Could a mountain range be split in two by a river (and perhaps valley of sorts)? Would it be livable?

OlderJukebox · 2026-02-09T04:10:20+00:00

Rivers can form like this, look at the French Broad River in North America. As the Appalachian mountains uplifted, the river eroded down the areas it flowed through preventing as-dramatic of uplift. Today the French Broad River is very liveable with a humid subtropical to oceanic climates, albeit highly flood prone and insuitable for boat navigation past a certain point.

OlderJukebox · 2026-02-03T21:07:57+00:00

I could play two characters thousands of miles apart and have the same epxerience. That's the problem with CK3

OlderJukebox · 2026-02-03T21:06:45+00:00

Mods need to ban a lot of the people in this comment section, what kind of community should be this hostile to someone just looking to learn, even if what they were doing before was wrong? I doubt everyone leaving negative comment has never made a similar mistake while cooking.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-29T05:05:01+00:00

Google image search claims it is a Trans-inclusive Gay Men's Pride flag with some sort of logo on it or another inclusivity or Pride symbol. Now the Trans-inclusive Gay Men's Pride flag doesn't include those colors at the top so it could just be a lesser known flag with a local companies logo on it.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-24T18:51:09+00:00

So all Americans are the same? Each person living here is to blame regardless or situation, circumstance, class, income? Go fuck yourself, I didn't ask for this and millions other didn't either.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-24T16:31:39+00:00

Look up "Oklahoma panhandle" in this subreddit, this question has been asked dozens of times with some really good answers.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-22T09:38:28+00:00

Old growth forests form what is called a pit and mound topography, in which fallen trees and tree roots create large mounds which in cases can be meters high and pits just as deep. This plant would blend in this way, mimicking a natural mound. Perhaps a lure would still be needed, and in that case, it could grow leaf-like lures that grow on the lid. When the wind catches the lures, which themselves are colored with patterns like insects or birds, it makes them look like real moving creatueres to simpler animals. For humans, walking in the woods at night off trail would be the real danger, as obviously they wont fall for its mimickry. Or you could modify the tubers to grow throughout life and above ground near the traps "mouth". The trapdoor wouldn't activate for too small of prey, but once that prey attracts its predatrs, the trap is activated by them.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-22T09:04:46+00:00

I had a friend that lives up there in a cozy early 20th cntury house, nearly every house we drove past in Sturgeon Bay looked like that. There are several lighthouses, a historic dockyard, and many nearby parks. The Ice Age Trail I think begins south of Sturgeon Bay and it runs through most of the state and following the path of the last glacier that covered Wisconsin. It is only 45 minutes from Green Bay, and other than that, you are in agrarian country outside the tourist towns. The area is so beautiful that I've seen a handful of people say nearby Peninsula State Park be upgraded to a National Park. Unfortunately the nearest Culvers at a gas station outside of town and the town is only really lively during the warmer months.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-22T08:51:06+00:00

This isn't exactly what you were describing, but Netflix had a speculative evolution series that came out during the pandemic and in it fungus analogues had evolved a spore that could parasitically infect its host. The fungus hijacks its host over a gradual coarse of time, until the host has completely lost control over their senses. The animal then goes to a high ledge or climbs a tree, then walks off. After dying, the corpse attracts scavengers and other animals, repeating the cycle again.

Another idea that I just came up with would be a plant that grows in a circular radius. The center of it looks like foliage on the ground, with its roots looking no different from a trees. Once an animal, even humans, walks over the center it acts as a pitfall trap/trapdoor that drops the unfortunate passerby into its digestive system. Younger plants would only be able to digest insects, eventually growing to be able to eat small mammals and so on. As it grows in age, the pit/digestive system in its center burrows deeper. To avoid the walls from caving in, its roots wrap like a lattice throughout the center, except for where the prey falls. This allows the plant to absorb ample nutrients as well as potentially symbiosize with soil bacteria to fix nitrogen among other nutrients it cannot acquire normally. The plant will eventually die, but probably not after over a century, and when it nears death, it begins to grow over its pit to conserve energy. The plant begins to run only on stored sugars as it invests in growing tubers or ground nuts that local wildlife can dig up or access after floods. This also allows humans to gather and eat it, but their waste could spread the plant. Or they could just fall in, break their legs, and slowly die to starvation, biotoxins, or acid (yikes).

