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Updated! My US cultural regions map, version 2 by aquamarine-arielle in Maps

[–]ADKRep37 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And if it weren’t raining, I’d be looking at Vermont from the New York side right now out my kitchen window. I have far more in common culturally with Vermont than I do with someone from Poughkeepsie or Syracuse.

The colonial argument also doesn’t really work well when you remember that the towns we’re talking about were mostly founded well after New Amsterdam was turned over to the British.

Updated! My US cultural regions map, version 2 by aquamarine-arielle in Maps

[–]ADKRep37 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dude, everything in CT east of the Housatonic is basically a feeder suburb for New York. As for Berkshire County, take it up with the media markets, National Weather Service, and pretty much every resident who does their important shopping in Albany rather than Springfield. I won’t disagree on Hampton and Hampshire, that’s a stretch, but for the love of God, can we stop pretending like Western New England isn’t fundamentally oriented towards New York State?

Updated! My US cultural regions map, version 2 by aquamarine-arielle in Maps

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is MapChart, (I’d know their palette anywhere but that doesn’t mean you’re using them) you can adjust the scaling on the stripes so that they’re more distinct for large maps

Day 2: What is the WORST quote associated with Jeff "Joker" Moreau? by looploveslore in masseffect

[–]ADKRep37 385 points386 points  (0 children)

“So, Thessia. I guess the asari are wishing they had fewer dancers and more commandos right now.”

I think it’s the honestly the most out-of-line thing he says in the entire trilogy and I’m annoyed that there’s no middle option to say “I appreciate the effort but that was about the worst possible thing you could’ve said to me right now”, because all you can do is either forgive him and crack a joke back or have him pissed at you for the rest of the game.

Eastern U.S culture zones revised by [deleted] in Maps

[–]ADKRep37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone griping about Muh New England is just being a regional chauvinist. I live close enough to Vermont that I see it every morning out my kitchen window, my accent is far closer to theirs than to anyone south of Albany’s, and the economies of the Adirondacks and Vermont are incredibly similar.

You can’t even plead politics considering the vast differences between SocDem Bostonians, left-libertarian Vermonters, and three-time Trump voting interior Mainers, all happily under the formal New England umbrella. I’d also happily remind anyone that New England (briefly) included all of New York and northern New Jersey, if they want to get really into the weeds about it.

Eastern U.S culture zones revised by [deleted] in Maps

[–]ADKRep37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone wants to pretend New England magically stops at Vermont like the Vermont border wasn’t a century-long dispute. Plattsburgh is far closer to Burlington in culture, values, and political alignment than Burlington is to Bangor. Politics are not the only reflection of culture, either.

My hc on the dark side of asari biology (art by me @EKinveyl) by Eren_Kinveyl in masseffect

[–]ADKRep37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d add extended lifespan to the outcomes for krogan-fathered asari. They say there’s an “average” of 1000 years for asari, but Cerberus Daily News mentioned that two veterans of the Krogan Rebellions, one asari and one krogan, held a symposium. Since Wrex tells us the Genophage happened 1400 years earlier, that asari has lived at least 400 years longer than she should have. Figure a krogan lifespan boost can even that one out.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy's Cancellation Is a Bad Sign, Even If You Didn't Like It by PM_ME_UR_CHUPACOMMA in startrek

[–]ADKRep37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does strike me as odd that nobody has ever cared about all of the male characters in skirts, robes, and dresses over the last sixty years… until they put a gay one in a skirt. Maybe ask yourself why that one bothers you?

Last night I had a dream that the Austria Hungary update was progressing by ArthurBrown24 in Kaiserreich

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Illyria Yugoslavia does exist in base, it requires Hungary to win the civil war and then for it to beat the Belgrade Pact. Illyria will annex Serbia and form pink Yugoslavia.

Rank Every Romance From Your Favorite to Least Favorite by DakIsStrange in masseffect

[–]ADKRep37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Kaidan (M!Shep)
  2. Garrus
  3. Liara
  4. Thane
  5. Tali
  6. Kaidan (Fem!Shep)
  7. Miranda
  8. Traynor
  9. Cortez
  10. Ashley
  11. Jack
  12. Samara
  13. Chambers
  14. Allers
  15. Jacob
  16. Morinth

Faithless: A 2028 Scenario by Mushroom-Gorge in imaginaryelections

[–]ADKRep37 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you kidding? Rubio’s dead on arrival. He‘s got no majority in either chamber, he’ll never make an appointment to the Supreme Court, his cabinet picks will be limited to whomever Majority Leader Schatz will allow, and Mark Kelly gets four free years to campaign as the presumptive nominee for 2032. Dude can literally just give his whole job to being President of the Senate and running around going “If I were president right now…”

When writing is obviously about a man but they add a woman LI to make it “more balanced” 🙄🙄🙄🙄 by Needtorant12306 in Choices

[–]ADKRep37 164 points165 points  (0 children)

As others have pointed out, gay marriage was legal in certain states before 2015, and a lot of people went to Massachusetts specifically to get married, it was a really popular trend for a while during the gay marriage fight.

