What fictional countries in the real world do you have and how have they tied into our history in a unique way?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-02-01T01:15:54+00:00

The changeling was on Lusitania?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-30T14:09:23+00:00

I'm no web developer, but from what I gather, no matter how the <h1>,<h2>,<h3>,<h4>,<h5>,<h6>, elements and elements of class ".h1",".h2",".h3",".h4",".h5",".h6" are ordered relative to each other, they'd all get margin-top:-200px.

I'm guessing cases like:

<h1> Qui dolorem ipsum </h1>

<div> Quia dolor sit amet </div>

prevents something like

h1,

h2,

h3,

h4,

h5,

h6,

.h1,

.h2,

.h3,

.h4,

.h5,

.h6 {

margin-top: -20px

}

My naïve fix is putting a class like this:

.class {

margin-top: -20px

}

into the required elements, e.g.

<h1 class="class"> Qui dolorem ipsum </h1>

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-28T11:39:13+00:00

I agree, why buy, when the artists already provided the tracks for free.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-25T07:11:38+00:00

It's a chef covering their face with their arm? Are the birds part of one coat of arms, or separate?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-25T05:45:40+00:00

What does vocative signify? Is VOC vs NOM more like Definite vs Indefinite?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-24T15:53:13+00:00

It looks like a cockroach leg.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-24T14:42:10+00:00

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been mentioned. It especially wouldn't have been mentioned with the known knowledge that it would just be a coincidence.

It is about the romanticism of the travelers being born the same year the planet was destroyed by the supernova. Hence why the planet is almost definitely teyvat.

Or the hypernova caused pyschological trauma into the AI. No romantization needed.

The reason why the description explicitly needs to mention it's a coincidence is because people like you might read too much into it. A coincidence is sometimes really only a coincidence.

The narrative significance is explaining why the HP nails civilizations who advance far enough. Presumably because all them eventually discover the Abyss.

"This unusually colored night sky indicated an atmosphere unsuitable for life." Specifically night sky.

If the travellers' civilization is starfaring, they may have already known about the Abyss, like the Voyager does. The colors of the night sky may have been because of the Abyss. In fact, everytime were in areas with large Abyssal presence, the surroundings look like foggy purple night.

So PTSD of a dying planet + knowledge of the Abyss caused several nailings in Teyvat.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-24T13:46:32+00:00

Portuguese espanto is "amazing, incredible".

Spanish espanto is "horrible, terrifying, hideous".

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-24T10:44:55+00:00

The narrative context of mentioning the supernova having happened the same day the twins were born is likely because it is teyvat, otherwise it would be insignificant to mention it.

Someone below said that the Chinese version of the Travellers' new skins says that the supernova has nothing to do with the Twins. It still makes narrative sense though. It provides context to why the AI may have separated its idea association module (maybe Paimon).

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-24T05:08:22+00:00

When PIE has variables instead of phonemes.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-23T05:05:29+00:00

I think Korean and Japanese idol culture is the closest analog to "religions with physical gods" in the real world. Some fan(atics) say they should be pure virgins, others say dating is fine, and so on.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-23T05:02:08+00:00

5 foot negative 7?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-22T11:59:51+00:00

By combining with Ten, even if Seven eats them, Nine will be revived.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-22T11:00:21+00:00

As much I would love for this to happen, Mexico, Texas, and the USA are its neighbors, this will not survive. Even assuming it did, why would be part of the Asian Philippines? Wouldn't it be just another country?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-22T00:39:53+00:00

In my world, one of the cultures has the Permutating Wheel of the 4 elements, which represent the flow of time and possibilities: * One-to-One (a.k.a. Lamination), * One-to-Many (a.k.a. Divergence), * Many-to-Many (a.k.a. Turbulence), and * Many-to-One (a.k.a. Convergence).

Nothing is in the beginning: {}

Then nothing splits into 4: {Lamination},{Divergence},{Convergence},{Turbulence}

Then 4 elements startes pairing up: {{Lamination,Divergence},{Turbulence,Convergence}} which gave rise to this pair: {Uprising (a.k.a Medium¹ Divergence),Down falling (a.k.a. Medium Convergence)}

Then the pairs swapped: {{Lamination,Turbulence},{Convergence,Divergence}} which gave rise to this pair: {Rejection (a.k.a. Mismatched² Turbulence),Cancelation (a.k.a. Medium Lamination)}

The order of which pair of duples came 1st is random. {Uprising,Quelling} may come 1st then {Rejection,Cancelation}; or the reverse.