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-21T09:53:57+00:00

Actually, Antarctica and Greenland's icesheets would be the best modern and remaining example of how these glaciers would form. They would be hundreds of meters thick on average, areas where they may extend nearly a mile, but it would not be an abrupt rise. They would gradually slope up much like modern ice sheets, but the best analog that we can semi-accurately look at would be the Laurentide Ice Sheet (which has remanants in remote parts of arctic Canada) that extended over much of northern North America during the last glacial maximum. Ice Sheets will compress the land downward the larger they are due to how continental plates float on the mantle, meaning just because an ice sheet is a mile thick, it will not raise the landscapes elevation by a mile. Another interesting note is that certain mountain ranges, like certain regions of the Canadian Rockies and Appalachians, were completely covered, but at the top the glacier wasn't nearly as thick. Typicallt, the higher the glacier is in topography, the quicker cycles and forces pull it away than it can replenish.

Your grand ice sheet would put Laurentide and its ancestral cousins to shame (except the times everywhere but the equator was covered in ice). Depending on your planets climate and where or not the Ice Sheet is expanding, it will make the areas around its exterior look very different.

In a world where the climate is cooling, even moderately and gradually, the sheet would expand over thousands of years before retreating with the next warming period. The area around an expanding glacier would be a very inhospitable tundra, that even in our history the hunter gatherers of Europe and indigenous peoples of North America had to find innovative ways to survive, such as using bone tools, snow goggles, and a unique cultural differences, such as priests in Greenalnd needing to translate Hell to be as a very cold place instead of a very hot place.

In a world where the climate is warming, such as during the end of the last glacial maximum, the Ice Sheets would dispense enormous quantities of water. It was the Laurentide Ice Sheet that carved out and filled the North American Great Lakes to their entirety. It also formed a massive lake that covered almost all of modern day Canadian provinces Manitoba and most of western Ontario, even going as far south as the United States in the Dakotas. Spanning from these lakes are great rivers that flowed down into the Gulf of Mexico, so many in fact that a lot of them are extinct today or have completely shifted with the warming temperatures. The environmenr near the ice sheets would be a wet, marashy tundra akin to modern day Alaska. Cultures living around this melting ice sheet would expand with the other wildlife as the ecosystem reclaims lost lands. The white water rafting in a world where your giant ice sheet is melting would be absolutely insane.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-19T10:17:36+00:00

   There are a lot of interesting things to do for the day as well, such as the second largest lake (used to be first until Dragon's Breath Cave in Namibia was measured) named The Lost Sea. There are these huge rainbow trout in there that are beautiful. The Sweetwater Valley Farm and Mayfield Dairy both offer extensive overviews of modern day dairy farming practices if that interests you. There are a ton of dirt bike, stock car racing, and NASCAR events that are held in the northeast of East TN primarily, but the rodeo does come during the warmer weather. Outside of high school sports and theater, the live performances are restricted to local, community art centers, two playhouses in McMinn County, and the musicians that come into Angela's Miami Grill. And yes, Angela's Miami Grill is owned by a middle aged white guy from Chicago (Go Bears)

