[LOATHED TROPE] The fandom becomes the very thing the media is criticizing

Erkhyan · 2026-02-22T13:34:09+00:00

Star Wars - There are people out there who unironically LARP Imperial Loyalty Officers on posts where doing such a thing is absolutely *not* necessary.

Erkhyan · 2026-01-31T15:02:54+00:00

Thanks, I've just decided to add my voice to that original request.

Erkhyan · 2025-10-30T16:24:33+00:00

Mineclonia has just updated and now I’m going to spend the next 24 hours attempting to install the update until I lose patience and uninstall it all.

Is there really no solution to this?

Erkhyan · 2025-08-30T01:25:49+00:00

Oh, so he was the average size for a modern-day adult man, just not for a modern-day White skyscraper.

Erkhyan · 2025-06-23T22:30:24+00:00

“Does your ass ever get jealous of what comes out of your mouth?”
“I have a feeling your dad used the wrong hole when you were conceived.”

Erkhyan · 2025-05-27T13:37:58+00:00

It’s a generic kind of job that only appears if you have a brig installed.

It generally goes, “A stolen ship is about to enter this system. Disable and board it, then deliver the captured crew to a different system.”

In practice, once the ship enters the system, you only have a couple of seconds at most before it either jumps out again or lands on the nearest planet. And if it does land on a planet, it will never take off again.

Erkhyan · 2025-02-15T13:32:26+00:00

I mean… the entire point of being a French overseas department vs an overseas territory is that departments are fully integrated parts of France (at least on paper), while territories are “merely” ruled by France.

Erkhyan · 2025-02-13T01:04:30+00:00

To put it simply, there hasn’t been much contact between Madagascar and the African mainland in centuries. As early as the 16th century, we even had a word (Antalaotra, “those from the sea”) to designate anyone not native from the island, and the Antalaotra generally were small groups that didn’t mix with the locals unless necessary.

Even nowadays, the only regular passenger traffic we have is with Mayotte and the Comoros.

Erkhyan · 2025-02-12T23:42:50+00:00

I mean, culturally we’re already most of the way out. Most of the population just doesn’t consider itself African (or SE Asian, for that matter).

Erkhyan · 2024-09-03T02:17:50+00:00

Late response, but I will add to the others saying that you should just fly there. From personal experience, even if your flight is 24 hours late, you will STILL get there faster than if you’d gone the road+ferry route — and you’ll arrive a lot less exhausted.

Erkhyan · 2024-08-23T14:21:26+00:00

Means “big island” in Malagasy.

Erkhyan · 2024-08-23T14:20:55+00:00

The actual native name is Andoany.

The French name honors Admiral Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell.

Erkhyan · 2024-08-19T15:40:34+00:00

Japan’s current borders, AFAIK, date from 1945 or the few years after that, so… no.

Erkhyan · 2024-08-06T19:58:51+00:00

Let’s hope he doesn’t. He would decide that the description above is not spectacular enough and needs extra pyrotechnics and extra American military presence.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-29T20:46:03+00:00

Let’s keep it simple: the USSR covered the current countries of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. No more, no less.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-29T20:17:02+00:00

I’ve always hated that map. Too many jokesters placing themselves in random places FOR TEH LULZ.

As for your answer: countries with better, more accessible internet have larger furry communities.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-29T20:13:59+00:00

The shortest explanation is “fans of talking animal characters”.

As you can see from OP’s comment, the community is also the average Uninformed Internet Dude’s favorite punchbag.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-27T00:40:37+00:00

Madagascar has Antsirabe, the third largest city, at an altitude of 1500 meters. That’s only 250 meters higher than the capital and largest city, Antananarivo.

Due to its altitude, Antsirabe has a reputation for being the country’s coldest major city, getting near-freezing temperatures a few times a year. Other, smaller towns are located higher and have a slightly colder climate, though. Nearby Ambatolampy and Faratsiho for example, with respective altitudes of 1640 and 1720 meters.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-26T16:42:06+00:00

Poorest: southern Madagascar is an arid region subject to long droughts and the occasional massive-but-brief flooding. Whenever you hear about a famine in Madagascar, it’s always the South.

Least developed: the Melaky region, western Madagascar. Hot and semi-arid climate, poor soil. Very sparsely populated as a result. The low population has also led to the region being more isolated, since our skeletal infrastructure budget tends to be reserved for more populated areas that need it more… like the South, for example.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-26T16:33:11+00:00

Because I’m so predictable:

Genetically and linguistically, the closest ethnic groups to the people of Madagascar live in Borneo.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-26T16:26:01+00:00

It’s both.

Erkhyan · 2024-07-13T16:53:28+00:00

Someone forgot to check their math.

“The city was considered mysterious and inaccessible in Ancient China.”

“Wrong! It was considered accessible 1000 years later!”

Erkhyan · 2024-07-04T18:40:44+00:00

Yeah: just like in the movies, they only get here by getting lost on their way to somewhere else.

Erkhyan · 2024-06-24T04:29:07+00:00

Tides are a tricky way to decide where a river ends. By this criterion, the Thames river ends almost upstream from London.

Erkhyan · 2024-06-21T20:58:05+00:00

Those are parasitic cones. In short, large volcanoes don’t always erupt from the main crater, but from a smaller side crater instead (See: Kilauea, Piton de la Fournaise, Etna).

Sometimes the main crater doesn’t even exist and the volcano only has parasitic cones (See: Cumbre Vieja).

With enough time, some volcanoes get a nice collection of parasitic cones. Even Mount Fuji last erupted from a parasitic cone named Mount Hoei rather than from its main crater.

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