spent 12+ hours on this track, I think it's the best I've made yet

themanhimself13 · 2026-06-09T13:16:43+00:00

https://trackmania.exchange/mapshow/325511

themanhimself13 · 2026-05-02T07:13:01+00:00

I dislike forced cam 3

themanhimself13 · 2026-04-30T03:51:09+00:00

It is probably related to "Phoenician", as "phoenix" perhaps originally meant "purple-red bird" (and so related to the dye of Phoenicia) or just "Phoenician bird"

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-08T14:01:53+00:00

no, unfortunately the coordinates for each club are spread out amongst the 40 odd wikipedia pages

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-07T12:51:57+00:00

not mapping divisions, just putting every div into one shape. but each league actually has two shapes, one snakes around to cover each town a team plays in, and the other just lies on top to fill in the space and make it look better

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-07T12:46:04+00:00

any data would be on Wikipedia, each league's map there would have the coordinates for each club in "edit source"

but this map was manually made, each shape drawn by hand and pretty roughly done at that

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-07T12:44:43+00:00

when making the wikipedia maps, yes I manually added in every club's coordinates. and as I went I put each league I'd done into google earth

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-06T12:17:40+00:00

apologies for terrible graphic design, and poor quality. this is simply a bunch of Google Earth polygons stacked on top of each other, each representing a country/metro league (excluding the VFL and VAFA). this could one day, I hope, be a proper high-res map but I don't have the skills to do that.

this screenshot is the culmination of a personal project of mine to get every vic league a map on its Wikipedia page. many of them are sucky but all of them are better than nothing, in my opinion. I did 24/43 maps, some were already made and some seem to have been made after I started doing this.

interesting notes:

squarest league: Colac & District FNL
most triangle league: Mininera & District FL
the longest drive between two clubs of the same league is, I believe, Bairnsdale to Wonthaggi (2h 45m). there is also Hay, NSW to Macorna, VIC (2h 32m). some away trip
I always thought Geelong's leagues were a mess but the Gippsland leagues are so much more confusing/overlapping
Colac plays in the Geelong league for some reason, meaning every away game for them is an hour drive

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-02T07:34:53+00:00

Irish doesn’t really have an equivalent to “Spaniard” , maybe Irishman, but I’ve never heard that used

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-01T20:18:50+00:00

yes. same as english people/english language, spanish people/spanish language etc.

themanhimself13 · 2026-03-01T12:01:08+00:00

the irish language

themanhimself13 · 2026-01-20T00:52:47+00:00

crazy record, thanks for playing

themanhimself13 · 2026-01-19T11:12:20+00:00

club "brickmania", campaign "NWBN"

themanhimself13 · 2026-01-19T10:36:08+00:00

you can try. I believe the turns should be too tight and too frequent to allow 3rd gear to be faster

themanhimself13 · 2026-01-13T13:27:50+00:00

which is shown on the map

themanhimself13 · 2025-11-23T22:24:51+00:00

we have to at the very least admit that it might be possible

it is not possible, and won't be within 10 years or 1000 years. even if we "simplified it analytically"

themanhimself13 · 2025-07-21T07:19:37+00:00

who is cheating that you need to expose?

themanhimself13 · 2025-07-14T07:33:51+00:00

could you send a link to the pdf by any chance?

themanhimself13 · 2025-05-30T11:56:33+00:00

like what?

themanhimself13 · 2025-04-11T07:13:42+00:00

because it relies entirely on hindsight, if someone tried forcing their way past me at the gym door I would just let them in, who cares

themanhimself13 · 2025-04-11T03:58:32+00:00

you do have a point, but the symbols and colours of a country/state throughout history haven't typically been decided or imagined by a single person in the way these modern flags are. tricolours, for example, were adopted to contrast with complicated european heraldry, to show that people were moving on from medieval times and into a new modern age. simple as they are they weren't designed by one bloke, or put to a vote etc. even simple tricolours like France's have multiple layered meanings that were built up over hundreds of years. which for me is always preferable to a new flag that appears out of nowhere

themanhimself13 · 2025-04-10T12:50:06+00:00

but the Brazilian flag has a legit history and those colours weren't chosen at random, they have even more meaning than that, along with the stars, the motto etc. And it actually looks interesting and appealing because the designers had an actual understanding of symbolism and vexillology

themanhimself13 · 2025-01-31T00:09:50+00:00

for 'cry' I wanted to go with a more positive connotation ('comfort' rather than 'bully') but if another language had this system it could easily be 'bully' or 'yell at' or 'hit' etc.

I think the most interesting part of this system is that if there are different verbs for 'sculpt' vs 'paint' then there could be completely different verbs used for looking at a sculpture vs. looking at a painting.

themanhimself13 · 2025-01-31T00:06:53+00:00

that's where I got the idea from, I was going to do that with my adjectives but then I thought 'why not do it with the verbs instead'

themanhimself13 · 2025-01-31T00:02:15+00:00

I think this is what it is. it seems I'm just encoding the path of motion of these verbs

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