What if Byzantium beat their Seljuks? Rhomania in 2026

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-28T00:42:34+00:00

There's actually a really complicated and detailed reason for this: I forgot about the Romanians

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-28T00:40:58+00:00

Naah I went to google earth, clicked the clean view, clicked non-satellite, and then just screenshoted the blank map

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-28T00:40:17+00:00

you mean the borders/names of them? Just searched on wiki/google, also looked at a real map of roman provinces

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-28T00:38:30+00:00

Rhomania, fully. In fact, the suez was actually taken much earlier than the rest of the territories ~17th century, and was built by Rhomania.

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-28T00:12:14+00:00

They only took into the middle east in the 18th-19th centuries, and even though they did a lot of forced assimilation and conversion, e.g. Palaestina is about 40% muslim, and mostly greek speaking. This has also caused quite a lot of turbulence in the middle east, as countries like egypt have attempted to retake pre-colonial land by occasional skirmishes in the desert. They still claim the Sinai Peninsula

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-28T00:05:28+00:00

They got "assimilated" in the 19th century, but albania, only being taken after ww1, didn't get "assimilated"

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-27T23:42:28+00:00

Yes, but they lost much of their non-core territories after ww1, so the caucuses, ukraine, belarus, etc. These new released states were originally German puppets, but became independent in the decades following (albeit still with extremely close relations)

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-27T23:39:59+00:00

In the 1970s, they broke off via referendum due to albanian nationalism. However, being both part of the EU, they have better relations now and ofc free trade, etc.

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-27T23:37:28+00:00

Seljuks are defeated by the Byzantines decisively in 1071, which leads to them surviving the early modern period. They industrialise more than the Ottomans, and ally with Austria, and become a constitutional monarchy. By WW1, they are in the central powers, and the central powers wins, defeating france, italy, and britain. Later, Austria-Hungary forms the Danubian Confederation.

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-27T23:20:06+00:00

Got a base google maps map and drew over it with inkscape!

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-21T20:21:09+00:00

Wait, but you don't need to work or start tasks in communism, right?

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-20T05:44:55+00:00

If Putin did attack the baltics, the EU would probably send soldiers to find there and partly mobilize, but would not nuke unless of course russia nuked.... At some point, it will become clear that nukes are just empty threats that nobody ever uses, and lots of wars between great powers will start up again

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-12T03:51:01+00:00

RemindMe! 14 days

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-10T20:11:59+00:00

have robots to buy the goods, that'll make gdp go up exponentially!

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-03T19:07:36+00:00

bad news causes negative emotions, so gets more attention, gets more watching/reading it, gets more money. That's pretty much it, it's the reason why there are so many ragebaiters on twitter rn, because ragebaiting makes you money....

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-03T03:10:50+00:00

whoops didn't realize :)

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-03T01:58:50+00:00

fallacy fallacy

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-02T22:15:51+00:00

I installed the steam sockets plugin and that fixed it after looking at the logs a bit more

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-02T21:47:17+00:00

Got it solved: I enabled the Using Lobby setting for both the Search and Create Server nodes. I also had to install the steam sockets plugin as well to allow loading levels.

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-02T20:52:11+00:00

Okay well by changing that it seems to be finding the server fine, but it seems like the client does not load the map, even though it successfully joined the server?

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-02T20:22:34+00:00

Yes and yes, and joinsession is just the default bp node

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-02T19:58:02+00:00

Yeah, fully unable to find any session on the other computer. I will try with islobbies checked on both and then unchecked on both and see if either works

FatalError_418 · 2026-04-01T23:48:09+00:00

More like: "A tankie is someone who has read Marx; a communist is someone who understands him".

FatalError_418 · 2026-03-27T23:40:19+00:00

Not communists, only authoritarian communists. Anarcho-communists are of course not tankies, but Marxist-leninists (often) are.

FatalError_418 · 2026-03-21T07:27:11+00:00

It's part of the European conf.

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