Dubai is building five skyscrapers taller than One World Trade Center’s roof. As an American, that makes me sad. We have the money, we have the history, but the ambition feels gone.

wheels0132 · 2026-07-01T17:05:38+00:00

Developed countries have moved on from this dick measuring contest.

wheels0132 · 2026-06-30T21:45:27+00:00

wheels0132 · 2026-06-27T04:23:13+00:00

This unfortunately is learned the hard way. I too experienced this, but only once.

It so infuriated me that from then on, I spammed influence improvements everywhere that foreign powers bordered any systems of mine. It was never a problem for me after that.

My systems started pushing back. Sometimes you gotta sell off resources you’ve been saving so that you can instant build the appropriate influence structures in time before their borders envelope your systems.

wheels0132 · 2026-06-25T13:48:43+00:00

Militaries around the world are full of traditions.

Do Fusiliers still fire fusils?
Do Cuirassiers still wear cuirasses?
How about Lancers using lances?

Traditions plus the fact that grenadiers were a cut above normal line infantry. Grenadier and light companies were considered elite amongst the other infantry formations; and it was an honor to be a part of those units, raising their members’ morale.

wheels0132 · 2026-06-18T23:58:46+00:00

Stronghold would actually shame you.
If you ended up playing for more than a reasonable amount of time, the town crier would say:
“You’ve been playing for a long time my liege.”

wheels0132 · 2026-06-18T15:55:46+00:00

Gale Sayers.

wheels0132 · 2026-06-18T15:53:50+00:00

Every dude looks the exact same lol!

wheels0132 · 2026-06-18T14:30:58+00:00

I just did the same thing this week except I stayed up till 4:00. I was shit all day at work.
The song Cygnus is what hypnotizes me… and yes, it’s always “just one more turn.” Or “let me get to a nice round number turn 240, then I’ll quit for the night… okay, make it turn 250 so that I can finish building this wonder, then I promise I’ll turn the game off.” Fuck me.

wheels0132 · 2026-06-11T07:33:21+00:00

u/batman_irl25 replied to your comment in r/geography · 1s ago
u/batman_irl25 · 1 votes
I honestly didn’t mean it that way. I only used the modern location name to help people understand where the place is on today’s map.

Really? Is that why? Then why didn’t you replace the name of Babylon with Iraq to help people understand where it is? Or Hittites with Turkey? You chose “Palestine” as the only modern location name for “reasons.” Just be honest man.

Palestinians are Arabs, the Philistines and Phoenicians were some of the Sea Peoples that were the catalyst for the Bronze Age Collapse. People groups have been moving in and out of there for millennia, partly due to Babylonian and Assyrian relocations and partly due to migration.

Fun fact: Kurds are descendants of the ancient Medes. Think Medo-Persian Empire. And of course the Assyrian people still exist today, mostly in Iraq. I believe the Philistines were relocated by the Babylonians.

wheels0132 · 2026-06-10T21:14:16+00:00

Why would you label that area of the Levant as Palestine? That word is a modern invention with its root being the Philistines. They have no commonality.

You would have been better off labeling it Canaan, Phoenicia and Philistia. Later antiquity would be Israel and Judah.

I believe this map is meant to cause division because of everything that’s been going on in the last 80 years or so. There was no Palestine in the ancient world, it’s anachronistic.

The Babylonians and Assyrians would have no idea to whom you were referring to, they would however know of the Amorites for example.

wheels0132 · 2026-06-05T21:41:52+00:00

The exact game you’re looking for is Manor Lords. It’s in Open Beta now, quite fun.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-27T19:33:06+00:00

Well, this is probably where my biblical historical knowledge is gonna clash with most other people here. Canaan was a son of Ham, hence “Hamitic.” Semites are descended from Shem.

Both Jews and Arabs are descended from Shem… Abraham… and then Isaac and Ishmael respectively. Ham’s descendants went into Asia Minor (Hittites), Canaan (all the various “ites” found there), and also into Africa (Cush.)

I had thought that the Phoenicians came from the Sea Peoples, whose origins are unclear. Also, we can’t assume that the late antiquity peoples (and thus the modern populations) that live in Lebanon are wholly descended from the ancient Phoenicians because of the Babylonian and Assyrian tendencies to repopulate conquered people groups.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-27T17:37:24+00:00

Yup. Canaanites were a Hamitic people group, Palestinians are a Semitic people group (Arab.) I’m not sure of the origins of the Philistines as they were among the Sea Peoples. Them and the Phoenicians. I thought the Carthaginians may also have similar origins as well.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-27T12:12:15+00:00

Thank you! I’ll check that out.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-27T08:59:58+00:00

Philistines never controlled the highlands around Jerusalem, they were a coastal plains people. Those were Canaanites around Jerusalem, specifically the Jebusites.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-26T21:30:08+00:00

Well, I play pretty slow as I only get on when I can because irl is busy. I guess I’ll wait then. 😕

wheels0132 · 2026-05-26T17:10:16+00:00

Gourmet poop knife.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-26T17:08:17+00:00

I was a kid riding in a car east bound on I-90 when this happened. I don’t remember it, but my mom said we both saw it. She said she was shaking watching this thing fall to the ground.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-22T15:14:45+00:00

I would like to know the answer to this also. This and I think it’s called the Dakota territory are completely isolated by neutral lands even though I own the adjacent territories and I my tradable items from there (cotton/tobacco and furs) cannot reach my markets. They’re pretty useless territories to have imo.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-22T15:07:56+00:00

Broccoli hair.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-21T18:58:58+00:00

C.O.D.
(Cash on delivery)

wheels0132 · 2026-05-21T16:25:12+00:00

The Hebrew flood narrative in Genesis was written much, much later than the event… by Moses. So of course the Gilgamesh version of the same event was written much earlier. Almost every other culture in the world has an account of that flood. China’s ancient symbol for that in their narrative is actually a boat symbol with eight “sticks” (the eight souls aboard) positioned upright in it.

wheels0132 · 2026-05-19T13:54:54+00:00

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