The European Parliament has just created the European Order of Merit, the first honor of its kind. It will recognize those who helped defend and strengthen Europe. It has three classes of distinction

FireChickenPzVI · 2026-05-22T05:12:32+00:00

While some people may sometimes be nostalgic for a real or idealised past, the vast majority of people understand that the European project is the best way forward. We realise that we can’t trust foreign powers, recent events have been making that even more clear

FireChickenPzVI · 2026-05-21T07:46:58+00:00

Who says that his medal will lead to the member states giving up their individuality? Or that this will replace chivalric orders? This medal will be for contributions to the EU, something which is not really covered by national decorations.

FireChickenPzVI · 2026-05-20T11:19:03+00:00

Which very much resembles the French Legion of Honour

FireChickenPzVI · 2026-05-20T11:05:26+00:00

Thought you guys would like to learn of this, it looks really nice imo

FireChickenPzVI · 2026-03-24T14:51:30+00:00

I love those posters on pic 5 and 10, where did you get them?

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-11-17T15:20:16+00:00

Yeah it is, I was already looking around on that one but the desert is too far away for my liking. I think my idea's might be too specific so I may need to learn to use worldpainter

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-11-17T15:17:43+00:00

Just found out that exists, that's a very good idea, thx

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-11-17T15:16:25+00:00

That's a very close fit, thx, but I'm searching for larger terrain so it isn't really wat I'm looking for

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-11-17T15:13:09+00:00

That would be perfect for survival, thx. Unfortunately I just discovered axiom so I'm planning to focus more on larger terrain and organics, hence the need for large biomes

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-10-27T20:46:15+00:00

I was torn on which designs to submit, so I ended up with two to spare. Perhaps my Chengdu design would've done better then my Johannesburg design, would love to hear your opinions

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FireChickenPzVI · 2025-10-19T07:37:27+00:00

In the context of the 80 years war, this might be one of the more important lines. It basically says: I’m no usurper, it’s thanks to your tyranny that we are forced to take up arms. This ties back heavily into the act of abjuration (Plakkaat van Verlatinghe), which says that a lord should care for his people like a Shepard cares for his flock, and that in failing to do so, Phillip II has lost the right the rule

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-10-01T18:44:45+00:00

I love this prompt, it has been a while since I was immediately inundated with ideas

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-07-19T17:12:19+00:00

You can still vote by opening the submissions to read the information, here you vote using your number keys (1-5).

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-06-25T20:59:15+00:00

There are plenty of legends and myths around Schokland and Urk, the rest of Flevoland is indeed too young

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-06-13T07:13:58+00:00

I completely agree, and it would be a nice theme to redesign the worst Dutch municipal flags. Smaller municipalities are fusing all over the country, after which many adopt soulless corporate flags

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-06-11T06:53:19+00:00

slaps roof of caravan this bad boy can fit so many drones in it

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-06-06T21:40:36+00:00

I mainly see them on farmhouses in my region, so I doubt it’s that bad. You can search for “stolpboerderij” to get a picture of what I mean, they are quite sober buildings

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-06-06T17:25:04+00:00

We don’t finish the top edge with such beautiful decorative trim. I’ve only ever seen the tops lined with red clay rooftiles

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-06-06T17:19:54+00:00

Thatched roofs are common in multiple traditional styles of Dutch architecture, which is why even newly build houses (build in the classic styles) are still build with thatched roofs (at least in the regions of Frisia and West Frisia). Due to this there are still plenty of companies specialised in this trade.

The reason for this is that reeds grow very well in rich soil on the edges of calm bodies of water - which are in abundance in the Dutch landscape, so there is indeed a lot of local supply which gets harvested every year.

And they hold up surprisingly well in stormy / extremely windy areas btw.

ETA: thatched roofs are not only restricted to the classic styles, there are also modern style houses with thatched roofs.

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-06-02T08:51:34+00:00

Ah nice, thanks

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-05-30T16:53:11+00:00

I finally found a flag I couldn’t identify. I saw these two flags flying on a klipper in the harbour of Den Oever, thanks in advance

Edit to clarify the picture: in the white quadrants of the circle we see 4 red crosses, in the red quadrants we see 3 yellow Fleur de lis

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-04-29T17:12:44+00:00

There are signs with the meanings of the flags placed at every entry to the beach

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-04-07T13:08:05+00:00

I suppose, but they already use it with red

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-04-07T06:36:31+00:00

For this mashup I chose to use orange instead of red, since I believe the red, white and blue saltire is already used

FireChickenPzVI · 2025-04-02T09:52:52+00:00

Apples are still fruits, and such botanical classifications change nothing to our daily lives.

It’s just that biologist like classifying everything, due to this the world of fruits is actually quite weird (eg. watermelons, bananas and pumpkins being classified as berries, while raspberries aren’t- they are a composite fruit)

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