between England and a second thing.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 4 months ago

As a high school graduate I can totally tell you the history of Europe.

So first it was 1066, then the Victorians, then the second world war, then it was now. That's it, all of European history. Now perhaps some Americans think another historically important event occurred, but it can't have, because no one mentioned it.

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[-] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 34 points 4 months ago

I know what the difference is and don't play those map video games.

But I do like shoving little soldiers around the table top. And the only thing historic about those is that most of them are no longer being produced.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I bet you would love some hardcore strategy games then.

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[-] Spesknight@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

Just paint a map on your skin and ask "conquer me"...

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 4 months ago

It is ABSURD how long Turkey's focus tree takes in HOI4 unless you're okay with making Ataturk cry.

And how could you be?

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 4 months ago

The problem with the Ottomans is that they just try to walk it in.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Doesn't sound like you have an Iron Heart with that attitude

[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

Who doesn't know the difference? One is green, the other is purple, it's simple.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

One has a good sword unit early game, the other gets grenadiers mid-to-late game.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Um, it's called RTS. Helloooo.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 months ago

It's probably called a GSG (Grand Strategy Game). Almost all "map painting simulators" are GSGs.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure they're talking about something more like Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis than Age of Empires.

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[-] halvar@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Here in europe both are taught in elementary school.

Edit: spelling

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago
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[-] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago

Oh yeach there is that one eu4 streamer with a girlfriend. Truly a rare breed.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Not always true, sometimes it's Elden Ring

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

OK, now I understand that Yeah Yeah Yeahs song.

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[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

It does not. Why do you think all the rich people resort to drugs and shit? They're just chasing that dragon because they've forgotten what it's all about.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

I don't get it. They're totally different things.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 12 points 4 months ago

Ultimately they're both just large territories controlled by the same city.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago

I N C O R R E C T H E R E T I C

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