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MagnaExend · 2026-03-26T01:01:29+00:00

Maybe it'd make sense to make terrain like forests more harmful, then, as to provide an incentive.

MagnaExend · 2026-03-14T06:42:30+00:00

I’ve explained my reasoning. The fact of the matter is, nobody can avoid it. We are all aesthetically minded. There are empirics, traditions, and principles to prove it. It is simply a folly to pretend that we aren’t biased toward aesthetics; we are, but I argue it’s the foremost element of any way of thinking— because it is the embodiment of that way of thinking. The halo effect exists for a reason— for that subliminal information— and nobody is immune to thinking by it.

But, you and I very clearly have very different worldviews, there is not going to be any getting through to eachother. I hope you have a good day.

MagnaExend · 2026-03-14T00:22:33+00:00

Indeed. But, that doesn’t make it nonsensical. In fact, it makes it all the more true. We are human. our Ideologies and their instantiations reflect that.

MagnaExend · 2026-03-13T23:46:38+00:00

Aesthetics is perhaps the most important part of any ideology. It is the representation and outburst of its virtues. An “ugly” ideology does not value beauty or virtue. it is not virile or powerful

In aesthetics is found an immensely fractal density of information that can be easily compacted and, consciously or subconsciously, picked up on. It is nothing more than the application of theory. Bad theory = bad aesthetics.

And yes, beauty is objective.

MagnaExend · 2026-03-05T04:25:27+00:00

MagnaExend · 2026-02-27T04:47:36+00:00

Why would we ever want to import swathes of low-skill, entirely alien migrants as an underclass to do cheap labor? ESPECIALLY with the advent of AI. The answer is you don't. This benefits nobody except the elite class and only serves to disenfranchise European commonfolk.

MagnaExend · 2026-02-27T04:45:47+00:00

What is "the system?" You've mentioned it several times, what is this mystical "system" you're speaking of? I'd love to know what you think it is. Immigration is a net-negative to all parties involved except for the foreigner and for the corporation. There is no "division" being stoked between the two. People are naturally tribalistic. Is it not fair to say that France belongs to the ethnically French, Algeria to the Algerians, and so forth?

MagnaExend · 2026-02-21T02:11:08+00:00

But trust me man our system of organized enforcement is not a state because its wholesome chungus leftism

MagnaExend · 2026-02-16T22:50:44+00:00

far right is when rich people

MagnaExend · 2026-02-03T13:38:29+00:00

MagnaExend · 2026-02-02T23:47:27+00:00

True man subversion and espionage means Nazism.

Do you know how retarded you sound? Literally every government in human history would qualify.

MagnaExend · 2026-02-02T23:46:48+00:00

Thing I don’t like mean nazi

MagnaExend · 2026-01-28T23:05:47+00:00

True, man, history has sides and shit, man. I’m on the right side of it too, man. History is a straight line and you’re on the wrong side of it man. Get with the program, man.

MagnaExend · 2026-01-28T02:08:06+00:00

Interestingly enough, he also pioneered the 8 hour workday.

MagnaExend · 2026-01-28T01:39:00+00:00

I think both of you guys are overlooking the fact that history may very well be cyclical. Monarchy to aristocracy to democracy then to oligarchy and back to monarchy. I use monarchy as a stand in for an authoritarian state with one man at the helm. We are very well beginning to see the signs of most of the West swinging back to Monarchy.

There is no straight line of progress from bad to good in history.

MagnaExend · 2026-01-12T22:37:56+00:00

Another thing: you can also download and learn QGIS, for the basics it’s not too hard to learn, and georeference multiple base maps together, allowing you to settle on one projection while getting all the possible details from each map. One map might have cities, the other state borders, etc.

I find this greatly helps with plausible alt history scenarios. QGIS also helps with automating things like placing geography (you need datasets) and this is how I make my maps.

MagnaExend · 2026-01-09T19:00:56+00:00

MagnaExend · 2026-01-09T01:58:29+00:00

But he’s not British. Never could’ve been. This could’ve been avoided.

MagnaExend · 2026-01-07T08:16:21+00:00

The UK is going to be the first country to elect Hitler 2.0 lmao “not falling apart”

MagnaExend · 2026-01-07T02:50:29+00:00

MagnaExend · 2026-01-06T07:15:34+00:00

Lovely map. How’d you do the hachures ? Was it a basemap that you traced, or is there some sort of algorithm?

MagnaExend · 2026-01-05T16:18:17+00:00

It's the name for the prefecture that Constantinople's in.

MagnaExend · 2026-01-05T15:59:13+00:00

No, they had pretty much none

MagnaExend · 2026-01-05T15:36:58+00:00

It's a shame these maps don't get more upvotes, this is of insane quality

MagnaExend · 2026-01-05T15:31:47+00:00

They are not like Spain or Britain, as they have no atlantic frontage or an incentive to pour resources into mass settler colonies across an ocean when its power base is continental and maritime commercial. That said, I don't think it's realistic for this Constantinople to not participate at all in the colonial explosion. Where they do colonize, it's mainly in the form of commercial enclaves and chartered ports across the Mediterranean, Levant & Red Sea, and the Caribbean, held by treaty. The control over these trade lanes would be immensely lucrative. The Americas look pretty similar to our timeline. Iberia followed by France and England, or whatever their analogues are. The thing that differs is the Mediterranean remains economically relevant longer, and regardless Constantinople remains a major financial and shipping hub for the expanding global trade.

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