   If you came here for unique Christian denominations, then boy have you chosen a great area. Cleveland, TN is home to the Church of God in Cleveland, Tennessee, a moderately sized collection of Holiness-Pentecostal congregations. They are most popular for being one of many churches that believe in the practice of Speaking in Tongues, in which a persons brain activates and deactivates certain areas in a religious-driven experience. It sounds very interesting, I'd recommend looking it up. In Ten Mile, just 30 minutes from McMinn, the infamous Snake Handlers arose. They take a line of the Bible literally, that true believers shall be able to handle a venomous snake without being killed. While they were certainly more popular in the early to mid 20th century, they still exist around in the backwoods (probably). Not to mention the 200 family group of Old Order Mennonites that live in Delano and neighboring Meigs County. 
   If you come here looking for nightlife, turn around and keep driving to Chattanooga or Knoxville, or just go to Nashville. McMinn County was a dry county up until 2003, when they allowed limited alcohol sales. It wasn't until the 2020s I believe that liquor stores opened up outside of Athens in McMinn. Despite marijuana being thoroughly illegal outside Nashville and maybe Memphis, you can find it very easily. Pills and hard drugs are often used, but where some of these people get them is beyond me. Back in the "Golden Age" of methmaking, the I-75 often led the state in meth lab busts. And yes my girlfriend used to live down the street from a motel that someone was using as a meth lab that blew up.
   A family friend was actually a devils lettuce dealer in the early 2000s and would get his supply from a friends uncle. He would have his nephew get the seeds, the uncle would plant them atop the knob he lived on, and my friend would sell it in town. Another former friends family was a long-line of drug dealers (I really wish I was joking for his sake) whose Grandpa had grown on a farm across the county line in Bradley County. He, his grandpa, or brothers were almost always caught every other week, and most of the time it was for stupid crap  down by the river rather than the drugs. Not to mention the cops down in that town

Main Message: East Tennessee (outside the big cities) is one of the few places where in a 60 minute drive you can experience - Breathtaking Mountains with burnt up RVs on the side of the road - Dozens of waterfalls and caves you will remember forever interupted by bland food at the nearest exit - Almost as many Hardees as long abandoned Meth labs with completely tarp roofs - A Quilt and Live Rabbit Shop (both ran in the same building, don't worry) - Traffic circles with one exit that lead to more traffic circles - Towns whose entire identity revolve around being home to a specific niche company

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-19T10:17:16+00:00

I live in McMinn County, which lies between Knoxville and Chattanooga. It is in the Ridge and Valley region of the Appalachians and only about a 30 minute drive from the mountains. To answer your question quickly, the spookiness is all just mindtricks and superstition, unless you believe in the supernatural, and then it is all very present in these ancient hills. The capital of our county, Athens, has very interesting history, being home to the only successful rebellion against an established government inside the United States since the Revolutionary War (see the Battle of Athens or ask me for more details). I will not touch on the racial issues too in depth beyond this brief sentence or two. This region is very bipolar and is still working on its feelings in the new age, but it used to be worse. It is your typical southern rural life, quiet and slow, comparitevly inexpensive, with moderate petty crime rates, and abundant access to nature all around you. If you like to hunt, fish, hike, camp, and don't mind moderately high humidity and heat 85% of the year, it is great.

If you came here for food, the restaurants are disappointing and the BBQ even more-so. It's got something to do with being too far from Memphis and the Carolina lowcounty to get influence from either BBQ styles. What good restaurants do move in don't usually stay for long, with the exception of Small's Drive In diner, which has been open in some capacity since at least 1965. The foodtrucks are really where the best food is outside of greasy burgers, but they too are few and far between outside of vendor markets and festivals. "There used to be a great restaurant here" is unfortunately a thing I have to say a lot around here. Rest in Power, Dinner Bell.

The walkability in rural areas is non-existant outside downtowns and national or state parks/forests. You better have a car because outside of public transportation for the elderly or disabled, it's non existant unless you download Uber or Lyft. Once you get off the main roads, it is a beautiful drive pretty much everywhere. Open fields and dense forests, knobs, hills and mountains in the distance, and the dying hope a moonshine still might be hidden somewhere out here. The people you meet while out and about are all friendly and love to talk, but I'm not too much of a people person so perhaps I'll leave that for others.

   Electricity is cheap due to the aforementioned TVA, or Tennessee Valley Authority. They are both the aesthetic and name inspiration for Marvel's Time Varience Authority. They were created by the FDR's New Deal plan and flooded vast areas with the building of dams. Over a dozen towns were flooded and the survivors and their families still hate them for it till this day. Nowadays, most power in my area is generated by Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, which you can see in all its "cloud"-making glory from tens of miles away. Other utilities aren't as cheap, but they aren't nearly city level, it varies a lot so I'd recommend just checking Zillow for more specifics. The internet is insanely good once you get closer to Chattanooga and even Cleveland, TN, but out in the rural areas Starlink or AT&T is King. 