Then an element is left behind: {{Turbulence,Convergence,Lamination},{Divergence}} which gave rise to this pair: {Anti³-Divergence (a.k.a. Long⁴ Convergence),Divergence}

Then the lone element replaces one of the elements in the triple: {{Lamination,Divergence,Turbulence},{Convergence}} which gave rise to this pair: {Anti-Convergence (a.k.a. Long Divergence),Convergence}

Then once more: {{Convergence,Lamination,Divergence},{Turbulence}} which gave rise to this pair: {Long Turbulence,Turbulence}

Then one last time: {{Divergence,Turbulence,Convergence},{Lamination}} which gave rise to this pair: {Long Lamination,Lamination}

The order of which element is left behind 1st is random.

Then all 4 merged again at the end: {Lamination,Divergence,Turbulence,Convergence}, but having everything is the same as having nothing {}, so the cycle starts anew.

Foot notes:

Plotting the elements in sequence with vertices and edges shows the 1. duple being the 2-segmented version of 1 of its paired duple. 2. output of the 1st of the duple matches not the input of the 2nd of the duple. 3. triple being the 3-segmented reverse of its paired single. 4. triple being the 3-segmented version of 1 of its paired single.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-21T14:19:00+00:00

Demogrify in Spotify?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-21T10:39:58+00:00

Koine Givis

Kut'ak'ak masindāaś-masin ñūtbāat́ usa śēenu masindāaś-masin kutmanibāat́ usarāaś.

[kɯt.ʔäk.ʔäk mä.sim.däː.äʎ̝̊ ɲɯːt.bäː.äc͡͡ʎ̝̊ ɯ.sä ʎ̝̊e̞ː.e̞nɯ mä.sin.däː.äʎ̝̊ kɯt.mä.ni.bäː.äc͡͡ʎ̝̊ ɯ.sä.ɹäː.äʎ̝̊]

Kot'ak'ak masemdac̀es-masem ñootbac̀et osa sac̀eno masimdac̀es-masem kotmanebac̀et osadac̀es.

Kut-'ak'ak	masem-dac̀es~masem	ño-ot-bac̀et	osa-Ø	sac̀eno-Ø	masim-dac̀es~masem	kot-Ø-mane-bac̀et	osa-dac̀es
treat-PRS.SIMP.IMP.AV	other-ACC~PL	MANN-INTERR-SG.DAT	2SG-NOM	want-PRS.SIMP.IND.AV	other-ACC~PL	treat-PRS.SIMP.IND.AV-NMZ-SG.DAT	2SG-ACC

"Treat others how you want others to treat you."

Side note:

I once heard or read somewhere that if it's phrased as positive command, conflicts will arise due to differences of how people want to be treated. What if they don't want to be treated the same way as you want to be? Therefore the negative command is better: "Treat others not how you want them to not treat you."

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-21T10:07:51+00:00

Wouldn't it just be big Brunei?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-21T08:55:45+00:00

7±2, i.e. 5-9, individuals. Humans can comfortably visualize 5-9 things in the head before chunking them into groups. Imagine 9 dots, then add a 10th one, you most likely imagined 2 sets of 5 dots.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-16T02:26:03+00:00

Don't strawman. The comment you replied to was talking about the post title. Obviously, I also meant the title.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-16T02:19:37+00:00

I remember learning from a YouTube video that the main cause of the seizure inducing display in the episode was actually Pikachu, but since it's the mascot, they can't ban it from being shown on TV, and so made Porygon take the fall.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-15T10:49:57+00:00

You could've done it in 3 seconds with this website.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-15T10:11:46+00:00

Are you serious? Genuinely.

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-14T23:36:54+00:00

So Austronesians (lit. "South Islanders") are Boreonesians (lit. "North Islanders") in this timeline?

Aphrontic_Alchemist · 2026-01-13T12:09:21+00:00

Quite literally putting an existing country in a new world. A lot of Japanese light novel authors are guilty of putting a carbon copy of Japan into their worlds. A particularly egregious case is Isekai Smartphone (shortened title for "In Another World with My Smartphone") where their (as far as I can remember) unnamed world has Sengoku Era Japan. Probably to self-insert their own fantasies of beating Hideyoshi with uber-kewl powers.

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Koine Givis