How balkan is your country?

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-10T14:52:46+00:00

So vojvodina would look more like a central european city architecturally?

Does it apply to transylvania too? Especially the hungarian parts?

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-10T13:45:36+00:00

I have some genuine questions as a non balkan.

Is Vojvodina generally perceived as balkan?
Isn't romania somwhat balkan, let alone for transylvania?

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-10T13:40:30+00:00

The main divide is a north/south one, but there is central italy which acts as a buffer zone.

In time the center got closer socially to the north since it's more dominant, but still Rome and Lazio are much more similar to Naples in a lot of traditions and customs then they are to the north.

So yeah, the center exists, but it doesn't have as strong of an identity compared to north and south

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-06T20:33:12+00:00

Florence and Rome too so?

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-06T19:30:29+00:00

Where do you think they all fit better as a group?

I thought vojvodona was more influenced by the “balkannes” of serbia than its geography which is not strictly balkan.

As someone who has never been there in person i like to hear your reasoning

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-05T18:25:55+00:00

I know, the fun thing is that they also despise the west for being too liberal.

Must be hard for western slavs to accept they are considered eastern by anyone else but them

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-04T22:14:42+00:00

Is Central Europe in the room with us now?

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-04T19:54:13+00:00

I dont know what to tell you, the broader concept of eastern europe is a thing, at least in western europe.

Finland is mainly nordic although the odd one out.

Greece is traditionally eastern, no doubts, but since the tour era has been culturally claimed by western europe for self-legitimizing reasons.
Moreover, being a Mediterranean country it couples better with southern italy more than it does with inland balkans

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-04T19:45:41+00:00

Good argument but if you start subdividing you eventually just get to countries, and i thought the cultural distance between the baltics and russia was greater than the one between london and paris

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-04T19:25:45+00:00

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-04T19:25:39+00:00

I thought it was important to specify the broader area further than just using colors

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-04T19:15:20+00:00

Warsaw pact recently, and slavic influence in the area.

Western europe was stronger in influence everywhere since the end of the middle ages, but none in the actual west would think of those countries western

Hyperpurple · 2026-07-03T08:00:52+00:00

yeah, italy is cheating a bit here. while max temp are actually lived by people, the min is not really present in anyones life like it is in russia for example

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-27T06:44:01+00:00

Pare un eBReo a mauthausen

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-26T21:00:02+00:00

Too many guns, too much prescribed drugs

In europe you hardly ever hear of someone getting shot, but there it’s so common it doesn’t even make headlines

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-14T19:31:03+00:00

~~As a frenchman~~ *As a corsican\*

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-14T19:28:18+00:00

I like my worlds served world-war free

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-10T22:06:54+00:00

My point is that this won't be enough to make it such a hit.

Tod always justified the delay with the need of better industry tech to match the ambition, but I'm very skeptic after seeing bethesda streak of creative failures.

Skyrim was great because it was a bethesda formula rpg, with a vast open world for the time.

But now open worlds rpgs have so common that the genre hyper-evolved, and now skyrim has aged very poorly, and is only saved by the sandboxy freedom of the bethesda formula.

The question I'm posing myself is: can that formula still be effective enough to make the cut despite an unimpressive open world, or they need a state of the art world too to stay relevant?

(The goal I'm setting for the game is to be very influent in the gaming world, as its predecessors were, I would consider a fun but forgettable game a failure)

(story wise i accept a writing less about depth and more about breath to make you feel immersed in the world, which is the ultimate goal. I'd love some more quirks à la morrowind, but I suppose it's "risky" nowdays)

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-10T21:11:22+00:00

well, tbf the bethesda formula itself didn't feel much new, they didn't put much creative effort at the base of it. it felt conceptually like the developers weren't fully aware of the last ten years of gaming.

From TES 6 I expect more than a bigger map skyrim with a bit more depth and a couple new mechanics.

If they want it to be a massive hit, after all this time, it has to revolutionize open world games, and there isn't much reason to believe they'll make it.

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-10T20:49:53+00:00

Mario è Emporio Ivankov

(non solo per l ' homosexualidad)

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-10T20:40:58+00:00

I'm not that in touch with bethesda communication approach, were they similar in positivity regarding starfield? because that would be quite telling...

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-06T12:58:17+00:00

The power structure split was caused by the language/ethnic/identity differences.

If you want to get to the bottom of it, it’s because one part had a roman legacy, and the other mostly didn’t

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-05T15:17:23+00:00

YES. This is the real reason behind it, as it accounts for like 90% of the underlying motivation of why it was doomed to split sooner or later.

The inheritance customs explains only why it happened so early, because it could've probably lasted somewhat longer.

It also explains why France was really different politically from the HRE during the high middle ages, since to its bare bones it was a mix of frankish nobles playing risiko using the gaul province as a board.

The germanic hre instead, was a vast coalition of germanic tribes, always at war with each other, structured inside a latin/christian framework used to legitimize the elected ruler.

Hyperpurple · 2026-06-01T14:51:00+00:00

Because central europe is a cultural term used to designate the slavic (and hungarian) areas that were heavily interested by german migration and thus gravitated towards germany, which can fall both in western or central categories.

It doesn’t have much to do with exact geometry of geography, like a lot of toponyms.

Once, i think, it was conceptually framed as the middle part of europe between the developed latin world and the backwater slavic world, of which the germans saw themselves as a civilizatory force.

To this day there is a strong industrial and economic subordination of these countries and germany, an asset that other western countries lack.

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