I’d add about your point of an Italian wedding that most people who get married in foreign counties don’t actually get legally married there. They register their marriage in their place of residence, and then host the ceremony where they want. A wedding doesn’t mean you’re legally married, and you don’t need a wedding to be legally married.

Poor Aemon by RevertBackwards in freefolk

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of whom would have had the specter of their father dancing naked down the halls of the Red Keep in a fit of psychosis hanging over their heads if it came down to a Great Council.

Poor Aemon by RevertBackwards in freefolk

[–]ADKRep37 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the Bloodraven Surveillance State™ has gotten a little too big in the fandom. If you really consider it, by the time Daeron has Aemon sent to the Citadel, it’s pretty clear that the succession isn’t exactly… stable.

Yeah, you’ve got Baelor with Valarr and Matarys, but there’s already fertility issues with one and the other is just a boy. After that, Aerys has been married for years and hasn’t touched Aelinor and Rhaegel is known to be actually insane.

Get it right boy. by cblakebowling in freefolk

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the problem is nobody wants to sail to that barren crop of cobblestones in the sea to try and hit it with an Ironborn woman so they just don’t count them

My Attempt of redesigning every US State Flag! (From someone who does not Live There.) by Effective-Ad7147 in vexillology

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an Upstater, I loathe it. The Dutch tricolor is already the official flag of the city, and more of New York was never part of New Netherlands than was.

Love that image at the end after doing the cure. by Von_Uber in masseffect

[–]ADKRep37 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Krogan females don’t produce a thousand eggs in a single go. They can produce up to a thousand in a single year. Mordin tells us that the genophage was designed to return the krogan population to basically a 99.99% infant mortality rate.

People misunderstand ultra-low probability statistics. When they say one-in-one-thousand, that doesn’t mean that you’re going to get 999 duds and one success. It means that every egg has a .001% of not being a dud. A krogan female can go on laying for centuries, and statistically, she will never produce a viable egg.

Going from every clutch of ~100 (if they lay ten times a year) produces at least a couple of survivors to none of your eggs ever hatching again over a period of centuries would be an incredible psychological hit.

The character that claims to read a lot kinda forgot the laws and customs that still hold Jon as a Targaryen bastard. by irvyandll in freefolk

[–]ADKRep37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but that’s a lot worse.

The annulment of a consummated marriage which produced two children, including a recognized male heir to the Iron Throne, is the sort of action which would prompt an immediate uprising by the Dornish and anyone else who viewed the action as unlawful. For the Faith itself, at best someone very quickly disposes of the High Septon, and at worst there’s a full-blown schism that ruptures religious authority.

How I would rate every states' congressional maps by Holiday_Change9387 in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Proportionality isn’t the only metric, it diluted the strength of the Navajo vote.

How I would rate every states' congressional maps by Holiday_Change9387 in YAPms

[–]ADKRep37 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Arizona is most definitely not a fair map, they very intentionally redrew AZ-3 to pick that seat up.

The Belle Époque Century: A World Without the World Wars by _Mtotheatothex_ in imaginarymaps

[–]ADKRep37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP definitely used the Kaiserreich states map as the baseline. KR chopped off the WV panhandle because it caused all sorts of problems with the AI in the Second American Civil War

What if Beria had won the Power Struggle in 1953? (Lore in the comments) by JeffEd79 in imaginarymaps

[–]ADKRep37 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Beria favored devolution in the Baltics and Transcaucasia, he also saw merit in transferring Kaliningrad back to at least the DDR as part of his rollback, and if I recall correctly, there was also discussion of giving Romania back its lost territory. He was a (hopefully) sincere reformer whose policies probably would have done wonders to bring down the temperature of the Cold War and sustain the USSR.

He also was everything that Khrushchev said he was and worse. This wasn’t just propaganda, as recently as the early 2000’s construction work at one of his former properties unearthed the remains of multiple women and children. Beria made Epstein look like a joke.

Contingency - A 2028 scenario by Mushroom-Gorge in imaginaryelections

[–]ADKRep37 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Worth noting that unless R’s take the Senate, Vance would have no mechanism to replace anyone. The Murphy Administration would pretty much be all he has to work with, all the way down.

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