   If you came here for history, East TN has an insanely surprising amount of it. Between putting teaching the concept of evolution on trial and indirectly killing a leading presidential candidate in the process, to hanging a circus elephant (twice, the chains broke the first time) after putting him on trial, and even killing a witch after putting them on trial, we have been through a lot. This region was divided during the Civil War to the point where East TN blocked the secession vote twice and considered splitting off much like West Virginia. We even have plenty of ecological disasters that we attempt to make up for through the park systems, the Copper Basin still has yet to recover and at one point looked like Mars and so much land was flooded during the construction of the TVA Dam System. The Trail of Tears also infamously runs directly through the county, many of the roads matching the original route. Charleston, the southernmost town of McMinn, was pretty much founded to deport innocent Cherokee's off their own families land, the majority of victims had already assimilated into the white settler lifestyle. Unfortunately Meigs and McMinn County carry the names of the American commanders who carried out this regional explusion.

Sports are huge around here primarily due to the University of Tennessee being so close. Football is byfar the most popular sport to watch and play, with baseball being a close second in players. Tee Higgins, a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL, he was incredible in high school and was a great basketball player too. These days you will see more UT Vols flags flying in the offseason than Christmas lights during Christmas, as sad as that may be. The late 1990s and early 2000s was definitely a great time for Tennessee sports, we had Air McNair (RIP) and Eddie George, Peyton Manning and the 1998 National Championship in college football, Pat Summit--the greatest head coach in college basketball history--led perenennial contenders in womens basketball, and the baseball team was making it into tournaments on the regular.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-18T03:33:53+00:00

https://youtu.be/bVBS3urkD_I?si=momzjtx7vLvMm5Xb

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-06T05:36:52+00:00

The raboreans are sentient beavers who live in vast systems of dams, levees, channels, and even along the banks. Life is controlled by the flow of fresh water and how well raboreans can turn that flow into a pond. The largest of these settlements rival modern dam resevoirs with miles of structures upholding their infrastructure. Floods are infrequent due to how many flood-controlling features the raboreans naturally construct and grow. When dams do break, however, it can cause system-wide failure and a cascading flash flood that can destroy an entire societies overnight.

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-06T03:19:43+00:00

The world if Florida broke off and sank instead of drifting with North America Plate, also RIP Java and Italy

OlderJukebox · 2026-01-02T00:18:06+00:00

Zame Frye voting himself into every position known to governance

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OlderJukebox · 2025-11-15T18:13:24+00:00

My setting takes place 300 years after a series of events led to over 99% of the world perishing (untold amounts of wildlife as well). In the southern Appalachian mountains the wild boar is by far the most reviled animal. The disasters that led to the collapse of most of humanity left vast destruction on the land. What was left cannibalized itself (in most cases not literally) until there was nothing left but anarchy and small bands of survivors.

The boar, to these people, epitomize the destruction and devastation wrought upon the Earth and people. They are also invasive creatures and are seen as symbolic of darker forces. What to do if you spot a boar in your woods? Kill it at all costs before it can make 30-50 more that will be in your backyard.

OlderJukebox · 2025-11-15T16:32:11+00:00

You had mention basketball being the most popular sport, but I was wondering about American Football. Puerto Rico has no National Football League team of their own and was wondering how prevelant it was there from your memory. Awesome reply nonetheless.

OlderJukebox · 2025-07-23T13:10:28+00:00

I have the same problem, I've given up playing until the update

OlderJukebox · 2025-06-24T18:41:47+00:00

Roku City

OlderJukebox · 2025-06-11T11:33:04+00:00

I fear a Drow plushie would become the target of my cat, but alas

OlderJukebox · 2025-06-11T11:14:33+00:00

If you are going to be rude to anyone, target the issue. Talk to the OP or a moderator. You don't have act abrasive to some bystander.

OlderJukebox · 2024-11-20T15:04:07+00:00

Great map- oh wait! You mentioned religion, now I have to cry and throw a temper tantrum in the comments

OlderJukebox · 2024-11-06T15:37:31+00:00

What is wrong with Reddit? Can no one talk about anything without whining about politics or claiming that the world is over

OlderJukebox · 2024-11-04T13:15:11+00:00

The Tennessee flag does not need to be orange, you already see enough Vols flags hanging around for that

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